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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1228, 19 December 1882, Page 2

Owing to the Minister of Public Works having proceeded up the West Coast of the North Island the money so long expected by the Cook County Council will not arrive for some time. Its simply a case of “ live horse, and you’ll get grass.”

There was an excellent rehearsal last evein McFarlane’s Hall, of the Amateur Christy Minstrels, who purpose giying an entertainon New Year’s night. The choruses were admirably rendered considering that the vocalists had met together for the first time. The funny business will certainly be immense as Mr J. Cohen and Mr J. Pierce will occupy the corners The programme has now been arranged, and will shortly be published. The quartette will consist of Messrs McElwaine. C. D. Berry, Edwards and Finlay whose voices blend wonderfully well. Rehearsals will be actively carried on until the night of the performance, and we can confidently pre- • diet a bumper house. We are glad to see that Mr A. Peters, of the Kaiteratahi Hotel, has determined that New Year's Day is not to pass off without some excitement. He has arranged a programme, which will shortly be published, and the sum of £2O will be given away in prizes. There will be horse racing, rifle firing, both handicap and rapidity, and Caledonian sports. Mr Peters has been at a deal of expense and trouble in obtaining and making a suitable range, as he has also iin securing a course. A ride or drive to Kaiteratahi is most enjoyable, and •we feel sure that Mr Peters’ enter- ' prise and spirit will ensure a large attendi ance of the towns-people, as well as of those 1 living near. ■ If His Worship the R.M. is somewhat ' short of sight he is certainly not hard of hear- ‘ ing as he clearly proved in court this morning ’ A sotto voce remark was made, but it had hardly been uttered before Mr Price wrs aware of it, and in fact mentioned it. The enormous power of cell growth was ( strikingly illustrated a short time since in a j grain elevator at Buffalo, N.Y. The asphalte flooring was over a foot thick, in i two layers. The upper layer was seven : inches thick, laid hot, rolled down, and thoroughly cooled four years ago. Below ■ was an old floor of tar and gravel, six inches : thick. A curious bulge in the floor was first noticed, covering about a square foot. In six hours the floor was open, and a perfectly I formed mushroom, with a stem two inches • through, and a very wide cap, made its ap- ; pearance. Elsewhere the floor is smooth and unbroken.

A meeting of the members of the Poverty Bav Cricket Club is to be held in the Albion Club Hotel, on Wednesday evening next, at 7.30 o’clock. A full attendance is specially requested. The U. S. S. Company’s steamer Ringarooma will leave for Auckland next trip at 6 o’clock a.m. By a typographical errror the hour mentioned was 8 o’clock, The Rev. J. Hill will deliver his third lecture to-morrow evening at 7.30 o’clock in i the Gisborne School room. The admission is ; free, and as the lecturer is possessed of a gift i of oratorical ability, there should be a large I attendance. j Christmas tide is approaching, and the ' grocers of the town have commenced actively to render their windows attractive. The displays of fruit, sugar, &c., are most creditable, both for taste and design. Mails for Auckland, per Rotorua, and for Tauranga, per Omapere, will close to-morrow (Wednesday) night, at 7 o’clock. The Secretary of State for War has appointed a Department Committee to report whether a large land transport establishment might not be profitably employed at home and in the Meditteranean, and thus afford a reserve of trained drivers and animals to 1 meet any warlike emergency. At Messrs. Ratcliffe and Co.’s usual monthly sale on Thursday, the 21st inst. at Waerenga-a-hika, a number of steers, a lot of springing cows, and cows with calves at foot, will be submitted for sale, in addition to a lot of fat beef. The Countess Waldegrave having given | birth to a son and heir, the title of Viscount I Chewton becomes revived in the person of ‘ the new-born infant. His title was borne ' by Earl Waldegrave’s father, who was a captain in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and was wounded at the battle of the Alma, dying in | consequence, on the 7th October, 1854, at Scutari, where he was interred, and where ’ his widow, the Viscountess Chewton, who I still survives, erected a monument to his memory. The infant Viscount Chewton is, on the maternal side, a grandson of Lord Chancellor Selborne. The German steamer, Herder from New York for Hamburg, was lost near Cape Race. The Herder went ashore in a fog, and she will be a total loss, the value of ship and cargo being 500,000 doilars. The vessel w*as insured. She was built in Glasgow in 1873, and was under the command of Captain Tischbein. The passengers and crew numbered 105, and the Herder carried a mixed cargo. No lives were lost, and the mails were saved. Arabi Pasha’s tent, captured at Tel-el-Kebir, is in store at Portsmouth, and will be forwarded to the General commanding the Home District. It is fitted with true Oriental splendour, and is lined sumptuously with silk fringe and bullion.