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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1230, 21 December 1882, Page 2

There was a good attendance at McFarlane's Hall last evening for the rehearsal of the Ethiopian Opera Paste Entertainment, which is to be given on New Year's night. The promoters have secured the services of Mr Towsey who will preside at the piano. Mr Crawford will play the cornet, and in addition there will be the violin and flute. This should form a capital orchestra. The choruses are being carefully studied, whilst the songs and other portions of the programme promise to be highly successful. There will be another rehearsal on Friday night. The Rev. J. Hill will hold Divine service at Makaraka, at 3 p.m. on Sunday next, and Divine service at Patutahi will be held the same evening at 7 p.m., by the Ven. Archdeacon Williams. Christmas Day service will be held at Holy Trinity at 11 a.m. on that day. Ca-sar had his Brutus, and Charles the First his Cromwell, and what was the result? History tells us plainly, so there is no reason to repeat it here. The Gisborne people have something they can rely upon, something which gives them a footing in the county, and ease and pleasure in the town. They have Garrett, Bros.—[Advt.] The prize presentation to the School children, which is now taking place at the Government School grounds, has for weeks past excited great interest in the minds of the scholars, and for that matter in those of parents. This is not alone on account of the pleasure of the child and the pride of the parents in the honor of securing a prize, but also from the fact of several very handsome special prizes having been given by various townspeople. As the presentation commenced at four o’clock this afternoon we shall be unable to give a f ill report until tomorrow. A very heavy shock of earthquake was felt at Tologa Bay, and in fact all along the East coast, at half-past three in the afternoon of Saturday, the 16th inst. A settler now intown informs us that it was the most severe felt for many years; that weatherboard houses shook like baskets; that men at work in the bush were so alarmed as to be afraid that the limbs of trees would fall on them ; and that bottles, &c., on storekeepers’ shelves rattled in discord. No damage seems, however, to have been done. [The same shock was felt at the same time in Gisborne. In this office we felt it most distinctly.—Ed,, P. B. S.]