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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1238, 3 January 1883, Page 2

As usual, after a race meeting, owners are dissatisfied, and matches are consequently made in order to again test the merits of their horses. We have been informed, that on Friday next, at three o’clock, Morning Star and Tartar will try conclusions on the Makaraka course, ana that on the 21st, Morning Star and Director will endeavour to show, or rather their owners and riders will endeavour to prove which is the better horse of the two.

There is an old proverb “ ’Tisa poor heart that never rejoices,” and it is a true one, for what more rejoices a parent’s heart, day after day and week after week, especially in holiday times, than to visit some boot shop with elaborately dressed window, and quietly turn up the necessary coin of the realm for a pair of boots for his eldest girl, and one for Jim, another for Flora, and a couple of pair for “Babs.” Of course they are to be secured at Garrett Bros.—(Advt). Mails for Tauranga and Auckland, per Rotorua, will close to-morrow (Thursday), at 7 p.m.

We are indebted to the Government Insurance Department, for the receipt of an annual almanac. The individual who designed it must have had comets on the brain and had rather too much of them. There is a well-developed and modestly dressed girl perched upon the globe, with a flag in her right hand, and a helmet on her head, and a cart wheel in her left hand. The flag, although bearing the words ‘ • Honest Premiums,” “Mutual Insurance,” and “Government security,” is big enough to drag half a dozen girls, like the little one holding the banner into space. We use this latter term advisedly, as from the point of her staff the comet appears to be shooting nor-nor-east by nor slightly, whilst the lady's foot directs the illustrious stranger sou-sou-west and by sou, a little southerly, sir. Australia is represented by the head of a hippopotamus, and New Zealand by a bull dog, with the head severed from the body and a vanishing tail. We hope that the China plates (willow pattern), at each corner, have nothing to do with the importation of Celestials, and that such a miserable production as the Government Insurance Almanac for 1883, will never again be issued from the “ Head Office, Provincial Buildings, Wellington, N.Z.” The Union Steamship Company arc advertising their usual annual excursion to the West Coast Sounds, which will be made this season by their new steamer Tarawera, new en route from the Clyde. It is expected she will leave Port Chalmers about Wednesday, 7th Feb. Coastal passengers will, therefore, jo ; n her by the s.s. Te Anau due at Port Chalmers on that date. In the course of an eight days 1 trip the Tarawera will visit Preservation Inlet, Dusky, Breaksea Gorge, Bligh, Milford, and other Sounds on the West Coast. Special facilities will be offered for sporting, fishing, and sketching excursions. Intending passengers will do well to send in their names to the Company’s local office as early as possible.

The Borough Council notify that after Monday, the Bth inst., each pedlar or hawker, trading without a license, will be prosecuted.

An elderly aboriginal last evening, expressed great delight on being presented with a glass of pure Bourbon from Professor Kellar’s magic bottle, in fact he was so thoroughly pleased with having had the gift made him that he allowed a few of his friends to smell the contents of the glass, but one of them put it to his mouth, and the old Maori was left a more sober if not a wiser man.

By special request Mr Thornton will produce “Aladdin" on Saturday next, at 2.30 p.m., for the special amusement of the children of Gisborne. The price of admission will place it within reach of all, and as the piece is well mounted and the performance has proved so successful before, we expect Mr Thornton will have, as he deserves, a bumper houses and the little one an undoubted treat.

Mails for Napier and Wellington, per Southern Cross, will close this (Wednesday) evening, at 7 o’clock. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu, has issued a Pastoral to the Clergy and Laity of his Diocese, inviting their hearty co-operation in providing means for the extension of Church work in all the country districts. The very scattered nature of our population, makes it impossible for vast numbers to attend anyplace of worship ; for these the Bishop pleads. He desires to provide them with suitable Pastors. We are, therefore, certain that the supporters of the Church of England will, not only give the Bishop's letter their most careful attention, but will also gladly do all in their power to procure the much needed funds. At a not very distant date we hope to see at least one clergman engaged especially in this work in the outlying districts of Gisborne, From the Bishop’s Pastoral, which appeared in yesterday’s issue, it will be seen that the collections made in all the Churches of the Dioeese, on the first Sunday in the year are devoted to these objects. Wc feel sure that Gisborne will not be behind in giving such support as it is able for so necessary an object.