Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1883.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1241, 6 January 1883, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1883.

has been expressed connected with the Church the Rev. Mr A ih - k - d solicitor taken and carried away our Lady the Queen her crown anti dignify* and contrary to the statute in such case made and provided. In a late issue of the Nelson Colonist the obituary column contains the notice of the death of five persons whose united ages amount to 410 years, giving each an average of 82 years. The youngest was aged 77 years, and the eldest 91. All were colonists of old standing, and four of them had belonged to New Zealand for a long time. It is seldom such a record of longevity is to be found in one paper, and what makes it more singular is that no other deaths were recorded at the same time. The “ Hawke’s Bay Herald’’ rejoices in the fact that there are to be two sittings of the Supreme Court in Gisborne, as Napier jurors will not be compelled year after year to “interminable ” Poverty Bay quarrels. Several complaints have been made about the manner in which the passengers were landed from the U. S. S. Company’s steamer Wairarapa, on her arrival in the Bay from Auckland yesterday. There was a very large number of passengers, and only one small boat was available to convey them from the steamer to the landing place, so that two trips had to be made. However, this is likely to be remedied very soon, as we learn that the launch Suark, will shortly be brought up from the South, and will be available for the purpose of landing a large number of passengers without any inconvenience.

A correspondent has requested us to decide a wager which had been made as to the whereabouts of Frank Gardiner, an excelebrity in connection with Australian bushranging. We can state positively that Gardner went to America when released from gaol. His pardon was conditional. He was exiled and elected to go to the United States, where he, for some time, kept a liquor laloon in San Francisco.

Divine services will be conducted at Matawhero Presbyterian Church at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow, by the Rev. L. Hudson. A special collection will be made for the Church Mission.

As will be seen by our advertising columns Messrs Stanley and Darbyshire’s Juvenile Opera Bouffe and Pantomine Company, will open at Messrs. Parnell and Boylan’s Hall for a short season, commencing on Saturday, the 20th instant. There are forty performers, and the opera selected for their first appearance in Gisborne is “Les Cloches de Comeville, or the Chimes of Normandy.” We have not space in this issue to notice at length this clever little company of artistes, but will do so in our next issue. We trust that the lessee, Mr Sam. Stephenson, may meet with the success which his enterprise deserves, in having secured for the Gisborne people what, from all accounts, will prove a thorough treat.