Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1883.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1243, 10 January 1883, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1883.

Mails for Auckland, per Southern Cross, will close this (Wednesday) evening, at 7 o’clock. Intending tenderers are reminded that the ; tenders called for by Mr Quigley, architect, • for the erection of a five-roomed house in i Aberdeen Road, close at noon to-morrow. I The quietude of Gisborne during the last ' few days has been something wonderful, and j the only persons under the influence of i liquor were natives. Messrs Wm. Ratcliffe and Co., have now completed arrangements by which they can fully and successfully carry on their business af Auctioneers and Commission Agents. Weekly sales are premised, and many other advantages which have been long needed. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning the only case for hearing was one of furious riding in a public thoroughfare. There were two delinquents included in the information, and they were fined 40s. each with costs. Modern discoveries do not appear to have any bounds. One would have thought that infant incubators would be the last thing i that would be thought of, and yet we read i in the “Lancet” that “M. Tarnier, the ' surgeon of the Maternity Hospital in Paris, | struck by the great mortality among infants I prematurely bom, and those which are very sickly after birth, has conceived the ingenious idea of constructing a box which is almost exactly similar to the incubator used for poultry. This box is divided into two compartments— the lower one being used as a reservoir for hot water, while the infant is placed in the upper one, which is well sutffed at the sides and fitted with a sliding glass cover. The temperature is maintained at 86 degrees Fahr., and M. Tarnier has found that by keeping infants in the incubator for a period varying from two days to six weeks, their vitality is enormously improved. He has made experiments upon five six months . children, six seven-months, and thirteen ; eight-months children, and he has only lost i two of them, whereas, according to his statement, three-fourths of them would have died but for this adventitious aid to vitality. A New South Wales judge recently stated from the bench that auctioneers ought to be : prosecuted for giving false and over-glowing , descriptions of lands. A good stcry comes from Geneva, concern- , ing a lady and gentleman who recently arrived there and found all the hotels so full that they ultimately were accommodated with ‘ a bath-room turned into a bed-chamber. During the night, the husband, wishing to call for a light, pulled a cord attached to the wall, under the impression that he had got hold of the bell-rope. The immediate res- • pome was a deluge of cold water. Monsieur and Madame yelled for help, bringing out a crowd of guests and waiters in all eouts of ; light and airy costumes. At a sale of forfeited and unclaimed goods held a short time ago at the New York Custom House, a young lady was observed to be bidding eagerly for a large wooden case. : She thought it contained silk remnants, and hoped to get them a bargain. In the end the box was knocked down to her (for a pig in a poke) at a thumping price. When she had paid her money and taken possession of her prise, she lost no time in having the box opened. Horrors ! it contained, not silk 1 remnants, but the embalmed remains of one of her countrymen, who had died abroad, and been shipped to the wrong port. Tableau. She wanted her money back. The unfeelieg auctioneer and his myrmidons merely laughed at her, and the corpse, being her property, she was comSelled, nolens volens, to carry it . away with her, which she did weeping, and gnashing her teeth.

The voyage of the nearly new four-masted ship Ben Douran, from Glasgow, was not made without loss of life, as the chief officer and one of the seamen were washed overboard and lost. It appears that when about four days' sail from the Cape of Good Hope, during a heavy gale, the chief officer, Mr John Rnssell, went on to the main deck to attend to the squaring of the yards. At that moment a fearfully heavy sea broke over the ship, washed most of the men from their posts, and took overboard Mr Russell and Andrew Graham, an able seaman. They were never seen again. The accident occurred twelve minutes after midnight, and the weather at the time was dark and unusually tempestuous. Mr Russell was about 32 years of age, and a native of Paisley. Andrew Graham was about 27, and a native of Glasgow. The “Timaru Herald ” has the following .- —The oddities of advertisers’ compositions are endless. We clip the following from the columns of the “Times”: “Russian sable roquelaure, probably matchless, a particularly exceptional one, for a lady, lined with 105 superlatively fine skins, perfectly matched, covered with stout satin de Lyons; forms a complete rontondo. To be sold for a fourth or fifth of its value. Quite unworn. Nothing finer in Europe. Address Miss CEilliard, Teddington, Middlesex. We should rather like to meet a lady lined with 105 superlatively fine skins. Ladies are generally so thin-skinned that even their husbands have to be careful how they touch them with anything heavier than a broomstick ; but a lady thus internally protected would surely be proof against the harshest treatment. The advertisement mentions by-the-bye, that this well-lined lady is “perfectly matched." We wonder what the gentleman is lined with. The mystery about the Czar's coronation increases. It is now asserted that although he was not crowned during his recent visit to Moscow, he was anointed with the holy oil, in order that the succession of his son to the throne in case of his own death may not be questioned. The anointing with oil symbolises the divine sanction, and the fact of the ceremony having been performed has been set forth in a protocol and deposited in the State archives. The story seems probable enough, but it is liable to be set aside in favor of some other a week or two hence. The imposing public ceremony is now fixed for May next.