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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1251, 19 January 1883, Page 2

A monogenarian, well-known to Aucklanders as “old Joe Cook,” is still alive. He has a little cottage of his own in Victoria street, and rarely leaves its precincts. If the statement be true that there was no famine whatever in Iceland, that in the districts described as destitute the crop was more abundant than in some previous years, and that there was no intention of emigrating cn masse to more highly-favored lands—if all this be true, it will be difficult to know what kind of reports are to be believed. A relief fund for the Icelanders was started at the Mansion House, in London, but as the amount subscribed did not exceed £2OOO there must have existed some suspicion that there was exaggeration in the reported prevailing distress. The Danish Government should be able to issue an authoritative statement on the subject. A clerical error occurred last night in our report of the Resident Magistrates Court. The error in question was in the heading of the civil case Knox v. Sunderland, which should have read Knox v. Sutherland. Messrs Wm. RaL liffe and Co., advertise for sale some good Canterbury feed oats, and some locally grown potatoes. Mr T. Greene has a very first-class Kangaroo dog for sale, and several good sheep dogs. Applications are to be made to Mr Greene at his station Mangatu. Mr J. Scott, of Puoseland, advertises for the recovery of a brown more lost from Matawhero. One pound is offered by Mr Scott to any person who returns the same.