Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1264, 1 February 1883, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883.

“ The Doctor says I'm not to be worried ” appears to bo th* moth) of Mr Archibald Jorbei but the great lecturer sh uld remember that others also object to be annojed. Last evening, in the hall there w-is a considerable amount of annoyance occasioned through two of the windows being open. The Jig ts were being blown out and the custodian of the hall seeing thii quietly closed the windows Had Mr Stu key been wearing list slippers he could not have been more noiseless in his movements, but notwithstanding his caution the bosom friend of Kings and Princes so fur forgot himself as to pause in his lecture, and in a polite(?) and gentlemanly (?) manner said to the custodian •* I’ll stop while you < lose all the windows if you like Sir.” This sort of address may suit when coining from the months of some of the Kings Mr Forbes has known, but it certainly sounds bad when uttered by an itinerant lecturer. The only excuse we ein make for Mr Forbes is that he in common with the audience had been previously annoved bv people coming late to the hall.

Mr D. G. McKay advertises for tenders for the ploughing of sixty acres of land at Te Aral. Tenders will be received up to Saturday the 10th inst. Mr William Adair’s address to the burgesses of the Borough of Gisborne soliciting their votes at the forthcoming contest for municipal honors appears in another column. Mr Aoair has the advantage of having been previously in the Council, and also of poaeessing a keen business experience. The requirements of the town are known to him, ana his own personal interests in Gisborne should actuate him to do his best for the place. A ladies fashion paper says that scissors should be held with the broad blade uppermost. This (remark the‘’New York Herald ”) settles a point that has long puzzled a good many American editors. What they now require are directions for keeping the, gum brush out of the ink bottle. We hear that a lively case of what is known as “lambing down” will probably occupy the attention cf the Resident Magistrate’s Court shortly. The total amount of revenue received by the Customs for the month ending January 31st, 1883, was £11’23 19s lid. Tenders are called for river protection works at Mr A. C. Arthur’s property, the Willows. The tenders close on the 17th instant.

Brothers’, new advertisement appears el'sew'here, and they give one and all-an opportunity to “ look at that, and look at this.. They have-just opened up a large assortment of new bootf, and shoes, which for variety and’ style would compare favorably with the slacks kept on hand in the larger towns thrc*ugliout New Zealand, and as they are for the’ most part their own tanners and their own manufacturers, they can in consequence con.’Pete favorably with others in the same line . Of course all the boots and shoes sold by them are not of Colonial make, but the balance have been carefully selected from the English and French markets.

It is well said that Truth is stranger than fiction, and here is an inst»nce*of it. At the last Norwich Assizes, Lord Justice Lindley bud to preside at the trial of a solicitor’s clerk who had committed a serins ot forgeries. The prisoner and the judge, strange as it may appear, had been, many years ago, . fellow clerks and it was current at the circuit mess that the former was attesting witness to the deed of settlement by which, on his marriage the latter came into property to a large amount. The recognition between the judge and his former colleague must have been quite dramatic. Such is the whirligig of Time’s changes in this every day life of ours.

Uy our telegrams it will be seen that Mr ■lames Booth, R. M at Wanganui, has been appointed to a similar position at Gisborne, in place of Mi M. Brice, who retires in conse<| ience of ill health. We have on a few occasions disagreed with our late Magistrate’s jui gments, but this we must say t hat a more careful and painstaking occupant o r the Bench we have never met. Mr Price’s infl'-inities anti debilitated health no doubt rendered him ero rchety, and at times his decisions were not quite co- sistent, but these errors of the fljsh wore rarely perceptible in matters of ttnportan co. In these Mr Price displayed not only a v ast amount of legal acumen, but an m nest v of purpose, ami a keenness in following the intricacies of the actions before him which clearly proved that he had n-'t served in his magisterial capacity for so many years with <»ut having become thoroug >ly qualified to nd minister tie law. We trust shortly to see Mr Price in Gisborne once more improved in health.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a very neatly got up 6roeA«re, in which is published the New Prospectus of the Government Insurance Department. It is issued from the othce of Messrs. Lyon and Blair, of Wellington, and certainly does credit to that esi ablishment.

We are pleased to learn that Mr Booth, the newly-appointed Resident Magistrate fur Gisborne, is a gentleman who is held in high estimation in Wanganui, and one who, in adxiition to being a gentleman in every sense of the word, and a Maori scholar, is also thoroughly versed in law. «