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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1266, 3 February 1883, Page 2

Mr W. J. Quigley, Architect, advertises the fact that tenders will be received by him up to 10 o'clock on Wednesday, the 7th inst,, for building a four-roomed cottage in the Kaitc Block, for Mr Wi Perc. Plans and specifications can be seen at Mr Quigley's residence in Lowe street.

It will be observed that the propertv tax is now coming in freely throughout the Colony, and we would suggest to all who have received notices of amounts due that it would be well to pay as early as possible, for no doubt as the 7th February approaches there will be an increasing rush at the Post Office. There is also the consideration that on and after the Sth inst., 19 per cent, will he added to the amount due.

Our “ Somnolent Reporter ” had an insane idea that he could sit out Mr Archibald Forbe’s lecture, “All Europe in Arms” and had made a wager of four drinks he could accomplish the feat without going to sleep. He won the bet. He armed himself with a lady, a little under six feet, and previously requested her to carry a sharp pointed umbrella, a pin, not exceeding two inches in length, and her ordinary walking boots. She complied with this request, but she had put the umbrella on the grindstone, and got the end of it to such a tine point that it could hardly be seen. The pin had been “ readied up ” on a brick, and she had put on her boots—new measurement, two feet to the yard. The lecture commenced, and our sleepy-headed one closed his eyes, but a prod from the umbrella startled him, and with mind intent upon the lecture, he listened. Drowsiness again came over him and—well, with a yell like a Sioux Indian, he jumped, quivering in every nerve. Anxiously he asked “ What was in ?” and his lady friend replied “It was the pin.” He believed her. After the smarting of his wounds had somewhat subsided, he was once more attentive for a few moments and again closed his eyelids, but as he describes it we will give it. He says; “I thought first of all that Proctor’s Comet had landed on my big toe, but afterwards that I had been examining a steam hammer of 10000 thus power, and had, in order to test its force, placed my foot under it. The fall of the hammer seemed to crush the whole of my foot, but when jumping up I discovered it was only the lady with those boots (eighteen inches by seven). If these arc walkin’ boots I don’t want them to walk on me. 1 won the bet, but I don’t want to go through a similar experience.”

If the heat to-day is typical of that of the lower regions, we are going to be good. Two or three days such as we have recently experienced in Gisborne is an apprenticeship to the lowest depths of Hades. We would prefer to rise higher and get cooler. The annual clearing sale is to be held for one month only, and the whole of the summer stock in Mr Wm. Adair’s establishment will be offered at less than cost price. The sale is said to be an “absolute and startling sacrifice,” and we imagine that, with the large and carefully assorted stock Mr Adair has, that buyers will be eager to avail themselves of the present opportunity. An application on behalf of a London company was read at the Christchurch City Council meeting last week for permission to Uy down six mdee of mains in the Christchurch streets for high pressure water-power purposes ; also, for permission to draw 700,900 gallons per diem from the Avon at some convenient spot between the Montrealstreet and Manchester-street bridges. The proposal does not contemplate any rate being levied, as consumers will be charged sb much a thousand gallons. The water supply will be available for fire extinction. The pressure is to be about 7501b5. to the square inch. [We wish a London Company would come along this way]. Owing to an error, our supplements have got mixed somehow, and some of our subscribers received last Saturday those they should have received to-day. We regret the the mistake, but if those, whose supplements have been duplicated, can by returning a copy receive tne one lacking.

A correspondent, who signs himself “Buckjumper,” sends us a lengthy letter as to Mr Chrisp’s candidature for the Municipal election. It is “ too utterly too, too,” and unfit for our columns. We would like one and all to understand that it is not Mr Chrisp we object to, but the trickery which has been adopted to secure for him a seat in the Council.

In reference to the late candidature of Bishop Moran for the Peninsula seat, and his intended crusade against the Education Act, the “Otago Daily Times” spoke with no uncertain sound. It said :—“ Let there be no mistake : the day that denominationalism is introduced into the Colony a retrograde movement will be commenced, the evil results of which few of us can fully foresee, out the tendencies of which are at least obvious to those who have studied the history of the past in the older countries of the world. Let the State keep within its own secular functions, and religion will flourish. Let it once step outside those functions and pamper anj r religious body, and strife and bitterness, jealousy and hatred between sect and sect, will be the inevitable consequence. ”