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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1272, 10 February 1883, Page 2

The nominations of members for the annual election for the Patutahi Licensing District will take place at the School house, Patutahi, on Monday, the 19th instant, and the poll, if necessary, will be taken on Saturday, the 27th instant, at the same place. Mr Pelham E. Richardson is the Acting Returning Officer.

A mooting of the Committor and Stewards of the Poverty Hay Turf Club will be held at the Masonic Hotel, on Tuesday next, at 8 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving acceptances and other business.

Tenders for labor in various branches, for the erection of a 12-roomed house, are called for by Mr Finneran. Mr G. F. Henderson notifies that copies of the popular Colonial Magagine entitled Picturesque New Zealand can be obtained from him on application at his new office Peel street next to Mr Townley’s. Tenders are called for by Mi- Finneran, Architect, for the erection of a dwellinghouse and other works for Mr A. Brown. The tenders will close on Saturday, the 17th inst., at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and plans and specifications may be seen on application at Mr Finneran’s Office. Thes.s. Snark is announced to make an excursion trip to-morrow afternoon, starting from the wharf at 2 o'clock. She will steam round the Bay, and if the weather remains as it is at present, a most pleasurable miniature voyage may be calculated upon.

A sale of Lincoln ewes and 2-toothed rams of splendid breed will he held by Messrs. Graham, Pitt, and Bennett at the auction cattle sale at Makaraka, at 2 o'clock p.m. on the 14th instant. Breeders of good sheep should not miss this opportunity. At the Town Clerk’s office to-day, at 12 o'clock noon, the nominations for the Gisborne Borough Licensing District were received by Mr F. J. Piesse, the Returning Officer. There were six nominations, viz., Messrs. E. K. Brown, Thomas Chrisp, Henry Lewis, Samuel Stevenson, William Teat, and Josiah Tntchen. The nomination of Mr Teat having been declared informal by the Returning Officer, Messrs. Brown, Chrisp, Lewis, Stevenson, and Tutchen were declared duly elected to serve as Commissioners on the Licensing Board for the ensuing year. We regret to learn that the Rev. Father Walter McDonald, whose name is endeared to all in Auckland, be they Roman Catholics or otherwise, is suffering from sunstroke. Any person requiring a good two-roomed sledge house, on application to the Standard Office, will be informed from whom it is procurable.

Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co. will hold a very important sale of live stock at Waer-enga-a-kika on Monday the 19th instant. The stock in question includes some valuable milking cows, some good fat summer beef cattle and young cattle, 100 cross bred ewes, two bay colts by Songster, and a lot of very superior bred mares, colts, and Geldings. The thoroughbred entire horse Bothwell will also be submitted. Judging from the class of stock to be submitted we have no doubt that the sale will prove a most satisfactory one. This is how the Auckland “ Evening Star ” describes M r Forbes’s first appearance "He sauntered upon the stage in a careless sort of way, and, without any preamble, either apologetic or complimentary, began his discourse, in an almost inaudible tone of voice, with a reference to a conversation that he had had with General Skobeloff upon the advantages which the reading public now-a-days enjoyed over the actual combatants in following the varying fortunes of a campaign, and of gaining an accurate idea of the different engagements. His voice strengthened as he went on and found the capacity of the building, but the impression remained upon the audience that they were listening to an unpractised speaker,” We notice by reports of lectures delivered in Auckland that Mr Forbes does not claim to rank with Dr. Russell and others as a brilliant writer, but as merely an expert transmitter of news. We have seen a speci. men of Mr Forbes literary abilities, and arc willing to back any junior reporter to give him, as it is termed, a yankee start and a beating.

We are informed (says the N. Z. Herald) that Mr Courtney, the South African diamond miner, has gone to the Hot Springs, to let the diamond excitement in the city subside ; but, when Government have granted him and his party the prospecting licence applied for, he will return and “ throw his jacket off.”