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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1276, 15 February 1883, Page 2

We were shown to-day at Messrs Croll ai Ingle’s store a novel sort of bee-hive, the invention, we understand, of Mr Esra Smith. There is an upper and lower tier in which the bees may build, and the box is so arranged that the honey-comb may be extracted without disturbing the bees. Apiarists should see for themselves, and would then be better able to judge than if we were to write a column.

It is Gazetted that the Recreation Ground has been vested in the Education Board of the District of Hawke's Bay as a site for a School.

The Legislative Council are to assemble again on the 16th of April next at Wellington “there to take into consideration the state and welfare of the said Colony of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem necessary." The latter portion of the above sentence is quoted from the N.Z. Gazette. We would advise the Honorables to hold their sittings in Poverty Bay, and re-open a discusssion on the “Amnesty Bill." It would be “amoosin’.”

Messrs James Brown, S. M. Wilson, D. Hepburn, and W. Adair, return thanks in our advertising columns, to those ratepayers who supported them.

On Saturday next Messrs. Carlaw Smith and Co. will sell a variety of articles, including albums, and a lot of fancy goods too numerous to mention. After this a prime lot of Canterbury hams will be submitted ; also a number of books and a commercial code of signals. The wife of Constable John Walsh, nee Mary Lewis, died at Reporua, near Awanui, on the 11th inst., after an illness of three months, at the early age of 19. She was a half-caste, and the daughter of a great chieftainess, and her father was well known to all who have lived for any time on the Coast. The deceased was much liked by all who knew her, and, through her mother, a very large landowner. Her funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed on the Coast, as, in addition to a number of Europeans, some hundreds of Natives were present. She leaves a little boy three months old.

It is stated that the Rev. David Eruce, late editor of the '* New Zealand Times ” has purchased, in conjunction with Mr Carrick the “ Waikato Times.” .Vanity Fair gives an amusing story of Sir Arthur Gordon, which may be new to many of our leaders “ While cruising about in one of her Majesty’s ships, during the time he was Governor of Fiji, hi relations with the Captain were, to say the least of it, strained. The captain therefore determined to pay him out, and he did so as follows ; — Sir Arthur was in the habit of going ashore early in the morning, in a deshabille suited to his errand, to have a bathe in one of the streams flowing into the sea. His garb consisted of a pair of loose slippers, an old pair of trousers, a shirt, and a very unofficial hat. One morning, on reaching the top of the companion-ladder on his return from his usual dip, bei to his dismay, found the yards manned, linesmen present, the Captain ready to receive him, and heard the word of command, * Look aft. He felt himself to be in by no means a condition to be thus honored and ‘ looked aft ’ at, so enquired the reason of all this elaborate ceremonial. The captain calmly replied that all ceremonies and compliments commenced at 8 a.m., and that it was then past that hour. The Governor did not love the captain more for his politeness, ”