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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1281, 23 February 1883, Page 2

The aloknesa which hat been rife recently should disappear after the rain which has fallen during the past few days,

Astronomers are not free from the disaduantages of those who are engaged in the possibly less distinguished but more profitable occupation of sale and barter—they can novar agree. Mr Beverley, of Dunedin, has declared that, as the comet which created such a scare a short time ago is evidently travelling in a parabolic curve, its return to our eun w an event not likely to take place for many millions of years, If, indeed, it will ever retrace ite course. This comforted üb, but no sooner arc wc once more settled into our armchair, and driving our quill with true editorial uoneAalanee of outward phenomena than a Mr Biggs, of Tasmania, tells us that the comet has alreading started on its return journey. We are not, however, as yet, overwhelmed with dismay, and intend waiting for a confirmation of the disturbing rumor.

We hear that the hnus nahittr born in the Foxton district some four or five months ago, in the shape of two female infants joined together in Siamese twin fashion, still thrives and there appears every probabilty of theinfants arriving at a stage of healthy and robust growth. Ifc Is gravely recorded in the Timaru Herald that the sun has been so hot at Pareora that green apples on the trees have been “ literally cooked.’ One would imagine from their appearance that they had bean near a fire, or that tbe trees on which they hung had been burnt.

A special general meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club is to be held on Monday evennext at 7 o’clock in the Masonic Hotel. The business to be discussed is important and a full muster of members is requested. Mr S. M. Wilson is a cash purchaser of poultry, of every description. In addition to the large amount of stock to be sold on Tuesday next by Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett, at Ormond, an additional lot of 150 lambs have been added. The schooner Gisborne, Captain J. H. Skinner is advertised to leave Auckland for the coast and Gisborne on the 26th inst.

The match which had been arranged between J. Aggers and Delaney, of Napier, to come off to-day, did not eventuate as the former forfeited m consequence of the weather, He has, however, arranged to meet Delaney on Easter Monday at Napier, and to run him for £23 aside.

If proof were wanted of the value of kauri timber we could confidently point to the magnificent counter top in the new Union Bank premises. It is from the heart of a magnificent tree, and is as fine a sample of our much-prized wood as we have seen. Says a writer in “Vanity Fair” on December 2:—“Our daily newspapers have lately been advertising their diurnal sales, and very large they appear to be. But taking the total sales of all our penny morning papers, I doubt if they would reach that attained by one of their Paris contemporaries. I allude to the small halfpenny newspaper called ‘ Le Petit Journal,’ which has a circulation, in the provinces especially, astoundingly large. I am able to speak ‘by the card ’ in this instance, for, during a recent stay in Paris, I paid a visit to the ‘ Petit Journal ’ office, and actually had the printing order for that particular night in my hand. It was for 749,500 copies, which were duly printed by nine large Marinoni machines, the pages of the paper having been cast nine times over for the purpose.”