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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1283, 26 February 1883, Page 2

• It is announced that the Oodnauce Firing I for the Government Prizes is to take place on Wednesday next, at 4 p.m. Members are to be in uniform and be in attendance promptly. Mails for Tauranga and Auckland, per I Omapere, will close this evening (Monday), at 7 o’clock. Mr Ratcliffe, the Secretary to the TuranI ganui Highway Board, announces the rate of ' £1 per cent, must be paid on or before the 9th prox., and also that the valuation list and rate book may be inspected at his office. An announcement appears elsewhere to the effect that Mr F. J. Jeffreys, late from Oamaru, will deliver a lecture on Tuesday evening next, and also on Thursday. Full particulars may be ascertained on reference to the advertisement. The Order Paper for the Borough Counci meeting to-morrow night presents no special’ features; it consists only of the ordinary routine business. Mr W. P. Finneran, who by the way has removed tn his new and commodious offices next to Messrs Parnell and Boylan’s ironmongery store, advertises for tenders for the erection of a building in the Gladstone Road. The Carnarvon-street Baths are advertised to be open now for ladies from 9 a.m. till noon daily, with the exception of Sunday, when the time is limited to 10 a.m. This latter restriction is a very sensible one, as there are many persons living on the banks of the river who indulge iu boating on Sundays. We feel assured that many of the ladies of Gisborne will be grateful to the committee for having thrown open the baths for their use, thus affording them a pleasure which otherwise they could not have enjoyed. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have forwarned us a copy oj produce telegram dated London, February 20th:— Wool. The sales opened on 20th inst., at tin- level of last sales, and comprise about 2b0,0->J wales. 31,000 bales have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. The opening catalogue contained 6000 bales, but was not a representative one. Competition by both home and foreign buyers is active. Competition on French account is also active. A meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club is to be held this evening at the Masonic Hotel. The sheep and cattle sale to be held tomorrow by Messrs Graham, Pitt, and Bennett, at Ormond, will assuredly attract a large quantity of buyers, not alone on account of the large quantity of animals to be submitted to public competition, but, in addition, the valuable nature of the stock to be disposed of.