Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1883.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1285, 28 February 1883, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1883.

The liberality of Cr. Tutchen is noted. Last evening, at the Borough Council meeting, he very kindly offered to hand over to that body a valuable piece of roadway known as Cook-street, twenty chains long, and 40 feet wide. Unfortunately for Cr. Tutchen thia munificent offer could not be accepted unless he first formed and metalled it, as the Act does not permit the Council to accept of such gift* unless under certain conditions, How eagerly were watches glanced at last evening, when the City Fathers were in solemn conclave assembled. The Mayor has prohibited smoking before 10 o’clock on meeting nights; but for the life of us we fail to see why smoking after 10 o’clock is any less objectionable than a draw or two before that hour. It seemed to us last evening that the length of the meeting was rather prolonged than curtailed by ti.e pipe being barred for a good two hours and a half. In fact there was more attention paid to the time by very many of the Councillors th: j te ths business in hand. Mails for Tauranga and Auckland, per Talaroa, will close this evening (Wednesday) st 7 o’clock. *

The East Anglican, steamer, from Yarmouth, in charge of Captain Beacher, recently made the entrance into Tynemouth Harbor during a heavy gale, and when great danger attended any vessel passing the bar. The master reports that he resolved to try the effect of oil upon the waves, and stationed two men, eaoh with a two-gallon bottle of oil, at th* vessel’s bows, one on either side. The oil wm gently poured upon the " broken " water, and the effect was that it became comparatively smooth at once, and the vessel passed into the harbor with little difficulty. The oil used was that usually burnt in the ship’s lamps, and only four or five gallons were poured upon the sea.

Information was received this afternoon that the once magnificent steamer Austral has at last been successfully floated. The ordnance firing is taking place as we go to press,

The Volunteer inspection takes place tomorrow evening, Mr Jeffery's lecture which was to have been delivered last evening, was postponed in consequence of the unpropitious state of th* weather.

The tender* for the erection of premises in Gladstone Road, advertised for by Mr W. P, Finneran, architect, close to-morrow, at 4 p.m. Two cases were hoard at the R.M’s Court this morning, via , Police v, Eru Poa and Polio* v, Kapla, In the former case the defendant wm fined os or tn default of payment 24 hours imprisonment, for being drunk. The latter case was again reman, ded till thia day week, for the production of witnesses.

We ar* pleased te find that the Borough Council have ordered the hole, which was mentioned in our local last evening at the foot of Peel-street, to be filled in. Mr J. H. Alslabie notifies that he is now able to supply his customers with pure Merino mutton. We advise our readers to try it, and they will find that it is the "genuine article.” A Dunedin butcher has been fined £5 for having short weights. One 71b weight was half a pound short.

Or. Chrisp is certainly to be complimented on the excellent taste he displayed at the Borough Council last evening, by requesting the Mayor to excuse him from voting on any question until the petition against his return had been heard and decided. An architectural curiosity may be seen at th* corner of Eigbty-eecond-atreet and Lexington avenue In New York city, where two dwelling houses have been erected on a plot of land measuring five feet on Eighty-second street and a hundred feet on Lexington avenue.

A Tasmanian paper says that the American custom of carrying a revolver is coming into fashion at Wellington, New Zealand. It is a pocket-pistol containing whiskey that our Van Dieman’s Land contemporary means.

A gentleman (!) (says the writer of “ London Talk ’’ in the Argus) rubbed a hot poker over his wife’s throat and legs, as though it had been an embrocation. We remember reading of a pious couple in Auckland doing the same thing to a child, to give it an idea of what •• hell ” was. There are brutes in this world, and they should be punished.

A good story is told (says the Napier Telegraph) of the borough nightsoil and rubbish collector. A householder overheard one of the men employed by this contractor making use of bad language in the hearing of children. The box of refuse rubbish was unusally heavy, and the man asked the children whether their father thought him an adjective cow to be expected to Tift such a load. The householder complained to the Town Clerk, and that official sent for the contractor to remonstrate with him on employing;* man who could be guilty of the language imputed to him. ' Well, you see, Sir/ said the contractor, • I can’t get a staff of clergymen for the work of my contract, but if I could I should be hanpv to oblige.”

The Lyttelton Times reports that a dead fish found floating in the Avon has been declared to be a true Californian Salmon. This is the third well-accredited specimen that has been met with lately, one coming from the Opihi in South Canterbury, and one from Wanganui. It at last seems probable that some result is likely to be obtained from the amount of money spent in introducing this specious of fish.

The hymnology of the poets of the Salvation Army puts the efforts of Pusey and Roundell Palmer in the shade. The newest thing in the shape of refrains is as follows :— If you can’t get in at the golden gate, Get over the garden wall.