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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1298, 20 March 1883, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found some ! most interesting reading matter ;—“ Loss of ! Sheep after Washing,” “Te Kootiphobia,” and various other readable items. A boat with a couple of natives in it upset on the bar on Saturday last. Mr Chas. DeThiery, with a volunteer crew, promptly proceeded to the rescue and the men were saved after suffering nothing more than a good ducking. A chesnut horse has been found straying at Hungaroa, the owner of which can obtain possession by paying expenses. Further | particulars will be given on application to ; the office of this paper. ; Mr Matthew Price has returned to j Gisborne, but we are sorry to say if anyi thing worse as regards his eyesight, than ' when he left. ' The public will regret to learn that Constable Walsh has received notice that he has been removed to Dunedin. Constable j Walsh is well-known here, and highly res- ; pected. The present paragraph wifi be read ; with regret by our readers. i The Rev. Mr Hudson who is departing, ■ will be the recipient of a complimentary I soiree, prior to leaving these shores. As the j Rev. gentlemen has worked hard and well, i we feel assured that very many friends outi side of his own denomination will be in at--1 tendance to-night. • The great “ Bonanza Consultation ” on 1 the Melbourne Cup, 1883, is advertised elsei where. The drawing is announced positively ■ to take place on or before the 25th of Octo- ! her next. Persons wishing to invest in this i sweep can obtain full particulars on reference to the advertisement in another ! column. ’ It was, and it was not, interesting-the ! Native Race Meeting on the Waerenga-a--i hika Racecourse on St. Patrick’s Day. The ' running was honestand true, but the animals i were of very poor quality. The publicity ; given was small, and the attendance ditto. The whole affair was a farce, but one in which the parties concerned came off second best. Our Napier telegraphic correspondent fell into an error in last Saturday’s issue, which we hasten to correct. The attempted suicide by Mr Reardon was not fatal reported, and the gentleman is rapidly recovering. Our account was published in accordance with information received, and we are pleased that a correction has been so promptly made. Mr R. Hollis, (not C. Davis as stated in i our contemporary last evening) arrived in Gisborne on Sunday morning last, with 2000 sheep for Sir G. Whitmore’s run at Tuparoa. Another Jot of sheep, numbering 2600, may be looked for in a few days in charge of Mr C. Davis, for the same destination. He was an Irishman, and he felt proud of •' it, and Saturday being the “17th of Old . Ireland,” he determined to give the girls and • boys a treat. We can’t say much about the girls, but he assuredly did amuse the boys. He had carefully decorated himself with a green ribbon, and with a short clay pipe had meandered from the suburbs into tho busy haunts of man. He wetted the ribbon, rewetted it, and at last got it thoroughly damp. He could not “drown the Shamrock,” because he hadn’t got one. He sat on a chair and gazed wistfully for a moment at the bar, then dived about four or five feet down into his trowser pockets, and discovered nuthiu't. He then sank into slumber. With Tarquin strides someone approached him, and divesting him of the green, substituted a yellow ribbon. Shortly afterwards the slumberer awoke, and begun loudly proclaiming his nationality, but an individual present loudly asserted that the ribbon-be-decked individual was unfaithful, ami had changed his colors. “ Nothin’but the green” ■ exclaimed the lately somnolent one. “ D;> j you call that green,” replied a countryman, ami the unfortunate victim of the practical joke looked down at the ribbon on his breawl. On noticing the color lie gave a veil, tore off

the yellow streamer, and howled out “ which of you did that ?*’ I'll hate the best man amongst the lot."

In the Wakatip “Mail” of the 2nd inat. appears an article in defence of the pardoning nf Te Kooti. It is evidently written to smooth the already rose-stnnved path of the land graspers. It defends the action of those who have secured, anti arc still endeavoring to secure, large tracts of land, but still it fails to show the slightest cause why the stern determination felt and expressed by the relatives of the unfortunates who were cowardly and brutally murdered in Poverty Bay should be altered. The thirst for Te Kooti's blood w’ill never be quenched in this district, notwithstanding all that the Government can do, and as >ve mentioned before should Mr Bryce visit Gisborne he will be hooted, and if Te Kooti comes within coocy of this place he will be killed.

As will have been seen by advertisement, | the members of the Wesleyan Church here ‘ have decided to give a farewell soiree to the i R«v. Mr Hudson, prior to his departure, and i it is confidently felt that the great feeling of esteem entertained by the congregation for ! Mr Hudson will attract a large attendance. ! The rev. gentleman whilst here has by his i affable and courteous demeanour made many i sincere and steadfast friends, all of whom are ‘ desirous of tendering to him a mark of the . respect in which they held him. The effect of the fright administered by i Professor Wiggins was. (says the N. Z. ' Herald) most observable amongst young j children. For some days the coming storm : was the principal subject of conversation, i Some of the little folks were seriously | alarmed, and took to reading their Bibles j every evening. One little girl said she and ■ her father and mother and brothers and ■ sisters would get into a vessel and float away ' on the flood to London. Mr Barraclough, the Managing Director of the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, arrived here this morning. This gentleman, whose knowledge of land and its capabilities is deserving of respect, has a great opinion of Poverty Bay. Simonsen's Opera Company will produce to-night, “La Fillo de Madame Angot,” when Madame Fanny Simonsen will make her first appearance in Gisborne. This Company is the first of its kind that has visited Gisborne, and all who delight in music of a superior kind, should not fail to secure their seats for the remaining three Operas. The fears entertained of a great storm on the 10th inst. have been allayed, but we now discover that the prognostication was merely’ a trick. An exchange says :—“ Referring once more to Wiggins, whose name has become almost a household word, we have heard that the same gentleman is a ’cute Yankee, who is about to leave America with a large variety show, and that his prognostication as to the storm was a mere myth, the real object being to advertise himself, which object he has achieved on this side of the line probably better than any man living. The next thing wc may expect is —“ Wiggins is coming.”

Mr Allan M'Lean announces elsewhere (says the H. B. Herald) that the whole of his thoroughbred stock is for sale, with the exception of Vasco di Gama and half-a-dozen brood mares. Mr M’Lean's determination is due to his time and attention being fully occupied with his station properties in Poverty Bay. The horses include some of the best bred youngsters in New Zealand, and the present is an opportunity of securing first-class blood not often afforded to racing men. Several are engaged in the Hawke’s Bay Guineas, JBB3.

A great many complaints were indulged in last night, during the performance of the Opera Company, at the badly lighted state of the hall. This, no doubt, will be rectified by the proprietors immediately. Messrs Fraser and Tinne, of Auckland, claim to have made the first steel boilers in New Zealand.

Mr J. B. Howe, the well-known actor writes to “ Lloyd's Weekly News ” recom mending Auckland as “ the home for working men.’’

On Good Friday and Easter Monday the Telegraph Office will open only from 9 to 10 a.m. The mails usually closing on Friday will close on Thursday, 22nd March, at 7 p,m., instead of Friday.

i We (Wairoa “ Guardian ”) learn that Mr Reardon, of the firm of Reardon and O'Ryau, surveyors, of Gisborne, is now engaged surveying the Mangapoiki block, a large tract of country situated at the back of the Whakaki run and extending to Whakapunaki, taking in the basin of the Mangapoiki above the gorge. The land is rough and broken, but of good quality. The Lake County correspondent of a Dunedin contemporary writes :—“ A new and fatal disease has been discovered among the sheep on Mr Boyes’ run, the loss from which has been considerable. The sheep attacked showed a strange decadence in the legs, which soon become discolored, shortly after which death ensues. Various reasons are given as to the cause, but all are merely speculative; neither has it as yet been proved that the disease is infectious, and it is hoped that it is only a temporary affection induced by a prolonged change of food and habitat, and that it will disappear when the sheep, after shearing time, arc taken back to the localities to which they are accustomed. A more particular description of this disease wilLbc found on our 4th page. 1 We are glad to learn that the cricketers of I Wairoa are likely to visit Gisborne, in order to wage the war of the willow against the bowling and batting of the Bayites. This is as it should be. At a meeting of the Wairoa Cricketers recently held it was decided, by a majority of five, to play a match with Gisborne in preference to one with Napier. The following extract taken from the “ Hawke’s Bay Herald ” will be read with interest by our sheepfanners -.-—Mr J. H. Sheppard, agent for Thomas’s sheep-dipping composition, writes :—As a matter of interest to the sheepowners of this province, may 1 ask you to insert the following letter from Mr Heslop, of Chesterhope, with reference te the above dip “ Chesterhope, 10th March, 1883 :Mr Hobson—Sir : I regret not having answered your sooner, owing to being away from home. My experience of Thomas’s dip leads one to believe that it is the best dip in the Colony. It proved thoroughly effica cious—not a tick or a louse to be seen—and my wool was in much bettor condition than ever I had it before. Previous to using the above dip I tried H.-.U’a and Little’s, but neither of them pleased me. The sheep broke out two or three months after dipping ; but with Thomas’s dip, although during the flood my sheep got mixed with about .3000 undip ped sheep, and remained so tor a fortnight, when Mr Fitzßoy came to inspect them the other day it took him a considerable time to find a single living insect. Care should be taken that the compound is thoroughly dissolved, which is easily done by stirring it well in a small quantity of waters before adding the bulk - one pound of the paste to 15 gallons of water. The otdy objection anyone can find with it is a little more trouble to dissolve, and what I intend to do is to fix a I cask on the the principle of a barrel churn to obviate the object ion.—-\ our? : , etc., Geo. i Heslop.” A German arithmetician has been cal- I culatiirg the aggregate number of combin- I ations in tin game of dominoes, and *has ■ show n them to !><■. 2>1.528.211,844. Two j players, playing four games a minute, would ■ only exaust these combinations in 118,000, ! 000 years. i