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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1299, 22 March 1883, Page 2

Supplementary mails for the United Kingdom via Son Francisco, will close on Saturday night, 2-1 th March, at 7 p.m. Mails for Tauranga. per Omapere, and for Auckland, per Southern Cross, will close this (Thuaeday l evening, at 7 o'clock. Mr Lewis, general storekeeper, is now selling off his summer stock of clothing and drapery at prices perfectly astounding. Thia is being done so as to make room for the next shipment which is to arrive shortly. Mr Lewis should receive a fair share of public support, as he sells nothing but the genuine article.

Messrs Common, Shelton and Co., notify that the schooner Gisborne will leave for the East Coast and Auckland on Monday next.

Owing to the unsettled state of the weather, it is uncertain when the Agnes Martin will leave for the coast. She will most likely sail to-morrow if it clears. Mr F. J. Picase announces that he has a centrally situated dwelling for sale, the terms of which are extremely moderate. The offices of the < Jisborne Building Society have been removed from Nasmith’s Buildings to Hamon's Buildings, next to Messrs Winter and Haig, Lowe-street, At a meeting of Foresters held on Tuesday night, it was decided to celebrate in April their anniversary by a grand ball. On Friday next three of the Union Company’s boats will arrive here, viz., the Omapere and Southern Cross from South, and the Te Anau from Auckland. The attention of the members of the J Battery arc called to our advertising columns, in which they receive due notice that an open air daylight parade is to be held on Monday next (Easter Monday). We have been requested to correct a typographical error, which appeared in our Police Court report on Tuesday last. The error was Charles Cecil Lewis, instead of Charles Cecil Lucas. We apologise for the oversight. There is an “ amoossn cus ” on board the Ketch Agnes Martin known as a Ferret, which causes considerable consternation amongst the natives who cannot understand it at all. It is impossible to coax them near it, and if it happens to approach them, they very soon skedaddle. Mr A. W Bromfield, the solicitor formerly of Gisborne, but now practising in Tauranga, has evidently been getting into trouble with the fair sex. A few days ago, two ladies entered his office and soundly belabored him, and in consequence Mr Bromfield laid an information charging them with an inditable offence. Subsequently he withdrew the information in that form, and said he would probably institute one for common assault. What the trouble was about we are unable to state, but it looks as if “ Brom ” had been doing something wrong.

! An accident occurred to Mr P. Niven, on ■ Tuesday which his numerous friends will be ; sorry to hear of. He was driving two horses attached to a four-wheeled waggon in which . : were three bales of wool. When opposite . Mr H. Lewis's store the king-holt came out • : and the off fore-wheel came off’, causing Mr ! ! Niven to fall to the ground. This naturally , slewed the horses, and the hind wheel passed i * over the small of Mr Niven’s back. Fortu- j nately the animals were trotting, and the ■ speed at which the wheel was moving made j ■ the accident less severe than it would have I been had the waggon been moving at a slower | pace. Mr Niven has, however, received a ! nasty hurt, and although able to walk, com- ■ plamed of a severe pain in his back. We ■ trust that the injury will not prove to be | i very serious. ;

We were courteously shown, by the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday a telegram from Mr G. S. Cooper, Colonial Secretary, pointing _ out that the season for the shooting of native game did not commence on the 20th inst., as stated in our telegrams, and that no one is authorised to shoot until April Ist. The former date applies to Wellington only- We have to acknowledge our thanks to Mr Dufaur for his thoughtfulness in giving us the information. Mr F. J. Piesse, who has for some time past acted as manager for the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, informs our readers that he has commenced . business as a general accountant and Commission Agent, Mr Piesse is very well known among the inhabitants of this town, and as he is a thorough good accountant, we may expect to see him in a good business before long. Ou our fourth page will be found some very interesting extracts, amongst which are the following. “ Those good old days ” and No Tick,” The first entertainment of the Service of ' Song took place last Monday evening, at l Ormond, in Bruce’s Hail. Considering the i state of the weather, there was a very fair • attendance, the building being comfortably ■filled. The whole number of the choir exi peered to take part were present under the I able leadership of Mr J. W. Witty. It was I evident that all the members had taken i pains to make themselves efficient, in taking their various parts, &c. “The mother’s farewell,” was splendidly rendered. The ! prominent voices in it were Misses Teat, Rosie, and Hall. The tenor singers took ; their parts very well The alto was well sustained throughout by Mrs Hamblett. The programme, as advertised, was fully : curried out, and everything went off as well as could be expected. The audience seemed • well pleased, and showed their appreciatior i by showering rounds of applause at the per ' formers. Mr Witty advertises the second

entertainment of the “Service of Song," tc take place on Friday next, at Makaraka. Wi hope that his endeavors to entertain the rest dents of that township will prove successful, and that he will have a good audience. On Monday night last there died in the Hospital a compositor, well-known from one end of New Zealand to the other, Mr Win, Ball, who was engaged on the Stanbard staff. The veteran, for he must have been about fifty five years of age, it may almost be said died in harness for he stuck manfully to his frame until the last week or two. Mr Ball was at one time a newspaper proprietor, having started papers at Taranaki, Tauranga, Onehunga and other places. Of late years he has suffered severely from rheumatjsm. His character and habits, during his short residence in Gisborne, had earned for him many friends who mourn his loss. By a recent Gazette we notice that Henry Tacey Clarke Esq., formerly Under Secretary Native Department, has been appointed a judge of the Native Land Court. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, Mr Kenny said, that he was very glad to see that their Worships had not adhered to the usual rule of the court with regard to cost, he considered it very unfair i that the one party should be made to pay tiie full costs incurred on both sides. He said if one sued another for £ 100, and gets Is he also gets his costs. We also agree with IMr Kenny, in saying that the one party : should noo have to pay the other’s costs, and ■ we hope that now we have a new Magis- ! trate, that the rule will be done away with. We insert in our advertising columns a notice that the first general meeting of the ; the Poverty Bay Coursing Club, will be held at the Roneland Hotel, at half past seven ; o'clock this evening. We would call the j attention of persons interested, hut who have • not yet joined the club, that they must hand in their names as foundation members, before the meeting, which is one of members of the