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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 2

The only business at the R. M. Court yesterday morning was fining an inebriate in the usual sum. Mr D. Gough, contractor for plastering the new Union Bank premises has copriple* ted all the internal work in connection with the Bank. This comprises some very beautiful and graceful centrepieces, and leaf mouldings, &c , creditable to the designer and executor alike. Mr D. Gough hopes to complete the whole of the external work in the course of another week, Mr G. K. Turton, barrister and solicitor, will return from the Coast on Tuesday next, Communications addressed Peel-street, Mr James Mackay’s office, will receive prompt attention on his return. The Cook County Clerk announces that Mr James Fitzgerald of Putae has been appointed a registrar of dogs for the East Coast District. It is also notified that unregistered dogs will be destroyed. A most important advertisement signed by the County Clerk appears in our advertising columns announcing the proposed works to be undertaken with the Government grant of £10,316. As the question is one which materially affects our settlers, we hope that it will be well discussed before the poll is taken. At the Trust Commissioner Court yesterday morning, the business was unimportant. The Commissioner affixed his signature to the deed of lease from W. L. Rees and others to Wm. Smith of interests in the Whcnuakura Block. The lamp at Thelwall’s corner on Saturday and >unday night last was in a most disgraceful condition, and the light was so dim that one had to strike a match to see it. It is worse than useless to have street lamps if they fail to supply the want they were intended for. It simply means that the ratepayers money is being wasted without any benefit being derived. We gather from a contemporary that the yield of wine from the St. Hnbert vineyard, Victoria, is no less than from 90,000 to 100,000 gallons a year.