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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1311, 19 April 1883, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found two amusing articles, the first “ Where the dead carcass Is there will the Vulture be found,” being an incident arising out of the admiration of which Mrs Langtry is so often the recipient; and the other entitled “ Hutnerous Engagement,” exemplifying that money is not the only “ root of all evil.” It is greatly to be regretted that the bad weather should have set in just at the time when Mr Oxenham was making a special effort to complete the gravelling, of which less than 5000 yards are required to finish the contract. The worst of it is that the work cannot be proceeded with for a considerable period yet, as the water will take a long time to drain off.

Mr H, E. Johnstone, of the Wharf Stores, has a number of totara stringers and posts for sale.

Mr J. Bourke, Town Clerk, has issued a notice that tenders are invited for cleaning, lighting, supplying oil, and keeping in repair 6 street lamps, from Ist May, 1883, to 31st March, 1884, the conditions are to be seen at his office. Tenders will be received up to the 24th inst.

A German arithmetician has been calculating the agregate number of combinations in the game of dominoes, and has shown them to be 284,528,211,840. Two players playing four games a minute, would only exhaust these combinations in 118,000,000 years. “ You dog of a printer,” cried the enraged poet, “ you have not punctuated my poem at all.” “ Yes, but you see sir, lam not a pointer, I’m a setter,” replied the printer. The vitality of Gisborne is clearly proved by the steady—nay, the rapid growth of our town. Whichever waj’ you wend your steps the ear is assailed by the buzz-buzz of the carpenters’ saw, and the tap-tap of the hammer. The vacant spaces along our manthoroughfares are quickly being by offices, shops, etc. No less such buildings are now in coursej^efe C ti on| v j ? . Mr Adair’s offices, next Argyll Hotel \ the New Zealand Clot£f ng Factory premises ; Mr Humphrye b cgj£fag fl painting shop, next to Parnell and^byj an > 8 , a a h O p adjoining the Mr Houghton’s two shops next AlXEewiß* store. Croak who may; Gis“s?me is and surely steadily progressing. f On Saturday next, the 21st inst., the bailiff of the R.M. Court, will sell by auction at Kowhai, near P&kirikiri, by virtue of distress warrant, a sledge house, 400 gallon zinc tank, and other articles. For further particulars see advertisement. Mr Finneran, Architect, Gladstone Road, invites tenders for the building of a parsonage for Holy Trinity Church. Plans and specifications can be seen at Mr Finneran’s office. Tenders will close at 12 o’clock on Wednesday the 25th inst. Mrs Smith, of Cobden-street, opposite StAndrew’s church, has comfortable accommodation for a few single gentlemen boarders at very reasonable rates. Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett will sell by auction, at their mart, on Saturday, the 2ist, at 2 p.m., a quantity of household furniture, comprising drawing room suit, carpets cheffioneers, chest of draws, looking glasses, washstand®, toilette services, kitchen utensils, bedsteads, mattrasses, and other articles toe numerous too mention. According to an English livestock journal, Mr Proctor, of Durham, who devotes nis time to the rearing of valuable fowls, has a number of the Cochin China breed which he valued at £lOOO each ! He recently indignantly refused one-tenth of that amount, yet a hundred pounds seems a big price for a fowl.

A correspondent of the “ Star ” in answer to one signing himself “Victim” says that if there were not so much credit given by “Victims” there would be fewer eases of wife-desertion in the Colony. These “ Victims ” will supply credit to any respectablydressed woman, merely for the asking ; aye, and it is often pressed upon them, and then, when they have a nice little bill totted up the husband is then for the first time thought of, and hunted up, and presented with the bill. That is generally the first knowledge the husband has of the affair ; who is the “victim” in that case ? Sir, I would strongly urge upon ourM.H.R.’s during the next session of Parliament to bring in a bill “That any person giving credit to women without the knowleege and consent of their husbands shall not be able to recover the same in any court of law.”

From all quarters comes news of the bad and almost impassable state of the roads. Rivers flooded and small streams and creeks have become ewoolen into torrents, rendering travelling most difficult and dangerous. Even on the flat lands the streams have become so surcharged that traffic is brought almost to a standstill.

Mr W. L. Rees, solicitor on behalf of Wi Kingi Hori a debtor, gives notice that he will apply for an order of discharge of above debtor at the District Court, on Monday 30th April, at 2 o’clock p.m. Of all the comical introductions a minister ever received, we think that of the Rev. Mr Cocks, at the hands of the “ Herald,” about the funniest. The rev. gentleman, according to our contemporary, is thoroughly up in building gaols, and the expenditure of £lO,OOO is as nothing to him when a gaol is mentioned. Now we certainly do not want a gaol building clergyman here, because it wouldn’t do to have it empty if it cost £lO,OOO, and some of us might be run in. If the “ Herald” could have introduced us to a breakwater building parson we would have been delighted, but gaols are not in our line. A meeting of the County Council will be held in the council chambers next Friday evening for the transaction of the following business : To appoint a time to hold a public meeting to consider the proposed special rate re the Bridges and Roads Construction Act; to settle the Engineer’s salary ; and to appoint returning officers. In the R. M. Court yesterday, Te Whetu, Wimata Taniwha, Reupena te Ana, and Pipi Taweka, were charged on the information of Captain Porter, the first with forgery of a certain deed, and the latter three with aiding and alietting in the said forgery. Mr Brassey appeared for the defendants. On the application of the police the case was adjourned until the 2nd of May. The case of Rai ha Putoto, charged with perjury, was also adjourned until the same date.