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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1316, 14 June 1883, Page 2

The sitting of the Supreme Court will commence on Monday next, but the Court will then be adjourned until Wednesday, at 10 o’clock a. m., when business will commence. The address which was presented to Father Boyle on Sunday last, the wording of which was given in Saturday’s issue, was to-day stretched and framed iu a highly satisfactory manner by Mr. Townley, of Large & Townley. The address was placed in the hands of Mr. John Mogridge, of the Standard office, for getting up The wisdom of this selection was proved by his turning out a specimen of printing in red and blue, ou white silk, that would be a credit to the largest printing establishment in London. The address was then handed to Mr. Ballautyne, with instructions to place a border of shamrocks round, and the manner in which that gentleman performed his part of the t.«sk was most flittering to himself, and pleasing to all concerned. The joint production of the two above named gentlemen is both surprising and beautiful, and is a credit to the town of Gisborne. Mr William M Lennan, of Dunedin, has just patented an “ Improved Self-mixing Dough Machine,” for which he claims special advantages.

Four horses from New Zeal* id have b< Nn nominated for the Melbourne Cup, as, besides Welcome Jack and Rubil «a (nomina ted in Christchurch), .Bundoora • ppears m the Melbourne list, and Sir Modtl a in that of Sydney. Mr S. Roe. of Ormond, whffi t riding home last Tuesday evening had a w irrow escape. His horse shied and ran into a trap, throw. ing both horse and rider to tho ground. Th e horses shoulder was much injtll ’ed. Mr Roe escaped with a severe shaking and badly bruised leg. Priestley, the alleged murderor, has tui ’hed his attention to digging. A father si >arp ’ descent for a Gospel student. The valuation list for the County for 1883 having been received at the C'Winty Co, jncil offl e, all persons who have exchange d or sold rateable properties are invited to examine the same not later than Satui 'day, the 16th inst. By reference to our advertisement eolrtimna it will be seen that a committee p» 'opoae holding a ball in Bruce’s Hall, Ormot id, on Wednesday, the 27th iust. The same gentlemen have met with such remarkable eucess in their previous similar undertakings, that we are perfectly satisfied that this one will result in the sama. Tickets obtainable from Mr Cooper, Waerenga-a-hika. Several business gentlemen have complained to us about their letters not being sorted on Sundays, thus, in many instanc* »*, delaying their business transactions for a whole week, when the boats come and go on Sunday and Monday before correspcmdence is se» n. Mr Crawford, brewer, of Aberdeen Rond, is prepared to supply the public with draught ale, XXXX bottled ale, prize ato.-ut,, standard bottled stout, celebrated gin g< jr ale, and assorted cordials of unsurpas s« d quality. Ten thousand six hundred and ninety-fi’ tons of newspapers and periodicals were sent i during last year through the New Y<j rk ■ Post Uitice to news agencies and regular si ib- , scribers. There is an average of 35 ton? >of newspapers and periodicals mailed every day i at the New York Post Office. Toll-gates are a good spec in Greynvou th. ’ Three of them realised £1540 for a ;r<*r’s r rental. I The " Hawke’t Bay Herald ” gives pro- ' minence to the following: —“A very - curious, and at first sight hardly credible, > report is being whispered in certain p< ilitical circles, to the effect that Sir Georgo Grey 4 has a great surprise in store. This is said i to be no less tnau an announcemen tof his , adhesion to the present Governmen t party, jr We do not profess to vouch for the truth of { the rumor, but after all, it would not surpiise ua t<» find it come true. ‘ Nothing is I so likely to happen as the unexpected ’ is a p saying peculiarly applicable to Knight « of Kawau ; oue of his greatest 'delights in t life seems to be to astonish hia most intimate friends, some totally unexpected move. The report referred to goes further, and II gives as Sir George Grey’s intended excuse that he approves the native policy of Mr. e Bryce. We call it his “ excuse ” to distin(i guish it from his reason for deserting his old party. There would be a considerable e amount of force and truth in the excuse, for f we have no doubt that Sir George really 1. does endorse Mr. Bryce’s native policy ; but 0 no oue will believe that that and that alone would influenc Sir George in taking such a momentous step as that he is reported to be contemplating 11l natured critics, and some not so very ill-natured, too, will look D elsewhere for Sir George’s motives, and peris haps they will ascribe his change of front should it be made—to revenge for his deposition from he leadership of the Opposir tion. It is an open secret that during last >• session the wily knight was never more dcil lighted than when Uld Mumbler,’ as Mr. Montgomery is ncvereutly called, or Mr. n Macandrew fel into an unexpected pitfall. Sir Georje stniied serenely at their stiuggles, 11 but- no effort to help his old henohmau out of the pit. Was this but the preliminary to 1, a final and Oj-en desertion this year ?”

The Western Union Telegraph Company transmitted lately to a cattle agent in Texas a telegram requesting him to go at once to Buffalo Springs, and bring there his “ horse and sheep.” The receiving clerk undertook to correct the telegram, and instead of meeting his master merely with the latters horse and favo.ite dog, the agent proceeded to the place of assignation with a flock of 5000 sheep, 1,500 of which died on the road. The Company just had to hand over 3000dols, as damages, a result which the paper giving the above facts think ought to act as a caution to young clerks with a passion for correcting telegrams. It might have added, and with more justice, that it should teach senders the absurdity <>f sending such telegrams. 999 clerks at the receiving end of a wire out of a thousand would he sure to think ‘shep” a mutilation of “sheep,” while the addition of a word or two by the sender would have readilj' obviated the ambiguity of the message. There is such a thing as cutting the word of a telegram too fine.

The Sydney correspondent of the Australasian makes some serious charges against the Telegraph Department in New South Wales. He writes : “The unexpected victory of Sting iu the Adelaide Cup has been the means of giving rise to a great scandal here, and which will probably lead to a thorough and much-needed reorganisation of our Electric Telegraph Department. The first telegram that reached Sydney announcing the result was addressed to Tattersall’s Club, having been despatched direct from the racecourse by a netnber of the Club then there, but before it reached its destination in Pitt street, a couple of smart gentlemen, who ha«t become possessed of the information, avail’ d themselves of the opportunity to take «ome of the bookmakers down. Those who suffered most severely were Charley Bannerman who has now joined the ring, £6O ; ami E. E. Joues, £5O ; and it is alleged th kt the information was surreptitiously conveyed from the telegraph operating-room to persons outside.” He mentions other instances in which contents of important sporting telegrams have been disclosed. When Zulu won the Melbourne Cup in 1880 one of the messenger boys availed himself of the information gained in the office to win £25 from a membar of Tattersall’s, and was covetous enough to desire to make more ; and when the champion sculling match between Hanlan and Tricket was rowed in England, the late Mr James Punch, although not receiving a single word by cable, was the first possessor in Sydney of the result, and hid it posted in his bar before the newspaper offices received their messages. The matter is to be brought officially under the notice of the Postmastergeneral by the Chairman of Tattersall’s Club. An Auckland Farmers’ Co-operative Association is being floated ; capital, £lOO,OOO. One object, besides the erection of flourmills, is the making of advances to farmers at the beginning or the season. \. Graham and Co., the well-known wholesale wine and spirit merchants, of Cmtom-h<»use street, having recently received large additions to their Htocks, have now on hand an assortment of the moot varied and new brands of wines and spirits, bottled ales and stout, Australian wines (in wood and case), licquers, cigars. &c,,