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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1318, 19 June 1883, Page 2

A notification appears tl lie morning to the effect that persons desirous of going to the Ormond Ball, in aid of the funds of the Hospital, tickets may be hud from W. D. Buruand, J. Cooper, A. PiOnd, and M. Jennings. Those interested, are reminded that the tenders called by Mr. W. P. Finueran for the erection of two cottages, will close tomorrow, tiie 20th inst. A species of low fever is at present raging among the Natives up North, and which frequently cermiuaies in death. We regret to hear that through illness Father RiorJa.li was tiuKtSfe to officiate uF Ormond and Gisborne on Sunday B Ust us announced. We hope by thia he will have recovered sufficient to fulfil his duties once more. The Alpha Lodge of Freemasons was consecrated at Cambridge, Waikato, yesterday. A number of Thames tradesmen are most anxious as to the whereabouts of a wellknown boniface who has suddenly disappeared from there. The Seraphic Quadrille Assembly held their class last night iu McFarlane’s Hail. An on-looker tells us that if the pupils do not get on and become good dancers, it is n<>t the fault of the master, Mr McFarlane, and that he deserves great credit for his pains and trouble. The music we hear is also very good. A devout believer in Spiriturlism, resident at the Thames, has had a revelation from the unseen world to the effect that if he communicates with a certain solicitor in England he will find that a relative has with in a few months ehuffled off this mortal coil, leaving him a legacy of £lOOO. The prospective legatee is rather elated at the idea, firmly convinced of the reliability of his information received,” and will lose no time in carrying out the injunction of the spirits. Next mail will convey the letter of inquiry, and we trust the news thus received iu advance will be confirmed, and our friend become the possessor of the “ cool thou.” Thus hopes the “ Thames Advertiser,” but we are afraid it will prove a case of hope deferred, aud payment still further deferred —the “ cool thou ” melting into thin air, or “ dematerialising,” like the ghostly visitant who brought the news of it. Sir William Fox was the recipient lately at New Plymouth, of a handsome silver inkstand, from the Good Templars there, as a mark of their approbation of his services to the cause of temperance The usual fortnightly mails for the coast close this afternoon for Tup *roa, Te Mawhai, Port Awanui, and Aku Aku, at 3 p.m. The Treasurer of the Poverty Bay Hospital writes to us, that although it is usual to publish the names of subscribers once a year only, he would request us to publish the following list for last quarter, and would like in return to have a list of the names of those “ leading members” who are withholding their subscriptions, as he has only been refused by two persons, and one of these had v« ry good grounds for refusing : —Mrs Reynolds, £1 Is; E. P. Joyce, £l Is: J. Forbes, £1 Is; Geo. Smith, £1; Union Bank, £5 ss; Bank of New Zealand, £5 5s ; J. Bourke, £2 2s; W. K. Chambers, £5 5s ; Captain Skinner, £1 Is ; J. Clark, £2 2s ; J. C. Dunlop, £1 Is ; Mr Shrimpton, £1 Is; G. L. Greenwood, £1 is ; J. Booth, £1 Is ; W. Adair, £1 Is ; Wm. Maude, £1 Is ; B. C. F., lOs 6d; H. J. Finn, £2 2s; D. E. Smith, ss; H. Bruce, 5s ; W. File, 2s 6d; Mr Sigley, 10s 6d; H. Cannon, £1 Is; Cannon’s box, 29s 6d ; F. Murray’s box, £1 2s 6<i; Mr Gregson, £1 Is ; D. M. Orr, 10s 6d ; J. Coleman, 10s 6d ; Teat and Friar, £1 Is ; T. J. Dickson, £2 2s ; U. S. S., £2 2s; Kennedy and Bennett, £1 Is; M. de Costa, £1 Is ; W. Searle, 5s ; D. Page, £2 2s ; H. Johnston, 10s 6<i ; Graham, Pict and Bennett, &3 3s ; G. W. Bishop, £lO 10s; E. A. Brown, £3 3s ; M. Smith, £1 Is ; Bank of New South Wales, £2 2s; S. iM. Wilson, £1 Is ; C. P. Davis, 10s 6d ; H. M. Fraser, £1 Is ; Mr Croli. 10s 6d ; A. Graham, £1 Is • A. Allanach, £1 Is; A. M'Donald, £1 Is’ M. Hall, Ils; Geo. Williams, ss; J. W. Barnard, £1 Is ; R. Cooper, 12s 6d ; Chas. Grey, £3; Mullane, 10s; Barber, ss;Cameron, ss; D. Johnston, £1 Is ; Borough 1 Council, £25. Last quarter the subscription amounted to £3B to. The quarter before that (including St. Andrew’s Day) £235 Ils lid, and the first qn trier of the present financial y ar, the amount collected was £4O Os 7d. |

Messrs j JtauhJ.d and Dark's play entitled " Happy thoughts in Hippy Mom.nts," will arrive here shortly from Auckland, From whet we oen heer, end glean from photographs ami illustratlohs about town, we may expect to nee something good. Mr Atldnson, manager to the Auckland Gas Company, who is now on a visit to Gisborne for the purpose of personally inspecting the town, and of forming a correct estimate as to its fitness for the operation of the proposed gas company, has so far approved of the movement as to offer to supply the whole plant, and a competent manager, and to receive 25 per cent dr Wore, of the whole cost in shares. W* heed say nothing further as to the tdecess ef the company, I*!™ . reoent . yof American news per Frisco mail, it was stated that a pugilistic contest had taken place in the Mer:ropolitan lemple—-Dr. Hallock’s BaptUt ChUfch, by the presentation to Jem Mace and Slade of a testimonial. The Rev. W, •I. Spencer, who was recently on a visit at the Thames, made enquiriat from his friend the Rev, J, 8. Bromley, of San Francisco, and received the following reply With regard to the fagili.tU display in ih« Metropolitan Temple of this city, I wish to saysuoli a, “iagraeetul exhibition did take place in. that building, but not under the aii.pvjot of the Rev. Dr. Kellook’e Baptist ru M ™ y ou Beot intimatee. Lh'4 Church only met for Worship in the . 41din;g—it did not own the property. True, 1 an interest in it, but not sufficient to give it power to control and decide what uses the Temple should be put to. The Temple* was built principally by the late Deacon Laukerstein, a converted Jew ; and, at ths time of its erection, a member of Dr. Hallock's Church. At his death it passed into the hands of a firm of Jews, who have no sympathy with Christianty, and they let ihe building for lectures, concerts, political gatherings, theatrical performances, and ithletic exhibitions, —in fact, everything that had money in it. Since the appearance »f Mace and his protege, the Baptist Church lias sold out its interest in the Temple.”— “Thames Advertiser.” The remarkable occurrence of a female lawyer abusing a Judge in open Court, was witnessed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 20th April. Kate Kate, the practitioner’s name, took offence because the Judge had appointed a male attorney instead of herself to defend a burglar She threw a glass of water squarely in his face, saying at the same time, “ Take that, you dirty dog ; you have insulted me.’t The Judge fined her 50 dollars and costs, and directed the sheriff to “ take the creature out of this Court.” She refused to pay the fine, preferring to “ rot in gaol first.” Mr Gibson K. Turton, Solicitor, Peelstreet, begs to notify that Mr C. U. Lucas will conduct his business, a< usual, at his office during Mr Turton’s absence up the coast.

The 11 Medical Press ” says that at Chester, England, an inquest was held over the body of a man who had been more or less drunk for forty consecutive years. He, his wife, and his son had been in the habit of drinking the droppings of various taphouses in the town—a beverage which they purchased for about a shilling a gallon. It is a curious fact that the only night he hud been sober for many years was that upon which he died.

A writer in our contemporary finds it necessary to “ confinri” his statements, made in a windy and mislea>ling paragraph which appeared in their i-sue of Wednesday last, and tipon'Whldh we fdtt ft* our duty to animadvert. The subject referred to the Southern Cross Petroleum Company. We will simply ask our readers to coin pare the two paragraphs, and see whether the latter “ confirms ” the former, or the reverse. In the former he states that Mr Fester had said that “ a ten-barrel well«»f the sample shown him was equal to a fifty-barrel well of American quality.” That is to say, one gallon of our oil is worth as much as five gallons of American. Of course thia exaggeration is so palpable that we thought it required no contradiction on our part; but the writer of the paragraph of Wednesday has, by the use of those implements he is so great an adept in using (the scissors and gum bottle), lust night “confirmed” his own exaggeration. The following appeared in Wednesday’s issue; “Mr Fesler says the oil shown to him is far superior in quality to any he has met with during hi* American experience, ard what is termed a ten-barrel well would be of greater monetary value than many of the fifty-barrel wells of America.” The following is from last night’s issue : “Mr Fesler has examined some samples of the crude oil obtained from this bore, and gives it as hia*opinion that it is more valuable than the product of any of the American oil districts, with one excepception.”