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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1335, 28 July 1883, Page 2

The case of M itchell y. Common, Shelton and Co, being tried before the District Court, New Plymouth, has been settled by arrangement, The plaintiff pays and withdraws his action. Amongst the numerous Consultations of the season, one of the most enterprising-if not the most —is “ Orients,” who has had his advertisement translated into Maori and his prospectus circulated largely amongst the Natives, There is little doubt but what his enterprise will meet with that amount of success it so richly deserves, Professor Ruslan recently lectured in the University Museum, Oxford, to a huge and distinguished company. Hu urged the necessity for pure and simple depiction of natural things in the natural word us stories for children, and begged the students, whether in their pleasure gardens, in the street, in the field, or in the playground, always to endeavour to draw Nature in its truthful aspect. At the close of his address he jwas most enthusiastically applauded. A Bill will be introduced during the present session of the General Assembly, to make provision inter alia. 1, For the conservation of Rivera within the County of Cook or any district duly constituted therein, 2. For the appointment of Boards of Conservators. 3. For the regulation thereof. 4. To give power to such Boards or any of them to rate all lands within their respective districts in proportion to the liability to damages to which such lands are exposed ; to burrow money ; to levy special rates ; to classify lands liable to damage. A copy of of this Bill has been deposited and may be inspected at the Resident Magistrate’s Courts, Gisborne and Tolago Buy. Any ratepayers may obtain a copy of this Bill at the office of the County Council. An annual return was presented to Parliament recently or the several oflicers employed in the Government Life Insurance Department, showing the salaries and commission paid to these oflicers. At the head office, Wellington, the commissioner receives £BOO (the return is for the year ending March 31, 1883) ; actuary, £OOO ; the secretary, £OOO ; superintendent of agents, £459, and 5s per cent on total sums assured in the ordinary branch (less salary). He pays his own travelling expenses, and is liable for any advances to agents not conveyed by 15s per cent commission paid to thorn, Last year lie was paid £2952 Os, being salary and commission, The chief medical officer is on leave of absence for 12 mouths. The acting medical oliicer received £4OO. The lecturer got £2OO and 7s 0d per cent commission on the sum assured of new business effected by him last year. From these sources ho received £267 in addition to his salary. The chief clerk had £275, and 18 other clerks received £2840, and cadets £450. In the industrial branch, the chief clerk receives £275, one clerk £125, and six cadets receive £430. The residedt agent at Auckland, £3OO ; cadet, £5O. Resident agent, Christchurch, £230 ; and two cadets, £l2O. Dunedin resident agent, £2OO ; two cadets, £ll5. i At Napier and Invercargill the resident i agent iu each case receives £290, and cadet j £4O, At Wanganui the resident agent j receives £l5O, and cadet £4O. At Oamaru 1 the agency receives £lOO. Four cf the I cavassiug agents have earned more than £5OO, one gentleman having exceed £9OO. To resto:-.' r.crva and brain waste, nothing , equals Hop Bitters, Believe this. See. |

lion Bitters sire ng th one, builds up, and ! cures cm it.'mi ally, from the first dose. Be sure and see, By a mistake occasioned by the shippers consigning it io .Sydney instead of Auckland, the machinery for the South Pacific Petroleum Company, per Zealandia, from San Francisco, has gone on. This delay is to be regretted, but the mistake will speedily be rectified. No less than fifty-two persons were com- ! mitted to take their trial for gambling and i pocket-picking on the course on Derby day. I Any persons wishing to see the section on ■ Pouawa, advertised by Carlaw Smith & Co. ! tor sale on Friday, the 3rd August, will have I an opportunity of doing so next Wednesday, ! when Mr Maclldowie, the owner, will be ' glad to take them up and show them over ! the hind. ; Everybody has heard of hog Latin and j dog Latin, and now it appears that there is also such a thing as cat Latin. At least the Detriot Post, after detailing some newspaper yarn about an unhappy pussy who “ suicided ” at San Francisco, felinely adds ; “ Meoawmcnto meoawri.” When a clergyman consulted Mr Whatley on the proprety of going to New Zealand on account of his health, “By all means, go,” was the answer ; “ you are so lean no Maori could eat you without loathing.” Arona Ktiihau complains that on the night of the 17th inst, the house of Tan.aii Te Rangituawaru, at Tuaroa, was broken into and property consisting of one scarf shawl, I one pair of black trousers and coat, stolen I therefrom. Another house was also broken into, and one pair of white trousers stolen. “Great indeed is the evil of this wicked work.” Mr. Henry Hacche, carpenter, of Gisborne, has filed a statement that he is unable to ‘ meet his engagement swith his creditors. First meeting on August 9, at 3 p.m. Carlaw Smith & Co. will sell by auction, at their yard in Lowe Street, on Tuesday next, 31st inst, at 11 o’clock a.m. A line lot of forest trees, decidious and flowering shrubs, roses, &c., &c., from the famed nursery of Robert Clease, Invercargill, Mr. H. Fisher, who has been so long and favourably known as one of our best family bakers, has now removed to his new and convenient premises, at the corner of Grey Street and Gladstone Road, where he trusts he will continue to meet with the same steady support he has hitherto received. English Parliamentary returns show imports during 1882 of 166,816 cattle, 884,993 sheep ; and 13,097 swine. The County Council give notice that they will, on the 9th day of August proceed to make a special order to the effect that all existiug By-laws of the Council be repealed and advertised ones substituted. The Seraphic Quadrille Assembly will be held in the Academy of Music on Monday, the 30th instant, Messrs Charles Ferris and G, K. Turton, who have been employed for the past four ,veeks up the East Coast, as far as Waiapu, in obtaining signatures for the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, returned to town on Thursday last. They are said to have been eminently successful so far as obtaining signatures to a counter petition to the one forwarded by the East Coast Natives against the New Zealand Native Land Seti tlement Company’s Empowering Bill, goes, j But when we consider that they wereobtain- | ing cash sty natures for shares, and signatures j to the counter-petition simultaneotislg, it ap- | pears to us that they have done very wrong i in so endeavoring unfairly to influence Natives—or iu other words, so potently to iu- [ dues toem to affix their signatures to the I vitally necessary counter-petition. We reI gret that such things should be, but nevertheless they •to be. How flattered Sir G. Grey will feel when he becomes enlightened as to these and many other proceedings of which as yet he is ignorant, and, consequently, an unbeliever.