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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1337, 2 August 1883, Page 2

We beg to call attention to Ada Mantua’s Consultation on the Melbourne and New ' Zealand Cup. We can recommend this as ’ being a thoroughly genuine affairs. See : advertisement, Tenders are invited for repairing a portion ' of the Gisborne-Ormond-Waimata Road, at , Waiohika. Tenders to close at 12 noon, on j Monday, August 6, and to be addressed, i Jas. Orme Barnard, Inspector of Surveys, i Specifications to be seen at the Survey ! Office, Gisborne. | Mr D. E. Smith is still to the fore, He • announces that he has a large and splendid I stock of boots, etc, now on hand, and gives assurance to all that his goods are first class i and require no slaughtering, the truth of i which announcement we can endorse. His large stock comprises boots of his own make, also a quantity which have been lately imi ported ; thus customers are enabled to pick ; and choose for themselves. We refer our i readers to his advertisement, and if that is insufficient, to call on Mr Smith himself and : be satisfied. 1 Mails for Napier and Wellington, per 1 Southern Cross, will close this afternoon i (Thursday), at 3 p.m. I Letters for “A. Smith ” have been lying j at our office for some time. To-night is tho last occasion on which Rainer’s panorama of the American and Russo-Turkish wars will be exhibited. As this is the case, we advise those who wish to see it, not to let this opportunity pass. The Company leave by the Wairarapa to-morrow to commence a season in Napier. His Worship the Mayor proclaims a half’ ■' holiday from J o’clock to-day, on account of : the football match. I The football match, Napier v. Gisborne, i will take place this afternoon. A thorough i good match is anticipated, and wc expect to : see a large number of spetators on the ground. ' After the match the Napier footballers will • be entertained at a dinner at the Gisborne : Hotel, ! It is notified elsewhere that tenders will ' be received up to the 9th inst,, for the ; building of a punt, &c., for the Pakirikiri I ferry, &c. Plans and specifications to be ' seen at the County Council’s office.