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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1346, 23 August 1883, Page 2

With this publication of the Standard will be issued a supplement of four pages On the first page will be seen Mr W. Adair’s large advertisement announcing the cheap clearance sale which he is now holding, and where drapery goods of every description can be bought for merely nominal prices. On the second and third pages will be found the newly revised By-laws of the Harbour Board and Tariff, together with Mr. Lewis’s new advertisement, which notifies that he has now commenced his annual clearance sale, and on the fourth page will be fan nd “ A Sporting Parson,” “ Horrible Experiences with a Delirio n Husbi id,” and “ A Place for Everybody,” together with a number of other advertisements. &j. In another column will be seen a correct list of the weights for the Napier Spring Meeting

On our fourth page will be found several items of general interest On a tombstone at Ballarat, Victoria, is the following inscription :—“ John Adolphe Adams, accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother.” Don’t physic, for it weakens and destroys, but use Hop Bitters, that builds up. Read. Singer’s Sewing Machines, 2s fid per week. Re| airs, parts. &e., to be had at the Singer Manufacturing Company Depot, Gladstone Road. Mr T. E. Shirley, Commission agent, Peel Street. Gisbotne, his for sale a comfor table four-roomed dwelling house, and section of land fenced in, within easy walk of the Post office. The Empire Hotel if in want of a good cook. Tenders are called for the formation and shingling of Aberdeen Ried, and must be in the 28th instant at 7 o’clock p.m. Mr. Hy l ewis is now holding his annual clearing sale of winter clothing and drapery. The sale will only last one month, during which time the goods will be sold for any reasonable ofter. The sale will afford uniisti d facilities for obtaining articles at an immense reduction on cost prices, as the goods must be cleared out by the end of September in older to make room for shipments which are now en route for this port First-class firewood sawn and split and delivered in any length required, can be ohtained at Mr. L. P. O’Meara’s store, adjoining the engine shed, where all descriptions of turning is executed with promptitude and despatch. Oats, maize, and barley, &c , in any quantity, are also crushed there at the most moderate charge of 44 per bushel. Amongst a consignment of goods for Woodyear’s new circus, by the City of Sydney, from San Francisco, came a Eureka dynamo machine and lamps, for lighting the circus by electricity, the engine, boiler, &c , for which arrive I by the previous mail steamer. Thfa dynamo machine is the. latest patented impr- veine it,, and claims to be 25 percent, mor. po • »ful than any electric light, now in use The light is enclosed in a lone ! glass i-l<>'e, which produces a soft, white light-, like d v, and does aw«y with the jerky glare so distressing to the eyes.— N.Z. “ Herald.”

Mails for Auckland, per Southern Crois, will close this morning (Thursday), at 10 a.m. There arc ..lore cures made with Hop Bitters than all other medicines. See flags and all. The regular monthly meeting nf the Loy*l Star of Gisborne. No, 7., is advertised to take place on the on 24h instant. For particulars see Advt, The annual election of three Borough Councillors will take place on the 13th of next month. Nominations will be received for the same up to the Ist September. The ideal newspaper, having nothing but good grammar and nice religious things in it, ia not published. The people who want to see such a paper are not willing to stand its losses.

When we see a tightly-laced woman trying to enjoy a good laugh with a smile on her mouth and tears in her eyes, we think of what Byron says in his opening lines on the Battle of Waterloo: “Let joy be unconfined.”

Mr H. E. Johnston has just imported a quantity of Swede purple top turnips. We have tried some and found them delicious, and can safely recommend our readers, if they require vegetables, “ to g«> in” for some of these, for they certainly are far superior to any we have tasted before. The best, wife for a literacy man, if he must have one, we b-lieve would he a trained nurse. No other woma i les« fitted for a house of pain should venture on the deadly experiment.. None other, we should fancy, unless poor Mrs Uariyle suffered and die-1 in vain, will.

A child, 3| years old, was suffocated at Whitehaven recently by an orange pip sticking in the throat. The mother tried her best to remove the obstruction, by thumping the child on the back and putting her finger down its throat, but failed to do so, and before a doctor could be called in the little one died.

An extraordinary p«arl has been brought to Perth, W.A from Nickol Bay. It is composed of nine pearls th** siz of peas, of fine lus re. firmly embedded together in f rm <*f a perfect, cross. It was fo md in a shell. The cross is about inches long. It is expected to fetch a fabulous price, owing to the c -incidence of its representing perfectly the symbol of Christianity

The Nelson “ Mail ” states that there is a rumour current that the representatives of the lower branch of our Legislature will return home after this session comforted by the addi'ion of £5O to their present salaries. This will be the effect of the Payment of Members Bill, which will be brought in by Government with blanks in it. Some of the members hold out for a “ screw ” of £3OO.

We are pleased to notice that we have in Gisborne a gentleman who has advanced a most important branch of engineering science by contributing to its pages. In the Journal of Science of May last, we find a new formula for calculating screw power, invented by Mr A. Y. Ross, of this town. The editor regrets being unable to publish the diagrams relating thereio. They are said to be the only formulae yet published by which screw power can be properly estimated. There is still living at Munich at the age of eighty, the daughter of bookseller Rahn, of Nurnburg, who printed a pamphlet, against Napoleon L, and was shot by the latter’* o»-d**r. iw spite of the entreaties of his family and the efforts made in Iw behalf hy roy-dty and prominent men of his day. She lives principally upon a small pension annually paid her bv t'm successors of a Berlin house, tl-e real publishers of the pamphlet, f‘io<e name her unfortunate father refused to betray. We have just received to hand by this mall “ The Printers’ Register, and Bookbinders’ and Stationers’ Record,” which is a journal not alone useful and interesting to all branches of the profession, but also the general public. It is beautifully printed in clour and sharp cut type. Enclosed we find a specimen she-it of Lithographic bordering and a price list which is quite a work of art, being printed in pale blue and delic.ite red, surrounded by a bold uud handsome gilt border. In another column the Race Investigation Company's advertisement appears. The discussion is on the f< rthcoinlng Melbourne Cup, ami is inauiged by “ Sinbud,” of Dunedin, to whom credit is due for introducing another novelty into sweeps ; for each licket has nine chances. This and the nomination prizes, should be a sufficient inducement to all those who speculate in the direction of consultations. Intending investors should apply early f »r tickets and be in time.

Captain HoLtein of th** Danish armv has invented, for the use of inf«ntty soldiers, a shield which, though weighing hut. 71b is bullet proof and handv. It is of steel, 20 inches long, hy 18 broad. Two spikes at th*bottom enable the soldier t • fit it firmly in the ground, and a hull w at the top can b* used as a rest for hie rifle. The experiment-* that were ma le with the shield at •'op >• hagen a short time ago were htgh’v «a'is factory, but will he rep-atedon a larger b--f »re the Danish Government decide as to ds adoption for the army.

A year is a long time for a comely and thrifty woman to ewniin a widow at. the mines no matter how manv children she may have. Jim is killed to-day, and possibly before the summer ends, Jack, who was J m’s best fr'end, insists upm marrying Jim‘« widow. Jim’s bibies become h's. And if you go below the surface, ym will And the foundation of Jack's action tub* pu-e ohadtv. It is a matter of record that when the terrible Avondale disaater occurred, so m-my w dow* and helpless one were left that the matter of caring for the former sure ily wi< discussed. It was quickly settled by pronosi inns of ma r ria/e, and within a very short time after the calami’y the household of every victim was protected. Thia sam** spirit" ex'sts’in every mining community today and is a shield against muo i dis'ress.

The following story is told with regard to the recmt cyclone in the Southern States «»f \merica:—Mr B. F. Jones, of Beaurgir’ Miss, who, the m »ment he saw the dang- r coming, called his wife and little boy int<» the yard, and made them lie flat on the ground and grasp some small shrub* whi h stooe within reach. ‘‘ I put one arm about, mv wife,” says Mr Jnnes, ’* while with my other I clasped a small tree and made mv son lie close up to me, and then I said to them, ‘ Hold on, hold on, for God's rake ! It is for life!” and then the win I came. There was a whirl ami a roar I was shaken, and heard t.’-e crash of my falling house. An instant and it was over. I still h -Id my wife in my arms, hut she was insensible, and my boy was still nest ing close up to me, but bruised and bleeding.” All three escaped without serous infurv, thanks to Mr Jnnes’ presence of mind, and the promt obedience of his wife and child.