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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1354, 11 September 1883, Page 2

Singer’s Sewing Machines. 2- 6d .< r week. Repairs, parts, etc., to be had at the Singer Manufacturing Company’s Depot, Gladstone read.

Mr J. Cantie notifies that his monster sale will lust for a few days only, when the remaining portion of the stock will be ottered by auction. A meeting of the members of the Fire Brigade is advertised to take place to-morrow night. A meeting of the Hospital Ball Committee will be held in the Court. House on VA ednesday next, at 7 p.m. At the Police Court on Monday, Hone Takunga, Henry Smith, and William Thompson were brought up and charged with drunkenness, and fined 10s each. The newly imported draught entire, Sir Julius Vogel, is announced, in another column to stand this season, und the pedigree ot the same will there be found on reference. Mr Bloomfield’s fine horses, Piscatorious and Foul Play, arrived per s.s. Tara we ra yesterday morning from Napier, both looking well und fresh. Mr W. Proffitt has been much annoyed by The Dauphin, Bst 61b, entered for the New New Zealand hup, having been, by some mistake, let t out of his betting curd Messrs. Fraser, Wyllie, & Co. will hold a sale of cattle this morning, at eleven o’clock, at the Makaraka yards. Temperance clergymen, lawyers, ladies, and doctors use Hop Bitters, as they do uuv intoxicate, but restore brain and nerve waste. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council will take place to-night, and that of the County Council on Thursday next. In the Press room of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday night, Mr E. T. Gillon, the Chairman of ihe Press Ganery, was presented with a handsome marble timepiece by the representatives of the Press The presentation was made by Mr T. Morrison, of the Hawke’s Bay Herald, and was warmly acknowledged by Mr Gillon.

It will be seen by announcement in another column that Mr Jas. Clayson has at last been compelled to succumb to the persistent bad fortune which has dogged his footsteps ever since his advent in the Bay. Mr Clayson has com* 1 to the conclusion that there are far more desirable fields for the exercise of his energies and skill than thi> township of Gisborne. We cannot do other than express our sorrow at losing Mr Clayson, who has ever been foremost in assisting those who required his help or stood in need of assistance, and we sincerely trust that be may meet with better fo. \.a le, wherever his enterprise may lead him, than he has experienced here. Mr Carlaw Smith will sell oy auction on Wednesday next, at 11 a.m , all the stock in trade, fixtures, baking utensils, show glasses, furniture, comprising iron bedsteads, childs cot, bedding, chest of draws, wash stand, chairs, knife cleaner, kitcheu utensils, &c., and about one ton of flour, potatoes, bakers fuel, firewood, &c., and a tine lot of books, including 4 vols. of Dicken’s Works, Dantes’lnierno, Piagatorio and Paradiso, Milton, Livingston’s Travels, Haggarths Woiks, Shakespeare, Ni.ionai Portrait galley, Family Bible, co nplete atlas, Ac., &c.