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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1362, 29 September 1883, Page 2

We learn from a private telegram that in the case of Maude v. Rees, judgment with costs has been entered up for the plain till. Singer’s Sewing Machines, 2s 6d per week. Repairs, parts, etc., to be had at the linger Manufacturing Company’s Depot, Gladstone road. We beg to call the attention of our readers to the fact that Mr J. Bourke has received instructions to commence issuing summonses for all rates and taxes due and not paid on or before Mond iy next, the Ist day of Octojiet. All those wishing to avoid iueu'ring additional expense had better make a return as soon as possible.

Mr G h Scott’s tenders for cutting firewood and clearing land, close to-day. A m eeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club ' V 1! i t place to-night at the Masonic ] iotel, We hope to see a good attendance.

The programme for the forthcoming literal Show ap - pears in another col um n.

O n our first page will be found our “Sporting < % »lumn,” and on th e fourth the finish of “ Co ol c County Council .”

An i vnnoun-empnt appears in our columns t > th e effect that on Monday next Messrs Carla * Smith and (Jo, will hold a sale of •hingl e s. palings, Ac , at the Bridge Hotel. This x v ill be a rare ch ance for contractors and others who are requiring the same.

A le 'Ct ure will bed elivered as per advert) sement, I>y the Re v, W. Morley on Fri.day next, i n oid of the Wesleyan Loan and Buildii ig Fund. As the subject is ver y interestii ig we expr iot to see a good attendance. To-c lay, detar shmenta 1 and 3 of the J Bitter y will co -nipete for the 20 reminds of ammu ni tion ear ,h man.. The winning squad of thi s e vent w''dl fire off with the winning detao hm ent of the last event, on Saturday next.

A meet ing of the Library Committee took pise g last- night, at ihe residence of Mr Kui fain, to disc uss the pre iminiries in con•ec tion with th t e forthcoming Fine Art and Ju renile Indus tris I Exhibition.

It is wit! i regret that we announce Lmday next , th e L2th of October, as the < dosing nigl it of the Seraphic Quadrille An-embly. During the next, six months Mr M cFarlane purp sses holding a select quadrille assembly o nee every month. We have much pleasure in announcing that, the Rev. L. Hudson, the late highly respected Wesleyan Minister here, was married last week at. Christchurch, by the Rev. J. Buller. The lady, we understand, has lately arrived from England, We wish thorn every happi--1 n ess.

In our commercial column will be found last night’s Auckland markets, which we have made arrangements to re l ' eive regularly per telegraph, and which will be published in every Saturday morning’s issue for the suture. We ImAe been led to this step at the request and for the purpose of meeting l the requirements of our numerous conutry subscribers.

Yesterday we observed a splena’id and capacious luggage van, being driven down the raid. I( was built by Mr George Humphreys, of this ’own to the order of that well known a id enterprising gentl man, Mr S. M. Wilson. Great credit is due to the maker in turning out a vehicle of such workmanship.

It is with great, regret we record the illness of Mr D. McNeil, telegraph operator. Mr McNeil was forced to leave work about. Monday last, suff ring fom severe pains internally. On examination the doctors found it necessary to have the patient removed to the Hospital. We were informed yesterday that he is rapidly recovering, and that he will soon be about again.

In answer to numerous enquiries made as to the progress Mr Kenneth Kerr i» making, we have very great pleasure in announcing that he is progressing most favorably, and w« sincerely trust, that his friends may s on have the pleasure of again seeing him about Whilst on this subject we may hs well mention that Mr Kerr ha- upon every occasion we have visi’ed him, expre-sed his gratitude and thanks for the most able manner in which Dr Leggat.t. performed the difficult operation. Miss Shakespeare having opened a fancy goods repository in the shop lately occupied by Mr Scupper, and adjoining Mr B>shop’s Pharmacy, we beg to call the a'tention of <ur lady readers to the fact that they nan obtain ah description of Berlin woo’s, silks, crewels, arrasene, and baby linen of every description there. Miss Shakespeare will also be glad to instruct purchasers in any kind of fancy work where required. Purchasers will meet with every attention from this lady. A commissioner of Crown lands, in a pastoral <ii tri<’t of one of the colonies, once ha I t > determine the boundary line between two runs. He stayed at the house of a squatter in'crested in his decision. In the morning bdd the host, “ Mr Commissioner, I will ge<to the saddling of your 1 orse, while you have your breakfast. I have had a ste*k gril’rd for you.” Shortly afterwards, returnin'/ to the room, the squatter inquired, “ How did you like your stake Hr Commissioner P” “ Oh,” replied the bland official, “ the stake was del'eious —but t e sau<-e was superb!" 'there had been a crisp £lO note dexterous!* placed un Dr the oish cover with the stake, and that sauce was not wasted.—“ JEgles.” The latest session story is one to the effect th Lt just after Mr Dargaville had finished his speech on the Committee’s report yesterday afternoon he went to Mr Luckie (who wis among the other Under Secretaries behind the Speaker’s chair) aud addressed him with familiar jocularity remarking that he was obliged to say what he had about him (Mr Luckie) because it was the truth, and because he was bound to make the best of his case. According to the story Mr Luckie replied that Mr Dargaville’s statements were not the truth, and that he knew it, also accusing Mr Dargaville of gruss cowardice in attacking an official whose position tied his tongue aud shackled his hands, adding that there was a time when Mr Dargaville dared not have attacked biin, ai d such a time might come ag.iiu. Thesto>y does not record any rejoinder on the p-rt of Mr Dargaville.—Post. The Napier “Telegraph” of September 12th says A pitiable example of the condition to which strong drink will reduce a human creature was to be witnessed in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning in the person of an unfortunate named Robert Bosh, alias “ Blind Bob the Fiddler.” The poor old man, white haired, nearly blind, and shaking violently all over from the effects of his last debauch, was so weak aud unsteady as to be unable to step into the witness box, and had to clutch the sides of it convulsively with his palsied hands to prevent his falling while the charge was being read to him. If some of those persons who, through a spirit of mistaken kindness it may be, supply this old man with liquor could have seen him this morning we venture to thiiiK he would never again appear before our Court on a charge of drunkenness.

“ A Parent ” writes as follows in the Wellington “Times ” : —My daughter is a pupil of the Girls’ High School; every evening after tea she sets to work with her schoolbioks, exercise-books, atlases, &c., and has rarely finished her tf.sk before 9 or 10 o’clock. Even when holidays are granted, such as the Queen’s Birthday, the teachers take care to give out so many evening less sons that the holidays are taken up with stmly. What chance has a child whose time, in and out of school, is monopolised by her teachers, of learning under this regime o her duties which may be of more importance in her future life than even the knowledge that Cape Comorin is the southernmst point of Hindostati; that a snail is a gasterapod mollusk ; or thatpw/?f/« is Latin for girl ? 11 jw is she to find time to learn plain sewing or housekeeping, to practise her music, to give attention to acquiring any dttle outside accomplishment for which she may show an aptitude, or to read standard English literature?