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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1363, 2 October 1883, Page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the School Committee will be held to-morrow evening. The passengers by the Ringarooma, who landed on Sunday morning, had a rough time of it, as there was a good sea on. That indigestion or stomach gas at night, preventing sleep and rest, will disappear by using Hop Bitters. Read.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Harbor Board will be held in the Council chambers to-night. We notice by our exchanges that the New Zealand “ Times ” has been greatly en larged. Mr Allan McDonald, M.H R., arrived here from the South on Sunday, per the s.s. Biugarooina.

The same difficulty is experienced in working the electric light in the Victorian Parliament Houses as in Wellington. A timely use of Hop Bitters will keep a whole family in robust health for a year, with very little care. Read. Singer’s Sewing Machines, 2s 6d per week. Repairs, parts, etc., to be had at the Singer Manufacturing Company’s Depot, Gladstoue road. At Bulli recently, Cannon Stephen referred to a Sydney squatter who had sold his station for £60,0l)0, and next Sunday put the large sum of 3d iu the church plate. An exchange says The Poverty Bay oil district is exactly like what the Penny si vantan oilfields were before the oil wells were put down. Messrs Stuckey, Sinclair, and Gregg, were the successful tenderers fur clearing 100 acres uf land, more oi less, tor Mr uto Scott at the VV'illuws, Uruiuud. We hear that Mr Finn has generously uttered a prize gold medal ut the value uf £7 tu be competed fur uy the volunteers lu a rifle contest. The last dance of the season was held last uiglu by tha. Seiaphie Quadrille Asseiuirly in the Academy of Xlu.ic. there was a good attendance aud a very eujoyabre ovening was passed.

lu another column will be found the full text of the .Native hand Laws Amendment Act, wlnuh has passed in spue of our perspicmis contemporary's assertion to the contrary.

Messrs Fraser, Wyilio & Co. will offer for sale at 1Z o’clock to day ut Malmraka, a quantity of mixed catlie j also four good sneep dogs, which are guaranteed to be thoroughly good workers. On our Iront page will be found the “ Boport of the Waere- gu-u-hika Jockey Club," and '' Central tom thumb. ’ On the back page wid be lound an exciting article deaerib Illg the " galvanising a Murderer'. Corpse,’’ and the “ L»te < uptuiu Webb."

A party of gentleman started for the oil spring, on Sunday, but came to grief at tne Karteratahi ferry, where the buggy was lifted utt its wheels by the high flood. They were reluctantly compelled to beat a retreat.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday last Holrua Peru Kowhai was remanded till to morrow on a ch-iguof larceny M a banee. Yesterday James Gardner was brought up and charged with the larceny of a silver hunting lever watch, aud was sentenced 10 four mouth, imprisonment iu the Napier gaol.

MrE. Cameron, of Toanga, has requested US to state that he has found the following receipt thoroughly efficacious iu destroying small birds with little risk to auimal life, as the action of the poison is so swift as to kill the bird neiore it has time to rise from the ground. He states that many hundreds of them can be seen lying on his paddocks : For 40 to 501bs of wheat, use loz strychnine, which must be dissolved iu one pmt of boiling vinegar. After the strychnine is dissolved, add two quarts of boiling water, and two cups of sugar; stir well together, then pour over the wheat, which must be put into a tin vessel, and stir uutil all is perfectly wet. Then allow the grain to stand in the solution for twelve hours. The grain will be much belter if crushed or bruised. Seconds of wheat are best. C.utiou —When mixing keep the head well off, so as not to inhale the fumes. Sow broadcast everywhere.”

An advertisement appeared in a Napier paper lately anuuuncing chat “dancing with refreshments during the evening” would t-ke place on a certain date iu a country town hall. A resident wrote protesting against this pr< gr unme “If we are expected to dance wi h refreshments and not with living glowing youth and beauty it will be a failure This will be very much to be deplored, because the proceeds are intended for a most charitable purpose. Our beauties do not like the idea of a dance without a man. They do not like to trip ‘the light fantastic toe’ with an arrowroot biscuit in one hand and a slice of cold ham in the other. Our gentlemen ‘ mashers ’ are seriously wondering what kind of good things they will be required to dmee with —whether they will he expected to dance, a Scotch reel with a bottle of whisky for a partner, or will it be necessary wal z round the room hugging a lit le darliugp->rk pie.”