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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1364, 4 October 1883, Page 2

From to-day, delayed telegrams will simply be half price, there being no additional charge for postage, We are glad to see Mr McNeil is recovering from his late illness, and is once more able to get about.

Singer’s Sewing Machines, 2s 6d per week. Repairs, parts, etc., to be had at the Singer Manufacturing Company’s Depot, Gladstone road.

Messrs Scott and Crawford have for sale a first-class trichord piano in good condition, they are also buyers of a good second-hand piano for cash.

In another column will bo found an interesting article from the Sydney ‘ Morning Herald’ exposing the “Turf Frauds.” On account of want of space wo are compelled to hold over the remainder until our next issue.

We hear that Mr Maynard is building a new shop in Peel street, adjacent to the old one, where it is his intention to carry on the butchering business. The old one is to be let to Mr I. C. Taylor, saddler.

The letter receiving boxes at Mr East’s upper store and Mr McKay’s store are cleared daily at noon • and one hour before the advertised time of closing seaborne mails at the Post Office.

The Rev. W. Morley will deliver a lecture to-morrow in the Presbyterian Church in aid of the Wesleyan Loan and Building Fund. The subject will be “ Doctor Guthrie, Preacher, Author, and Philanthropist. The chair will be taken at 7.30.

Mr Fellowes, contractor for the Big Paver Punt, has now completed the same, and was engaged all yesterday in endeavouring to launch it into the river. From what we can see, we think it will answer admirably, and prove a great boon to persons always travelling that way.

Another novelty in the shape of a Yankee notion is to be seen opposite Mr H. McKay’s Central Store. We refer to a letter box which has been fixed to the verandah poet, and which will no doubt prove very handy to people residing near. A proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette notifies that the fees in form A under the Arms Act have been abolished, and the annual license fee of £5 has been reduced to £1 throughout the colony. This will be a boon to the sporting public, who will now be able to purchase powder without paying the shilling fee,

Patti’s salary is £l,OOO a night, In the opera of Lucia she is on the stage, during throe acts, just 62 minutes. This gives her £l6 a minute. The average rate of respiration is about 18 to the minute, so that for each breath, she draws nearly £l. In Lucia there are 1,200 words and 2,800 notes. Patti is therefore paid about 17s a word, and nearly 7s a note.

According to the ‘Tupeka Press,’ wild pigs have become so plentiful on Messrs Bastings and Co’s run at the Beaumont that they are almost as great a nuisance as the rabbits, The proprietors of this run, the Press adds, have offered a premium of 2s a snout, which appears to have had a good result, as 494 pigs have been killed there within the last month.

In accordance with the proposition made by us on Tuesday, the fire-bell was rung last night. We hope those inhabitants “ living in a remote part of the town ” will flock in, and “in the public interest” report to the Herald “whether or not they heard distinctly the sound of the bell.” We also trust that distance will not be taken into consideration, as it is “a matter of duty in the public interest” for all to report “whether or not they heard distinctly the sound of the bell.” Poor old twaddler !

What was possible under the existing bankruptcy laws (observes a London paper) is illustrated by the liquidation of Messrs Overend and Gurney, who failed on May 11, 1866, more than 17 years ago. The shareholders are about to have returned to them 5s per share. At the end of 17 years, after so many persons have lost fortunes, after so many have lost their lives, the settling is still going on ; aud even now the business is not wound up. It will not be wound up for some time to come.

The ‘ Pall Mall Gazette ’ questions the wisdom of bringing O’Donnell Home for trial. It says :—“ Carey’s murder, it appears, was committed on the high seas, 12i miles distant from the nearest point of South African territory. If it had taken place within three miles of the shore, or say half an hour later, O’Donnell would have been handed over to the Colonial authorities, and tried for his life for an offence committed within their jurisdiction. As the crime was committed on the high seas, O’Donnell can be brought Home and tried at the Old Bailey. But, considering the many obvious disadvantages of this course it might not be inexpedient to transfer the venue from the Old Baily to Natal, if such a course is legally possible. O’Donnell in Natal is merely an assassin. In this country the Irish section of our population regard him as a hero, while another and much larger section would shrink from hanging a man who rid the wor'd of a murderer who ought not to have escaped the gallows.”

The usual fire brigade practice took place last night.

A meeting of the School Committee was held last night for the transaction of ordinary business.

Ballots for £2OO will take place at 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening next, at the Building Society’s office.

Mr Humphreys states that he is prepared to supply farmers and others with iron standards of any length at most reasonable rates.

Our readers will find, on reference to our f?ont and back pages, a summarised copy of the Adulteration Act, 1883, An. Amusing Address, and many other items of interest,

On the 13th instant, Messrs Graham, Pitt & Bennett will offer for sale the right of collecting tolls at the Pakirikiri Ferry. Full particulars can be had from the auctioneers.

Mr Finneran calls for tenders for the erection of a dwelling house in Childers street. Tenders will close at 12 o’clock on Tuesday the 9th. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office, Gladstone road. Tenders will bo received at the County Council office until 7 o’clock p.m., on Thursday the 11th for the construction of a culvert and drain at Patutahi. Specifications &c., can be seen at the above office.

The annual general moating of the Gisborne Cricket Club will be held on Saturday next, at the Albion Club Hotel, for the purpose of receiving the balance sheet and for the election of officers for the ensuing season. The chair will be taken at 7 30. A full attendance of members is earnestly requested. In Tuesday night’s issue of our enterprising contemporary they state “If there is any function which those who have the conduct of a newspaper should fulfil more than another it is that which, by correction and publicity, will correct a wrong done by an untruthful and malicious report.” This sounds remarkably well, coming as it does from a journal which a few short issues ago published as false, untruthful and misleading a report as ever disgraced a puolio print. We refer to the Common-Shelton article. Truly it is most disgusting to hear “ Satan reproving sin ” in this manner. The periodicals of all kinds issued in the United States in 1883 reached a total of 11,196—an increase of 585 in twelve months. The present total in New York State is 1,399 —a gain of 80 in the past year. The increase in Pennsylvania is 48, the existing number being 943. Nebraska’s total grew from 175 to 201, and Illinois from 890 to 904. A year ago Massachusetts had 420 papers, now the number is 438. In Texas the new papers outnumbered the suspensions by 8, and Ohio has 738 papers instead of 692.. The most remarkable change has occurred in the territories, in which the daily papers have grown from 43 to 63, and the weeklies from 169 to 243, Dokato being the chief area of activity. The figures given above are exclusive of Canada, which possesses a total of 606. The number of journals issued in Manitoba was nearly doubled during the year. In these dull times when there is nothing in the papers ” it is refreshing to come across a pleasant little paragraph like the following, which is published by a London contemporary “ You must be careful in your use of nitric acid,” said a professor of chemistry to his class, “ for when benzoylnaphtylamid is treated with acid, two isomeric monitrobenzoymaphtyl&mide are formed, one yielding monononamidobenzodonaphtylamide, the other akydrobenzodiamidonaphtylamide, and an explosion is pretty sure to follow.” Doubtless, like’a product by the late Artemus Ward, this’is “ writ sarkastik,” but recent contributions to the literature of explosives have given us a number of works very closely resembling these polysyllabic periods. The average newspaper reader is expected to know, and, us a fact, does know a great deal, but it is unfair to heave such typographical tapeworms at him without a moment's warning. The manufacture of wood into paper has grown to be so common as to have lost its novelty. Now the tables are turned and wood is manufactured out of paper. The discoverer of the new process is a Mr Harris, a German chemist. Ordinary cellulose is reduced to pulp in water, then placed over a fine sieve to deprive it of water, and three parts by weight of starch (wheat, corn, or potato) and ten parts by weight of meal (wheat, corn, &o.) are added, and the whole well mixed. This is placed in tubes made of tin metal and boiled for one hour over a water bath. The mass is transformed into a kind of glue, which is mixed with the same quantity of sawdust. It is rolled into plates and left to dry in a heated room, and is then ready for use. The mass is pressed ini o iron or steel moulds, and when taken out hot and cooled, resembled wood, hard and elastic. It can bo treated like wood, worked with a saw, file or chisel, and be coloured, polished, and glued. The following is the quarterly list of donations to the hospital as handed to us last night by Mr E. K. Brown, Hon. Treasurer : \V. O’Ryan, £1 Is ;G. W. Bishop, £6; G. Humphreys, 10s 6d, H. McKay, 10s 6d; F. J. Piesse, £1 Is; J. W. Nolan, £1 Is; Large and Townley, £5 ss; Rev Me Ara, £1 Is ;M H Sievwright, £1 Is; W Sievwright, £1 Is ; G Maher, 5s ; A Teesdale, £1 Is ; J Ferguson, sen, 5s ; Capt Kerr, 10s; Dr Leggatt, £1 Is; J Sigley, 10s 6d; R Hill Fisher, £2 2s ; J W Wade, £2 10s ; W H Luke, 7s ; E.KB., £2 3s 9d ; Teat and Friar; 8s ;C. H. Webb, 15s; N. Z. Box, lid ; Common, Shelton and Co, £22s; Paore Te Ware, 10s ; Gisborne Hotel, £1 ; J A Harding, £2 ; M Stopford, £1 1 ; W Parker, 10s ; Geo Kilburn, £2 ; G. J. White, £1 Is ; J Trimmer, £1 ; Archdeacon Williams, £1 Is; Uawa Race Committee, £9 9s ; Hospital Box, 12s 6d ; Capt Chrisp, £1 Is ; County Council, £5O; a Friend, £3 3s ; J W Johnson, £5 ; Master Judd, £2 4s 6d ; P Miller, £1 ; A Graham, £2 2s ; W Foster, £4 10s ; Subscription Ball, £52 18s ; S Oxenham, £3 ; J W Nolan, £4 ; Master Reynolds, 10s.