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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1372, 23 October 1883, Page 2

We are sorry to learn that Mr F. Hall is dangerously ill with rheumatic fever. The earJi torpedoes tried in Switzerland have proved a great success. Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co. advertise potatoes and onions for sale to-morrow afternoon. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh com mences his ludiau tour with a visit to Hyderabad. The Swedish monitor, “ Thordon ” has foundered near Norrkoping. The crew were saved. The steamship City of Rome made the passage from New York tu Queenstown, in seven days one hour. A timely use of Hop Bitters will keep a whole f .mily in ohust health for a year, with very !utle care. Read. Mr D. Lynch is notified by Ellen Hanlon to call and settle h’Saccount in order to stay further trouble, and also to call for his property at her house.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the “ Postal time table for the San Francisco Mail Service, 1884,” from our obliging postmaster, Mr J. Shrimpton. In 1881, the total number of persons convicted of penal offences in Prussia, with a population of nearly 29,000,000, was only 238,732.

During the firing of a salute from the CronsLadt forts, one of the largest guns in Fort Milutiu, a 13in. Krupp, burst, with fatal results.

A Dunedin butcher is advertising Christmas boxes for friends at Home. He has secured a lot of good lambs, which will be frozen and forwarded to any address iu England.

Mr Wells, of the firm of Wells & Gardner, who have the contract f><r the erection of the new wharves, is busily engaged in discharging and slacking the timber for the same from the schooner Opotiai.

The City of Rome is menaced with a visit the bare rumour of which, we should imagine, must suffice to make Pio Nouo turn iu his grave in ihe crypt of the exquisite Basilica outside the Gate of Ban Lorenzo. The Salvation Army contemplate the dispatch of skirmishers to the Eternal City. The Bill brought forward by M. Archard to obtain power to make sounding preparatory to the construction of a railway bridge across the English Channel from Cipe Grisnez to Folkestone, has been distributed among tlie members of the French Chamber of Deputies and has found much favor. The Metz papers state that several English officers from the Royal Military Academy have passed some time there in studying the great battle-fields near that fortress. These visits have occurred annually for a long period. The *tri<*bourg papers report the appear anue "f the olo<ado bee!le m gr- at numbers in the district au rounding (oi ■ ar. Toe authorities have ordered the most energetic to be taken to pr ven. he spreading of th is moat terrible scourge

The Union (Southampton) Steamship Company's Royal Mail steamer “ Moor,” has made the fastest passage on record from Cape Town, having made the voyage in 18 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes, or deducting stoppages, 17 days, 21 hours, 5 minutes. Her outward passage was made iu 18 days, hours.

On Friday evening next the Sable Orphans will give their first concert. Judging by the great talent displayed at the rehearsals we antici ate a great tied. Che Quortettee party consists of C. D. Berry, bar&tone ; Mr Edwards, tenor ; Master Vaudy, alto : and Mr Ratcliffe, baratoue. The four corner men are Messrs Fraser, J. G Henderson, J. A lanach, and Pteece. An entirely nsw original and side splitting farce will oe ■rfei formed on this occasion, and Mr Ewbanks rtkll give the violin solo “ Home Sweet Home,” with variations. We can assure our readers that a great treat is iu store for them.

Captain Webb’s foolhardy and fatal endeavour so shoot the rapids of Niagara on a wager of 10,000-lols. recalls tn the “ New York Tribune ’’ an incident of the reign of Czar Nicholas, half a century ago. Looking out of his window one day, that monarch saw a large and interested crowd on the bank of the Neva. He sent au officer to find out t >e cause, and Darned that a mm hud ber five roubles—about 37->dobi.—thit he could run across ’he rives on the ice. which wis then in that treacherous half-liquid state caused by 'he e •mmenceineni of fhe spring thaw. The man pm for med the perilous feat, received his five rouble*, and then Nicholas had him arrested ami fl 'gged with a hundred st ipes • “ for,” sai t the zar. '* a man who will risk his life for B-mh a email sum is capable of comniitting any act of baseness for a similar consideration.

Sir George Grev some time ago w>ote to the Land N itionnlis liouSo -i'-t in Km; and. •cknowlvdgiiH the rec ip of a letter from that bo ly, and sta'mg tha’. he ‘‘ hoped some a ivanri's would b’ made in the direction of land nationalisation in New Zealand during the then present session of the Colonial Parliament.” The ‘ Christchurch Press ” Iva an ar ieie referring to this, and tracing the history of Sir George’s dealings with land in this colony. It concludes thu*: —’* Sir George Grey’s whole connection with the land question from beginning to end, has been one long crusade—and but 100 successful a cm si le -ajainst the principles of land .• iona'isitu>n a- propounded the Society w ■ claru iui a disiitigutsbed supporter of their views.”