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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 15, 29 November 1883, Page 2

Mails for Auckland, per Southern Cross, will close this (Thursday) night, at 7 p.m.

His Worship the Mayor has declared a public holiday for to-morrow. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesday morning, Jacob Davis, a native, was fined five shillings for drunkenness.

We have been requested to state that a rehearsal of the entertainment to bo held in McFarlane's Hall on St. Andrew’s eve will take place to-night, and a full attendance is requested. Will the Harbor Board excuse us for intimating that a few planks on the landing at the end of Gladstone Road are required ? It would be advisable to attend to this needful work ere the boating season has fur advanced.

In our last report of the Resident Magistrate’s Court an omission was made which gave a wrong view of a case. The sentence should have read—Mr DeLatour asked His Worship if it would not be better to say that the objection to the amended as-sessment-roll is disallowed.

We desire to draw the attention of the Borough Council to two small pits iu the middle of the sidewalk infront of the Union Bank buildings. A few shovels of gravel would fill up_the traps, and attention to this matter may be the means of preventing an accident after dark.

The new express boat added to the Union Co’s, fine fleet, the Takapuna, is said to be a marked success, and we hope she will prove so remunerative that this truly speculative and spirited Company may be induced to procure a second steamer of the kind, to fun up and down the East Coast of this island.

The gold bracelet, the prize to be competed for in the Ladies’ Hauk Race at Wuerenga-a-Inka races, and now on view at Air Nasmith’s shop, is u very handsome one, set in a cluster of five brilliants, flanked with two bars of sapphires of five stones each, and is 2oz. in weight.

At a meeting of the Council of the Auckland University College, held an the 21st instant, the following resolution was passed by the Professorial Board:— “November 20th, 1883. That centres of examination in connection with the University College be established iu Wellington, Napier, and New Plymouth, and that the annual examinations and all examinations for entrance scholarships and exhibitions be held in these towns simultaneously with those held in Auckland. Fred. D. Brown, Chairman.”—The Council approved of an examination being held at New Plymouth, and at other towns on application. The truth of the old saying that “ you must go from home to hear news ” was verified in a late issue of the Auckland Weelchj Seics, in which it was stated that “ a movement is on foot to construct a permanent I trainway from Gisborne to Ormond, con- i necting with a splendid limestone quarry at | Patutahi.”