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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 18, 6 December 1883, Page 2

Mi Booth, R. M., Mr Nolan, ami Sergeant Bullen, left fur Tuluga Bay yesterday niuruiug. Mr 11. Bull, of Carnarvon Street, has a choice collection of bed-it ng plants, ready for llub aeason't* planting, on Bale. We are reque-ted to acknowledge the gift of an iron beds ead, mattress, &c., by Mr Whiuray to the Gisborne Hospital. Mr J. R. Taylor, cabinetmaker and joiner, is now in a position to execute cabinet w nk of every description at the most moderate prices. On Saturday next, the Sth instant, a cricket match will be played uu the Recreation Ground, between Eleven v. Cults, when players are requested to “ roll up.” There are five remaining cases to be heard at the pietient bitting ut the Native Liud« Court before ns close—viz , Taren.i, Poukokonga, Kaupipu, Papah-iuhunga, and Utahn. We saw fine samples of potatoes, peas, and caulifl »wers, grown from .Messi* Sutton's seeds, yesterday, iu the shop of Mr Croll, agent tor (.hut firm. Tne quality Wts certainly secund to none produced in the Bay. Dr Leggatt has performed a most successful operation of piineturation (ispira'ed) abscess of posierior lobe of liver, in the person of Ruiene, a Native, who resides jtlsL over the Taraiieru river, Such bold practice and successful ireaitiieuh nuuguratus a system in the Buy of which the residents m.iy be proud.

As another proof of the increase an l pro-gees-of Ghborne, we have I Id* plsisure of tuiti.iunring th.it Mr. J.>l|.. Mcßride is on (he eve of opening a shop i i the furniture Ln.*, (•ex' to Mr. Robb’s, pointer, Glnlslo .e road We have inspected s nne of Its stick, and fi "I the prices remark >bly Ijw and the work m ins'up excellent.

Mr MacNah, late of tho Park Brewery, Auckland, having purdtised lhe old Gisborne Brewery, has, at considerable expense and trouble, put Ihe same in working order, and is now in full swing. On taking possession of the old premises they were found to be in a state of groat disorder ; but undi-r the energetic and practical direction of its present proprietor, things were quickly repaired, renewed, and cleansed, and a sweetening brew first run through prepiratory to the first effective brew, which is now undergoing its first process of fermentation. We hive little doubt as to the success of the business whilst in the hands of its present proprietor.

A discovery his lately been made by the Co >k Coiin'y Gouncil—unless a compiler or printer is to be credited with the perpetration of a blunder—which will, probably, he interesting to breeders of horse stock. In an advertisement, under the heading *• Bylaws Nos 2 to 6, made by the Cook County Council, which appeirs in a Supplement to the N-'ic ZiVibmd G-azett-, the Words “ excepting foals and fillies under six mouths old.” Appear. Atcordtng to the foregoing, a fidy is not a foal, and we must congratul ite the Cook County Council on the amount of superior knowledge they have lately acquired.

A committee meeting of the Gisborne Rowing Club was held at the Masonic Hotel last night, when the successful competitors in the tate rowing con'est were piesented witn the cups «»y their Captain, Mr Rite,iff., who performed “fhit pii-adng d ity ” in his u-u d courteous style, /k handsome cup, also the gift of Ciptain Porter, was presented to Mr. If. 0. J ickson, “for his ind nnit ible pin :k all tlir xigi." Ot aicnint of the g-eat pres-ure on our spice, we are reluctantly coinpellei to holdover a detailed report of the proceedings until our next issue.

The Press of the 29th ult., gives the following account of a ride of 100 miles on a tricycle :—“This distance was covered by Mr A. E. Preece, of the Pioneer Bicycle Club on; an Excelsior tricycle on Tuesday last. Commencing hig jnumey from Weston, Papanui road, at four in the innrni (t o> 1 10 ro< le vie WoodenJ to Oxford, arriving there at 11.20, returning by the same route he again pissed Cu&l, Feruside, Rangtora, Woo lend. Kiixpn, 6|yx a id Papanui then Cnristellttrch, aleug the Kerry road, until Sumner was reictied, at 10 25 p.m. ; sail cmuuuiiig his j »Ufiiey, he ugiiu reaciie I Weston ut 11 50, thus riding IJJ miles in ui mteeu h >tirs fifty minutes to spire, which eisily might hive been increased, but Mr. Preece did not.intend to make particularly fast time. ”