Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 205, 9 August 1884, Page 2

Local and General.

Arrival.—The s.s. Thomas Russell arrived at Auckland from Gisborne, at 1.45 p.m. J. Sigley.—New advertisement on Monday. Remember. James East.—The only coffee roaster in Gisborne. See new advertisement.

Mails.—-Supplementary mails for Auckland and Australia, per Tarawera, will close on Monday morning at 9 o’clock sharp. Meeting.—A meeting of the directors of the Dairy Company is proceeding as we go to press. A resolution was arrived at to incur no further liability until at least 2,000 shares were subscribed. Sales. — Messrs. Carlaw Smith and Co. cleared out a miscellaneous lot of stuff at their mart to day. Bidding at the horse sale at Tattersail’s was not brisk.

Yankee Reporters. — The reporters or newspaper men in America put all sorts of things in the papers, lie about everything, what they don’t know or can’t find out they manufacture.

Cause and Effect.—lt is said that thirtyfive more persons have been poisoned recently by eating sausages. This comes from leaving brass collars on dogs. E. J. Beresford.—During the present week the proprietor of the Roseland Hotel will give Id. each for live sparrows. We hea r that a match will be arranged for next week, to probably take place on Saturday.

Dairy Factory. —So much satisfaction does the Wanganui Dairy Factory seem to have given that the Wanganui Herald says : Several of the settlers talk of doubling the number of their cows for next season.

Insurance.—We have it on good authority that the payment of one of the principal policies on the Makaraka fire will be disputed, and that its validity will have to be decided through legal process.

Building Society.—We remind shareholders of the annual meeting of the Gisborne Permanent Land and Building Society to take place on Monday night. Sheep Rates.—Sheep farmers are reminded that Monday, September Ist, is the last day for paying the sheep rate. According to the new regulation it has to be paid at the nearest money order office.

Board.—Mrs. M. Smith notifies that she has taken the house in Palmerston Road, lately occupied by Mr. A. Croll, where she provides board and residence for gentlemen as formerly. True Politeness.—“ Harry, you ought to know better at your time of life, ogling at all the girls you meet.” “ Fact is, I do know better,” said Harry, “ but then it isn’t good taste, you know, for a fellow to be parading his knowledge in public.” Accident.—Mr. Partington, carter, met with a serious accident about 10 o’clock this morning. He was taking a load of coals to the gas works and unfortunately got his foot under the wheel of the dray. Mr. Bishop dressed the wound, and Partington was then forwarded to the Hospital. We believe the foot is very much crushed s

A.O.F.—At a conference of the Ancient Order of Foresters, held in Leeds in May, it was stated that the Executive Council for this year and next and the High Court meeting for 1885 would take place at Leeds. The number of members is close upon 620,000, showing an increase in fifty years of 610,000. Poor Spite.—lf the young gentleman (?) connected with our contemporary, and his friend, who amused themselves by pulling a copy of the Telephone off our office door last night, imagine they were unobserved, we assure them that such was not the case. Another act of the same kind will probably lead to more serious consequences. Colonial Industry.—The largest rope ever made in New Zealand was made on Friday by the Auckland Fibre Manufacturing Company, Limited, it being eighteen inches in circumference. The rope was made from coir, and was hawser laid. Every description of rope is, we understand, now produced by this company.

A Prominent Orangeman.—The Duke of Manchester, who is at present visiting the colonies, is a Deputy Grand Master of the Orange Institution of Ireland, and an honorary Deputy Grand Master of the same in England. His son, Lord Mandeville, is also a member of the Orange Society. Old Time’s Rocks.—A correspondent informs the Wairoa Guardian that there is, living in a Icainga on the Waiau river, in that county, a family consisting of five generations. Waata Taiaroa has his father and grandfather living in his own whare, and he has been himself a grandfather these ten or twelve years. The correspondent must either be the victim of misplaced confidence, or else is having a little joke. Maori genealogy has a startling effect when rendered into English. Not long since we saw an old native crying, and on asking the cause of his grief, he said his daddy had been beating him. The daddy was pointed out and looked to us like a youth of about ten years. Daddies, uncles, cousins, and aunts seem to get very much mixed in the Maori mind. A somewhat similar state of things prevails in China. A Chinaman of forty years, whose aged mother flogged him every day, shed tears in the company of one of his friends. “ Why do you weep ?” “ Alas, things are not as they used to be ?” answered the devoted son. “ The poor woman’s arm grows feebler every day

Longevity.—A lady in Gisborne attained her 78th year yesterday. Our New Maori M ember,--’Wi Pera, who has just been elected for the East Coast Maori district, is a half-caste, being the son of Tommy Albert, the first European settler in I’overty Bay. Albert was drowned in 1866. Wi Pere is of dark complexion, and, though only a half-breed, is in disposition and taste a Maori of the Maoris. Smoke. — Some excitement prevailed in town last night generated by a report that signals had been made to stop the Cross after she left, and that the Customs boat had gone out with a posse of police, and goodness knows what else, to arrest a levanter. It turns out that the cause of the stoppage was a desire to forward some official documents which had not been posted in time. Often Prayed For.—The death in misery of an insurance agent does not appear to be a casualty calling for any particular demonstration of mirth; but at a lecture on insurance in Wellington, when the speaker drew a vivid picture of an agent starving, the audience smiled; and when the lecturer went on to cite another case in which an agent had committed suicide, an unmistakeable roar of laughter greeted the statement. It is strange how some people insist on finding something humorous in the saddest occurrences.

Australian Cricketers.—The batting and bowling averges of the Australians up to and inclusive of the Gentlemen of England match have been compiled. Scott heads the batting with an average of 33. (This player it will be remembered, was not considered good enough for the team.) Murdoch is only sixth on the list followed by the much praised Giffen. In bowling Spofforth is an easy first, with an average of one wicket for thirteen runs, while Giffen is a very poor fourth, the two Victorians, Palmer and Boyle, separating New South Wales from South Australia.

Jam.—“ Make jam,” says Mr. Gladstone, in effect, to the English farmers ; “ raise berries and make jam: there’s millions in it.” The English farmers had better investigate before they invest. The fact is the jam of universal commerce is now being made in the United States—jam of all kinds, raspberry, apple, plum, currant, strawberry—and we save the whole expense of the berries. All our jams are made from Swedish turnips, mostly raised in Canada.— Some years ago we recollect a great rush being made for an imported preserve called Spanish cedra. After three shiploads had been disposed of the secret leaked out that it was made out of carrots at a farm about two miles from Dunedin. What’s in a name ?