The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 224, 1 September 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. Local and General.

Appeal.—Attention is directed to Mr. Tutchen’s appeal to the ratepayers to again return him.

Death.—Mr. Clements, the well-known publican of Ormond is dead. Education.—The expenditure on the Canterbury College last year was £30,703. Illness.—Mr. Brassey is still unable, through illness, to attend to his legal duties. Sheep Rate.—To-day is the last day for paying sheep rates, which have to be forwarded to the nearest money order office.

W. Tharratt.—A new advertisement over the signature of W. Tharratt appears this evening. Mutton.—The N.Z.L. and M.A. Co., has published a list of 27 London butchers who purvey New Zealand mutton. Hop Exchange.—Messrs. Luke, Williams & Co., have opened a hop exchange and store, with sample-rooms, &0., at 155, Collinsstreet west, Melbourne. Rescue.—Messrs. Smith and Antonio saved a child from drowning yesterday in a well sunk by. the Gas Company in Palmerston road. The well should be properly fenced in.

Difference.—A camel will work for seven or eight days without drinking. In this he differs from some men, who will drink seven or eight days without working.

The Bridge.—Tenders for the Turanganui Bridge close at noon. So far three tenders have been received from Auckland and one from Wellington.

A Useful Lot.—The Morning Post recently contained the following advertisement :— “ Ten dozen o/ port for sale, the property of a widow full bodied and seven years in cellar.”

H. Bull.—Mr. Tharratt offers a substantial guarantee that all plants and seeds supplied by Mr. H. Bull are as good as the representative specimens exhibited in the shop window next the Telephone office, Gladstone road. Absent.—The last report concerning H. J. Williams, the absconding County Clerk of Wairoa, is that he left Sydney for New Caledonia, under the name of Dr. Willoughby. Native Industry.—A Napier paper announces the receipt of some cigars from the Auckland Tobacco Company, and states that they are very Al., only needing a little seasoning to be equal to the best Havanas. Dairy Factory. — The Wanganui Dairy Factory is a brick building, cost £l5OO, and is conducted on paying principles. Milk is being supplied from 130 cows, the average daily supply being 206 gallons. It is calculated that each gallon of milk yields lllbs. of cheese.

Benefit.—A benefit for Mrs. Taylor is on the tapis, and several amateurs who have not been heard of lately are coming out. Mr. J. R. Scott has a list of subscriptions with over £5O promised. The times are not so very bad after all judging by the amusements advertised. Economical.—London shoeblack to Scotch drover (issuing from Euston station) —“ Here you are, Scotty; brush yir boots for twopence, and make you look like a gentleman ! ” Drover —“ Tippence I Sae muckle as that 1 Man, leddie, if ye’ll just len’ me your brushes for a meenute I’ll polish them mysel’ for naething.”

Bellamy’s.—lt would seem that Bellamy’s is likely Jo be supplied with cheese this session witbout cost, as a large number of the dairy factories are sending specimens of their manufacture to be tested by honorable members. If the various biscuit factories and breweries would only follow the example there would be free lunches indeed.

Mrs. Butler.—The nicely-arranged programme of music offered to the public by Mrs. Butler can hardly fail to draw a good house. Several of the items will be novelties to many Gisborne people, notably the quintette of pianos, and two vocal trios. The entertainment may be looked forward to as a luxury. C. O. Fisher.—People are wont to search in old churchyards for quaint epitaphs, but the following which appears on a horse trough in front of the Settler’s Hotel, might be looked upon as a curio by lovers of the peculiar—“ For horses we keep pure water here, Fischer for men sells Crawford’s beer.” It is decidedly a gem in its way.

Judging Potatoes.—A San Francisco paper describes a mode of testing the qualities as being the experiment generally made by experts. The tuber is cut in two and the faces examined. If deep yellow it will not cook well; yellowish white is preferred. It must be moist, and if water can be pressed out it will be soggy when boiled. If, when the two pieces are rubbed together, a white froth appears around the edge, it is a favourable indication of sufficient starch. If there is plenty, the pieces will cling together. Editorial Help.—“ lam slowly starving to death.” “I am very sorry,” replied the editor, with much sympathy in his voice, “but I haven’t any pennies.” “Well, will you let me have a mouthful or two of paste; I see you have nearly a pailful of it there ?” “ No, I cannot spare my paste ; I have just begun my editoral for to-morrow’s issue, and I shall need it all.” “ Then you can’t help me any this morning?” “ I guess not this morning; but I am going to write some letters this afternoon about five o’clock and if you will happen to be in at that time I will let you lick the postage stamps.”

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.— Last evening the Rev. J. McAra delivered a very interesting and eloquent discourse to a crowded congregation taking for his subject the eventful scene in Elijah’s history when that prophet in the presence of the assembled multitude of the children of Israel, singlehanded confronted the 450 prophets of Baal, and compelled them to submit to the ordeal of proving who was the Lord Jehovah by the test of an answer by fire from heaven consuming the sacrifice. After giving a very graphic description of this on Mount Carmel— King Ahab and his courtiers, the 450 priests of Baal and the 400 prophets of the grove, in their flowing gorgeous robes, the solitary prophet of the Lord, surrounded by the expectant multitude, and the final result ending in the complete discomfiture of the followers of the false god and the unanimous decision of the people of Israel that “ the Lord was God,”—the rev. gentleman enlarged on the words selected for his text, “How long halt ye between two opinions,” and earnestly exhorted all his hearers to make the great decision, “If the Lord be God follow him,” and like the noble Joshua say, “As for me, I will serve the Lord.” As illustrations of men who had made this decision ho instanced several well - known Bible characters, and stated that in these modern days, when scepticism and infidelity

abounded, it would be found that the noblest names on our roll of great ones—in political circles the great Wilberforce, in the army General Havelock, in the legal profession the ex-Lord Chancellor Lord Cairns, and the present Lord Chancellor, who every Sunday teaches his class in the Sabbath-school—in the scientific world Professors Farraday and Tyndall,—were all of them men who had not halted between two opinions, but had made their choice and were not ashamed to be called Christians, and the bright example of such men should emulate us all to go and do likewise.