The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 228, 5 September 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Local and General.

S. M. Wilson.—The lowest of the supplementary tenders received for additions to the Albion Club Hotel was £l6 above the lowest received yesterday. The work has, therefore, been given to Mr. John Somervell.

A Breeze.—Counsel in a case before the Court to-day had a little breeze. “ You don’t know anything about it,” said the first. “ Well, you don’t know much,” retorted the other. Schoolboy’s would probably get the cane for such conduct.

A Warning. — Several persons in New Plymouth have been summoned under the Registration of Electors Act. One was charged with having sent in two claims to vote. He was struck off the roll altogether and ordered to pay costs. Mr. Tutchen.—We have been requested to draw attention to the untiring manner in which Mr. J. Tutchen has served the ratepayers for a great number of years, and to point to the conclusion that his past actions should secured his return with an overwhelming majority. Sir George Grey once remarked that “ gratitude was shortlived.”

Native Industry.—Mr. W. F. Wilmott, of Ponsonby, has just completed an organ for St. Thomas’ Church, Auckland, entirely from native timber. The only imported material is the keyboard and what metal pipes are used. There are 12 stopped diapason pipes, made of picked kauri timber. There open diapason metal pipes number 56. The are 56 clarabella pipes of rimu ; stopped flute brass, 12 pipes, also rimu ; stopped flute metal, 66; hautboy metal reed pipes, 56. The instrument possesses a super-octavo coupler, a sub-octavo coupler, and a suboctavo bass coupler, and two and-a-half octaves of pedals. Colonial Ministers.—The Sydney Bulletin gives the following reminiscence at the expense of the quondam Minister of Education in Victoria : —ln the early days of Ballarat, when man wanted little here below, but wanted that little hot and strong, the present hon. and thrice-gallant Majah Smith was an auctioneer, and on one occasion was selling off a library. Amongst the books was a copy of Canon Barham’s “ Ingoldsby Legends,” and after struggling hard with the title, the local George Robbins put the volume up in these words :—“ Now gentlemen, this is a book I can recommend to all you miners. It is written by an American gentleman named Leg Ends, and it is called “ In Gold.” The author of the delightful work is an old Californian miner of great experience, and, after describing the hardships and toils of a digge’-’s life, winds up by depicting the joyous, rouse-about times that were held in the camp when the hardy, sunburnt miners struck it rich at last, and were, as he poetically puts the case, ‘ln Gold.’ Now, gentlemen. start it right away ; what shall I say for Mr. Leg Ends’ ‘ In Gold And yet that auctioneer afterwards became Minister for Education during the Berry regime.

Big Logs.—Some of the biggest logs ever landed in Gisborne were brought by the Lizzie on her last trip, and are now lying on the wharf. They are consigned to Mr. Boland, through Parnell d? Boylan. The Gisborne Railway.—At the next meeting of the County Council there will be read a communication from Mr. Ritso, agent for some large English capitalists, stating that it is probable the necessary funds can be found for the construction of a railway line from Gisborne to Opotiki if sufficient Crown land can be obtained along the route of the line. It would pass through some fine agricultural and pastoral country, as well as some magnificent timber country.