The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 237, 17 September 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Local and General.

House-warming.—Mr. Walsh, of Makaraka, will celebrate tne opening of his new house to-night.

New Members.—Messrs. Lewis, Graham, and Wilson, the newly elected members of the Board, took their seats at the table last evening.

Oil Shares.—Mr. C. Smith offered 2,500 South Pacific Oil Shares for sale to-day which brought from lOd. to Is. per share. The transactions had eve’-y appearance of being closely allied to “ dummies.”

Financial Statement.—Owing to the great length of the Financial Statement we are compelled to hold over a part of it. The receiving of the message, which contains about 10,000 words, was not completed at the local telegraph office till four o’clock this morning.

Conference.—At the Board meeting last night Captain Porter gave a short resume of what had been done by the deputation in Wellington, but said he preferred not making a formal report until the return of the other members. His reason for coming back was to gather information for the deputation.

Cheese and Bacon Factory.—At the meeting of the shareholders of the Cheese and Bacon Factory held at Makaraka last evening it was decided to start the factory as soon as possible, no less than a thousand shares having been taken up since the last meeting. It was further agreed to accept the offer of Mr. Matthews of a section of 26 acres at Matawhero to erect the factory on. Further canvassing will still continue.

Mutual Improvement Society.—The Gisborne Wesleyan Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society held their usual weekly meeting last night. Thirteen members were present, and three new members elected. Mr. E. A. Slack delivered his essay on

“ John Wickliffe.” The essayist treated Wickliffe as a reformer in a well written paper which was listened to with marked attention. A wish was expressed that Mr. Slack would soon be before the members with another such paper. At the next meeting a lecture on “ Chinese Gordon ” will be delivered by the Rev. J. J. Lewis of Napier.

Mails.—Mails for Tauranga and Auckland per Omapere, will close to-morrow, Thursday night, at 7 p.m,

Theft.—Rather an audacious theft was perpetrated between Saturday night and Monday morning last. It appears that Mr. C. McDeavitt has several stacks of gravel on the Waikanae and keeps them there ready to cart away when required, and about the abovementioned time some person or persons had the kindness to quietly remove one of these stacks, for which Mr, McDeavitt offers a reward of £5 to any one who will disclose the name of the party who committed the act.

Court. —The case of J. Warren v. Kinross and Graham, which was an action to recover County rates, was concluded yesterday, Mr. Brassey’s line of contention being that the defendant (Mr. A. Graham) had committed a moral fraud by going to the County Clerk and getting him to alter the defendant’s name to that of Montmollin in the rate-book. After hearing Mr. McDougall, who vehemently repudiated the charge as nonsensical, His Worship granted the application for a nonsuit with costs. The plaintiff, in the case of Hamilton v. Bloomfield and Wyllie, for whom Mr. Whitcombe appeared, was nonsuited with costs L 3. The claim was for L 27 ss, This morning Messrs. Common and Porter, J.P’s. were on the bench. A. Ledger was brought up charged with unlawfully trading as a hawker of fish without a license on the 13th of September last, contrary to the Borough bye-law, No. 11, section 1. The defendant pleaded guilty to a certain extent as he had only delivered the fish to the orders of several people in the town, and had not gone round hawking the fish. The plaintiff deposed that he had been informed that the defendant was going round hawking fish, he enquired and found that defendant had sold certain fish to Mr. E. K. Brown. He thereupon applied to defendant for the license money, who refused to pay it. The Bench considered a breach of the bye-law had been committed, though under very exceptional circumstances, for it was not a matter of direct hawking in opposition to the byelaw, and it was rather hard to have to pay a license of £2 for selling a few fish, especially when they were so scarce in the town, and were almost looked upon as a luxury. Under these circumstances they would dismiss the case. Anaru Porakina alias Anaru Harihari, who was remanded from last Wednesday for the larceny of a horse, was again remanded for another week, as their Worships had no jurisdiction to hear the charges.