Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 281, 8 November 1884, Page 2

Local and General.

HoßipAT.—There will be no publication of the TebePHONe on Monday.

Lecture. — To-morrow evening Professor Hugo delivers a lecture on “ Evolution,” at McFarlane's Hall. The lecture commences at 8 o'clock.

Sports.—Mr. S. M. Wilson’s brake will run every half-hour during Monday. Money.—£3oo is-available for loan from the funds of the Gisborne Building Society. Telephone.—The Makaraka-Gisborne telephone line is to be put in operation. IiIRTHDAY.— To-morrow His Royal Highness the* Prince, of Wales will have attained his 48rd year.

Prorogation. — The Premier stated last night that the Prorogation of Parliament would take place this afternoon. Annexation.—We learn by cable that all the colonies except Victoria have declined to double their contributions.

Roseland Sports.—We remind our readers of the Sports to take place at Roseland on Monday. The programme and acceptances will be found in another column.

Hawke’s Bay.—Depression we are often told, both by public men and the Press, is at present very great in New Zealand, There cannot be much depression in Hawke’s Bay, when the receipts of Chiarini’s circus for five days exceeded £2,500.

Benefit.—The nett proceeds of the entertainment given for the benefit of the widow of the late J. R. Taylor amount to £9 Us, which sum Mr. Piesse has handed over to Mr. Dickson, who is collecting some donations. The total amount will exceed £5O.

Fruit.—At Messrs Ratcliffe & Go’s mart to-day a number of cases of oranges and apples and bags of potatoes were offered for sale, and realized as follows -.—Oranges, 16s to 17s per case; apples, 7s to 8s per case, and potatoes 2£ per lb. Mails.—Mails for Auckland, per Thomas Russell, will close at 7 p.m. to-night. Correspondence for the United Kingdom. &c., may also be posted until 7 p.m., marked “ per Thomas Russell.” Horse Sale.—The bidding at Messrs. Graham, Pitt & Bennett’s horse sale to-day was very dull, good horses only bringing about half the value of the reserve. Nemesis was put up, but as the highest bid was only £l6 it was passed in. Lady in the Lake.—The greatest curiosity of the age, a veritable Lady in the Lake, will be on view at Dickson’s inner bar this evening. This wonderful little curio has the power of riveting the attention of the beholder and making him forget all his surroundings. Furious Riding.—This morning Alfred Martin was charged by the police with riding furiously down the main street. On hearing the evidence, His Worship dismissed the case, as it had been clearly proved that the animal bolted, notwithstanding the efforts of the rider to check it.

Mixed.—The Auckland Telephone says:— “ Miss Bourke, of Gisborne, recently rode 102 miles in five hours, using 13 horses, and changing her mount 57 times.” It is an old adage which’says you must go from home to hear news. We think our namesake must have got a little mixed. A Joke.—A good joke anent the corpulent Colonial Treasurer was told us this morning by a gentleman who has lately been spending a few days at the seat of Government. It seems Sir Julius has a smart little daughter of some eight summers, who reads the papers and retails any tit bits concerning “ papa ” to that rather obese and talented parti. The other morning she exclaimed, “ Look here, pa I I always knew you were rather fat; but those nasty papers need not call you ‘ the Stout-Vogel Party,” need they ? Wairoa Mail.—ln declining to establish a mail service between Wairoa and Gisborne, Mr. Stout said the Government recognised the want of facilities, both of roads and telegraphs, which exist on the East Coast; but they did not see their way to provide what the hon. member asked, because the loss on the service would be too great, but the Government would keep in view the want of facilities existing in that district, and would do whatever they could in the future. Bankruptcy.—Judge Williams declared at Dunedin the other day his inability to understand what was meant by “ final examination ” in the criminal clauses of the Bankruptcy Act, and he hoped this would be made clear in the amended Act. He refused to make any order against a bankrupt accused of fraud on this ground, holding that when he applied for his discharge he could be dealt with, if necessary. It was true the bankrupt need not apply for his discharge, but the suspension of his discharge would be certain punishment.

Aged Horse.—As an illustration of longevity of horseflesh, the Wairarapa Star mentions that a fine mare, now quartered at Mr Neil’s livery stables in Masterton, was the property of one of the settlers who had to fly for their lives at the time of the Poverty Bay massacre, and she wears a deep scar on her rump, showing where a native tomahawk caught her as her owner was making good his retreat. The mare, which though aged, is in good plump condition, is the property of Mr. T. B. Hitchins, of the Whareama. Larbikinism.—A good deal of the larrikin element was displayed last night. In Grey street a considerable quantity of timber with some of the gaspipes were strewn across the road ; the fire bell was also attempted to be rung, but after the second dong a general stampede took place as the figure of a man was observed approaching. We trust that the police will keep a more stringent watch on these night marauders who will, if care is not taken, become nothing more nor less than a pest to the town.

Point of Order.—During the debate on the Native Land Resumption Act last evening, Mr. E. K. Brown referred to a former speech of the Hon. Mr. W. F. Crawford, stating that had that gentleman been where he (the speaker) had been, viz., the Waikato country, he would probably have found his way into a kopua maori. The. hon. the Minister for Public Works rose to order. Had Mr. Brown been as fat as he was at present he would not have escaped. Mr. Brown responded that although the Minister for Works was beyond the average in size there was plenty of room for him inside Wahanui. (Applause). Wi Pere.—ln the House of Representatives on Saturday, Mr. Wi Pere, in contrasting the actions of the hereditary chiefs who were wont in bygone days to rule the land with those of the European arbiters of the present day, made some remarks which exhibited an unusually keen if quaint philosophy. “In those days,” said the honorable gentleman, “ the natives were able to bring such pressure to bear that those chiefs would die with shame. But the Europeans have no shame.

They are like stone images—the blush of shame will never be seen on their faces. Their love is all outside, and their hearts are hearts of stone.” Ada Mantua.—An event which has imparted additional interest to New Zealanders in this year’s Melbourne Cup closed on Monday last. We (Daily Times) allude to Ada Mantua’s offer of £lOO to the successful tipster of the three first horses in the race. The announcement was first made in the Otago Witness of July 19th, a cheque for the amount offered having been placed in the hands of the editor of that journal a few days previously. The offer has, therefore, been before the public for a little over three months and during that time between two and three million tips have been sent in, file after file having been filled in rapid succession. As showing the immense amount of energy displayed, it might bo mentioned that one company of three have forwarded no less than 150,000 tips. At one period of the operations every horse that was scratched meant the loss of 7000 tips, and at present they have 44 horses so placed that in the event of any one of them being the first horse they will win the prize, unless some one has been successful before them. Besides this they have a number of other horses placed in a variety of ways,

although they have not been completely worked out. It was estimated that each horse took seven hours to work into all the possible positions, so that the amount of work done by each member of the firm must have been very considerable, especially when it is remembered that duplicates of all tips had to be kept. Hundreds of tipsters have sent in 10,000 tips, while a few range from 20,000 to 100,000 ; so that the chance of the money being handed over to the Benevolent Institution (which is the alternative to a successful tip) is a poor one. The successful tipster is to send in his claim, together with the date on which he posted his tip within one month of the result being declared, and it will be verified and the cheque forwarded to him in due time.

Te Kooti’s Visit.—We clip the following from the Wairoa Guardian and anent the same we notice Professor Hugo seems to have depicted the character of one well-known chief and disloyal waverer. W should much like to place the arch ex-rebel Te Kooti himself tinder the Professor’s eye, and hear the reading of his character. We would not however care to see the worthy professor left alone with Te Kooti after the reading had been explained to him.—“ That scheming aboriginal, r Mr, Areta Apatu (or ‘ Up-a-Tree ’as he was facetiously termed in the old expeditionary days from his disposition to make himself scarce when there was burnt powder about), has just received a letter from his bosom friend Te Kooti, stating that with a large following he will leave Waikato for the East Coast on December 3rd, by way of Taupo, Te Haroto—where he will stop a few days to open a large Rununga house—and Petane, thence on through Mohaka and Wairoa to Poverty Bay. It is to be hoped the Government will take some steps to stop the cold blooded murderer from thus coming in triumph to the scene of his former atrocities. Areta Apatu has made every preparation to receive him with open arms, and lodge him sumptuously in the new house at Te Waihiriri which has been built for the reception of the ruffian and his numerous followers. If the character that Professor Hugo, the physiognomist, public gave Areta the other evening in the school house after an inspection of his ill-favored visage, be a true one—and many who have known him long testified to its correctness—it would indeed be a case of ‘ birds of a feather, &c.,’ when he and Te Kooti meet.”