The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15. Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 286, 15 November 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15. Local and General.

Wesleyan. — Country services are announced for to-morrow. Gas Fete.—A Gas Fete is announced for Friday and Saturday. Prof. Hugo.—The Professor is announced to lecture at Patutahi on Tuesday evening.

New Guinea.—The British protectorate over New Guinea has been proclaimed.

Rowing Club.—A meeting of the Rowing Club committee will be held on Monday night next.

Notice.—Breakwater I Now is. your time. Water Tanks, Cisterns, and Wells Cleaned at reasonable charges by E. Burch.—[Advt.l

Water Supply.—ln another column will be found an interesting report on a scheme for supplying Blenheim with water.

Sale.—At Tattersail’s to-day the bidding was as usual extremely dull. Robert the Devil was offered, but the highest bidder being only £lO, he was passed in.

Thanks. —The participants in Professor Hugo’s bounty last evening would have only shown common courtesy by offering him a vote of thanks for his talented lecture.

Mails.—Mails for Auckland per Tarawera will close on Monday morning at 8 o’clock sharp, and per Thomas Russell at 4 p.m, same clay. Conference.—After a long discussion the Wesleyan Conference have rejected the proposal to agitate for an independent Conference for New Zealand. Bargo.—Mr. J. R. Scott informs us that three horses in Bargo’s consultation on the Auckland Spring Handicap came to Gisborne. The numbers are posted up at the Masonic Hotel.

Prizes.—From our Napier telegrams it will be observed that two out of three prizes in the sewing competition for children attending district schools have been gained by Gisborne young ladies—Miss Baker and Miss Farmer.

Mayor.—The nomination of candidates for the office of Mayor for the ensuing year was taken at twelve o’clock to-day, when only one candidate, Mr. C. A. DeLautour, was proposed and seconded by Mr. C. Smith and Mr. T. J. Dickson respectively. There being only the one nomination, the returning officer declared Mr. DeLautour duly elected.

Praying for Reporters.—At a mid-day meeting, Mrs Hampson read out a request “ that a prayer be offered up for the dear reporters, who were as yet unsaved.” No sooner had the good lady made the announcement than a unanimous and hearty “ Amen ” went up from the assembled throng. The scribes present were visibly affected by this expression of kindly feeling and regard for their spiritual welfare, but were rather uncertain as to whether the cordial “ Amen ” with which the request was received betokened that they were regarded as being worse sinners than those mentioned in the other cases, or whether it was a sign of the good feeling which exists between them and the public.

Dr. Roseby and the Press.—Dr. Roseby, in the course of his address at the Knox church anniversary tea meeting on Tuesday expressed himself thus :—“ Let a man fall, and the newspapers never fail to tell of a detected scoundrel the fact that he was a regular church-goer. _ But I never meet with a paragraph which runs like this: ‘We understand that the consultationist who has recently absconded was not in the habit of attending church.’ Had it been the other way how conspicuously the hypocrisy would have been emphasised. It has been well said that hundreds of men were hung for forgery in England during the 18th century, but no one remembers the name of any of them except that of the unfortuate Rev. Dr. Dodd. It is the infrequency, the unnaturalness, the incongruity of the thing that excites remark ; yet it is right that our Christianity should be brought to this test.”

Woman’s Position.—Dealing with woman’s position among certain savage nations, a lecturer recently described incidents witnessed by hiraseff among the Australian aborignies. He had seen a woman on a long journey, worn out with fatigue by carrying her infant, dash the child’s brains out against a tree, and continue her march as if nothing had happened. Her husband was not displeased although he beat her for relinquishing any other of her burdens. The wives of the King of Dahomey are crammed with meal and milk to make them as fat as possible, such being the standard of beauty in that country. The lecturer concluded by quoting Buckles’ opinion regarding the importance of cultivating the intellect of women; and advocating the importance of training them to industrial occupations.

Marriages of Great Men.—Shakespere loved and married a farmer’s daughter. Robert Burns married a farm girl, with whom he fell in love while they followed the plough together. Washington married a widow with two children. She was worthy of him and they lived in perfect harmony with each other. Milton made an unsuitable marriage with the daughter of a country squire. She was young, pretty, gay and frivilous. He was an astern, literary reel use. They lived together but a short time and were separated. In after life, however, they became reconciled, j Peter the Great, of Russia, married a peasant. ■ She made an excellent wife :nd empress, i John Howard, the philanthrnp st, married his nurse. She was fifty-two and he was twenty-five. She was also bene; th him in

social life and intellectual cap: city. He would not take “no ” for an ansver. Tiny were married and lived happily u til her I death. Humboldt married a poor girl be- j cause he loved her. Of course ihey were ' happy. I

Forged Notes.—Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs that forged Bank of New Zealand notes are in circulation there. Turanganui Bridge.—A portion of the timber for the erection of the Turanganui Bridge arrived by the Thomas Russell yesterday for Mr. Houlden, the contractor. Editorial.—lt is something to be an editor, after all, Amongst 35 applicants for the post of head-master of a high school at Wanganui was one who, as a qualification to the appointment, stated that he had “ a wife whose brother was an editor.” Amusing as the editor’s brother-in-law’s application was, there were others that were more so. Another of the 35 said he was personally acquainted with Sir William Jervois. One candidate described himself as “ having the use of all his limbs, organs, and faculties.” He was followed by an applicant, one of whose testimonials described him as-being no “chicken, but 6ft. in his stockings.” This candidate forwarded his photograph with his application, but not a lock of his hair. Another one wanted a change because “ his present duties had brought his brain to a hopeless state of ‘ fluidity.’ ” Yet another had “ rowed in his college eight, and played in his college eleven;” while another muscular candidate boasted of having made “ the highest cricketing average for the season.”