Local and General.
The flower show is on the Boards for to-night, Three a night, is the average of fires in London. . George Leybourne,’ the once popular London singer, is dead. Parnell and Boylan’s new advertisement will appear in pur next. An Irishman directed a letter “to my brothers wife, Wellington, N.Z.” A telegraph office has been opened at Ellesmere, in Selwyn County, Canterbury. A doctor advertises, “ I ofter my services to all who are so unfortunate as to require them.” - Fifty acres of land in the parish of Waiotahi are offered for sale in this issue. A proposal to wind up the Rangiora Linseed and Fibre Company has been negatived. During the season a ton of: mushrooms are despatched daily from Dublin to; Liverpool. . Tenders are called by the Waimata Road Board for clearing the streets of North Gisborne. ' ' . The question of stray horse's-'Was brought up at the Waimata Road Board, last night.
Marriages are so easily made in America that a girl sometimes scarcely knows whether she is married or not. . ■ The Dunedin Navals are reckoned the best drilled corps in the colony. They were recently inspected by the Governor. The last boat for the Omapere will leave the wharf at 6 a.m. on Saturday, instead of Thursday, as previously notified.
A seaman of the steamer St. Kilda working on the Wanganui cattle wharf yesterday, slipped and broke his neck. Parents in an English school board district, have declared against home lessons by a majority of three to one. There is a good deal of money to be made out of the cultivation of linseed. Why has a trial not been made in Gisborne ?
The Factory Act provides that before any information may be laid by an-in-spector the alleged breach must be reported to a Resident Magistrate. The Gisborne Rowing Club have decided to.have.an annual match,with the Napier club, provided-the latter come here first as the local club have already been to Napier twice.
A t a meet ing of the Nafter Hospital' Committee .yesterday Ur. Keyivortfi. ol Wellington,'’ was appointed Surgeon Superintendent. An art union for n suite of furniture took place in Wanganui last week. The owner took 150 unsold tickets himself and won the prise. The first almanac of the season is to hand. The title is “ The Lifeboat man,” and has been forwarded to this office by Mr. J. Cantie, of Gladstone road. It is calculated that the amount of liquor made and imported into the United States in 1883 would fill a canal loft, deep, soft, wide, and 76 miles long. In di-icussmg Mr. Croll’s application for a refund of money expended on a culvert it was suggested something should be. done-As as funds were available,’ d / 3^,-;. Mr, Grant suggested at last night’s meeting of the Waimata Road Board that if the Board wished a deviation of the road near section 37; they should apply at once, as the sections wereXnot yet "sold, • - - ■ ‘ The Australian Blondin gave his last performance in Gisborne last night to a far e concourse of people, and was equally successful as on the previous • - occasions. He announced before retiring last evening, that be intended to perform
in the country. A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last night, after that of the Harbor Board, for the purpose of opening tenders for the formation and spreading of gravel on Stanley road north, from Gladstone road to Aberdeen road. Owing to discussion arising and the Council being of opinion that Herbert road required the work more urgently than Stanley road, sit carried, that the tpliiers fecglyfirt jexefurned and fresh ones called for Herbert road by next meeting.
A company has been started to work the new oil springs at Mangataikapua, about fourteen miles from Ormond. Mr. Stubbs went to Auckland, and did intend going to Melbourne, for the purpose of floating the Company. The Auckland people, however, Have all along been desirous of taking an active interest in the development of the oil interest, and therefore jumped at the chance. A very powerful company has been formed which will go to wdrie at once to work the new ground, everything being in readiness for a start. Wolsely has the faculty of recognising a good man almost at a glance. On his way up to the Transvaal he found Herbert Stewart plodding diligently in the prosaic work of maintaining a line of communication. Half a day’s intercourse sufficed to convince him of Stewart’s merits ; he enlisted him intq.his staff o.n the spot, an J iOtte years tW obscuiie'bavalry captain had become a full colonel, a Queen's aide-de-camp, and a K.C.8., and has earned every step of the distinction he has attained. The deceased soldier was a cousin of Mr. George Vesey Stewart, of Tauranga.
His Honor Judge Gillies does not seem to look upon getting through the Bankruptcy Court a very difficult matter. On the other hand, he thinks that bankruptcy had now become such an easy'--.;meafis;;'tbQ oiie of his liabilities, that there is no necessity for a man to bum his house down on becoming implicated in debt. At the sametime, he says, everybody is not quite up to that, and a good many feel that by going through the Bankruptcy Court they would not get rid of the stigma, and cannot well enter business again. A pamphlet has been sent us folcriticism from the pen of Ur. Lima -LaMerl, of 86 LaTrobe street—eavr, Melbourne, which professes to be a resume of a larger work by the same author and the late Samuel LaMert, of London, the title of which is “ the Physiology of Marriage.” There is also a chapter from another book by the same author called “ The Science of Life ; or, what to eat, drink, and avoid.” As ignorance is not always bliss, we dare say many of the sterner sex may peruse Dr. LaMert’s books and pamphlets to advantage. We believe it is desirable for man to know himself.
Mr. George Maher writes “ Sir, —In reference to a paragraph in last evening’s issue of the TBLEPHONE, I_ beg to make a’ denial- and also an’explanation. You Wert perfectly rifriV'iii stating that P. Maher never won an advertised race in Poverty Bay, but you are equally wrong in expressing a belief that some years ago he had won a race in Auckland. He won three matches there, but these wins do not disqualify him for running as a “ maiden,” A.s. to having beaten him here,' the tacts are these P. Maher started in a Maiden race, but although coming in first was.iwt awarded the prize owing to die judge® Yfeeiding there had been a false start. The race was run off again, but although again., first breasting the tape the jjudg|s ; gave a similar decision. 0n it "beingi'restilved to' again fun it off heTefused to start, and Weston won.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 306, 10 December 1884, Page 2
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