Local and General.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 315, 30 December 1884, Page 2

Local and General.

After the present ibsue the publication of the Telepeonb will be dwcontiiiued. Io retire from the journalistic stage without assigning any reason for so doing might appear discourteous on our part. We iheiefore inform our supporters that it is not owing to a lack of public appreciation of oux efforts that this journal ceases to exist, but to an apparent obnviousness on the part of tue adveitising public of the fact that advertisements should be paid for at least within a reasonable period. Tins commercial aspect of the q lestioii in numerous instances na« been overlooked. 80 much so, tiiat iu oui own interest we have resolved to abandon the task of liudiiig the capital necessary to advertise other people’s wares. Wuiie we hope tiiey nave piuiiited by tue efforts wu nave put fOl th in their bcnaii, we tiust we may be permuted to indicate that a. the present time other and better hems aie open for the investment uf capital. lm b may appear a some a Hat iuea, but hum a rational point ot view no oilier course is open to us Ulan tile one ue aie uUoui to adopt. According to us p ipuidblun, uu pan, oi iMew Zeaiaud lias mure gcueruusiy suppurved its meal newspaper iiteiuvme tnau foveriy Bay—wueu it was uoie Lu uu su. And we nave uu acsiuuaiuu m saying tiiat m return lue puO.ie receive.* Liieir i<*ir fluid, pro quo. But in me course ui eventa a. uas mamteoted itseii. £ne jour..a.iotrc nonzun has become overcast, Wriuoiu duubb owing to me wave uf ueprcSoiun mat set m so strongly some time ago, tue effects of which nave been fuit far and near thruugu-

out the colony, i'umgs, uowever, wih, bciicve, shoruy wear a Originer aspect, ana me incoming year bring wim it Lhat> penod of prosperity iur which so many have been anxiously looking forward to.

Jacob Faithful’s prize-list is to hand. The Little 'Un, a new paper published at Taurauga, has reached us. Harding’s Almanac is now published. Mr. H. McKay is the local agent. Mr. G. It. Moore has issued a handsome almanac. A meeting of the directors of the Dairy Factory is called for this evening. The manager of tl)e Dairy Factory has returned from Auckland. Mr. Allan McDonald arrived in Gisborne yesterday morning.

I Mr. Adams, Qnrdnsiea’ Surveyor, fa expeeled lip»e in about a fortnight. Thfl Wa rampa oairied on h«v eavgo to Auckland on Sunday. The fir 4. meeting of ci'e.lilorn in Dunlop*estate lapsed for want of n qumuni. A birth occurred on b ard the Wairarapa on her last trip, Harding’s store at Waiapu was burner down on Saturday. It will be seen by advertisement in annthe* coiumn tiia! the jobbu g depa tment of the Telephone vili siiilbe car ir t on. Mr. Job*i B ichanun and On pt. Rus ell have b-en re-appointed members of the Hawkes Buy Waste Lands Board. Plie wrecii of the Star of the SouHi bus been put up to auction, but there was no biu. Her position is unaltered. The Atawa, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Tuesday, brought 4uB passengers, 235 being iminigiai ts. Sir George Wunmore met a number oi Uiiweias at Puiene on Christinas day. Hi was presented with a mat and a mere. Mr. Fred Alillis has a sparkling programm for this event -g, which is announced as iiis last appearance. Tue Q.ieeii has been pleased to approve of tile members of die late Mimstiy retaining the title of Honorable. The Ven. Archdeacon Thorpe, who has resigned the incumbency of St Paul’s, Weitington, has been presented with a purse of 175 sovereigns. Te Kuoti’s ragamuffins have arrived al Wairoa and are having a good time. The Mohaka natives would have nothing to do with them. The usual meeting or St. Andrew’s Band ot Hope was held last evening, when Mr. Winy re-delivered his lecture on John B. Gough. Theta was a good attendance. At a meeting of creditors in Bioomfield’s estate it was decided that the Assignee inter view the manager of the Bank of New Zealand with a view to a compromise befoie taking further proceedings. It was also resolved to pay Mr. Bojlau his expenses incurred in Auckland on business connected with the estate. Captain John Jacob, who commanded the three-masted schooner Osprey, writes to the Auckland Herald as follows:—“If th* claimant arrived in Melbourne in 1844 afiei being picked up at sea. it must have been by some other O«prey ; certainly it never could be the one I was m, as shn went into the coastii-g trade after 1 left her.” On Saturday, at Matawhero, the Gisborne

Club played a futl day's match against th<* local club, resulting in a win on tliefi.s innings foe the “ B »ys." The respective totals were: “Boy-," Ist inning*, 93 ; 2nd, 93. Matawhero: Ist innings, 56; 2.id, 73 and three wickets to fall. A lunch very abi\ p<esided over by Mrs. Cross, was provided bj the Matawhero Club. At an inquest held at Wellington on the body of a lumper named Lovelace, who died throngli injuires sustained on board the steamer Huwea. Tue evidence showed thai while a case of galvanised iron was being slung aboard it wss not raised high enough, and, striking the hutch, the contents led tiirough, a.ruing Lire deceased. A man stationed at the hatciiway passing down word was taue.i away for some otner duty on thauthority uf William Walters, chief officer. The ju y leturuud a verdict of mansiauglitei against Walters, and he was committed foi trial, bail being allowed, himself in £2OO and two sureties of £IUO. Wallers obtained b.ul, and left in the Haweu for Picton and Nelso. the same afternoon. Says the Wellington Evening Post ui th.< 11th inst.“ xUr. Allan M Dmaid. who lepresenled tne East Coast in tue last Parliu ineiit, has, we believe, returned to the coiouj afier a trip to Europe. We learn that whin visiting ms native place in the North uf Scotland lie was interviewed bj a numb r <4 farmers who requested linn to give tln-in information respecting the colo ;y. The neads of some 20 or 25 famibes, all fairly well to do, having from £3OO to £3 000 worth of assets, mes with mm, and lie gave them an idea of nfe and ins own success m ihe colony as an illustration of whar. rnignt be done, nearly ail of them having known nun v»x ventre. Su satisfied weie tliej|£B^ B description of the couiHry iiiatddu^^esujved lia.f-a-dozen or so A*»ould go out as pioneers, and on then icpurt of die country tne rest would bs prepared to realise and follow. On Boxing night the theatre-going commum ty had a treat in the way of enteriainment given by Mr. Fred W. Mill is, who, then is no doubt, thoroughly deserves the title ui Monarch Ventriloquist, winch he lias receiveu frum the neighboring colonies. As a charactei artist he is wondeituily clever, and Ins quic.. change from a fat olu gentleman to a gmeeful you..g gin’s attire evoked coiisiderabh applause. His character of the ancient auu modern iroubador is a very fine piece ot mimicry, and received a well merited encoie, as also Ins sitelch of Hie ' Guardian of di> Peace.” Mr Bury O xSeii, who we lemembc* with Carey's Opeiatie Co. as tne Mujui • General, appea.s alternately with Mr. Mi.l<» in the first part of the entertainment, a>m his tendering of Ins several songs went lu show that he is still a big favorite, and vies with ins clever confrere in ins share of Uns part of die programme. His song, “If I'm Poor, I’m a Geiillemau stm, ' was one of tm reclierclie gems of die evening, in tne s.-cuau pun uf the entertainment Mr. MiliL, aiue« by some eight iiguies on the stage, lairiy convulsed his auuieuce from the lime of his stepping on to ide stage, until Ins exit. 1. is really a wondeiful pedmmauce fur one person to amuse a large audience tor one nour auu a qu.uter. His figures compiiseu, i-eience Uivenly, Mios baiah Warner, a Chinaman, Dutcmn.m, Brnmr Ziucfiariuh, and a coior-stamcd geutieiua.*, and Hie animated discourse whmu is kept up between lii.s CcieUiuied uiucuhead family, is witnuul duuO one of me cleverest and wriuest we have uau the pleasure of witnessing, and one wmcli we i an confidently recommend anyone who hub not aircdiiy bee-i to Mr. Millia’s performance uo do so, and prove wiiat we say as to Im meuis uf mis ready firsL-uiasseuieriainmehi.. as lhcj wih appear rii Moi/ariane's rian bu mgii” and Lu-muiruw, dieuce they proceed lu Maaaraku, where they appear on Wednesday evening.