LOGAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 814, 20 June 1879, Page 2

LOGAL AND GENERAL.

Our friend Mr. "Snyder " has served us a scurvy trick. We had engaged him to compile "Our Home Letter"' for the outgoing mail. We presumed he would have supplied us with the usual two or three columns of the kind of matter which everybody in the Colony is familiar with, and which nobody out of it will care to knovr. Still, this is the legitimate procedure for a home letter, and we have been outrageously disappointed, by getting a letter beginning "Dear Bob," and giving what he terms "Phases of Life in New Zealand." We have taxed him with bis base conduct, and j he has met us with downright cool effrontery. "Look here, old fellow," he said addressing the editor, " every month 1' have got half-a-dozeu letters to write to my friends on the other side of the equator, to tell 'em how we are getting on. I don't like writing so much, and what is more, I can't afford the postage ; so it struck me that if I got one letter printed in your paper, I could send half-a-dozen of 'em for a penny each, which, by sticking on a penny stamp, would. carry my letters to the other side of the world, saving both time and money. It came across me as being a good idea, and as it is so seldom I have a g>od idea I couldn't afford |to waste it. nly fancy, my boy," said Snyder, "six letters to my chums in the old country, delivered at their doors by a postman in a red coat, for the insignificant charge of twopence each, " — and slapping the editor on the shoulder, Mr. Snyder laughed a loud laugh, and coolly walked out of the office. The return football match, Colonials v. English, will be played on the Waikanae to-morrow, when it ia to be hoped that the English players will show a better muster than last Saturday. Flay to commence at a quarter to three sharp. Messrs. Bourke & Smith announce that they will sell, by public auction, on Thursday text, at the Makaraka sale yards, 55 head of cattle, consisting of milch cows, dry cows, steers and heifers. The. sale commences at noon. The same firm also advertises for sale 160 acres of land, in one of the finest blocks in the Bay, being one undivided section which has been duly registered, making the title indisputable. Mr. Robinson, gaoler of the Gisborne stockade, has resigned his appointment, and his place will be filled by Constable Farmer. Mr. George Huddlestone, of the. Native ■ Department in Gisborne, and drill instructor" to our Voluneeers, has certainly been concealing his light under a bushel. We were certainly not aware that he is an artist of a really high order of merit, as any one must perceive by a glance at one of his sketche3, which appears in the last number of the Australasian Bketiiher, . representing "A New Zealand Native Land Commission." The drawing is exceedingly clever and artistic in its details, and alike spirited in the conception and execution. We congratulate ourselves in being able to boast of possessing so clever a draughtsman in our midst. The Hawke's Bay Herald says, we are not sufficiently versed in the mysteries of "Yankee grab" to answer the following qnery from a correspondent, but perhaps some of our readers can give s the required decision :— Six men were playing " Yankee g ra b" — shillings and supplement. Two of the players were iu partnership, which was known to all the others. The supplements having risen the pool to 14s, one of the partners threw 16. This was not beaten nor tied, till it came round to the other partner, who at the first throw scored a tie. He picked up the dice and finally threw 13, thus divided the money with his partner. Was it fair play ? Mr W. L. File, pork butcher, has removed from the small shop adjoining Mr Jones', having taken the more commodious premises lately occupied by Mr Sigley, tinsmith, Gladstone-road. Mr File displays from day to day the various delioiy cies of his trade in great perfection, ami his well managed business is certainly entitled to receive the support of the public. Amid all the numerous articles and paragraphs with which the papers have been recently flooded respecting the late Princess Alice, I ("Atlas," of the World) have nowhere seen recorded the curious fact that she was married to Prince Louis of Hesse in the dining-room of Osborne House. Yet such was the case. Iu consequence of the death of the Prince Consort the Qaeen wished the marriage to be as private as possible ; so a temporary altar was erected in place of the sideboard, and the Royal pair were united in the apartment aforesaid. No other member of the Rjyal Family has been married, during the present generation, in so retired a fashion. The Princess had, by the way no bridesmaids. There was a very fair attendance at the monthly, inspection parade of the local volunteers held last evening, when Sergf. Huddleston, A.C., assumed the duties of his appointment as Drill Instructor, and the. various drills through which the companies present went, were clone in a very creditable manner. In a short time, under their present efficient instructor, we have no doubt that the Gisborne volunteers will be the corps d' elite of New Zealand. Messrs. Bromley & Buller will sell to■'morrow, at their new premises (not yet quite completed) on the site of S. Stevensons late store, 200 house blocks, a baker's cart and harness, a quantity of flour, and a variety o£ . sundries and general merchandise, also 5 horses, 3 buggies', bridles, ' saddles, and a quantity of harness. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Rheumatic Pains, Tic-Doloreux. — These diseases are unfortunately very prevalent in this country, and are frequently most distressing, sometimes for years baffling all medical skill to alleviate the sufferings of the victim. In no case have Holloway's Ointment and Pills failed to produce a cure. The Ointment exerts a peculiar and soothing influence over the nerves and muscles, relaxing .spasms and subduing pain. The attack Boon becomes milder and the intervals between the paroxysms longer ; until they cease altogether. The Pills restore the body' from a weak and debilitated condition to a state of health and strength. Persons bedridden for months with rheumatic pains and swellings, after using the Ointment have been cured in an incredibly short period, •