LOCAL AND GENERAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 836, 16 July 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

» Members of the Building Society are requested to leave their pass-books with the Secretary on Monday evening next, for the purpose of having them checked by the Auditors in their annual examination. The 21th instant is the last meeting night of the Society's financial year, when shareholders will do well to adjust their accounts with a view to the distribution of the profits. Captain Morris, M.H.R., has addressed his constituents at Opotiki. At the conclusions of his speech, tlie hon. gentleman said he would strongly advocate the separation of Poverty Bay from the Bay of Plenty. We may thank Captain Morns for his kind intention ; but if there never had existed such a gentleman, we believe such a thing would still have come to pass. The absurdity of Poverty Bay being in the electorate of the Bay of Plenty is to gross to be much longer tolerated. Messrs. Bourke and Smith have, in conseqvence of bad road, postponed their cattle sale at Makaraka, wjiich was to have been held to-morrow, until Thursday, 24th instant. Mr. Kenrick, R.M., has kindly planed the use of the Court-house at the service of the members of the Debating Club next week. The Committee will, of course, have to see that no damage is done to the room. This being so, it is quite likely the Court-house will always he at the service of the members. The locality is very much more convinent then where Captain Porter's hall is situated. » A correspondent of a home journal revives a rumour which was current some time ago of the contemplated abdication of the Queen, owing to the unsatisfactory state of her health. It is considered by some that the matter will shortly be brought before Parliament. There being only three candidates (the number required) nominated to represent the district of Gisborne, as Synndsmen in the Synod of the Diocese of Waiapu, the Deputy Returning Officer, Mr. P. J. Piesae, has declared Messrs. S. Locke, J. P. Hamlin, and J. M. Batham, duly elected as such for a period of three years. Mrs. Bourke notifies that her seminary for young ladies will re-open for the ensuing quarter on Monday, 21st instant. Messrs. Ferris and Pitt will sell on Saturday next, at their mart, sections 17 and 18, sub-division of section 81, Roebuck Road. Each section has a well-built cottage on it, let to good and substantial tenants. The present winter, in Poverty Bay, has had a larger rainfall than is rembered since the first European came to the district. The road to Ormond can only be travelled by powerful bullock teams bringing in or taking out li^ht loads. This morning there was a heavier frost than is in the memory of that mythical personage the " oldest inhabitant." At 5 o'clock the thermometer stood at 27deg. A thick coating of frost covered the around, and the street puddles and other standing water were hard frozen. A "Norman by settler," writing to the Wanganui "'Chronicle," states that the Natives are kept fully posted up in all the intended movements of troops. The medium of information is a pakeha-Maori. He is known as the Maori spy. He is in the employ of the Government.

A Victorian journal remarks of Mr. Berry : " From the little shop in the aurburbs, where 20 years ago the Premier sold groceries, to the balcony of the Treasury, in the full glare of the electric light, looking down on the up-turned faoes of thousands, and with a real live baronet at his side acting as fugleman, and " the Mayor" to lead off the cheers, is, indeed, a great step." Mr. Albert White, the champion sculler of the province of Auckland, (says the Opotiki correspondent of the Auckland Star), has resolved to proceed to Sydney for the purpose of trying his powers with some of the world-reuowned oarsmen who are expected to compete at the Sydney Exhibition. Mr. White has forwarded an order to one of the most celebrated bo;itbuilders iu Syduey to have an outrigger built in their very best style, to be completed on his arrival. He intends leaving per noxt mail boat so as to give himself time to train before the matches come off. The reputation Mr. White has deservedly earned in this province fully justifies the step he is now taking, and he leaves here with the heartiest good wishes of the numeriouß friends he has made while residing amongst us during the past year.