LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 866, 18 August 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have been' compelled, through the crowded state of our columns, to hold over several local matters, m order to devote all the available space m our power to Captain Morris's address'on Saturday evening. The many communications wo are requited to miblish on matters political, have quiet 'tmcroriched on our local and general reading columns. * Captain' Porter will address the electors, at ' 'Mafcarafca, this evening, at 7 o'clock. : A, dividend of 2s 6d m the ponnd is now payable m the estate of E. V. Lnttrell. on and after* to-day at the office of Messrs Bourke and Smith. A' notification of the acceptance of the resignation by Mr. S. Bocke, E. M., of his office as District officer and Commis°ioner under the iNative Reserves Act, appears m last Friday Wight's Gazette. A proclamation, dissolving the General Assembly, . was issued on Friday, and the new write will be sent to the returning officers by telegraph. , We wouUVremind those interested that the annual meeting of the Building Society will be held at 8 o'clock this evening, immediately, after the, receipt of. the usual fortnightly payments. The statement of accounts for the fifth year of the Society's transactions will then be submitted, and, as interest has again been allotted at the rate of 1 1 per cent, per annum, after taking .every iitem chargeable against the past year's business into consideration, the shareholders have every reason to congratnlate themselves on the continued prosperity of the institution. The business ,of the meeting is of further importance, as ihere will be "four vacancies on the Board; of Directors . to fill, and the shareholders must elect their auditors. The "'rectors are requested to meet for routine vnsiness at half-past 6 o'clock. 1 Out ofseven cases of infections dis ease reported to the Christchurch Board of Health duriugthe last fortnight five were diptheria. . j

Some surprise was created at the Pontridge Stockade on Friday morning (says the Melbourne Atfv), when one of the overseers discovered m the quarries an apparatus for a still. It was m operation at the time, and although rudely constructed of tin cans was sufficient to have distilled a quantity of liquor. The prisoner m whose possession it was found is a young man named Sutlon. Where could he have obtained the materials for distillation ? The following is from a Wellington journal, which twelve months ago was a Grey supporter to the back-bone of its columns: — The Grey cry is, without exception, the weakest that any party could possibly go to the country with just now. They might have done something with "Liberalism," — they might have done something with Protection, — they might have done something with education, — they might have done something with communism : but, to go to the electors with nothing m .the world bnt Grey to offer them, is really too preposterous. Grey means land tax, Grey means low wages, Grey means depression, Grey means bankruptcy, Grey means unemployed, Grey means panics, .Grey means native war, Grey means jobbery and corruption, Grey means tyrauny and personal government, Grey means dismissal of old and faithful officers, Grey means sinecures to parasites, Grey means elective Governors, Grey means mob meetings, Grey means a quarrell with the mother country, — Grey, m short, means everything that people are either suffering from or living m dread of.