LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, 18 October 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I Officers of the Government Service at Wellington are informed that all advertisements issued from the Public Works, Marine Service, Railways, and other of the Public Departments, are to be addressed to the Manager of the Poverty Bat Herald, (a daily morning and evening issue) as this journal has been selected as possessing a more extensive medium of publicity than any other paper circulated in the district. Secretaries and Clerks of the Gisborne Borough Council, County Councils, and Road Boards, will please accept the same intimation. . The Poverty Bay Herald is acknowledged to be the leading journal, and has a circulation six times that of any other newspaper published in this portion of the North Island. Auctioneers, merchants, and traders generally, using the Herald as a sole medium for publicity will be exceptionally treated with. In these depressed times it is felt that advertisers can only aftord to insert notices in one jonrnal, and the one selected for commercial reasons is that which is circulated daily in town and country, namely the Poverty Bat Herald, the publisher of which also acts as agent to all 4uiL"e v « ni »«---andinost of the morning journals of. the CoKJiiy__ j£ ne i BSUe o f the Herald is now close upon BDt-w«mj!ami_a_ week, and is freely employed by advertisers in Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, and other principal centres. At the -R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Gudgeon, R.M., and W. H. Tucker esq,, J.P., J. Baldwin Daw son was charged with lunacy. On the application of Sergeant Kidd, he was remanded to Monday, the 21st, in order that a medical examination might be held. * _ We would call attention to the alteration in the date of receiving tenders for. the Hospital grounds to the 20th, instead of the 23rd as previously notified. To-night the Hudson Surprise Party will appear in an entirely new programme, and on Monday evening at Ormond. ■ We regret to learn that Mr. C. Young, of Matawhero, has sustained a very heavy loss by the death of his mare "Gipsy," in foaling, notwithstanding the attention and services of Mr. E. Luttrell, which were unfortunately called in too late to be effectual. It is not often that professional men forego the fee from their clients, but in this case we are pleased to record that in view of the loss no charge was made. The Football Club have amalgamated with the Hudson Surprise Troupe for the purpose of giving an entertainment on Tuesday next, to help the Club out of their monetary difficulties, thus giving the good people of Gisborne a chance of being spectators of professional and amateur talent. The Club, since their existence, dating about 18 months back, have made three appeals to the public for support, namely two concerts and an athletic meeting, and in all gave to the public something really appreciable and worthy of being patronised, and got eulogised by the Press ; but to revert to the inevitable, the principal object of the production of the amusements, owing to the heavy expensdventailed in each case, the balances left in hand were insufficient to settle their liabilities in full. And now the programme they propose to present on Tuesday evening will be the best without parallel that has yet been presented to a Gisborne audience. The gentlemen amateurs are, we understand, letter perfect in the respective parts alloted to them. Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Jones have also lent their aid by consenting to sing a song apiece during the evening. A box plan of the front seats may be seen at Mr. Adams, where seats may be engaged. The prices of admission have been fixed at 45., 35., and 25.. As the Club have, as we above recorded, always used their yraifeu, and earnest endeavors to produce a good thing. We are positive that their call will be responded to, and a house literally crammed to the ceiling, not metaphorically, will be the result, and in consequence a filling of the money box at the door. We desire to refer to an advertisement, appearing in our columns, in. which Mr. Adams, bookseller, stationer, and tobacconist, announces the receipt of a large consignment of goods from England direct, consisting of cabinet ware, stationery, Letts' diaries for 1880, account books, &c, together with cricketing materials, and other articles, whether for ornament or use. - This is the way the Auckland Free Press gives the "straight tip" to its defaulting subscribers. We beg to intimate to our subscribers that we are posting some hundreds of accounts each of which will cost us twopence. We trust the. accounts sent will be found correct, and will receive prompt attention. There is no help at the back of the Free Press except our own energy for present work and faith in the future result, and Saturday .with its wages sheet cornea knocking at our door every week.