The Poverty Bay Of Herald AND East Cost News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1081, 29 July 1880, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Of Herald AND East Cost News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1880,

The Secretary of the Building Society notifies thatthe annual meeting will take place oh/Monday evening next, at 8 o'clock, £ 'at the. office M)f .< -Messrs.v.Ratcliffe and Piease. < r ,~. ; The balance sheet of tne" Poverty Bay ' Hospital will berfqund in purthifreL page. A^ a meeting of-,, his; .creditors, William "Ryder/ 6f East' "C^re/' admitted that he " started in-tbe .tailoring. business with goods received from a Dunedin firm to the value of £113^ and at thertime he did so he was owing creditors in another place £66, and against all that he had nothing to place but his furniture, valued at £15, and the remainder of the stock — say £45. The .tnustee^. concluded that he would look ' sharply J after tha estate. A few days ago a operator at Woodlands declined to send a message for -. amanafter. hours, whereupon the latter | smashed nine panes' br glass' in the Tele- j graph office. His defence was that he was 'ttetorally' i rather hot-tempered. The. : Invercargill Magistrates gave him two •months' imprisonment,. which may serve to cool him down. The Total Customs receiptsfor the nine -months, ended March 31st, 1880, amounted ,to £975,926 ; average cost' of dollecting, £3 *5"4s 3d;pep centi cost 'of- collecting for 1879-80, £2 17s 8d ; average "cost" oT collecting in the United Kingdom for the -«• past ten years, £310sl0d. The following i are %he amounts collected in the principal ports, 'during the past nine months: ~ Christchurcb, £151,310; Auckland, . £15T5, 168 ; Dunedin, £235,018 ; Wellington, ' '■" £i&2;099. Cost of Collection . at . Christchurch, £2 18s 6d. The lowest cost of collection is Dunedin, £2 6s lid. The highest at Foxton, £68 17s.