LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1101, 21 August 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

: learn' jfco-dayiv i ''thatvthe ! '.'last mail from Auckland has brought the intelligence that a leading firm of-solicitorsdn. that city have given it as their professional opinion that the trust deeds, whereby certain trustees have been apj>ointed.by the natives ! 'district; are invalid. ; ;We t trust. this may prove; to :be;-;the: case that such an sin^atisfactpry and (ifi'tufbirig state' of affairs i inaybe : bronghi;i;(i' : a ; <;lb3'eV : ' ; •"-• *- : ,A^e, would; direct attention to, Messrs. •Combs & 'OoJ's which aptears in our columns. In order to effect a clearance of;th,e whole of vtheir winter stock they 'aVe offering it' af& : reduction of 30 per, -cent. Prices are' 'not 'quoted, but all the' •goods a?S marke&in vfainfigP?**! ? n<3 i an - ; o)|,. the. variety ;m each of4he•departmentslisjinyited..".'/':. # .; ' , ; A fire occnrred this afternoon, in a two*dopi cottage ileai»:the corner pf,Palmerston and .fright Street;. . The building was only lately, erected, .C'^Rd; was occupied % a iaiidnhg man atid -hif ' wife,' named 'STCafthy. The. building :is said" ftffhatte tielbn'ged' to^Messrs. Parnell : and Boylan, '^It ! waa ! b'unied tb^he'groiitfd within twenty ! minutes after it caught/iiay^pg taken firej from a defective chimney. ■

Mr. E. K. Brown ia again: to the front • with 'his new advertisment;- : Hej kays the balance !6f.his winter 'goods must "be; dia-' posed of,,: preparatory to the arrival of a Shitfmerlt- of. Spring^and Summer, stock, an d w'ityi tlieof inducing purchasers" to invest, "he offers them at cost price, Special bargains are also offered to id all the requireTneuts of. housekfeeper's, comprised in a well-stocked general store. ■■ 5 . ;,.; ■/:. '". XI- ft- " for the appointfeeni&acf-'. >.erti^ed,.by..the Hospital Committee,, are. fb^uired by noon on Monday the 23rd inst. A special meeting of the Committeewill.be •lielcl.in.'the Cqurt.jaouse at 7J5&.,^ jbhe 'Weningto decide upori^he appointment. !- The,Parisianl)iorama willi.be exhibited in- the Masonic Hall, if or the first time -this evening. The.^sceneaL depicted compiise many 6f the" famous Engagements of. the Pranco^ Prussian and Eusso-Turkish 'wars, views ofithe principal cities of the world, and: what are described as life-like pictures of the sensational incidents arisuiig: oufb'f ithe} encounter 'with! and- captm-ei of the jKelly gangi . Gifts are announced to be 'totriliuted to,every visitor. >: ; , ■• .