LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1133, 28 September 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oil the 30th of this month, the quarter closes, and we therefore desire to inform our reader 3 that further arrangements have been made for an early and punctual delivery of the Herald. The manager is anxious that no complaints should have to be made of irregular deliveries, and for this purpose he employs youths at once intelligent and to be depended on. These youths are paid a per centage upon the sale of the papers. It is therefore necessary they should be paid for weekly unless where they are paid for quarterly. In this case, they must be paid for in advance, and there will be no respect of persons, as the runners are held accountable for all papers sold or' delivered. If we make the effort for subscribers to receive the Herald with all due regularity, they must reciprocate by punctual weekly payments unless paid quarterly in advance. If the weekly subscriptions are not paid on application then the runners will be instructed to cease delivery where this is found to be the case. The Hehald goes to press every evening at 5 o'clock. It contains all important Colonial, European, and American telegrams and cablegrams, as also the current local news of the day, shippiag and commercial intelligence, selections from a large list of exchanges, aud other general information of interest ; and all be it understood at a charge of one penny. If people cannot pay this as our rule requires, then they muet be content to dispense with the Herald until they are able aud willing to submit to it. Business firms wishing to be quarterly subscribers will please notify the same to this office, and by paying a quarter's subscription in advance. Auother importation of thoroughbred stock is expected shortly from Napier, to the order of Mr. G. Burnand. Te Reiuga is a stallion which has made a name throughout Hawke's Bay, aud his stock are some of the best produced there. He will, on arrival, stand for the season here, and we have no doubt that many knowing his good qualities, will reserve their mares till then.

We notice by advertismeut that BOtne thoughtful settler of the Bay places at the. command of Mr. William Adair to-morrow, 501bs fresh butter which on application is to'be distributed free of charge to those of the unemployed who are unable to payfor this necessary for their families. The only business in the Il.M.'s Court this morning were two or three unimportant debt's claims, which were undefended. The claim W. L. Kees against Robert Cooper, for damage done by his horse to shrubs, at the Hapera, was adjourned until Friday next. The new lighthouse at Cape Egmont is being so constructed as not only to be impregnable to all attacks, unless artillery be employed, but also to form a very strong defensive work as a base of military operations on the West Coast should this ever be required, a purpose for which its commanding situation particularly fits it. Dunedin is becoming very highly civilised indeed (says the Sydney Bulletin). We have before us a bill rendered by a Scotch landlaJy to a young man lately resident in that fair city. It runs thus .■ — '" MrDr. to Mrs. Mac . To four weeks' board and lodging at 325. Gd, £6 10s ; two pills, 2d ; total, £6 10s. 2nd." There is something essentially Northern about this. We sympathise with telegraph correspondents driven to their wits' ends for items of news, but caunot help thinking that the unity of forbearance was excceeded last week by the Christchurch correspondent of the Press Association, who thotght fit to wire the information that a bull terrier had jumped out of a window, smashed a glass verandah, and bled>.to death. He-might ai -least have" waited until after th& inquest, had been held on "the dog. Duriug the Bradlaugh debate Mr A. M. Sullivan expressed the pungent opinion that the resolution proposed by Mr Gladstone "would mark a turning point in the history of England, as it would register on the doorpost of the House of Common the flood-mark of infiidelity fnd unbelief."