The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1881.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1287, 2 April 1881, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1881.

The a.s. Tararua is nut expected to reach Uisborne until about 7 o'clock on Monday morning. The sales to-day were well attended ;md biddings on the whole well sustained. There was one April the Ist joke played off yesterday evening. But it will not bear relating. It was on a ino,-<fc worthy Bank manager. However worthy a Rank manager may be, he is not one to be played with. For the time i\mij come when there will be a day of reckoning.

A number of athletic games are to come off on Easter Monday. The following are the entries for a handicap for a silver cup, distances 100, 150, and 200 yards : — . '. Brimner, J, Bailey, A. Sawyer, R. Nasmith. If, Dobsoi), J. Lucas, H. Bruce, J Mcßride. W, Webb, P. Maher, jun., G. Ma her, J. R. Scott /'English champion), J. Sony, O. Burnand, E, J, Chrisp, G. Wyllie, and J. Adams.

With respect to our reporter not beiug able to obtain a copy of the manifest of the Kiwi, it appears that it came to hand iv a very imperfect state, and tbat until it was set right; and signed it was not public property.

This, as it appears to us, is a suggestion which might be made trial of in Poverty Bay. It is that the seed of the Para grass should be obtained with the view of propagatiug that m;iss in the district, which he says would afford excellent feed for cattle, and would flourish in the hottest wcathur. It is a native of South America where it grows in swamps, and on banks of rivers, in fact sometimes flourishing so luxuriantly as to form bridges over rivers and being frequently known to block up streams. In dry weather like that which we have experienced some time back, it would form an invaluable addition to our cattle feed, The a;un« correspondent suggests the introduction of the Guinea grass which makes excellent feed for cattle. It attains, he says, a height of three feet, and when once established in a paddock would never require re-sowing. When eaten down by cattle the steins spring up spcedly, and a new crop is raised which is lit for cutting or eating down in a few mouths. Our correspondent thinks that the para has been introduced into Australia whence the seed might be obtained, but the (Uiinea prass seed, he thinks, would have to be procured from America. The Evininij Post says : -A well-known squatter from the North Island, who recently paid a visit to Dunedin, inserted an advertisement iv a local paper for a wife, stating that he had an income of £000 a >ear for life. In answer he had 81 applications, many of whom enclosed photos. The gentleman in question had copied the atrte (It- vi*i(e. of a well-knovi n Wellington lady-killer, and enclosed oue to each applicant, at the same time making appointment to meet him at the Botanical Gardens, Dunedin, at au hour named. The squatter, in company with a few friends, turned up at the appointed time, and there were present forty-Hve of the damsels averaging from 16 to 40 years of age. After meandering about for an hour gazing at each other much to the amusement of the gentlemen, they came to the conclusion they were the victims of a sell. We cannot say that the joke reflects much credit on the perpetrator.