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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2028, 18 September 1883, Page 2

There was snow on tho hille this morning. Some Poverty Bay sheep-farmers have met with private buyers in Auckland who are prepared to take large consignments of Poverty Bay sheep from the ship's side. We may, therefore, expect to witness some large exportations shortly. Reports from Auckland state that, in consequence of the efforts now being made to salt beef for the London markot, there is an upward tendency in the price of fat cattle. As foot and mouth disease is prevalent throughout the United Kingdom, the export meat trade is likely to become very brisk. His Worship the Mayor to-day received a telegram from the Immigration Officer at Auckland, informing him that, three single womou, ex s.s. Doric, had left per s.s. Taiaroa, for Gisborne. In the news received by the Mail will be found a very interesting report of the earthquake at Ischia, the heartrending scenes, and the devastations caused by this extraordinary recession ot land*

From the mail-man, we learn that the s.s. Rosina had got off the spit, and now lays in the Tologa Bay river. A preliminary meeting for the purpose of inaugurating a branch of the Blue Ribbon Army in Gisborne was held in the Good Templars' Hall last evening. Owing to the state of the weather only 16 persona 1 we;o present, including the Revs. J. T. Pinfold, J. McAra and W. Cocks. It waß decided that another meeting should l>.; held in a fortnight. Some lively spirits thought they would commemorate thu occasion by locking the hall door, and they | took the key away, necessitating some of the members getting through the window, and the lock had to be removed bofore those inside could make their exit. At the Trust Commissioner's Court yesterday, the Trust Commissioner granted certificates in the following blocks : Deed of conveyance from Hirini Whitiki, to Kuox, of the Papatu block ; deed of lease iv the Okahuatia block, from Hotonia Kahukura to W. Maitlaud — certificates to be affixed next Monday. Mr Hamilton, the special correspondent I of the Lyttelton Times, returned from the I Southern Cross Petroleum Company's j works last night. He has telegraphed to ' the Times a long report of his visit. He says tiie atmosphere at the springs is impregnated with the odour of petroleum. He cannot report that od has been struck, j but, like most visitors to the springs, Mr Hamilton thinks, from the indications at the works, that oil may be struck at any moment. The inaugration of the Blue Ribbon movement in Gisborne was celebrated by a heavy wet. The heavens sent forth a continuous and copious downpour, so that the promoters might feel encouraged whilst singing Che old melody, " Water, pure water, for me." If the Army makes auything like rapid strides, Allanacu and Hansen's ale and stout bottling business ought to look up, in consequence of there being likely to arise a greater demand for these excellent stimulants for home consumption. It is computed that if the Blue Ribbon Army is a success, a good revenue will be ensured to the Harbor Board, by reason of the increased harbor due3, Messrs Allanch and Hanseu will be called upon to pay on their additional importations of ale &u«L stout. Udolpho Wolfe & Co., the celebrated schnapps people, declare in their advertisements that with every day's bottling they enclose three £1 orders under the wrappers. One of these orders has juat fallen into the hands of Host Dickson, of the Argyll Hotel, who discovered it this morning under the label as he was in the act of stripping the bottle of its ciothiug of paper. It is numbered ob" 3, payable in either Sydney or Melbourne. Mr. Dickson has framed it as a curiosity. He will cash it after it has been inspected by the frequenters of the hotel. The only survivor of the Waterloo banquet is the Earl of Albermarle — a nobleman of 85. "It is hardly possible," writes a London author, " to conceive the sad souse of survivorship being more stiikiugly brought home to one than in this case. Who of us does not remember the picture of that historical entertainment which used to take place year after year with lessening guests at Apsley House '{ Even to us, to think all are now gone but one, it is a melancholy reflection ; what then must it bo to the sole survivor. I can scarcely think, (says the Taranaki Herald Wellington correspondent), Mr. Whitaker, at Ins age, can care for a Judgeship. I think a title would suit better, and couid be easily obtained, and oust nothing. Were lin his place I would stick to the " billet "of £1,750 a-year. No constituency io bother one, — no unruly House of Representatives to give one trouble ; only a lot of amiable old gentlemen to rule over and keep in order by giving crabbed answers when they are too rash. There is no better position than Premier of the colony, Attorney-General, a seat iv the Council, private practice, an Auckland residence, and £1,750 a year for coutinyeucies, aud responsible to nobody. A Judgeship is not to be compared to it. The Premier's " bidet " is only second to the Governor for comfort, dignity, and rational enjoyment. The Sydney correspondent of the A uslralaaiaii says : — " The junior member of the Redmond (inn has succeeded in establishing a new league — not of the Land League kind this time, but the matrimonial. He is to marry a aiater of Mr Daiton, M.P. for Orauge, and a near relative, therefore, of the Magistrate recently superseded for disloyal and seditious vaporiugs, when the firm first visited that fan.ous township."