Poverty Bay Golf Club.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7298, 5 June 1895, Page 3

Poverty Bay Golf Club.

The June competition under medal rules of the above club took place on Saturday last. Several of the usual, competitors were unable to enter, and only. nine took part in the match. It is hoped that- more of the country members will be present on future occasions. Mr Bruce, who came out at the head of the list, established a record for the links with a fine score of 93 gross or 87 nett. The followiDg were the scores :— Gross. Handicap. Net. Mr Bruce ... 93 6 87 MrG. Bull ... 120 30 90 Mr Reynolds ... 114 18 96 Mr Nolan ... 142 45 97 MrCuthbert ... 114 12 102 Mr Morgan ... 142 40 102 Mr Mann ... 136 30 106 Mr H. Bull ... 129 12 117 MrE. J.Chrisp... 172 45 127 | JAu English paper reports that an enormous pig was recently slaughtered on the farm of Mr Harris, Linton, Cambridge. The pig, which was only fifteen months old, weighed 90 stone, measured 10 feet in length and 7 feet in girth. A curious tale of forged notes comes from Russia. For some time past a considerable number of spurious rouble notes had been noticed in circulatiou. Although it was beiieved that they came from abroad their exact mode of introduction baffled detection. One day a case of lead pencils, described as hailing from England, '.passed through the Russian Customs house. ; One of the pencils dropped out during the examination, and was promptly appropriated by one of the officials. He used it for a; day or two, but on sharpening it a second time he failed to discover any more lead. Thw struck him as being most remarkable — in^iin English pencil — and incited him to prosecute his researches still further. On splitting the pencil, he, of course, found a forged rouble note carefully rolled up in the cavity, and so the destination of the consignment was discovered.

When a Chinese leader sustains an ignoble defeat, if his distinguishing feather be of any description other than white, he usually puts himself conveniently away by means of rope, poison, or knife. A Japanese leader under similar circumstances- is expected to perform the " happy despatch." European civilisation does not countenance material self-extinction as a means of covering defeat, but in England a political leader who incurs public odium by his blundering, or brings ridicule or discredit on his party by his proposals or administration, usually finds it necessary to seek immediate political retirement. He does not try to remain in office to brazen out the matter. If it were possible to conceive any English statesman making such a ridiculous mess of things as the Minister of Labor here has made of the holf-holiday business, it would be safe to predict that he would not hold oiSce long. We do not, however, for a moment suppose that even Mr Northcroft's bursting-lip judgment will suggest to Mr Reeves the propriety of handing over his portfolio to more competent hands. That it ought to do so there can be no doubt, nor indeed is there any that bis colleagues and party, as well as the country generally, would joyfully greet such a recognition on his part of the fitness of things. It would be impossible to imagine a more complete fiasco than the whole of Mr Reeves' halfholiday legislation and administration has resulted in.— Post.