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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7542, 24 January 1896, Page 2

Tenders are called by Mr H. C. Jackson, for survey of lands on the Mania Peninsula. It is notified that tha Patutahi Public School re-opeDa on Monday next. A special sale of horses will be held by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. to-morrow. A number of racehorses will be submitted to sale by auction by Mr G. R. Wyllie tomorrow. Mr Booth. S.M., returned from his visit to the East Coast by the s.s Moa to-day. Nominations for the Wairoa races close this evening at 0 with the secretary, Mr Sargisson. Mr Frank O'Meara, from the Auckland office of the Union Company, i 8 acting purser on the s.s. Moa this trip. Competitors for handicap running events at the Caledonian sports on February 4th, are reminded that entries close to-morrow evening. The Gisborne District High School reopens on Monday next. Mr Morgan, the Chairman, urges a full attendance of scholars, and it is to be hoped that the remarks made on last breaking-up day, 88 to regular attendance, will not be forgotten by parents and pupils. The estate of the late Sir Samuel Wilson (Sir " Salmon " he was often called, because of his acclimatisation work) has been sworn at worth £500,000 odd. He was the owner of the famous Ercildoune Station in Victoria, and lived in England for many years. On the 9th of this month Mr George Bell, proprietor of the Dunedin Evening Star, one of the most financially successful and ably conducted newspapers in the Colony, entered upon his 88th year. Mr Bell has been not inappropriately called " The Grand Old Man of the New Zealand press." He is a most generous employer, and one of Dunediu's most popular citizens. Mr Morgan, Chairman of the District High School, is in communication with the Education Board with regard to the temporary appointment of a master to take charee of the secondary classes during Mr Mann's indisposition. The teacher will be here on Monday, when the school re-opens. The new class-room will not be ready for some little time yet, but arrangements have been made that the classes shall be continued at Holy Trinity Schoolroom in the meantime. Great preparations are being made by the Natives on the East Coast for a 7iuia to be held in the vicinity of Awanui on or about the 14th of next month to celebrate the opening of a large runanga house. Tho Minister of Lands and Hon. Mr Carroll are expected to be present. The Natives wero greatly desiring the presence of the Premier, and as far back as last session one of the chiefs went to Wellington and pressed him to attend, but it is feared that Mr Seddon has his hands full, and will bo unable to accept the invitation. That wonderful old man, Sims Beeves (writes a correspondent), has entered upon a new career at the age of 75. He has married a pretty young wife, and resumed public singing with remarkable success. Recently I heard him sing Handel's scena. " Deeper and deeper still," and the air " Waft her, angels," and really it was one of the greatest musical treats I have enjoyed for a long time. Nothing more perfect than his production and phrasintr, or than his vocalisation of scales, could be conceived, and it is wonderful how much he still retains of vocal quality and even power. But what eclipses all else in his singing is the marvellously profound expression wholly free from artificiality or affectation with which he delivers his music, the deep pathos, the extreme tenderness of his singing. No, you " cannot beat Sims Reeves, even in his seventy-Bixth year, aud I say that in full recollection of Edward Lloyd and Jean de Reszke, both of whom have delighted me times without number. If any young New Zealander singers really wish to know how to sing let them seize every opportunity of listening to Sims Reeves. Just now he is doing ballads at the Empire Theatre at £100 per week ; three nights a week ; two songs per night. It is pleasing to note that a large wholesale firm such as Messrs Archibald Clark and Sons has found its business with this district so satisfactory that it has been necessary to secure larger premises. The firm has just taken a lease for three years of the upstairs portion of Mr W. Adair's brick building at tho corner of Gladstone road and Lowe' street, and Mr Dawson, its representative, has had the premises arranged in a manner suitable to the holding of a very large stock of goods and samples. The firm will now be able to hold a much larger stook, and show it to muoh greater advantage than it was ablo to in its old premises over Mr Dalrymple's shop. Entrance to the new warehouse will be from Lowe street, where a neat stairway leads to the stock room, This is a fine, large, and well-lit room, capable of containing a very large assortment of goods. Messrs Archibald Clark and Sons, who are oue of the largest soft goods firms doing business in tlft* colony, will keep the Gisborne stock-room constantly replenished with goods, so that local dealers may at all times bo ablo to secure without delay lines which they are wanting. At one end of the stock-room Mr Dawson has had erected a comfortable little office, and a doorway near this leads into^the sample room, another large compartment, in which samples of all goods kept in stock will be displayed. The firm have every reason to be satisfied with the accommodation which their new premises afford, and local tradesmen also express satisfaction at having such a commodious warehouse open for business. At the Magistrate's Court this morning before Messrs Matthewson and Johnston, Justices, the case of Pare Aruhe v. Thos. Greyson, in which the complainant alleged that the defendant was the father of her child, and applied for an order of maintenance was called, and on the application of Mr Lysnar, who appeared for the complainant, was adjourned until Tuesday next. — Edward Devery was charged with a breach of the by-laws of the Borough Council, Part IV., section 19, by tethering his horse in a public place. Mr Finn appeared for the Council, and said that, the practice of tetheriug horses in the public streets was increasing. It waa a Eourcu <>i danger to tho public, uud in case any accident happened the Council might bo ))«lil responsible. It wns for thia reiißon that the Uomieil determined to have the provisions of tho by - liuva enforced. The evidunuo of Mr File and Mr McUoomb was taken, proving that a horse belonging $o the defendant was lethorud in Roebuck road on the |!slli iust. f,Jr JTinu aaid tho Council did uot press for a heavy penally in this ci\so, but in future they would nsk that the full penalty — £s—should5 — should be inflicted. Defendant was fined ss, and costs 7s. — Sam Bi»land was fined ss, und costs £1 Bs, for a similaroffence. — ParateneTetabi was charged willi driving a buggy round the corner of a üblic street at other than a walking pace, contrary to the provisions of auction 26, part ■i, of tlie borough' by-laws. The defendant v admitted that the horse was trotting. Mr b Finn said that a complaint had been made ti to the policethatthrough defendant's careless a driving the life of a foot passenger was en- P dangered. Defendant was fined 5s and costß rl amounting to £3 2s 6d, or £3 7s 6d in all. w

A remarkable incident took place in Vienna on Sunday, 24th November, in one of the elegant restaurants there. A few evenings previously a workman entered the restaurant and ordered a glass of beer, was refused the same, first by the waiter and then by the landlord himself. A group of gentlemen seated at a table near hereupon invited the. man to sit with them, and ordered his boer for him. The landlord then insulted the whole group, and a regular scandal followed. On the Sunday afternoon 200 workmen entered the restaurant in small gcoupß, between 2 and 3, and they ordered only one glass of beer each. They stayed until night, occupying every seat and every table, so that no one else could get a place. Before they left they sang theSoDg of Work in chorus. The proprietor of the restaurant, to whom this was a lost Sunday, has since been to the workman's paper, and declared that he was ready to give any kind of satisfaction to the aggrieved workman.