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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8054, 1 November 1897, Page 2

The Melbourne Cup will bo run to-morrow. Tho Kaiti Road Board meets at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. The Penguin's break-down between Lyttelton and Wellington last week was caused through the cracking of the junk ring of the high pressui c cylinder. Mrs Sarah Duff, wife of John Dutf, bankrupt, informed the Official Assignee at Wellington that she had lost about £2000 over the Gisborne property. Recent developments appear to point to the fact that there is some chance, after all, of the services of the proposed Gisborne Volunteer Company being accepted by the Government. The Secretary of the Cook County Liberal Association informs us that he has copies of nil the principal Bills before Parliament, and will only bo too glad to let anyone who wishes see any of them. The medical men of Auckland generally commend the proposal to establish a nursing association, by which people not sufficiently well oft' to afford the services of a trained nurse may have all the advantages of such. Another rifle company has been formed at the Thames, which was once one of the most enthusiastic centres of volunteering in tho colony, but under Government discouragement has fallen lamentably into the rear. The Auckland people are applying for the use of the Metropolitan ground near Government House as the site for the building for the Auckland Mining and Industrial Exhibition. The Government will be asked for a grant of £500 for the industrial portion and A'soo for the mining portion of the exhibition. A man named Charleston, a self-dubbed " Professor," has been sentenced at the Waipawa Magistrate's Court to 3 months' imprisonment on a charge oi obtaining money by false pretences. From the evidence it appeared that he had gone about the district pretending to cure the ailing, and supplying so-called phrenological charts. It having been asserted in certain quarters that the Premier's statement at Home that the Maoris who formed part of the New Zealand contingent were rangatiras and the descendants of rangitaras was not true, it is the intention of the Natives to prepare a document in which the genealogy of each of the men will be fully set forth, and present it to tile Government. A meeting of ladies interested in cycling was held in Townley's hall on Saturday afternoon, when there was a good attendance and a number of apologies were received from those unable to attend. The meeting was very enthusiastic over the proposal to enlist under the control of the Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club. Over thirty names were handed in as members, and when it is generally known that the Amateur Club have decided to admit all members to their sports free, we fully expect to see the membership swell to over 100. Mrs E. D. Smith was elected captain and Miss C'olley hon. sec., pro lem, and an influential committee was elected. It was decided that the ladies should take part in the opening run starting from Miller's corner on Thursday afternoon at 2.30. Messrs R. Cole and J. H. Ormond attended the meeting on behalf of the Amateur Club.