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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 6, 11 April 1885, Page 7

The Gorden Memorial, for which has been contributed, will consist of a Hospital and Sanitoriam at Port Said, free to all nations.

A correspondent writes: “ Sir, —I wish to correct an erroneous statement which has got abroad. Mr. Worgan is the real authorised agent of the Public Works Department for prospecting this district for minerals. —Yours, &c., Quartz.”

Michael Flannery has issued a manifesto on behalf of the dynamiters pledging the safety of the Prince of Wales while in Ireland. Flannery wishes the “ residuary legatee of centuries of usurpation and attempted extermination” to see what the Irish people have suffered. The result of the Reefton election petition is that Brennan is unseated from his place in the Council and cast in /"163 12s damages. Out of 71 votes recorded in his favor 66 were struck off. Nearly 200 witnesses were examined. No doubt this result will make our local gasometers very jealous.

We understand that it is the intention of the local Druids to shortly have a grand torchlight procession and entertainment, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the benevolent funds of the Order.

All well-wishers to the hitherto practical working and painstaking Government cannot do otherwise than sincerely deplore the course of action which it has deemed advisable to take in the matter of creating nine more state paupers to bleed the country of some X'1,900 a-year for the remainder of their indolent and useless lives. This wholesale abuse of power cannot have any other effect than that of showing up the worst features of an institution which even aristocratic and conservative England is beginning to see the fallacy of maintaining, and must tend to hasten its abolition. The Waimata Road Board met on Tuesday evening, when Messrs. Gray (in the chair), Gannon, Trimmer, and Tutchen were present. /"i5 was voted towards the formation of Fox street. Permission to plant trees in North Gisborne was granted to those who got the approval of the Board as to situation. It was resolved to clear a portion of Wi Pere and Stout streets, and to ask the County Council to construct culverts at the junction of Wi Pere street and Ormond road. The accounts passed were: —Coleman, £2O ; Rice, X*s 15s; Warren, /"i2 10s; Baldwin and Fisher, nd. Mr. Tutchen and others offered towards forming Sheehan street. The subject will come up at next meeting. A committee was deputed to wait on the directors of the Land Company, m order to secure a site for the Board’s offices. The question of appointing a clerk was left over until next May. Tenders are to be called for clearing an outlet drain near Mr. Gray’s. At the Resident Magistrates Court yesterday, the case of W. Brassey v. P. Barker, claim /*3 O 2s, 6d., solicitors fees, was disposed of by the plaintiff being non-suited. Mr. Finn appeared for Mr. Barker.