THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, July 30, 1885.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume i, Issue 29, 30 July 1885, Page 2

THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, July 30, 1885.

The Druids meet to-night for the installation of officers.

Messrs Kennedy and Fvans have just received a consignment of best screened Newcastle coal, and a large reduction will be made to purchasers from ships side.

A Postoffice will be established at Mr G. J. Whites, Waipiro Bay on August ist, for which place mails will close Tuesday at 3 p.m. Tenders will be received at the office of the Waimata Road Board up to noon on Saturday for cutting drains, etc., on North Gisborne. Intending tenderers will be shown over the works on Thursday evening, at 4.30.

Volunteers are reminded that they are to parade at 7.30 to-night for regular inspection.

At the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday the Engineer was instructed to lay before the Council an estimate of the cost of a drainage scheme.

The schooner Gisborne, Captain Skinner, arrived in the Bay early on Wednesday morning from Auckland and the coast.

Ada Mantua’s new consultation on the Hawksbury grand Handicap will be found on another page. An account of her last drawing appeared in our last issue.

A meeting of gentlemen interested in the Licensing Bill now before Parliament, will be held to-night in order to take some action with respect to protecting their interests against the provisions of some of its clauses.

The Union Company’s programme for the next week is as follows :—The Rotomahana will arrive from the North on Friday, and the last boat will leave the wharf at 5.30 p.m. The Suva arrives from the South on Friday, and the Waihora from the South on Sunday. Readers are requested to look out for Mr A. Keefers new advertisment in our next issue which is calculated to astonish the a«successful competitor of zwtsound judgment, and will doubtless be looked upon as a exposition of the real position of affairs—neither OT-zarfling or sentimental.—[Advt.] The “dead whale” schooner(Waiapu) arrived in the Bay on Tuesday morning and Captain Nicolas’ numerous friends had the pleasure of again grasping the flipper of tile jolly skipper, and welcoming him back to terra firma. Captain Nicolas thinks that the long shore yarns which have been spun about him, are all “ very like a whale.”

A well signed requisition to the Secretary of the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club, asking him to call a general meeting, under rule 30 of the P.B/T.C. regulations, was sent in yesterday. The expressed object being that the Club should reconsider its decision in the matter of the disqualification of William Bailey. No doubt the meeting will be duly advertised and the merits of the case discussed.

At a meeting of the Waimata Road Board on Tuesday (Present Messrs Gannon, Coleman, and Trimmer). Mr J. Tutchen was granted permission to remove sand from off Sheehan Street, providing it was to be used on other roads. Resolved to cut a drain from the main road in Ballance Street to the river ; that a drain be cut in Whitaker Street, from Stafford Street to the river ; also in Stout Street, near the approach to Taruheru Bridge, and to form a footpoth in Stout Street from Fox Street to Sheehan Street; and to make arrangements with the Bank for overdraft of £l5O for urgent works. A further rate of Jjd. in the £ was struck. Tenders for the above works are to be in by Saturday next at noon. Payments to the amount of £46 were passed.