THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning Saturday, August 29, 1885.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 42, 29 August 1885, Page 2

THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning Saturday, August 29, 1885.

Several interesting telegraphic items are crowded out, owing to pressure on our space.

The Waiomatatini Block is now being subdivided.

Mr W. S. Greene will sell by auction today at noon, bacon, potatoes, chaff, &c. The second Library entertainment will take place on Wednesday next. The nominations for Borough Councillors will close at noon to-day. It has been decided that in order to encourage settlement in the interior the King country be declared open to gold piospectors. Mr J. Bourke announces that unless overdue rates are paid before Tuesday the 15th of September next summonses will be issued without further notice. Tenders will be received by the Waimata Road Board up to 4 p.m. on Saturday next for spreading earth on the streets of North Gisborne. At a public meeting at Dublin on the 25th inst., Mr Parnell stated that he was confident of winning Irish independence next sessions. The Press strongly urges the union of all parties for the purpose of defeating Parnell at the general elections.

The following cases were disposed of and judgment given for the amounts in the R. M. Court yesterday, before J.P.’s Tucker and Dufaur :—Chrisp and Muir v. Thompson, claim La 6s ; O’Grady v. Clark, claim L; 14s ; L. Steven’s v, P. 'Briengan, claim L 5.

The following tenders have been received by Mr W. P. Finneran, for the erection of a house at Makaraka :— Nasmith, £553 ; Reid, £505 ; Skeet, £485 ; Curtin and Steele. £464 10s ; Mackrell, £462 17s ; Ponsford, £409 ; Lewis, £394. The Gisborne Building Society has another sum of £3OO to lend on mortgage. Those who wish to avail themselves of the benefits of the Society can take up shares at any time by making application to the Secretary, Mr Piesse. The Society is doing good work and there is every indication of another prosperous year for its shareholders.

At a meeting of Oamaru local shareholders in the East Coast Native Land Settlement Company, resolutions were passed in favor of winding up the company, and the sale of the land in blocks every three months at the lowest price ; and that scrip be availab’e for purchase in accordance with the original intentions.

Major Atkinson’s first resolution has been rejected by a majority of 12. Mr Pyke’s amendment “That the public works proposals are unsatisfactory ” was lost by a majority of 4 only, when the adjournment of the House was carried by the casting vote of the Speaker. It is fully expected that the Government will be beaten.

An inquest was held at the Royal Oak Hotel Matawhero, yesterday on the body of a child named Doyle, two and a half years old, who had died from the effects of a severe scalding, through having fallen into a tub of boiling water. It appeared that on the discovery of the injury the mother had rolled the child up in salt and oil. The case was adjourned at the request of the police until Monday at 5 p.m.

The first case of the kind under the Married Woman’s Property Act came before the Invercargill Supreme Court yesterday. Mary Tucker was acquitted on a charge of stealing L 125 and several articles of clothing from her husband.

Mr Green’s sale at Makaraka, yesterday, “ under distress for rent ” was a complete burlesque, nearly everything having been “ spirited away ” prior to the advertised time. Some dissatisfaction was manifested by a number of people who had come from a distance. The whole proceeds amounted to £1 19s 6d. A meeting of the committee of the Licensed Victuallers Association was held in the Argyll Hotel on Thursday evening: Present—Messrs Matthewson (in the chair), Dickson, Page, Graham, Scott, Staples, Stevenson. Trimmer, and Cannon. A committee, consisting of Messrs Scott, Matthewson, Dickson, Graham, Crawford, and Cannon, was appointed to draw up a code of rules and report at a general meeting of the Association, to be held during September.