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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 52, 22 September 1885, Page 2

In the R.M. Court yesterday John Heaphy was fined £5. or 14 days, for having been convicted of drunkeness three times within the last month. Messrs Parnell and Boylan have dis solved partnership, and the business will in future be carried on by Mr A. Parnell, who will receive all monies due to, and pay all debts owing by the said firm. Several volleys were fired by the natives at the Pakirikiri settlement yesterday morning, which leads to the supposition that some native of note is dead, and that the firing was to drive the guno away.

All who enjoy a “ glass of good Lager beer ” should give Host Fischer, at the Settlers’ Hotel, a call. A direct shipment has been received by him from the celebrated Berliner Union Brewery’, A Committee meeting of the Warenga-a-hika Jockey Club was held on Saturday., when the programme for the Boxing day’ meeting was drawn up the prizes amounting to 235 s °vs. The Handicap time not of to sovs. will be ommitted this year.

At a Committee meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society held at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday’ last it was resolved to hold the Annual show on the 28th of October next in some paddock near town. Mr Ferris was re-elected Secretary, and a committee was appointed to canvass the town and country for special prizes.

We have been handed the following letter by the superscriber, with a request to publish the same in our columns “Gisborne, 19th September, 1885. To B. P. Joyce, Esq,. British Empire Hotel. Dear Sir,—Having been an inmate of your well appointed hotel during the stay of our company in Gisborne, I ask the privilege of bearing testimony to the convenience and comfort I have experienced under your hospitable roof. Your own urbanity is emulated by the whole of your staff, while your tariff’ is so reasonable that I shall feci constrained to recommend every one travelling in our profession to avail themselves of your courtesy and kindness.—Yours in sincerity, David McAndrew, Lingard’s Royal Diorama.”

t The first quarterly daylight parade of tne Cook County Rifles took place at Ormond on Saturday last. In the absence of Major Porter, Captain Winter was in command. Captain Ferris, Lieutenants Caulton and Cresswell, together with about 37 rank and file, were present. Mr A. McDonald, Lieutenant Croft, of the J Lattery’, and several visitors from town, were also present as spectators, After a minute inspection the men were put through the manual exercise, which was performed in such a manner as to call forth the highest praise from Captain W inter, who, whilst complimenting them upon the cleannnees of their arms and their smartness in general, said the attention ana order which was strictly maintained in the ranks bore a most favorable contrast with what he sometimes experience! elstwijefe.

The Service of Song His Fathers Image” will be performed at Matawhero on Thursday next. Breeders of fowls should try’ a batch of Mr. Bannister’s pure bred prize Leghorns, Brahmas, and Langshans. Messrs Bennett and H. J. Finn returned by the Te Anau yesterday, morning, after having placed matters in connection with the Karitiana estate upon a working footing. The office ot the trustees will be opened in the Union Company’s old office in Customhouse Street. Mr Davis has been appointed clerk, and Mr Jones interpreter in the estate. On Saturday last W. H. Holland was brought up before the R.M., charged with having fraudulently altered a cheque from L;toLis. It appears that the prisoner obtained a cheque for L 5 from Mr Hamond, of Ormond, and having altered it to Ll 5 cashed it with Mr Pitcher, at Makaraka, who paid it into the bank. The fraud was discovered through the alterations not having been initialed. The prisoner was committed for trial, bail being allowed in the sum of LlOO for the prisoner, and L5O in two sureties. The model of the celebrated Strasburg Clock is still on view at Ferris’ Auction

Mart, and a large number of the public have already availed themselves of this opportunity of inspecting it. The model is in the shape of a clock tower, and the designs, painting, models, moveable figures, &c., are explained every 15 minutes, the latter period on the model representing 24 hours in the original. Each portion of the model is described clearly and fully, and most people leave the building with the impression that the model is wonderfully made, and are readily inclined to believe that the original from which it was constructed must be an extraordinary conception, and one that has hardly been equalled in the history of inventions.

We must confess to having experienced some surprise on arriving at Ormond to see the fine building which has arisen out of the ashes of the old Chandos Hotel. The new house consists of two stories the communication with the upper one being had by a fine broad staircase springing from the centre hall of the ground floor. Upstairs a broad passage is flanked on either side with a number of comfortable, lofty, and well fitted bedrooms. At the end and facing on the road is a private sitting room on the right and another on the left, both furnished most comfortably and with great taste, Below is private sitting rooms, diningroom. parlors, and a fine and well lighted billiard room, furnished with one of the best improved tables. The Hotel, taken altogether, is a credit to the energy and perseverance of its obliging proprietors, Messrs Currie and Hogan.