THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, December 19, 1885.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 88, 19 December 1885, Page 2

THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, December 19, 1885.

By some mistake in the transit our bundle of supplements has not arrived to hand, and we must therefore ask the indulgence of our readers, who will receive them immediately upon their arrival. Sir Julius Vogel is reported to be very unwell. The Auckland city valuation has been increased by £40,011 during the past year. A large number of new J.P.'s have just been appointed. The Wairoa Jockey Club have decided not to hold the aunual race meeting. Attention is called to “ Trial by Jury” on Wednesday evening. The meeting for the formation of a fishing company will be held at the Masonic Hotel to-night. The Ministry have denied that it is their intention to create another batch of Legislative Councillors.

The Union Company are considering about beginning a service between New Zealand and Queensland. A Wellington paper says that at one of Edith Gorman’s lectures “ many of the audience were moved to tears.” A Bill has been introduced into the American Senate, having for its object the suspension of silver coinage in America. Writs have been issued against Abbot’s Opera Company, by J. F. Adams, of London, for performing “ Maritana.”

The case against the Napier Salvationists, for marching through the town in procession, has been dismissed by Captain Preece. Mr J. Cantie has opened a fresh department for dress making under the able management of Mrs Mackrell, late of Parnell and Boylan's. His Worship the Mayor yesterday presented a numerously signed testimonial to Mr Shrimpton, on the eve of bis departure to Hokitika. The Auckland Master bakers have held a meeting for the purpose of passing a resolution against “ The ruinous custom of giving cakes at Christmas.” We hear that several outside tenders have been put in for the Gisborne-Wairoa Road contract, but we hope, that should there be only any slight difference that a local man will get the preference. The Rotomahana had to leave the Bay and steam outside yesterday evening for the purpose of adjusting her compasses. The Snark had to anchor outside for fully one hour loaded with passengers, until the Rotomahana’s return. “ Halloa Jack ; not working to-day ? ” Jack : “No ; all knocked off the harbor work through those d d letters in the Herald. They are wild ’cause they arn’t in the swindle themselves. D ’eim. 'Mr D. Malone complains that he cannot obtain enough labor to push on his contract. A number of his quarry men, who were earning Ils per day have struck for more wages. He is advertising for more men. During the week ending November 25. there was received at Sydney from New Zealand ports : 43 hides, 500 bags flour,'soo bags bran 3387 bags oats, 569 bags barley 200 bags wheat, 505 kegs butter, 745 cases cheese, 112 cases bacon, 14 cases eggs.

Attention is called to the sale of watches jewellery <tc., <fcc., at Graham, Pitt and Bennett’s auction mart this day. .It being notified that the whole must be sold without reserve. This is an excellent opportunity for securing cheap bargains. Mr Armour, whose advertisement appears in another column, has received by the last boat a large and varied assortment, of goods admirably adapted for Christmas and New Year presents. His stock of toys, dolls, &c., is well worthy of inspection.

The Wairau Road Board have declinedi'to pay their quota on hdspitals and charitable aid on the ground that the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act is wrong, and that such institutions ought to be supported out of the Consolidated Fund. The Board ate taking steps to induce other Boards to follow their example. \ Mr Geo. Stubbs, in our advertising columns reminds buyers he has sheep runs, farms, hotels, businesses, houses and sections for sale, and strap thouj-h’true, that he is prepared to show intending investors over our fine district free of charge. Mr Stubbs is the compiler and proprietor of the Poverty Bay and Wairoa Almanack, and must consequently be intimately acquainted with the district, whiih knowledge should be very n«efnl to his clients.

The Omaru Hospital Committee has on’y be.-a able to obtain between £l3 and £l4 towards the guarantee to maintain the institution separate under the Act, they have decided to call a public meeting to discu=s matter before handing their trust over to the District Board. On Thursday the “ greatest work on the East Coast ” was again opened,. and again came to grief. Two of the. rotatory wheels became detached and fell into the river. The designer and inventor o£ this wonderful exhibition of. what the ingenuvy of (Gisborne) man can do. oh thia occasion displayed a flint-gleam of “.moral f-b e ” by hlLriig “ a note ” for the iimneis-id.’.rei u e.

An extraordinary discover}’ was mhda at Taylor’s Mistake, near Summer, on Wednesday last. AMr Godfrey, was walking on the beach, when he picked up a man’s hand, with some inches of arm attached. It is the left hand, and was not at all decomposed, and appeared to have been snapped or broken from the body. The relic has been taken possession of by the police, who are making enquiries. On Dit : — That the mud bespattered “ Sarah ” has at last determined to retire from the polluted stage he has so long performed on, in favour of a greater contortionist than himself. He finds that the wheel of fortune is ever turning, turniog—and that even villiany requires more veneering and polishing, according to the march of events. But Caliban is scarcely likely to be mistaken for Prospero, no matter how the Tempest rages.

A correspondent writes: —“ Sir,—l venture call your attention to tjpe flagrant manner. in which the business of the Supreme Court is scamped over here. Is it not shameful that litigants should be drained by law expenses and then find their cases either totally ignored or else postponed indefinitely. T.he matter is one of such serious import as to speedily demand some alteration in the present shameful state of affairs. Justice is becoming a mockery and a snare, and is now a mere machine wherebj 7 the vilest robbery and foulest wrong is legalised.— Sufferer.” At Auckland, on Wednesday morning the men whose names had been, received by Col. Sir George Whitmore on the .previous day to the number of 20, went over to the North Shore to commence work at Mount Victoria. A number besides those whose names had been taken were ready to go over, but were told they could not be engaged at the present time. The men were set to work, under the superintendence of Mr Viekerman, to prepare for the defence works on Mount. Victoria. Mr Connell interviewed Sir G. S. Whitmore yesterday, and he said that when the plans are completed 30 more men can be taken on at Mount Victoria. It has been said that the Government were about to make the approaches to the bridge at Cox’s Creek, and that they could employ about 40 men there. The Weekly Register (London Catholic paper) of Out. 12 refers to an article in the .Protestant Standard, and says; “The light thrown upon the history of two apostate mountebanks is distinctly interesting to Catholics, inasmuch as it shows how one of these two.worthies regard the other, and how he, in turn, isjspoken of by yet a third protestant. The woman who styles herself Miss Edith O’Gorman, though she ia a married woman, and was christened Bridget, and her surname is Auffery, has been attacked, by the man who styles himself “the Rev. F. G. VViddows, ex-monk.” He has been issuing bills about her which the Protestant Times calls “ most scandalous he has been “ reflecting most shamefully ” upon her; and he says he intends to prove “ she is a liar.” This, perhaps, as Euclid observes, “ needs no demonstration” The Weekly Register then goes on to show that Mr Long, of Glasgow, comes to the rescue of Mrs Auffray, and shows that the Rev. Mr Widdows is a gaol-bird. The following petition has been signed by 57 of the Dunedin unemployed, and is to be forwarded to the Victorian Legislature : — “ We, the undersigned, being in every sense of the word genuine working men, anxious to obtain employment, having been -miserably betrayed by the false representations of New Zealand Immigration Agents, lectures, and printed pamphlets, threw up situations, broke, up homes, and left loving friends, are now facing the bitter leality in parading the streets hungry and ill-shod, with no prospects of a belter future, do humbly beseech you to take into your favorable consideration our wretched lot, and afford us an oppoitunity of coming across to your prosperous and protected colony, where we may live and not starve. We would humbly suggest to you that arrangements could be made with the Union S.S. Company to convey as many of us and our families as you may deem lit and proper, and we solemnly promise to repay the expense incurred by weekly instalments, as we earn wages or perform work for your (government, and allow you to deduct from our wages such amounts as will soon repay the expense incurred, anti as in duty bound, &c.”