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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 89, 22 December 1885, Page 2

William Tlume has boon committed to the Auckland Lunatic Asylum. The Napier Telegraph has secured the Borough advertising at one penny per inch. Judge Prendergast sat in bankruptcy at Napier yesterday morning, and after disclosing of .>eveial cuses, resumed the civil business which had been left over. Mr Whinray being about to make extensive alterations to his premises has commenced a a genuine sale and is offering furniture fully 25 per cent, below cost price. Attention is called to the Amateur performance, “ Trial by Jury,” which takes place in McFatlane’s Hall on Wednesday next. The proceeds will bo given to the Hospital. Change of venu to Wellington has been granted in the libel cases, Grubb v. Evening Nows Company, Sawkins v. Waipawa Mail Company, and Evening News Coinpay v. Waipawa Mail Company. In the cricket match announced to take place between the Wine and Spirit trade and the Gisborne Club, only one representative of the former turned up. Nevertheless a good game was played, resulting in a victory for the Club. Mr Clansen Anderson having secured the right of “ taking charge of horses” at the Boxing Day meeting of the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club will be prepared to accommodate his patrons in the paddock at the rear of the Sir George Grey Hotel.— [Advt] The following astounding piece of information appears in four evening contemporary of last night “at the Otahuhu Steeplechase Meeting on Saturday the Australian horse Granville, fell whoa holding a good position and &ro7cc 7Us Jiec/;. It is expected he will be destroyed.

It would appear from the long list of libe actions that every possible attempt is being made to “ wipe out ” our able and enterprising Napier contemporary —the Evening News. But we have little doubt but what the capable pilot at the helm will manage to come out victorious in the end. Wc can only regret that such straightforward newspaper editors as Mr Sawkins cannot ba multiplied ad injini tenet. The Public Works Department have forwarded the letter of the Borough Council asking that the Comity Council may ba compelled to contribute towards the mainte lance of the “ Greatest work on the East Coast” to the latter body. Whep will the stock of “ Moral Fibre” be exhausted and a judicious retreat be made to that retirement most suited to meditative genius. Depression iv Trade Like a drowning man, who would catch at a straw, the world in these times of depression are too apt to catch at some showy and enticing advertise-' merit, yet let me warn all against, what I should call, quack advertisements, and let everyone be their own judge. We all know that a lot of 'good--, that have been lying in warehouses for years, and are moth-eaten and perished, (which you might term rubbish), are adveriise I at ridiculously low prices, it has bjen my constant endeavour to place before the public an honest article at an honest price, and I challenge any competitors to produce better value than I do.—J. E. Uantle. A strange story is going the rounds of the town, which if true, beats even the Oil Spring Directors job. It is rum mred that a man having drawn a prize of £OOO odd, and being fuily ignorant of all banking knowledge, asked his boss to place the same in a bank to his (the owners) credit. But, unfortunately for the poor fellow, the boss is sometimes troubled with abberation of the intellect, and being seized with an attack at this identical lime placed the money to his own credit, and when the mar enquired for his money told him that it had been lent to him (the bos-). A portion has been recovered, and we believe the remainder will be made the subject of a prosecution.

O.i Saturday the attention of Constable Lawless was directed to a female lying in the drain cutliihg in Lowe Street. On proceeding there he found it to be a Miss Kate Griffiths, who has lately been engaged at the Masonic Hotel. She was taken to the station and Dr. Jnnis sent for who ordered her immediate removal to the Hospital. It would appear that after leaving her situation and finding herself without means she came down town for the purpose of te.e’raphing to her brother for assistance. On passing up Childers Street on her way to the Pdsloffice. she Lit herself b. fining very faint and giddy and staggered into the Gisborne Hotel for the purpose of sitting down, when Mr Allanach, thinking her under the influence of liquor, ordered her out, and sent for a policeman. The poor girl, half stupid and (terrified, staggered out and fell senseless into the drain where the constable found her. The occur tnce is solely attributable to a slight irr.gularity of the female system.