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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 159, 14 April 1874, Page 2

Tenders. —-Mr. R. M. Skeet calls for Tenders for cutting about 30 chains of Drain at Waorengahika. Desertion.—A man named Symons was committed to prison yesterday for one month, for deserting from thejsehooner Opotiki. Parliamentary Papers.—We have acknowledge the receipt of volume 2, appendix to Journals of the House of Representatives from the Parliamentary printer. New Settler. —We learn that Mr. McDougal, brother of Mr. McDougal, of Hawke’s Bay, has become the purchaser of Mr. John Breingan’s run at Pukepapa. Alteration.—Messrs. Robertson and Co. notify that in future their Auction Sales will take place at the Albion Hotel Yards, instead of the Shamrock Hotel Yards, as previously advertized. Pilot. —We learn that Captain Kennedy, so long and favorably connected with the maritime interests of Gisborne, is to be appointed Pilot for the Port of Poverty Bay, We are sure that this judicious choice will give universal satisfaction to the whole trading community afloat and ashore, and we shall gladly welcome Captain Kennedy to his post. Sheep Act.— A meeting of those interested in the drafting of a new Sheep Act was held on Saturday evening at the Albion Hotel, the unpropitious weather, doubtless, kept many from attending, but much interest was taken in the proceedings, and several resolutions were passed, principally for Mr. Johnson’s guidance in the passage of the Bill —provided it do pass —through the Council. One of the most important of which was proposed by Mr. Chambers, “That Mr. Johnson be requested to use his best endeavours to obtain from the Provincial Government a quarantine ground, yards and dip.” Napier Artillery. —This Company of Volunteers held a meeting lately at the Foresters’ Arms, when the question of disbandment was unanimously negatived, and unanimously and magnanimously resolved that the corps should become one of the best in New Zealand, and, moreover, that it should be worthy of being “inspected by anyone in spite of the disapprobation, animadversions, and strictures of Major Gordon, which, in the opinion of the meeting, were inapplicable, uncalled for, and inadmissible.” Major Gordon’s conduct is also reported in the Daily Telegraph to have been “ severely commented on as unworthy of an officer and a gentleman.”