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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1241, 8 January 1883, Page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the Hospital Committee will take place on Wednesday evening next at 7.30 p.m. On Thursday evening next Ben Allah, the Conjuror and Ventriloquist, will open at Parnell and Boylan’s Hall for a short season, This preatigitateur, it will be remembered Visited Gisborne some time ago, and there are no doubt many who witnessed his performances will be glad to see him again. The schooner Lucy JameSj Capt. Miller',• has loaded up 89 bales of wool, shipped from here to Napier, there to be transferred intd the ship Thorne, at present loading at Napier, for London, ana will sail for Napier at the first opportunity.

At the Trust Commissioner’s Court tUs morning, before M. Price; Esq;, ComnwSsioner, the following business Was transacted: —The application of Mr J. N. Williams fdt the Trust Commissioner’s certificate to a deed of conveyance from Hohapata Kew’ha Kewha. Certificate, subject to certain amendments in the statutory declaration produced. The application of Messrs W. L. Bees, Wi Pere, and Riperata Kahutia for the Trust Commissioilei’s certificate to a deed of conveyance to the New Zealand Nttiv© Land Settlement Company, whereby the? parties first named, alienated the whoie of their interest for the sum of £lOO in that portion of the Whataupoko block known as “ Gray’s,” came on for hearing. As thers no objections lodged, Commisßloner decided to grant a certificate. SeOtiofi 2VI, Gisborne, Conveyance from Te Awahakti to M. J. Gannon. The certificate was granted, ApropoM of the Maantrasma murder, tie following story is current in the West of Ireland, says a Horiie paper :—“ Mrs Joye, one of the murdered family, Witnessed he sinking in the lake of the bodies of Ixrd Ardilaun’s bailiffs, but was so terrified tint for some time she did not venture to tell kit* one what she had seen. One night, howevr, she could no longer keep it to herself, ad described to her husband what she had sen certain men do. This was overheard by thir son, who, shortly after, being bullied atschol by another boy, cried outj ‘ I suppose yu want to murder me and throw me into be lake as your father did the bailiffs.’ The by having repeated this to his father, the lilth and his confederates determined upon tho* dreadful crime of massacring the whole famy of the Joyces, in order to put out of the wy such awkward witnesses of theirjformer gut. The story seems too circumstantial to be utrue ; nor is it easy to see why it should has been invented, At any rate, it offers a sufr cient explanation of the maccacrej the moth for which has never been very clearly inrfl out,” / A report hae been spread that the horribl disease known as the “ plica polonica ” ha has made its appearance in London, brough over by the traders in false hair from Poland The disease is one of the most horrid kind incurable, and rendering ita victim an objec as hideous to behold as the leper of the East The hair, instead of dividing into fine and silky threads, conglomerates into a thick root, which bleeds on being cut, so that nd relief can be obtained, save by cauterisation of the whole mass. The report has caused a great scare.

A correspondent of the *Lyttel(un Times eaysDr. K Stone Wiggins, of ths Canadian Finance who some time ago predicted that the recent gate would sweep from east to west over the American Continent, says that a storm will strike this planet in March next. He gives this warning :—“ It will first be felt in the Northern Pacific mid will cross the meridian of Ottawa at noon (5 o’clock p.m. London time) on Sunday, March 11, 1883. No vessel smaller than a Cunarder will be able to live in this tempest. India, the south of Europe, England, and especially the north American Continent will be the theatre af the ravages. .As all the lowlands on the Atlantic will be submerged I advise shipbuilders to place their vessels high up on the stocks, and farmers having loose valuable, such as hay, cattle, &c., to remove them to a place of safety. 1 beg, further, most respectfully to appeal to the Honorable Minister of Marine, that he will peremptorily order up storm drums on all the Canadian coasts not later than the 20th of February, and thus permit no vessel to leave the hwibour. If this is not done, hundreds cf live? 'will be lost, and millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed.” The “ Bendigo Advertiser” publishes an extract from a letter received in Sandhurst from Mr James McMahon, manager for Mrs Scott Siddons. as follows :—“ At the conclusion of our English provlitrial tower, Mrs Scott-Sid-dons has decided to leave the stage andvitually retire into private life. For tho past fire years Mrs Siddons has been appearing continnoudy on the American and English stage, and during the time has accomplished a deal, of hard work At the earnest request of her| friends she has yeilcled at length, and determined to leave the scene of her former triumph, In consequence of this step on Mrs Siddons’part, I hare entered into arrangements with Mr Henry Irving, of the Lyceum Theatre, for the production of his superb revival’ of‘Romeoand Juliet* throughout the principal cities of England, America, and Australia. The whole of the production—such as the magnificent «rcncry, dresses, effects, Ac. —cost Irving £BOO9, and is acknowledged to be the grandest spectcale of the kind ever witnessed in Europe. It has jusLbeen withdrawn from the boards of tho Lyceum after n run of six months to enormous business. My idea at present is (after a fortnight’s season in all the large cities bf England) to take the product ion with an English company to Paris, Germany. America, and Australia. The company will be a very large ->n.•. as t ie ‘ revival involves the appearance of 200 jpeysons Oileluding auxiliaries) on the stage. Inaddltjbn to this enterprise, lam in negotiation wuh / Mr Barry Sullivan with a view of securing K him for an Australian tour next year.”