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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1242, 9 January 1883, Page 2

The date of the complimentary dinner to be given to Mr. W. Clarke, the Managing Director of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company, has not yet been fixed, as the Committee think it best to await the answers to the circulars, which will be issued to-day, before definitely appointing an evening on which the dinner will take place. We have no doubt that there will be a very large attendance, as Mr. Clarke, since his residence here, has made many friends from his genial and courteous manner. Many will be sorry to see him take his departure from the Bay. The Clerk of the District Court, Mr. G. L. Greenwood, notifies that the sittings of the District Court in Gisborne, has been adjourned from the 15th to the 22nd day of January, instant, when all jurors who have been summoned will be required to be in attendance. Mr W. J. Quigley, Architect, advertises in our columns inviting tenders for the erection and completion of a five-roomed dwelling house on Aberdeen Read. The tenders must be received at or before 12 o’clock on Thursday, the 11th inst. Plans and Specifications can be seen at Mr Quigley’s residence Lowe-street. Mr A. Sawyer, who is well-known in dancing circles, gives an assembly this evening in Porter’s Hall. The gatherings which have been held under the able management of Mr Sawyer |have been highly successfull, and he is therefore, confident that there will be a large attendance this evening. A dark brown gelding, and a cream colored gelding, have been lost by Mr Hubble, who offers a reward for their le •every.

, A correspondent writes, asks which is the i . °real barrel organ?” The answer is cer- ; tainly crisp, but it would not do fop us tV ’ i publish it. On Saturday next, Messrs Graham. Pitt and Bennett will sell a large quantity of j wines and spirits to close consignments Viade i to Messrs A. Graham and Co. ' Our present Mayor need neveo? py.pect to ! have the sword laid upon his sh<w)der, and ito rise up after the magic words Arise Sir iE. K. B.” It would be but a barren honor, , as already he is a knight in addit ion to being j Mayor. The Mayor of Wellington having invited the principal Mayors ftf New Zea- ' land to meet Sir William Jerv oise, the new i Governor, no doubt our Maye t- (who could i ah' his knightAood), will be pre i;ent.

When Adolphus placed his anna around the neck of Angelina, he said it wm for a neck’s press purpose. “Cain-bottomed chairs,” repeated the countryman, studying the uphofetever’s sign. Cain bottomed chairs, did he? I want to know J Can’t hardly believe it, but then those 'ere city chaps known. Won’t otir dominee be took back, thou/jh, when I tell ’im.

A miller fell asleep in his mill, and bent forward till his hair got caugl it in some machinery, and almost a hand! ul was pulled out, which, of course, awake-.ned him. His first bewildered exclamation was—“Hangit wife, what’s the matter now

Heaven Below.—“Ah ! said an old Highland piper, as he was describing to his comrades at home his recent experience in Edinburgh.” “Ah! there was a uicht I’ll ne’er forget. There were eighteen pipers, besides mysel’, a’ in Mr Glass's wee back parlour in the Coogate, and we were a’ playin’ different tunes, an" I just thocht I was floatin’ to heaven.” Mr A. Coombs has lost a black mare and a chesnut yearling colt, and will be glad to pay a reward of £2 for their recovery.

The celebrated W. J. Hunt was a passenger passing Gisborne on Sunday. Mr Hunt is the plaintiff in the case against Sir A. Gordon, the late Governor of Fiji, and. claims £lO,OOO in consequence of having been exiled from that country. Notification is made that Messrs. A. Graham and Co. have removed from Lowe-street to Messrs. Graham, Pitt, and .Bennett’s concrete building, the entrance to their offices being from Custom House-street.

Says “Atticus” in the Melbourne “Leader:” —There are some points upon which our Tasmanian cousins still feel a little sore, and a young Victorian who visit-id the Hobart Museum the other day contrived to touch one of them pretty sharply, though with perfect innocence on his part, and no intention to offend. After examining the suits of armour and weapons of the old world, a few specimens of which are to be seen in the cases, he inquired in a pleasant way, of the curator if there were on view any of the leg irons that used to be worn, in the neighbor* hood in the old convict days. The official looked at him rather hard and answered curtly, “ No.” “No V’ exclaimed the querist, surprised at this disregard of what he considered would be interesting relics. The curator, suspecting that the visitor was not as guileless as he appeared, continued surlily, “ You’d better go to the prisons if you want to see them. ” “ But why not have them here ?” persisted the curious youth. The official, almost speechless with indignation, savagely snapped out, “ Why should we?” “Well,” pursued young Victoria, with a twinkle in his eye that showed he had grasped the situation, “ I thought your children might like to see what their father wore when first he came here.”

A general meeting of creditors is to be held on Thursday next, at 2.30 p.m,, in the District Courhouse, to recommend the diecharge of Mr. C. D. Berry, a bankrupt. We feel assured that very few of the creditors are likely to vote adversely. Messrs Graham,, Pitt and Bennett will hold an important sale of Wool at ?vfakaraka to-morrow, at noon. A large attendance of buyers is anticipated. A gentleman in South Australia who has just started ostrich farming recently sustained a severe loss, one of the hem,, valued at £250. being killed by dogs. The German Emperor has invested the Duke of Connaught with the Order of Merit (military) for the Duke’s conduct in the recent Egyptian campaign,

A good wife should like three things which three things she should not be like. First, she should be like a snail—always within her own house ; but she should not be like a snail, to carry all she has upon her back. Secondly, she should be like an echo, to speak when she is spoken to ; but she must not be like an echo, always to have the last word. Thirdly, uhe should be like a town clock—always keep time regularly ; buc she should not be like a tjwn clock, to speak so loud that all t ie town may hear her.

The following is the copy of an advertisement appearing in the Auckland papers: — “ Wanted.—A troupe or family of Maoris, of four to six—the most uncivilised or wild that ean be had, must be well tattooed, and able to give the native dances. Will engage them for one year for our American Travelling Show. Will pay their fares and a liberal salary, and board them ; also bind myself to return them to their homes if they desire. P. T. Barnum and Co. Sole Owners of the Greatest Show on Earth.”

A not uncommon weakness is hit off in the following anecdote given by a humourous writer in the “Australasian”: -“At a recent sale of first-class furniture there was, amongst other effects, a handsome liquurstand. An auctioneer, looking over the articles before the sale with the eye of an expert, said to a friend, ‘ That’s worth five pounds, but no doubt some precious fool of a woman will give ten for it.' On going home in the evening he found the liquur-staud on his side-table, and his wife claimed his congratulations on her having secured it for £l2. He said nothing, but thought a good deal.”

The “ Wangaratta Despatch *’ narrates the following particulars of a remarkable accident which occurred at Eldorado recently : It appears a girl aged about 10 years, daughter of Mr M‘Gregor, was standing on the road when a. person on horseback was passing, and before the poor girl could get out of the way the animal stumbled and fell on top of her. In stumbling the animal somehow threw up a lump of a stick 4 feet long and about the thickness of a man’s wrist. In falling the blunt end of the stick was in contact with the horse’s shouldei, the sharp end meeting the girl’s right breast. The weight of the falling horse sent the stick right through the poor child’s body, entering at the right breast and coming out at her back by the shoulder, and then entering the ground, pinning her to the earth. The mother of the poor girl after several ineffectual attempts, succeeded in dragging the stick out of the poor little sufferer’r body, the end being still covered with earth after coming right through, the precaution of cleaning the end before drawing it, not having been thought of. So great was the force which sent the wood through the child’s body that all the bark was peeled off. Dr. Haley did all in his power for the poor little sufferer, but considers the case a hopeless one. ”