The Bush Advocate. Published Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1888. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 44, 16 August 1888, Page 2

The Bush Advocate. Published Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1888. NEWS OF THE DAY.

In another column will be found the first communication from our special commissioner to the Melbourne Exhibition. His " Notes en route " give promise, we think, of good thingß to come. Driving is still proceeding at the copper mine. „,';■ Mr Catt is advertising for a situation for married couple. ■ During the June quarter 333,000 feet of timber were exported from Napier. The Prospeotiiig Association have discontinued operations in the Ruahine for a few months. We hear that Mr Bierre will shortly erect an auction room at the rear of the Central Chambers. , The Maharahara Road Board passed a resolution to borrow £1000 under the " Loans to Local Bodies Act." * The Examiner states that the Maharahara settlers want their district to be included in the Danevirke Riding of the county, and intend moving in this direotion. Mr Saunders has resigned the clerkship of the Maharahara Road Board, and will probably be succeeded by Mr Worboys. Mr Bargh is likely to be Engineer to the Board. . , : . . • ' . We remind our Norsewood friends that Mr Bierre will be with them on Saturday to hold an auction sale of miscellaneous goods at Mr Small's Hall; commencing at 10 a.m. , . Constable Gray, who was stationed in Danevirke for about five years, has left the service and taken a farm near Wannui. Mr Gray was in Danevirke to-day looking up his old friends. At Woorlville on Sunday last, the- Rev. E. Robertshawe preached upon Professor Sahnond's pamphlet, "The Reign of Grace." The rev. gentleman took up a position in favour of the Professor's conclusions. At the Maharahara Road Board meeting Mr Lambert gave notice of motion for a special meeting to be held on September Bih, when he would move that a special rate of |d in the £' be struck on all rateable property in the Board's districts. Mr Leach, Chairman of the Ormondviile Road Board, gives notice of the intention of the Board to strike a rate of Jd in the £. The rate will be due and payable on Oct. 1, and the rate book.may be inspected at- Mr R. R. Groom's Store, Ormondviile. Mrs Shaw, the American Whistling Lady, is reaping a fine harvest in London. Her charges are. 25 guineas for whistling three songs, and she is full of engagements. Many ladies are learning whistling, and > t fair sibillants are likely to be plentiful . next season. Mrs Shaw is, young and very handsome. Even a. judge of the Supreme Court, thinks the escape of Jonathan Roberts a fair subject for a joke. At a .dinner in Dunedin last week Judge Williams, alluding to some obscure questions in ancient and modern history, . said he had never been able to ascertain where Achilles was when he was hidden among the women — (laughter)— he did not know what song the Sirens sang ; nor oould he tell where Mr Jonathan Roberts might be.— (Great laughter.) Eight young men of Lincoln were fined Is each al Christohuroh for " tinkettling " a newly married couple, They even continued their disagreeable attentions after the bridegroom had given them all the small change he had — 9s 6d — to go and drink the bride's health. Mr Ollivier said that the bench were convinced that the defendants had but— in their rather rough way— extended to Mr and Mrs Zimmerman a friendly greeting to launch them on their new path in life. But unfortunately they had gone the wrong way about it. A runaway caused a little excitement in Danevirke this movning. A horse, the property of Mr Elnibranch, and harnessed to a cart belonging to Mr Allardice, " cleared out " of the station and careered down the street at a tremendous pace. No damage was done till the fence at the corner of Allardice's Hotel was reach>. d. The wheel of the cart struck against the post and instantly cart and horde were upon their backs in the ditch. The shaft of the cart was broken, but the horse, after enjoying a bath in the muddy water, was released without injury. • Melbourne Punch has the following : — The New Zealanders are rather extremely democratic in some things. We re member being present at the Dunedin Caledonian Sports on one occasion, when the few privileged peop'e inside the running ground persisted in obstructing the view of the contestants. There was ti roar — "Sit down" — from , a thousand throats. A' few timid souls squatted down, but the Governor, who was among the number, looked around indignantly. Another roar., another roar, and Her Majesty's representative squa'ted with the others. A good story, says a contemporary, is told by some of the passengers on board of a Union Company's steamer during a recent trip between Wellington and Lyttelton. The weather happened to be very rough, there was a head wind, and a Bishop who shall be nameless tried to appease the elements by offering up a demonstrative and effusive prayer. He had hardly finished when down comes the captain into the cabin. " How goes it captain?" askei his Lordship. "Well I've battened down the hatches and made everything snug, and there's nothing for us now but to trust to Providence " was the frank reply. " Good God, has it come to that V was the prompt ejaculation of the Bishop in tones of alarm,

The sitting of the Woodville R.M. Court, . which should have been held today was adjourned for a week. The Presbyterians of Woodville open, a Bazaar to-morrow in aid of their church funds. We wish them success. ',- Messrs Kinsey and Co., of Lyttelton, have obtained the contract for supplying the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers with coal for 1888-89. The quantity to be supplied is 30.000 tons. A Ghristchuroh telegram states, that' on account -of the high prices prevailing there for sheep large orders for mutton for freezing intended to be executed in Otago and Canterbury have been transferred to the North Island.There are at present 693 unoccupied houses in Auckland, mostly in North, South, and Porisonby Wards. It is estimated that, despite this, the population has increased by about 400 since 1886, being now 33,545. Here is a verbatim copy of a footbal 1 report handed in to the Auckland Star by a very* juvenile secretary : — " Imperial v. Hobson.— -This macth will be played over again because the ball got busted in the end of the first spell." Acoording to the correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald Sir Francis Dillon Bell nearly secured the services of Mr Eddy, the new Commissioner of Railways of New South Wales, for New Zealand. Sir Dillon was very anxious to secure him, and would have been able to have done so. could he have offered him £500 a year more than 'the Government was prepared to give* While negotiations were proceeding between Mr Eddy and the Agent-General for New Zealand, Sir Daniel Cooper stepped in and engaged him, greatly to Sir Dillon Bell's annoyance. The chairman of the London and North-Western Railway Company has expressed the opinion that "New South Wales has secured a man second to none." The legal difficulties of an English head master have been curiously illustrated in the case of Mr Hutt against the Haileybury authorities. That school has recently been embarasaed by a succession of thefts. Suspicion fell on a boy called Hutt ; a trap was laid for him, and his guilt was held to be proved by Mr .Robertson, the head master, on the strength of the school marshal's evidence. The boy denied the theft, and on his expulsion the father brought an action against the | school for breaoh of contract. An imposing array of counsel appeared on either side, and Mr Justice Field made an elaborate charge to the jury. The verdict ;jvas a double-barrelled one. The jurors found that young Hutt did not steal the money in question ; but they also found that the Haileybury authorities acted in bona fides in expelling him. Both parties are therefore cleared. But there remains the question of costs, and this will be reargued in court. Altogether the trial will involve considerate, expense, which must he provided for. The youngsters of this place (says " Proteus " in the Kaikoura Star) have caught the football fever badly. They convert almost every stone on the roadside into a football, greatly to the injury of their boots and shoes. The fever has even pervaded the nursery. A little fellow of about five summers has been seized with the malady in a most malignant form. He kicks everything. A few days since his mother asked him to bring her a small article. He complied, but ■instead of handing it to his maternal parent in a* becoming manner he did a drop kick, and attempting to " pot a goal. " he put the " ball " fairly in his mother's left optic. Taking advantage of the temporary disablement of the " full back," Master Drop-kick attempted to get a try, but the old lady recovered quickly, " tackled low," and a " maul in goal " followed, the old lady leaving her " mark " on an unmentionable part of the boy's anatomy. Nothing" daunted, the little one pluckily asked his mother afterwards to form a "scrUni," but she "heeled " him out.