NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 52, 4 September 1888, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

— _-f The Premier visits Napier Bhortly. He has never been in Hawke's Bay. Messrs Baker and Tabuteau sell Mr D. Mackay's property to-morrow. Adjourned meeting of Makotuku Dramatio Society to-morrow evening at the Town Hall, Mr Thomas Miller was busy yesterday moving into his new house on the Umutaoroa Block. The Danevirke cricketers commenced practice on Saturday. They will have a strong team this season. The Minerva Petroleum Company's bore at Gisborne was down 402 feet a few days ago, and all was going smoothly. The successful tenderer for Mr D. Mackay's stock is Mr Easmusen, of Danevirke. The price was £1,026. Nominations for the; Flying, Spring, and First Hurdle Handicapsatthe H.B.J.C; meeting are due to-night. Ann Mahoney was charged at the Auckland Police Court with setting fire to a house at Farnell and was committed for trial. Nominations . for the election of five members of the Ormondville Town Board are due with Mr Maynard on Saturday next. Mary Davis, charged with the attempted murder of her husband at Mount Pleasant, at the Thames, has been further remanded for a week. The annual football match between Wellington and Hawke's Bay will be played at Napier on the 13th inst. The match against the Englishmen will take place two days afterwards. The framework of the upper storey of Mr Allardice's new hotel was going up this morning. The great size of the building is now becoming apparent.. A coal boom appears to be setting in in New Zealand. The Nelson Land Board, at their .last meeting, had twenty-five applications for coal-prospecting licenses. The notorious Mrs Agnew was up before the Wellington Court yesterday charged with provoking behaviour towards the Premier. She was bound over to keep the peace for one month. tt : The schooner Colonist, which has been wrecked at Wellington, is said to have been the schooner which took the refugees from Poverty Bay to Auckland after the Te Kooti Massacre in 1868. One of the Emu's in the Botanical ■Gardens, Napier, has laid four eggs. As the bird exhibits no disposition to sit, the Herald invites some public spirited person to come along with an incubator. The lawn tennis ground belonging to the Danevirke club is a perfect picture to look at, and reflects the greatest credit upon Mr Hayward, who laid out the ground. Mr Hayward considers the courts, of which there are two, are about the best and truest he has ever formed, and he has had a good deal of experience of the work. The charge of perjury brought against F. D. Luckie by his clerk B. C. Ware was dismissed at the Napier Court yesterday. The'R.M. did not call upon the defence for any evidence. Ware was then charged by Luckie with embezzling certain sums, portion of £346 6s Id, the property of Mr T. Tanner, M.H.R. After, hearing Mr Luckie's evidence. Ware was committed for triaJ, bail being allowed, himself in £50 and two sureties of £75 each.' After Bervice on Sunday evening, the Rev; E. Bobertshawe delivered a lecture in the Town Hall, Danevirke, taking for his subject, "The Existence of God." The rev. gentleman entered into the beliefs of the various " Theisms " in an interesting manner, and argued that none of them gave any proof that there was not a Divine Personalty, ' He announced that in a fortnight he would deliver a second lecture, when he would deal with v The Creation." About 50 people ..were present, and the chair was occupied by Mr Angus Mackay. Mrs Karenapu, the last original native of D'Urville Island, whose death is announoed, was -supposed to be about 112 years of age, and probably might have lived a few years longer had it not been for a fall which she got about eighteen months ago, causing dislocation of both hip joints, whioh were never put in again. She v has left four generations behind her. She escaped the pursuit of hostile tribes several times during her lifetime, and on one occasion, while nursing twins, she was pursued by the Ngnatikoatas, on whose near approach she threw her children under a tutu bush, and got away without them, The promoters of the Maharahara copper mine have at last realised some reward for their perseverance. The lode was cut on Saturday and if report speaks truly the ore is very rich. It is understood that the promoters having thus demonstrated the value of the mine will form a company to work it. We sincerely wish them that success their plucky undertaking deserves. We shall probably know more about it in a day or two. A Woodville correspondent wires to the Herald : — " The drive under the copper lode is in 180 ft. The lode was struck precisely where Mr Washbourne, the Nelson expert predicted it would be. The lode is very rich. A company with a capital of £60,000 is to be formed to work the lode, and it is expected that half the capital will be subscribed in Napier at once, . The fact that all persons are not suitable to be superintendents of orphan asylums was amusingly illustrated by a speaker at a recent Dunedin banquet in the following apologue : — " There was once an elephant — a feira^ elephant — going out for an afternoon's walk, and in the course of her rambles the animal crossed a cornfield. In this cornfield there was a partridge, and this partridge had got some small young ones. The elephant, being an observer of nature at large, suddenly observed that she had put her foot on uome soft substance, so she looked down and observed, ttyatshehad . crushed the partridge. So sho took up the somewhat faded and tattered remains in her trunk and looked at them. Then she said to herself, ' This is the parent bird ; its nost must be. somewhere in the district, and it is without any protector. The brood is without a mother— l'll be Its mother 1' and she immediately sat down on the brood." (Great laughter.) The moral of that story, remarked the speaker, is that ifc is not everybody who is qualified \q superintend an orphan wyIWH,

The Hawke's Bay Freezing Company started killing yesterday. The Adelaide Gas Company are sending to England for coal. Special 'prayers for rain are being said in New South Wales. Nearly the whole of the capital for the Kauri Timber Company has been subscribed. - % The English eleven beat the Australians in the third test match by an innings and 21 runs. In Sydney complaints are niadethat Chinese cooks are ousting white men in the hotels and restaurants. The manager of the Auckland Boiler Mills advises that flour has advanced in price by £1 a ton all round. Mr Larnach, who has been visiting the Mahakipawa gold field, has informed the Marlborough Express that in his opinion the dirt is very rich. A Sydney telegram states that the miners' funds only amount to £5000, which is about sufficient only to pay twelve shillings per head. There are in England 347 female blacksmiths who actually swing heavy hammers, and 9,138 women employed in nail : making. The Bey. Dr Grimes, the new Catholic Bishop of Christohurch, is coming up to Hawke's Bay to assist at the opening of the Catholic School at Hastings, on the 17th inst. Talk of easy divorces in the United States after what happened in'Frankfort-on-Main recently, where a married woman was pronounced the party at fault and legally divorced, because — she did not know how to cook ! There will be an election for five members of the Danevirke Town Board on the 20th inst. It will be seen by announcement elsewhere that nominations must be made with the Beturning Officer, Mr Bierre, on Thursday, 13th inst, at noon. The Woman's National Press Association in Washington has been in existence two years, and has become a recognised and influential intellectual centre. In the same city a Woman's Educational and Industrial Union has recently been organganised. The Postal Department is now calling for the usual tenders for conveying mails for a period of two years, from Jan. 1, 1889, to Dec. 31, 1890. Those for which tenders are invited in this district are — Ormondville and Norsewood, daily ; Woodville and Kumeroa, twice and thrice weekly. Intending contractors are referred to the advertisement in this issue. It is in all the mythologies, as in the Arabian tale and Finnish legend, to find the lost gem or pious script in the belly, of a fish. The news comes from Iceland that a French fisherman has taken from the stomach of a cod caught off the Beykjanaes a letter written by the.captain of the Danish mail steamer Laura. The latter threw the epistle overboard on the 29th April last. Though much decomposed it is still readable. I A Russian-Polish student named Jekrenicki has committed suicide at Kralup, in Bohemia, in mysterious circumstances, leading to the supposition that he was a Nihilist. In one of his pockets was found a novel by Leon' Tolstoi, and between the leaves of the book was a note, in which Jekrenicki stated that he was going to kill I himself "in obedience to an order." There were no apparent private motives to explain the young man's suicide. The Sydney Meat Preserving Company has incurred a loss on the operations of the past half-year of £4637, and owing to the continued depressed state of the market for all commodities, the works have been closed for the present. The Australasian says the directors could not see how they were to continue to render the stock-owners valuable assistance as hitherto, unless they promptly established a subsidy for division pro rata among the exporters of meat, tinned or frozen, as previously suggested. The Norwegians have hit upon a new way of breaking up old ships unfit for further use, the old method having long been felt to be a laborious and costly one. The new. plan is to loosely anchor the useless ship in a dangerous position near ■the coast and to have her broken to bits by the sea in the first heavy gale. The sea not only breaks up the ship, but carries the results ashore; when they are collected and sold at good rates for firewood, etc. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Danevirke Boad Board was held on Saturday evening last. Present : Messrs W. F. Knight (in the chair), J. Dickey, and I. Miller. A letter was read from the Chief Surveyor re deviation on the Oringi Block, stating that the right to take roads through that block had lapsed by effluxion of time, and the only course open to the Board was to take it under the Public Works Act. — Received. From the Treasury, notifying that £7 10s lid, and £96 15s Id had been jtaid into the Bank, the former being subsidy under the Local Bodies Finance and Powers Act, and the latter on aocount of deferred thirds. An account of Bs, for dealing water. tables, was passed for payment. Mr Miller reported that the Umutaoroa road wanted some slight repairs.—* lt was resolved that Mr Miller get the holes filled at a cost not exceeding £2. This was ail the business. A Paris jury has given another strange verdict. . It has acquitted the journalist Eugene Habert, aged forty-seven, who shot the artist J^elix Dupuis, aged fiftyfive, in a duel in the Bois de Boulogne last April. Habert attended a reception at Dupuis's house, where a young lady recited a sonnet on a picture by Dupuis. He then ridiculed both sonnet and artist in his newspaper. Being told that he had' violated the laws of hospitality, and would not be again invited by M. Dupuis, he wrote another offensive article. He was challenged to a duel. He then practise.l pistol shooting at a zinc figure," learned to hit it in the heart, and aimed at his adversary's heart. The four seconds were indicted as accomplices. They had shamefully neglected to attempt an arrangement, or to insist on an apology by Habert. All five were acquitted. M. Anatole de la Forge, deputy, summoned as an • expert in duelling, strongly condemned the seconds for allowing the encounter to take place. Paris juries (The Times correspondent remarks) have always acquitted a man who had received strong provocation ; they now acquit the man who has given the provocation. Mr Bendix Hallenstcin, writing to the Daily Times, expresses the opinion that those who are now going to Melbourne will in twelve months be worse off than if they had remained here. He adds : — " Victoria, though in many respects a much inferior country to New Zealaud, has hitherto been move prosperous, through having adopted a more economical policy, and one more conducive to the progress of a young country. Bui the present feverish prosperity of Melbourne — if prosperity it can bo called — will as sure as 1 am now penning these lines, leave that city in a state of prostration from which it will not recover for many a day ; and the bulk of those who at this stage go to Melbourne, will not bo in time to reap sufficient of iho good things to compensate for the misepy to follow, Ido not expect, nor do I wish for a ' boom ' such as they now have in Melbourne, but I have no hesitation in saying that here WO a.ye making far better times, Settlement is gradually inqi'easing, all our Y aw products are steadily vising, interest is lower, while agricultural and pastoral lands are approaching prices at which they Q&n be pofttably Q.o.o.upie.d," *

I Emperor William, visits Borne next month. The Town Council of Beverly, England, proposes to devote all the town charity funds to technical education. The Bey. Father Tolton, of Quincy, 111., is said to be the only coloured Catholic priest in the United States. He was born in slavery. He speaks several languages, and is highly regarded by the clergy. A Milan newspaper, the" Secolo, is publishing the Bible in 210 half-penny parts of eight pages each and 900 woodcuts. This is the first enterprise Of the kind in Italy and it has already achieved enormous success. A rich and enterprising woman in Kansas has set about the gigantic task of building a town on her own land. She has also started a journal to forward the interests of the embryo city, and is now engaged in trying to persuade a railway company to run a side line to the place. Prince Bismarck when he is at Varzin, his favorite seat, frequently spends his leisure time in. cutting down trees, and he [ is said to be second only in expertness to Mr Gladstone. Another weakness of his is to superintend the proceedings in his breweries. As a' judge of hoi s c* 8 infallible. Few people know that M. Pasteur is not, i after all, a doctor of medicine, that he is thus not legally qualified to operate, that he has not the right to practise, nor the right to take a fee. He is a professor of chemistry — in receipt of a professor's salary. Thus he is rarely present during the inoculations. The Italian paleontologist, Orsoni, has, according to letters received' by learned societies in Berlin, made excavations at Ferneto, near Bolonga, and discovered grottos nearly two English miles Ion 7 , evidently the burying places of Italian aborigines, on whom they throw a very interesting light. The Bussian Government has granted permission to women to devote themselves to the pharmaceutical profession, provided they pass the same examinations as are established for male candidates. Apothecaries, however, who receive female pupils will not be allowed to take male students also. Christian IX of Denmark is soon to celebrate his twenty-five years' jubilee, but officially announces that he will decline to receive gifts from his people, in view of the financial depression in his kingdom. Nevertheless, his subjects are going to give him a very handsome country seat. The Chinese are gradually overcoming ' their antipathy to insurance, but the North China Daily News assures us that there are vast numbers who think that a charm exhibited outside the door is the preferable plan. These charms are generally in the shape of a tiger's head, a broom, a basket, or a projecting prong. We have never before had two Presbyterians running against each other as competitors for the office of President of the United States. President Cleveland is a Presbyterian, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and General Harrison is another Presbyterian, who has risen to the rank of elder in the Presbyterian Church. The Spectator supplies its readers with a brand new copybook sort of definition of the word "jockey." "A jockey," it says, "is, as a rule, an undersized but plucky lad who rides immature horses in useless races for gamblers to bet about." This sentence, says a contemporary, deserves to find a place in the next collection of literary gems. Mr Worthington, an Auckland teacher, speaking in anger at a false accusation made against his profession, said he believed that it was because the sons of the poorer people were beginning to raise themselves in the social scale by means of education, and to successfully compete with their more favored brethren in the walks where distinction was to be earned, that so much animosity was now being directed against the system. Two paragraphs which appear in juxtaposition in the Daily News are in strange contrast. •In the first the earnings of a successful jockey are discussed, and it is shown that one of these practitioners can make from £4000 to £2000, even if he is quite "straight." In the second the writer comments on the circumstances and conduct of a clergyman in the north, who, on a stipend of £080, alleges that he has to support himself, two curates, two lay helpers, and a schoolmaster. The schoolmaster, who must possess the usual virtues and play the harmonium, is to have £25 per annum — about a tenth of what a fashionable jockey will sometimes receive for a single race. The death of Lord Alfred Henry Paget removes a familiar figure from London society. He was son of the first Marquis of Anglesey, and uncle of the present owner of the title. He was born in 1816, educated at Winchester, entered theßoyal Horse Guards, and retired with the rank of General in 1881. He was Clerk Marshal and Chief Equerry with a short interval from 1846-65, and was reappointed to the offioe (whioh is worth £1000 a year) in 1868- He sat as M,P. .for Liohfield (L.) 1837-65. He married in 1647 Ceoilia, daughter of Mr G. T, Wyndham, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, and has left several children. Lord Alfred Paget was a very fine, tall, soldierly-leoking man, and in his younger days was remarkably handsome. It is an item of Court gossip, re. tailed by the chroniclers, how. there were serious fears at one time that her Majesty, when Princess Victoria, had fallen in love with him. The Japanese passengers by the steamer Afghan, whioh has arrived at Thursday Island, give some details of the recent earthquake on the Island of Bun Tiy Zun. The island is of volcanic formation and is about 100 square miles in extent, with a fresh water lake on the top, enclosed by mountain ranges. On July 14th it was noticed that the water had turned to mud. A violent shock followed soon afterwards, almost paralysing the residents of the town, numbering about 2000. The town was virtually split in two parts by the upheaval. A large number of persons were swallowed up in the chasm. Many rushed to the foot of the mountain, and were killed by the falling lava and boulders from the mountain sides. Those who went westward away from the mountain base saved their lives. Nearly all the houses in the town were destroyed. Most of the people resident there were buried alive, or were killed by the falling debris. The volcanic eruption lasted from morning till dark at night. Next morning five sprang from the crater, and it was in the panic ensuing that most of the lives were lost. The mountain virtually fell upon the town, burying all within its range. All the water on the island was turned to mud. Many who escaped destruction by the volcanic disturbances have since been starved to death.