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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9356, 27 April 1893, Page 2

Several letters to the editor will be round on the fourth page. Tlw chrysanthemum show was fairly patronised yesterday. JVc ore requested to state that there will be no meet of Mr MaßOn's hounds on Saturday next. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government of the " Journal of Commeroe and Labor." It bids fair todevelope Into a very useful publication. A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union will be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon in the Criterion Hotel. A full attendance of delegates k requested. . An address to men only will be delivered in St. John's schoolroom on Saturday evening by Mrs E. Payne. The Bishop of Waiapu will preside. Detective Klrby yesterday arrested a man named John Clements, charged with ; stealißg a pair of boots from a shop In is-merson-streeti, Accused will be brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court tbia mornio&

S 1 ■ 1 11 1 1* •■ « 1 1 1 11 A gang of men are employed on the breastwork repairing the slip that occurred last Saturday. A portion of the railway line is being lifted and set down fartl er In from the edge of the breastwork. It is exp°eted that the train will rnn over it tomorrow if needed. The usual Garrison parade was held last night, Captain Smith m commnnd, There ■was a very fair muster considering tlte state of the weather. The Artillery were dismissed after inspection, bad the Navnls and Rifles, headed by the Ganlsonßand, were pat through various movements on the Marine-parade. The Gladstone Government show their nnfitness to rate by getting into a deficit straight away. The estlmatss show a deficiency of over a million and a half sterling, and fresh taxation has to be Imposed. Mr Gladstone is too busy running the Irish racket to ba able to make both ends meet. Before Mr Justice Kicbmond, sitting in Chambers on Tuesday, on the motion of Mr Gray, Mr T. A. B. Bailey was admitted to practice as a solicitor. Mr Bailey served his time with Mr Jellicoe, and iB now managing W' C. D. Kennedy's bnslneßß in Napier dining that gentleman's visit to the Old Country. He arrived in Napier last night. The bazaar in the Gaiety Theatre was a very animated scene last night. The place was crowded, and veiy b.lsk business was done. Tbe side shows weie also well patronised, As showing the success that has attended the efforts of the committee so far, ib may b 3 statel that tbe proceeds up till the present amount to £236. Over 700 people paid for admission yesterday. Our Orraoadville correspondent writes as follows under yesterday's .date : — Winter seems to have set in in' earnest here. The rain has been almost incessant for several days, and some of the paddocks about are almost under waiar, — The Mutual Improvement and Recreation Society hrs started again, and meetings are held eveiy Saturday night in the Kechablte Hall. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Turnbull, K.M., John William Bible, a man who hn given the Court and gaoler some trouble during the past few months, was sentenced to 14 days' hard labor for too frequent drnnkenness. Defendant was also sentenced to three months' hard labor for vagrancy. John Gleeßoa, for drunkenness, was discharged with a caution. Andrew Hansen, for drunkenness (a sefond offence within a recent period), was fined £1 and costs, Messrs Hudson, the well-known English provision dealers, have the following to say in reference to colonial bntter :— "The Australian and JSew Zealand, butlir, coming rs it dcci during our autumn and wiotar months, is of considerable value to ns, and ma'irially helps to keep down pricss through the winter. It will never rank with the freshmade butter of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Batter that has Yen made for three or four months developes a strong flavor after it hrs been in the kitchen for a sho.fi time, no raati ir how fine It was when made, and no matfir how well it may have been kept. We consider that It would be much improved if a small quantiby of boraclc acid was mixed with it, and would advise that tbis shored be tried next year, It makes an excellent second and third class butter, and is sure to meet) with a good demand, and bhe p> icps made this year may be calculated upon for the futr»-e." I Mr Claude W. Cato, of the Napier branch of the Colonial Bank, wn manied at Wellington on Monday, and Mr George White, of Mr Kinross W bite's office, wr i mai.ied veil irday at M Saints', Taradale. Mr Cato was ma.-ied to Miss Christina Frances Thorburn, eldest daughter of Mr John Thorburn. The union was solemnised at St. Andrew's I'reabjtjrian Church by tho .Rev. C. S, Ogg, and at the close of the ceremony the " Wedding March " was played by the organist, Mr Pierard, out of compliment to tbe biide, who had t;en a member of the choir for some years. The b.lde wps givt n away by her father, and her sister, Miss Constanca Thorburn, acfed as bridesmaid, while Mr Herbert Stock wps beat man. In the cr.e of Mr White, his bride was Mias Elizabeth Baker, niece of Mr Hem/ Williams. The ceremony was petformtd by the .Rev. C. L. Tuke, Miss Williams acting as biidesmaid and Mr Charles White as groomsman. Mr H, Williams gave away the bride, and the wedding breakfast took place at A shadge, Mr Williams's handsome residence. The happy pair left subsequently for Wellington by the express train. It was on the West Coast, some 14 years ago, that a miner was received into the Hokltika hospital, suffering from one of those complaints which flesh Is heir to, but which moro particularly attacks those whoae time ia devoted to digging for the precious metal. He was a thick-set, broad-shouldered fellow, and bore eveiy apj jarance of having been, if not reaied in the lap of Inxmy, at any rate had considerable attsntion paid to his biin<?-ing-up and education. Just the one little besetting sin, though; he was, so to speak, a ne'er-do-well. On bis diwharßo from the Institution he was asked, in the ordinary way, if he could dona : t any* j thing, bnt he replied in the negative, suggesting that probably, if his uncle, the Earl of Derby, wts Wilbten to he 1 would. Although bnt little credence was placed in his stoiy the uncle was written to, and the identity of the erstwhile patient having been established, a com muuication followed in due time, and remittances at the rate of £2 per week arranged for. These moneys were sent to him regularly by our informant, Mr J, W. Blake, who at that time was in Hokltika, and afterwards to various places where he moved to. That remittance man is Lord Stanley, of Preston, who succeeds to the title rendered vacant by the death of the Earl of Derby — Wanganui Eetald. There was some trouble down at the Albjrt Docks a short time ago in connection with the bunkering of the Shaw, Savill, aud Albion Company's steamer Arawa. It appears that the Coal Porters' Union recently issued new rules, according to which there must be an extra winebman in each barge, and in addition, they require that the " backers "—that is, the men who carry the baskets on their backs across the ships' decks to the furthest bunker hatch— shall not carry them more than a specified number of feet, nnd this in some cases involves the employment of assistant backers. Ihe Arawa trouble arose from these new rules. The merchants' men belonging to the Coal Porters' Union selected Measrs Shaw, Savlll's steamer as the first vessel to apply the rules to, and the result was that the owners had to apply to the Free Labor Office to supply tho place of the union men, who, as their demands were not acceded to, remained on the qtiay. The fre« laborers came on at once, and coaled not only the Arawa, bat the Matatua also, The unionists too late repented of their folly, but were not allowed to take up the job. Ib may be mentioned that the union coalies do not work where steam is employed in coaling operations ; bub when the free laborers were introduced steam was at once pad to work. Thus the employment of the freemen not only facilitated tbe loading, but the union men standing idle on the quay had the mortification of seeing their pet aversion, steam, brought into full play. Ib is to be hoped that the lesson so taught will be beneficial to these union-ridden toilers, The Brilliant Mine at Charters Towers (Queensland) has eclipsed all the bonanzas of Australia and New Zealand — Mount Morgan alone excepted. The history of its discovery is startling, and tells the tale of a crowning triumph for the dogged deteidiination of one man— a machine itter, a native of Prestod, jd Lancashire, formerly a resident of Sydney, and now again a resident of Sydney. Mr Richard Craven, after various experiences at all klnda of following in (he bash, inclnding shearing and mining as well, determined against all kinds of advice to attempt to strike gold at a greater depth at Charters Towere, and prove the famous Day Dawn and Queen reef to be one, the latter having been lost in No. 5 Queen. Having exhausted his own store, he ask one of the Day Dawn owners (Mr G. Jevers, then in England) to join him, and £11,000 was spent in elving deep for the hidden treasure. Everything on the field wri on the downward slide, when at 700 ft the Brilliant struck gold of enormous richness and extent. Before £12,000 was expe nded big dividends were being declared. Tbe find was 9ft of 2Joz stone, and 35,000 tons of stone gave a yield of £245,000. The average clear dividend is now about £80,000 per year, and it is expected to reach £100,000. The find of course led to deep searchings in other directions for this enormous strike of gold, and several claims named after the original one have been successful at the great depth of 1000 feet. No suoh wealth has ever anywhere else in Anstralia been discovered, and there Is a concensus of opinion among both officials and miners than the really main or principal deposits of the famous field are only now being touched, and that indications are for vastly heavier returns as further depth i» attained. Eighteen of the claims, all within a span, gave over a quarter of a million in clear dividends for the year, the Brilliant heading the list with over £80,000.— Reef ton Guardian.