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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3101, 6 June 1881, Page 2

Mr W. Parker, senior, was duly installed into bis office .of Receiver of Rates this morning.

A change is contemplated, we learn, in the time-table of the Napier and Makatoko railway, which will be shortly announced. Mr A McNeil, of Woodville, writes to inform us that he killed an eighteen months' old wether on his farm the other day, which weighed without the head no less than 1551b5.

By the Ringarooma on Saturday nine cases of Japanese trees arrived to the order of the Acclimatisation Society. These trees will be sold next Saturday by Messrs Kennedy and Gillman. It is announced in another column that the Redclyffe bridge will be formally opened for public traffic on Friday next. A procession is to be formed at Taradale, and will proceed from there to the bridge at 11 o'clock.

Mr Drake, the well-known book-maker, who was arrested recently in Australi&on a charge of forgery, alleged to have beecommitted twelve years ago, has come out of his trouble. The charge was dismissed, and Mr Drake left the Court " without a stain on his character."

Mecsrs Monteith and Co. offered for sate at the Masonic Hotel to-day the well-known Exchange Hotel, Havelock, together with, nineteen acres of freehold. The highest bid only reaching £1750, the property was withdrawn. Subdivision F, town section No. 274, with five-roomed cottage, brought

Captain Edwin, of the Meteorological Department, Wellington, sent the chairman, of the Napier Harbor Board the following telegram this morning:—" There will be a very heavy gale between north-east and south-east) With heavy rain, and a very heavy sea on the Spit, within twelve hours."

It will he seen from advertisement in another column that Messrs Metherall Brothers have a steam flour mill in full work at Hastings. They gainet. the second order of merit for flour made from Hawke's Bay wheat, and as no mention of this has yet been made in local papers we gladly draw attention to it.

The following blocks of land have been proclaimed forest reserves within the provincial district of Hawke's Bay :■— Norsewood and Makaretu survey districts, 6,200 acres; Tahoraite survey district, 8,900 acres: Woodville survey district, 5,900 acres, Makaretu, Ruataniwha, and Wakarara survey districts, 64,000 acres. A case called on in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning had to be postponed in consequence of the affidavit o£ service of summons being incorrectly made. The defendant lived at the Wairoa, and His Worship said that Wairoa was one of the places where a constable had been appointed clerk of the court at a salary of £10 per annum. If such appointments were continued and increased, many such. mistakes might be expected, and much inconvenience arise.

The English cricketers will play matches in New Zealand as follows :— Auckland, November 24fch, 25th, and 26th ; Wellington, .December Ist, 2nd, and 3rd; Christchurch, December sth, 6th, and *th; Timaru, December Bth; Oamam, December 9th; Dunedin, December 10th, 12th, and 13th; Invercargill, December 15th and 16th. They then go on to Melbourne, playing there from December 26th to January 3rd, and again, after a tour through Australia, on March 3rd, 4th, and sth.

The question of costs in the Boojum and Sir Donald collision case came up before Mr Kenny this morning. Mr Lee believed there was no specific power given to a court of enquiry to order costs. . He had seen that, in a similar case heard down South, in which eminent counsel were engaged, it had been decided that they possessed no such power. Mr Carlile submitted that where persons voluntarily appeared in a case they placed themselves in a position to be made parties in the case. His Worship said that he believed the court had power to make an order for costs, but as grave doubt had been thrown upon the question he would, in drawing up the order, say nothing about costs, leaving it to the Government to pay the witnesses, and each party to pay their own counsel. At the sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, His Worship said that, before beginning the ordinary business of the Court, he wished to state his intention of making a change in the days for the sitting of the Court in the country. District Court cases heard on the Thursday had frequently to be adjourned until the next week in consequence of the Waipawa and Kopua Courts sitting on the Friday. He intended to alter the sittings to Wednesday, so that the Court at Waipawa would sit on the first Wednesday of each month, and at Kopua on the second Wednesday. He also intended to make a change for the hearing of civil cases in town. Summonses issued on the Saturday could be heard on the Monday, and the Sunday intervening it gave no time for parties to pay into Court, or to instruct counsel; it was a great inconvenience, and he proposed to hold the sittings on Tuesdays, and the hearing of criminal oases on Monday instead of Wednesday. These changes would take place on the Ist of July.

At a meeting of the Presbytery of Christchurch, held in St. Andrew's schoolroom, the following resolution bearing upon the Tararua disaster was unanimously adopted: —" That this Presbytery deeply sympathises with those who have suffered bereavement by the loss of the steamer Tararua, and commends them to the tender mercy of their heavenly Father, and the consideration of their fallow Christians. At the same time the Presbytery records its hope that the Colonial Government and the Shipping Companies will use such means as will prevent or mitigate similar disasters for the future." Mr Fraser, who brought forward the motion, referred to the sad event in suitable terms, and suggested that oopies of the resolution should be enclosed in letters specially addressed by ministers of Presbytery to the members of their congregations whose relatives had been drowned. Mr Fraser further expressed his conviction that not one member of the Presbytery had any sympathy with the extraordinary sentiments given forth in some recent telegrams, which assumed that the shipwreck was a divine judgment inflicted as a punishment for Sabbath breaking, or was in any sense a miraculous event. Several members stated their doubts as to tho correct wording of the telegrams, but repudiated any feeling of agreement with what they contained.

The Oamaru correspondent of the Dunedin Morning Herald telegraphed on May 31st, as follows :—" The condition of the unemployed in North Otago is very bad, and the need of doing something to relieve their hardship is urgent. The number of men wanting work—not of the kind who ask for a job and pray they won't get it, but of men steady, intelligent, and respectable—is almost inorediblo. On Saturday

the hands at the small railway extension at Ngapara were paid off, and work stopped. Men lately have been coming to the Ngapara earthwork foimation at the rate ot twenty and thirty per day, begging for a .jcb, tramping from Oamaru on the chance of getting something, and leaving without bemg able to get tasen on. So they have had to beg their bread in the neighborhood, as they have no money in their pockets, and the farmers can give them no employment. Some of the men off from Ngapara have left their tents behind them and taken their swags, going in search of employment. From various quarters I hear that shearers and harvesters have exercised more care wiih their earnings—saving more and spending - less—than in past years, but they have had to live upon their earnings, and married men especially are badly off. Steady men who can do any kind of hard Work, and whose departure would be a loss to the country, say that if employment does not offer quickly they will have no alternative but to go to Sydney, provided they can raise funds for the passage. It is deplorable to see so many fine men reduced to such straits, tramping the roads almost aimlessly. This telegram is written after five days' observation."

Meeting of the Court Sir Henry Havelock, A.0.F., this evening at 7. Meeting of the Hawke's Bay L.O.L. this eveniug at 8. Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell tomorrow, at their rooms, the stock-in-trade of Messrs Benjamin and Co., of Taradale, at 11 a.m. . / Tenders for the erection of a four-roomed *S cottage are to be sent to Mr T. Waterworth by the 10th inst. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell on the 11th instant Japanese trees and plants. A special meeting of the Gaiety Dramatic „ Club will bo held to-morrow evening. r Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on the 10th instant, on the premises of Mr H. R. Gunn, Spit, timber, fencing posts, &c. The appointment of Mr W. Parker, sen., to be receiver of rates to the Corporation is notified. Applications for the purchase of the Corporation section on the reclaimed land are required. Mr R. H. Robinson has a grand display of evening dresses for tbe Masonic ball. A. licensed Maori interpreter and experienced clerk wishes an engagement.

Tenders are invited for building chimneys for the Union S.S. Company's offices at the Spit.

The offices of the H.B. Permanent Building Society will be open this evening for receipt of monthly payments. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.