TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7387, 10 June 1895, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The annual mooting of the Hawke d Bay Acclimatisation Society was to have been held this afternoon, but was adjcmrnerl till Friday next, at 2 p.m.

The Supremo Court eittinga at Hapier have been ftirtuer postponed from Thursday to Monday next, 17th inst., at 10 30 a.m.

We nra desired to state that notwithstanding tho eucoess of the Darrell season, it must positively close on Wednesday evening, as the company sail for the south oa Thursday. The programme for the remaining three nights has been fixed as follows:—"This evening, Mr Darrell will produce his highly successful Now Zealand drama entitled, "Life for Lifo," with all tho original effeota. This play has achieved long runs in all the principal cities of Australia. To-morrow night the great racing drama "The Double iilvent" will be reproduced, and a special train will be run from Hastings, returning after the performance. 'Ihe season will close on Wednesday with a special presentation of the celebrated original version of "East Lynne," as played by Mr Darrell for oyer twenty years all over the English-speaking world.

The monthly meeting of tho Charitable Aid Board was held in tho Old Provincial Council Chambers this afternoon Present —Messrs H. P. Cohen (ohairman), G. Faulknor, G. Eymer, ». D. D M'Lean, J. N. Williams, H. Williams, and the Hon. J.D. Orraond, M.L.O. Pealing with correspondence, it was decided that with reference to a proposal emanating from the Patea and Wanganui Charitable &id Boards, providing for an amendment in the Destitute Persons Aot of 1885, making it legal for one Board to send destitute persona back to the district whence they came, to reply that the complaining Board had the remedy in their own hands by singly refusing to pay any contributions in such oases unless the persons were returned.—Tbe Board's solicitor advieed that a gratuity of £ 10 could not legally be voted as a bonus to Mrs Hall, but it could be paid as salary. 4 his course was adopted. Permission was granted to 0. M. Whitticgton to inspect the books of the Board.—A painter, 22 years resident in the district, attended in person to apply for relief. Tho matter was referred to the police to report. —A married woman, with a baby in her arms, and two out of five young ohildren accompanying her, applied for assistance. She said her husband was away looking for work. He had been laid up with typhoid fever. Two months rations granted.—3. Johnson, almoner at W aipawa, forwarded a lengthy report, stating that tho application for relief showed a slight falling off as compared with the previous month.— One month's rations were granted to a Hastings family reported deserving by Sergeant Mitchell.—The ohairman drew attention to the fact that some of the tenderers for the supply of rations did not fulfil the provisions of their contract and it was deoided to notify them. Aooouuts totalling £102 17s 5d were passed for payment and the Board adjourned.

A meeting of holders of allotments in the cemetery was held in the Council Chambers this afternoon, Mr H. S. Tiffen in the chair. Messrs I. V. Brown, G. H. Swan, and O. H. Edwards were nominated as trustees, for approval by the Governor.

The total cost of the new nurses' homo at the hospital will come to £780 10s, being £588 13s for the building and £191 7s for tha furnishings.

The case of Thomas MoCard v. William Boyd occupied tho attention of Mr Turnbull some time at the Magistrate's Court to-day. The defendant was obarged with having on tho 11th of May laat, at the Western Spit, threatened to damage ceriain property of complainant's, and tureties of the peace were asked for. Mr Lusk appeared for MoCard and Mr Cresswell for Boyd. After hearing the evidence, the S.M. dismissed the case.

/ A private report submitted to tha Charitable Aid Board this afteraoon regarding an applicant for aid stated that both he and his wife wore addicted to drink, and the family were trained beggars, two of them being inmates of the Bnrnham Industrial Sohool. The application was ordered to be forwarded to the polioe for

report,

Uude? Siturday's date our Danevirke correspondent writes :--" The corpse of the murdered man Herbert came on by express train to-night, and is lying at the railway station, for removal to Herbertville. The deceased was well-known here, where there is much sympathy felt for the relations."

Three drunken Maoris by their vagaries caused a large crowd to assemble in Hastings street this afternoon. We did not sea any sign of the polioe.

The attention of ladies and gentlemen who are interested in the Melanesian Mission is called to an advertisement in another oolumn, inviting them to meet at the houee of the Bishop of Waiapu to-morrow at 3 p.m., to form a branch of the St Barnabas Association in this parish. Many will remember with pleasure the lecture given in St John's schoolroom by the Bishop of Melanesia. This Association has for its object the diffusion of information on the work of the mission, and the promotion of a more lively interest in it, with a view to its be'ng more warmly suported.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr Turnbull, S.M , two first offenders, charged with drunkenness in Shakespeare road, were dismissed with a caution. —Frances Thompson was charged with failing to support hiß illegitimate cbild. '.this is a Woodville oase, to which place accused was accordingly remanded, where he will appear on Thursday, bail, self £50 acd two suioties _25 each.—Edward Fannin and William blattery, on bail, failed to answer to charges of drunkenness, and their bail was estreated. —Jessie Johnson, a Cliva resident, was charged with b9ing a vagrant. Constable Kennedy said the woman waa a nuisance to the inhabitants. Johnson deolared she was all right, though at times she got giddy. Jessie was sent up for fourteen days.— William M'lntyre, for working a horse in a 'bus while it was suffering from sores, pleaded in extenuation that ha was unaware of the wound, which was a recent ono. Fined ss, and costs 14s — William Leßus was charged with plying for hire on railway premises without having a license. Defendant pleaded ignorance of the by-laws. After evidence had been heard, the *J.M. inflicted a fine of 2s 6d with costs. William Gebbie pleaded not guilty to a like offence. Defendant thought thero should be a boundary fonoe showing where the railway piemisae ended. Gebbie was fined 2s 6d and costs, and so was Thomas Prater for eamrnuting a breach of the same by-law. A oha"ge against William Boyd of using indecent language waa dismissed.

A child of Mr Dennis M'Carthy, Spit, V7aa rescued from a watery grave on Saturday afternoon near the isabtern pier. The body was observed floating ia the water by Mr W. Johuson, of th 3 Deads ifrbu, who immediately divested himself ot his clothing, and swimming out, brought the boy ashore. Restoratives were quickly applied, and after a couple of hours' rubbing, the child regained consciousness. In another column, Mr M'Carthy return* thanks to Mr Johnson and those who aided in the rescue of his son.

The manager of Loohinvar station, Upper Mohaka, reports that an employe named William .Rowley is believed to have gone mail and lost himself in the bush on thu run. Some of his olothes have been picked up. Constable Borriman, of Taupo, has proceeded to tho station to institute a search for the missing man.

"Gambling, or The Octopus of Young New Zealand," formed the aubjact of the Rev. J. G. Pateraon's discourse at the Presbyterian Ohurch last ovening. This vice, the preacher declared, was increasing to an alarming extent, and he attributed it to the fact that it was legalised in the shape of tho totalisator. Ho denounced gambling as the moat over-mastering of passions, before whioh everything had to give way. Its evil effacts were, he said, evan mere widespread than those of intemperance, and when once a mm was smitten with gambling, a pile of Bibles and tracts reaching to the heavens would not stop him from leaping headlong into porditiou. Mr Patercion rofeired to some of the terms common to the vice, commenting upon the expressiveness of the words "Consultation," " Sweeps," and "Foul." '• Whose interest," housked, "isconsulted? And where could you find so foul a vico ? It sweeps away a mau'a money, his moral character, his home, eveiy good and noble fesling, his lovo for h"n family, and it swoeps him into porditiou." In conclusion, the preacher, in urging that steps be taken to combat the spread of the evil, remarked that the ohuroh must first soo to it thit hor own hands were aloan. He referred his hoarers to a paragraph in tho Christian Outlook, whioh stated that during the past year fifty-six applications hud ceen made for permission to hold ruflUs in connection with baziars. .No good, he said, could be expooted to aoorue iroui uny endeavor to mitigate the evil whilst tho ohuroh countenanced gambling in this form.