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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3827, 20 January 1877, Page 2

j Although we printed yesterday mornj ing 1375 copies of the Heeald, which contained a lengthy and interesting account ; of the proceedings at the tangi for the i late Sir Donald M'Lean, and also a sketch j of Sir Donald's family, the demand was so , great that we were obliged to issue a second i edition. Copies can now be had at the ! office. ' The subscription list for the new Eng- | lish church on the hill is proceeding at an : astonishingly rapid rate. Although it has only been open since yesterday, nearly ■ £600 bas already been contributed. Mr. , Rhodes, we hear, has put down his name , for £100, and has expressed bis willing- : ness to contribute another £100 towards procuring a peal of bells for the church, , when completed. j A cricket match will be played this ■ afternoon on the Taradale ground, be- ; tween an eleven of the Napier Cricket ! Club and an eleven chosenfromthebanks j and thelegalprofession. The folio wing are I the elevens : — Law and Banks — Morgan, { Knight, Cotterill, Withers, Riding, Bell, Liddle, Sainsbury, Dewes, Gilpin, and jP. Bourke. Club— R. Brathwaifce, GilI man, Bennett, Mayo, G-ilberd, H. O. j Caulton, M'Cartney, Ingle, J. Dinwiddie, ! Goudy, and M'lntosh. I We learn that Mr. Tiffen intends taking , steps, immediately after the arrival of his ' legal adviser, Mr. Wilson, to compel the ; Napier Corporation to give a guarantee ■ to indemnify him for any injury his pro--1 perty "may sustain should the reservoir ejive way. ' j We have had several inquiries as to [ whether there will be any balance in hand 1 when the accounts of the Province are ' finally made up. We believe it is probable ; that there will be between £2000 and j £3000. 1 The Oddfellows' Hall last night was. j filled to overflowing, fhe attraction being _ the last performance of '• Our Boys" by ! the Lingards and their company. The , piece ran very smoothly, and each ; character was pourtraycd to the life. The applause was incessant and hearty, '. and, we may add, well deserved ; all the i performers came in for a good modicum, ! but undoubtedly Mr. and Mrs. Lingard I had the largest share. Mr. Lingard's j " character sketches'* followed " Our j Boys," and brought to a conclusion a I capital evening's entertainment, and a j very successful season. The Lingards ! proceed to Wellington this morning, j where they will play a season at the { Theatre Royal. Several natives, in a semi-nude condition, were engaged yesterday in collecting pipis in the Iron Pot. A white man, who stripped and went in for a bath, was seized by the vigilant policeman, who first took the precaution of securing the man's clothes. He will no doubt be called upon to attend the levee of the [ R.M. this morning. One of the seamen on board the EanI gatira, while engaged yesterday in filling baskets with coal for removal from the after hold to the steamer's bunkers, received a severe wound on the head from the fall of a large block of coal. By the advice of Dr. Spencer, he was taken to \ tho hospital. The captain of fche p.s. Manaia, and the captains of other of the coasting craft, express the opinion, we believe 5 , that within the last week or two the bar has much improved, and that the sea wall is now reaching a point when it begins to tell. This is very encouraging for the future success of the harbor works. A man engnged by the Harbor Board in stacking totara piles at the Spit, had his foot crushed ou Thursday afternoon, and the injuries he received wero so j severe as to necessitate his removal to the hospital. '

The anniversary of Trinity Church, • Clive Square, will be celebrated on Sunday, the 28fch inst. by special sermons by j the Rev. J. S. Smalley ; and on the Tuesday following a soiree will be held in the Protestant Hall, followed by a sacred concert. The legal argument upon the matter of the petition against the Waipukurau election will be taken this morning at the R.M. Court. Hiraka, a native best known as the husband of Alice, died at Waipukurau on Thursday. Mr. Ormond leffc Napier for Wallingford yesterday. Mr. J. N. Wilson is expected in Napier to-day. So much abuse (says the Post) has been heaped on the Government steamers Hinemoa and Stella, that it is only fair to note any points in their favor. This we have done already as regards the Stella, and we now find tbat the Hinemoa has travelled 2200 . miles during the past month, at an average speed of 10 knots, and with a consumption of coal at the rate of only a ton to every 22 miles run. The Luna would have burnt 2\ tons during tbe same time. In fact she used to burn nearly one- third more coal for the same distance and speed run, than the Hinemoa and Stella together. The Wellington Coroner, Dr. Johnson, on the occasion of a recent inquest on the body of a boy who by pure accident fell from his horse in the street the other day and was killed, made some very pertinent remarks upon the unnecessary holding of such enquiries. During the examination of Dr. Harding, one o£ the medical witnesses, he said. thafc "he could not help thinking that, in a case in which an accident had happened in the open street, and in the middle of the day, and in which three medical men had within a few hours seen the sufferer, they might at least have been in a position to state that he had died through a, fall from a horse and that they had attended him, though they might not be able to describe the direct cause of death. He thought it was a pity that the jury should be called from their duties to carry out a formal inquiry in consequence of medical men refusing to give a certificate." The Rangitikei County Council inaugurated the County system by dining together on the day of their first meeting, the Chairman of the Council presiding. Among the toasts given were the following : — " Local self - Government," Sir Julius Yogel, the author and father of t.ie system," "Our Native-born memlers." Reports to hand, says the Taranaki Neivs, from the adjoining districts speak in very satisfactory terms of harvest operations. On Te Ore Ore plain two or three fields of considerable extent have been already cut, and others are in progress of being reaped. At Mania the crops are well forward, and in various places they are quite ready for the sickle. Between wheat and oats there is estimated in round numbers to be 200 acres. The average yield is estimated at forty-five to fifty bushels per acre for oats, and thirty to thirty-five for wheat. This year they will go quite fifty for the one and thirty-five fos the other. A few acres of potatoes are also well forward, the estimated yield being six tons per acre. At the lower part of the Opaki one paddock of oats (20 acres) is quite ripe, and if the reaping machine can be had operations will be commenced to-day. There are between fifty and sixty acres more, part of which will be ready in a day or two, and the remainder in a week. The wheat crop at this place will not . exceed from fifteen to sixteen acres. It is well forward and as regards yield promises very fair. The following description of a souvenir of the visit of the English cricketers to the colonies is given by the Otago Daily Times : — " On the side of the programme appears a headless batsman. An ingenious revolving arrangement fixed to the card, being worked, discloses in turn the head of one of the team. The head fits on to the figure, and with the head appears a number which identifies it as the particular caput of whatever cricketer who has the corresponding number fco his name on the card below. There is a similar arrangement for the bowlers. Six are represented as bowlers and six as batsmen, and though this plan does not show whether they are thin or stout.shorfc or tall, it gives a simple and convenient way of identifying the several members of the team." Several cases of sunstroke are stated by the Auckland papers to have occurred there, but the only fatal case reported is that, of a little girl, a daughter of Mr. M'Cormick, in the employment of Seccombe and Sons, brewers. The Heme Nexvs says that some interest was excited in London recently by an announcement that an address would be delivered in the Mission Hall, Little Wild-street, Lincon's-inn-fie ds, by the " Rev. Josiah Henson," who is described by Mrs. Beecher Stowe as the original of her principal character " Uncle Tom" in her " Cabin," which excited much interest some years ago. It appears, from his own description of himself, that he was formerly a slave in Maryland, but now chiefly resides iv Canada. He is sft 7in in height, and has evidently a strong muscular system. He is eightyeight years of age and is by no means, as might be expected, diffusive in his manner of narrating the events of his past life, but is practical, and keeps close to the points which he has to bring before his hearers. He describes with much ability and earnestness his experiences connected with his forty- two years of slave life, and pictured in a very effective way the miseries of that system, after manner of the description given in Mrs. Stowo's book. He has eleven children, and eight great- grand- children who he gathers round him once every year in his Canadian home. Two of his children he carried on his back 600 miles, travelline: on foot during the night, while escaping from slavery. A subscription had been entered into, in order to enable him to prosecute his missionary work in Canada, and to sustain a college which he has established for the education of his people. Mr. Henson still bears upon his body marks of the brutal treatment he received while a slave. The Wanganui Herald, says : — One of the most obtuse little problems we have come across for some time is before us. There is a member of the Native Department whose mame is Wilson, stationed at Opunake. This gentleman for some time has beeu receiving £200 a-year salary, and £50 a-year of an "allowance," one condition being that he was nofc required to account for the manner in which this allowance was disposed of, Mr Wilson's allowance was raised a few weeks since to £100 a-year, but with the expressed condition, that vouchers were to be sent in showing in what way the sum was expended. Seeing that Major Brown is Civil Commissioner on the coast, aud carries on j the whole of the negociations between the ! Government and the natives, the Herald i is astonished that Mr Wilson should have j i any functions at all to perform. The j matter is referred to as a sample of Gov- I I eminent retrenchment. j

At the criminal sittings at Christ- "'. churoh, a common juror complained of ' being described in the "panel as a gardener, when he was chief in one of the largest mercantile . firms in the place, which provoked from Judge Johnston fche remark thafc if he (the Judge) had been called or put down as a gardener he would not have felt insulted. Adam was a gardener, and he was the first gentleman they knew of. The Canterbury Acclimatisation. Society lately sent 1000 young salmon to Kaiapoi to be deposited in the north branch of the Waimakariri river. . They were safely transferred by Mr. H. J. Wood and several others, who take an interest in Acclimatisation Sooiety matters. Some excitement was created lately in the neighborhood of Bradford by the exhumation of the body of the Rev. John F. Dawson, of Woodlands, who was buried in 1870 in tbe churchyard of the village of Clapham. It appears that Mr. Dawson, who inherited the estate of Woodlands from his father, who had bought it, was twice married, and though he had a son by his first marriage, he bequeathed the estate to his son by his aecond wife.; It is believed, however, by his eldest son that the estate Was entailed by the will of his father, which could not be found ; and as information reached him that the documents had been buried with bis father, application was made for the exhumation of the body to the Home Secretary, and the -requisite sanction having been obtained the exhumation was carried out, and the coffin was opened in the presence of the legal and' medical gentlemen concerned. A diligent search between the inner shell and the outer oak coffin proved in vain ; but on lifting the body, which was in a wonderful state of preservation, a bundle of what appeared to be letters, tied round with red tape, was discovered. These documents were taken away, with the necessary legal formalities, and the body was then reinterred. The Rev. J. Parkin will conduct services on Sunday next, Emerson-street, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. ; West Clive, at 3 p.m. To-morrow (Sunday) the Rev. D'Arcy Irvine will preach at Waipawa in the morning, and at Waipukurau in the evening. At Trinity Church to-morrow (Sunday) evening the Rev. J. S. Smalley will lecture on "Saul and the Witch of Endor."