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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3874, 16 March 1877, Page 2

A meeting of the Waste Lands Board was held at the Land Office yesterday. Present — The Chief Commissioner, Colonel Lambert, and Messrs Tiffen and Kennedy. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The Board resolved that the consideration of all applications ia the Mohaka block be deferred until the surrey of the whole block be completed, as the Board, from want of definite information, find it utterly impossible to arrive at any conclusion on the subject. It was further resolved that immediate instructions be given to liave the survey of the block made. — An application from Ferdinand Pattesen, to transfer his license to occupy, under application No. 82, to Rasmuss Rasraussen, was agreed to. — An application from Edward Hasselbaeh to transfer his license to occupy, under application No. 171, to Benjamin Baker, was agreed to. — An application from Messrs Rhodes and Co. for 1080 acres on their run in the Patoka district, was considered and approved. — A letter from G-. Hutching, on behalf of himself and others to be allowed to select certain land at Woodville, was received and considered ; the Board decided fchat the application should not be entertained. — The Board adjourned at 1 p.m., and resumed at 2 o'clock, when they considered the conditions to be observed by Small Farm Associations, as submitted by the Secretary for Crown Lands, and having made _ sundry additions, requested the Commissioner of Crown Lands to forward them to Wellington for approval. — The Board then rose. We would remind our readers that the cricket match between the Poverty Bay and Napier clubs commences to-day, at Taradale. The Poverty Bay men were to arrive in the Rangatira this morning, and if they have succeeded in getting together the team given in a former issue there should be a good contest. The Napier eleven are undoubtedly strong, and, playing on their own ground, should show up in good form. Two of Rymer's coaches will leave the Masonic Hotel at 12 noon, to convey the players to the ground. Luncheon will be served in a large marquee on the ground, at one o'clock precisely, and play commences at two. If the weather continues favorable, there will, no doubt, be a good attendance on the ground. A man named M'Echan, who has been lately employed as an assistant to Mr Hooper, hairdresser, was yesterday arrested on a charge of stealing gooda from his employer. We understand that the detection of the alleged offender was due to Mr Scott, of the bowling saloon, to whom M'Echan offered for sale some tobacco and cigars. Mr Scott, believing the articles to be the property of Mr Hooper, told M'Echan to leave tbem, and after he was gone gave information to Mr Hooper, at whose request the purchase was subsequently completed. There are other circumstances in the case which we at present refrain from mentioning, "but which will no doubt come out in evidence. The accused will be brought before the Bench at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Mdlle. Atlanti will give her first entertainment in the Protestant Hall, this (Friday) evening. The programme will consist of songs, pianoforte solos, and readings. The Patangata Races will come oft' tomorrow (Saturday), the first race to start at half-past 12 o'clock. Expresses and buggies will leave Waipawa in time for the races. Particulars of the different events will be found in our advertising columns. We have to acknowledge tbe receipt from Mr Lyndon, the agent of the South British Insurance Company, of a neat pamphlet entitled "Useful Hints." It contains a variety of hints, which, if carefully attended to, may save a house from destruction by fire. In Oamaru, it appears, the " gods " are as troublesome at public entertainments as in some other places which need not be more particularly referred to. At the Masonic Hall, oue evening lately, we learn from the Oamaru Mail, a disreputablelooking man, with his face all bruised, occasioned a great deal of annoyance by leaning over tbe gallery aud making remarks during the perlormance. At the conclusion of the act, Mr Darrell came before the curtain, and said that wben he came to Oamaru, he made up his miud not to tolerate such rowdyism, and he was determined to put a stop to it at all hazards. The conduct of the gallery in Oamaru was a bye-word amongst the profession in all parts of the colony, and he was surprised tbat the educated portion of the audiences had borne the conduct of the roughs for so long a period. He then ordered his managor to return the money to the man, and put him out. This was done, and tbe fellow went out quietly enough. As an instance of an honorable desire to make reparation for a fault committed, the following facts will be read with interest: — About 12 years ago, a telhr in the employment of the Bank of New Zealand at Invercargill, was the cause of the Bank losing a sum of £__0. The Bank rnadea claim for that aiuouuL upon the Colonial Assuranco Company, in which the officer was guaranteed, and the claim was promptly met. The teller left the service of the Bank. Having succeeded in business, he recently sent the Bank the sum of £210 to make good tho loss he occasioned them so many years before. The Bank have since written to the Australasian Alliance Assurance Company, of Melbourne, the legal representative of the Colonial Assurance Company, enclosing a cheque for the full amount paid hy the latter company, under the guarantee policy referred to. The Grey Jlicer An/us notices as a satisfactory circumstance that, even with, the limited number of vessels calling there for coal, no less than 4000 tons have been brought down from the Brunner mine and disposed of during the months of January and February. Frederick Bloomfield, the well known jockey, has been killed at Newcastle, New South Wales, by a kick from the racehorse Democrat.

A Southland contemporary says- — "We were shown yesterday afternoon at the office of Messrs Martin, Maitland, and Co., tbe finest sample we have yet seen of Fiji sugar. It was one of pale yellow crystals, very bright, and judging by the taste, of great saccharine strength. It was from the plantation and mill owned by Messrs Maitland Brothers in Fiji. There are, wo understand, about 80 tons of it ready for shipment, part of which will be sent to this colony, and part to Melbourne and Sydney. The Otago Daily Times of Friday says : —"The increasing use in tbe Australian Colonies of building materials imported from New Zealand is leading to much greater attention being given to them in Victoria aud New South Wales by those concerned in building. We have from time to time called attention to the export of New Zealand building materials to Australia, and proof of tbe value attached to them there may be inferred from the fact that an architect in considerable practice in Melbourne (Mr G-eorgo Browne), bas come to tbis colony specially to arrange for the export of building stone and timber to Australia, and probably also of Otago slate. Mr Browne will travel through tbe colony with this'object, and will also likely take advantage of being in Dunedin to compete for the Town Hall design. A private telegram to the Hokitika Evening Star of the 7th says that a rush had set in that morning to the top of a terrace opposite the banks of the Teremakau river, above the punt. Tbe sinking is 10ft, and tbe gold coarse. The prospect is half an ounce to tbe load. The TDaily Times says :—From the evidence given in the case of Wright, Stephenson and Co. v. Doyle — decided in the Besident Magistrate's Court, on Monday last — it would seem that an opinion has prevailed among auctioneers in Dunedin that when horses are sold in sale yards, subject to trial, such trial must take place before six o'clock on tbo day of sale, and that, in tbe event of the purchaser removing a borse from the yards without first having tested his staunchness, he forfeits the rigbt to do so afterwards. Iv tbe case above stated, these ideas were shown not to be in accordance with law, and his Worship refused to admit evidence of usage that the trial should take place before six o'clock on the evening of the clay of sale. A sale subject to trial was defined to be a conditional one, and not completed until approval was signified by the purchaser. Knights (says a northern contemporary) are becoming rare as public men in New Zealand, where a short time ago they were so plentiEul. Sir Donald M'Lean and Sir David Munro bave died within the past few weeks ; Sir Julius Yogel bas leffc New Zealand and will probably never return ; Sir Francis Dillon Bell is out of political life ; so also is Sir Cracroft Wilson ; Sir George Grey, Sir B. Douglas, and Sir John liicbardson, are now the only knights who are members of the Legislature. Anotber discovery of coal bas been made in tbe Inangahua (Otago) district. Tbe Times is informed tbat Sir M'lnerney has discovered a new and extensive coal seam a short distance from bis bouse, in tbe direction of Soldier's. Tbe deposit bas been traced for several hundred feet, witb a thickness varying from five to eight feet. Tbe quality of the coal is said to be first-class. The discovery is one of great importance, as tbe coal can be delivered ia Beefton at a mere nominal cost. Ilepvesentatives of several journals in tbo other colonies bave lately visited different parts of New Zealand, and we {West Coast Times) may expect soon to see a description of their first impressions of these parts. One of these gentlemen, a member ofthe staff of the Melbourne Age passed through Hokitika tbe otber daj', and has since visited Kumara and Greymouth. It is understood also that a now celebrated writer in tbe columns of tbe Melbourne Argus, who is known to its readers under tbe name of '* Vagabond," lately paid a visit to the different ports of tbe colony, having taken passage in tbe steerage of one of Messrs M'Mcckan and Blackwood's steamers. Sucb, at least, is tbo statement of some who pretend to be acquainted witb bim and bis movements. The extraordinary fluctuations which tbe wool market has been subject to lately are exciting a good deal of attention, according to the Darling Downs Gazette. The low rates which ruled at the sales immediately preceding the last, and the sudden and prodigious spring which prices took at the following sales have not bad any sufficiently apparent cause. Wool growers, whose produce was allowed by tbeir London agents and brokers to go at tbe earlier sale, are naturally somewhat annoyed at the loss to which they have been subjected bj the want of foresight on the part of agents whose professional information as to tbe tendency of the markets should have shown itself at such an epoch — if ever. The lack of provision on the part of professional brokers is more strange, inasmuch as it is known that a large Darling Downs woolgrower now in England had sufficient judgment to withhold the whole of his clip, amouuting to over 1200 bales, at the previous sales, and by so doing gained the benefit of the advance in prices at the last series, making a difference in the amount realised of over £10,000 in bis favor. A paragraph has been going the rounds to the effect tbat tbo time made by Fallacy for tbe £-mile in the Flying Stakes Handicap at Wellington recently — 2 minutes 20 seconds — " bad only been beaten on two previous occasions, once in l Australia and once in England," and that the quickest time for f-mile in England was 2 minutes IS seconds, or only 2 seconds quicker than Fallacy's time. A correspondent sends tbe Wellington Argus a paragraph from a recent number of Hell's Life, giving instances of very fast performances in England, in order to show that sucb is not tbe case. From I tbis we find tbat a horso named Dio- i pbantus ran not f-mile, but one milo in 1 I minute 43 seconds at Newmarket, and another named Buccaneer did tbe mile iv 1 minute 38 seconds at Salisbury. Tbis latter is considerably more than twice as fast as Fallacy's time, as it would give only 1 minute V3\ seconds for tbe instead of 2 minutes 10 seconds, which would be at the rate of a mile in 3 minutes 6 seconds, mere trotting pace. The Clutha Herald bas the following items of news: — As an instance of what oan be done by agriculturists in tbis quarter of tbe colony, when intelligence, energy, and enterprise are fully brought to bear upon the climate and tho soil, we may mention that on the Iwr. of January Mr Walter Miller. Roxburgh, reaped w fine crop of oats-, fully ripe, and yielding 70 bushels to the acre. He then had the paddock ploughed at once, and sowed turnips manured with guano. Tbe turnips look well for being a good crop. Thus Mr Miller takes two first-class crops a yoar oil' tbe same ground, which is in no way superior to most of the soil in this quarter. Harvesting in tbe Wairuna is now in full swing, the reapors being hard at work in all directions. The yield will be fully as good as usual, though tho late storms have damatred a considerable quantity, more especially of wheat. A branch has 'been formed in (ilasgovr of tho Commercial Travellers' Christian Association. The society, which was established four years ago, has its beadquarters in London, and numbers 1400 members, of whom 50 are ia Glasgow. The chief objects of tho society are to encourage habits of temperance among tbe members, aud to establish small libraries in the hotels throughout the United Kingdom frequented by commercial men.

The Emperor of Brazil, who is afc present travelling in Egypt, met with a disagreeable adventure the other day in Cairo, according: to tho Europe Diplomatique. His Majesty, it appears, is very fond of donkey riding, and one morning, having descended into the street in a jacket and small cap, with a light switch under his arm, mounted one of these intelligent little animals, and trotted off on an expedition through a labyrinth of back streets, better known to the donkey than, to its rider. On returning from his ride, not wishing to alight from the donkey in front of his hotel,, "he pulled it up a few huudred yards from the building, and not having any " small change '•' in his pocket, gave the donkey driver a guinea instead of a piastre. The donkey driver, however, had never before seen a coin of this nature, aud, looking first at the guinea and then at the Emperor, came to the conclusion that the guinea was merely a worthless counter, and that an attempt was being made to "chisel" him. The row he made was terrific. Rushing after the Emperor, who had walked off at a rapid pace towards the hotel, where his suite were anxiously awaiting him, the donkey driver assailed his Imperial Majesty with all the most horrible oaths in the Arab vocabulary. The Emperor, who does not understand a single word of Arabic, but saw that the man was laboring under a misapprehension, endeavored in vain to explain to him that the coin was gold and not copper. In the meantime other donkey drivers hurried to the spot, and, taking the part of their mate, followed the Emperor with a storm of imprecations. Thus, surrounded by a, mob of donkeys and their drivers, the hapless Don Pedro at last reached his hotel, where the whole affair was explained, and the donkey drivers, discovering the true state of the case, miraculously disappeared in the twinkling of aa eye. Mr Millais is painting a portrait of Mr Carlyle, which will appear in the next exhibition of the Eoyal Academy. We clip the following from a Home paper, which gives ample evidence in itself of the rapid progress London is still making :—■' In the course of twenty-four hours no fewer than 9_2 trains pass through Clapham Junction, on the southwest of London ; in the business part of the day they go through at the rate of seventy-five trains an hour. There are thirteen lines of rails, and the Southwestern Railway alone has thirty signals, all controlled from one box. Mr Baker, late Colonel 10th Hussars, has had considerable difficulty with the Turkish authorities, who desired that he should accept the post of second in command of a cavalry regiment under a Pasha, while Mr Baker not unnaturally considered himself entitled to a full regimental command. Mr Baker has returned to London, but will stortly again proceed to the East. The San Francisco News Letter tells the" following: — "A pathetic story has been going the rounds of the papers as to the manner in which Wachtel, the great tenor, first became known and famous. This narrates how he was originally a poor cab driver at Dresden, and that one wintry night, as he was singing to himself upon his box, the audience ofthe Grand Opera begau to disperse ; how the entranced multitude gathered around the unconscious cabby ; how he finished his solo amidst a storm of applause ; aud how, the very next day, a large purse was subscribed to send him to the Conservatory at Paris. Mr Schengler, who lives over on ftincon Hill, and who is also a German, was much affected by this story, and as he, too, has a voice, he determined to be sent to Paris at once. So, on Thursday evening, he waited until the California Theatre began to let out, and, mounting the box of a hack in front of it, he lifted up his voice and Bang. The tumultuous crowd was instantly hushed, and stopped transfixed, as, with closed eyes, the absorbed singer sat, his whole inspired soul floating out in glad triumphant noise. The selection by Mr Schengler was ' Tommy, make room for your Uncle,' one of the best of its kind, but we regret to say that at the end of the third verse a brickbat struck Mr Schengler immediately beneath tbe right ear, knocking him over the dashboard, following which he was walked over aud his neck stepped upon by the thoughtless throng. Mr Schengler is convinced there is a fraud about this Wachtel story somewhere." News has been received in Melbourne from the Cape to tbe effect tbat the information with regard to Mr Stanley, the American explorer's, atrocities caused much surprise afc Zanzibar. It is said that on the representation of the Aborigines Protection Society, the British consuls on the east coast are instructed to notify to Mr Stanley that in consequence of the outrages on the natives in the interior committed by him under the British flag, he is to quit Africa. It is said that he will be placed under arrest at the first port he reaches on the coast. In describing a now organ, a country editor says : — " The swell died away iv delicious suffocation, like one singing a sweet song under the bed clothes." Intelligence has been received that Captain Boyton bad accomplished the feat of swimming down the river from Turin to Ferrara, a distance of 800 miles. On reaching the latter place he is stated to have been received with great enthusiasm by the foreign as well as the Italian residents. In November he swam from Turin to Castel Nuovo in his lifesaving dress, 260 miles, in 83 hours, but was obliged to leave the water, feeling thafc a fever, caused by the malarious atmosphere of the river and. his exertions, was coming upon him. He was laid up for several days at Castel Nuovo. On starting again from that place, however, he completed tbe journey down tbe Por to Ferrara, 280 miles, in 96 hours, without a siugle break. Tbis be states to be the last, as it has been the longest, of his feats. Divine services will be held on Sunday next as follows : — Church of Englaud, at Makaretu. at 11 a.m. : Onga Ouga, at 3 p.m., and Waipukurau, at 7 p.m. ; by the Rev. A. Shepherd, at Maraekakaho, ; at 3 p.m. Mass will be celebrated by Rev. _. 'Reignier in Waipawa on St. Patrick's Day, afc 7 a.m., and on Sunday next at 11 a.m.