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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3886, 30 March 1877, Page 2

A fatal accident occurred off tlije Mangakuri last Wednesday, resulting in the death by drowning of James Field, of the s.s. Sir Donald. It appears that the deceased and three other men belonging to the Sir Donald were pulling ashore in the Sir Donald's boat, for the purpose of landing their cargo of station stores and grass seed at Mangakuri, when a large roller broke over the boat and capsized it. The three men who were saved managed to grasp the boat's oars, and by this means were enabled to keep above water until the rollers washed them up high and dry on the beach. The deceased was seen with one arm firmly clasped round a bag of grass seed, and seemed apparently to be half-stunned. The bag of seed floated until the water soaked through, and then it sank, carrying with it the deceased. The body had not been recovered when the Sir Donald left for Napier. Monday, the 2nd of April, lias been appointed for the commencement of duck shooting in the Hawke's Bay district, and the Ist of May for pheasant shooting. The sale of the Regatta privileges took place last night, and f etched the following prices :— Booth, £11 10s (Mr Benjamin) ; fruit, £1 (Mr Cohen) ; cards,. £l 10s (MiBen jamin.) A cricket match is arranged to be played on Saturday, at Taradale, between elevens of the Waipukurau and Napier Cricket Clubs. The following is the Napier team —Messrs Slaclen, Knight, M'lntosh, Cotterill, Gillman, Gilberd, W. Caulton, Mayo, H. 0. Caulton, G. E. Ellis, and J. Dinwiddie. On Monday next an eleven of the Napier club will go to Waipukurau and play an eleven from Porangahau. The following will represent Napier—Messrs Sainsbury, Goudy, Campbell, Cotterill, It. Brathwaite, Sladen, Grace, M'lntosh, Knight, Bennett, and Parsons. On Saturday morning a coach will leave the Criterion Hotel at 9.30 to convey players to the ground. ■ The Chicago Minstrels' performance last night was fairly attended, and appeared to give satisfaction to the audience, MiHawkins' fine alto singing, andthedanciiig of Messrs Arlington and Wallace being again special features of the entertain" ment. To-night a sacred concert is announced. We beg to draw attention to an able and telling letter which appears in another column, on the subject of the undervaluation of the sheep runs in some parts of the province. The only business at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday was the civil case of Wilson v. M'Kay,' which had been adjourned twice before in consequence of the summons not having been served. Mr Rees appeared for plaintiff, but as defendant did not appear, the case was adjourned until next court day. The name of Mr R. Beetham, R.M., we observe, has been added to the committee of the Hawke's Bay Hospital. To-morrow will be the last day for sending in claims for registration on the electoral roll.

A native meeting of a very interesting character took place at the Paid Paid on Wednesday last. Upwards of three hundred people were present, including all the principal chiefs of the Hawke's^Bay district, besides visitors from the Uriwera Arawa, and Wnirarapa, tribes. The meeting was a direct result of the discussion at the Omahu meeting of a few days back on the subject of drunkenness. Daring the talk at Omahu, Urupene Puhai-a called special attention to his own settlement at Paid Paid, and said that a large number of his people, had. become habitual drunkards. He asked the Omahu meeting to appoint a committee of chiefs to proceed to Paid Paid and make enquiry into the correctness of his statements, and his request was agreed to. On Wednesday the meeting took place. Renata, Karaitiana, Henaro Matua, Hena.ro Toinoana, and other leading natives conducted the enquiry. The result of the meeting was that all parties, including the defaulters, agreed to prohibit altogether the introduction of liquor into the settlement. It wotild be well if the other native settlements followed suit, ! for the Maori can never hope to rise much above his original level so long as he gives himself up to a vice which : the pakeha regards as degrading in the extreme. The Native Lands Court will sit at Waipawa on the 12th April) when the rehearing of the claim of Atareta Taupe will be heard.

Mr Friberg has resigned his appoint- 1 ment as judge of the Assessment Court' for tlie County of Waipawa, and Mr Beetliam is appointed in his place. We understand that Mr George Beetliam, of the Wairarapa, a brother of our Resident Magistrate, has concluded negotiations for a lease of Te Apiti and , Kanakau Blocks, adjoining Mr Meinertzhiigen's Waimarama run on the coast. Mr Fitzroy, M.H.R., is said to be a pvrtuer with Mr Beetliam in the speculation. The natives of Takapau are about to take active steps to carry out their proposed township and special settlement project at Takapau. The land to be placed in the market adjoins the railway station, and is of siifficient area to provide for the comfortable settlement of a largo number of small farmers. Our West Clive correspondent writes : — Since my last, Mcllle. Atlanti gave a very successful entertainment, and was not only well patronised but thoiwighly appreciated by the residents of Clive and Farndon. — I regret to say that Mr Giffard is not likely to obtain any compensation from the Government for their taking possession of, and destroying property that cost him nearly £SOOO, but it is said he intends at once taking legal proceedings for the amount which he thinks himself entitled to. I have no doubt the Supreme Court will be busy with it at its next sitting, and, doubtless, find plenty of food for the legal fraternity. — Mr Whiteman purposes taking out a license and resuming his late business as auctioneer. — The moving of sheep up and down the road is something more than has taken place for years, but the majority is going in the direction of Poverty Bay, and the number anticipated to be boiled down will be very much less than estimated. This, no doubt, will have a tendency to limit the amount of employment during the next few months, and in consequence thereof make both Clive and Farndon dull. — The manufacture of guano is about to be started at once and during next week I will be in a position to enlighten your readers as to its component parts. — Mr Bold is taking active steps to have Merritt's corner and Hamlin's point filled so as to prevent any future flood from either crossing the railway or main road. — Mr Lynn, the late overseer under provincial institutions, is busy repairing the road to Pakowhai, at the same time giving Ms attention to the Ngaruroro bridge.— Potatoes are amazingly cheap, and almost becoming a drug in the market. We learn from Waipawa that at the official declaration of the poll yesterday, Mr Johnston was declared elected by a majority of 24.

At the general meeting of the Napier Cricket Club, held on Tuesday evening, it was decided to make another effort to render the. enclosed portion of Clive Square suitable for cricket. Tenders are at once to be called for covering the ground with six inches of black vegetable soil, and levelling it by brush harrowing it, or otherwise ; it is then to be sown with grass seed. The fencing is also to be improved and strengthened. We trust that after all this trouble and expenditure the ground will be available for cricketing purposes next season. We hear, on good authority, that a . weekly paper is to be started at Wairoa immediately. The plant, we are informed, has already been forwarded to that place. ' We have not heard what the name of our new contemporary is to be. Mr Webb, proprietor of the Poverty Bat) Standard, is understood to be the projector of the undertaking. The fifth anniversary of the United Methodist Free 1 Cmirch Sunday-school will be celebrated this evening, when a public tea meeting will take place in the schoolroom, Emerson-street. After tea, adjournment will be made to the Chapel, where several addresses will be delivered, and hymns sung by the children. The following gentlemen have been invited by the teachers to take part in the meeting : — Revs. J. Berry and J. Parkin, Messrs Hawken, Doney, Hambling, and Moore. On Sunday next special services will be held and collections made in aid of school and library funds, the Rev. J. Parkin officiating morning and evening, the Rev. J. Berry in the afternoon. Altogether a successful anniversary is expected. Messrs Routledge, Kennedy and Co. will sell to-morrow (Saturday), at their rooms, Tennyson-street, at 11 o'clock, a consignment of fruit, ex Rotorua, after which they will dispose of a quantity of household furniture. A _ meeting has been held at Milton to consider the advisability of forming a clothing factory in the Tokomairiro district. The meeting was largely attended by the business men of the town, and a resolution was carried affirming the desirability of establishing an industry of tlio kind. The Thames Advertise)' of March 20 says :— " The prompt action of the County Council in voting an amount for testing the coal deposits known to exist in the county, and the importance of the matter to this community, is borne out by the fact that the favorite s.s. Rotomahana made the trip from Auckland to the Thames yesterday under steam generated from Miranda coal. She made the trip under four hours and a-half, and the steaming capabilities of the coal gave the engineer the greatest satisfaction." Westport must be in a nourishing condition when the building society there has £450 at bank interest, lacking more profitable investment. The Times says "there seems little present demand for money." The Bank of New South Wales has just completed the erection of substantial iiew buildings in Paliuerston-stroet. A meeting of tlie shareholders in the J?rt')ii)i(/ Mail newspaper company, Oamaru, is fixed by Gazette notice for the 2nd of April next, for the purpose of confirming a resolution previously passed, authorising the directors to sell the paper and plant, and to wind tip the company. A meeting of persons interested in the Kaikora steeplechase meeting, to be held on the 24th May, is convened by advertisement in another column, to take place at the Kaikora Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening, at 7 o'clock. The Printer's Beg inter perpetrates the following : — Why do printers not succeed to the same extent as brewers'? — Because printers work for the head, and brewers for the stomach ; and where twenty men have stomachs but one has brains.

It is imderstood (says tho writer of the "Lady's Letter" m the Australasian) tli.it among the " eventualities" which are being discussed is that of the Duchess of . Edinbiu-gh being obliged to choose between Russia and England as a place of abode in the event of wan The Queen thinks her husband's country is the Duchess's proper home, but the Duchess does not like England and does like her own way, so that the decision is likely to be in favor of Russia. . . . I regret to say that Mademoiselle Tietjens 1 is in very bad health, and though her indomitable energy and her high spirits carry her tlirough an amount of work which is a matter of constant surprise to her friends, it is by no means likely that she Anil be able for the tremendous labor 6f an operatic season, of which the greater part of the burthen should be thrown upon her. It is not expected that much novelty wall characterise either the Drurylano or the Covent-garden opera programme. Unfortunate domestic circumstances are troubling ''Madame Adelina Patti, and there is a frightful dearth of tenors at both houses. ... One of our best and most respected actors is passing away from vs — Mr Cdmpton. He has been ill, for a long time, and his case is now hopeless, though it may be* very lingering. A performance for his benefit, in which all the leading members of the profession will take part, is announced, and a subscription list is opened, which is warmly responded to by the public. He was a very finished and clever actor, with a curious dry humour and comical gruff voice. My -latest -impression of him is in the 'character of the Gravedigger, in "Hamlet," the. wit of whose utterances I have always ventured to think is rather forced and feeble. My earliest impression dates from nearly 20 years ago, when he played a part in tho " Overland Mail." • ._ We .clip the following from the Melbourne Age -. — ' ' The 'aborigines of Australia do not feel the heat in summer nearly so much as white people, and it .would appear that trees indigenous to the soil are in like manner proof against heat and drought, whereas those imported suffer severely. A visit to the suburbs where the ground has not been irrigated during the recent dry weather will show I that English oaks, elms, poplars, and fruit trees have been shedding their leaves as though it were the end of . autumn, whilsttlie leaves on the indigenoxis trees are firmly set and green, although not fresh looking." A year ago a young lady, on arrival in • Westland, was seized with what was supposed to be typhus fever, and the Araliaura Board of Health took charge of the case, quarantining the patient and providing nurses for her at Stafford. It appears from the proceedings at a recent meeting of the Board that the debt they incurred, apart from the patient's own liabilities, amounted to £83 8s Id. The committee, whilst recommending the payment of the same, called attention to the shameful waste of provisions. Mr Sandle said that in three weeks two and a half cords of firewood, five bottles of brandy, thirty- ] three bottles of ale, and eighteen bottles of porter had been consumed. ■ The account was' passed. As the patient was for a considerable part of the time delirious, the consumption of these quantit ties is only explained by the suggestion that her Sairey Gamp had been often " so dispoged," or that some other attendant had simulated the example of the hotel waiter who so amicably "assisted " David Copperfield at dinner. The Argus of March 20 says :— •" At a meeting of the shareholders in the Reformer (Temperance) Newspaper Company, held in Mr Fraser's room, Mannersstreet last night, it -was resolved to increase the capital of the company to £1000 instead of £500, as previously decided upon. The latter proposal was ■ made owing to the fact that upwards of 500 shares had been applied for in Wellington alone. Instructions were given to the secretary to place himself in communication with other towns in the colony, with a view to getting the paper represented as largely as possible throughout New Zea-

land. The folio-wing are late telegrams from the Melbourne Argus : — London March 10.— The Wellington (N.Z.) 6 per cent, loan of £200,000 has been subscribed at an average of £101§. The tenders amounted to £790,000.— The army estimates which have been submitted are £14,500,000 sterling, and the navy estimates £10,750,000 ; together £25,250,000. , — The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamers via the Cape of Good , Hope for Melbourne, are advertised to leave as follows : — The Lusitania in June, the Chimborazo in August, and the Cuesco in September. ■' . A notice; taken from the Aiickland Weekly News, appeared in our columns a ! few days ago of the Californian Soap "Plant, Scilla Pomeridiana. 'Mr Sturm has since sent us a specimen of the plant. ■ He furnishes us also with the following additional particulars in regard to it : — It belongs, it appears, to the natural order of Asp/todeliae Hexandriae the Moiioffi/niu of the Linnaean system. The bulb throws u\) a Mower stem from 7 to 8 feet high, well branched, which produces some thousands of small pink flowers from September to the end of January. It is as handsome as it is useful. . It is also "hardy, and our climate seems to suit it well. Mr Sturm had several specimens flowering in Ms nursery last season. The Wellington Argus says : — "lt is a lamentable fact that less than one per cent, of the population of the city are electors, and that whereas there must, be at least 4000 people entitled to. have their, names on the roll, only 1731 have their names there. This fact will militate very greatly against Wellington's chance of regaining her proper position and weight of pulitical power in the event of a redistribution of representation taking place next session. It will'be urged that two members are sufficient to represent 1731 electors, although not to represent a city of 17,000 inhabitants ; but it will be argued that the people of Wellington do not value political privileges, or they would take 'grea'tur care to secure . them. Had we 4000 electors instead of less than half that number on our roll, the Assembly could not withstand the just claim of Wellington to the restoration of its third repre■'se'ntative." It holds the Mayor to blame for this state of things, owing to the ratepayers' list sent in having been imperfect. The following extract from a letter from New York, dated 25th January, is published by the Otago Daily Times : — "You should hear the people* of this city cry out about the dull times. Yes, and they have reason to sing out, too. The suffering during the "winter season in New York and Brooklyn is something awful. There are thousands out of employment. The cold is intense just now, and business is greatly obstructed by the weather. Just think of the condition of some of the streets of New York in which the snow, scraped from the street car tracks and side walks, is piled up to a height of five or six feet. Thousands of loads of snow have to be carted away from some of the principal streets. In other streets the snow will lie all winter, and it is something terrible for the waggons and teams to pull through. Even where I am living — in a quiet part of the city — snow is about three feet deep, and that is mild to what it is in some other parts. This is a very severe winter, such as they had two years ago. I tell my friends this is a splendid climate for those who do not know of a better one, but that I do not happen to be one of such individuals. Fashion in France, England, and America requires a lady to wear her bonnet at all receptions, lunch parties, and afternoon, teas. The afternoon tea is after the English, and is simply asmall reception, with a cup of tea handed in the most informal manner, and usually takes place between 3 and 5 o'clock. Gentlemen may accompany the ladies.

In the Timaru Herald there is at present a sharp discussion going on between the editor' and the Tonic Sol Faists. The editor, who is Of the ortho- , dox crotchet and quaver school, began the campaign by taunting the musical dissenters on the - incompleteness, of their system. This brought a couple" of the : Sol Faists to the front, who have gallantly defended their system. The Argus of March 22 says :— " The remains of the late Mr G. H. Tribe were conveyed to their last resting place yesterday. The members of the Masonic body assembled at the residence of the deceased gentleman in. large numbers, Mr Tribe having been a prominent member of that order, and Upon the arrival of the hearse in Bolton-street, the brethren put on their regalia and marched in procession to the grave. The following Past Masters acted as pall-bearers ; — Brothers 0. White, A. Koch, T..M'Kenzie, E. D. Butts, T. J. Ladd, 0. M 4 Igglesdon, D.D.G.M. Toxward and the officers of the District Grand. Lodge were the chief mourners." The Nelson Mitil understands.that.the thoroughbred horse Don Juan has been sold to Mr Fleetwood) of Wanganui, where lie will be used for stud purposes next year. The Rev. J. M. Fraser will preach at Waipukurau on Sunday, all a.m\, and at Mr Pope's, Motuotaria, at 3 p.m. The Rev. ' Robert Fraser will preach in the Oddfellows' Hall, Waipawa, at ,7 p.m. . "Iwaivt some of that kind of soap,".' I Said a little girl to a grocer, " with which people are washed. overboard at sea." ;