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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3906, 15 May 1877, Page 2

We liavo boon shown a private telegram from Alexandra, from a reliable authority. It says, in reference to the description of the visit of Mere Karaka and other Wairoa natives to Te Kooti, which appeared in the Hawkk's Bay Hki:ai,i> S()iuo little time ago : — " The article shows the Maori love of the marvellous. Te Kooti is really keeping quiet, and is less heard of in this neighborhood than at a distance." A meteor of unusual brilliancy, which for a time lit up the whole town as with a sudden blaze, was visible in Napier about 5 a.m. yesterday, it will bo seen from our telegrams that a meteor, described as being like a globe of (ire, also passed over Auckland yesterday morning. The lease of the education reserves will be sold at noon to-day by Messrs Turley and Braithwaite in the Council Chamber. Particulars of the sale, which will be on 21 years' lease, will be found advertisod.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday (before R. Beetham, Esq., KM,,) George Williams forfeited his bail of £1, for drunkenness. — C. H. Ingle was charged by George Scarf e with having, about the 29th day of April, 1877, at Napior, forged a certain order for the payment of £2 15s. On the application of Sergt. Robinson, who stated that Major Scully had been unexpectedly called out of town, prisoner was remanded till Thursday, the evidence for the prosecution of the case not being ready. We stated in our issue of yesterday that an application had been received from the members of the Jewish community in Napier to have a portion of the cemetery set apart especially for their use. The piece of ground granted by the trustees of the cemetery was consecrated on Sunday last by the Rev. D. M. Isaacs. Major Scully returned to town last evening from the scene of the late fire at Takapau. The Inspector examined the saw-mill minutely, and from the appearance of the place he considered that the fire was the act of an incendiary. There was an excellent house at the Oddfellows' Hall last night, to witness the first representation of " The Governor." The piece is of itself a laughable enough little farce, but its principal merit is its adaptation to the display of the peculiar talent of Messrs Baker and Farron. The plot may be very briefly stated. A young lady has come out to Trinidad, in the Firefly man-of-war, to marry the Governor of the Island, and during the voyage the First Lieutenant of the vessel has fallen in love with her, the attachment being reciprocated by the young lady. With the view of getting out of the difficulty, Corporal Mulcahy (Mr Farron) is induced to represent the intended bride, so as to impose upon the Governor. This afforded an opportunity to Mr Farron, of which lie availed himself with great success. His personification of the fictitious bride, his love passages with the Governor, and his "asides" as the Irish corporal, were irresistibly amusing. The affair is rendered still more comic by the Governor having induced his butler, Krakwitz Krippenhanser (Mr Baker) to act the role of Governor, and thus MiBaker and Mr Farron are brought together, sing a number of songs, and go through an immensity of comic business, much to the delight of the audience, who were kept throughout in an incessant roar of laughter. Of the other performers there need not be said much. Mr Reed, as the First Lieutenant, Mr Alexander, as a black domestic ; and Miss Lawrence, as Molly, rendered their parts sufficiently well. The character of Rosa, a domestic in the Governor's household, was taken at a few hours' notice by Mrs Baker, in consequence of Miss Alexander, who was cast for the part, being indisposed. It was Mrs Baker's first appearance on the stage, and she acquitted herself admirably. The piece will be repeated this evening. Yesterday, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, his Worship gave judgment in the cases brought before him at Waipawa last Tuesday, in which the legality of the rate imposed by the Patangata Road Board was involved. His Worship stated that road boards had power to levy rates from the Ist of July, and therefore the Patangata Road Board was justified in ' the action it took. The judgment would be for three-fourths of the rate, or for nine months, up to the 31st of March. It has been pointed out to us, in reference to the judgment, that the Patangata Road Board was not gazetted until August, and it does not seem very clear how, under such circumstance, the board had power to levy a rate from the Ist of July. The 3?olitinche Currcsponrfenz, a Vienna journal, says that in February the mobilized Russian army, comprising twofifths of the whole, was distributed as follows : — ln Transcaucasia, under Lieut. -General Torisameinkoff, 115,000 men ; among them, 95,000 combatants. For the defence of the Black Sea coast, under Lieut. -G eneral Sonieka, 100,000 men, 80,000 being combatants. In this number the garrisons of several fortresses are included ; in Bessarabia (now, for the most part, on the Danube), under the Grand Duke Nicholas 200,000 men, among whom 150,000 are combatants. There are, in addition to these, reserves, making up the total mobilised army to 000,000 men. With to-morrow's issue will be published, as a gratis supplement to the Herald, a map of the districts in which war is being waged between Russia and Turkey in Europe and Asia. Messrs. Baker and Farron will give a concert at' Waipawa on Saturday evening. It will be confined entirely to the songs and dances for which these two versatile performers have acquired so high a reputation. The entertainment will, we are sure, attract a large audience. After delivering an eloquent discourse on Sunday evening last in the Presbyterian Church, Gisborne, showing, amongst other things, the importance of attending to the practical as well as the doctrinal part of Christianity, the Rev. W. H. Root intimated to his hearers that, on Sunday evening next, he would deliver a sermon on "Tale-bearing and Talebearers." The rev. gentleman was understood to hint that any members of the congregation, or any of their friends, who might dislike hearing some homo truths, or who might feel that the subject bore special reference to themselves, had better remain at home, an intimation which, we need hardly say, will go a long way towards ensuring a crowded congregation. — J J .B. Hcrahl. Father M'Carthy, a Roman Catholic priest of Birmingham, has been addressing his flock on the subject of Ritualism in the Church of England. He says that though they eat, dress, and walk in imitation of priests, they are after all Protestant clergymen, ordained by Protestant bishops, and receiving Protestant pay to teach Protestant doctrines. They had subscribed solemnly to the Thirty-nine Articles, and were near akin to traitors by teaching doctrines essentially opposed to the Church to which they belonged. If they took the Roman Catholic ceremonies, they should also submit themselves to the Catholic Church, from which their forefathers turned. If they were anxious to become priests, she would make them true priests, and then they could go and work in the Lord's vineyard, and they would then be doing work for the salvation of souls ; but they too much considered the loaves and fishes. An action for libel is pending in London between the proprietor of Truth (Mr Labouchere), and the Hornet. One of the recent sketches in that paper was devoted to Mr H. Labouchere, and the printed notice attached to the 2>ortrait was regarded by that gentleman as libellous. It is not easy (says an English contemporary) to recognise the libel, but Mr Labouchere has legal advisers with unusually keen eyes, and acting on their advice Mr Labouchero has instituted proceedings against our lively contemporary. The surprise is that the present editor of Truth and the once proprietor of the World should be so thin-skinned about the matter. But it is an old and true saying that those who are regardless of the feelings of others are exceedingly sensitive and jealous of their own. There is so much enthusiasm about this case that a subscription has been opened on the Stock Exchange to defend the Hornet, and if Mr Liibouchere ventures to take tho case into court, it will probably be a perfect godsend to that paper. A singular scene was witnessed in a churchyard at Wolverhampton recently at the interment of a young man. As the mourners wore leaving tho grave a local publican went up and emptied a bottle of brandy on the coflin, making the remark that as the deceased loved the liquor in life he should have it in death. Messrs Margoliouth and Banner will sell to-day, at noon, at their stores, carpets, drapery, clothing, &c.

A new seam of coal, 13 feet thick, has been found in the coal mines below Ngaruawahia, several feet below the seam which has been worked hitherto. The two seams are separated by a layer of rock and fire-clay. The coal is of a supcrio: quality, closely resembling the Grey River coal. It is officially stated at Belgrade that the Servian losses during the late war with Turkey amounted to 8000 killed and 20,000 wounded. It is stated that the Dunedin Football Club purposes sending a team round the colony during the season.