Hawkes Bay Herald. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1877.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3915, 25 May 1877, Page 2

Hawkes Bay Herald. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1877.

A disastrous fire occurred at Waipukurau on Wednesday night, by which the stables of Messrs Gow and Scrimgeour were totally destroyed ; eleven horses were also burned, as well as three traps, a large quantity of oats, hay, and chaff. It appears that about half-past 10 o'clock Mr Gow, happening to be outside the hotel, discovered a fire in the stable ; he at once gave the alarm, and several gentlemen (two of whom were commercial travellers for Messrs Stuart and Co.) who were sitting in the hotel, biirst open the door of the stable, when a most horrifying sight met their view. The unfortunate horses were found to be all on fire, and were screaming fearfully. The fire by this time had got such a hold that it was found impossible to extinguish it. Of the horses destroyed we learn that two belonged to Mr David Hunter ; one of them had been purchased from Mr Drower the previous day for £35, the other being worth £25 ; three were the property of Mr Tyne, of Cobb and Co. ; four belonged to Mr Gow, and two had been in the use of Messrs Stuart and Co. , who also lost a valuable buggy worth about £150, and samples to the value of £150 more. Messrs Gow and Scrimgeour also lost two buggies and a quantity of stock in the stable. There is no clue, we hear, as to the origin of the fire, but the supposition is that it must have broken out in the loft. We understand the stable was insured in the New Zealand Company for £200, and the stock and harness for £1-00. The Napier Artillery Volunteers and Cadets paraded in front of the Herald office, under Captain Routledge, at 11 o'clock yesterday, and were marched, headed by the band, to the vacant piece of ground near Messrs Ellis and Robjohns brewery, for the purpose of firing a royal salute and feu dejuie. There was a good muster of both companies, and they had a very fine appearance. The corps were then formed up in line, with one Armstrong gun on the right. Major Withers was in command. Punctually at 12 o'clock the first gun was fired. After the salute and feu de j'vie the battery and cadets inarched past in review order. There was a large number of persons present. The Artillery and Cadets were then marched to Sergt. -Major Gray's to receive the district prize money, fired for some time since, and the tradesmen's prizes, fired for yesterday morning. The prizes having been distributed, the corps were dismissed. We hear that the Kaikora Jockey Club have taken off the disqualification from Mr Huntly (Barron) that -was put on him by the Auckland Club about two years ago. No doubt the Hawke's Bay Club will take the same action in this matter. Mr Huntley, we learn, is the trainer of Commission, the winner of the Maiden Plate at Kaikora yesterday. We learn from the Kelson Daily Times that the manufacture of Nelson' tweed, discontinued for a time, is now resumed, and promises (under the combined management of Messrs Webley Brothers and Rother) to assume a more important place among the industries of New Zealand than it has hitherto done. Mr Rother' s specialty is the manufacture of hosiery and flannels, and this will in future form an important branch of the business. Already orders are coming in from Dunedin, Auckland, and Christchurch, and present appearances predict for this important industry a long and profitable career. The Right Rev. Bishop Cowie, of Auck- J land, will hold an ordination service at St. John's Church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The Tuapeka Times complains that the gaol at Lawrence has been for the last two or three months a useless institution, except for the accommodation of a few " twenty-four hours' drunkards," and suggests that some of the prisoners from the Dunedin gaol should be removed to Lawrence. Probably a more economic course would be to abolish the Lawrence gaol. During the examination in the Hokitika District Court of Samuel Jacobs, an assigning debtor, Mr Purkiss drew the attention of the Court to the fact that the bankruptcy laws were allowed to be framed in opposition to the well-known axiom that no man was bound to criminate himself. A similar point has been raised in Melbourne and has been referred to the Judges. His Honor said that singularly enough the same matter had struck him during Mr Button's examination of the debtor. Mr Button thought that in the case before the Court, and in all such cases, the real fact was that ■necessilas non liahel leycs. A bankrupt was not bound to directly criminate himself, but it was possible he might do so from certain facts elicited in examination. A paragraph was lately published about a servant girl at Waikouaiti declining to brush her own boots, and about her employer, a clergyman, undertaking to discharge the troublesome but necessary duty. A correspondent of the Dunedin Slar defends servant girls as a class, and says : — " There are always two sides to a question, and I can't believe any girl would ask her master to clean her boots. I knew a kind gentleman in Dunedin who is very fond of bringing in coals and lighting fires ; perhaps lie has gone to Waikouaiti and has taken a fancy to clean boots. If such is the case, I only wish the servant girl in question had shown some pluck and given the kind old follow a good crack in the face with a boot." The correspondent ends his letter with a moral about " the pride that apes humility." A new Masonic Hall was opened the other day at Akaroa. The internal measurement of the building is 40 x 20. Two small ante rooms take 10ft ofi" the extreme length, leaving the lodge room 30 x 20. The lodge furniture was made in Auckland under the direction of Bro. Pearce. The pedestals are very elegant, not the usual enclosed tables generally in use, while the candlesticks and columns are beautiful specimens of carving, made from spotted kauri, the emblems of the principal officers are inlaid in dark wood in the pedestals. The working tools wore also made in Auckland : they are of different native woods, and form quite a collection of specimens of New Zealand timber. The hall, site, and furniture cost upwards of £400, and this has been contributed by a lodge only one year in existence. — So it tit land Times.

The quotation given below shows how long the Russian and Turkish question has engaged the attention of Europe. Nations have risen and fallen, great wars have been waged, and the face of Europe has been changed, but still the old question, which formed the subject of speculation two centuries ago, continues to bo talked of almost in the same strain. The following are extracts from an essay of Addison : — " The chief politician of the bench was a great asserter of paradoxes. He told us, with a seeming concern, that by some news he had lately read from Muscovy, it appeared to him that there was a storm gathering in the Black Sea, which might in time do hurt to the naval forces of this nation. To this he added, that for his part he could not wish to see the Turks driven out of Europe, which he believed could not but be prejudicial to our woollen mamifacture. He then told us that he looked upon the extraordinary revolutions which had lately happened in those parts of the world, to have risen chiefly from two persons who were not much talked of ; and those, says he ; are Prince Menzikofi and the Duchess of Mirandola. He backed his assertions with so many bi'oken hints and with such a show of depth and wisdom, that we gave ourselves up to his opinion. ... I at length took my leave of the company, and was going away, but had not gone thirty yards before the upholsterer hemmed again after me. "Upon his advancing towards me with a whisper, I expected to hear some secret piece of news which he had not thought fit to communicate to the bench ; but, instead of that, he desired me, in my ear, to lend him half-a-crown. In compassion to so needy a statesman and to dissipate the confusion I found I was in, I told him, if he pleased, I would give him five shillings, to receive five pounds of him when the great Turk was driven out of Constantinople, which lie very readily accepted, but not before he had laid down to me the impossibility of such an event, as the affairs of Europe now stand." Here is the sort of husband for which a San Francisco girl advertises : — " A man with good looks and plenty of money, generous to a fault and easy to manage, who keeps his carriage and will give his wife another, who lias a good time himself and will let his wife go to the matinee and opera without getting jealous or looking cross, who will give her an open credit and ask no foolish questions about what she does with her pin-money. A lawyer or leading merchant would do. A stockbroker having a seat in a big board would be preferred. I would not be unreasonable. In case of failure I would be willing to travel for a time in Europe, and as a matter of reasonable and prudent business precaution, I would have my husband put a first-class residence and all the valuable silver ware, furniture, and diamonds, in my own name, where they would be safe from the importunate demands of avaricious creditors." The rumor with reference to the Waipukurau election, which is all that we can give in the absence of any official declaration of the poll as yet, is that Mr Russell is 13 votes ahead of his antagonist, as also that a petition will again bo filed ; the time by Mr Johnston's side. If either, or both, of the reports turn out to be correct, we cannot s-dy that we would be much surprised. At Wellington the other day there was a tremendous earth-slip in Thompsonstreet ; a mass of earth, over a hundred tons, came down suddenly with a crash. Two men with a horse and cart had just passed ; had they been two or three seconds later they would have been buried alive. The Good Templars (says the Grey Hirer Arcfun) have created a new department in their Grand Lodge of New Zealand. This is the department of Grand Political Councillor. IVIr J. M. Morris, of Nelson, is the first holder of the olliee. Mrs Ncill, we understand, will give a concert in the Oddfellows' Hall, Napier, next Friday evening, June Ist. A choice programme will be presented. There is a very large old dog (says the S.Z. Times of the IGth instant) on board the p.s. Manawatu, who has been connected with that steamer almost since she was constructed. Latterly lie grew very weak, and was a great encumbrance on " cookey," and a nuisance to one of the officers of the steamer. To put '•'Crib," for such is the dog's name, out of the way, these two individuals, after mature deliberation, came to the conclusion that drowning was the easiest and most expeditious manner ; and accordingly on Monday night, the steamer going out of the port when it was blowing very hard and a high sea running at the Heads, Crib was placed in a bag, the end tied up, and quietly dropped overboard some three miles from shore. The two men who did the deed congratulated themselves upon having disposed of the poor old dog very nicely ; but the steamer had to put back to the wharf yesterday, and when the cook went home, to his astonishment Crib was there to give him a hearty welcome. His surprise can be better imagined than described. On enquiry it was found that the dog did not get home till ten o'clock yesterday morning, and the poor brute must have had a hard struggle for existence, for the night was extremely wild and the sea running very high when he was cast overboard. It is supposed that the bag nmst have become untied by the dog's struggles to get free, and he swam ashore at the pilot station. The old dog, which was once knocked about by almost everyone on board the steamer, has now become a general favorite. By the last mail Mr S. Brown, the contractor for the Wellington tramway, received the bills of lading of the tramway rails. As they were shipped in the Broomhall, which was to sail on the 10th March, they may be expected to arrive before the end of June, when the work of laying the tramway through the town will immediately commence. The Argus states that in order to facilitate the progress of the work as much as possible, the promoters of the company, when ordering their rolling stock, directed that one of the engines should be sent out as soon as ever it could be got read)', and it is intended to put it on the line during the work of construction. The buildings for the use of the tramway in Adelaide-road will shortly be completed. There is every probability of Mr Brown getting the whole of the work complete and in working order within the contract time, namely, 2!)th December, 1877. This is the way in which a manufacturer of pork sausages in >S;ui Francisco advertisers his vendibles : — Away from the land of her birth and loved of her youth, she met the relentless conqueror, and bowed her lovely head to his stroke. Other hands smoothed the long, brown tresses ; other iingeivs closed the blue eyes, and folded the gentle hands upon the peaceful, sinless bosom. Pure pork sausages — six pounds for ] dol., at William and Cook's, under Exchange." Mass will be celebrated by the Kev. V,. Reignicr next Sunday, 27th hint. , in St. Patrick's Church, Waipawa, at 11 a.m. Wesleyan services will be held at Hastings on Sunday next, at 2..'i0 p.m. On a farm near Thnaru a crop of potatoes just gathered in lias averaged fully iM tons to the acre. Messrs Routledge, Kennedy and Co., will sell, at 11 o'clock tin's morning, in their rooms, a large number of cases of apples, pears, and oranges, and also some Hobart Town jams. Mr Edward Lyndon will dispose to-day of a choice lot of fruit and forest trees, grown at Mr Sturm's mirsery, Clivo. The sale takes place at noon. Messrs Margoliouth and Banner will hold a cattle sale to-day (at noon) at their Taradalo sale yards. I