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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3927, 8 June 1877, Page 2

Mr Collie's exhibition of transparencies at the Oddfellows' Hall last evening was moderately attended, but the spectators were evidently appreciative, and made up for the paucity of their numbers by the I loudness and frequency of their plaudits. The transparencies were projected on a white sheet by means of oxyhydrogen light with very brilliant effect. Some of the photographs of White Tsland were very striking pictures indeed. Altogether the exhibition was one of very much more than ordinary merit, and we cannot but regret that it took place on an evening when the counter attraction of the engine christening drew away so many persons. We have no doubt that if Mr Collie will repeat his exhibition on some other evening it will be very largely patronised. A football match will be played on Saturday next between twelve Auckland football players and a similar number of the Napier Club. The names of the players are as follows:— Auckland — Bodle, Davy, Davies, Duncan, Gilberd, Grace, Gully, Ridings, Severn, Von Tempsky, Williams, and Rees (captain). Napier — Bogle, Bourkc, Caldwell, Craig, Dewes, Gibbons, Hansard, Hill, Lambert, Shantl, Tabuteau, and Morgan (captain). Emergency men : Skeet, Carnell, and Brooking. Play to commence at 2.30 sharp. Should the weather be fine a very good game is anticipated. We hear that the Victoria Small Farm Association have sent to the Waste Lands Board their approval of the new rules published in the Herald a short time ago.

The person referred to in yesterday's Heraxd, in connection with a reported "case of great distress" was brought up at the Waipawa Resident Magistrate s Court yesterday, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment under the Vagrancy Act. The prisoner, whose name ia H. Spencer, was brought down to the gaol last evening by Sergeant M'Guire. The Napier Gymnasium Club's entertainment will take place at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. In addition to an attractive programme of songs, duets, exercises on parallel bars, &c,, Professor Taylor has kindly volunteered to give his assistance. We hope to see a lai'ge attendance. We are requested to state that Pastor Neilson will conduct Divine worship in Scandinavian this evening, in the gallery of Trinity Church, at 7.30 p.m., and next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday (before J. A. Smith, Esq., J.P.), John Henderson, who had been arrested for drunkenness, forfeited his bail of £1. A case of assault, arising out of a quarrel between some Scandinavians, was to have been heard, but the parties agreed to settle their differences without coming before the court. There was no other business. The Lycll Argus is publishing a story. " Thirty-seven years in the Colonies ; oi', the Lost Tribes," is the title. The opening paragraph runs thus : — " 'All right, a thumping boy,' said the nurse as she left the room. I turned naturally to mother to have a nip. I was a thirsty little soul, even in those days (mothers in my time didn't rear their children by hand or by i bottle. It was only motherless calves or foals that were fetched up in that way. Poor little devils.)" Chapters nothing to j five are introductory, and occupy only about a column of the very limited space of the Argus. A controversy has been going on lately, between the Cromwell Argus on one side and the Sydney Town and Country and Otago Witness on the other, as to the size of Lake Wakatip. The Argus stands manfully up for the lake, and insists that its average breadth is six or seven miles, the other two papers having made it to be quite a puny lake of some two or three miles across. The Wahatip Mail, however — speaking ex cathedra, that is, from official surveys — says that the lake is four miles wide at the broadest part, two miles across in the narrower parts, and runs to nearlya point at the southern extremity. Governor Caldwell's able-bodied and highly profitable labor gang on Bell Hill (says the Otago Guardian) narrowly escaped a wholesale burial without any funeral service the other daj r . They were just returning from their dinner on the line of march a few minutes before 1 o'clock, when, without any perceptible warning, the mass of rock at which they had been at work suddenly gave way from the surface, and over a hundred tons of bluestone rolled down. Some of the pieces were half as big as a private boarding house, and weighed many tons ; and so great was the crushing weight that two trucks beneath were literally ground into iron filings and sawdust. The afternoon was spent in clearing away some of the debris, but days will elapse before the whole of the detached rock will find its way to the harbor wall on which the prisoners are diligently engaged. The Otago Times says that at present Dunedin is like a worm with either end cut off. The ends wriggle in great form, but the centre is motionless, and if nothing is done will we are much afraid die. In all seriousness, the situation is becoming very critical. Every owner of property in Dunedin is interested in getting the railway communications of this town with the interior completed, and unless something is promptly done, farewell to the commercial supremacj' of Dunedin for ever. The port of Wellington is about to sustain a serious loss. That noble specimen of colonial ship-building which for tho last year or two has adorned Wellington waters — the Government steam launch, sometimes known as the "Perfect Failure," is being shipped on board the Hinemoa, for Kaipara. We trust that it may be ' ' long ere we shall look upon her like again. " — Wellington Post. "The Ritualists," says the London Echo, " have decided on the formation of an entirely new communion, and to secede from the existing Church of England, it is said, on the 29th of May next." "An archbishop and two bishops" are to be consecrated by " two foreign prelates" — we suppose these must be Mr Reinkens and the Jansenist bishop — and, " in order to avoid transgressing the law of the Church," they will take " English episcopal titles which have lain long in desuetude." Mr Tooth is to be one of the three. The missal and manual of the new sect has been printed. It contains directions for the administering of the Seven Sacraments ' ' appointed by the Roman and Greek Churches, with, the three creeds now in use, and the Decalogue after the English form, thereby closely resembling the Liturgy in use by the Irvingites. " "C.J.H.," writing from San Francisco to the Auckland Star, says : — " Baldwin's Academy opened on February 2-tth with De Murska, supported by Susini, Bianchi and some other good names. It was all to no purpose. The Hungarian sang divinely, but hardly anybody went to hear her. The reason is said to be a moral one. The excessively virtuous ladies of this city are shocked at the too much marrying of the nightingale," We should like very much to know (says the Daily Times) what reason the Christchurch Press lias for so confidently asserting that the whole cost of elementary education will, under the new scheme, fall on the consolidated revenue. It certainly is not justified in saying thai this will be the Government proposal by anything that fell from the Ministry last session ; and we can only suppose, so confident is the assertion now, that the Press is in the confidence of the Government to a degree greater than any organ in this part of the colony. A novel and interesting experiment has boon attempted in the Compound of the Strangers' Home, Mazagon, and there can be little doubt that ultimately great results will accrue from what at first sight appeared to have been not a great success. The experiment referred to (observes the Homeward Mail) was tree-felling by electricity instead of by the ordinary method of the clumsy axe. The patentees of the process are Mr 11. H. S. Parkinson and Mr W. H. Martin, both of Bombay, and the experiment was superintended by Dr Lyons. The plan is simple. Tho two ends of the copper wires of a galvanic battery are connected with platinum wire, which of course instantly becomes red-hot, and whilu in that state it is generally see-sawed across the trunk of the tree to bo felled. When arrangements were made for the experiment, it was never for a moment doubted that the enterprising merchants of Bombay were possessed of all the made thicknesses of platinum wire, but it turned out that the thickness of the thickest that could be got was only that of crochet cotton. It was at once seen that a wire of such thinness would be consumed before the tree was half severed from the trunk. However, the attempt was made. The burning/ wire performed its task very well so long as it lasted, but, as anticipated, the wire continually broke, and at length there was no wire left. There can be little doubt that with a stronger battery — the one used was only a twelve chambered one — and a thicker wire, the experiment would have been entirely successful. As it wss the tree was sawn one-fifth through. It is calculated that, under proper conditions, a tree, which at present takes two hours to fell, will come to the ground by this process in fifteen minutes. It is almost needless to add that there is no waste of wood, no sawdust. The process is one worth tho attention of all Governments engaged in forest clearing.

Turner who had part of his face torn away by a bull some time ago at Christclmrch, is now said to be out of danger. It is pronounced the most extraordinary case which ever came under the notice of medical men. Mr Darwin has received as a testimonial, on the occasion of his 6.9 th birthday, an album, a magnificent folio, bound in velvet and silver, containing the photographs of 154 men of science in Germany. The list contains some of the best known and most highly honored names in Europe. He has likewise received on the same occasion, from Holland, an album with the photographs of 217 distinguished professors and lovers of science in that country. At the conclusion of an article on the falling off in the Customs revenue, the Otago Daily Times says that " although the Assembly may decide to relieve the consolidated revenue of the payment in future of subsidies to the counties and boroughs, we shall not be surprised if the imposition of a land tax is proposed by the Government." A sad accident occurred at Leithfield, Canterbury, a few days ago. A little girl, 13 months old, daughter of John Boyce, ■was playing near where its mother was ■washing clothes, and caught hold of the edge of a tub of boiling water while the mother's back was turned. The tub, which was on a stool, capsized, scalding the poor infant from head to foot. Dr. Ovenden was at once telegraphed for, to Kaixipoi, and was promptly in attendance. In the meantime everything was done to relieve the sufferer, and being a particularly strong child, hopes were entertained .of its recover, but, after twenty hours, , death released it from its sufferings. Mr J. J. Tye will hold an auction sale of fruit trees, horses, potatoes, &c, tomorrow (Saturday), at the Repository, Waipawa, at 2 p.m. Divine services will be held on Sunday next as follows : — Church of England, at Hastings, at 11 a.m., at Havelock at 3 p.m., at Clive at 7 p.m. ; by the Rev. J. Shearman, at St. Mary's, Waipukurau, at 11 a.m., and Onga Onga at 3 p.m.; by the Rev. A. Shepherd, at East Clive at 3 p.m., and at West Clive at 7 p.m.; by the Rev. J. White, at Patangata, at 11 a.m., at Kaikora at 3 p.m., and at Waipawa at 7 p.m. ; by the Rev. R. Fraser, at Waipukurau, at 11 a.m.; by the Rev. J. M. Fraser, at Tamumu, at 3 o'clock, and at Waipawa at 7 p.m. Wesleyan services will be held at Hastings at 3.30 p.m. ; by the Rev. D. Sidey at Meanee Church on Sabbath first, at 3 o'clock. Mass will be celebrated by Rev. E. Reigriier next Sunday in the schoolroom, Havelock, at 11 a.m.