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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3934, 16 June 1877, Page 2

A cablegram has been received from Messrs Watt Brothers, London, under date 13th of June, giving particulars with reference to some of the wools disposed of at the late sale. Greasy wool, good average quality, out of the Helen Denny and the Columbus, realised from 11-kl to Is Hd. We beg to draw attention to the afternoon lecture that will be given in the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday next at 4 o'clock. The lecture on Artificial Illumination and Combustion should prove exceedingly attractive to the younger portion of our community. We hope to see a large audience from our schools, as the lecture is of an exceedingly educational character. We learn that the performance to be given by the Hawke's Bay Dramatic Club for the benefit of the Napier Cricket Club will take place on Thursday, the 28th, instead of Friday, the 29th, as previously notified. We also learn that the programme has been altered, and the pieces now selected are " Used Up," and the burlesque of "Fair Rosamond," in addition to a musical melange. The tolls in the Hawke's Bay County have been let to Thomas Jefiares on the following terms :— Tareha's bridge, £90 per month ; Taradale-road, £50 per month. A jury has awarded the Rev. George Gardiner, Vicar of Box, Wilts, the sum of £5500 as damages for injuries sustained by him in a collision at Thingley Junction, on the Great Western Railway, in November, 1875. Mr Gardiner only claimed £5000, but the Lord Chief Justice amended the claim to the sum awarded. The case is probably unique. The Southland Times can scarce contain its exultation at the prospective loss to Dunedin of her commercial supremacy. The 'Times says : — " It is not pleasant to contemplate the prospect of departed glory, yet those who have lived in the colony for 20 years have seen wonderful changes during that time. It is long since Auckland lost her pride of place as the premier city. We fear before another decade is over Dunedin will also have to lament her fallen greatness." According to an Auckland paper, the katipo spider of New Zealand has made its appearance lately in various parts of North America, and great consternation is the consequence. One death has already resulted from its bite.

The return football match between Auckland and Napier will be played on the Napier Football Club's ground today. Play will commence at 2.30 sharp. The following compose the sides :—Auckland : Messrs Bodle, Davy, Severn, Von Tempsky, Ridings, Gully, M'littosh, Davis, Carnell, Grace, Bloomfield, Williams, Gilberd, and Hoes (captain). Napier : Messrs Carter, Cotterill, Bogle, Burke, Lambert, Liddle, Caldwell, Shand, Tabuteau, Hill, Craig, Dewes, Gibbons, and Morgan (captain). The title "Hawke's Bay" (says the Nelson Mail) is by no means a misnomer for that part of the North Island known by that name, for it seems to be infested with hawks. It appears theso birds are so numerous and destructive that a reward has been offered for every pair of feet brought in. The Rev. J. White will (D.V.) hold Divine service on Sunday next, at Makaretu school-room at 11 a.m., at Mr Harrison's at 2 p.m., and at Waipawa at 7 p.m. It is reported (says the London Daily News) that one of the largest colliery proprietors in the United Kingdom is about to experiment with Chinese labor in his mines. This would, indeed, be turning the tables on England with a vengeance. At the very moment when we are struggling hard against mandarin obstructiveness to providing the Flo wry Land with railways, we are threatened with an importation of Chinese coolies to assist in the working of our coal fields. Preposterous as the notion may appear at rirst sight, it may possibly take practical shape some day. Chinese labor has already penetrated into almost every quarter of the world except Europe. It is threatening to become one of the greatest difficulties of government in Australia, where the laboring classes are opposing a determined front to Mr Ah Sing. That enterprising and industrious individual is capable of turning out very good work, he is willing to try his hand at almost any sort of employment, and he accepts wages at which the white laborers turn away in disgust. His services have also come into large request in the United States ; New Zealand follows suit by holding out the hand of friendship to the übiquitous fellow ; South America is beginning to do the same ; and the Cape shows signs of inviting him to do the work the domesticated Kaffirs are too lazy to perform. The West Coast Times says :— Some months ago a number of persons, chiefly residents in Dunedin. who had acquired by purchase or otherwise several coal leases on the Mount Rochfort coalfield, formed a company with a nominal capital of £250,000, the floating of which was entrusted to Sir Julius Yogel, the idea being that the greater part of the capital could easily be raised in London. The Grey River Arr/ns is informed upon rcliabie authority that Sir Julius Yogel has written out stating that he had found it quite impossible to float the company, and expressing his intention to have nothing further to do with the matter. At the Norfolk Lent Assizes just held Mr Baron Bramwell, in addressing the jury, said : " I understand a good many gentlemen who are qualified to serve on special juries object to serving on the common jury. I wish to say, and of course T know what I am saying, it is not the choice of the under-sherilf to say whether this should be or not. There is a positive Act of Parliament which compels and commands it — to put special jurymen on common juries, just as much as though they were not on a special jury list, and their service on the special jury list is an additional service in respect of which they receive what jurymen do not generally receive — a special fee of one guinea. That wss the intention fifty years ago, when under-shcrifts throughout England made the same mistake, in thinking that special jurymen where not to serve as common jurymen. This has been set right by an Act of Parliament, and now under-sherift's cannot help it — they are bound to do it. I know a good many gentlemen think they are hardly used, but under-sherifl's cannot help it." At the anniversary tea meeting of the Albert-street Baptist Chapel, Melbourne, recently, Dr Cairns stated that he had au important proposition to lay before the meeting. Mr Spurgeon, the celebrated and eloquent preacher, frequently found it necessary to seek relaxation from his arduous duties, by passing a few weeks in France or Southern Italy ; and what he had to propose was that he should be asked to come to the colonies. Ho (Dr Cairns) was sure that if the proposal was properly represented to the rev. gentleman, and properly backed, it would receive his careful consideration, and he felt confident that he would accede to their request. He would snggest that Mr Spurgeon should leave England by the May steamer, and stay in the colonies until October. All his expenses would have to be guaranteed, and it would have to be distinctly understood that the trip should be one of relaxation to Mr Spurgeon, and not a series of constant work. Mr Bailhache, in reply, warmly supported the proposition, and promised that immediate steps should be taken to lay the proposal before Mr Spurgeon in an appropriate manner ; and it was decided that the clergymen present should lend their assistance in furtherance of the object. The Oamaru Harbor Board is in a great state of excitement just now, and is holding meetings to enquire into rumors affecting the integrity of the board, statements having been made in print that members of the board were interested in contracts at the breakwater. At the annual meeting for the election of churchwardens at Hatcham, the two late office-bearers were not re-elected. Mr Tooth's churchwarden, it appeared, had not been qualified for several years past, not being resident in the parish, and a Protestant was chosen by 186 to 20 against the Ritualist candidate, as the people's churchwarden ; care was taken that none but parishioners should enter the vestry. Mr Tooth purposes resigning the vicarage, and his brother, Mr Robert Tooth, will nominate the curate, the Rev. W. H. Brown. Considerable excitement has prevailed at many of the vestry elections, and generally the Ritualists have been defeated. A London paper received by the mail says : — " Many rumors have been in circulation during the past month concerning the health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. From an authentic source we learn that the Prince is suitering from an abscess, adjacent to the perineum, attributed to the effects of an injury received while hunting. His Royal Highness's stirrup slipped, and a severe strain resulted. The abscess has been opened, the patient being under the influence of an ;ui;usthetie. Perfect relief has ensued, and the Prince is doing well, although some time must elapse before the healing process is complete. The locale of the present injury is probably determined by the fact that induration — the result of inflammation, which first appeared after the attack of typhoid fever to which His Royal Highness was subjected some years ago — still affects the seat of the abscess. The inflammatory induration recurred two years after the fever, and it reappeared previously to the departure of his Royal Highness for India. Some return of the affection was experienced about a fortnight ago, and the strain received, as above narrated, caused considerable ecchyinosis. His Royal Highness has been under the care of Sir James Paget and Mr Oscar Clayton, and on April 11 he left England on his yachting tour in the Mediterranean for v few weeks, it will also be satisfactory to the public generally to know that the Princess of Wales, who has recently been too indisposed to attend any of the Court festivities, has gone abroad, but not on account of her health. Her Royal Highness's journey is undertaken expressly to visit the King of Greece. The health of the Princess is, we are happy to state, quite restored."