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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 4086, 9 January 1878, Page 2

It is on the cards, we hear, that a township will shortly be laid out at the lower crossing of the Manawatu, about half way between Woodville and Palmerston. Mr M'Kenzie, the proprietor of the hotel there, owns about 400 acres of cleared land, and contemplates having about half of it cut up into town and suburban sections. The name of the township will probably be Pohangina, from a river which at that point flows into the Manawatu. It will form the connecting link between the East and West Coast settlements. The immigrants by the Renfrewshire still remain on board the vessel. Yesterday morning at 5 o'clock Mr Tabuteau and Mr Fannin proceeded from the Spit in the Fairy, for the purpose, as previously arranged, of towing the ship's boats containing the immigrants, and landing them at the quarantine barracks, where provisions, medicines, and all requisites were provided. There the immigrants were to be located for a week, in charge of an officer who was engaged for the purpose of attending to them. The depot master, Mr Fox, went with the commissioner and the immigration officer, in order to set everything going in proper order before landing the immigrants at the barracks. A guide was engaged to go ahead of the ship's boats, and point out the channel, soas to prevent any delay, It was intended to get ten boat-loads of people ashore in one tide, but after all the trouble taken by the officials, they learned, much to their annoyance, that the immigrants refused to be taken to the quarantine buildings. The ship's medical officer, Dr Dale, was spoken to on the subject, but he distinctly refused to allow the immigrants to leave in the boats, and one of the male immigrants said that they would only go ' c at the point of the bayonet." The Fairy, in consequence, returned to port. Later in the morning she proceeded again to the Renfrewshire, taking Dr Hitchings, Mr Tiffen, Mr Tabuteau, Mr Kennedy, and Mr Fannin. Dr Dale was again spoken to on the subject, and he then said that there were three of the married women whose condition rendered it unfit for them

to go in an open boat, but he would not ■object to their going in the Fairy. This, of course, could not be acceded to, as it would be an infringement of the Quarantine regulations. A good deal of speaking ensued, Dr Dale continuing to insist that the immigrants should Hot go. Dr Hitchings put sonic questions to him with respect to a record book and other matters, but the replies were unsatisfactory. The Fairy then left, bait was shortly after called back by the Captain. In reply to his questions, he was informed that the Renfrewshire would be kept in quarantine until Friday next, by which time the required period of 21 days from the last convalescent case will have expired. After the Fairy had again gone, a signal was run up for the agent of the vessel, and Mr Balharry went out to her, and after communicating with the captain returned to the port. " The Shaughraun " keeps gaining nightly in public favor. Last night there was a still better house to witness it than on the preceding evening, and} if possible, the applause was still more enthusiastic. The success which has attended this drama wherever it has been performed is really remarkable. Mr Boucicault writes to Mr Wheatleigh that he has played it eight months in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco, clearing 123,000 dollars, which is equal to £24,600. " The Shaughraun" will again be presented this evening at the Theatre Royal. We have received two letters with reference to recent alleged occurrences in connection with the management of the police foree — one from a member, and another from an ex-member of the force. Both contain complaints against Sergeant White of exceeding his authority . and incivility to his subordinates. The legitimate channel for making such complaints is through the inspector's office, and until our correspondents can satisfy us that this means of redress has been refused to them we cannot insert their communications. We regret to learn that Major Richardson of Wairoa has received an intimation from the Government that it is desirable he should resign. It seems unfortunate that such a step should have been taken, as we believe Major Richardson was a very valuable officer in the service, and was extremely popular with the . natives in his district, which is an important matter. The district meeting of the United Methodist Free Church will commence on Tuesday, the 15th instant. The sittings will be held in the church in Emersonstreet. The following representatives are expected to be present : — Napier : Rev. J. Parkin and Messrs Moore and Hawken. Waipawa : Rev. J. White and Messrs Harding and Doney. Auckland : Rev. R. Taylor and Messrs Ooupland and Wood. Wellington : Rev. H. B. Redstone. Charleston :MrA. O. Cameron. Rangiora : Rev. W. Lockwood. Oxford : Rev. M. Baxter and Mr J. B. Jetson. Christchurch : Rev. S. Macfarlane and Messrs G. Booth and J. Caygill. A curious point has recently been decided in London. Thomas Phillips and Robert Cable were charged with being drunk and incapable in a public thoroughfare. They were in a cart, Cable lying down on the bottom and Phillips having the reins, but quite incapable of driving. The magistrate fined Phillips, but discharged Cable, observing that he could not fine a man who was simply drunk in his vehicle. It would be monstrous if a gentleman going home from dinner in his carriage were to be taken out and charged because he had drunk too much wine. The Hawke's Bay Insurance Company notify tnat they will be ready to take risks on the 12th instant. The half-yearly general meeting of the Colonial Bank will be held in Dunedin on the 30th instant, when an election for the office of director will take place. The candidates are the Hon. (late Judge) H. S. Chapman and Mr Richard Oliver. Two auditors will be elected at the same meeting. yjf It would be interesting (says the Wanganui Herald) to know if the following story, which appears in a contemporary, is founded on fact, and, if so, who is the hero ? — The captain of an intercolonial steamer is in the habit of urging a very sad case of distress upon the notice of his passengers. A widow, once in affluence, but now reduced, in delicate health, with a very large family of helpless children, in in want of the barest necessaries of life. Some people, he tells his passengers, as he takes out his subscription list, and button-holes them one by one in his own cabin, give much and some give little, but it is such a bad case that he hardly ever gets an absolute refusal. He has got as high as £5, but he does not disdain a paltry ss. A gentleman, who lately subscribed to the poor widow, went to the theatre on the night he reached his destination. There he saw the captain sitting in the stalls with a fine-looking, but showily-dressed woman. He asked one of the natives if he knew who the captain's friend was. The native smiled meaningly. " Did the captain ask you for a subscription coming over ?" " Yes," was the answer, " I gave a trifle." "Well," said the native, "that's the widow. " It is reported that Mr Ballance's portfolio in the Ministry will be either that of Treasurer or of Commissioner of Lands. We shall publish to-morrow (Thursday), the first part of a trip to the West Coast by our special reporter ; the second part will appear on Monday next. On Mondays and Thursdays, we may remark, the mail that leaves Napier in the morning reaches Palmerston in the evening, and Wanganui, via Bulls and Marton, by 11 o'clock next day. The Hinemoa was to have left Gisborne yesterday, and is expected here to-day with Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan. The latter will land and make some stay here ; Sir George will go on to Wellington. Mr Bold's successor as engineer on the Napier railway works is Mr Carr, C.E. He will reside at Kopua. We are glad to learn that there is to be a railway station at Ormondville. We understand that there is to be a meeting of the match committee to-mor-row evening, at 8 o'clock, at the Criterion Hotel, to finally decide upan the 22 to play against the Australian team of cricketers. In referring to the difficulty experienced in finding a suitable name for the Otago Harbor Board launch, a Christchurch I paper treats its readers to the following little story:— "The Corporation of Port Chalmers, in years gone by, when a knowledge of the classics or the element of poetry was not widely diffused among the inhabitants, had great difficulty in selecting a motto for their seal, and it took some persuasion to prevent the Council adopting the words ' Pro Bono Publico,' which a Councillor had once seen in front of a tobacconist's shop, and considered to be somewhat appropriate." In a recent cricket match between the New Wortley (Leamington) and Hamby clubs " several of the spectators ran up the wickets, and threatened to kill the umpire, or at least throw him into the beck ;" and later proceedings in the match are thus reported by a corrrespondentin the Yorkshire Post: — "Shortly afterwards the same umpire gave another batter out lbw, and immediately scores of the spectators rushed forward, o»o of them striking the umpire severely, and one or two of the visiting players got roughly used, a free fight taking place for some minutes. For a short time the match was broken up ; a crowd gathered round the pavilion, threatening vongoiwxco on the umpire if he dared to come out, and in these threats several so-called 'ladies' joined,"

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before J-. A. Smith, Esq., R.M.j NeilS L'ewishen, a Scandinavian, W&s charged with having been drunk, but it being his first appearance, and as he had been locked up about 24 hours, he was admonished and discharged. That was all the business. Some telegraphic correspondence has passed between Sir Hercules Robinson and the Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding- an ironclad for New South Wales. The Sydney Mommy Herald gives the following summary of the correspondence :■— " On the 23rd July, 1877, Sir Hercules Robinson informed the Earl of Carnarvon by telegraph that Sir Wm. Jervois had recommended the colony of New South Wales to purchase an ironclad for the harbor and coast defence ; that Ministers had submitted to Parliament a resolution to that effect, but that an amendment had been carried directing the local Government to arrange with Her Majesty's Government for obtaining and maintaining at the expense of the colony an ironclad for local defence, the intention being that such ship should be an Imperial instead of a colonial vessel of war, but that the cost of maintenance should be borne by the colony. Sir Hercules Robinson added that Ministers had withdrawn the proposition temporarily, pending further consideration, and enquired "whether the Imperial Government would be disposed to entertain the proposal of Parliament in respect of an Imperial ironclad if adopted by the Ministry. On the 26th September the Earl of Carnarvon telegraphed to Sir Hercules Robinson in reply that if Ministers propose colony paying for construction and maintenance of ironclad, Admirality would readily consider arrangements.' He asked whether a despatch on the subject were coming. On the 4th October Sir Hercules Robinson telegraphed to the Earl of Carnarvon in reply that no despatch had yet been forwarded on the subject of the proposed ironclad, because soon after the transmission of his telegram of the 23rd July, Sir H. Parkes's Government had resigned, and the question had not since been re-opened. He added that the matter must now stand over for the next session, but that he had informed the present Ministers that the Admiralty were ready to consider the arrangements advocated and carried by them when in Opposition." The writer of "Notes" in the Timant Herald says :— " We have been asked to : settle a dispute as to the nationality of the present Colonial Treasurer. One of the disputants declares that he is a New Zealand native. Not a Maori, of course, but born in the colony. Another is confident, after reading his Financial Statement, that he hails from the land of the shamrock and shillelagh. Both, we believe, are wrong. Mr Sheehan, the Native Minister, is an Irishman, evsry inch of him, but yet was born in New Zealand. Mr Larnach, however, answers to neither description. He was, if we mistake not, born in New South Wales ; where his father was a large squatter in the early days ; and his family are of ancient Scottish origin. They were originally Campbells of Argyle, but went into Sunderlandshire in the train of a daughter of the clan who married a Sutherland centuries ago. Their new hosts called the strangers ' Lornach ' or the men of Lorn ; and the epithet, slightly corrupted into Larnach, became the patronymic of several considerable families. Colonel Whitmore and Mr Fisher are the only Englishmen in the present Ministry. Sir George Grey ia, we believe, Irish both by birth and descent ; and Mr Macandrew presents every outward and visible sign of belonging to the land of cakes and bailey juice. Let us hope that, wherever they come from, they will one and all prove true patriots in faithfully and heartily watching over the interests of the nation of New Zealand. Dulce est p?*o patria mori. —'The more I see of the country the sweeter it is.'" The Nazione, which is a paper of some importance in Italy, comments in a guarded way upon a secret treaty concluded between Prince Bismarck and M. Crispi. Of course the exact language is not known, but the Nazione says that it has certain information regarding the text. The main ideas in the document are these : — An alliance, offensive and defensive, has been formed between Italy and Germany. During the coming spring Italy is to send an army of 200,000 men to aid the Russians ; the compensation will be the Trentin and a few islands about the Adriatic ; Germany will take Holland ; Austria, on her side will be allowed large compensation for her neutrality when the Ottoman Empire has been dismembered ; finally, England can take Egypt if she wishes, on condition that she remains neutral. The Nazione says that the situation of France was very freely discussed at Berlin, and Prince Bismarck was very much pleased at the idea of seeing her left out enth'ely in these negotiations. He frequently spoke of the necessity cf doing this in order to keep France quiet, and it was after hearing so much that M. Crispi gave way to his free criticism upon the political situation of his country. Apropos of Mr Gladstone's correction of the statement in " Dod's Peerage," to the effect that ho was in receipt of a pension of £2000 a year, the Pall Mall Gazette considers it worth while to recall the fact that the " Cabinet pensions," at the disposal of the Crown, are only four in number, the present holders boing Lord Beaconsfield, Sir George Groy, Mr Walpole, and Mr M. Gibson ; payments of Lord Beaconsfield's being of eourao suspended during his tenure of an " ollico of emolument." Each pension is of the value of £2000 a year, the recipient having to make certain declarations in rcspoct of his income previous to accepting it. It may be doubted whether a less lucrative profession than that of an English politician exists under the sun. Lord Russell told a committee of the House of Commons that he found his salary as First Lord of the Treasury inadequato to meet the expense entailed on him by his position as Prime Minister. So sensible was the late House of Commons of this fact that it was only at the earnest request of Mr Gladstone that his salary as First Lord of the Treasury was not raised to £8000 a-year. Notice had been given by a member of a motion to that effect, and there can be no doubt that it would have been carried. -In former times the case was otherwise. The official gains of Lord Sutherland, while Minister of James the 11., have been estimated at £40,000 a year. At a much later period the younger Pitt, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, received at least £10,000 a year, and had two residences rent free. And, perhaps, it is not too much to say that 70 or 80 years a^o £10,000 a year went quite as far as £15,000 a year will go now. Not indeed that Pitt cared for these things. It was only in deference to the almost positive command of George 111. that he accepted the Lord Wardenship of the Cinque Ports, while in 1788-9 he gave a more decided proof of his contempt for money. It was feared that regency might have the effect of depriving- him of power, and the merchants of London made no secret of thoir intention of raising a sum of £100,000 as a gift to the Minister. Pitt on his part was firmly resolved to decline tho present. Atone of tho meetings of the Scientific Congress lately assembled at Havre an interesting paper was read, detailing tho work that has been done by the Commission appointed by tho French Minister of War to examine how far balloonß can be approved and utilised for military purposes. The investigations of tho Commission were divided into threo classes — namely, those relating to captive balloons, to f roe- or postal balloons, and to balloons capable of being guided in any given direction. With regard to tho first-

named .balloons, the Commission has recommended important improvements in the manufacture of the material of which the balloons are made, in the manner of suspending the car, in the method of anchoring the balloon to the earth, and in the apparatus for generating the hydrogen gas used for inflation. For free balloons the Commissionhas recommended theadoption of a valve and ballast-discharging arrangement which act a\itomatically, and keep the balloon constantly at any height decided on beforehand ; and an improved grappling-iron for finally stopping the balloon has also been suggested. With regard to the third class of balloons the Commission recommend, as a means of steering the balloon, a screw, applied not as in most experiments which have been hitherto made, to the car, but to the centre of the balloon itself. The trials made with the steering apparatus suggested were, it is true, not altogether successful ; but the results achieved showed that it was possible, even under unfavorable circumstances, to cause the balloon to diverge several degrees from the direction in which the wind was blowing. Messrs Routledge, Kennedy, and Co. will sell, at the Taradale Sale Yards, this day, 50 head of mixed cattle, one wellbred bull, arid a quantity of superior hacks and draught horses.