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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5005, 11 February 1878, Page 2

In reply to a question by Mr Phillips at Mr Ormond's Waipawa meeting, we may remark that Mr Carlile was not a member of the Provincial .Council at the time of the sale of the Pourerere block. la the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning, btt'ore JR. Beetham, Esq., R-M., Richard Hunt and his wife were charged by Alexander Jones with having unlawfully rescued certain cattle from bei»K impounded. Mr La9celles appeared, for the plaintiff, and Mr Rees for the defendants. The case had rather an important bearing iv oue respect, whether persons had any legal right to impouud cattle when such cattle were not trespassing on the impounder's land. His Worship eventually dismissed the case. Ben Allah gave bis final performance in Napier at the Theatre Royal ou Saturday night. There was a very good attendance, and the Professor appeared to please his patrons as well as at previous performances. 'On Friday evening, after the close of Mr Ormond's meeting at Waipawa, lie was interviewed by some members of the Oddfellows' Society in respect to the Friendly Societies Act. Mr Ormond admitted that the Act was framed on the one passed in England, and he promised to use his influence and best endeavors to have the Friendly Societies in Hawke's Bay placed on a satisfactory footing. He said he was pleased to learn that very nearly 300 of his constitutents were connected with Friendly Societies. Mr Leary made a long statement, in the course of which, he pointed out that lodges were shortly to be opened at Waipukurau and Ormondville. Mr Ormond afterwards promised to join the Waipawa Oddfellows' Society as an honorary member. In an advertisement in another column the Engineer-in-Chief invites tenders for iron rails and fastenings for the New j Zealand railways. A cricket match was played at Hastings on Saturday between an eleven of the i Napier Cricket Club and a Waipukurau eleven. The Napier Club were victorious in one innings, having scored 103, their opponents scoring only 56 in two innings. We are unable to find room in this issue for the scores in full. K. Brathwaite contributed 37 for the Napier team; Cotterill 29 ; and Gilberd 17. Thy L.iyal Clyde Lodge of OJfcllows wiil eo'r. J brul;: their minivers* -y loiuurrow evening at the Furndou Hotes b> a *iip;t'.i and ball. At the requestor several of Mr Mundy's friends, who on Thursday evening were unable to witness the exhibition of his views owing to the inclemency of the weather, he has decided to give two more entertainments, which will take place at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. A patent has been obtained in the United States for an invention of balloons so constructed that they may be made to ascend and descend an indefinite number of times without varying the amount of gas, and without the use of sand or other ballast, adapting them for use in serial navigation, in raising stone and brick in erecting high buildings, and for various other purposes. The invention consists in the mode of controlling the descent and ascent of balloons and other vessels iloating in the air by the buoyancy of gas, by the compression and expansion of the gas contained within balloons or vessels. When the balloonist wishes to descend he operates the mechanism and compresses the gas into the condenser until the specific gravity of the balloon is greater than that of the air iv which it floats, and it descends. Should the balloonist wish to check or stop his descent, ho opens a valve and allows enough gas to escape from the condenser into the balloon to effect his purpose, so that ho can ascend or descend any desired number of times without losing any gas, and without throwing out any ballast. The Dunedin Morning Herald tints refers to the provisions for school buildings :—" It is plain, then, that before the compulsory clauses of the Act can be pub into force, fresh school buildings must be got somehow; and even should it be deemed expedient to let them lie in abeyance, still further accommodation ought to be provided, although of course to a less extent than if attendance were made ■ H^BHijj^^^nb^^^^ralj^^rmgstioilof

from is a long way from being so clear. £50,000 was voted by the Assembly out of loan for school buildings last session, but this was for the whole colony, and even if this sum were distributed amongst the different provinces piv rata according to population, Otago and Southland's share would only be about £15,000, roundly speaking ; but of course, under tho new ' colonial ' system of doing things, the Ministry might think it its duty to spend the greater part of it in the North Island, in some localities in which school buildings are needed even more urgently than in Dunediu. The amount voted is obviously too small by a long way ; but that is no reason why the Dunedin Committee should not make vigorous demands to have its wants supplied. Mr Sfcout, inspired probably with the caution of an embryo Minister, reminded the meeting that the Government could not make bricks without straw — that the funds at its command for school buildings were extremely small — and hinted at \ the beautiful simplicity of a property tax as a means of raising the wind ; but we j are not at all disposed to assent to the Government shirking ' responsibility in this easy fashion. A proper system of educational finance was an essential accompaniment of an Education Bill ; but nothing in the shape of a real system of finance was devised by either Mr Bowen or his official successors. A guess was made at the annual sum which would be required for the ordinary administrative machinery of the Act, but no reliable data had been gathered by which the Assembly could form a sound judgment upon the sufficiency of the amount asked for, and when it became evident that a special grant was needed for new school buildings, the Go- | vernment took a vote of £50,000 at a venture, although a little enquiry would have shown that the sum was absurdly insufficient for the work which had to be ! done." The Hobarton Mercury states that Sir William Jervois declined to accept any I honorarium for his visit to Tasmania \ and his report on the defence of that f colony.