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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5089, 30 May 1878, Page 2

There was some uneasiness in town yesterday over the intelligence that urgent telegrams had been received from Wellington making enquiries as to the whereabouts of the Hinemoa, which had left Auckland on Sunday morning last with the Premier and the Native Minister on board. It will be seen by our Wellington telegrams that the vessel has since turned up. She arrived in Wellington yesterday evening. We hear that a gentleman here received yesterday a telegram from Queenstown that skating was going on on Lake Wakatipu, so firm was the ice on that lake. This, we believe, has not occurred there within tlie knowledge of persons who have resided within the vicinity for many years. We learn that Mr E. Collins, of Waipawa, has purchased the property of Mr Henry M'Neill, of Taonui, four miles from Palmerston North, consisting of 530 acres and house, for £5000 ; the stock and chattels to be taken at a valuation. About 250 acres of the land has been cleared and sown in English grasses, the rest is heavily timbered. The value , of rural land in the Manawatu must be decidedly in the ascendaut, as the sale of Burnside, Mr P. Manson's property, also near Palmerston North, in further evidence, 430 acres, partially cleared, with small tenements of little worth, fetching, two or three days ago, the price of £4000. We learn that George Edward Toop has arrived in Wellington in the custody of Constable Farmer, and will be brought on here in the Taupo this morning. The Supreme Court circuit sittings for Napier will commence on Monday, the 10th June, at 10 a.m. The calendar is not a light one, there being up to the present 11 prisoners committed for trial, viz. : — Michael GriiHn, criminal assault on a girl under 12 years of age ; Robert Cecil Carr, assault with intent ; Frank Stoddart, larceny ; Gotlieb Schmidt and Carl Schmidt, bodily harm ; John Peter Napoleon, alias Ceren, larceny ; Charles Burton, larceny ; Samuel Card well, larceny from the person ; John Harde Anderson, embezzlement ; Dennis Shanahau, bodily harm ; Wiremu Te Hau, cattle stealing. The civil business is likely to occupy the Court some time, as there are several important cases coming on. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court will also be held , before which a number of bankrupts will apply for their discharge. Mr Waterwrorth, of Dickens-street, has just finished an obelisk, which reflects great credit on his skill and taste. It is made of Kakanui stone, the only limestone which will stand the frost in England; it hardens with exposure to the air, becoming harder and harder as it bears the brunt of wind and rain. In early times the Maoris used to carve figures upon Kakanui stone, using shells for carving tools, and there are many of them still extant, quite unworn, though numbers of years have passed since the carving was done. It is of this stone, as we have said, that Mr Waterworth has constructed his obelisk. It is about 14 feet high, 3 feet 6 inches wide at the base, and tapers to 2 feet 6 inches at top. The piece in one stone, termed the panel, is 5 feet high and one foot thick. Into the front of this panel a slab, either of slate or marble, will be let in with the inscription having reference to the person in whose memory the obelisk is to be erected. On top of j the panel Mr Waterworth has carved in artistic style some Corinthian leaf with , petrescent flowers. The cap of the column is beautifully carved, the principal ornament being a thistle, the bloom of which has gone, leaving nothing but the husk — emblematic of life having departed. At each corner of the cap there is a corbel, one being surmounted by the figure of a lion and the other by that of a lamb — the conjunction of animals being intended to represent peace. In the centre there is an angel in the attitude of prayer. We understand that the obelisk has not yet been disposed of. It 13 certainly a very meritorious production, and o.ie should think it will not be long before it finds a purchaser. Tlie Kopua saw mills are now in full operation, with every prospect of doing a good trade, as their vicinity to the railway and also to an extensive supply of timber gives them a great advantage. The annual general meeting of the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute will be held in the Government buildings on Monday next, at 1 p.m., instead of at noon, as previously announced. Tho alteration of the hour is in consequence of the Education Board meeting at 11 a.m. on the same day. In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, John Boyle was brought up charged with drunkenness, and fined in tlie usual manner. A. number of gentlemen interested in the formation of a Mutual Improvement Association met last evening in the school-room of tho Wesleyan Church, Clive Square. The Rev. Mr Oliver was voted to the chair. It was resolved to call a meeting of all interested in the formation of such a society, to be held on Wednesday evening next, in the committee-room of the Athenseum, if permission can be obtained. It was stated to the meeting that the committee of the Athenaeum were willing to grant the use of their committee-room in which to hold tlie meetings of a Mutual Improvement Society, provided the memberg joined the Athenyeum as quarterly or half-yearly subscribers. /We are informed that the Working Men's Dramatic Club have proffered their Services for a benefit in aid of the funds rds the Ladies' Benevolent Society. A meeting of the society will bo held next Friday, when the matter will bo considered, and a reply given to the Working Men's Dramatic Club. We hear that there is si project on foot for the formation of a Volunteer Naval Brigade, and that a number of persons have put their names down, in expression of their willingness to join it. It is proposed to procure a boat or two for the purpose of practice, the means being partly subscribed by the members and partly procured from the Government, who will be asked to a;ive a grant-in-aid when the brigade is formed.

The Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society's annual meeting will be held at the Criterion Hotel to-morrow (Friday) at 11 a.m. We have to a'cknbwiedge the receipt, from Mr E. .Davis, Meauee, of a cheque for £2 \n aid of the fund for the relief of Mrs Groddard. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald says that the entrances to the Thames river are being made as impregnable as the approaches to Cronstadt. Mr W. Jones, the driver of the Napier coach, writes to the Manditiaiu Times, contradicting a report which appeared in that paper to the effect that there were 22 passengers and 5 children on the coach on the occasion of the recent accident near Kopua-. The driver says there were only 16 passengers. A highly influential committee has been formed in Christchurch for the purpose of getting up a musical benefit for Miss Rosina Carandini, although that lady left the Cathedral City some time ago, and at latest dates -was giving concerts in Melbourne. The early closing system is extending to all classes of businesses in Dunedin. Not long ago the drapers and tailors intimated their intention of closing at 6 p.m. each day of the week, Saturdays included. Now the tobacconists advertise their purpose of reducing their closing hours from 11 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays excepted, — New Zealander. The Ash b urton jM.ailsd.yß : — ' ' A Hawke's Bay paper contains the following singular advertisement, which, if correct, shows once moro how closely connected the Church is to petticoats ; ' A young parson, who has recently arrived from London, and has long experience in a large shirt manufactory in getting up linen, is prepared to take in washing and ironing on moderate terms.' The word 'person' perhaps was meant." At the Queen's Theatre, Dunedin, during last week, there was a prospect of an outbreak of fire when Dr Somerville was delivering a sermon. The building was being gradually filled with smoke from a chimney that had caught fire in the locality, and the smell of fire also being perceptible, a rush by the crowded audience was made towards the doors oi the theatre. A person assured the congregation that there was no danger, and imperative cries of " Sit down" were made from the stage. A large number of persons continued to make their waj out of the theatre, and the choir ther commenced to sing "Hold the Fort,' which seemed to have the desired effect. "The Fort was heW—Jßangiora Standard. The special correspondent of the Neu Zealand Serald writes: — "Would il surprise your readers to know that th( Hauhau Ngatimaniapotos spend theii evenings in dancing — not the old dancei — but the waltz, schottische, polka, anc quadrille. In all their vagaries dancim has become a mania with the young folk; lately, especially with the ladies. Tin girls take their pipes at every spell, bu they maintain the character of their se: amongst Europeans for being indef atigabli dancers. Both sexes dance admirably and nearly all the lads and girls play tin concertina well." It is also said tha King Tawhiao's son danced the Reel o Tullochgorum. at the Waikato cavalry bal a few evenings ago. The Italian Opera Company coneludei their short season at the Opera Housi in Wellington on Saturday even ing. The New Zealander says :- "The season cannot be designated i success altogether, but this may be attri buted to the fact that the company hai previously appeared in Wellington nnde: more f avorableicircumstances — that is as ; complete opera company, and that th tariff was made too high. What the com pany undertook to do was certainly ex cellently performed, and they deserve a least credit for this. The members c the company go South to-day per s.e Wanaka, and will give a season of thre nights at the Theatre Royal, Christchurch where, if they use good judgment, the; will open in their decidedly nierifcorion production of " Don Pasquale," as pro duced on Saturday night. Some idea of the enormous grain pro duction in Canterbury, and the wor] which consequently devolves on the rail way there, may be gathered from the fac that during the month of April las 32,500 tons of grain passed over the Can terbury lines (in addition to ordinar traffic). The gross total receipts fron these lines ior the same period amountei to £39,500. The highest amount realise* in any previous month was £32,000. The Dunedin JECerald says " that M T. F. M'Donough, Government Insuranci Agent, and a groom named J . Robertson had a miraculous escape from death a fey nights ago. They weredriving in a buggy and through the horse shying on the roac near the railway bridge, they were throwi over a cliff 30 feet high into the Moly neux river. They were carried by th< stream 40 yards. Robertson sustaine< severe cuts, but M'Donough escaped un hurt. The buggy was lost, but the hors< was saved by Mr Robson, a settler a Whitelea." As the Napier coach was being drivei over to the Post-office, Palmerston, yes terday morning (says the ManaioaU Times of Saturday) the horses were no turned sufficiently quick to cross the rail way line attheSquare/and thejconsequenc< was thatthey continued their course int( the cutting at the side of the track, anc capsized the coach. Amongst those or board were a lady, the hon. member foi Wellington city, Mr G. E. Barton, anc some others — yet although the lady re coived a good shaking, nothing serious occurred, and a few man-power succeedec lin righting the vehicle without anj damage. An aerial railway scheme, such- as ha; been talked of for the Mersey Docks, it now being earned out on a bold sr^ale ir New ?ork, where, after a good deal o] litigation, a company has acquired, by a decision of the highest court in the land, the power literally to override the rights of others in a manner rather astonishing to Old World notions of fair play. Notwithstanding that what the New Yorkers call "franchises" have been granted to street car companies over certain routes, the new overhead railway company has managed to obtain the power of planting rows of pillars in the roadway, and carrying their railway lines right over the whole vehicles. In London, many 'bus proprietors have had to submit to seeing themselves superseded more or less by the tramways, but in New York it is the tramway companies who have been thus dealt with after having invested capital in the construction of their lines. Nor have the property owners along the lines of route received much more consideration. They are to have a constant service of railway trains from eai'ly morning till late at night whistling and rattling by the first floor windows, and those of them who are shopkeepers may, if they happen to be located between the stations, have the satisfaction of sitting upstairs and watching trains full of somebody else's customers, running to and fro. In a free country like America, of course, the man who does not like it need not stay, but it seems just possible that so novel an enterprise may seriously disturb the value of the property in New York, and, indeed it has along met with a great deal of strenuous opposition. The entire scheme, now actually commenced, comprises, it is said, three milea of single line and six lines of double line railway, a large portion of the system being constructed on what is known as the "onelegged plan," the line being supported on single pillars, and many of the thoroughfares of New York seem likely to present a very singular appearance. — London paper. During the Queensland Hilary Term the Law Society laoved for no fewer than

four " rules " calling attorneys to account DI for cert&ui. grave mal-practices. The Brisbane Courier concludes a leader on W the subject as follows : — "lt is evident, fol we think, from the number of cases of ad this kind brought forward, that there is good reason for believing that the lower. branch of the legal profession in - < Queensland would be benefited by »«' judicious weeding, and we regret to say that we are of opinion that the B&fety ra/ of the public • outside of the profession is not at present snfficiently regarded by clj those who have the power to protect fo them; ttaless the Judges of the Supreme ra Court will put down professional mal- lei practices sternly) it would be better to wl abolish the monopoly granted to profea- cti sors of the law> and throw the profession ai open, to the public, as is done in America, e^ As long as we ate compelled to employ ac pcrticular men authorised by the Court it to practise, we have a right to expect that a| the Court will- protect dur interests by h< enforcing them to deal honestly with us." te RefWiii£ to jhe ser'riioiiic' repotting of a the American Press, the Rev. De Witt ° Talmage said in his genial way : " Now " all know that after the most ingenious stenography and the most thorough proof A reading there will be mistakes ; but this v . thing is very evident— the newspaper Press *' of this country has no grudge against the ® pulpit. It does not wilfully misreport . ministers of religion. In nine hundred V and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand v they would prefer to make an accurate a report. Why, there are mistakes in all P kinds of literature, in all kinds of printing c . and reporting. The 'Electric ßeview' was r by mistake advertised ' Epileptic Review ;' " the memoirs of Sully, Prime Minister of * Henry the Great, as the memoirs of Sally. , Daniel L. Dickena, the United States 1( Senator, told me that he thought that the v typesetters had cut off about ten years of \ his life. A French writer died of chagrin * at three hundred typographical errors in * hisbook. Anhotelkeeperwas overwhelmed ' at finding that his bill of fare represented him as selling ' mice ' pies when he meant ' mince.' The Rev. Pr l Todd having prepared a manuscript . of the ' Lives of the Saints,' found it : i printed 'Lies of the Saints,' By the 1 change of one letter, an enthusiastic ( reception of a political author read : The j air was rent with the 'snouts' of ten ■ thousand 'parsons.' Considering that : most reporters and printers do their work ; at night, and considering the oft inaccuracy of public speakers, I am amazed that things get on so well as they do." At Bristol recently an officer on removing to the work-house an elderly woman named Scores, apparently in a destitute state, found in her room four trunks. They were very weighty, and bound up with carpet. In them coins were discovered to be packed so elaborately that it took nearly two dayß to unpack the money — £154 10s 9d was in silver, £9 10s in gold, and £20 0s Id in coppers. The Rev. J. U. Spence will preach at Porangahau on Sunday, at 11 a. m., and at Wallingford, at 3.30 p.m. The Rev. R. Fraser will preach at Waipukurau, at 11 a.m., at Kaikora, at 3 p.m., and at Waipawa, at 7 p.m.