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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5328, 12 March 1879, Page 2

Wo learn from Messrs R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s monthly circular that during tho year 1878 the amount of avool received in London from New Zealand Avas 178,091 bales. Victoria exported nearly 300, 000 bales, and Ngav South Wales-and Queensland 175,249 bales, so that among tho colonial exporters New Zealand occupies tho second position. Tho total number of bales 'sent from these colonies to London Avas 784,950. We Avould remind our readers of the entertainment to be given this evening by the Working Men's Dramatic Club, in aid of the Kaitangata relief fund. From the successful rehearsal last night avo anticipate a good evening's amusement. We hope to see our toAvnspeople respond heartily to tho call of charity. Wo observe from a Wellington paper that Mr W. Balliugor, Avho has just Avon the champion rifle bolt in Nelson, is not yet twenty years of age, and that ho has distinguished himsolf on more than one occasion at rifle matches. Wo romind our sporting readers that tho general entries of the HaAvko's Bay Jockey Club Eaces close this (Wednesday) evening, at 8 p.m., at tho Criterion Hotel, Napier. In the general entries published yesterday for the Racing Club's mooting on the 17th instant, the folloAving entry for tho Maiden Plate Avas omitted : — " Rougha's Express." In our next issue Avill appear tho special railway arrangements for Monday next. Wo observe that trains leave Napier for PakoAvhai at 10 a.m., 11.30 a.m., and 12.30 p.m. ; and return for Napier at 5.5 p.m., 0.00 p.m., and (5.5 p.m. Single fare tickets for tho double journey Avill bo issued at all stations, and from Napier special excursion tickets Avill bo issued, including admission to the course. A temporary platform is being erected by the railway authorities at tho PakoAvhairoad crossing, and a number of toAvn traps Avill run betAvoen the railway and the course. According to the Gazelle, thirteen estates of persons Avho died intestate Avere placed in the hands of the Public Trustee during tho mouth of January. Of those one Avas declared under £4,000, one under £300, one under £200, three under £50, two under £30, two under £10, one under £5, and one under £2. From Christchurch wo hoar that at the meeting of the Exhibition Committee on tho sth instant, the Chairman said ho Avas going to look after the grain, and ho Avas sure that no country in the Avoiid need be ashamed of a collection such as he was getting together. Ho said ho Avould make as good a collection, if not a better one than that sent to the Vienna or Philadelphia Exhibitions, and added that he should like the exhibits shoAvn in Christchurch before being sent to Sydney. It Avas resolved that efforts should be made to obtain exhibits of boots, coal, cheese, potatoes, bacon, meal, &c, after which the meeting adjourned. Tho cabin passengers by the ship Warwick, which arrived at Wellington on Thursday last, Avero, according to the Post, all returned colonists, and included Mrs BroAvn and family, of Wellington, and Mrs Gibbes and family, of Napier. Captain Sexton has previously visited Canterbury, and Dr. Gillon is a native of Otago. At the rising of the Timaru District Court on Tuesday a man named Marshall created a scene by jumping up from his seat and demanding to knoAV by Avhat authority he had been summoned to attend there and his case not heard. Tho Court officials made efforts to pacify him, but he only assumed a pugilistic attitude, flashed a look of defiance at them, and continued to insist upon being informed as to avlio had the audacity to summon him to tho Court. Judge Ward asked him Avho ho Avas, and ho replied by asking the Judge Avho he Avas, and so matters Avent on until his Honor ordered him to be removed and kept in prison for twenty-four hours. Tho Timaru Herald expresses surprise that the Judge Avas so severe, considering that Mr White informed him Avhat Marshall's condition Avas. It could aftonvards havo been seen that the unfortunate man Avas not in his right senses, as, through his inability to realise his position, ho attempted to get aAvay from the police, and it gave tAvo of them enough to do to hold him. It afterwards transpired that Marshall Avas sued for a small debt in the Magistrate's Court, and, as both Courts sit in the same building, ho thought that Avhen his Honor rose to leave the Bench Avithout calling him, he had been brought into Tiuiii.ru for nothing. In our Woodvillo correspondent's last letter, dated March 3, it is stated that Mr C. 11. Bevan had leased his toAvn property. Our correspondent Avritos to us Avith reference to that statement : — " Since it has appeared in print, Mr Bevan has informed me that ho has not leased the said property, and desires mo to state the same in the Hekald, as it might prevent persons desirous of leasing the said property from doing so." Routlodgo, Kennedy and Co. Avill soil by public auction, at the Shamrock sale yards, to-day, about 12(0 head of cattle from Mr Lawrence's herd. Tho cattle advertised to bo sold on account of Mr Beamish havo not been mustered, but will bo offered at tho same place on tho 25th. instant, as announced in our advertising columns. The Press says : — " A paddock on the North road, rather under 10 acres, tho property of Mr Tombs, has yielded 740 bushels. Tho Avheat Avas Hunter's Avhito. Another magnificent yield of a different crop Avas obtained by Mr W. Morriss, of Waikuku, Avho, in spite of the dryness of the season, has harvested from 4 acres 275 bushels of beans, equal to 71^ bushels per acre." An act of bravery, Avhich (tho Melbourne Telegraph says) is certainly worthy of notice, is reported as having occurred :it a firo Avhich took place at TeniplostoAve. A Mr ShJvurs, who Avas ou tin* scene, Avas informed that a child Avas in a room in the burning building. Mr Shivers at onco prepared to rescue tho child, and, after making- several unsuccessful attempts, ho ultimately succeeded in climbing up one of tho verandah posts, on to tho balcony, Avhcn, at the risk of his life, ho rushed into the building, and rescued tho child. By this time the firo was raging fiercely, and every moment it Avas expected that tho man Avould perish in tho flames. Ho, however, rushed through the fire with the child in his arms, and reached the lauding at tho top of tho stairs, Avhioli lie found had boon so much undermined by the fire as to make it unsafe. As the flames Avero gaining rapidly, and no timo could be lost, Mr Shivers jumped from tho lauding dQwn, into tbo' hull with tlw

hild in his arms, and from thence escaped into the road; The child was unharmed, but Mr Shivers, had his hair and whiskers burned off". The Waivafapa^Baily says :— " Settlers in the Wharfiama' district aro beginning to agitato |oiy'a bi-Ayeekly mail, and this indication ' G^^gußlic. spirit shows plainly that the district iswprogressive. We recollect the time when a fortnightly mail satisfied the pastoral lords of that largo district, and wo also remember that when a wccldy mail was talked of some of the settlers there strongly objected to tho innovation. ' Shall we,' said they, ' have to send a man on horseback every week to the Post-office to get a packet of letters containing bills ?' \ .... , In tho trial scene of tho nautical drama of "Black-eyed Susan," it may be remembered, one of the witnesses,- when asked wfoat ho knows of tho prisoner's moral character, replies Avith. much fervor, "Please your honor, ho plays the fiddle like an angel." It . has been. reserved for a defendant at the Foxton Resident Magistrate's Court, however, to adduce the possession pf a " fine, tenor voice" as evidence of exemplary conduct and integrity. The gentleman in question was charged with horse-stealing, and, produced a number of testimonials, which stated that tho bearer had been for nine years a, member of a church choir ; that ho possessed a very fine tenor voice ; and that ho would be an acquisition, to any church choir." It is needless to add that such a recommendation must have weighed powerfully with his Worship in procuring an acquittal, and tho Manawatu Herald, in recording the circumstance, says it would have been a dreadful pity to sec a young man with a fine ■ tenor voice wasting his sweetness upon an audience of gaol-birds. — Dune-din Age:' Tlao agricultural reporter for the London Farmer describes a locomotive or traction ongiuo at tho Paris Exhibition which he designates a "walking machine," because the motion forward is gained by tho action of six discs or feet which move with a musical clock-work clatter, and has tho appearance of a locomotive in patterns, and is so called in the French language. Tho engine walked along at the rate of six miles an hour, and was suitable for all common roads and pasture and most arable fields. Tho engine was said to have a " going " look about it, and its principle decidedly natural. Wo aro promised further particulars of this machine shortly. Levy, the cornet player, has been in trouble again. Wo clip the following from an American paper: — "Troy, N.Y., January 9. — Gillmore's Band, with Levy, the cornet player, gave a concert last night. The concert was delayed half-an-hour by a constable seizing Levy's cornet on an attachment for a debt contracted by tho musician when he gave a concert here some two years ago. When tho constable tried to servo the process at Troy House, Levy ran away, leaping into a sleigh containg Mdm. do Murska, making frantic but ineffectual efforts to conceal tho horn about his person. The constable, nothing daunted, followed, and landed on Mdm. de Murska's lap. The sleigh was driven to the Music Hall, where Levy jumped out, and ran upstairs blowing and shouting to tho members of the band, 'Throw him down stairs ! Kill him !' After the constable seized the cornet, Levy denied the ownership, but as Mr Gillinore agreed to pay the bill, the waiting audience was enabled to hoar the dulcet tones of the much-seized instrument. It is asserted that the cornet did not in fact belong to Levy, but was tho property of the maker, whose lien upon it had never been discharged. Mdm. do Murska is doing well." The following good stoiy is told by the Bay of Plenty Times : — " They shall spoil the Egyptians" Avas written long enough ago about the Hebrew race, but Egyptians aro not Maoris, and, to judge from tho following story, are only about half as smart as Maoris, or the prophet's speech would have been turned upside down. A few days ago an aboriginal brother met an Israelite to whom he owod a small account of sonic £4 or £5. Having been duly bailed up by the descendant of the two tribes " who wore not lost," the aboriginal, who is really well off, requested his creditor to write out a cheque for tho amount, to which he would attach his autograph. This was duly accomplished, tho cheque signed, and transferred to tho pocket of the representative of the chosen people, who duly "shouted," and each went their way. A. short time afterwards, happening to meet a PakehaMaori friend, he told him that he had got his money from his dusky brother, and triumphantly produced his cheque in evidence, when it was discovered that the name at the bottom was represented by the two Avords "kapai tenoi" (anglice, this is good). The joke was good, and the effect on the recipient indescribable." People in the Chatham Islands may be pardoned if they become a little " mixed "as to dates. Says the Western Australian Times : — " Chatham Island, lying off tho coast of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean, is peculiarly situated, as it is one of tho feAv inhabitable points of the globe Avhere the day of the Aveek changes. It is just on the line of demarcation botAveen dates. There high tAvelvo on Sunday or Sunday noon cases, and instantly Monday meiidian begins. Sunday comes into a man's house on tho east side and becomes Monday by the time it passes over tho Avestern door. A man sits down to his noonday dinner on Sunday, and it is Monday noon A\ r hon he finishes it. Their Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday is Monday, and Monday becomes suddenly transferred into Tuesday." Tho Taranalci Herald of a late date says: — "Two incidents of an exciting nature to those Avho Avitnosscd them, occurred on the beach yesterday afternoon, Avhilst tho boats Avere taking cargo to the Taiaroa. An unusually heavy savoll Avas on, and a horso and cart Avas attached to one of the boats to draw it out. A big sea caps'izod the dray and horso, but a number o£ men immediately rushed in, disengaged tho animal, and saved its life at a critical moment. In tho other contretemps the lives of two nion Avoro placed in jeopardy. When near tho largo outer buoy the rope broke, taking two men into tho water with ifc. A strong undercurrent carried them doAvn, and it Avas Avith. great difficulty tliey were rescued. We think it would bo a Aviso provision for tho men engaged in tho boats in rough weather to Avear life-preservers. It is the universal custom for barristers and all in court to rise and boAv on the entrance of the Magistrate or Judge. The othor day at Wanganni — at lerrf so avo learn from tho Herald, — when an important case had gathered together most of the local gentlemen of tho long robe, they as usual rose immediately on the opening of tho magistrate's door, but Avere surprised to find themselves boAving politely to a small boy bringing in books for the magistrate's convenience. As tho magistrate slipped in at the door directly afterwards, he missed his usual morning salutation. It is rumored that a company is likely to bo formed in London for working tho Parapara iron ore, and manufacturing rails for tho Noav Zealand railways. As most of the English companies aro iioav adopting steel Vails, and as steel rails could bo made from our iron-sand by an almost direct process, avo think that an iron and stool factory hero Avould bo more likely to bo successful than Avorks at Parapara. The Parapara ore Avill have to be smelted Avith coal, and the result Avill be ordinary iron, Avhiclx is iioav a drug in the market ; while our ores reduced by charco.-il Avould produce iron and. stoel of special excellence, Avhich would always command a high price.— i

At' Newcastle, a theatrical agent named William Winn,.afo'as De Glorian, has given himself into custody under peculiar circumstances. He states that about 12 months agp^ while staying at the Eoyal Hotel, Glenlnnes, he robbed the manager of the hstel, ■whom he had previously put to bed *lrunk, of £82, and that the ttftair had"'ever since continuously preyed on his mind, He says that, when under the influence of liquor, he feels tempted to commit suicide. He stands remanded f orr further evidence.