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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5336, 21 March 1879, Page 2

The rain yesterday, beneficial as it must bo to the district, sadly marred the day's pleasure at the races. , The worst part of the matter was the absence of any place of shelter, and there were few on the course, we should think, who did not get a thorough soaking. Fortuaately the railway manager met the occasion by sending up a special train at 4 o'clock, a convenience of which a largo number availed themselves to make a return home, regardless of the events which succeeded the Napier Handicap. Mr W. J. Miller deserves much credit for his forethought, and ' indeed for the railway arrangements generally, the whole . of which were admittedly excellent. • . We regret to have to record the deaith yesterday morning of Mr Samuel Begg. He had for some time been suffering under a very painful malady, Avhich latterly had assumed a very serious form. The deceased gentlemen was a very old resident in Napier, and was much respected, both while carrying on mercantile pursuits at Port Ahuriri, and dining his conduct, since, of the business in Napier of the National Insurance Company. The funeral will take place at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and as Mr Begg was a Freemason, the bretheren of the Craft will assist in the burial ceremonies. Mr H. R. Holder, it will bo seen, announces in our advertisement columns that he has reopened the saddlery establishments at Napier and Hastings, lately carried on by Messrs Otton and Wetsern. Mr Holder is prepared to execute orders promptly, and at moderate charges. The Waipukurau Kainblers, we learn by telegram, have again been victorious, having beaten the Feilding team by ten wickets. In the first innings Feilding scored 36 ;in the second 57. The Waipukurau Ramblers, in their first innings, ran up SI ; in the second 13, with no wickets down. Mackay scored 20 runs. The bowling and fielding of the Ramblers were very good. [Since the receipt of the above, we learn that the Ramblers have played, against a Marton team, in which Marton won |by five wickets. Mackay made 50. Charles Herbert met with an accident, and in consequence was unable to bowli Yesterday the R^njblQr.g com--

fenced & game against a Wanganili Iteam, with a splendid wicket. The, Wanganui men had made 40 with threj^ wickets down Vheit rain stopped thi§| play. The irtatdlrwill be continued to*m>] „/•>.. '. J%^ /\ / Wo are requested tS^lf^^hat Should the weather prove'iic the races coming pn'-^^ich will b|snown4tlQ , a.m. — the ordinary railway/ tinie.-table ■ will be adhor^d, tdi, instead^ of^th^pecial . one issued for theiaface day^fc. ' '^ w - Yesterday morning, between 10 and and 11 o'clock, the child of Mr Stone, Oarlyle-street, had its foot run over by a milk-cart* The poor little thing was only three years old> and was playing in the road opposite Mr Skelton's store when the accident occurred. The driver of the cart, we are sorry to say, took no notice whatever of the occurrence, but drove j on, leaving the child lying on the road. The Hydbs' Burlesque and Comedy Company made 'their first appearance last night at the Theatre Royal to a fair houso, considering" the inclemency of the weather. The amusing comedy of "Checkmate" was- -very well played by the company, especially; the parts of Samuel Winkle and Martha Bunn, by Mr J. P. Hydes and Miss Alice Johns. The burlesque of "II Trovatore" followed, which introduced the full strength of the company. Miss Jennie Nye played the Count di Luna, and sang and danced as gracefully as ever. She was most warmly welcomed on making her first appearance, and received several encores. Miss Lizzie Morgan, as' Leonora, also sang very pleasingly, a- duet between her and Miss Nye " The good-bye at the door," being warmly encored. The Misses Alice and Amy Johns are both capital .burlesque actresses, and they met with a hearty reception last night for their superior singing and dancing. Mr Hydes represented the Gipsy Queen, and the other characters in the burlesque were fairly taken. ' In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before E. Stuart, Esq. , E.M., Alexander Carmichael was brought up on a charge of having used threatening language, /with intent to provoke a breach of the peace. .He was fined 20s for the offence. The only other business consisted, of fining William Boles 5s for •drunkenness. : ; ; . ; We are requested to state that Mr A. Peters ? coach will convey toTaradale the youths who are to play to-day against the Star Cricket Club. The coach leave the Criterion Hotel at 10 a.m. All . members are requested to roll up. Church of England service will be conducted by ; the Rev. J. C Eccles on Sunday next at St. Pefcor's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m. ;. at Kaikora schoolroom, at 3 p.m.; and at the church, TeAute, at 7 p.m. ' • The Rev A. Shepherd will (d.v.) hold Divine Service on Sunday next, the 23rd inst. at Havelock,at 11 a.m., and at West Olive at 3 p.m. Messrs Stuart and Co's auction sale of American goods, &c., has been postponed from Tuesday next to the following day, Wednesday? at 11 o'clock. . We observe from the Auckland ITeralfl that the* Wavwera Hotel, baths, .and grounds, the properties of Mr Robert Graham, are to be sold by auction on the 7th -May next. The Ellerslie- estate, or rather that part of it to be sold, oonsists of a commodious hotel- with grounds attached, and public gardens, containing in all about 37 acres of land. Both places are the resort of pleasure-seekers during the year. The Waiwera, however, 1 is a place of colonial importance. The mineral springs, are reported as containing curative powers' of great efficacy in certain complaints. The water is said to resemble the famous Avater known as JEau de Vichy. There are also sulphur springs on the part of the beach which is comprised within the boundary of the estate. These sulphur springs are also possessed of remarkable curative properties. The Ellerslie public gardens and hotel are near to Auckland, and on "the line of railway. , Mr J. L. Byers' play, entitled "A Double Marriage, or a bitter atonement," which he announced, a few months ago, as being about to be produced in Napier, for the first time in any theatre, was played in the Auckland Theatre Royal on Mionday last. It does not appear to have been altogether a success, judging by the following notice from the N.Z. Herald: — "We can say nothing in terms of eulogy of either the play or performance. At the same time, it is just to say that the manner in which the drama was put on the stage, and the unconscious gaucheries of the subordinate performers would condemn anything they touched, or any actors who played with them." Many of our readers, and especially those connected with shipping, says the Auckland Hwald, will be glad to learn that Mr Proyis, for several years tide surveyor at this part, has been promoted to the office of landing- waiter and clerk . at Napier. We trust that Mr Provis, in his new sphere, may be as successful in making warm friends as he has been in Auckland, and we are sure that by careful attention to his duties, further advancement in the service is within, his reach. Mr Henry Parker, locker, and well known as a warm supporter of the Naval Brigade, succeeds Mr Provis. A smart thing was done the .other day by the Geelong County Court baliff. He wanted to serve a fraud summons on a disciple of iEsculapius not one hundred miles away. To shew himself would be of no avail, as his presence was objectionable, and always caused the gentleman wanted to make himself scarce, and ' ( not at home. ' ' Stratagem had to be resorted to. The messenger bandaged a white cloth stained with blood around his face and head, and sought advice of the doctor. The medico, anxious to relieve suffering humanity, admitted the messenger to his surgery, where he was duly served with the summons and conveyance fee. The doctor, though a little bit put out at first, admitted that he had been " had this time." Professor Cavill, who arrived by the s.s. Somersetshire (says the Melbourne Argus) has come out to the Australian colonies for the purpose of exhibiting his swimming powors. Mr Cavill ' is known as a highly - successf ul long - distance swimmer. Amongst his feats may be mentioned his swims from London Bridge to Greenhithe, a distance of 22 miles, in 5£ hours ; from Southampton to Portsmouth, 22 miles, in 7 hours 35 minutes ; and from Dover to Ramsgate in 6 hours. His greatest achievement, however, was his swim across the Channel, from Cape Grisnez, in France, to the South Foreland, which he performed in a little over 12 hours. The presence of sharks will prevent Mr Cavill from attempting anything in the bay, but it is his intention to undertake a long swim in either the Upper or Lower Yarra, and he will subsequently give exhibitions in the St. Kilda baths. Mr Cavill has brought with him two of his children, who are described as being exceedingly clever in the water. The recent failure of a large firm in Melbourne has been followed with a result similar, on a small scale, to that of the suspension of the City of Glasgow Bank. The widow of a former partner was supposed to have had £7000 invested in the business, and for years she received the interest regularly. It now appears that the principal has been absorbed in the firm's losses, and that her source of existence in her old age has been swept away. An amusing practical joke is described by the Fiji Times as perpetrated by a bonifaco ia the town of Levuka, who deceives his fellow men by soldering shilling and sixpences to the heads of stout tacks, and then . driving them into not too conspicuous portions of the bar counter, Where the bump of acquisiti-

veness is at all largely developed, the inclination to appropriate and liquefy thi? apparently unclaimed representative of beer is irresistible/ - and the shout of ; laughter which proclaims the successful " sepsis by- the 100k . . 0f, chas3>in on.;.the I face ofe/the would-be appi?6£riator; [fo the Fijian vendor 6£ domestic q&cls and ends the coin possesses ft marvellous fascination, and it is truly ;ludicr"6toto watch .from a quiet, corner ''the surprise and disgust of the innocent child of nature on finding his tenderest feelings have been so ruthlessly triflw| wiih. . The famous Italian actress, Madame Ristori, has made her first appearance in Barcelona, coming direct from Lisbon. This was the first appearance Madame Ristori has made for twenty years in Spain. It appears that nearly a quarter of a century ago the famous actress was sentenced to death in absentia by the .Spanish Courts for acting some piece which the Inquisitionary Government of the. country deemed revolutionary. For the purposes of her appearance, in Baree.lona a special pardon had to 1 be obtained from the present Icing, who, to his credit be it said, at once granted it, and in the most unconditional manner. We (Truth) have heard of a curious case of successful impudence that took place a short time, ago. A well-dressed man entered the Bank of England, threw down a penny, and asked for a cheque. When it was handed, him, he filled it up to "self "for £100, signed it, and, receiving the money, withdrew. As he had no account at the Bank of England, that institution lost £100 by the transaction, whilst Government gained one penny. The Australasian of the Ist inst. thus remarks upon the proposal for an elected Governor: — "This is rather a significant remark made by the New Zealand Ministerial papers on the subject of separation. It has a special significance to us from the close parallelism discernible between the lines of policy the Berry Government and that of Sir George Grey. It will be remembered that the New Zealand Premier has lately been led by his overweening ambition to broach a new fad — that of making the Governor of the colony elective by popular choice. In his farewell reply, to the Dunedin address, the Marquis of Normanby, we are told by the telegram, deprecated this cry as virtually meaning separation from the mother country. To which the Ministerial papers, which are in one case owned ' and in other cases are subsidised, and consequently inspired by the Ministry, reply, 'We see no reason to': anticipate the least, mischief from separation, but rather a benefit.' We are doubtless justified in regarding this as a feeler put forth by Sir George Grey. We are also perfectly justified in looking upon it as a point to which we in this colony will very probably be brought in the course of, say, six 'Or eight months, when the baffled embassy returns from England. The policy of Sir George Grey and the policy of Mr Berry have but one logical issue, if allowed to proceed to their ultimate results. These are revolution and separation from the Empire. Since these men cannot emancipate themselves and their parties from the final checks of Imperial law while remaining in the Empire, they will, by the necessity of the case, some day be driven to suggest separation. Sir George Grey is evidently sounding his way towards this object; and we have had abundance of hints that, when the time comes, Mr Berry will be prepared to take the same course. It will then be for the people of the colonies concerned, and perhaps for those of neighboring colonies, to say what they think of two Red Republics, ruled by men almost insane from vanity and despotic pride, and associated with rings composed of the most questionable elements in the communities." The Hohitiha Star states :— " We have received some particulars of the career of Charles Sibree, the man charged with the murder of Costello, in the Inangahua district, which iriay serve to identify him to old Victorian and West Coasters, Our informant first knew Sibreee as lessee of the Pavillion Theatre at Inglewood, when he was known by the name of Charles Wallack, the American comedian. He afterwards joiued a travelling theatrical troupe, and next appeared as "Sprightly" to a conjuror rejoicing in the name of Professor Eagle. Subsequently he changed his name to Charles Stanley, and was for some time connected with the Wangarratta Dramatic Club. Next he became barman for a publican named Hugh Roxborough, at Donnelly's Creek, Gippsland, and then appeared as a doctor at Stringer's Creek. He then turned up in New Zealand, at Charleston, on the West Coast, where he got himself within the meshes of the law for fraud in connection with the discovery of a supposed quartz reef. Since then he has been well known at Westport. An iriterestering work entitled " Notes of a Tour through America," by Mr H. Vivian, has just been published. Mr Vivian heard, while in Canada, of the farm of a Scotchman, in Manitoba, who grows annually 15,000 acres of wheat. "He goes there, with his men and his teams, ploughs the land in furrows six miles long — one furrow out and home is a • day's work — sows and reaps his corn, clears off, and goes home in three months." But this is nothing to some of 1 the farming operations in California. There Mr Vivian heard that " a Mr Mitchell, in the San Joachim Valley, has 90,0Q0 acres under wheat, and that his ambition is to have 100,000 acres ; also that a Dr. Glen; on the Sacramento, had 40,000 acres last year under wheat, and wanted to contract for 20,000 tons of freight for wheat only. The average produce is 25 to 30 bushels per acre, but on the very best land it sometimes runs up to 60 bushels." The following obituary notice' of the late Mr Richard Dudding, of Panton House, Lincolnshire, appears in the AgriQtdtural Gazette of January, 13 : — "On. the night of the 25th ult., this much respected gentleman passed calmly away. For nearly a century the family of Duddings have been engaged in breeding shorthorns and sheep at Panton, and are the oldest tenants on Mr Turner's estate in Lincolnshire. The flock of sheep at Panton is famous for its beauty of form, silkiness of wool, weight of fleece, and general rent-paying qualities. The late Mr Dudding and his father made considerable progress in sheep-farming early in the century, and were equally at home in shorthorn breeding. Contemporary wijih the brothers Colling, Mr Torr, and a galaxy of the talent of that day, they! have left their mark behind them. Mr Richard Dudding' s estimable qualities, sound judgment, and excellent taste have been of signal service to agriculture. A local and county paper, the Hull and Lincolnshire Times, of the 4th inst., in referring to the death of Mr Dudding, says : — ' In the closing hours of Christmas Day this respected gentleman passed away, at the ripe old age of 85, at the termination of a long and honorable career, in which, with his father, he had helped to build up a reputation in the breeding of shorthorn cattle, and longwool Lincoln sheep. Draughts from the Panton flock and herd have been distributed all over the world. It is, perhaps, in the latter capacity that Mr Dudding was more prominently before the agricultural world; but as a judgo at the "Royal" and provincial agricultural shows he was equally valuable. Ho had the law of pedigree at his finger's end, and a wellmatured judgment as to the merits of the animals upon which he was called to adjudicate. His public utterances, though not voluble, were terse, logical, and incisive. Surviving Mrs Dudding by above a year, he leaves behind him a name which for nearly a century has become historical, and to his sons a herd and flggktkat Qauuot be excelled,'"