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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5338, 24 March 1879, Page 2

To-day promises to be a regular field day at the Resident Magistrate's Court, no less than three cases of conspiracy in defrauding natives being set down for hearing. The cases are likoly to occupy some days. The funeral of the late Mr Samuel Begg on Saturday was largely attended by relatives and friends. The brethren of the Masonic Craft assembled in considerable numbers at tho Victoria lodge-room and proceeded thonce in procession to the late residence of the deceased, and thence to the cemetery, where the Masonic service for the dead was impressively given by the Eev. D'Arcy Irvine, M.A., the chaplain of the Victoria Lodge, and by the Worshipful Master, Bro. P. I. deLisle. A cricket match was played on Friday between an eleven of the Star Cricket Club and 15 Colts, picked from the Union and Grammar School clubs. The match was a victory for the Star by three wickets and 23 runs. The principal scorers were A, E, Dowes 31 aud. GQ«ttfowl 22, for tho

,— — . — j I Stars, while H. Beardon and J. Y&utier did good service for the oolis, making !?,■ and 16 respectively* 3&e batting of) Dewes wag first-ok% \vW,, . after ft 16rig. , *<uiLngß,'. was ©aught splen<&idiy v alb sqtt&rej Wby vautier. . We 'believe it is intended , j to have * re'ttim' ra&ftß. shortly. j lA%.kesiAent Magistrate^ Court ftri i SfeturcTay morning, before,:®- Lyndon, ; I Esq., $#„ and J. f SBsjh;,:Esq^J.P., ; : I James ' Pet,eto?eft „AVas charged : ; with j \ drunkennCssf and elealt with in the usual | \ manner. — James Connor was brought ty for being drunk in a railway 'carriage at Farndon, on the ,2lst mst. The con-. \ stable stated thaVUie accused was wild' ; with di'ifijcj and tried to throw himself ' :' off fcha train whilst in full motion.^ He | ' was sentenced to one month's ini;pris6n- ! ment, with hard labor. — flteftry Canip- ; bell was charged by Munn \yith • assaulting ana fre&ting him on the racecourse at P^fcowhai,.,- Mr Lascellos ap- , pearod for the informant ; Mr Eocs for the accused. James Munn stated that he was on the racecourse on Monday, talking to Gooseiiian), when Canipbell ! came up and said "Will ' you call me j again what you, called riie the otfter day i atths;|(ifts6nic?''. .He replied, Vt I don't; j want tid have nqtjnng 16 do with you." j j He .then, struck him several times in tho | j f ace^ bringing the blood, and blaokening ' | his Sight eye. . A number of people came . j up and took CampbeH wmf. Then the '; police came up ftn'd interfered, and he i { (Munn) t6ld them they had got tho! j wtfotig man.* His face was then all j bruised and' bleeding, 'George Qobsej man deposed that he wa^n.ihe saddling paddock at Pakovi?Mi on Monday, talking to Munn-, wb.en Campbell came .up and . - struck him on the shoulder, knbeking i him back. He said " I will not strike you back," and piit up his hands, after which defendant struck him three times in the face. Several people came tip, and Donnelly took defendant away. Several other witnesses gavo ovidence as to the assault. The defence Was to the effect that plaintiff had been saying some- . thing aboilt defendant, and had, called him Martelli No.. 2, moaning that he was ft rlar. Dofendont was fined £2, and ! costs 17s-. ' 1 At the Theatre Royal on Saturday ! night the Christmas pantomime of " Snow 'White" was produced. ' The pantomime abounds with sparkling music and danciiig, v and'was well put ; on by the Hydes' Burlesque and Comedy Company. , It will be repeated to-night. , . . We have to acknowledge the receipt of 15s from -the. scholars Of the. Spit school towards the Kaitangata relief fund. The recent fains have been most beneficial to the country districts, and there is now. fevefy prospect of winter feed feeing . plentiful, which will be a great boon to shoepf^rmers-. ; We hear from Marfcon that the cricket match, Waipukurau Ramblers v. Wanganui, was continued at Wanganui on Friday. The Wanganui team scored 180 in the first innings ; and the Ramblers 50. It was a drawn game. It having been stated, in an advertisement in the Wanganui Herald, that the cricketing team from Waipukurau, calling themselves the "Bamblers," were representatives of Napier, a writer signing himself " Cover Point" writes to the Chronicle to the effect that the visiting team by no means aspire to the honor of representing Napierj they being simply a scratch team from the Waipukurau district, travelling under the name of the " Waipukurau Ramblers. " We are requested to state that the sale by Messrs Banner and Liddle of Mr A. Peters' coaching plant, cattle, &c, is postponed to the 19th of April. Messrs Eoutledge, Kennedy and Co. will sell at noon to-day, at Meanee, two mares, saddle and bridle, sheep dogs, &c, under warrant of distress. At 2.30 this afternoon the sanie firm will sell, in their roouls> Tennyson-street, apples, jams, oheeses, and hams. ' I alluded some months ago (says the writer of " London Town Talk," in the Melbourne Argus) to one of the paradoxical statements of Lord Byron % that among his own class (the nobility) "he could find a score or more who, if it was worth their while, could write better than any of your professional scribblers." I do not know whether his Lordship has had the •pportuuity (for his sins) of perusing the winter number of Vanity Fair, but if so he must, I think, have had reason to change his opinion. Two dukes, a marquis, an earl, and lords and ladies in profusion, have contributed to that periodical, and, judging from their productions, I can only say that if they had to live by their wits— or at all events by their literary ability — they would die no lingering deaths. Like a daisy among these Crown Imperials Mr Bret Harte has been planted by the editor, which is rather hard upon them. But what is the meaning of it all ? Js it possible that the distress in the country has reached the titled classes, and is driving them to literature, for a subsistence, just as the severity of the season has made wolves in ] the French mountains descend upon the flats? It is expected, according to the Mangitikei Advocate, that on the advent of the new Governor a number of short-sentence prisoners whose term of servitude has nearly expired, and whose conduct has been commendable, will be remitted the remainder of their sentence. As giving an idea of the demand for employment in the Old Country, the following from the.: London correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle may be interesting: — "A Richmond publican recently advertised for a young lady for his bar. In a few days he had in his possession no fewer than 300 letters of application, and nearly as many cartes, certifying to an agreeable personal appearance. I knoAv of a case in which a man in business advertised for a collector. c Apply,' said the advertisement, l at the private door. ' The advertisement was read in the : most literal sense. Frora an early hour in the, morning all London seemed to be converging upon tho one door. The knocker never rested. The servants had enough to do to keep the place clea;r. At eleven o'clock in the morning the knocker had to be ornamented with the announcement ' appointment filled.' Even that did not suffice. The applicants only poured into the business promises, and all this for an appointment worth only a small pittance." Power, the bushranger (says the G-un-dagai'Times), who lies just noAv in Pent-ridg-e, confined to his bed with consumption, expresses his regret that he is not well enough to take part in the search for the Kellys. He speaks positively of his ability, to run them to earth, if they have not left his old haunts on the ranges, and he states that the capturing of Edward Kelly would be with him a work of revenge, for to his treachery he persists in attributing his own capture. An Adelaide telegram, dated March 6, says : — With reference to the Kelly scare at Mount Gambier, it has been ascertained from the police that a letter dated from that township Jan. 2, addressed to Edward Kelly, and signed Nat Morrissey, had been intercepted at Beech worth. The writer said they would have no .difficulty in sticking up the banks there, as they were easily accessible. Suspicion pointed to a man who visited town, and who is known to be acquainted with the Benalla district. A search was made for him, but he has disappeared. At the request of tho banks additional police protection has been supplied. "A passive verb," said a teacher, "is expressive of the nature of receiving an action, as ' Peter is beaten.' Now, what did Peter do ?" " Well, I don't know," said the scholfti', deliberating, « unless he hollered,"

i— ' ■ ■ ruin,:/;;., *t\ • The Melbourne, tyrgus .&# ':— V fee! tioatll is'aniiMij'ceflof Mr William Moffit,' ] *j&6 cldrk |ft the iUbury branch of the ! di New Sd^tli "vVales, wh(^ w&s' wounded, by 'the ac^iclgnt4 dlgcliarge of a j , rev6lysr IgsV week., Mr Moffit, it will be,; '!rome^^rcqf was about t6 reach the re* j 'v'6lver,*up&ji a suspicious-looking nian, entering top- bank, but upset , itj and it' fell tb.,the ; gii(>und and exploded; a bullet . . wovmd^^^ijtiiiTi'tae leg..- The' .injuries < Were thought to be' of a trivial character, but lockjaw suddenly set in, with a fatal result,". . , *t The ttondon ..Times does iWt faifte a cheerful view of tli^jAro^e'cl of an Australian eprifederOTion. In its issue of January lflfch, _it says :— " The truth is that the Victorians are too busily engaged at present with their . constitutional quarrel to occupy, themselves about a policy that could only be successful by the co-operation of all parties as in Canadai Unless sonio. conipvdiriise can be diScdyered under Y^hij6li^arliai^.ent4ry government, may .lie Carried on Smoothly in Victiriav .the j&osji ect oi union with a State s'd racked by political commotions is not likely to prqvo inviting to other and more settled, communities/' The English correspondent of an Australian contemporary writes: — "At the Ijamboth Baths,' on .Christmas Day, there was a strange gathering. It could scarcely have been Galled a Gdnyivial meeting^ and yet the; 6ne arid ,all> had bee"ri in tifteifc tinie notorious for being too convivial — for having partaken in too great quantities of what Mr Richard Swiveller was wont to term ' the modest quencher.' They were all of them, in fact, reclaimed drunkards, and the cause of their assembling was to protest against a statement made by a ..writer in the Contemporary Bevieiu, 'that he had never known a drunkard permanently reclaimed^ it seenis btirious enough that any large number 6t persons shduld be got together to own themselves as cdmiug under such a category ; tlieyinust eitherhavebeenmovedby so strong a desire to benefit their fellowcreatures as is seldom seen in soberpersons; or their former experience mush have created a certain callousness 'ivhiphia not pleasant to reflect upon. The eagerness, too> with which each expressed his desire to narrate his own history— no leas than 36 individuals going into a detailed account of the ' pains and pleasures ' . of dram drinking, ! and 39 otherd only being deterred from it frdtn want of fcidte— is to my thinking not a very healthy Sign; tt is scarcely uncharitable to suppose that love of notoriety had at least as great an influence with them as the general good ; otherwise, and supposing they felt with any acuteness the shame of their old lives, it would really seem as though early drunkeness was the very soil most favorable to public spirit. To my certain knowledge, however, the dogma of the writer in the Contempofaf'^, like most dogmas, is false ; even confirmed opium eaters are occasionally, reclaimed j and much more drunkards, only they don't always get lipon a platform to tell you so. The whole assembly in the present case ' were total abstainers, and had been so for periods varying from two to ten j years." The London Daily Telegraph of January 6, commenting .on the proceedings in the Avoca gold robbery case, considers Mr Elliston to have been very harldly used, and mentions the following facts which seem to tell very forcibly in" favor of the accused. After referring to the insufficiency and suspiciousness of the evidence against him, and severely reflecting upon the action of the authorities, it says: — "In the meanwhile Mr Elliston, ignorant of all these extraordinary proceedings, had, in. consequence of ill-health, left the sea, returned io nis native town of Ipswich, and there applied for the vacant office of chief constable of the borough. His family and connections were all persons of influence, being among the oldest and most respectable in that part of the country. Had Mr Elliston been possessed of even a part of the sum which , it was alleged he had taken he would, certainly not have needed to go to Ipawich to live with his brother. Nor is it likely that he wonld have been anxious to compete for the position of head constable in a small provincial place at a salary of some £250 a year." In conclusion, the Telegraph says : — " It now only remains to be hoped that the same police which has been so energetic in following Mr Elliston will display similar and equally successful activity in regard to the real culprit, and prove the statement that he will 'doubtless soon be recaptured' to have some foundation in fact. A double reason exists for his being brought speedily to justice, and no stone should be left unturned until he is rediscovered and brought back to gaol." It is a rule of etiquette in Arkansas that no true gentleman will eat with his leg thrown over the back of his neighbor's chair, if he can help it.