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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5369, 30 April 1879, Page 2

A meeting of the members of the Hawko's Bay Eacing Club was held at the Masonic Hotel last evening, Mr. G., H,

Swan in th^K^hair. The report 6i the committee jjSvas" read, congratulating the on the. sound state of ' thenr nnanoial position^ and regretting that!, the olcjts:ace course' could not be used oit' accoun^ofits being' Government or trust proper^-, and therefore preluding the./ •■dub from charging, for admission to the' '•'grouiScL It was decided, ttikt tKe.annual' meeting of-the club'shouldbe held on the first Monday in November in each year. The secretary read a letter from the Dunedm Jockey Club, asking the - Hawke's Bay Racing Club to confirm the ,I)unedin Club's decision with reference to the disqualification of Blue Bell — horse; ' owner, and rider — during the pleasnre of the Dunodin Club. It was decided to agree to the request. Tho meeting then closed. The inquest on •the' body of Mrs M'Lennan is to be held at 10.30 this morning at the barracks. A report was current last evening that the inquest was to have been hold yesterday afternoon, but it was never so intended. The post mortem examination was held yesterday afternoon by. Drs Spencer and deLisle, Dr Caro being also present. , As we stated yesterday, the proceedings at the .inquest this morning will be limited to the jury viewing. the body and to its identification as that of the late Mrs M'Lennan^ '. In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before H. Eyre Kenny,. Esq., E.M., Henry Hoff, for drunkenness in the public streets of Clive, was .fined os and costs. He was also pharged with having used most obscene and indecent language at Clive on the .same day-; he pleaded;, guilty to the 1 offence," and was fined £l and costs, in default ' seven days' imprisonment.— The following civil cases were disposed of : — Blythe, and Co. v. .Alexander Mack ay, claim "of £,3 os lid for goods, supplied. Therte' was no appearance „of defendant, and "judgment, was given by default for amount clainied,. with costs.^-J. B. Hbllis v. Brothers,, claim for £3 10s Id. Judg- . ment was .given for plaintiff^ and costs. — J.R.. Scptt v . Johnßrears, claim of £12 2s, judgment summons. His Worship asked Mr Scott on whose behalf he ap- ■ | peared, 1 he having filed a' declaration of insolvency, and consequently not being master of his own estate. Mr Scott said : he' appeared .on behalf ..qf his creditors. His' Worship said that he had'no right to appear, and that he .had better consult his solicitor on the matter. He then adjourned the case for aweek, and advised the' defendant to' try arid make some ' arrangement with plaintiff in the mean-, time. There was no other business. -

„ Roderick Hugh M'Lennan, , charged with having obtained money and goods on false pretences, will be brought up on remand at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

" A Dunedin resident has furnished the Morning Herald with some particulars ' regarding Roderick Hugh STLennan, : ' who 'is to , be brought', before the Resident Magistrate . this morning. McLennan was an immigrant per the ship Wellington, which arrived at Port Chalmers on the 20th March, 1878. Then ho proceeded to Canterbury as chief shepherd for Sir Thomas Tancred. About six months ago he returned to Dunedin and expressed his determination to go to Melbourne for the purpose of getting married. Ho did so, and on his return 'to Dunedin, ho, with his wife, lived at one of the principal hotels,. and borrowed and spent money very freely. Having loft Dunedin for new pastures, he returned to the City after an interval of about three months. He succeeded in .fleecing several gentlemen whose names we could mention, on the strength .of his. assertions that he had .pur-' chased part of Sir Thomas Tancred's station.

, Strenuous efforts continue to be made in the parish of Taradale to raise funds for tho purpose of liquidating the debt upon the church. Among the contributions received during the past week are 30 cross-bred . ewes and one bull by Messrs Heslop, and one cream-colored pony by Mr Bennett. Members of the, committee. are : reminded /.that their list's must be forwarded to the secretary tomorrow.

There is a fearful amount of sickness in "Wellington, according to the LytteUon Times correspondent, and . scarcely a house is free from serinothing or other. Typhoid fever and diarrhoea are the most prevalent complaints, but dysentery and diphtheria are not altogether absent. Tho Hospital is fuller than it has been for a very long timo, and funerals are numerous.

A few days since a witness testified in Court (says the Manawatu Times) that the value of a, sheep in the Manawatu was two shillings. Assuming this evidence to be correct — which, certainly, we are inclined to doubt— the profits of the Knights of the Cleaver must be from nine to ten hundred per cent. At the very lowest calculation, a leg or shoulder of mutton will cost half a crown, and as the animal happens to be a quadruped and possessed of four legs, there are ten shillings right off. Then say half a crown' for the remainder of the body and one shilling for the skin, and we have 13s 6d without the fat. So that allowing a shilling a head for driving to the slaughterhouse, sixpence each for killing,: and two shillings the. original price, the retail biitcher makes ten shillings clear profit upon each sheep. Talk about money-lending or. running a paper after that.

Litigation on the "West Coast, South Island, appears to be a luxury that some, of the communities have learned to do" 1 without. ..During.the hearing of cases in the District Court last week at, Westport, his ' Honor Judge Weston remarked that he hardly knew how two solicitors could' make a living there, one., at least of them must be content with very small profits.

Tho Mayor of Christchurch has forwarded to, the Lord Provost of Glasgow a cheque for £107 16s 7d, collections made in Christchurch in aid of the Glasgow Bank Eelief Fund, and in reference to the comparative smallness of the amount he has written thus : — The committee had scarcely commenced their work when a dreadful calamity occurred in the adjoining province of Otago (I refer to the Kaitangata colliery explosion), whereby some hundred or more persons ■, chiefly widows and orphans, were rendered comparatively destitute. This sad local dis,-, aster naturally overshadowed as it were the one at a distance, and the active sympathies of the people wore enlisted to relieve those nearer home. This, coupled with the fact that, in consequence of a long drought, we have had, perhaps, one of the worst harvests ever experienced in Canterbury which has caused a corresponding depression 1 in trade; thoso circumstances combined have made it difficult to obtain so large a sum for the city of Glasgow sufferers as would, have, otherwise been forthcoming. ,

The following appears in the Neio Zealander of the 28th instant: — "An incident that deserves to be recorded occurred at the usual meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council, at Napier, the other day. At 12 o'clock the Council adjourned, to allow their Chairman, Mr. F. Sutton, to attend the Eesident Magistrate's Court, to answer a charge of conspiracy, preferred by certain natives against Mr Sutton, in conjunction with Mr G. B. Worgan, of Hawke's Bay and West Coast notoriety. "We are happy to add that the charge was dismissed, but it is intimated that it will be brought on at a further day. Eeaders of history will recollect a somewhat parallel case. During the sitting of the first Constituent Assembly of France, one of the members, by name D'Esprement, by some incautious speeches, attracted tho displeasure of the Court, and a mandat d' arretwas launched against him. The member, took refuge in the Assembly, which was then sitting,

and when f&a. officer of the guard, attended by Van escort, appeared in the f Chafer f&ad. asked the President to point j'out the person of -.the offender, who perr, -'son.aily "vv.as.. unknown to the officer, the ; wh^le . Assembly rose as one man, witti'. '^the^xclamation, whichihas since ,becom§ >Eamou|, JStons.sommes tows TP Espr&mknitiii. Notwithstanding 1 v/this ' heroic sympathy the warrant was obeyed, and the number remanded into custody. If ss should happen that the representative 6f-fhe law should appear at a sitting of the County Council (Mr Sutton presiding), and demand the presence of the chairman elsewhere,- we foresee the Courfc'il rising as one man, and .exclaiming "We are all Suttons." Probably the process will be obeyed, but such an exhibition of generous devotion will -not be thrown away, and by future ages mil be looked on as an act of heroism. Thus, as it : is j truly said, does history daily repeat itself." ' l

A treasure in the shape of a. Chinese servant is thus; doscribed in a letters by " Silverpen," to the N.Z. Herald,, iiom San.- Francisco : — "Picture a 'bright, handsome boy of 15, with a queue 'down to hisfeet and a jaunty oap on his head, doing they work, of three women. |He bakes bread and cakes fit for the. gods, if those gentlemen ever iudulged in .'suoh coarse fare;, makes all kinds of fancy dishes, entrees, puddings, and pies ; washes and irons exquisitely, and goes about the house like a. sunbeam "on a cloud. lam trying to' find out the imp's fault. Of course he must have some great vice within so many virtues. I look with misty eyes itfto the platebasket every evening,' i and count |the dollars, in my. eyery-day purse frequently during the day. "As yet, he is a perfect treasure, nor will I fail to report when I find out his hidden sin, which, no doubt,' will be of some account." • . At a- meeting of cricketers held in -Sydney, on April 1 2, the following agreed to form portion of 12 to visit England in 1880 :— Messrs Evans, Massie, Spofforth, '■ 0. Bannerman, A. Bannerman, Murddc'j.. Garrett will also probably form one of the team;, and the.; [ Victorians will be t elected from Blackham, Hpran, D. Campbell, Boyle, and Alexander. 1 P\£r Riohkrd Driver is the promoter )" and sKouta-Lay- | cock'no'w beat Trickett, Mr Punch will'probably take him to England to row I for the championship. , ; ' A lad of 17, named Henry Brumfield, at Port Pirie, S.A., committed suicideon the 25th- ult. The South Australian i r Register reports that at the inquest Mrs Pearson, the married sister of .the deceased, deposed:—" He came to me' about half -past 12 o'clock, and asked me to bid him good-bye, and said, . ' I am going to kill myself.' He went outside 'and took off one shoe, which he gave me, saying I was to keep it as long as r I should live. He picked up the gun produced," which I tried to take from . him,. 1 but did not succeed in doing so. , I had' niy fingers once on the gun. He held it out at arm's length, the muzzle being toward him, and tried to put his toe on the trigger. I was obliged to leave Him" then, as I was afraid he would shoot me.' When I got thirty yards or so from him' I heard the cap snap, and looking round I saw him fall on his left side. I went' back and tried to turn him over, and k found a large wound on. the left side ' of' his head, and a lot of blood on the., ground. Deceased did not speak to me. ' He only sighed. I have seen him da^ly for some time, and thought him very- . childish in his manner. Thought |he might shoot me accidentally. Can't say ■ if he had been drinking lately. He was sober to the best of my belief." The ! jury found — "That the deceased, Henry. • Brumfield j came to his. death ! : through a gunshot wound inflicted on himself Avhilst laboring under a fit of temporary insanity."

The English journals are thoroughly alive to the serious aspect which the Isandula disaster has imparted to the Zulu campaign. The Daily News, the Standard, the Pall Mall Gazette, the Morning Post—in fact, journals of all shades of politics — agree that there; has been serious blundering, and the great catassrophe is attributed by; all to the incapacity, to say the least, of Lord Chelinsford. .The Daily Neies is natur. rally the most outspoken of the London journals. "It is our. painful duty to declare," says the Bouverie-street organ, "that Lord Chelnisford, the .Commander of the Forces at the Cape of Good Hope, has failed,, and ought instantly to be recalled. The latestnews confirms our impression that the disaster at Isandula on the 22nd of January was due to miserable blundering and helpless incapacity." Tlie Standard and the Pall Mall Gazette. declare that Lord Chelmsford is incompetent to fill the post with which he has been entrusted. The Times, after summarising the full details now. to hand of the disaster, says, cautiously,' that Lord Chelmsford was both surprised. and deceived. , The Morning Post says :. — " Nobody will be surprised to hear that it has become a matter of consideration .whether the strategy of the war should not now be intrusted to the highest available talent." - Old Lady (who had been buying eggs) — Deed, Mr M'Treacle, butcher's " meat's sac dear now-a-days ah'm no able to buy't ! Grocer — You should turn a vegetarian. Old Lady— rA Vegetarian ! — Na, na ! ah was born an' brocht ,i' the Free Kirk, an' , am no gaun a change ma releegion I' ni', auld days I : Father,; "• Good evening, Patsey ; it's a fine moonlight night." Patsey : "lit is, your holiness ; but it is not to-night we want the moon out — it's the dark nights we want' it." — Fun. ! :•;