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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5398, 3 June 1879, Page 2

The 10th of ihinb Has been iked for the nomination of a member bf the Napier Harbor Board, in the place of Mr J. Stuart. In, the. event of opposition the election will be held on the 14th.

There being no opposition candidates; Messrs H. A. Banner and E. J. Turpin were yesterday declorod duly '■ elected as auditors for the borough of Napier.

The first of a seriee of shilling entertainments will be given this evening in the new school-building in Browningstreet. The progranlni'e is advertised in another column.

Mr Monteith's Bftle of furniture, &c, at Kaikbra, announced for to-day, has been indefinitely postponed.

A concert is to take place at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. The programme will be found in bur advertising columns. j

' Mr R. Dobson, of Christchurch, who is to succeed Mr Leslie Campbell in the management of the Napier branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company, occupied the same position about three years' ago, and was, we understand, the first who contributed towards the formation of the Fire Brigade. Being Waited upon by Mr Keinsley^ Mr Dobson offered £50 on behalf of his company. Mr Campbell-, We are informed, proceeds to Chicago, where he has a brother residing.

The total rainfall for May registered at the Port Ahuriri meteorological station was 13.52 inches, of which -3.46 inches fell on the Bth of the month. This is tho heaviest rainfall registered in May for over nino years.

Last weok it will be remembered a man named Cooper was committed for trial at Gisborne for abroach of the Arms Act. Now wo hear that Mr Michael Boylan, an old townsman, and John Brodio have also boon committed for trial in connection with the samo affair. Cooper obtained a license from a Justico of the Peace for a gun and ammunition, and ho and Brodio passed it to a Maori. The Maori took it to Mr Boylan, and obtained tho goods. Cooper and Brodio are committed for trial at tho District Court; Mr Boylan at the. Supremo Court.

We arc requested by the secretary to state that tho name of Mr Lionel Harris, watchmaker, &c, was omitted from the list of donors of private prizes to the annual show of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society^ published in the Seciety's report last Saturday. It is notified by advertisement that tho prizes won at the ploughing match and exhibition of grain and roots arc payable at tho secretary's oflice, A few days ago we reprinted a portion of a bacheloz-'s wail over the present female fashions, cut from the BangitiTcei Advocate, The spinsters of Marton have sent an indignant reply to the same journal, in which they maliciously retaliate upon the bachelors, referring^ to the burden which the average bachelor finds his own feet and elbows to be, the former being " tucked away under tho sofa," and the elbows less innocently employed in ruthlessly sweeping little knickknacks off sideboards and tables, during the epoch when skirts were hardly allow e:l to "reach the ground." "Depend upon it," they add, " the evil will never be radically cured, until we can devise some way of having them safely deposit their feet and elbows with their hats and ulsters, and so relieve them of an anxiety and burden that seem at present to be the bane of our young men's existence, as their solemn visages and silent tongues, not to say anything about their frantic efforts to look as if they didn't know that they had feet and arms, amply testify." The fair spinsters viciously wind up their letter to the Rangitilcei Advocate by quoting a little anecdote about a young man who returned from a ball and solemnly advised his friend " nottodanco any more, for every train the girls wei*e wearing were drunk ; by jove, yes, old fellow, drunk as fiddlers ! "

Nothing short of a sensation (writes tho correspondent of the Otago Times) has been caused by the wide publication of the New Zealand Government's invitation to iron masters in all the technical papers and leading journals of the country. Iron is at such a low ebb at homo, and the profits to be made so small, that masters with capital turn eagerly to this sudden announcGinent of a vast field for their enterprise, and already I hear of numerous applications to the Agent- General's office for all information and statistics he can supply. Of course it will be a very serious undertaking for any adventurous master to establish himself and the necessary extensive plant in N"ew Zealand; but there is every probability that the invitation will not be allowed to pass unaccepted. .

A clergyman said that he once visited a lady of his parish, who -had just lost her husband, in order to offer consolation, and upon her earnest inquiries as to the re-union of families in heaven he strongly asserted his belief in that fact, and when she asked with anxiety whether any time must elapse before friends would be able to find each other in tho next world, he emphatically said "No ! they will be united at once." He was thinking of the happiness of being able to offer the relief of such a faith, when she broke in upon his meditations by exclaiming sadly " Well, his first wife has got him by this time !"

Colonel W. K. Stuart tells tho following story of a Scotch subaltern at Gibraltar. The latter was one day on guard with another officer, who unfortunately fell down a precipice of four hundred feet, and was killed. Non-military readers should understand that in tho guards' reports there is a small addendum — "N.B. : Nothing extraordinary since guard mounting." The meaning of this is that, in case anything particular should occur, the officer commanding the guard is bound to mention it. Our friend, however, said nothing about the accident that had occurred to his brother officer ; and some hours after the Brigade-Major came to his quarters on the part of the officer commanding', with the report in his hand, to demand an explanation. The BrigadeMajor, addressing him, said, "You say, sir, in your report, 'O.: Nothing extraordinary since guard mounting,' when your brother officer, on duty with you, has fallen down a precipice four hundred feet in depth and been killed." " Weel, sir," replied B , "I dinna think there's ony thing in it extraordinary ava' ; if he'd faun doon a precipice four hundred feet and nao been killed, I should hae thought it very extraordinary indeed, and would hae put it doon in me report."

A correspondent of the New Zealand 'limes , writing on the bankruptcy question, suggests that when a merchant, or tradesman, or contractor, or any dealer desires to begin business in any town he should procure from the Chamber of Commerce a simple certificate that,, he

commenced business as a grocer (or other business)- on the 27th'.day of May, 1879. On the same date next year let him bring the certificate to be renewed) aid so on, at the beginning di 1 every year, and if during the currency of any year the holder of the certificate becomesf-bank-r.Uj)t or compoundß with his creditbrs> let the fact be noted on his certificate. Merchants should not give dredit to any6ne .who Will refuse ip jhrddiice such. CGifcifi.cdte' j ilna the Chamber of Commerce should refuse to grant certificates to strangers from other provinces who have there been engaged in business, unless they can produce a satisfactory certificate from the Chamber of Commerce of the province to which they belong.

Mr William -Hall, wheelwright, of Olive, requests. us to state that he was not the defendant in the civil case of Euddiok, v; Hall, beard at the Resident Magistrate's ddurt On Friday last;

The 1 $ diPdrapct Daily, in an article deprecating the introduction or preservation of game, says: — "We take it upon ourselves to say that the central districts of .the North Island will be ruined before, a single European settler founds a home-' sfcead in them. The rabbit, pheasant, sparrow, and hare will be , there ,bef ore him. The truth is, that the population of New Zealand is inefficient to cope with these terrible plagues." The Poverty Bai) Standard has an article finding grave fault with' the Gisborne Resident Magistrate." In the same idaue is the,f e'jjort of an adtion for assault, Webb v. Ward, in which' judgment Was given in favor of the defendant .Webb is the proprietor .of the Standard. Of course there is no connection between the leading article and the case.

An English paper called the Tattler says : — Tin has been discovered in New Zealand. No country wants it more. The public debt is about twenty-two millions. It is, in fact, " The Great Lone Land." . •

Tho Taupo ooach had a narrow escape from another accident on Saturday afternoon, owing to the bad state of the road near Petane. On approaching Carr's flat, about 250 yards from the scene of, tho | last ; accident HorAis ndtic6d that another culvert had given way, and pulled up his team in time. It was then getting dark, and had tho coach been half-an-hour later, in all probability the driver would not have seen the danger, and tho vohiclo and its occupants. would havo fallon into tho deop hole. As it wan, it was hopeless to try to get the coach across, so the four horses wore talcon out, and passongors and mail were "packed" to Napior, AH traffic is necessarily susponded on tho road. Wfl understand that Mr Hobbs has alroady commenced an action, against the County Council for tho damage sustained in the lato accident. Probably they would find it cheaper in tho end to keep the. road in something liko decont renair than to pay lawyers' bills. .

Mr Donald Larnach, who retires from tho position of London managing director of the Bank of Now South Wales, is said to have been a teacher in tho North of Scotland forty years ago. He emigrated to Sydney, entered tho service of the Bank of Now South Wales, and for tho last quarter of a century has filled, the responsible office of I London manager.. He is now enabled to leave the service of tho bank a millionaire.

A novel by a Hindu girl of nineteen is a somewhat unusual publication even in these days of universal novel writing, and especially so when it is written in really good French, arid when the story will fairly compare with many, popular productions of the present day. The novel is entitled "lie Journal de Mdlle. D'Anrvers," and the authoress, ToruDutt, was— for she died in 1877 — the daughter of the Baboo Govin Chunder Dutt.

The case of General Fitzjohn Porter, who was court-martialed during the American civil war for treason, and who was turned out of the ai-my, has upon a re-opening of the case been decided in favor of the defendant. It is now established that the General was not guilty of treason, and did the best he couLd, and was very unfairly treated. He will therefore be reinstated in the army. But all this comes to pass only after seventeen years, during which he has been shunned by all except a few warm persona friends, and the General has exhausted his private fortune in fighting to regain his reputation.