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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5435, 16 July 1879, Page 2

A meeting of the general committee of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held yesterday morning at the Criterion Hotel. The members present were Messrs F. Nelson (chairman), J. Chambers, jun., Archibald M'Lean, Allan M'Lean, J. N. Williams, W. Shrimpton, J. Lyon, J. S. Giblin, W. Bennett, R. Wellwood, J. Heslop, R. P. Williams, H. Campbell, and T. Peacock. Mr J. N. Williams was requested to confer with the secretary of the County Cricket Club and arrange the terms of a lease to the club of the portion of ground they require. It was resolved to advertise the right of grazing on the society's grounds to be let by tender. The general regulations and programme of the ensuing show were considered, the pror gramme of last year being adopted with some few alterations. The following additions were made : — A special prize of £15 for the best collection of provincial made agricultural implements. A special prize — the society's medal — for the best pair of farm horses. It was agreed that vehicles and horsemen be allowed on the ground, on payment of 5s each for vehicles and 2s 6d each for horses. This it is rightly considered will remove a good deal of the inconvenience to which a large portion of visitors to the shows have been subjected.

The year of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and. Pastoral Society commenced on tho Ist of Jnr.e, and it is therefore quite time that settlers, the promotion of whose iutcrests is really the object of the society, should join it, which they cau do by paying £2 2s each to the secretary.

The Fitzgerald estate, which occupies one of the best positions in the island, and comprises 35 acres of land, has been surveyed into half-acre sections, and is now open for lease for the long term of sixty years. Mr E. Lyndon is the agent, and plans and all particulars may be obtained on application to him.

Members of the Artillery Volunteers are requested to notice that tho general meeting of tho battery called for this evening at Sorgt. -Major Grey's, has been unavoidably postponed until Monday

evening.

The opening of the Port Ahuriri district school will be celebrated on Friday evening by a concert. Mr H. Hill, Inspector of Schools, will givo an address. The entertainment will be free, but children will requiro tickets.

We remind our readers that to-night Professor and Clara Baldwin open at the Theatre Royal, for a short season. Wo feel sure that, after the details of their wonderful performances already published in Napier, they will be groeted by a crowded house.

A cargo of Greymouth coal, per the Sarah Pile, will to-morrow be sold by auction by Messrs Eontledge, Kennedy, and Co., at the breastwork, Port Ahuriri. This coal has almost displaced that from Newcastle wherever it has been tried, and this cargo will probably be the forerunner of many others. It is worthy of note that the Bendigo Gas Company now u.se no other coal at their

works, although they have to pay a price equal to 15 per cent, on the rate payable for the best Newcastle quality in Bendigo.

A dispute ddscriWd da v tremendous is raging in Madras over fi hair from the beard of the Prophet The i reliefs enclosed in a case guarded by ail official) who reeeiyee a pensidn frdul tlie Government, and six fanatical Musselmans are disputing for its possession. The High Court of Madras has been appealed tb»

The work o£ strengthening the Eastern pier at the Spit is nearly finished, only five piles now remaining to be driven.

Seirgt.-Majol: Sydg* who is making a tour of the Ndrth Island on) Qdveiiiment service in connection -with the Artillery "Volunteer --force; is, ndw. in Narjie'iyiM will Mdiii M^M,sftitinight. It is particularly requested that all members of our local battery will make a point of being present at all drills during his stayj that they may profit by his instruction.

Mr Fielder, We notice, has withdrawn his name from nomination foi' the office bf Honorary Secretary to iUe Napier Athen'esxini.arid has nominated Mr. Pell for the pdsw . ' ' ..'

The supplement to " The Machinery Market" of the sth ,of May, 1879. contains a very neatly got-up map of New Zealand, and in the same issue of this journal appear a few. interesting facts in connection with the colony.