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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5438, 19 July 1879, Page 2

Yesterday the official declaration of the poll for the election of a member for the Eastern Maori district watJ made by the returning officeiS Mr %' B. Hamlin. Honare Tdmoana \vas declared ele.cted, with G52 vote's; Honare Matiiii re'eqiving 583* All fchS dllier .Candidate's being a long way behind. • Tomqana is expected tip ally himself wHntHte Oppdsitidni lii Uae Itesident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Kenny, E.M., Thos, Moody pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money and goods under false pretoncosj and was sentenced to three months' hard jab'pri ; llrriest Plowden was also charged With obtaining £2 2s by false pretences, he having sold a horse when he had none to sell. He was sentenced to six months' hard labor. The short season of the Baldwins -at the Theatre Eoyal was brought to a close last night. Unfortunately Mrs Baldwin was again xinable to appeal' in the clairvoyant seance, her husband explaining that " owing td the unfavorable State of the; atmosphere" he was unable to put her iiito a mesmeric 'trance* but the Professor gave an exhibition, of another description. One of the committee, Mr DanverSj wrote,, three questidus on .slip's of jmppr, rolled them up into small pellets* and then took them up one by one; Mr Baldwin answering them although he had not seen them, and oven Mr Dauvcrs did. noij know which question of the three He held. Our sporting headers may like td know that the reply to one of these questions was that Fishhook would carry off the Melbourne Cup, but it should be explained that Mr Baldwin expressly stated that ho did not pretend to utter a prophecy, but merely to translate the thought passing through the brain of the questioner. Great disappointment was expressed at the nonexhibition of Mrs Baldwin's powers of " second-sight," and there were not wanting those ready to suggest that the whole affair is a fraud, and that it was never intended to give the public another opportunity of finding out the trick. The best answer to that is that the Baldwins suffer considerable injury by being unable to fulfil all their promises, and they would not be likely to damage their professional reputation if they could possibly avoid it. If the " second-sight" were mere happy guess work Mrs Baldwin would be .able to appear every night, and if she answered unknown questions so well as on Wednesday night detection would bts all but impossible. "We are informed that the cargo of Greynouth coal ox Sarah Pile, which was sold by auction by Messrs Eoutledge, Kennedy and Co., brought 35s a ton, or slightly above the price fixed as the minimum, although much loss than Newcastle coal. We have no doubt that those who purchased will find it to their advantage to continue using the local article, and the Sarah Pile will probably bo only the first of a regular fleet of colliers between here and Greyniouth. Newcastle has had a monopoly of our market for long enough. We notice that another cargo is expected shortly by the same firm of auctioneers. Mr Duncan Guy, the late Registrar of the Supreme Court, has finally determined to leave the Government service, and to establish himself as a solicitor in Waipawa. He is at present in "Wellington, and proposes to pay a visit to Nelson and Picton, but will be back in time to commence practice in about three weeks. We wish Mr Guy every success, for, in spite of the character often ascribed to lawyers, they are a necessity in these days of civilisation and litigation. A football match will be played to-day on Clivo-square, by the Napier Club, play to commence at three o'clock. Sides will be picked from the following members, who are requested to be punctual : Messrs Arrow, Badcock, Begg, Bogle, Bremner, Brooking, Chapman, Dewes, Duncan, Gibbons (2), Gold, Hampton, Hill, Ingpen, Kennedy, Kettle, King, Lascelles, ' M'Carty, Mansfield, Miller, Monteith, Newton (2), ; Ormond (2), Pilling, Eiding, Eose, Sims, Tabuteau, Tilly, Vautier , (2), Von Tempsky, and Waddington. • As the club intend soiiding a team to Gisborne next month, it is hoped that players will turn up at the matches held on Saturdays and also at the practices held during the week. Professor Baldwin has left with Messrs • Dinwiddie, "Walker, and Co. a small book in which he explains how the "manifestations" of spiritualists are produced, the letter-press being accompanied with illustrations Avhich make the text perfectly clear. The book contains a number of tricks which were not explained by the Professor at his seances, and will no doubt find a ready sale. Eayner's panorama of the American "War will be exhibited in the Theatre Epyal next Thursday evening. There will be the additional attraction of a distribution of gifts. As we announced a short time ago, Mr George Scarfe has made arrangements to start business again in Napier, and ho now announces through our advertising columns that he has re-opened his old premises in Hastings-street, where he hopes to see his old customers once more. Mr Scarfe notifies that he intends in future to cultivate a cash, as opposed to a credit, trade, which will enable him to sell all goods at the lowest prices consistent with legitimate profits. Col. Lambert acknowledges the following additional subscriptions to St. John's school building f und :— Mr F. Sutton, £1 Is ; Mr Blythe, £2 2s ;Mr Swan, £1 ; Judge Kenny, £1 ; Mr Leonard, 10s J A Friend, £1 Is. The feud between the Palmersion Times and the Bangitilcel Advocate is growing decidedly warm. The Times now says of the editor of the Advocate:—" There are SOJUO men who would prefer to reign in hull than serve in heaven, while others who find it morally impossible to speak a word of truth sail upon the opposite tuck, and glory in their pre-eminence in falsehood. Such a man is the editor of the Bwiyitikei Advocate, who has not only reduced lying to a science, but now seeks to make the unfortunate journal under his control the official organ of slander and maliciox^s unyeracity,"

The name of the pugnacious Maori chief now in prison is Whakawini, which, according to the Wellington Chronicle, means "I'll twist your. neck." When Mr Mackay asked 'hiui his rianie tlie' Other day lie replied; in tHe most ferocious manner; " Whakawini,*' and ho nlado a gesture as if of wringing one's neck; The Dunedin .Std)", predicts that _3Wfl* Qrnionij.i. if ndis tße leadtJr of the Opposition, will be their chief speaker • The world is getting topsy-turvy. It is stated that - a quartz . reef near that worked by the Nil Desperandum Company at Waipori has been taken up by a Ohinese- company 5 who hard sufesc'ribed £2400 for. the 1 purpose of 'working it. At pi'esent the reef shows a width of two feet, four or five inches of "which are thickly permeated with gold. It is stated to b.e the intention of the Gompany to employ European labor for the iinder Iground work and management of the mine. "JSglea" relates the following :— A ■ gentleman of niy acquaintance is actively engaged in effecting sdttWents for the insurance companies after fires Jlave .0(3---curredi Withdiit de'sivjirigjf td rjay less than the value of goods consumed, the companies sometimes have extraordinary claims presented, to thorns— the evidence beirig^f ooitrso d«3trdyed "% 1 fire. x lt would bo, for instance, a subject for inquiry, when, after a two -roomed cottage was burnt in a digging township, a claim was; mafic fp'r an Brard. grand piano and a Gothic sideboard to a rjlate-^glass back. My friend was somewhat dubious bho other day about a large claim made for china and crockery ware. There was very little broken crockery to be seen, and reminding. Mrs. M'Gh'ath of the large quantity eh,e declared had. been destroyed, he asked her hdw she 1 aceovhited for the deficiency , df . tnagnieiiis. . The good woman looked ,rather puzzled &t first, and then} a llriglit idea illuntiuatirig tier countenance, she said, " Sure, then, may be it's because of the pigs." But if the pigs swallowed the crockery the insurance agent couldn't do the same with the story. A novel pirop'osal fdr the burial of the dead is made by John M'Kay; 6i Malvern Hill, Victoria. That gentleman has" invented a well-boring machine capable of excavating holes 2ft in diameter to a depth of 50ft or 60ft at a very small cost. It is proposed to utilise it for burial purposes, letting the coffins down end-ways, so that the dead would remain in a vertical positioni For this pitrpose the graves might be made 12ft or loft deep, and in suitable soil tlie e^tijenge of boring Would be very limited; By this plan, three or four tidies as niany bodies dould be buried in a given space, and the extra depth would, it is urged, prevent the xising of those gases which in the ordinary graveyards are so deleterious to human life. Mr Perrier, the lecturer of the " Zealandia" pariorama, now in Melbourne, has been doing Borne service td tile Colony. His remarks upon the advantages of New Zealand, as contrasted with other Colonies, halve attracted attention, and they certainly carry more \veight with them than the " crammed" descriptions and opinions of an ordinary showman. One result is a letter in the Argus headed " Sign of the Times," as follows : — "lt is a singular sign of the times that even showmen find it to their interest to point out the grave political errors that are paralysing trade, driving away capital, and swelling the ranks of the unemployed in Victoria. Having being present at an exhibition of a panorama named " Zealandia," at St. George's Hall last night, I found the lecturer, amidst the applause and approbation of the audience, contrasting the progress and prosperity of New Zealand with that of Victoria, and whilst professing to have no desire to say a word against the latter, yet adducing such hard facts as left "but" one conclusion, namely, that we were misgoverned. Of course, we cannot blame New for blowing their own trumpet as it were, but is it not rather hard, sir, that by the folly and violence of our rulers they should be able to do it with advantage in our very midst ?" " Zealandia" is thus already becoming what its proprietors fondly anticipated — a capital advertisement for New Zealand. There is a citizen of Invercargill who has an objection to serving on juries. This is not a solitary case, but his method of escaping, as practised by him the other day, is decidedly novel. Ho saw a policeman serving summonses, and straightway fled, the guardian of the law following quickly. At last the policeman thought he had "cornered" his man when he got him into a blind street, at the end of which was the harbor. The citizen thought otherwise, for he just walked into the water up to the shouiders and then ironically called after the •" bobby" to hand .him " that piece of paper." Wild deer aro now becoming numerous on the hills in some parts of the Wairarapa.