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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5440, 22 July 1879, Page 2

Telegraphic communication with the South continued interrupted all day yesterday. Towards night, however, there appeared a chance of our messages coming 1 through, as the lino to Featherstone was then open, and at that station there was communication, though in a vory fooblo degree, with Wellington; but even that ceased soon after we had received a cablegram from Melboiirne. But shortly after one o'clock this morning one of the wires to "Wellington was

got td work, though very badly, and at a slow rate We received tho few telegrams We publish this morning. The line to Gisborne was also down all yesterday and last evening, thit that is only a branch liiid, and in no way iritCfferM with thdse td Auckland, telegraphic Communication with which was at no time interrurlte'dj either yesterday or last night.

There was a smart shock .of earthquake last night at .10.40,. The. directidii appeared to bie from North to South. The shock was felt at the same time at Wairoa.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday Annie Harris, a native of Cape Cdldny, And Edward Rose,, a Scandinavian, were charged on the. iriforrnatidn of Constable Clmiey witli being illegally oil tlio premises of Mr Oliver, Calilestreet. The prisoners were found in an outhouse on the premises. A number of previous convictions were prdved against the wonianj wlio is of notoriously bad character, and she was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labor; Rose was sentenced td sovdn days hard laboi'k James Nosbifct and Michael Maodonald pleaded guilty td separate charges of drunkenness, and fines of 2s 6d and 5s respectively were indiofact; ±ti the following civil cases judgment was given for the amounts named, with costs: — Hawke's Bay Coxinty Council v; Joseph Snell, 6s ; the same v. James Ptic'ock, lis (id; Murray, Common and Co. v. J. Brears, £34 3s 9d ; Jensen and Co. v. W. Thompson, £j Gs Od; Michael Haydon v. Patrick Hall;, £11 10s fid; The case of I»ascelles vi Hollis Avas adjourned by consont until Monday ; and Leonard and Co. v. Hapuka was adjourned for a fortnight. The Hawke's Bay County Council summoned " Henry Bishop " for unpaid rates. William Henry Bishop answered the summons* and the rate* collector said that he Was the defaulter.

Mr Kenny said he Avoiild reserve hia judgment until Monday, as this decision , iiiight affect otb er cases ill which defendants ' were not summoned in their right Christian names. The entertainment last Evening at tkd schdol-rdoiri id tile Shakespeare-road, in aid oi. St. Joseph's Monastery went off very well. The programme was sdrriewhat long, but, judging by the plaudits of the audience, it was none the less enjoyable. The attendance was rather largo, but as there were a good many children admitted at half prieo the receipts amounted only to the niodest stini of £3. We" are requested id rehiihd members of the Napier Athenoeura that the annual meeting takes place this evening at 8 o'clock. A Zulu, wdm^n) wlid is kridwri 'as 1 the" "Cttpe Pigedn'' figured in the Eesidont Magistrate's Court yesterday, .when she was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for being illegally on the premises of Mr Oliver. "We believe that she came from the Cape some years ago, . as servant to an English officer^ but sHe Subsequently led a disreputable life. The appointment of Mr John Collinge as rate-collector for the Hawke's Bay County Council is notified in our advertising columns. Those desirous of witnessing the fancy dress ball, but not of taking part in it; may obtain tickets of admission to the dross-circle. These tickets nlay be had from members of tile committee, whose riam.es appear in another column. The fortnightly entertainment of the "Working Men's Club will take place tomorrow evening at the Club-house. A very attractive programme has been arranged, which will be found in our advertising eoluninsi In another column will be found a notification of Crown lands now open to selection at the prices stated in the advertisement. " Modesty is a quality that highly adorns" — a hopgrower, says " iEgles." They tell me (for I know nothing of the subject myself) that the present duty on hops is 3d per lb., and I notice that a deputation lately waited on a Minister of the Crown asking that this 3d protective duty be raised to 6d. Now, let us see what this really means. An average crop of hops is, I am told, loewt. to the acre. The hop industry in Victoria is thus at present protected to the extent of £21 per acre of hops grown, and the modest local producers now want that protection raised to £42 per acre ! The result will be instead of hops, the bitterness of quassia and other apothecaries' goods. In the case of Court v. Studholine, hoard at the Christchurch Supreme Court, some of the witnosses were subjected to excruciating examinations. From the evidence of one witness, while being cross-examined by Mr Macasscy, it would appear, says a local paper, that a countless number of fires sprang up about the same time in various parts of the "Waimate bush. There was a fire at Brayshaw's ; a fire at Brace's ; a fire at Allan's ; a fire on the Brewery ranges ; and fires in • other places, the names of which we forget ; but in re-examination by Mr Joynt, tho existence of theso fires at first became doubtful, then all of them appeared to be about the same place, then the Avifcness could not swear that the fires took place at all, and ultimately they dwindled down to one which occurred, nine months previous to the time when the great fire took place in the Waimato bush. If it had suited Mr Joynt, and he had persevered in his examination, ho might probably have induced the witness to believe 'that a fire had never been kindled in the Waimate bush. An article in the Nineteenth CCenturyy y March number, on tho drink difficulty, concludes as follows :— " Let me conclude by relating what occurred at a meeting in one of our northern counties. It was a species of temperance meeting. Three excellent clergymen spoke. They harped on the clastic and indefinite word { moderation,' condemning intemperance, but sotting up Timothy as their model man, morally and constitutionally, lauding and magnifying sobriety, but commending the temperate consumption of alcohol. "When they had concluded an elderly farmer rose and said : ' I have hoard that kind of talk for the last forty years, and I can't see that people are a bit more sober now than when it commenced. It reminds me of what I once saw take place at a retreat for imbeciles. It is the custom there, after patients have been in residence for a certain time, to put them to a land of test to see whether they are fit to leavo the asylum or not. They are taken to a trough, full of water, with a small pipe continually running into it, and supplying it. They are given a ladle, and told to empty it. Those who have not regained their senses keep ladling away, while the water flows in as fast as they ladle it out, but them ns isn't idiots stop the tap.' " Every now and then a tale relating the ingenious dodges of rabbit- killers to manufacture ears or tails, so as to secure a higher bounty, crops up and goes the rounds. Here is another from Southland :— Two neighboring pastoral " lords of many acres," residing not 100 miles from Mount St. Bathans, arranged to exterminate bunny by the one agreeing to give a certain bonus on the ears and the other on the tails of the sacrificed rodents bagged on their respective holdings. Two Chinamen soon became acquainted with the rabbiting conditions of the wise lords of the soil, and each unfortunate bunny that fell into their clutches was immediately divested of its ears and tail. Dividing the spoil, with a merry chuckle at the success of the deception, they each wended thoir way (the one with tails and the other with ears) to the respective exterminators, who after tho trophies of the chase had been laid at their feet, paid accordingly, receiving the heartfelt thanks of the Chinee, with a knowing twinkle of his almond eye. At the game of heads and tails the advantage was unrnistakeably on tho side of the heathen.

Humors of queer doings at Makaraka roach the Poverty Bay Standard. One person, it is said, who had ; imbibed a considorabie " quantity of spirits at Gisboi'ne previously, spiritedly ejected the baliff from his premises when he arrived home. Another, gentleman, whose nose is in a sorry plight j is said to have had a scuffle over similar business. He, however, says a horse threw up his head while being bridled, and struck him on the lidfle'i i

. We notice that tho current number of tho Waka Maori has a strong aud sensible article on Q'e Whiti's pretentions, in the dourse df which it. says!— " If the natives have a grain of Sense left they will nd. longer suffer tlieriiseive9.td We befooled by a madman, for the Whiti is undoubtedly mad. They are making themselves objepts of ridicule to every sensible man in the colony. We advise them to apprehend the Whiti and send him to the' Wellington Lunatic Asylum, where he wpnld be carefully attended to and not allowed to injiire hiniself or otlleW."