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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5447, 30 July 1879, Page 2

We must compliment our Wellington correspondent upon his close approach to correctness in his anticipation of the division list. It will bo seen that the "ayes" in the list' we publish this morning are the same as those in yesterday's list, with the exception that MiMcLean is not included in to-day's, he having paired with Mr Montgomery, But of that fact our correspondent was aware and had mentioned it in his letter. The " noes " are identical in number, but in to-day's list wo have Mr Goldie instead of Mr Montgomery; the latter paired, and the former it was thought would have abstained, from voting.

Replying to Captain Russell, in the House yesterday, the Minister for Public Works stated that tlie.-^rbnlised railway station at. Tafeha's Bridge, Awatoto, Would be provided for. We have to acknowledge an additional siibseriptton in aid o!E the . distressed, family at.Makaretu as follows :— A.H.P., 10s ; W\ £h i A meeting of the Road Board Was held at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning in the Tainumu. Schoolhouse, when the accounts were passed and the books audited. At noon, a meeting of ratepayers to eJect Wardens for the "ensuing^year, resiiitingin the ejection, of Messrs J. Nairn; Jl. M'HarAvj K. dollan, i senv, John M'Keniie, and A. Lyons. ! Sub&e<|entiy Mr A. Lyons Ms elected chairman for the ensiling year, The enterUinnienlln aid of the Christain Brothers' establishment last night, ■ passed off vory well, and despite the inclemency of the weathe,?, there ; was a very good .attendant The performers were is follows : — Piano duet, Mr St. Olair and Miss A. Rearden ; songs, Mr , Rice and Miss Colo, Messrs Rose, GUlpin, Foster, Sheath, Morg'ori; And St. Clair ; vocal ,4 wet', Messb Morgon and Foster; trio, Messrs Morgon, Gilpin and Foster ; readings, Messrs Lee and Monteith. Rainers's panorama of the Russor Turkish War maintains its. popularity. Last evenuig; , notwithstanding' the ilnpleas&ntiiess of tfte weather, there was an exeelle'nt house at the Theatre Royal. The series of views illustrative of the war were again exhibited to an appreciative audienoe, and Mr Stanley sang sdme appropriate songs-, which were much applauded.. The .mechanical imitation. of the bib 1 Vnng vp 1 di a turret ship ia really very ingenious, and ijs tyell Vpprth" Seeing". In the distribution of gifts Miss Brenton #as fortunate enough to obtain a lockstitch sewing-inachiiie and. Miss Cditbett a silver watch. The panorama will be exhibited 'again tins evening, when some, llioro valuable presents will be distribitted. A general meeting of members, of the Hawke's Bay County Cricket Club is Gallop for Saturday next, at Hastings, to consider proposals from the Hawke's Bay Agricultural Socioty relative to the lease of a cricket ground. The Cornwall Relief ..Gommitjtee have resolved; to assist miners to emigrate to. to New Zealand and Australia. The high hopes that were entertained of the solution of the native difficulty, through the medium of Sydney Tairahanga, are at an end, if one may judge from certain legal proceedings in the Police Court, remarks the Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily Times. It ■will be recollected that two years 'ago this Celebrated Northern tihief practically demonstrated the problem of that union of the races, of which we read so much : and see so little, by marrying a Mrs Moran. The experiment was a perilous one, and with over a dozen children thrown in, white and birnVn, tb start with'} was siii'e to end in disaster. Sydney's idea was to teach his Maori children the English tongue, English modes of thought, and English civilisation. On the other hand it was hoped that the European section of the household would grow up to know and love their Maori brethren. The day dream has vanished ; and Sydney, after crying down his wife's credit in the approved European fashion, is sitting desolate and afflicted by the domestic hearth. Unlike Socrates, the Maori philosopher cannot complain . that his Xantippe has poured vials of wrath, upon his devoted head. Mrs Tairahanga's style is more propulsive than impulsive, and meeting Sydney in one of our main thoroughfares she dealt him a kick in " another place," which set him rotating within his own length as if he was worked by a turnscrew. The result was that poor human nature could stand it no longer ; he let her have it from the shoulder; an interview with the police magistrate succeeded, on a charge of assault ; and a consequent termination to all the romance which, this latest instance of miscegenation was calculated to produce.

The Governor of Fiji is instructed to investigate the proceedings of the Rev. G. Brown when he attacked tho natives of New Britain after the massacre of the Wesleyan cateohist.