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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5517, 21 October 1879, Page 2

: Mr Hill, the Inspector of schools to the i Hawke's Bay .Education Board) is ai'raiigingto,h<Hd iics;t iii'diitli ah examination of Maori for the .scholarships, to . :oe given from the fund set apart by Mr ;Douglas M'Lean for the promotion Of .education,/ among •: the 'natives. Tho amount oi the ; fuh'd is 1 3000, -'and the trustees,- who, we believe, are' Messrs' Ormond, Cotterill, Loeke, GiVbOrne, and the Rev. S: Williams, llavß agi'eed that it would best meet the wishes' of the donor to offer for competition .three scholarships of the annual value of £35, tenable for 'three" .yearS. They have left the ni&tter in Mr Hill's hands, and he proposes that the three holders of the scholarships shall, at the close of their three .years' tenure, compete for a Unversity scholai'ship of £50, tenable for twOj'ears.: Mr Robert Guppy, one of the oldest of . the Taradalo . settlers, died on. Friday last,, and was buried yesterday. The Settlers of the district,-, as well as a number of personal friends of the deceased from dive, and Hastings) followed Ms remains to the grave". For years past Mr Guppy has labored under a severe affliction, and. this, added to other circunistanceSi caused his death to be anything but unexpected-. He was known to a Aery large circle of friends, and was always regarded as a thoroughly honest and . straightforward man. Mr Guppy leaves a widow,' two sons, and a daughter, all of Whom are favorably known in Taradale fpr their industry and uprightness. They will have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement. We learn that Mi 1 Arthur Walker has sttdceSdca ill purchasing from the natives a splendid block of land in the Wairoa district, consisting of 43,000 acres. The purchase money amounted to over £7000, :' or at, the rate of 4s 3d per acre. Mr Josiah' Hamlin; late in the employ of the Government in connection with nativeland purchases, acted on,behalf of Mr Walker. '" ; The native meeting at Omahu terminated yesterday. It was decided that Utcku •Potaka, as~ representing " three Rangitikei Jiapus, and Renata Kawepo, the representative of the Hawke's Bay natives, should divide the purchase money equally, but that no division should take place for three months, when it was expected the whole -of the money (£60,000) would be hauded !; over to the representatives of the respective tribes. - A meeting of all members connected ''.with Friendly Societies in Hawke's Bay l 'will- be held this evening in the Odd Fellows' Hall, when important business in connection with the fete to be held at Farndon on Monday, the 11th of November, will be discussed. • „ We are requested to call attention to an advertisement by the Board of Education, calling for fresh tenders for the purchase ,of the .Hastings school site,, with all the buildings that are upon it. The circumstances under which the tenders are invited are explained in pur report of the board's proceeding's yesterday. Mr G. Faulknor, of Hastings-street, turned out from his coach manufactory >. yesterday a Cobb's coach, built on the American principle, to the, order of .Mr Kelly, of Tauranga, the contractor fer the conveyance .of mails, between Tauranga. and Napier'; ' 'Mr "-Kelly informs us' that this is the third coach/ Mr Faulknor has' built to his order, and 'he "is convinced that in no other part of the colony could he haA r e" obtained coaches of such superior work and finish: ... . . Mr W. J. Miller, the General Manager of the Napier railway,' notifies that- a' special, train will'leave Napier for Tareha's Bridge at 12.30 p.m. on Wednesday for . the convenience of persons desirous of attending the steeplechase meeting, to be held to-morrow. A train will arrive at the Shamrock Hotel at the conclusion of the meeting. '' ; Mr G, Rynier notifies that on. Wednesday next, coaches will leave Messrs New-, ton and Irvine's .cornor every'half hour . between the hours: of ten and twelve in. the forenoon, for the purpose of conveying persons to the racecourse. A concert and dramatic entertainment in aid of the Napier Hospital will be given at the Taradale school-room this evening. Several of our best local amateurs have promised to give their assistance, and.no.effortwillbe spared to .make the entertainment a success. Messrs Stuart and Co.'s sale of cattle on the 29th inst. takes place in, the Farndon sale yards— not the Shamrock yards, as at first advertised. The Rev. C, Pehney will preach at Norsewood on Thursday evening next at 7_ o'clock, and on'Siinday at Woodville, ~ "morning and evening. The morning service will be bold at 11 o'clock in the Schoolroom, and the evening service at 7 o'clock in the settlement. A special Melbourne message to the Evening Post • states that a meeting numbering 4000 persons has been held in Melbourne ttf-'agitate • f or' the : reprieve of Lawrence, the murderer of Mr Finlayson, on the ground of his insanity. A deputation was appointed to Avait on the Governor, Lord Normanby, with a memorial. : The Spit Volunteer Fire Brigade will meet to-night for their regular practice. ■ In an article on the Wairarapa reefs, the Manawatu Herald says that there is in Palhie'rston one of the original prospectors of the Wairarapa. Mr Dykes, , the host of the Palmerston, was one of a party who inspected the district some fourteen years ago, the party being provided with the necessary ways and means Iry three enterprising citizens of Welling- • ton.; The prospectors found a gold-bear-ing reef 24ft. wide. Five hundredweight of this reef was forwarded, through the Bank of Now Zealand in Wellington, to ' Ballarat, for a test crushing. The result showed that the stone was fairly payable —yielding at the rate of 2oz. of silver and 14dwt. Bgrs. of gold to the ton. When the result of tho crushing -was known, the prospectors endeavored to form a coinSany in Wellington, but in this they were . isappointed and had to abandon their workings. The scene of theii* operation was near the lake, not far from Matthews' wool-shed. Tho reef hero was exposed to . view and fully 30 reet wide. A tunnel Cwas put in 90 feet by the prospectors (who were all West Coasters) and a shaft ; 6x3 sunk 60 feet, with two chambers, one at 30 and the other at 60 feet deep. The stone for the trial crushing was not picked, but taken promiscuously from the

heap taken, put of the two chambers; About 600, tons of guartz liad, been got Qut wheii this workings were abaddoned: The prospectors met with gold in iHe creek running atLtbe bottom, of the Ml where; jfchiN reef was- situate, and in other stream's; j-Ifr was all rough, reef gold, ;dnd.Mii' evidently! xidt traVolled.anygreat . v dist^h(3e.^Al?oitt an 1 " ounce ef ' thiV-;was - obtained bythe prospectors during, their stay in the Wairarapa. ?".?*■> From a paper presented to Parliament it appears -that Sir Julius Yogel has engaged Mr Gerritt Van Asch to proceed to New Zealand as teacher o£ deaf-mdtes. Under- hireligagdni^, ile\i§ to. e'mtiark idf New Hot lake tlieii ilie 1 eild. df this month-..- Mr Van Asch, explains tho Post,^ is a professor of the German system, which teaches its pupils to converso by means' 'of 1 articulate sounds, and to understand by lip-reading — i.e., by interpreting the movement of the lips of speakers to the exclusion of all signs except the natural Olios'. A special report by Sir Jiiiius Vbgel, ot Abbott, atld Mr Kemia\vav states that it is a cardinal point with the,. teachers. of this, system that systematized signals must Hot fee : used in. COniie^tiOil with it; Tliey, in fact, j find it very difficdlt to%hig i to tlie use of i their system children wlid haye 1 once : educated t^ a f Miliar use of systematised signals. By systematised signals J are ] meant arbitrary signals (as opposed to I natural ones) to express words or letters, |or short sentences. It is unquestionably, I the fact that by the German system deal|mutes, may r be enabled to ■ compensate (themselves, largely for the loss of hearing } arid speech. ■ They may be made to speak ; quite clearly, so that there id nd difficulty ,iii understanding them ; they, may ftlsp bo made to read from the lips' with a facility ! and correctness that must be seen to bo so a&tOnishine is the, result. Tiiey are broiignt to read arid wr'it-d ' with facility, and their education can be conducted up to limits which ; cannot be 'reached under the other system. Mr Van Asch is stated to be a very experienced teacher of the system. \ Expeditions iv Central Asia during the present year seem likely, says the Pall Mall Budget, to have one serious and un-looked-for effect at all events; they will little short of annihilate the means of transB drt irl the i'egtdn between the Indus and le Caspian for some time to come. Such, a loss of camels as that entailed by our advance into Afghanistan— amounting it- is Mid to sdmO 30 ; 000— is quite Unheard of; and now the Russians are contributing their share towards tile des'trildtioh ox those Useful beasts •of burden. The owners of these animals are entitled to a compensation of a hundred roubles for. every animal which gives way. It therefore pays them better to drive weak camels to death than to proceed cautiously, with, them; The correspondent of the tidily Neios at Tchikislar speaks of the " pitiable" spectacle presented by > the- abandoned camels. As a result of this wholesale destruction on one side and the other, the trade with. Central Asia will be brought almost to a standstill. . For ourselves, it would be next to impossible to organise the transport of an army to Herat ; and,- although the Russians are moving from different points, and therefore have a larger area to draw upon, they tpo will shortly find that the supply of qamels will not suffice for the demand they are making upon it. There are of cpurse a number of anecdotes connected with the Zulu war, and amongst them are not a few respecting canine fidelity. General Wood had with him two fine greyhounds, which were with, him at every engagement up to Uliindi, where ono of them pursuing the flying Zulus wrs assegaied. Captain Campbell, of the Active, had with him a pointer which/always headed the advance of a column, and was at the entrenched camp at Ekowe, was suddenly missed, and it was thought that he had strayed outside the camp and had been killed by Zulus, but when the relief column marched to Ekowe, after the battle of • Ginghiloyo, there was the dog at the head of the column. It seems he had gone back, to Natal, and his experience of that lovely trip did not prompt him to make the journey again without an escort. The subscriptions of Edinburgh, towards the National Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank amounted in March to £96,895 19s Bd.