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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5530, 5 November 1879, Page 2

A meeting was held ilt the Criterion Hotel last evening of persons who had taken season tickets for the Napier swimming baths, and who are liable or supposed to be liable for payments in respect thereto. There were eighteen persons present, several of whom withdrew from the arrangement dtjeided upon because they had .paid up tJto full 'dmbUiiC of their se&ebii tickets.. The others decided to unite in defending any case that may be brought for the recovery of what may be claimed to, be due by any one of their members. A committee wa§ Appointed id early out the arrangement, and td lake legal advice on the matter.

It appears as if cricket was about to commence in earnest in the Ilawke's Bay district. On Saturday next the Waipawa County men meet .the Waipukur.au towiisliip player.^ o\\ y the. bounty. jrdUrid at W&ipukttr&tt. Oil MQhday the Star and Port Ahuriri Clubs play their first game of the season at Petane. On Monday also, at Waipukurau. a Hawke's Bay County team play against an eleven of Waipawa County. The Hawse's Bay men arc fairly strong, and should give a good account of themselveS; The following ai'o" the elevens chosen :— llawke's Bay :— Messrs T. Moore, A. J. Cotterill, H, Sladcir. C. A. Fit&Royj jUsi Williams; J. Wallace, N. Kettle, G. F. Gillman, Gilpin, H. Smith, and E. D. Tanner. Waipawa: — Bodle, Craven, G. Crosse, .Fulton, Harding, Hargraves, C. Herbert, M'Kay, Pillous, Sainsbury, and Warren. Emergency men— T. Crosse, and .J. H. Herbert.

There appears to be some confusion as to which, horse was second for the Melbourne Cup. Our first telegram yesterday stated that it was Suwarrow, and another message received in tdtfn was to the same effect. Itatei 1 we received a second tclegtfanl placing .Sweetmeat Second ; soon afterwards a third message again lvversed the names, and lastly)" a fourth telegram repeated Sweetmeat's name as second; Tile, last telegram is most likely correct.

The members of our Harbor Board have at last become alive to the fact that the expenses are largely exceeding the receipts. They yes}erda# set to Woi?k in earnest, aud, in the Bliort space of one afternddn bEocted the enormous saving of nearly £10 per annum, hitherto spent in advertising the meetings of the board. There is some hope for the board now.

In the E..M. Court' yesterday morniug, before Messrs J. A. Smith and Kennedy, J.P. 's, John Eddie was charged with unlawfully assaulting Wiliam Aplin on Clivc Square on the 3rd instant. Constable Lorensott stated that the priadner, who seemed to be under the influence of drink, had struck Aplin without provocation, aud was goiug to strike another blow when witness stopped him. Defenfendant said he was just a " little bit tipsy," and had received provocation. The prisoner was further charged with having used obscene language. Sergeant O'Malley said the defeildantwas a hawkei? and seemed honest enough, but when ho came to town he knocked about drinking with a woman who lived with him as his wife, and about whom the pclice had teceived • several complaints. Defendant was fined 10s in eAch case> with Costs, or one Week's imprisonment; The fines were paid-;

Our Tahoraite correspondent, writing last Monday, says :— " On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we had fearful thunderj lightining, and rain. At Dandvirk a large inatai tree was split right down to the ground.- At. the Lazer's whare, on the Mangatoro station, a flash of lightining pruned a thicket of bush, as neat as a man could do it with a bill-hook, within a few yards of where an old veteran bushman, named John Boatfield, was Standing. As I came along the road today I found at the north end of the Danevirk settlement that the road had been entirely covered by a lai;d slip. There were ten or fifteen men clearing the earth awa}', and I should think they would get the work done by the time the coach fi-oni the South got there. It thundered to-day also, but the rain was not so heavy as durining the previous three days. I hear that the rain Masterton and Porangahau way last night was something terrific. The grass all along the road to Waipukurau is something grand, especially at Woburn."

Twenty-five young blood-horses, bred by Mr Purvis liussoll, and got by Gownsman aud other well-known sires, with a number of draught colts, will be offered for sale by Messrs Coward and Co., at tne Tavistock Yards, Waipukurau, on Tuesday next. Afterwards a draft from Mr J. I). Canning's well-known shorthorn herd will be offered for competition.

The following aro tho names of the gentlemen chosen to play for tho Napier Sjtav Cricket Club against the Port Ahuriri Cricket Club, on Monday next at Pctane : — The Rev. De Bert Hovell, Messrs Eees, Gilberd, Day, J. Martin, H. Martin, Mayo, M'lntosh, Hampton ; emergency men — Oelrich and dwards, Carnell, Sidey. All players are requested to be at the Spit Ferry at 8 "o'clock a.m. sharp.

The last Gazette contains a notification of the appointment of Mr S. Carnell, of Napier, to be second lieutenant in tho F. Battery of Artillery.

Karl F. Mortensen was last Monday charged before Mr A. C. St. Inglig, J.P. by Mr B. B. Johnson, of Waipawa, with stealing a pocket-book containing important documents, valued at £100. Mr 'Johnson alleged that he lost the pocket tbook and that it was subsequently unlawfully in the possession of the prisoner. The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next. Bail was allowed, the prisoner in ! £IOO and two sureties in £50 each.

n A London telegram to the Post says . that the advance in wool telegraphed last Week was due to the American demand. It is added that a further advance is anticipated at the opening of the next sale 3. „The Australian tallow market is unusually . excited. Prices have advanced owing to reduced stocks in the market, there having been no arrival from Eussia lately.

Tho privileges of one publican's booth at the Friendly Societies' Fete at Farndon next Monday, will be sold at noon to-day by Messrs Eoutledge, Kennedy, and Co., at their sale rooms.

There has been jjauch excitement of late in Connecticut — -Known in the United States as " the land of wooden nutmegs and steady habits " — owing to the threatened revival at the city of Norfolk of the "blue laws " of 1702, which still remain in force as statutes, aud provide for a rigid observance of the Sabbath, Some enthusiastic Sabbatarians in Norfolk the other day decided on attempting to stop the Sunday boats from runmng, and, having appealed to the authorities to take steps with this object, a notice was served on the largest of the steamboat companies, informing them that the Sunday excursions of their boats were a violation of the law, and that if the offence were repeated proceedings would be taken against the proprietors and managers as well as against the passengers in the boats. The managers of the line, however, have determined to fight the question, and insist on running their boats notwithstanding these threats. Under these laws every passenger is liable to a fine of four dollars on any boat in the State. A person has no right to walk on Sunday except to church, no right to drive a team, and three persons assembled in the street carrying on "secular conversation " are liable to arrest.

A very extraordinary fact is just rid# the talk of idnedf our West End .hotels*; sAys a L'rjridcjn tidr'respdndent. A lady Who has lately arrived from Australid, hA d a.djreani about six weeks ago that her Mlf -sister; who wds s'tilliii the.., colonies; hAd been ftCeidbntal^iillbdi Tile drtJani improved itself Upon her so strongly that she 'made a noto of it in her diary, telling her husband about it at the time. A day or two since she received the sad intelligence that the lady in question had been accidentally killed by being throwii f rdni a carriage, dud oii cdii suiting Her', diary foitrid tliati (Uldwiiig. fdr' tlfe' dlffdi'diice between Lojidon arid the colony, her sister had been killed about the time of the dream. The story is not fiction. Tile facts can be vdiiched for. It reveals a Very straiige coincidence* If nothing more.