THE ALLEGED OUTBREAK OF SCAB IN HAWKE'S BAY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5545, 24 November 1879, Page 2

THE ALLEGED OUTBREAK OF SCAB IN HAWKE'S BAY.

We have received more definite information about tho alleged outbreak of scab in this province, and we are glad to state that through a misunderstanding the facts as contained in our issue of Saturday were not Btated with entire accuracy. The scab has not yet crossed tho boundary of the province, but it is rapidly spreading southward from Poverty Bay, and is now within forty or fifty miles of Hawke's Bay. It has made its appearance, for the first time for many years, on this side of the Mangapoiki river, and if preventive measures are not taken we may soon have it in our midst. The moving of sheep across the boundary-line might any day cause the infection to spread in this province ; our safety lies in tho utmost care being exercised to prevent such a catastrophe. Our informant, who owns a run on the boundary-line, can certainly have no object in exaggerating the evil — on the contrary, the suspected presence of scab close to his flock cannot but be prejudicial to him. He foresaw this, but thought it better that the threatening nature of the danger should be made public, so that steps may be taken to prevent it spreading. To close our eyes to the presence at our very doors of such an infliction would be folly ; to face the enemy and grapple with it, to prevent it invading our province, is the only wise and sensible course.

mation of Detective Grace with feloniouslystealing a bag of potatoes, the property of Mr Louis Watt. On the application of the "police, accused was remanded till TitesdAy. moriiiiig..-, Prisoner applied fbY Bail, which was, granted, in £10 and one Surety til: .£lO. Some comment was at the time made about the fact that Mr RaMibone and Mr Inglis were the justices who tried Mortensen for the alleged larceny of apOcketbook owned by Mr B. B. Johnston. We are informed that both gentlemen were anxious to avoid trying the casej as they foresaw that; it.ms.glit possibly place them in an position, and they specially requested the Clerk of the Court to obtain two other justices.. This he endeavored to do, but was unsilccessf ul. Mr Kenny could ilot, well sit and lake the chavgtJ as Resident Magistrate, because if Mortenseri had been . committed he would have. stood for trial at the sittings of the District Court; of which Mr Kenny is judge; There will be little business before the Waipawa Licensing Court, which sits on Tuesday week. There areno applications for new licenses, the whole of the business set down being the transfers of the Te Aute and Kopua Hotels. We hear that all the dress-circle seats for the performance of " H.M.S. Pinafore" to-morrow night have been taken. The performance can only be given on the one night, as the company must leave by the Rotorua on Wednesday. The Southern Cross, which left Welling* ton on Saturday, with the newspaper portion of the San Francisco maiK had not arrived in the bay at eight o clock last evening. A cricket match was to have" been played on Saturday between the Port Ahuriri and Tradesmen's" Clubs, but the bad weather prevented its coining dfli. Seven or eight members of each club met upon the Port Ahuriri ground and had a scratch match, which was intruded upon by a heavy downpower of rain. Some excellent cricket was shown; M.t Rose put together 40 runs, made Up by |36 singles and a foui 4 . The two clubs will no doubt meet later on in the season, when we hope they will obtain a good wicket. The committee of the Napier 1 Woriring I Men's Club have resolved to hold an ] Horticultural Show, dn the 4th and sfsh/ I of December he%b, in the new hall nowA Mbeing erected adjoining the e'lub rooms iij Emerson-street. Several gentlemen in--1 terested in horticulture have promised to I give their assistance, and we have no / doubt that the committee will spare no effort to make the show a success. The heavy rains experienced during the past few days have caused the rivers to be greatly s'welleil. Yesterday morning the Tiitaekuri river overflowed its banks, but no damage has as yet been reported. Mantalini's Waxwork Exhibition, which was opened on Saturday, attracted a large mirnber of visitors, both in the afternoon and in the evening, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. The figures') Which werd ( dertaiuly" very curious, attracted great interest. Gifts were distributed to all the visitors. The show will be open this afternoon from 2 till 5, and from 7 till 10 in the evening. The Union Cricket Club has accepted a challenge from. Te Attte 1 Collegd, to ploy a match at Hastings on Saturday. Porangahau Races are advertised to be held as usual on Boxing Day. In consequence of the surplus stores ex May Queen not being all landed the sale will not take place till Wednesday 26th, at the same hour and place. The "worst-disgusted" man in New Zealand, according to the local Herald, at the" pr'e'seilt time" resides in the Poverty Bay district. He entered for a sweep on the Melbourne Cup at Gisborne, and on being told he had secured Darriwell repudiated his liability. The ticket accordingly reverted to the hotelkeeper who arranged the lottery (viz., Mr Page), and he wins the money of course. The Wellington correspondent of a contemporary says :— That frequent and secret communication between the Maori prisoners and Te Whiti is maintained has been ascertained almost beyond a doubt, and it is too much to be feared that, if released, and Te Whiti's present forces be reinforced by these picked warriors, serious troubles will arise. A still further application of straw is reported from San Francisco, which will largely affect the coopering trade. Straw pulp is made by pressure in a machine into the form of barrels and kega, which, with their wooden hoops, only weigh about 161 b. The cost of a barrel or a pail is exactly the price of wooden ones, and one man only is required to attend to three machines, which can turn out 750 barrels per day of 10 hours. A former member of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, with a candour that is somewhat rare, has been relating his biography to one of the writers in the Westminster lieview. As it offers an epitome of the political career, as well as an explanation of the motives and objects, of many another public man in New Zealand, it is worth quoting. The ingenuous adventurer says ; — " I came to Victoria to dig gold. I prospered but little ; I had no capital ; found the shepherd's life too rough, and of clerkships there were none vacant. By a happy inspiration I addressed myself to the electors ; made vague promises of what I would do for them should I ever get into power. Since then I have been, in a respectable manner, living on my £300 a-year and my free railway pass, and ever looking forward to turning up some day as a Minister, with my £1500 or £2000 a-year, or at all events in the end falling into some snug berth as one of those land commissioners at £1000 per annum. Af fer all I could not have done much better in life, certainly not considering the liberty I enjoy in regard to the when, the where, and the how much of my work." The Pioneer says : — " The King of Burmah has published his tariff for the Burmese year 1241. The English translation covers some 12 or 13 folio pages. The Burmese Government is bound by treaty obligations not to levy more than 5 per cent, on goods which are imported from, or exported to, British Burmah. The tariff, therefore, has only to give the quantity and value on which the duty is assessed. It professes to have been drawn up, after consultation with brokers and revenue officers, who among them seem to have forgotten nothing. Washhand basins, empty bottles, pills, fryingpans, onions, edible birds' nests, puffboxes, are some of the things included in the imports. Of the exports the follow ing may be noticed : — Walnuts, human hair, cheese, preaching-benches, dolls, brass finger-rings with mock jewels. Besides the imports from British territory, various goods ' brought in by Shans on their shoulders ' are mentioned in the tariff; including ivory from across the mountains, rhinoceros horns, camphor, silver, tiger's skins, tiger's milk, dried shrimps, peacocks' tails, gold dust, and ponies. The brokers and revenue officials must surely have been mistaken when they said that the last-named article was brought in by Shans on their shoulders." Lectures do not seem to take well with the Canterbury public ; the following appeared in the Lyttelton Times in reference to one which was to have been given recently at Ashburton : — The announcement that P. Maguire, of Wakanui, who is well known in the district, would deliver a lecture at the Town Hall, attracted about a score of people, including a considerable sprinkling

of the larrikin element, to the Ashburfcon Hall on Wednesday evening. Tlie 1 ledturer ojtened^the proceedings by drihU- - ing tiie health of- -the heavenly bodies in pale Brandy. He then remarked thatiu consequence of the] poor dtteridandia lie. would defer his^ remarks dn xlle aißove \ alluring subjects' another occasion, but $ie money of th'Bse present would be returned at the doors. As nobody had paid anything, this announcement caused a good deal of merriment,, which was liU creased wlieii the lecturer, diving for & moment into .the side room, emerged with his brandy bottle under his arm, and, hjis tumbler on the end of his walking stick, and once more, remarking ' tlierfe \will, be no lecture to-riigti fc, .b'dys I ' walked out of the Hall, followed by the larrikins, who were persistent in their enquiries if he was ' going to sliout.' t Taking not tlie slightest notice of tnese hints tlie e'fcce'ntric gentlemen got intd a Spring cart standing al the door, and was driven back to Wakanui." An official enquiry into the extent of the tobacco trade in Germany has brought out some interesting statistics with regard to the trade in tobacco pipes. The chief centre of this branch of industry is Kuhla, in Thuringia. In that town and the neighboring villages the annual production for the past few years has averaged 540,000 genuine meerschaum bowls or heads, and 5,400,000 artificial or imitation meerschaum bowls. The number of polished, lacquered, and variously mounted wooden pipe heads "annually produced was 4,800,000. Of the common porcelain bowls, the favorite pipes of tlie German peasantry, there were manufactured every year 9,600,000, and of fine clay or lava bowls, 2,700,000. Further, there has been an annual average production of 15,000,000 pipe stems or tubes, of various sizes and materials ; 1,600,000 dojienof miscellaneous adjuncts, such as flexible tubes, chains, tops, tufts, etc. ; 12,000 dozens of meerschaum pipe cases, 800,000 dozen mouth pieces and cigai' holders of amber or horn and meerschaum wood, or cocoanut shell ; and, finally, 15,000,000 complete pipes composed of various materials. The value of the whole is estimated at about £1,000,000, The Parihaka correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle says ;— I cannot help thinking that Te Whiti is losing somewhat of his influence. Tile 1 natives cannot be gulled everlastingly, and when they s^lnd that he is duite unable to release the prisoners, and that the 1 Government ignore , him, they will, I believe, soon desert his banner, and try and make the best arrangements for themselves with the Government. The Plains natives have no interest in common with him so far as their lands are concerned, and as the Whenua is to a great extent their religion, their Gtad, connected as it is with all their histories and legends, I believe we will find them ready enough to retain as much lands as possible, and to attain this end would very readily come to terms. Titokowaru seldom goes to Parihaka nowj and Werimu Mania never, and as these two are the principal owners, I have no doubt but that there would be little, if any, opposition to our at once occup} r ing the plans, provided always that ample reserves were at first cut out for the Maoris. Mr Ware, Periston Towers, Boss, Writes to the' London times to tell us that rheumatism becomes impossible if celery is freely used as an article of diet. Unfortunately he says cooked celery, and it is the article in its raw state to which we are all accustomed. " Cut the celery," he says, " into inch dice, boil in water until soft. No water must be poured away unless drunk by the invalid. Then take new milk, slightly thicken with flour, and flavor with nutmeg, warm with the celery in saucepan ; serve with diamond of toasted bread in a round dish, and eat with potatoes." " Permit me to say," he adds, " that cold or damp never produce rheumatism, but simply develope it. The acid blood is the primary cause and sustaining the power of the evil. While the blood is alkaline there can be no rheumatism and equally no gout.' Speaking of the. opera of "H.M.S. Pinafore " in Scribner's Magazine for May Dr. Holland ' says : — " Since we began to observe theatres at all, nothiug has had such a run of popularity as this. Young and old, rich and poor, have been amused by it, and there is not a word in it, from beginning to end, that can wound any sensibility. It is a piece of delicious absurdity all through, and a man can only enjoy two hours of jollity in witnessing it, which will not leave a stain upon him anywhere. It is simply delightful — pure fun — and the most popular thing that has appeared on the stage for the last ten years. We call attention to it specially to show that fun, when it is pure, is more popular a thousand times than when it is not." The Bay of Plenty Times states that the settlers in that district propose to band together and start a co-operative store.