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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5833, 19 November 1880, Page 2

The following weather forecast was received here yesterday from Captain Edwin :—" indications of strong winds between north-cast and north and west. Glass fall within 12 hours. Sea making after that time."

>.-/ A number of ladies and gentlemen visited the New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Waikato yesterday. Captain Worster received them in. his usual hospitable style, and. they left haying a

good impression of the ship and her •appointments.

We are requested Id state that any jurors or witnesses who have not been paid for their attendance at the late sittings of the District Court will receiys payment on application to the sheriff before 4 o'clock to*cUy, alter which time the money will not be available.

The engines and boiler for Messrs Torr's steam launch Eslc arrived yesterday by the Go-ahead from Wellington. They are from the shop of Messrs Luke, Sons, and Williams, and have been made under the supervision of Mr Kelly, the chief engineer of the G-cahead. The Esk is intended for the Petane trade.

Tile usual sitting of the District Court was held yesterday, when probate of the will oE G-. E. Toop was granted to Ambrose Amner, on the application 'pf Mr Carlile. The case of Mitchell v. Merritt was furthei 1 adjourned to December 9th, leave being given to add a count to the plaintiff's declaration, the defendant not being ordered to furnish further particulars.

Madame Franzini will take a benefit at the Theatre Hoyal this evening. Besides performing her wonderful bicycle feats, she will also give one of her favorite Spanish dances, for which she has always received very favorable notices from the Press, and will sing several favorite ballads. It will be seen that some of our best-known amateurs, as well as the members, of the Artillery Band, have consented to assist on this occasion.

It is a universal complaint among tradesmen in town that this month has so far been one of the worst yet experienced for the collection of money. Country people seem to be so much engaged in shearing, mowing, and other occupations that they have not time to pay their accounts. The tradesman, not receiving money from the country, finds it difficult to meet his engagements, and so there is " tightness " all round. At noon yestei'day the only nomination received for the office of Mayor was that I of Mr Vautier, who was therefore declared duly elected. This absence of opposition is the highest compliment which could be paid to Mr Vautier. There never was a time when public opinion on municipal matters was more thoroughly alive, and the absence of other nominations certainly cannot with justice be ascribed to apathy. |. Mr W. Hodgson has been presented by the ladies and gentlemen who took part in the recent dramatic entertainment with a time-piece. The presentation was not intended as a reward, Mr Hodgson having refused to accept any remuneration, but it was felt that there should be some recognition of his painstaking efforts to make the entertainment a success. He certainly worked hard, showing skill, forbearance, and patience, and the performance itself was the best testimony to his ability to undertake the arduous task allotted to him.

The following applications were received at the Land Office yesterday for the sections on deferred payment, and the required deposits paid : — Norsewood district, block 3 — Section 7, 47 acres 2 roods, £59 7s 6d, W. M. Clark ; section 10, 49 acres 3 roods 20 perches, £74 16s 3d, Jacob Jacobsen ; section 24, 50 acres, j £75, Jeremiah Sullivan ; sectiou 26, 50 acres, £75, John O'Hara; section 28, 50 acres, £75, 0. A. Bruford; section 29, 156 acres 2 roods, £156 10s, Olaf Johansen. Block 6.— Section 3, 50 acres, £62 10s, Malachi G-ribble ; section 8, 50 acres, £75 Is lid, Mathew Hutchison ; section 10, 69 acres 3 roods, £87 3 s 9d, "William Youngman. Takapau district, block 5. — Section 87, 54 acres 2 rood 5 perches, £54 10a Bd, L. Mathieson. For section 5, " OK)TsTr^7^roi i se\vbocia.'istricLroo -reorcoj-jcror thero were two applications —J. H. Cream and John Wood. The right to occupy the section will be decided by auction between the applicants only on Saturday next at 11 o'clock. . There were five sections for which no applications were received.

We {European Mail) hear that the Rev. James Copland, M.A., of Dunedin, Kew Zealand, author of " Reasons why we believe the Bible" and other works, has ready for publication a work to be entitled "Alleged Scientific Contradictions to the Bible Doctrine of Man," in which he analyses the doctrine of evolution.

The colonelcy of the 50th Queen's Own He^iuient, vacant by the retirement of General Thompson, has been conferred upon Brevet-Colonel Arthur Evelyn, who was with his regiment at Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, and in the JSTew Zealand campaign.

Jersey is to have its centenary commemoration. The battle of Jersey was fought in 1786, and St. Heliers proposes to have a celebration worthy of the event. On the date in question the French troops made themselves masters of St. Heliers, making the Governor prisoner, and compelling him to sign a capitulation. The English force, under Major Pierson, however, refused to obey the orders of the Governor to lay down their arms, and gave battle to the invaders, completely routing them, and killing their leader, Baron Eullecourt.

The latest curiosity from America is the mysterious disappearance of a railway train. Ifc was on the Kansas Pacific Railway, and between two and three thousand dollars have been spent in searching for it ; but it cannot be found. A bout 400 miles west of Kansas city the line runs through a place called Monotony, which was vis ted some time ago by a terrible storm and waterspout, over 600 feet of track having been washed away. The adjacent neighborhood, which consists of a huge rolling prairie, was 8 feet uudor water, and it is conjectured that the locomotive and waggons (it luckily not being a passenger train) were carried away and buried under a landslip. This is the second time of such an occurrence.

A rather amusing race meeting is reported by tho Mount Ida Chronicle as having been held at Blacks : — On the 18th a trotting match came off on the Blacks racecourse between Pitches Sam and M'Morran's Devil. The latter peculiarly named horse was well handicapped, having to carry about sst more than Sam. The race is easily described. Sam went of£ with the lead, and was never caught by the Devil. After the race uas over, the hat went round, and funds were collected for a couple of hack races. The first was a handicap. The owners of Cappa and Schoolboy (both racehorses) entered their respective horses. The owner of Cappa, feeling confident of winning, paid the entrance fee for a horse owned by W. Dundass, so as to make it more interesting, &c. Dundass rode the race without a saddle, winning it easily, amid the applause of everyone on the ground. The next was a race with catch weights, and the racehorses were again beaten by a little boy riding his pony, and winning it easily ; so that tho pot boiled over twice.

The Old Maids' Association of G-eaunga County, O. (says the New York Tribicne), held a picnic on the lake recently, and mustered 86 souls. This Society was an outgrowth of the war, and was organised in 1862 by a bevy of young ladies whose brothers and sweethearts -were fighting for their country, and left them without the resources of male escorts, except the laggards who remained at home. Unwilling to accept tho gallantry of these young men, the young ladies preferred to depend upon themselves, and formed the association mentioned. Out of revenge tho gallants dubbed these independent damsels "old maids," and they accepted the cognomen and made it their own. A humorous constitution and bye-laws were drafted by Mrs O. E. Henry, then a single young lady, and one of the founders o£ the institution, Man was de-

clared the "common. enemy " and .one of the chief objects of the society was a continued war against their advances. He was religiously excluded f rqni, all tEe meeting's, and a special cliuse of the byelaws said tliat any member who should niarfy should be fined 100 big copper cents, and to be branded in tar on the soles of her feet " U.D.1.;" meaning "up and done it." The beautiful consistency of woman's nature will be appreciated when it is known that every one of the charter members, and nearly all of eligible age since, are married.

The Bobart Toton Mercury of September 27th has the following':— "Some o£ our readers hare expressed themselves puzzled about Colonel St. Hill's retirement. The facts are briefly -these. The proceedings of- the Executive Council dispensing with this officer's services as Commandant, forwarded with a covering despatch from Governor Weld, reached the Home authorities on 13th May last. After having considered the whole case, the military authorities, early in June, ordered Colonel St. Hill to rejoin his regiment, not being then aware that he had applied to retire from the army. In the meanwhile Colonel St. Hill's application to retire, which had been forwarded through his regiment stationed at Ber- ' muda, arrived in due course. But Colonel St. Hill, fearing lest the application to retire might, in the serious turn affairs had taken, be construed as wishing to evade enquiry, telegraphed Home to stop his retirement so that he might rejoin his . regiment and have an enquiry. The Home authorities see no necessity for this, but, as expressed by Lord Kimberley in the extract from the despatch published by us on Saturday, see no reason for allowing the retirement to be interfered with, treat it as an ordinary case, which, , in accordance with the provisions of General Order No. 112 of 1869 (quoted by us on Saturday), once submitted cannot be allowed to be withdrawn. By Colonel St. Hill being placed on the retired list he is liable to be called upon to serve up to the age of 45 at any time ; his name still remains in the Army List, he is entitled to wear uniform, and in cas_e of death widow and children become entitled to pension."

The London correspondent of the Evening Post says :— lt is believed that the Commission of Scrutiny in the Oxford contested election case kas decided that Oxford shall be disfranchised. The revelations of bribery made by the Parliamentary inquiry were scandalous in the extreme, and the influential and fashionable circles in which tke contestants move had not yet fully recovered from tke skock produced by tke evidence in tke case wken tkis new surprise came upon tkern. Tke Conservative agent testified that it cost kis party about £8000 to beat Sir "William Harcourfc in May, £4000 kaving been expended [in April, witkout success, at tke first election. * Tkere was a tacit compact between tke two parties tkat the expenditure on eack side skould be limited to £2000, and tkat no bills skould be issued ; but when the contest became warm tke bargain was repudiated, and " botk sides fired bills at eack other," as many as five sets o£ placards being issued in one day. His publisked accounts, ke said, kad never been correct, and ke "juggled" items so as to save himself from criminal prosecution. On tke election day ke employed about 12,000 people and 1075 conveyances. His side got 2780 votes. He gave tke name of a member of tke Junior Carlton Club from wkoui ke got money for election purposes, and admitted that the gain of 100 votes, wkick defeated Sir William Harcourt, was made by corruption, and that the differences between kis published and his actual expenditure went for bribes. Both returning officers and magistrates, ke orUWI,- — rrcro coruupt. The. Mayor of Oxford testified that tke majority of tke electors looked to being employed as clerks and messengers on tke election day, and tke Conservative agent finally declared ke kad destroyed nearly all of kis papers, " because they would have disclosed [ quasi-corrupt transactions."