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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5835, 22 November 1880, Page 2

Mr J . D. Powclroll has struck his horse Hailstorm out of the liawke's Bay Cup.

Mr H. S. Tiffen and Mrs Eaudall are passengers by the Taravua, which is due at Napier on Saturday next. ISText Sunday lias been appointed for the annual collections in. the diocese of Waiapu on behalf of the Maori mission.

If Mr Davidson will call at our office we shall have pleasure in handing him the money we have received on his behalf.

An effort is beiug made to got together a prospecting party to search for gold at the back of the Ruahiues, working from Makatoku as a base.

A cricket match is about to be arranged between eleven railway employes and an eleven from other branches of the Civil Service in Napier.

A petition is being signed for presentation to the Minister of Justice, calling his attention to the offence upon the child Ellen Higgs alleged to have been committed in the Napier cemetery some short time ago.

We have received from the Ceylon Commissioner at the Melbourne Exhibition a catalogue of exhibits from Ceylon, to which is appended a variety of useful and interesting information relative to that dependency.

Madame Franzini gave her farewell performance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening to a moderate house. The programme of the previous evening was repeated, the bicycle performance receiving well-merited applause. A correspondent complains that there is no trough at any one of the hotels at the Spit, and that from the bottom of Shakespeare hill to Petane there is no convenience for a horse to get a drink of water except by procuring a bucket and getting it filled.

David Collins, alias David Murphyj alias llobert Ryan Weston, was arrested immediately on his liberation from gaol on Saturday morning on a charge of horse-stealing at Greytown. He was brought before Captain Preece and remanded to Greytown.

Last Saturday evening two lads had a pugilistic encounter in Hastings-street in front of Mr Tuckwell's shop, the window of which narrowly escaped having the head of one of the pugilists driven through it. Fortunately some bystanders succeeded in parting the boys, both of whom on hearing that the police were approaching deemed it advisable to beat a retreat.

"We have received from the Bishop of Waiapu the copy of a circular which he has addressed "on visitation." He states that with the view of encouraging young persons in this diocese to offer themselves for examination in the course of theological study prescribed by the Board of the General Synod he proposes to give prizes, to the value of £10, to be competed for at the examination to be held in June next.

Alexander M'Lean, a small farmer liviug on the banks of the Waiapoua river, was found drowned in the river opposite the Ormond Police Court on Wednesday last. It seems that he had been ear-marking some sheep on Mr Brace's station on the previous Monday, and left for home in a boat, which was found the next evening moored to the bank of the river near the place where the body was found. The position of the boat leads to the belief that M'Lean moored it while he bathed, and that he got out of his depth and, being a poor swimmer, was drowned. He leaves a little property which, as he has no relations in the colony, will go to a brother in Dundee. Yesterday morning, at the close of a very appropriate discourse, the licv. D. Sidey made an earnest appeal to his congregation for a liberal response at the approaching hospital collection on the first Sunday in December. The subject itself, " Remembering the poor," was expounded in the light of humanity and of the higher spirit of Christianity ; and was enforced t>y weighty coasidejrcitiws, i

among which was the absence qj: all poor law in these colonies', rendering spontaneous help to tlie needy and suffering a^ll the tiV6i J e imperative, while shielding tnctn from the pauperising influence associated with compulsory legal provision in the old country.

An accident of a ratlier severe nature orcurrcd to the Rev. Fattier ReigiiUi* oh Saturday tttorning', lie was proceeding in bJte Buggy towards St. Mary's Church and when reaching the corner of the hill near the Catholic school some portion of the harness gave way, causing the horse to swerve against the wall that encloses the school ground. The buggy was upset and Father Reignier was thrown violently to the ground, sustaining some injury to his head, though not of a serious nature, and also some severe scratches about the face. He was quickly removed to the presbytery and the attendance of Dr Spencer procured. We learned on inquiry yesterday that tile Reverend Father wr,s progressing very favorably. Ml* Basil, who was driving the buggy, was only slightly injured. Gisborne is noted for the law-indulgr ing propensities of its inhabitants. Some o£ them are constantly in "hot water with sheriff's officers, bailiffs, and others of that kidney. An amusing incident is reported to have taken place there a few days ago. The proprietor of a wellknown hostelry Was in trouble, with his creditors, one of whom sent two bailiffs to take possession of the place. They locked the unfortunate landlord in the bar, and thus became : masters of the situation. At last they were tired of lolling about, and went into the bar for a " refresher." They had no sooner got there than the representatives of another creditor came in and locked the first two bailiffs in with the landlord. They then barred the place up just in time to prevent the entrance of two representatives of a third creditor. The latter were at latest advices pacing up and down in front of the hotel impatiently waiting until the bailiffs No. 2 became thirsty in their time. The population of Gisborne must include an [ unduly large percentage of bailiffs. Following in the wake of several colonial libraries the directors of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution have ordered the removal of Ouida's novels from the shelves of their library. A Hungarian officer named Szerkremesky has succeeded in swimming across the Platten Sea, from Feured to Siofsk. The distance actually traversed was twenty English miles, and the time occupied in the task was seventeen hours. During the whole of the time the swimmer did not appear to suffer from exhaustion or fatigue, and frequently conversed with the occupants of a boat which accompanied him. The only refreshment taken by M. Szerkreinesky waa a little wine. Large sums were betted, both in Vienna and Berlin, on the success of the affair.

The conversion of Scotland to Conservative principles is about to be undertaken by five dukes who have combined with a number of inferior persons to form an association for the purpose of supplying Conservative journals with news, advertisements, and reader's. The society starts with a guaranteed income of £3000 for the next four years, and it proposes to levy a sort of land tax on Conservative lairds at the rate of £2 per £1000 of rental. A central news office in London will send information to the country papers, and Scotch. Tories are besought in future to advertise only in the journals of their own party. They have hitherto failed lamentably in this repect, it appears. The notion that advertising is merely a mode o£ patronising the Press is not unworthy of a duke, but we are afraid it is not a very hopeful basis for such an ambitious scheme. After the condign failure of the famous Dalrymple Fund tor the purpose of supplying Scotch constituencies with Conservative candidates, the present attempt to supply them with Conservative opinions does not look very hopeful.

Some time ago the Otago branch, of the Anglo-Jewish Association wrote Home complaining of the visits of the Sheluehim — bogging messengers from the Holy Land — who it is said " drain the sources of real charity." The Jewish Chronicle (London), commenting on this communication, gives some information regarding the Sheluehim, which, we hare no doubt will be news to most people. It says :— " A messenger sent to collect money from his co-religionists in all parts of the globe, for a presumably beneiicient object, invariably receives forty per cent, of the sum so raised, and travels, wherever his will leads him, free of cost or charge. A case was mentioned in our columns, in which one individual enjoyed a gratuitous tour of two years, and collected no less a sum than £5200 on which his commission would be £2080 — a colossal fortune in Jerusalem. He is now enjoying his otium cum dignitate in the happy consciousness of having done his duty. Once a week, says the Tatler, the contents of about ninety boxes — the notes paid by the Bank of England in the corresponding week five years ago— are emptied into a huge kiln. iFire is applied and as soon as it is seen that the mass is well alight, the doors are closed. By the next morning the paper, which represented many hundreds of thousands of pounds, is a mass of ash and dust, ready for the dustman to cart away. Now and then, however, a curiosity is saved from the flames. One such is shown in the shape of a note, dated July, 1736, and presented on March 9th, 1847 — clean and in good preservation. Had the owner of this note " put his money to the exchangers " instead of into a secret packet, his heirs would have " received it with usury " to the extent of a little over £6000. An even more curious case happened at the Bank on Christmas Eve last. A Bank post bill for £25, and a note for £20, dated December, 1752, were presented on that day. Had these documents been invested at compound interest, the value of the former would have been £11,132 14s ll^d, and of the second £8906 3s ll^d.

Some interesting details are given in the American papers with respect to the famous Dalrymplo Farm, 25 miles west of Fargo, Dakota, which is the largest cultivated farm on the "Western Continent. It contains 36,000 acres of arable land, 24,000 of which are now under wheat, and 12,000 under oats; 325 reaping machines were set to work last month to cut the wheat. Mr Dalrymple manages his farm on strict business principles, his harvest work being performed on a 40-day contract with each workman at 1 dol. 75c. per day, he boarding them. The harvesters all board at large dininghalls prepared expressly for ' the Dalrymple family. Each reaper is operated by three horses or mules. There are 375 of them on these reapers. When shocked and sufficiently dried, both wheat and oats are threshed from tho stubble and without stackings. The estimated yield by harvesters and proprietors is about IS bushels of wheat per acre, and 90 of oats. The wheat product of this one farm amounts to 432,000 bushels — about 900 car-loads, or 45 train-loads of 20 cars. This immense crop will go to the seaboard by way of the lakes, through Canada and the Erie Canal, and is expected to net 60 cents per bushel at the farm.

A few weeks ago the Eglington Chemical Company held a semi-public exhibition in their premises in Glebe-street, Glasgow, of leather which had been prepared by Dr Heinzerling's patent process of tanning by means of bichromate of potash and other mineral substances. A large number of gentlemen connected with the leather trade from various parts of the kingdom, and several scientific geßtleraen, yi/sited, % woyk^ and. ifl.

spected the process, the leather produced, and articles made of the leather, such as boots and shoes, belting, &c. The chief object and result of the process has been to reduce the length of time taken to tail leather, and the cost of its production. By the new process, leather bail be pft^ diice'd iii three or tour Weeks, while by trie old it takes from ten to twenty— r" months, besides, in working^ a. smaller : ' capital and less plant are required, and the cost of production is greatly lessened. This company have within theilast two months produced 300 hides, and overhead the cost has been calculated rat 1 9-10 d per lb of leather, whereas fryiihe old process the cost ranged from 4d to 9'd.' In addition to these advantages it is claimed that the chrome process,- as- it is called, gives a better yield of leather, that', the leather so produced is mucbHmore durable than that produced by the other . method, and that hides of any thickness can be tanned by it. . The writer of "Passing Notes" in the Otago Witness says : — A Canterbury correspondent sends me a circular signed H.J.C. Christchurch, in which 'l recog? nise the venerable and respected Primate, of the English Episcopal Church in H"ivr ; - Zealand. This circular opens with! astatemerit that the Cathedral Commission, after mature deliberation, had sent- Home fora £1500 organ, and goes on to'sAji " with the exception of a few pounds^m hand already contributed to.the,'pbje f ctr the Commission have no means avaUqple for meeting the payment for the organ', , it becomes a matter, therefore; i t ofy the utmost importance that immediate slpps should be taken to procure ithe necessary funds." Yes, I should think so. ..-In the ordinary transactions of business it would not be considered, quite the thing for a man to order an article costing^Blsoo' with only a few pounds in hand, and a prOr found faith in Providence for his capital; I am afraid it would not be a§suflscieni plea in Court, if that individual TVere sued for the amount, that Providence ;Kad incontinently failed him. . The' Judge, would be diposed to say, ". I don't know Providence in this matter, but you Ijdo know, and I think you must have a con? siderable amount of assurance, to order , £1500 worth of goods with only a twenty * pound note in hand. I can't imprison you (I would if I could), but I j shall withhold your certificate." ' • ' ; ■.