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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5836, 23 November 1880, Page 2

Mr Davidson desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipts of £4 2s collected for him at the Hebald oifice. :

Summonses have been issued against several persons for bathing in the Tutaekuri river. The cases will, we understand, come before the Resident Magis T trate to-morrow.

In reply to a requisition signed by the Mayor and other gentlemen, asking him to pay a visit to Napier, Mr Proctor, the astronomical lecturer, has consented to give four lectures here, commencing December 6th.

With reference to a letter which appeared in yesterday's Hekald headed "Safety to Bathing," we are requested to state that persons going to bathe may take the life buoys, with them, returning them when they have finished. The children attending St. John's Sunday-school will be taken to-day to a picnic in a paddock in the vicinity of the Uotauical Gardens. The teachers will be glad of the attendance of any of the parents or friends of the children. Mr W. Routledge shippod on Saturday, on account of Mr M. R. Miller, 97 bales of wool for the Melbourne market, intended principally for American buyers. It is expected that there will be a larger shipment to Melbourne this week, as several lots have been promised. Our Ormondville correspondent writes under yesterday's date: — "Elder Sorensen paid us a visit last week and distributed his tracts to most of the inhabitants, but apparently he did not think it a favorable place for making converts, as he left without even giving an open air lecture. He, however, lectured at Norse- j wood yesterday upon Mornionism." A meeting of the Union Rowing Club was held at the Provincial Hotel last evening, Mr S. E. Cooper in the chair. A committee was appointed to ascertain on what terms the boat and shed of the Port Ahuriri Club could be purchased, with power to complete the purchase if the terms should be favorable. It was decided that the rowing of the trial fours should take place on December 18, the same day as has been fixed by the Napier Club. Entries for the trial fours will be received by the secretary up till Friday night at 8 o'clock, and the match committee will pick the teams on Saturday.

At the Hesident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr H. Eyre Kenny, R.M., Alfred Badcock and James Manix, charged with drunkenness, failed to appear, and their bail of £1 each was estreated. Michael O'Loughlin, and a new arrival named Mary Jackson, alias Kate Clark, alias Kate Neville, were each fined 5 s and costs for drunkenness, with, the usual alternative of 48 hours'

imprisonment •, in default of payment. The woman Jackson was also fined 10s and costs, or 48 hours' imprisonment, for using obscene language in Hastings-street on Sunday 'morning. — In , the .case.Vbf William Hughes v. !N"ga Paki, judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed, £13 2s, with costs. Mr "Cornford appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Lee for the dofendant. Judgment w,as also given for plaintiff with costs in the case of Wughill v. H<mry Bishop, a claim for .£27 8s 2d. The case of Blair Bros. v.3?. Backer was further adjourned "for a fortnight. An adjournment -till next Monday was made in the case oP J. Jeffarcs r. M'Loughlin and Taylor.

The Daily Neios says we might as well; try to pull a bone out of a wolf's throat; as to get from Taranaki a?iy refund f df; the treasure that' has been squandered there. ■ Let it all go ; but let there be ah^end" of squandering. ;

A correspondent of a Southland paper j states that since the jwesent rabbiting; party have Lad possession of the Upper Mararoa — some four months or so — they have sold and delivered 44,000 skins — : this only from one party. The' actual; total of skins collected from these two ; . runs during this time could be multiplied by ten arid then be below the actual; quantities. ' . '

The following comical piece : of: advice ; is from the Wdirarapa Standard :-^".Wo{ would advise the unmarried and mar-] riageable girls' 'in the district, and.' throughout the colony generally, to ;tftkcf the land laws into their especial con-, sideration. Having mastered the sub-' ject, let them instruct their mothers, and if they have uncles and cousins ' and' aunts," to put them also under the educa-; tional process: There is no portion of the' people that has the same amount of in-, fluence as the gifls, and they cannot use it in a more legitimate manner than in this direction. Cheap and free land 1 ' means abundance of young fellows com-' ing to Woo ; and it has not hitherto D~een: our experience to discover that brisk, andi speedy, and numerous wooers are *6bjec-j tionable to the fairer portion of our \ race." ' !

The passion for hanging a vast quantity; of fanciful objects on pendant chains! about the female waist ha 3so -gained; ground that they now hang, in Paris and' London, chains on both sides, and fromj these hang a greater number of oddj objects than ever before. . An eccentric; lady startled the guests at a refeeption byj recently appearing with what appeared toj be the skull of an infant,pendant from her, chatelaine. lib turned out to be, that of] her pet monkey, properly polished acd ; furnished with small 'crystal eyes.; Another lady of fashion- wears, a/gqld box,; in which she has a small powder puff and: a little rice powder^ als<9. a small mirror.; One of her whims is to use these to ar-; range her complexion, before folk.; The fashionable ladies of Paris are also over-, whelming a young- Italian artist with orders for Roman heads, which he carves; exquisitely and wonderfully upon a: cherry-stone. -This; is the whim of thej hour, and the sculptor receives enormous: prices .for these tiny, heads, and it. is said; no emerald is costlier.

When (writes "iEgles") -the -Acting-; Governor of Tasmania, Sir Francis Smith,; journeyed overland fo 'Sydney' hence,? he! was not so ceremoniously' treated in the! matter of special conveyance; as some .of our other visitors with more/distrngmshjed! patronymics. (After 'all,' there is hot muck to ckoose between Smith and Robinson.) Having reached Wodonga by rail, Sir Francis occupied the bos," seat of the public vehicle which conveys the; railway passengers over the border, Lady S. travelling inside. It occurred to Sir Francis that, a buggy or soine other vehicle more comfortable than the coach might be obtained to take him on to the terminus on the New South .Wales! side. So, addressing the old-fashioned' driver*' ho said, "Do you think that I could find, a! trap over here-P" Then unto; him, replied Jehu, with some scorn, "Why, didn't yer see two of the beggars on the bridge .just now ?" For the benefit of the uninitiated we may explain that " trap is 1 larrikiness for "policeman." m •■ '> •

A day or two ago we ( P.osi) published a cable message stating, that. Lord Malmesbury, Mat 73, had married; a young lady of 24. "In this connection/ as the Americans say, , the following extract from the London letter of a contemporary will be found interesting: — " Lord Malmesbury has also added to the scandal of the town. His nephew, Lord Ossulstog, who is staying in Germany, and who is quite a boy, fell in love with an American widow. The noble earl went off to G-ermany to break off the match/and succeeded in doing so to the extent of himself falling in love with the widow. He presented her .with! .manyjewels. She hesitated to marry him .because of a short period . haying only elapsed since the death, of her first husband ; but, when pressed to wed, she confessed that she had already married Colonel ' Kirigscote, whose ' name l was recently before the public in connection with the Buller scandal. . The worst remains behind, for the quondam widow declines, to return the earl his presents, though the latter are said to include the family jewels. Lord Malmesbury is 73 years of age, an ex-Cabinet Minister, and has made himself ridiculous to the public by having written to .his heir presumptive announcing his intention . to get married, but stating that he would recompense him for the disappointment that would ai'ise !" '

1 In his recently published . "book, " Recollections of Travel' in New Zealand," Mr Crawford, F.G.S., late R.M. of Wellington, thus forcibly, pourtrays the evils of communism among the Maoris ":— A short residence among the Maoris affords an opportunity of estimating the merits and .demerits ( - of communism ; and the admirers of that system might, with advantage, study, the, results practically arrived at in "the old tribal organisation of New Zealand. No man could fairly call his property his own;' I observed one Maori, more industrious than his neighbors, who owned a cow, and milked it, but the rest of the tribe helped themselves to the milk as a matter of course, and the owner thought himself lucky to be allowed to retain a smail modicum. Not that all men are equal . among the Maoris, . as great weight , attaches to the word and authority. of the • chief, but the difficulty of acquiring and-: retaining individual property under the old native customs is in practice, so great as to paralyse individual exertion and' improvement. Living, feeding, and sleeping arb very much in common. This may seem somewhat picturesque, but it is very damping to individual ambition, and seriously injurious to the progress of the community in what we call civilisation. Communism may be suitable at a certain stage in the life of a people, about the first advance from utter barbarism, but for a civilised community to adopt such a system would be absolute retrogression.