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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6164, 7 February 1882, Page 2

A man named William Pearce fell from a haystack at Hastings yesterday, and, alighting on his head, was picked up in an unconscious state. He was brought to the Napier hospital.

The following weather forecast was received here yesterday at 3.40 p.m. from Captain Edwin :— " Indications strong winds between north-west and southwest, and glass fall."

Inspector Scully notifies that after this date proceedings will be taken against owners of unregistered dogs. The fine is not to exceed 'i"5. It is not generally known thai limlF the fine roes to anyone giving information of unregistered dogs being kept.

Owing to the imperfect arrangements made by his advance agent, Mr iiobson was unable to appear at the Protestant Hall last evening, but he will make his first bow to a Napier audience at the Theatre Royal this evening. We hope to see a good audience, for Mrllobson comes with high credentials, and his entertainment is one that cannot fail to elevate while it anruses.

The Hobarfc Mercury thus speaks of the first shipment of New' Zealand coal which arrived at that port by Mr Vautier's three-masted schooner Frank Guy on the

13th lilt. :— " The first shipment of Westport (New Zealand) coalarrived at Hobart yesterday by the Frank Guy. The coal, which is consigned to Messrs Alex. M'Gregor and Co., \& said to be admirably adapted for steam purposes, and eclipses Newcastle coal for that use, but does not come up to the N.S.W. article for domestic purposes. The consignment of coal is a trial one, and we understand that the Hallway Company, the Gas Company, and the steam companies intend testing it-.*' Thirteen female physicians are practisising in Clayton, lowa, and at a recent lire there were not Well men enough in the town to fun. the engine out. It is one grand incorporated hospital.

A station in Queensland, Herbert Powns, is to be sold shortly, the area of which is 21,850 square miles, or 1,184,000 acres. There are other runs in Queensland of even greater extent. A new society, to be known as the Canterbury Dietetic Reform Association, was initiated recently. Mr H. Satchell, in briefly addressing the meeting, strongly advocated the adoption of vegetarian principles as the only sure means by which that greatest of all blessings, good health, may be obtained.

A young woman, Eliza Ann Bourke, who created a sensation in Swanstonstreet, Melbourne, by attempting to shoot G. Chapman, a music-seller, was discharged from custody on the morning of the 13th January. She appeared in Court with, an infant in aims. Chapman having gone to New Zealand, the prosecution fell through. Samuel And Hobert Keating were attacked at Rio ]?rio, Mexico, on the 2Gth o£ September, Robert being killed, and Samuel severely, but not dangerously, wounded. The two brothers came from Canterbury, New Zealand ; were herders, and came to Mexico by mistake, as they intended to go to New Mexico in search of employment. Speaking of the draining operations at the Piako swamp, the WaiJealo Times Says:— "No one knew, no one possibly could know, whether the land when drained would be worth anything at all ; and up to the present there are 20,000 or 30,000 acres of the estate which would not ' feed a sparrow to the acre,' and this after an expenditure lip to date of over £140,000, against which the company dan only place a sum of £18,000 for land sold."

In' a case at the Gisborne Resident Magistrate's Coiirt for wages and services as a jockey, an item occurred for "Biding the Cow." His Worship remarked that this was a most extraordinary claim, and asked the plaintiff if he was in the habit of riding dows as well as horses. The plaintiff explained that " The Cow " was the name of a horse. His Worship said he thought the plaintiff might have so distinguished it in his bill of costs. There was considerable amusement in the Court when the evidence was being commented on. .

Some amusing -reports have Gome to hand from outside school committee with regard to their proceedings during the past year. The Otago Daily Times mentions that the G-lenore Committee, unlike some other committees, appear to be unanimously of a religious turn of mind, and seem determined to walk in ways that are straight. The chairman of this body lias the honor to report to tlio Education Board " that in accordance with a resolution passed at a meeting on the L4th April, the committee had ever since opened their meetings with prayer. " A shoemaker in one of the large manufacturing towns in England recently beat his wife to death indoors, whilst a crowd remained passive outside, attracted by the noise of the disturbance. First he had used a broomstick, then the leg of a chair, and finally, being probably anxious to conclude the rnatterj he had selected a poker. The back of the woman's head was beaten in, her jaw and one arm were broken, and the whole body was one mass of bruises. By the time the police arrived and broke into the house the woman was dead; but owing to some defect in the evidence the man got off on the more serious charge of murder, and was only sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for manslaughter.

Some time aco, the late Captain Marks, formerly pilot and harbor master at Tauranga, reported the existence of a sunken rock outside that port. The matter was referred to the authorities, and a search having been made without success, it was supposed that the rock had no existence. This supposition, however, is not correct, as (says the Auckland Star) Captain Farquhar, of the Wellington, saw the rock breaking between Town Point and Motiti on Saturday, and pointed it out to several passengers. Tt bore due east from Mount Monganui, and was distant about eight or ten milea. The rock is not marked on the chart, and as it lies in the track of steamers bound south from Tauranga, the attention of the authorities should be drawn to the matter before some mishap renders action necessary.

The Sheffield Telegraph says : — Birds of a feather flock together, but birds of a family do not always. Few people are aware of the fact that Mr Bradlaugh has a brother, and most of us would, on the first blush of the matter, be inclined to hope that he had not. But it is an agreeable surprise to find that this interesting relative, whose existence is vouched for by a New Zealand paper, is so far a different character from the bad family hero that he is engaged in mission-preach-ing, and " has publicly prayed for his brother's future spiritual welfare." Mr W. R. Bradlaugh's evangelistic work would seem to lie nearer home than Auckland. His peaceful raid on the Maoris may some time or other be interrupted by an intelligent chief discovering that vis teacher has come all that way to preach a gospel which even his own brother declares to be an imposture, and proceeding forthwith to go for his scalp.

There are sorno smart — very smart — mining promoters in Wellington. A suggestive tale comes from Terawhiti. Some Auckland visitors, well skilled in practical mining knowledge, recently visited the district, and one of them knocked out a few pounds of stuff in one of the claims, so that he might test it at his leisure. Travelling along the way became rough, and he entrusted the parcel to the care of one among certain persons who had promiscuously accompanied him. By-and-bye, adds the Post, on getting to a creek, the stuff was panned off, and yielded nearly a quarterounce of good sliotty gold ! The Auckland birds were too wavy to be caught with " salt " on the tail, and, as the intended victim remarked, " A grain might have done the trick, for it would have been a capital prospect, but a quarterounce to a hatful was a little too rich." Tricks of this kind should be avoided ; the bona fide prospects of the Terawhiti district will not be improved thereby. A very painful sensation has been caused in several circles in Sydney at the news received of the death of young Dr. Foulis, a native of the colony, from diphtheria, caught in the performance of the operation of tracheotomy on a patient civ ing from the complaint in the Glasgow Infirmary. This young gentleman had acquired a world-wide reputation in connection with an operation which he was tho first to perform, for the removal of the larynx for cancerous disease, and the successful substitution of the natural organ by an artificial contrivance. His early deceaso must be regarded in the light of a considerable national Joss. Seeing that so many brilliant members of the medical profession have lost their own lives in connection with, the local treatment of cases of diphtheria, and tow j inevitable it is that the contagion will

take effect if any impinge on the operator's lips, it is surprising no precautions are taken. In Dr. Fouli>' case a common respirator would have constituted a sufficient protection.