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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6301, 14 July 1882, Page 2

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(from our own correspondent.) y Wairoa, Thursday. 'wO At the meeting of the County Council yesterday the question cropped'up as to how would the interests of Wairoa ! be; affected if the Napier Harbor Board ; raised a fresh loan. It waß decided that if the Board applied to Parliament for a, fresh loan the Wairoa representative on. the Board should be instructed to pro-'. test against Wairoa being included in the rating district, and the East Coast member olso should be instructed to opposes the Wairoa County being included inthe rating schedule.

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I Wellington, Thursday. ' The City of New York, with the June English mails, left San Francisco ior Auckland on the Ist of June, her timetable date. The Zealandia, with the Home mails, arrived at San Francisco iv • advance of her time-table date. About 60 Chinese, who arrived from' the West Coast last night, will leave f or Foo Chow by the steamer Bowen on Saturday. At a meeting of the Wellington Fine Arts Society the rules, as revised by the provisional committee, were, with various amendments, adopted. One of the principal objects of the society, after fostering art in all its branches in New Zealand and endeavoring to bring out local talent, ia at some distant date to obtain tbV services of some person competent to take charge of art classes, and give instructions in drawing and painting. _ ! '•-. At the meeting of the Harbor Board 1 to-day a telegram was read from the | Chairman of the Lyttelton Harbor Board : asking the co-operation of the Board iv urging upon the Government the importance of improving our harbor defehces. ; .Ultimately it was resolved that Mr Levin be 'authorised to urge the question upon the attentian of the Government.

The following is to-day's weather report: — In New Zealand fine weather with light westerly winds; heavy rain during last night in the North Island. In Australia, generally low pressure and showery from IS.W. Barometer: Russell,. 29-9 ; Wellington, 297; Bluff, 29.6; Hobart and Portland, 297: Sydney, 299.

Greymodth, Thursday. At the meeting of the County Council to-day it was stated that out of a total of. £1350 received for licenses only; £800 was available, the remainder being swallowed up in expenses. : The licensing ' committees of the district sent in accounts for services rendered and various other expenses, but the Council declined ' x to entertain expenses or oharges not provided by the Act. They allowed for legitimate travelling expenses, but would not entertain the claims for stationery. A resolution was carried at the « J . close of the Council sitting to the effect that owing to the regulation and * general management of licenses having been taken out of the hands of the County • '- Council a large and unwarrantable expen- ■'*"■ diture had beeu incurred which might have been avoided had the Council' the power of appointing the returning officers and carrying out the necessary .management. It was also resolved that the Government should reimburse the Council, and the chairman was instructed to communicate with the Government on the matter.

Dunedin, Thursday. The Refrigating Company's works at Burnside are now finished. A reservoir has to be constructed, which is expected to be finished in a fortnight, and then a start will be made to prepare the shipment for the steamer expected in September.

There are no signs yet of the Sirocco, now 45 days out from Newcastle. She is a remarkably fine vessel of 222 tons net, owned and sailed by Captain Thomas Stubbs Brown, whose seamanship is said to be of a high order. It is feared that some casualty has overtaken her. The Lohengrin, from Liverpool, is now 139 days out, and she ia also looked for with some anxiety.

The carrying out of the provisions of the Babbit Act is causing employment to be plentiful in many of the country districts. On one station 45 men are employed laying poison, and on another three tons of poisoned grain is being distributed over the land to destroy rabbits by wages men every week.

A silver mine is stated to have been discovered at the Carrick ranges, near Cromwell.

The harbor-master's monthly report today stated that soundings taken on the bar on the 17th June showed that the least depth of water in the south channel was 19 feet 3 inches at mean low water level, and the width of the channel at that depth was 200 feet. This was clearly the result of the new dredge's working, and therefore Eminently satisfactory. The steamer Bowen from China, drawing 19 feet, crossed the bar at low water without touching, on the day on which the soundings were taken. The engineer

also reported on the subject as follows : — <: The dredge's excellent work on the bar, as referred to in the harbor-master's report, was exceedingly encouraging. During the operations it was seen that the scour materially assisted the deepening. A few weeks steady work is evidently all that is required to effect a sufficient depth for the largest draught V6SSGIB The late Sir Donald M'Lean left a bequest for the benefit of native children attending school in both islands in the Bhape of two senior and one junior scholarships of £35 per annum, tenable for three ypars. The two senior scholar- 1 ships have been won by boys at the Otago ' Kaik school. A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals was successfully established to-night. Mr Justice Williams was elected President. CHRiSTOHrjRcn, Thursday. The District Court was occupied all to-day hearing an action for £200 damages brought by Mr E. F. Cogan, who bought the right to sell the Exhibition catalogues, against Messrs Joubert and Twopeny. The grounds of action were the incompleteness of the first edition, and the fact that the boys engaged in selling the catalogues had been turned out of the building. A verdict was given for the plaintiff fer 40s and costs. A license has been granted in a country district to an hotel near a church, to ■which the inhabitants object. Legal opinion obtained is that action must be taken in the Supreme Court, and funds are being raised to upset the committee's decision. The adjourned annual meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Pharmaceutical Society was held this evening. The report showed that 40 subscriptions had been already paid, and it was anticipated there would be a large accession of members owing to the reduction of the fees. The treasurer reported that there was £135 2s to the credit of the society. The Supreme Court was occupied all to-day with hearing a charge of shooting with intent against Wm. Jacobs, who is accused of firing four shots afc his wife with a revolver. One of the shots struck her in the -breast and laid her up for a fortnight. The parties lived at the Chatham Islands. The jury retired at 5.20, and at 11 o'clock to-night had not agreed to a verdict. Oamartt, Thursday. An accident oocurred to-day afc Kurow by which'a farmer named James Newman lost his life. . He was driving a dray, and when opposite his own gate the horse stopped ; Newman tugged at the reins, and the horse moving quickly threw the man in front of the wheels, which passed over his ohest. He died half-an-hour afterwards. He leaves a wife, but no children. Timaru, Thursday. The Harbor Board to-day resolved to Purchase the steam tug Titan, now at .yttelton, for £3250. The. Board protested strongly, as indeed have nearly all the other local, bodies, in the district, against the basis of representation in Mr Sutter's 'Harbor Board Bill now before Parliament, by which the borough elects half of the whole of the members of the Board, though its population is not 4000, while the' population of the rest of the district is 16,000. The Board further resolved to again protest against the » unfair action of the Government in taking .. * all the reclaimed land south of the breakwater without giving the Board, as promised, an equivalent in land to the north. Auckland, Thursday. The Herald objects to the colony being at the expense of repairing Governor Hobson's tomb in the Auckland cemetery. It is pointed out that his widow owns £20,000 worth of property here. Tbe seamen of H.M.S. Nelson have repaired the graves of Commodore Burnett, oE H.M.S. Orpheus, and Midshipman Watkins, who were killed at the storming of Eangiriri. Winiata'a father having threatened vengeance on Europeans, Tawhiao has taken him into custody to prevent mischief. A young woman named Sarah Suan, aged 19, from Waikato, was found a few days ago wandering about, and was sent temporarily to the old people's refuge. Yesterday she disappeared, and the police were out searching for her without success until this afternoon, when they found her in Eden-street in a deplorable condition. She is believed to have gone deranged on finding herself enceinte. The police, imagining she had drowned herself, were about to run off the Domain . reaervoir when she was discovered. In the Supreme Court to-night, in the case of Epiha and Pakara, charged with shooting at a surveyor, the jury brought in a verdict shortly before 11 o'clock of guilty against Epiha, Pakara being acquitted. Epiha was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. Mr J. L. Whiteford, the agent for the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company left co-day for Sydney by the Ringarooma, to push the company's business in the Australian colonies. A bachelors' ball to Commodore Erskine and the officers of the Nelson and the officers of the German warship Carola was given to-night in the Choral Hall. There were 500 invitations issued. In the case of Brunton, cab-driver, against the City Council, claim £100 damages, for injury to the plaintiff's cab through an accident caused by the negligence o£ the street contractors, the Resident Magistrate awarded £70. Invercargill, Thursday. A meeting of the Seaward-bush railway committee was held this morning. After some comments on the allocation of the three-million loan, it waa resolved that the members for Awarua and Invercargill be informed of the surprise and regret of the committee at the omission of the Seaward-bush line from the Government proposals, and that they ba requested to give an explanation of the circumstances. The Mayor is to call a meeting on the subject, if he Bees fit on receipt of a reply. Messrs Cars well, White and Co. (in conjunction with the National Mortgage Agency Company) report the sale to Messrs Moffit and Sloan, at a satisfactory price, of the property"' known as the Morton Mains subdivision of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's Edendale estate, comprising 30,000 acres of agricultural land, a large portion of which is improved.