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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6632, 21 August 1883, Page 2

The letters of our Waipawa, Ormondville, and Taupo correspondents will be found on the fourth page. A curious advertisement appears this morning. A meeting of the co umittee of the Poultry and Canary As.ociation is to be held, and Mr Winter's attendance is most pointedly requested. Would it not be as well to say for what purpose he is so directly invited ? Or would not a note from the secretary haye been sufficient ? The gentlemen appointed to represent the Hawke's Bay County runl.olders, and to work with the Porangahau Rabbit Committee, have been for several days past on the boundary of the province, and have closely inspected the Akiteo country, but as jet they have not had time to complete their inspection of the boundary in the bußh. As this will take until about the end of this week the adjourned meeting of settlers fixed for Saturday has been postponed to the following 'Ihursday. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Captain Preece, R.M., Thomas Gilligan and William Handle, charged with drunkenness, were cautioned and dismissed without being fin.d. Carl Uismann, also charged with drunkenness, did not appear when* called, and his bail money of 20s was estreated. John Smith was fined £3 and costs for being drunk whilst in charge of a hone, and resisting the police. J. Mackwood Smith was fined £3 and costs for being drunk white in charge of a horso. Jas. Oliver was fined 108 and costs for furious driving. The case of Frank Williams, charged with failing to . support his children, was further remanded for a month. In a civil action heard at Gisborne last week — Rees v. Peti Te Aata — Mr Rees incidentally stated that he had paid the moneys due from him to Karaitiana's estate, as found by the Registrar of the Supreme Court here. From the result of the action it would appear that Mr Rees paid too much. Peti Te Aata was the mistress and reputed wife of Karaitiana. Goods to the value of £77 were obtained from a Gisborne storekeeper, Mr Rees becoming surety for payment. He thought the goods were ordered on behalf of Peti, who was present with Karaitiana when -Mr Rees became bond. In Court last week Peti repudiated the debt, and said the goods were obtained . on Karaitiana's behalf, she merely acting as interpreter. The Resident Magistrate consequently gave judgment against Mr Rees. Notice is jfiven by thn Hawke's Bay County Council that all rates remaining unpaid after 8 .yen days will be *\iei for. As there teem* to be a mistaken impression v I some quarters ' that there must be a personal 1 service of demands for rates to make the demands legal we may point out thit under the Hating Act it is sufficient if the, demand be ( ent ihrough the post, and all the county demands have been so posted. Those -who have aot yet paid had, therefore, better do so at once, to avoid expenses often amounting to - ■Jar mote than the rates. Plenty of time has been allowed for payment, as the rate was struck in May, and August Ist was fixed as the date for its payment; Three weeks' grace has thus been already given. • . . At a largely attended meeting held at Palmeriton .North last week, the following resolutions were passed unanimously : — Proposed by Mr James Lindbn, seconded* by Mr J. B. Hamilton, " That this constituency deeply regret that after so many endeavors to obtain its legitimate portion of the present vote for railways in the North Island on this year's Estimates, no provision is made for the construction of the line connecting the Palmerston district with Woodviiie, whereas last year it yraa understood the distribution of the vote for railway works on the Masterton line, j to its junction with the West Geust line, was arranged purposely by the Government, with a view to commehoe operations at this end within a reasonable tiMne." ' Proposed by Mr M'Keill, seconded by M> Ferguson, "That this meeting respectfully requests that a sum Buffioien. to commence the construction of the most important link of railway in the North Island, namely, to connect Woodviiie with, Manawatu, bo'placed on the Supplementary Estimates of thi. .session of Parliament." •Proposed by'Mr : Sneison, : seconded by Mr ] Term, " That in the opinion of this meeting j ! ifc it quite obvious that the Hon. W. W. •

), Johnston has,, during the present sessioD, r t-tudiously ignored the express wishes of his h constituents, which were eet forth ia certain :s resolutions agreed upon at the annual meeting c of electors held in this hall, and which a Ij. deputation then appointed was authorised to n convey to him, and this meeting regrets that "~ through Mr Johnston's inaction, interests of very urgent importance are passed oyer, whioh j miy tend to sever the confidence so unanimously plac.d in him at the last general elecn tion." jt was resolved to invite Messrs '- '- Wilson, Stevens, and Seddon, M.H.R'.'s, W 0 urge on the Government the importance of '- beginning the Gorge line at once. Mr George Beetham, of Brancepeth, c MH.R., intends shortly to visit the. Old:. *" Conntry, and has, therefore, resigned* the i- chairmanship of the Wairarapa East CountyCouncil. c There is still extant in the Post-office Dee partmcut at Washington a small _tjli_ ledger c of not more than three quires of paper,- upon j which Franklin, when Postmaster-General, n kept all his accounts for two years. 1 John Bright, at a public meeting recently," ''" 0 stated that his father was a hand in the fae. . ,t tories in Toad-lane, Rochdale, and that he c made up his mind that he would probably 7 g marry when his wages reached a guinea a. c week. . v.; c Two asters of Lieutenant Waghorn, the a pi .near of the overland route to India and y Australia, are now living in Melbourne, in i, absolute poverty. Acting on representations, r the Victorian Government have decided 'to r allow them £1 per week. r A company of men* all of whom are six [, feet or over in height, have founded a town |j in Montana, wliich they have named Giante ville. Lots in this town will be sold only to . men six feet or more in height, who have wives five feet eight inches at least in ' stature. - - - c f The 2S T ew Zealand JBXerald says that Ah 3 Kew, a native of China, was one of the peti- *"~ r tioners against the validity of the Newton Highway district election. This is the first case of a Chinaman asserting his right as a citizen to quash the result of an English J . election, t According to the "Evening Post, Mr Shaw, c afc the Resident Magistrate's Court, quoted a ,~' "* case where fifteen judges had held in Eng-7 , land that biting a joint off a policeman's fin- , ger did not come under the head of wounding, ■-. as the bitiog of the teeth could net be held to be using an instrument to so wound. s " *" y A letter received in Wellington from Mel- : » bourne by a gentleman connected with the theatrical profession, conveys the intelligence ■•• that Mr and Mrs Polk, with a very strong ' company, intend to open in Wellington on t the 10th of December, in one of their best c pieces. We understand that the company r will include Mr and Mrs J. L. Hall, Mr. J. ■,-.-. _ B. Steele, and otlier favorites. The combif nation will be piloted through the colony by Signor Majeroni. i During the hearing of a case at Warrnam. ">. _ Bool (Victoria) in which a publican, was r charged with a breach of the Licensing" Act -' » in allowing dice-throwing in his bar after -• j hours, the informing constable admittedj. that he saw what was going on by looking . through a window, whereupon the 4C-__.ce ". Magistrate dismissed the information, s»y ing ■ -'.■" that such a practice was calculated to bring ; 7, 1 the force into contempt. ■ ,'';'- --j A most extraordinary application oi the*.';; . electric light has taken place at Newcastle, the details of which have just been laid be--9 fore the medical society in that town. It a was no less _>'i *.*?*dertaking than the examination into l-.o interior of the liver by this f I means. Dr Oliver, the operator, made an l j incision into the liver, and into this was t thrust a small Swan lamp, enclosed .in Xa> . silver-plated brass tube. The latter was • y 3 smeared with carbolised oil before being; P used. The current was then turned on, and j the lamp lighted. By its means Dr Oliver ../^ was able to see the internal walls of the cystj'' ' • '' and to note all the signs of disease. The incandescent lamp was no bigger than a bean, 5 and was fed by a two-cell Bunsen battery. A great trade iri dried or jerked beef is being carried on in South America. ' Thou- ■ sands of tons are exported yearly from ' 1 Montevideo. Rosario, and other ports of 1 Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. Jn ■"' ' certain of the saladeros or factories, upwards '"'■ I of 1000 cattle are killed daily in the season, • ' b one man being usually the executioner of the ' * whole, and despatching them by puncturing . the spinal cord at the back of the head. '•-=" The animals are cut up, and the flesh piled < in great heaps, with layers of salt, by seminaked savages, half Basque half Indian, who Ai > have a peculiar knack of causing the flesh to 1 detach itseli in flakes from the bone by giviag it a stroke with their broad- cutlass-like i i knives. Wonderful quickness and dexterity :!; are exhibited in every department of the j process. '• A man named Marshall, residing in the 'c Waiiato, had a most miraculous escape a few d.ys ago. He had discharged his gun, and 1 was loading again from a one-pound canister of powder, when a spark, probably remaining i alive in the barrel, caused the powder in the canidter to explode. StraDge to s.iy tbe only i injuries received wore a sprained thumb and ; both eyes and cheeks bunged up with pori tions of the unexploded powder, which waß , f oroed into the skin. Marshall went to Dr. , Carey, at Hamilton, on Saturday, and had hia eyes cleaned of the powder, ao that he was able to see, and a considerable quantity was taken from under the skin on his face, but he A will be tatooed for life, though not otherwise* injured. A Oeeman paper reports a case of popular superstition which would be almost incredible were it not confirmed by a judicial- K. investigation. In the village of Schonbeck, 7 iv the province of West Prussia, the little ,; 1 daughter of a cabinetmaker has been bed- •.: ridden for three years. The father became '"■ ' persuaded that hia daughter was bewitched :■? by a woman who bad given her occasionally apples and pears. He was advised that the .<; patient would be cured if she drank some of .! the blood of the supposed witch. The poor woman was entrapped into visiting a place 7' ■where some of the chief men of the commune were assembled to receive her. She was: " seized, and one of her fingers pricked with a-. ! needle, and the blood given to the sick child. -X The superstitious or malignant participators • -..— in this outrage were summoned before a ,''-' police magistrate, who contented himself with sentencing them to imprisonment for .-} three days. 4*4 The Sandhurst correspondent of the Mcl- '%yi bourne Age records a singular case of refusal -'; ™ upon the part of a Roman Catholic priest to ■•.-, accord burial rites, at Back Creek cemetery, "' upon the occasion of the funeral of an old and ' respected townsman named Patrick Curtain. The deceased, who was a member of the Catholic denomination, also belonged to the Order of Oddfellows, and a number of the members of that Order, as is customaryi attended the funeral of their deceased brother. Upon the arrival of the funeral cortege at the cemetery, and whilst four of the Oddfellows were engaged in bearing the ' coffin to the deceased's last resting place, the . . ' priest who was asked to officiate, and who is a comparative stranger in the district, met them. Seeing the Oddfellows in regalia ; (says the correspondent) he made some ex- ' clamations of disgust, and tearing off his robe, turned upon his heel and walked ofF. One of the attendant mourners, seeing, him driving away, went after hhn and endeavored -Wget the priest to return, but was treated in! the most cavalier manner, and had to . return to the burial without the priest, the, body being lowered without any burial rites.

the rabbit nuisance, that was appointed to be held next Saturday, is postponed till the 30th instant. A meeting of members of the Hawke's Bay Bicycle Club will be held this evening at the Occidental Hotel. At the New Zealand Clothing Factory special inducements are being offered during stock-taking. Mr W. Cato, Emerson-street, has a fiveroomed house to let. Tenders are invited for forming 25 chains of road at Papakura. It is notified that after Thursday next proceedings will taken for the recovery of rates not then paid to the Hawke's Bay County Council. The June number of the Family Herald can now be obtained at Messrs Dinwiddie, Walker and Co.'s, Tennyson-street. Foir sale, -for a few days, a lot of dress materials at 4sd per yard, worth lsper yard, at Neal and Close's. SALES, &c.— THIS DAY. Hobart apples and onions, Messrs Banner and Liddle, at their rooms, 11. Hastings township sections, Messrs Hoadley, Lyon and Co., at the Hawke's Bay Wool Stores, 2.30. General meeting Hawke's Bay Bicycle Club, Occidental Hotel, 8.