The Hawke's Bay Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6780, 12 February 1884, Page 2

The Hawke's Bay Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884.

On the fourth page will be found some additional entries for the 0.J.0. Autumn meeting and the following articles : — "A Prima Donna's Perils," "A Monster of the Deep," " A Wonderful Horse," and " American Sheep and Sheep-shearing." A lengthy account of the sad tragedy at Ormondville, from a special correspondent, will be found elsewhere. Mr W. C. Smith, M.H.R., will address his constituents at YVaipawa this evening. Mischief was yesterday scratched for the Napier Handicap at the coming Jockey Club's meeting. Mr G. A. Brown will deliver the second of his course of free lectures in the Protestant Hall this evening. The subject of the lecture will be of interest to Bible students. Mr H. J. Williams has been re-appointed clerk to the Wairoa County Council, conditional upon him paying all expenses incurred through his rejignation and re-instatement. An accident occurred at Kaikoray ester lay, by which a young man named Frederick Jodoj lost his life. Deceased, who was employed as carter by Messrs Ward and Cheer, was seated on a loaded dray containing wool, and fell off. One of the dray wheels passed ovor his chest, killing him almost instantly. An inquest was held after the accidenc at Mr Pettit's Railway Hotel, when the jiry, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of accidental death. The extraordinary trip of the TSew Zealand Shipping Company'B steamer Tongariro to i New Zealand in forty days and ton hours from London is the subject of comment in the English papers. This performance was, however, eclipsed by her run Homo rather under forty days, though the journey to England generally takes a longer time than that to New Zealand. Tiie lonic'a shortest time wss 43 days 6 hours, under the same commando/ Capt. E. O. Hallett, K.N. The list of insurances on the premises destroyed by fire on Sunday, as given by us yesterday, was incomplete. Besides Sims' and Sylvester's amounts, Mrs Broadfield'a house was insured in the New Zealand office for £200, and the cottage occupied by Mr White, and owned by Mr Heuald, for £100 . in the same office. We were also in error iv stating that Mrs Broadfield's house was built by public subscription. It was built by the trustees with the proceeds of a life insurance policy effected by her former husband. At the fire on Sunday morning, in the absence of any other available messenger, Branohmah Tuill asked a boy to run towards the engine-house and tell the first fireman he met that the light hose-reel was required. The boy went as requested, but met no firemen. However, he went to the brigade station, and seeing the reel seized it and started for the firo with it. If that boy, whose name is Unknown, will call at tho brigade station on Thursday evening he will be rewarded for hia intelligent exertions. There was a. tremendous .sea on yesterday afternoon and evening. The waves repeatedly broke over the Beaph-road, and entered the yards' and some of the houses of residents <

along the road. Even where the wall is high, opposite the Supreme Court, the wares dashed over, and ran down Browning-street. The drain-trap at the foot of that street, at the Colonial Bank, ms burst open by the sea driven through the drain, and as the large waves broke the water rose above the grating. It ii years since there has been such a heavy surf. The County Council should interfere to prevent a nuisance now in courße of being created alon» tlie coach road to the Shamrock Hotel, ]ustoutnde the horough boundaries. Loads of manure are being deposited at short intervals along this road, and they are both unsightly and unsavory. Short work should be made of the practic3 we complain of, and we have no doubt, now the matter has been pubiiclj noticed, that the County Council will step in at once with an endeavor to preserve tho public heal tli and comfort. The difficulty experienced by the Fire Brigade in getting the steam engine quickly to the scene of the late fire, suggests the desirability of at least one howe, if not two, being kept for emergencies. The suggestion might be met in this way. When the Council build their new offices they might erect, among the other outbuildings necessary, a stable capable of accommodating two horses. The latter could then be utilised by the Corporation undertaking the watering of tho streets, and if a fire broke out at night the brigade could then get the use of the horses to draw the stea-n fire engine. A Kaikora correspondent signiDg himself " Highland Fling " writes suggesting that the Waipawa Athletic Club's meeting, at which Donald Dinnie is to attend, should be held at Kaikora,, on the plea that a better running ground ein be obtained there. He objects to the number of running events, and to the sinallnesa of some of the prizes. He says : — " Fancy £2 for the best bag-pipe player ! It should be £5 at the lea3fc. And whoever heaid of a bicycle race in Caledonian gamas? If Donald is going to dsnee he mast have a good piper and none of your bicycler/ and so on. Our correspondent seems to think tiio Wdipawa meeting a CaledoDian gathering. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Captain Preece, R.M., two men named Frank Fredericksen and Thomas Deberi were brought up in the custody of the police. No charge was preferred, and the men were discharged. It transpired, unofficially, that the men were seamen, engaged at Auckland to serve on board the \ Helen Denny, and had been sent down to Napier in the Waihora for that purpose by the ship's agent. Ihe men, who had not signed articles, were taken into custody on a suspicion that they were endavoring to avoid signing articles for the voyage. James Robert Clark, on remand, charged with attempting to commit suicide, was discharged. — Henry Rawdon and "William Lincoln, charged with a breach of the peace at Hastings, were each fined 10s and costs. Though Superintendent Waterwortb. was very late in getting to the fire on Sunday morning, in consequence of not hearing the alarm, there was an entire absence of that confusion, hurrying to and fro, and general muddle so ofceu exhibited in moments of excitement when there is no acknowledged head to give orders. Mr Gilberd took tho command, and his ordei*3 were obeyed quietly and methodically, and the members of the brigade deserve great credit for the manner in which they acted. In our report of tho flre yesterday we should have mentioned the great exertions of Branchmen Cowlrick and Harding. Both, had very unenviable positions assigned to them, especially the former, but they stuck to their pasts right well. Constable Weatherhead also deserves notice for his I exertions — first in giving the alarm, and then I in saving property. J Although the New Zealand Customs revenue lor the month of January was £19,000 more than that for December, it was nearly £1000 less than that collected in the same mouth in 1883, and did not reach the estimated monthly average for the current year by over £4000. The result is, that instead of any of the previously existing deficit in Customs being made up, as it ■was hoped might be the case, it has been further increased by some £4000, and stands at £108,052. The total receipts from Customs for the ten months just expired amounted to £1,158,644, whereas ten-twelfths of the estimate for the full year would have been £1,266,606, so there remains, as above stated, a .deficiency of £108,052. At the best, says the Post, a deficiency of £100,000 in Customs is the smallest that can now be hoped for. The ten months' deficiency is augmented to the extent of £4536 by the falling in beer duty. It is impossible to remain long sick or out of health whero Hop Bitters are used. Sea another 138 Good Words— lrom Good Authority. — . . . We confess that we are perfectly amazed nt the run of your Hop Bitters. Wo never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benfcon) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and ha* seen tho rise of Hostotter's Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that Hop Bitters hare. . . . Wo can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. . . Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., August 22, 78, from Benton, Myers and Co., wholesale druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see. 165 Dr Sinclair, the eminent Dentist, will arrive shortly.See — Advertisement. — £ADvr.l 372 "German Syrup." — No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee's German Syruj). In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine wore distributed free of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia, and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The result ha 9 been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries arc recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggiat and ask wlaat they know about it. Sample Bottle 6d. Regular size, 3s 6d. Three doses will relieve any case.

SALES, &o.— THIS DAY. Qisborne apples, Mr T. J. Ryan, at his rooms, 11. Land, Mr Edward Lyndon, at his rooms; 2. Meeting Hawke'e Bay Jockey Club, at their offices, Tennyson-street, 2. Meeting .Napier Hospital Committee, Council Chamber, 2. Monthly meeting "Victoria Lodge of. Freemasons, Masonic Hall, Munroe-street, 7.3p Mr GK A. Brown's lecture, Protestant Hall, 8. Admiesion free. Mr W. 0. Smith's address to the electors of Waipawa, Oddfellows' Hall, Waipawa, 8.