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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7200, 27 June 1885, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found a I report of yesterday's meeting of the Waste Lands Board and a letter oa the subject of the new tariff. The Bishop of Waiapu, who has returned from a long pastoral visit through the northern portion of his diocese, will celebrate communion at St. Augustine's Church to-morrow morning, and preach at Petane in the afternoon. The residents of Petane will be glad to learn that at the meeting of the sohool commissioners yesterday, it was deoided to grant five acres of the 100 acre educational reserve in that district as a permanent sohool site. Here is a punning message which chess-players will appreciate. When Sir Alexander Stuart was knighted his brother, the Bishop of Waiapu, telegraphed his congratulations in theie words :— " Bishop salutes knight and mate." The subject of the Bey. J. G. Peterson's sermon to-morrow morning will be "Doves' Wings." The subject of the evening lecture will be " Young men of society — the pleasure-seeker— J amusements, and their effect on the I young." The legal profession may possibly be interested to know that a digest of the reported oases in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of New Zealand from 1861 to 1885 is being published by Mr Horsburgh, Dunedin. The work is by Mr T. T. Smith, barrister. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr T. E. Newton, ! J.P., Harry Start was charged on the ! information of Constable Piokering with disorderly conduct while drunk' at Hastings on the preceding evening. Defendant did not appear, and his bail of £2 was estreated. The three principal prizes in Caledonia's consultation oh the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase remain in the province. Macaroni, £24,0, went to a fruiterer in | Hastings-street; Borneo, £120, to a Waipawa settler ; and Denbigh, £60, went to the Spit. Caledonia's next oonsultation is on the "Wellington Steeplechase. Late las&aigbi tho Registrar of the Supreme received the following telegram from the secretary to the Chief Justice : — "Leaving by Wairarapa tliia evening if case- finished." His Honor will therefore probably arrive this morning, and at once proceed with the remainder of the business of the present sittings. "'.'■! Mr Stout on Tuesday informed i#r Moss that it was not the intention of the Government to disturb the Licensing Act this year, but a bill dealing with! the\ subject was being brought down by a; private member, and if it proposed to) .hare committees elected by, the 1 ! residents; instead of by the ratepayers of a /district', Jie' would give thatproposalMs support. o.*.0 .*. 'X •-■^"/'■.•.r".\\~ •; y' ■,'■'..•:...'•. : iv':\ ; -y V- Meiwca ßfonteitfr and -Co.; submitted attheirHMtm^

ber «£ racehorses, and the following were sold at the prices named: — On account of Mr Douglas : Musket-Ven-ture colt, 100 guineas; Abraham, 23 guineas ; Merlin colt, 21 guineas. On another account : Kincraig, 23 guineas ; and other horses from 20 guineas to 30 guineas. The Rev. D, Bruce has retired from the contest for the Tauranga seat, leaving Mr Kelly the only candidate in the field. Mr Tanner was strongly pressed to stand, and was assured of strong support, but after mature consideration he had decided not to offer himself for election in any district in which he has not an immediate interest. The Hastings Football Club will be represented by a team from the following players in the second fifteen match | to-day against Heretaunga:— Beamish, Orowley, Catheral), Davie, Loughnan, M'Ewan, M'Kay, Ellia, Faulknor, Reynolds, Price, Springall, Paul, Hone, Renata, Badley, and Beck. Play will commence, weather permitting, at 1.30 o'clock sharp. The Maori language is sometimes susceptible of being made to look very like Chinese when phonetically spelt. For instance, a letter addressed to " The Right Rev. Bishop of Wyapoo " was sent to Shanghai before coming to i New Zealand. Tne words " New Zealand " are on the envelope, though whether they were there originally it is impossible to say. Tenders for the alterations and additions to the district school were opened yesterday, and the following were accepted:— Painting, Mr R. G-. Brown, I £119 15s ; building additions, and ' alterations, Glendinning and Griffin, £79 11s ; improvement to playgrounds, Mr Barrett, £50. The tendering was) very close to the architect's estimate of £250, the total of the three tenders accepted being £249 6s. In Jacob Faithful's consultation on the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase Macaroni, £450 net, went to a clerk in a lawyer's office in Napier ; Romeo, £225 , net, fell to a billiard-marker at Taradale ; and Denbigh, £112 10s net, went to an official of the Dunedin Jockey Club. The balance of the prizes were pretty evenly distributed over the colony. Jacob Faithful announces another consultation on tho iJawke's Bay spring meeting. The Hawka's Bay School Com. misaioners met yesterday at the Crown Lands office. Present — Messrs H. Baker (in the chair), F. button, and J. Buchanan. The educutional reserve at Petane, the lease of which expires next month, was dealt with, and it was decided to offer it for re-leasing. It was also decided to fill-in the educational reserve in Dickens-street ou the termination of the present lease, which expires in July. The Commissioners also considered the best means of dealing with the small reserve in Goldsmithroad, and it' was derided to invite tenders for leasing it. Mr P. F. Jacobsen. of the firm of

Jrcobsen and Feez, has received from the Canterbury Chess Club a very handsome memento of his long connection with that body. The gift is a chastely designed silver and gilt flagon, beautifully chased and engraved, and bearing on its front the design of three mounted knights. Above this is the following inscription : — " To P. F." Jaoobsen, vice-president of the Canterbury Chess Club, as a souvenir from the members." Mr Benbow, president of the Wellington Chess Club, was deputed to make the presentation to Mr Jacobsen in Napier, and performed this pleasing duty yesterday. Preparations for the Volunteer ball, to be held on Tuesday, are proceeding apace, and by Monday night the ballroom will present a most artistic appearance. A band of willing workers were busily eneracred vasterdav afternoon

and evening fixing mirrors, flags, paintings, ferns, trophies of arms, &c, and in making the arrangements for ladies' and gentlemen's retiring rooms, card and supper rooms, and for accommodating the band. The latter went through a series of selections in the building last evening, to test its acoustic properties. These were found to be admirable, and generally it may be said, that everything that will tend to the comfort of visitors is being carefully provided for. It is not strange, therefore, that tickets should be going off rapidly, and the ball is certain to be one of the most successful ones ever held in Napier. After the conclusion of the Navals' parade on Monday evening the arms and accoutrements of the corps will be taken to the ballroom and formed into two large trophies. A. correspondent of the Standard, i writing from St. Petersburg on the j Russo- Afghan, outbreak, saya :— " The general public, even here in the capital, yms not an inkling of what has happened, and thus there is before me the extraordinary spectacle of a nation of ninety millions of people on the very brink of a calamitous war, and with the exception of a mere handful of people, all utterly ignorant of the fact." About 300 hands are employed at the Mint of Yeddo, Japan. When the men befcln work they take off. their own clothes and put on others belonging to the Mint. At the end of the day's work they throw off their clothes, and rush naked to the end of the yard. ' Here their back hair is pulled down, they wash their hands, they drink water, and then holloa, and, lastly, they run to the other end of the yard, clearing two or three hurdles on their way. A comical incident which occurred not far from Milton the other day is thus related by the Bruce Herald :— "The auctioneer resident at the place received from a person living at a considerable distance to sell a quantity of household furniture. The sale was effected, and the proceeds handed over to the vendor. Shortly afterwards the auctioneer noticed that a house belonging to himself was empty, The tenant was very much in arrear with his rent, and he (the auctioneer) had contemplated a distraint. Upon making enquiry he found that the party for whom he sold the furniture was the son-in-law of the defaulting tenant, that the furniture was the property of his father-in-law (the defaulter), and that the whole crowd had emigrated to the North Island. That auctioneer, when he found that he had sold the security far the debt owing to himself, and handed over the proceeds to the debtor, did not feel in such a happy frame of mind as usual." The Wanganui Chronicle reviews the recent action of the Hawke'a. Bay Edu. oation Board relative to the building funds, and thus comments : — " On first, thoughts it might appear a little strange that a chairman who objected so strongly to the resignation of the whole Board, as a piece of bad policy, unlikely to have any weight with the Government, should believe that his own resignation, standing alone, would be more effective. But when it is remembered that the chairman in question, is John Davies Ormond, a, member of the Legislature, whose influence; if he cared to exert it, would be little less than that of Sir Julius Togelor Major Atkinson, and whose present adhesion to the Ministry pan only be said jto .flow from a feeling of toleratioßL- ; it will be seen, that ; the Hon. J Mr Stout .was placed in a rather awkward predicament when such a 'strongman, arined;* told, him to stand and deliver... , The Premier must have of his own Ministprial v lif e, . and of .those other, Hveai- depending ppon;his,anditis perhaps not surpris-; Mg^at-He/sh^

according to the point of view from which * he may be regarded— to take what he ' > wanted. Mr Ormond has not scoured v for his Board a direct grant of money; but he has done far better — he has obtained from the head of the Government what is next door to sanction and. authority to incur liabilities up to the '.'■_ amount the Board may deem necessary ■ " £ for the necessities of the distriot under • its control." * The Wanganni Chronicle, whose editor appears to have had a particular personal acquaintance with the late MrJohn Sheehan, thus, in its issue or the- . .'"( 13th instant, comments on Mr Sheehan'i* death: "Mr Sheehan is dead. The- "V most brilliant light amongst our New-Zealand-born politicians has gone out- . ' early.. Poor Johnny Sheehan! , With ; abilities above the average, marvellous •'■.■! quickness of perception, broad and „ liberal views on all subjects, and a kindly and generous nature that made it almost impossible to dislike him however badly : he behaved, he might have been Premier '"'.;, of the colony before to-day had he only i i kept himself free from the vices which'- '. : | worked his own. demoralisation, both o£. ■ ' I body and mind, and made the Native I Department, while he was its adminis- , - t trator, a by-word and a disgrace. But ; ■. we must not speak harshly or unkindly , . of the dead. Many a time have we un-. sparingly denounced his conduct, but it . ' ; has ever been done more in grief than . ; ; in anger. We have noted every, stepof ■-, his career from the early days when we , - were boys together in the little town in. > the north that has now become • the premier city of the colony. We rejoiced at his rapid advancement, and! indulged in great expectations as to the- . ;• future of the Auckland boy. But alas t , ' Ms energies became paralysed, his nature warped, !and his whole' beirie: ; shrivelled up by reason of an accursed . .■-, blight that has proved the ruin of so . many good men. Poor John Sheehan ! He had just come through a successful . . ;,. election contest for the Tauranga seat, . and was on his way to "Wellington to ./ attend the sitting of the Assembly-^ > possibly bright with hope at the pros* ,; pect of making a fresh start in his :' . /• career; — when he was stricken down at;', Napier." -' . \ \ The Evening Post thus refers to the!, : ; , Wellington Bacing Club's new steeple- ; i chase course : — " The course over which A the steeplechases at the Hutt on the 18th ; :; of next month are to be run over has '"' been already marked out by Mr H. M. : _.-: : Lyon, the secretary of the Racing Club>' -.■•> and, having been approved by th» V. stewards, the / jumps are now being- ■..,-•■ erected or trimmed, as the case may be,;, '; ' The start for the big race will .tok»'V?£ place in one of Mr Vaughan's pad docks, '-",".'£ outside the race track, near the turn on '-'.\' t the far side where the start for the Wei- ';■"{£ lington Cup takes place. Running 'the^y-fl! reverse way— that is, making a righthanded course of it — the horses will v->; have to negotiate a gofse hedge and a. fence close tq the river before turning- •; H ; off to the right in the direction of th«- • \'£ straight. After jumping a set* of ' ;!■

hurdles on the course proper they will /■;; pass inside the rails, and. take ! a . . < " double " opposite the grand stand;' : continuing inside along the rails of the ;' r straight until just before reaching the M ' road, where they will break off to the •' right along the hedge, and after clearing a gorse obstruction will ero«8 the ; > course again into Mr Eglinton's pad- . ;. dock. Here they at onne trend away to; \ x '•- ■ the right outside the back stretch, '; taking a brook and a fence before land- ; y ing into Mr Vaughan's paddock, wherea post and rail fence brings them back to the starting post. In the second round the first gorse fence onlyis sur- ;! mounted before a bend is made aoros* ; the race track to a watet jump in the-" '-n interior of' tfye course. A wall'is the- j,3 next obstacle, after negotiating which the gorse hedge by the road taken in the-.";,/i first round is made for, and the re-; ■^; mainder of the round is the same as the 'I .-. '■; first. After passing the starting point the second time, the first, second, and third obstacles are again negotiated? ''./\£ This brings the horses on to the course 'i proper at the. turn under the hill, but; ;.v> instead of again going inside the rails .;; they now finish on the track. A plan of : ,;i. the new course, which is in full view i.;:? from the grand stand, and will be one qf S ; , the best in the polony, will probably Be '.'^ Kthographed." . % -■•/