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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7697, 21 March 1887, Page 2

On the fourth page wfll be found an article entitled " Reports ,of Divorce Court Proceedings." At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before Mr U. A. Preece, R.M., William Matthews and John Lyons were each Jined 5s and costs for drunkenness. A large land sale will be held at WoodvilTe on Wednesday, when Mr Siiui will offer town, suburban, and rural sections on account of various interests: As the railway authorities will run excursion trains to and from Woodville this week there is likely to be a large attendance at the sale. At the last meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of .Robert George Wil-. Hams, of Woodville, it was resolved that the debtor should be proceeded against for contempt of Court. The assignee, however, was saved the trouble of having liia man arrested, as the police lodged Williams in gaol at Woodville on a 1 charge of forgery. He was' brought up at the B.M. Court on Saturday and remanded till Wednesday.] An accident occurred to Mr and Mrs M'Cartney yesterday, of a rather startling kind, but fortunately not attended with serious consequences. Mr and Mrs M'Cartney, accompanied by an infant and a lady friend, were returning from Petaue in a buggy, Mr M'Cartney driving. When the vehicle reached tlie Spit ■ side of the Petane bridge the horse drawing the buggy shied slightly. This alarmed the lady who' was with Mrs M'Cartney, and she' foolishly clutched at the right rein with a view to stopping the horse. > Instead of that the animal was caused to swerve smartly round, and the buggy was overturned down the steep bank at r theentrance to'lhe bridge, all the occupants being thrown into the water. It was for- , tunate that it was.no worse, for the bank j is steep, rugged, and about 7ft high, and the shock of the capsize caused the buggy to be broken up verymuch. As it was the party were only thoroughly soused. I Messrs Bell ami Levy with a small party ? in awaggqnettO'oame driving, by at the time, arid conveyed the dripping ones to town. Owing to the altered time for arrival of the through train from Woodville, which commences to morrow, the mails which have hitherto reached Napier.at 12.30 and 6.30 p.m. will arrive at 1.20 and 8.55 p.m. i The wail from Wellington will now reach >J here in one day ; it will leave Wellington by the early morning train and arrive in Napier at 8.55 p.m. The mails arriving by the late train will be at onoe' sorted into the private boxes, so that private boxholders may get their correspondence after the mails are sorted. Besides the * above alterations there 1 ' will be ' an n extra mail (closing at the Napier Post-office at 4 p.m.) despatched to all places except - Farndon as fay as Waipukijrau by a £ram , leaving Napier at ,1.45. . .The times £ of arrival and, closing of the mails at s Hastings, Waipawa, and Waipukurau II will be as follows on. and after to--13 morrow:— Hastings, arrival:- 8.5 a.m., 12.25 p.m., 3,50 "p.m., and 5i30 p.m.; close : 8.10 a.m., 12 noon, 2.30 p.m., and 7.30 p.m.' Waipawa, arrival: .10 a.m., 6 p.m.,, and 7.35 -p.m. ; close: 10 a.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.mi' Waipukurau, arrival . 10.20 a.m., .0,5 • p;ra., and 7. 50 p.m. 5 close: 9.30 a.m., 5 p.m., and 9p,m; ■„■■■'■■ ( An ordination servioo was held in St. . : John's Church yesterday morning, at which the Rev. T. J. Wills, late of the Wesleyan denomination, was admitted 1 to deacon's orders by the Bishop of t Waiapn. Previous to the ordination the Rev. Pc Bevtlt Hpvojl addressed a few words of practical qshqrtatiou "and encouragement to the intending candidate, after which he presented the llov. Mr Wills to the Bishop for ordination. According to the usual custom the gospel 0 for the day was read ' l>y the Eev. Mr - Wills, the Bishop reading the ante-com--3 munion service. We understand Mr lt Wills is to have charge, of the Opotiki district. A confirmation service was ■held in the afternoon at 2.30, when" 17 candidates presented themselves. The f Bishop of Waiapu having specially ad--5 dressed those about to be confirmed, the latter were presented by the Rev. Do - Berdt Hovell for confTrnmtion, which rite t was duly administered by -'the Bishop. * Several appropriate hymns were sung" by 1 the choir before and after the ceremony. 1. There was a crowded congregation at the a evening .service, when the Rev. De Berdt Hoyell delivered the fourth of his intoresting Lenten addresses, the subject ■ being " Through Quivering Nerve." ' The Makaretu school children had a great feast on the 15th inst. , with races and other sports. A display of fireworks was i promised, but the materials went astray. The display is therefore put off until the Ist April, when the late schoolmaster (who professes a practical, knowledge of " pyrotoclmy) will fire a display of "Chinese ppwderwork " io show the difference between Eastern and Western methods and results. The Chinese rockets are in- \ genious, and their miniature lourbillions 3 are lovely. They call the latter " moon 1 rise from a basin." Their Roman candles 3 and blue lights are poor, and they do not make the repeating '-. crackers dear to " English youth. They are also, we are I told, ignorant of the. carmine that can be ' got from strontium ;of the sapphire from copper, chlorine, and ammonia; of the emerald sheen that barium chlorate yields; These are quite recent developments, ' probably French, 'I'ho ( Chinese excel in ; small set pieces. A ship is "matched" soaa discharge a. variety of small bangs and '. pops. These elaborate sot pieces, how- [ ever, aye very apt ' to.*get disarranged in ' shipment, and in fact half the "powder- ' worlc " wants re-matching and priming to I get it to go off, It is probable that the ' children will be iudulgent critics and our heart goes out to them as we think of the days when to us also " fireworks " were a foretaste of paradise. A Gentian botanist lias discovered a sourco of brandy and alcohol in the poppy. It appears thatthe pulp which covers the poppy seed contains saccharine matter, which, after due fermentation and distillation, produces. a kind of brandy of an agreeable flavor. As this pulp has been hitherto thrown away, the discovery, it is said, affords poppy planters an opportunity of realising more profit from their ciops without a very great expenditure of capital. Intelligence has been received at New York from Norfolk, Virginia, of the wreck of the ship Elizabeth, bound from Hamburg to Baltimore, The vessel w«s driven "ashore near Cape Henry, at the Chesapoake Buy, during a gale, accompanied by. a blinding snowstorm. Two lifeboats went to_ her assistance, and succeeded in taking off the crew, which numbered twenty-two men j but an enormous wave swamped both the boats, and the whole'of the ship's crow, as well as five of the rescuers, were drowned. The oditor of tlic Lincoln (Nebraska) Democrat thus spurns an offered title :— The Omaha Republican calls the editor hereof "Major. Now, by the great horn spoon, we want this thing stopped right hero and now. We want it distinctly understood that while we "Jit into the war," and on the wrong side at that, we fit, and (led, and sum veil ns n private soldier. ' We have since dono nothing to deserve the odium of a fictitious title, and an attempt to fasten one upon us will simply convert us into a bad man with a gun and a ferocious determination to cultivate a more oxtensive cemetery than Wild Bill, Ynba Dan, or any other holy terror that over reflected credit, upon the budding civilisation of the wild and woolly AVest. ■ We were not a major during the war. We wevo a minor. An extraordinary sceno was witnessed on January 1 1 th 'at Jiossmnnnghor, County Liineriek.in connection with theatlempto'd eviction of John Frost, who owed four years' rent, amounting to over £7oo. The approach of 100 police, under the command of Captain Wal&h, lt,M,, was heraldod by the ringing of the chapol bell and the blowing of horns, so that when the police arrived at Frost's house a largo crowd had assembled. The houso was barricaded, piles of Btonos being placed outside the door. To this spot Father Little, the parish priest, was chained, so that if tho bailiffs forced an entranco they would necesjiiivily molest bjii), /V man stationed aia window cqnllnued blowing a horn. When an attempt was made to remove the stones and tho gates the people pressed upon the bailiffs, and matters became so serious I that tho police wero ordered to charge

with (heir batons. . The people soon dis : peraed, but some of them were wounded. Constable Fitzgerald was knocked down and kicked. Father ' Little, who was still in.cliains.dcnounced the cruelty of evicting a family of 13 because ot the impossibility of paying rack rents. Ultimately the landlord, Mr J. D'Esterre, who was present, agreed to tlio tenant buying the farm, at eighteen years' purcbas 0 , at 45s an acre. .The eviction was then stopped. A' Paris correspondent writes: — The vast demonstration at the Hippodrome on Saturday evening shows that the French are fast regaining their warlike fervor. All classes came out to see the drill given by the pupils of the Normal Military School at Joinyille in aid of a charity fund ; the club men and the working men vied with each other in applanse. There were eleven thousand persons in the audience, and every one of the eleven thousand craned his or her neck to see General Boulahger when he came in evening dress at teuo'clock from a grand military dinner. There was a general disappoinment, loudly expressed, that he did not come in full uniform— so dear to the hearts of tho Parisians is the panache. The drill in the immense ring of the Hippodrome was most interesting, and six huge military bands, skilfully grouped, made excellent music. The students of the JoinviHe school become instructors in the various regiments of infantry, and are a fine, intelligent set of fellows. The boulevard scribes call them the hope of the nation. M. de Gavardie says he relies upon such men as these, led by General Boulanger, to save the country. But perhaps General Boulanger would not be willing to admit' the country is lost, or is even in danger. Messrs Chaffey Brothers have given the Australasian Ironmonger a statement of the quantities on which they base their calculations for irrigation. 'They would supply one cubic foot of water per second to every 250 acres— not, however, for the whole year, as some have supposed, but during the irrigation or growing season only. This is equivalent to nearly 24in. of rain annually, which is additional to the natural rainfall. It is also equal to 540,000 gallons of water a day of 375 gallons per minute for 250 acres. As a 10-horse power engine will raise about 3000 gallons per minute to a height of 10 feet, our readers will be easily able to calculate the plant required for any area under consideration. It. will be understood that the plant mtisl stand idle during part' of. the year. ■' Other important points concern the agriculturist rather than the engineer. Soil speedily gets saturated,- and it may be found after a period of continued application of quantities of water that the soil will not carry off so much as at first. Further, the wonderful power of capilliary attraction comes in, and, as lias been the case in some districts in California, may raise the level of underground water so much that wells instead of GO feet or more will require to be only 20 feet or 30 feet. The man Gordon, after completing his feet of trundling a wheel-barrow froniDnndee to London and back; reached Dundee on the afternoon of January 1, and a scene occurred the parallel of which, for wild and unmeaning excitement, has seldom if ever been witnessed in Dundee. In pursuance of his intention. Gordon started on his journey on Tuesday, November 2, and reached London on the 29th of the same montli. Ho left on December 3, and an announcement extensively advertised that he would. reach Dundee at half-past two o'clock on the Ist January caused a turnout of people which was one of tlielargesfc ever known in the town's history. By two o'oloek it was estimated that as many as between 20,000 and 30,000 persons had left the town, some walking as far as ten miles towards Perth. This did not include a crowd of some 10,000 which assembled in High-street, Gordon's destination. Gordon. left Perth for Dundee, a stage of twenty-two miles, at seven in the morning, and owing .to stoppages on the roa'(j, his arrival- at Dundee did not take place _ till nearly . five o'clock. By this time, the patience of the crowd in Hlgli-streqt was exhansted, and wlieri Gordon oamo in sight he was severely jostled, his barrow being upset and the wheels and handles broken. Protected by the police, he managed to get shelter in. the old theatre, in Castle-street, where iri a few hours he was sufficiently recovered to, be able to appear with his mutilated barrow, Altogether, it is calculated that from 40,000 to 50,000 of the inhabitants of Dundee, were out to witness this sorry spectacle, A shocking case oi murder has ocourred in Hobarfc. A married couple named Victor and Elizabef hOrlando, or Orlander, lately arrived from Bothwell, had been lodging in a house at the corner of Liverpool and CampJjoU-streets, Both wore in the habit of drinking. She drank heavily. They often went out together to obtain liquor, They got up pretty early in the morning and went out. They returned some time afterward. A_f ter having had a glass' or- two pMiquor thojnvere about? to' sit down to breakfast when she suddenly called out " Give we mine." Turning to the landlady bo made the remark, apparently in a jocular way, " Don't give her any." The landlady presently went into the kitohen and got ready the breakfast. ' On returning she saw the' woman , standing up and stabbing at the man's throat, with a table knife,. She thought at first the woman was playing with him, but perceiving almost immediately that blood was flowing from his neck, and that he appeared to be gasping, she screamed orft for help. Two men then rushed in and picked up the victim, who by this time had dropped on the floor. Tlioy carried him to the hospital, which is only a few yards off. He was just able to stagger along behveen his supporters, but blood fjowed freely from his neck all the way: '"VV hen he reached the institution ono of the surgeons found he had been stabbed -right from the back of the neck to the mouth. Endeavors to prevent the flow of blood wevo successful externally, but internally bleeding continued ; and when the man got too weak to expeotorate the blood he suffocated. In ten minutes from the time of his admission he was dead. Orlando is a foreigner, and was generally regarded as an inoffensive kind' of man. • The woman' is about 33 years of age.. •_ ■ £^00,000,000 saved from firo by' sensible pooplo wlio havo pnrohased Fire-proof Safes, 1 Harden Star Hand Gronados, and Portables Firo Engines. On hand and for salo hy agonts for Ilawko's Bay— -Ruddock and Fryer.— [Advt.] 253 Bowomian and Owen's Sulphur Hair Re-' storor restores grey hair to its original color Prico, 2s fid.— [AdvT.J . 251 Visitors to Napier from nil parts of Now Zealand nro romindod that tlio City Hair drossing Saloon is tho proper place to go to for hair-cutting, shaving, shampooing, or hairdyeing, and whore -you will soo tho nicest assorted stock o£ musical instruments, perfumes, hair brushes, combs, sponges, &c. ; only tho very best tobaccos, cigars, cigarottos, meorsehaum. brior, and- myall pipes kept.— Ladies' own hair mado.up in plaits and tails.— Hair dyed in private room.— Musical instruments repaired. — -Birds or animals stuffed.— N. Jaoobs. w'holcsalo aua rotail to. haoconist, noxtt Criterion Hotol (late A. \V. h, Cottroll,-[ADVT.] ' 255 Eeoles Com Removing Paint, a guaranteed painless euro for oithor hard or soft corns. Only a few applications noeossary. In pots; Is lid, from A. Eccles, Chemist, Masonic Hotol Buildings, Napior.— [Advt.] 745 Compulsory Salo at tlio Novolty Depot. Call early and soeuro bargains in this 1110s useful and desirable stock. Whito and Gold Cups and Saucers, full size, 8s per dozon ; Inrgo Plates, Gs per dozon ; Jngs and Basins to match, Is each ; handsome China Tea Sots, 40 pieces, 20s; small Dinner Sets, neatdesigns, 355 ; Printed Clips and Saucors, largo size, is per dozon ; Toilet Sets, from 10s Gd. Everything olso equally cheap. Sco windows and bo convinced tho salo is eemiino.— Cottroll Bros.'s Novolty Depot, Hastingsatrcol, Napier.— [AdvtJ. ( 897 25,000 bushols of grass seeds for porinanont pasture can bo bought from samples at Fred. Fulton's G'Uvo-squaro Seed Store. Also, in stock, a largo variety of seeds for grcon crops, market gardens, and flower borders, all fresh, puro, and true- to names. Agent for sale of oats, flour, sheep dip, barbed wire, and wire stramors.— [Advt,] 839 For all kinds of Saddlery, go to James Mills, saddlor. Emorson-streoL— lAdvt.] 258 SYNOPSIS OF NEW. ADVERTISEMENTS. Messrs Brooking and SU Clair's snlo today oE shcop and pigs nt Messrs Hatton and Pointons slaughtor-yard will be hold nt noon. Messrs C. B. Hoadloy and Co. nnnounco that plans of the Woodvillo soctions in the estato of tho lato Mr Wobor (hold over from siilo till af tor tlio opening of tho railway) can bo had on application. Tlio date of meetings of householders for tho election of school committees has been altered from tho 28th instant to tho 25th of April. Tho annual mooting of Iho Ilawko's Bay Coursing Club will bo hold tliis ovoning at Kelly's Hotol, nastngs. Tenders aro invited by Mr Kenrick Hill, Clivo Grange, for ploughing and harrowing. Messrs Carter and Co. advertise prices for dress materials. Sovoral nowadvortisomonts of vacant sitimions aro Inserted in tho " wanted" column on the front pngo. In the course of events now goods appear. Neat and Closo aro showing now millinery, ehoieo jackots, mantles, dross materials, plushes, and trimmings. Inspection invited. SALES, &C-TIIIS DAY, Shoop, pigs, &0., Messrs Brooking and St. Cluir, at Messrs llalton and Pointon's slaughlor-ynrd at foot of Pukotnpu oulting, Animal mooting of Hawko's Buy Coursing Club, Kelly's hotol, Hastings, 8, Just to hand, ox Tainui, a flno assortment o£ Rnco Saddles direct from Boyce t\nd Roil> gore, tho celebrated moo siutfllo - makers, Nowmnrkot, E,ngjnnd, John M'Yay, HastingsStrcot, Nantor.-rADvr.J <Jn