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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7824, 17 August 1887, Page 2

On the fourth page will bo found an article entitled "Spnrgcon and Bright on Consecration." At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr (A. A Precce, K.M., Thomas Harland was lined 3s and costs for diunkenness.

A meeting of members of tlie New Zealand Kille Association will be held this evening at the Criterion Hotel, to discuss a circular dealing with important matters. "Thaunia" continues to be liberally patronised, and deservedly so, for the illusion is a wonderfully clever one, and should be seen by all who have a weakness for witnessing apparent impossibilities. Mr Washington Solly, the advance agent of the Mammoth Minstrels, is turning the town into a picture-gallery with his large posters, which arc excellent specimens of theatrical color printing. Should the weather be favorable enough to allow the Canterbury and Hawke's Buy football tuams to play their match on Saturday next, Mr l,ambie, agent for the Union Company, will kindly delay the last launch till 8 o'clock in the evening.

The Wairoa football team yesterday decided to abandon the remainder of their fixtures. Tho Mohaka contingent returned home at once, and in consequence no game was played with the Napier club yesterday, and the match arranged with the County for to-day is off.

The following is a copy of an advertisement published in a London paper;— " Required immediately for nind private asylum, thoroughly strong respectable woman as attendant. No friir/e. An abstainer. Experienced woman preferred. Address," We have asked several male creatures what "no fringe" means when translated, but have not been able lo get a satisfactory reply. The Napier district school committee at their meeting on Monday night recommended to the Board tho appointment of Miss Moulding, of Oainaru, as assistant teacher in the White-road school. This lady is a sister of Mr Cioulding, the pro sent headmaster, and holds an K 2 certificate. From her numerous most satisfactory testimonials she is evidently a most capable teacher. The Hoard yesterday approved tho appointment, and the committee are to be congratulated upon having obtained a high-class teacher. It is to bo hoped that the Board's grant for salary will be of such a nature that the lady will have no hesitation in accepting the appointment.

We are requested to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the Mollitt fund:— Per Mr P. Moronov : W. Manders, 12s ; P. Moroney, £1 ; W.' Price, os. Per Mr I). Carrutli : A. P., 10s ; D Can-nth, £-2; J}. Price, 10s; J. T. C. Cook, 10s; 11. Paton, 2s b'd; C. Urigg, us; J. B. Venion, 2s Gd ; S. J. Starkey, 5s ; T. Beat tie, 2s 0d ; J. Collins, 2s 6d • C. Yates, 2s Od ; W. L. White, 10s ; J.G., 10s 6d ; Hkh.w.d employes, £3 2s (id. Per Mr J. Kelly: John Kelly, £1 ; X., 2s 6d ; C. Young, 2s Od ; JJ, Murphy, 2s (jd ; Kanau, 2s Od. The committee desire that gentlemen who have subscription lists will send them in at once, as it is desired to make up the accounts.

The rehearsal ot the programme that is to be presented this evening in aid of the funds of the Napier Musical (Society took place at the Athen;eum last evening, There was a large attendance, and the various choruses were given with a much belter spirit than on former occasions, the " Soldiers' Chorus "' especially. A pleasing item not upon the advertised programme will be an interpolated song by Mr Chamberlain, who, it may be remembered, created sneh a furore at, Heir Galon's recent concert. The reserved seats are rapidly going oil', and we would advise those who have not yet secured seats to do so at once. Given tine weather the result of the conceit should be as successful as that in aid of the Queen's Fund. Judgment for plaintijf was given in each of tho following civil eases yesterday at tho Kesident Magistrate's Court, Mr (i. A. I J ieece, K.M., presiding: — Russell and others v. itobjolins and others, £45 2s (id, costs and expenses £4, Mr Cresswell for plaintiffs, Mr Cotterill for defendants. Wells v. Marshall, £i, costs and expenses 12s. Lee and Son v. 15. Hawkins, £2 14s u'd, costs 7s. Dinwiddie, Walker and Co. v. lieale, X' 2 18s od, costs and expenses 10s ikl ; Mr Lee for plaiutills. Same v. I). Smith, £2) 2s lid, costs and expenses JC2 l.'te ; Mr Lee for plaintiffs. Bogle, Simmonds and Co. v. 11.I 1 . C. Jones, £17 7s Od, costs and expenses £\ !)s ;Mr Sheath for plaintiffs. M'llroy v. JSeaglcy, £lo 10s, costs n.!-id expenses £2 Is ; Mr Cornfowl for plaintiff, Mr Dick for defendant. In the case of Webber ami Wilson v. William Cray, judgment debt of £30 15s, defendaut was ordered to pay the amount at the rate of C 7 10s per month or to be imprisoned for 21 days,

A meeting of delegates of the Hawke's Bay Kugby Union was held at the t'litenon llotol last evening. Present — Messrs lio^au, (libboiih, JSlack, K. Kennedy, Morrison, Dempsey, 'J rotter, Kegg, and Hobcn. It was tleciileil (o rescind the resolution appointing a committee of three to select tlie team to represent the province against Otago, and a motion was carried roijiiestiiig Mr Logan to choose the team. Mr Logan, however, declined to act unless the resolution should he conliiined at another meeting of the Union, and ii special meeting will therefore lie held on J''iiday evening for this purpose. Messrs Cliilds, Uibuons, Anderson, Logan, and Trotter were appointed "round coininiltce for the Canterbury match on Saturday next. The C'anlorbuiy team is to lie entertained at dinner at the Criterion Hotel on the evening of the match, and it has also been decided to siinilniiy entertain the Otago representatives at the Masonic Hotel on the 30th inst. The secretary was instructed to a«k the Holiday Association to declare a holiday from 2 p.m. on Tuesday, tho 30th August, the date of the Otago match. Statements having been circulated, with the object of injuring the Hkisaui, lo the etl'ect that the apprentices in our establishment are paid nothing for twelve months, only 5.s [>er week for the .sceoml year, mounting to £1 at the end of live

, years, and tlmt at tlic close of their time tlie lads know so little that they arc !?hul to work for l.'w per week, v,e are desired by members ol our ]uinliu,o; stall' to state that every niiu/lc one of tlie.se statements is a ilrlibcrntr. lie, witliout even tlic.semblance of foundation. As a matter of fact the highest « ages current in Mew Zealand are paid to the employes in the Hmt u,i> olhcc, the apprentices receive the usual terms anil are taught their trade thoroughly, and not merely to set typo lor a newspaper. Two of our overseers and several compositors on full pay soned their time in the ollice, and it is a rule of the establishment either to keep apprentices when their time is out, or to assist them in finding work elsewhere. \\_ere we of Mr Tvess's disposition we mißhl seek redress at law for these unfunded statements, Imt the pleasant relations existing between employers and employed in Uio Hukaui olKce are so well known that we are content to let. the falsity of these reports defeat the end tor which they are invented.

A Wellington telegram a,|>i>earin;j elsewhere, records a land-hlip wltieli occurred on Saturday, mid a full description appeared in Monday* Evening I'osl. J-'roin that accou-it wo luain Hial. the slip occurred a( the lmek of Willis-strocl. on Si'.l.unlav uif,'lit, ilniua{>iii^ the shops uccii]>Rul by AFoffsrs Town?cn(l und I'iiul,

produce merchants, and Mr Isaac Levy, clothier, and the factory of Mr Thomas Uallinger. The terrace rises almost perpendicularly at the back of these premises. The face is composed of clay and a sort of rotten .sandstone, and the heavy rains of the past lew days had so loosened the

" mullock " that between Saturday evening and Sunday morning some 400 tons came down, and covered the back portions of the stores referred , to with many feet of earth. the hist fall occurred at about 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, when over •200 tons of stone and clay came down on the roots with a report like a cannon, smashing the wood and iron into fragments and burying some £75 worth of goods, jCoO worth being in the store of Messrs Townsend and Paul, and £25 worth in the storeroom of Mr Levy. Later on some further slips took place, till there were close upon 400 tons of rock and clay covering the back portion of the premises. .Some very narrow escapes are reported. Immediately before the first slip occurred Air K. Tawnsend and Mr Scott, the storeman, were in the back right-of-way, and had just come into the storeroom when the slip took place. They had only time to escape for their lives into the front shop. Had they entered the back room a

few seconds later they would undoubtedly have been crushed to death. About the same time Mr I<\ Townsend had a still

narrower escape. lie had heard stones rattling on the roof of Mr Levy's .shop, and rushed in to see what was taking place. As lie entered the liack room

lefulhiir to the storeroom Mr Levy called out to him to come back or he would lie killed. Mr Townscml iliil not heed until lie heard the slip coming down. Hushing to the door leading to the shop, he had barely time to get out when the storeroom roof was forced i ■> with a great crash, and the door through which Mr Townsend was emcrainjr swung upon liim with such violence, owing to the concussion, as to shoot him into the middle of the shop. Fortunately, he was more frightened than hurt, but the force of the blow split the panel of the door, while the violence of the concussion may be imagined when it i* mentioned that all the gas jets in the shop were blown out.

One of the latest phases of the progress the fair sex are making comes in the shape of an academy for instructing spinsters in tlie duties of housewives. The St. James' Gazette recently quoted a list of the subjects it is proposed to teach, and nobody will feel inclined to disagree with a system of education which includes cookery, dressmaking, ai.d book-keeping. Some of the other subjects to bo taught, such as elocution and debating, may seem superfluous accomplishments ; for most women are born elocutionists, and their powcis of debate have seldom been questioned—at least by married men. Eligible bachelors who are seeking for helpmates will doubtless be glad to know that a wife can be turned out at the new school theoretically peifeet for the comparatively modest sum of £25. It will be interesting to know how many young ladies will take advantage of the opportuhiry now offered them. A young masher walking up and down tho platform of a railway station in Scotland with a companion who had come to see him oft', observed two handsome girls enter a first-class carriage. " Look here," he said to his companion, who did not pay much attention to his address, " I'll get into that same compartment, and I'll toll you what I want yon to do. When the train is about to start, yon come up and tomb your hat, and say to me, ' Jly Lord, the guns and dogs are in the van.' " His companion smiled assent, but said he donbted if he could do it with the proper air of a nobleman's servant. The masher took his seat with a lordly air in the same carriage with tlio young ladies, whose interest he wished to excite. The moment arrived and the train began to move, when his companion came up to the carriage window. " Hey, Jock," he shouted, " tell your maister to be sure to send thae brceks o' mine by Saturday ! " The nonagenarian Gorman Emperor has survived no fewer than seventy-two reigning Sovereigns who Mere his contemporaries—viz., fifty-two ICings or tjueens, eight ISmperors, six Sultans, and six Popes. Of these three were Kings of Prussia — Frederick William 11., I' rcderick William 111., Frederick William IV; two were Kings of Hanover, two Kings of Wtirtemburg, four Kings of Bavaria, three Kings of Saxony, one King of Westphalia (Jerome Bonaparte), one King of Greece, one King of tho Belgians, tiiree Kings of Holland, three Kings of England, three Kings of France, five Kings of Sweden, four Kings of Denmark, three (or four) Sovereigns of Portugal, five Sovereigns of Spain, live Kings of Sardinia, six Kings of Naples, two Emperors of Austria (one of whom was the last of the former line of German Kinperois), two Emperors of France, four Czars of Russia. He has also survived twentyone Presidents of the United States. According to the Belgian savant, Quetelet, a man attains his maximum weight about his fortieth year and begins to lose it towards his sixtieth year. A woman, however, docs not attain her maximum weight until her fiftieth year. The weight of^persons of the same age in different classes of society also differs. In the affluent classes the average maximum weight is 172 pounds, and is attained at 50 years of age. In the artisan class it is 15+ pounds, attained at 40. Among farm laborers it is 171 pounds, attained at 60. In the general classes it is lfil pounds, and is reached between 40 and .">0 years of age. Only fifty years ago the average duration of human life in Great Britain was 30 years ; today, according to statistics, it is 49 years. In this fifty years the population has increased by 5,000,000. At least 2,000,000 out of these 5,000,000 of increase may be put down as the fruit of improved sanitary and medical work and of victory over preventable sickness. MrS. M'Burney, graduate and licentiate of the Tonic Sol-Fa College, London, and member of the Philological Societv, is at present travelling round the world investi-

gating the dialectical varieties of pronunciation, with a view to publishing a work upon the subject. Mr M'Burney is most known to fame as a musician and composer of no mean order (the late cantata " Zealandia" performed by the district school pupils was from his facile pen). He is accompanied by his equally musical and talented wife. Though not a. professional entertainer in the ordinary acceptance of the word Mr M'Burney is in the habit of giving entertainments in aid of local churches, schools, and charities

wherever he may temporarily stay, and the people of Napier will probably have an opportunity of shortly endorsing the high eulogiums passed upon this gentleman's abilities in this direction by the Press and public of Australia. " Mr M'liurney may be styled the high priest of Sol Vn south of the line. A letter from Mexico tells how a band of robbers were effectually disposed of. While they were ransacking a town a dozen men ran to the shore, cut small holes in the boats in which the robbers came, and plugged them with mud. The boats were launched, and the marauders >et out on their return journey. Before going a mile, however, the water began to soften the clay, ami the lmge log dugouts began to fill. Every ell'crt was made to reach the shore, but the openings increased rapidly and soon the boats were full of water, and tho occupants were obliged to jump overboard aud cling to the sides, of their craft to keep from drowning. About daylight a company of one hundred men set out in boats to the spots where the half-drowned men were still clinging to their crafts. Some, however, had lost their hold and had sunk to the bottom, while the others were so exhausted that they were unable to make any resistance/ The fishermen attacked them, aud soon not a robber was left to tell the tale of their defeat. Their booty was all recovered.

A strange story is told in the A r c<« York ft'imrtuig World regarding a jockey named Harris., who rode Mr IJ. 'Prior's

horse Richmond, at the Washington spring meeting in May, when ho won a couple of well-contested races. Harris had amount atthe Latoniaraces ayeara«o when his horse fell in front of a fielifof thirteecn, and dragged the stunned jockey for nearly a furlong. Harris was picked up for dead, placed in a coffin, and kept for a couple of days to enable his wife and sister to be present at the funeral. When his relatives arrived they wore taken to see the boily, and while they were present the attendant raised one of the eyelids, whereupon to the honor oF fclio spectators, the eye was seen to move. He was quickly removed from the shell, and soon gave more pronounced manifestations of life; but when he recoveicd consciousness nnd bodily health' it was found that he was insane. lie was then placed in an asylum, where he remained three months, and his reason returned as suddenly as it had lelt him : but his memory is d complete blank from the time of putting on tlu> colors for the race until he regained his mental faculties in the asylum.

While Christina M'lvor, a middle-aged woman, belonging to Ihe parish ot Lochbroom, was on her way to Kinlochewea few days ago, she accidentally stumbled and tell over one of the many precipices

that skirt the margin of Loch Maree. A tree "rowing from a cleft in the rocks intercepted her fall, and prevented her falling into the water lieneatli. To (his lice the woman clung wilh the "rip of despair until she Imrt partially recovered from the effects of her fall, and found, herself hanging on the face of a rock that descended sheer to the water. To add to

her misery she. liecnmo painfully aen&iblc of tin) fart tli.it hi'r right loir was broken below the knri 1 . The pbire was miles iiwny from the neatest hou.se, and her prospects of immecHnto help were, therefore, faint indeed. In this extremity fche lotieeil a projecting ledye close li,y the l roe, and she" nianageil to crawl or drag .it'vself lo this place of comparative safety,

In this perilous and exposed condition she remained from the Saturday till the following Monday afternoon — tlireo days and two nights — without food or shelter, slaking her feverish thirst by water that trickled from the rocks overhead, and which she caught in a boot, On Monday she noticed a boat passing, and using her little remaining strength, she managed to attract the attention of its occupants to her posltioni By skilful manuinvring on the part of the fishermen she was lowered into the boat, taken to Poolewe, and thence sent to Ullapool, where she was placed under the care of the parish doctor. —Belfast Newsletter,

Since princes and duchesses bowed down before .Sarah Bernhardt in 1879 (says the writer of London Gossip in the A itslndnsian) there has been no such /(oorcTor a " lion " as that which has Buffalo Bill and his head cowboy, Buck Taylor, for its objects. The latter has many partisans among the beauties, and a pathetic element is added to their idolatry by the fact that his thigh has been broken by the blow of the projecting portion of a Mexican saddle in the course of a " horse quadrille." When he fell to the ground, lie said quietly, " Get a shutter and let the show «o on." He was carried to the West London Hospital, where, at any hour of the day, two or three ladies of fashion may be found sitting liy his boil, whilst the whole hospital is being fed and decorated out of the tributes of food and flowers sent in by his sorrowing worshippers. I witnessed the extraordinary sight on Sunday at Hampton Court of the mobbing of Buffalo Bill by a vast crowd of Sunday excursionists. Buffalo Bill was being taken to Oatlands Park Hotel by Irving on a coach full of dramatic critics and other notabilities, and at Hampton Court Buffalo Bill expressed a wish to get down and stretch his legs. He did so, and became the object of a great ovation, living following behind utterly unnoticed—a deposed idol of the mob— and looking as if he did not like it. It is sad to watch the fate of those of whom the fickle populace or fickle society has wearied. Mr Mallock is one of these. " The year that that young man wrote the New Repnblic," said a great nobleman lately, "I and her ladyship of course asked him to our parties, and now the fellow has the folly to try and keep up the acquaintance I