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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7958, 24 January 1888, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found an article entitled " A Phenomenal Shark Story." His Honor tbe Chief Justice will deliver judgment at 9.30 o'clock tbis morning in tho action Williams v. Hitclunan, tried nt the recent sittings of tho Supreme Court at Napier. Our Herbertville correspondent writes as follows: — The Board of Rabbit Trustees havo appointed Mr R. Sheath sub - inspector. Tbis gentleman was formerly inspector in the Wairarapa district. j We arc requested to inform members of the Napier Mnsical Society that there will he a full practice for both orchestia anil chorus this evening. It is hoped, now the holidays are over, that the attendance will be better than it has been | i for the last fow practices.

Owing to Thursday being a public holiday Captain Preece will not hold the sittings of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Wairoa that would ordinarily fall upon that day. The sittings of the Court will commence at 10 o'clock on the following morning. , During the hearing of the election petition yesterday, Mr Justice. Gillies said that the Act under which the charge was laid was so framed that he did not think an election could be conduoted in New Zealand without the candidates rendering themselves liable in some way or other. At the weekly drill of the Napier Rifle Cadets last night Captain Adams announced tbat several gentlemen had been good enough to offer a number of prizes to he fired for by members of tbe company, nnd that tbe competition would take place at the Tutaekuri range towards the end of next mouth. A meeting of tbe Irish National League was held last night. It was decided to call the society the William O'Brien branch, and to hold meetings on the first Tuesday in each month. Messrs J. Begg, T. Murphy, M. Roach, P. Barry, and Bowes were appointed a committee to act with the officers. A laugh was raised at the Wesleyan Conference on Friday evening. The retiring president (the Rev. W. C.*oliver) was referring to the virtues of our climate, when he waxed eloquent, and somewhat rashly remarked tbat "it was not surpassed on God's carth — or elsewhere 1" The ministers recognised it as a good opportunity for a laugh at the president's expense, and the merriment was general. The rev. gentleman did not intimate where he derived his knowledge of tbe "elsewhere," and it is to be hoped, bearing in mind the weather we have experi- , cnced of late, that the president is " out " in his calculation. — Evening Press. Our Waipawa correspoadent writes as follows under yesterday's date : — At the Corkscrew gully, between Waipawa nud Kaikora, forty - fivo sheep have died out of the flock that was driven towards Waikato last week. Some forty or fifty others have beeu gathered up very sickly, ao that before they reach their destination a large number will doubtless be dead. — A private cable message from New South Wales announces the restorai tion to health of the Rev. J. C. Eccles, of j St. Peters, Waipawa.— An engine passed [ along the line on Sunday morning at 2.10 o'clock, turning a few persons out of bed wondering " what was up" so early. Tbe engine was probably proceeding to the scene of tho bush fire up the line. — There is every appearance of rain. Some slight showers nave already fallen. 'V jjood downpour would extinguish tbe dangerous bush fires now raging further south. Our Taradale correspondent writes: — A meeting of the library committee was held on Friday evening m the Mechanics' Institnto for the purpose principally of passing accounts preparatory to the annual meeting which will take place shortly, and that possibly was the reason I why several of the committee wero conspicuous by their absence, lt was agreed that a rule which was made some little time since restricting members in Taradale to one book at a time be rescinded, and that any number up to three be allowed. Notices are to be put np warning subscribers that if tliey do not conform to the rules with regard to their behavior iv tha catd room their names will be submitted to the committee to be dealt with as they may deem advisable. lt was resolved that the use of the building for local elections, Sec, be 7s 6d per day. Accounts were passed for payment to the amount of £13 10s 3d, and the committee adjourned. Our Norsewood correspondent writes under yesterday's date : — The annual picnic tisok place on Saturday. Norsewood was deserted for the occasion. The amusements were held in a clearing al'out a mile from the village. The Norsewood hrass band, conducted by Mr Chicken, did all in their power to enliven the affair, and tbe general verdict appeared to be that they succeeded very well. Several ladies anxious that the festival should come off with eclat had worked day and night some 48 hours previously, baking and preparing good things, to which you may be sure full justice was done. In the afternoon dancing mid a variety of games were indulged in. The party separated at about 6 o'clock, all well pleased with ' their outing. I mnst, however, mention one thing which somewhat marred the pleasure of the gathering, and that was the behavior of a number of uneducated, undisciplined blackguards. The annoyance of these unruly larrikins is at times insupportable, and something ought to be done by the authorities to put a atop to it. The police should look to it in time, before the nuisance gets too serious. I be- \ lieve Mr de Lambo, onr coachman, is offering £1 reward for information that will lead to the detection of the blackguards who removed a nut from his coach dnring the night. This is one instance out of a hundred of the like kind that are continually occurring. It is to be hoped that Mr de Lambo will be successful in -i:. — — 1«» ti > .culprit., . - -i-ii<r '.otiff /.ealana Herald remarks on the silver "boom" in Australia : — "Tho highest assay value yet attained appears to be 2930z of silver to the ton at the Broken Hill mines, and 185oz to the ton at the latest scene of excitement, Fairfield. Of courso facility and economy in extraction may give special value to such returns, but we ara inclined to wonder at this sudden access of excitement when wo compare with them the extraordinary richness of some of our own lodes of silver, over which, as yet, there has been comparatively no excitement at all. As already published in our columns, the new find at Hikutaia bas yielded, in one test at the School of Mines, no less than from 1600 to ISOOoz of silver per ton, to say nothing of its further yield of from 60 to 90oz of gold ; and another test of the same ore yielded to essay at tbe battery of Waiorongamai 2000oz of silver to the ton, in addition to 90oz of gold. Placing these returns by the side of tho issay yields of the Broken Hill and Fairfield, in Australia, we can hardly refrain from thinking that they must bo rather overdoing tbeir jubilation in Australia, and that except for the speculative gains to be won in the excitement of the sharetuarket there is nothing in tho development of tbeir silver fields so far to warrant tbis excessive excitement. At least if there is, then assuredly wo must have within our own district, and not in one area hut | in many, the materials for the production of an extraordinary attack of silver fever." Mr T. P. Barnnm, in his off-hand and I pleasant way, tells in one of the monthly ! magazines the story of tbe first Jenny Lind ticket. Ho had engaged " the Swedish Nightingale," after she became famous to sing in American cities. Tho price ho paid was high ; but that, he characteristically says, was in itself nn advertisement. "He secured further publicity by selling tho tickets for the openiug concert by auction, aud bo shrewdly went to work to set one man against another for the first place, telling each man privately that the notoriety of securing such a ticket would be a great business aid. One of tbo men was a maker of pills ; the other a hatter. The batter secured the ticket ; it cost him as much as forty-five pounds, hut it noised bis name everywhere, and it brought orders to his shop for head-gear that made his fortune. The pill man declared after wards that had lie known all tho possession of such a ticket implied he would not have let tho chanco slip for £1000. Barnnm states that this Jenny Lind enterprise brought in about £142,000 for ninety- five concerts, given within a period of eight months. A well-known merchant of Covent Garden advises the readers of the Echo in this fashion : — Do not eat your peach and apple skins ; all the skins are insoluble. Do not subject your stomach to the irritation of grape and cherry stones, or to orangs or lemon Reeds. Tbey nro foreign bodies, not foods. Tbeir impaction in parts of tlio intestines has led to fatal results. Discard yonr grape skins; do not eat orange peels. The fleshy part of any of our fruits when at a proper stage of development can be eaten with great benefit, and, oven if eaten freely, no disturbance can result to a healthy stomach, Plums do not digest as well as grapes. The sauie is true of cherries. Peaches contain a large proportion of constituents and are usually accepted by weak stomachs. Roasted apples are slightly laxative, and are very acceptable. Pears are more digestible than apples, and are a delicate and agreeable fruit. Gooseberries are wholesome, but should be cooked if eaten iv any quantity. Raspberries and blackberries are excellent, and shbnld bo eaten vory freely. Strawberries are probably the most heartily welcomed of all our small fruits and tbe least disturbing of any. In alluding to the question of disestablishment, recently, tbo Bishop of Peterborough, probably tho ablest prelate iv the English Church, remarked that when the time came for the redistribution of church revenues the bishops must bear their shares and that he had never shrunk from the responsibility. But with a ro duced income be must be allowed to cut his coat according to his cloth. At present, the bishop said, he lived in what was called " a bloated palace," not because he wanted to do so, but because lio could not help it. He was quite willing to surrender his palace, which had cost him £6500 in repairs nnd dclapidations, and to live in a smaller and more convenient house. A palace is part of the "plant "of a diocese, according to Dr. Mngee, and one may jusl ns well talk of the " bloated" factory of it manufacturer ns of tbo "bloated palace" of a bishop. " My bouse," be continued, " is said to be a very picturesque one, but I should be glad to get rid of the picturesque, and the expense too. lam told we should be I surrendering historic houses. I am not