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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7959, 25 January 1888, Page 2

On the fourth page will bo found an article entitled " The World's Export Trade." Classes for drawing and painting will be dhortly opened at tho Athenteum by Mr E. A. Gifford, gold medallist of the Royal Academy. Intending patrens of "the hill" tomorrow will see by advertisement in another column that the committee will collect the same admission fee as will be cl'arjxrt at the Reoreation Ground gates. Mr Gillies' season of two nights at the Theatre Royal commences this evening, and as ho has devoted much time and great care to the preliminary arrangements an enjoyable entertainment m&y be looked forward to by visitors. The concort will commence at 8 o'clock sharp. A procession will leave the White-road for tho theatre at 7 o'clock. It is stated that the Poverty Bay Harbor Board has spent £40,000 on plant already, though work on the breakwater has not yet commenced. The NRpier Harbor Hoard's plant i» w»rth about £6000, which will be increased to £9000 when the second crane arrives. At New Plymouth we believe something like £70,000 was expended on plant. There seem to bo different ways of going about breakwater construction. At tho Resident Magistrate's Court .esterday Mr Lascelles applied for permission to examine two more witnesses in ■•i:terwice to the charge of assault pi-efened tg.iinst William Ruddick, on the ground vat the additional witnesses would prove .Imt a witness already heard, ami who deposed to seeing the assault, could pot iiuve Hceii what he professed to describe. Captain Preece said ha would visit the -cene of the alleged assault himself before giving judgment. A meeting of creditors in the estato of David Palmer was held yesterday, the deputy assignee presiding, and tho debtor i>eing represented by Mr Sheath. The statement of accounts nhowed liabilities, amounting to £1250, and assets estimated at £1 150. The bankruptcy was attributed to falliug off in business. The stock was valued at £850, and it was decided to call for tenders for the purchase of this. The creditors gave expression to their satisfaction at the manner in which the Accounts had been kept and the business conducted, and is was decided to allow the debtor to keep his furniture. Those who want to Bee some good specimens of local industry should glance in at Mr Naphtali's window, where are exhibited four medals manufactured by Mr F. W. Collins. Two of the pedals j are all gold, one being the championship trophy in the open iiandicap, and the other the champion medal for the winner of the amateur handicap at the Caledonian Society's gathering to-morrow. j Ot the other two medals one is silver I and gold combined, for the best Highland piper, and the other, the second prize in the amateur handicap, is of silver. All are ot excellent design and splendid workmanship, and reflect great credit upon the maker. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr G. A. Preoce, K.M., William Patterson was sentenced to two months" hard labor for using filthy language while drunk at the Farndon railway station. — For assaulting Arthur Richard Wells the same defendant was fined £2 and costs, in* default 14 days' hard labor, to commence at the expiration of the first sentence.— William Cavanagh and William M'Gee, for stealing provisions from the Farndon Hotel, were each sentenced to two months' hard labor. — Judgment for plaintiff was given in each ot the following civil cases : — Borough rate receiver v. Gill, £1 10s 3d, costs 6s. Swan v. Wigg, £5 lls 3d, costs and expenses £1 12s; Mr .Logan for plaintiff. Sidey and Bain v. Crawford, £9 9s 2d, costs and expenses £2 lls; Mr M'Lean for plaintiffs. Webber and Wilson v, Crawford, £12 14a Gd, costs £1 2s. Levey v. Lee, £1, costs 6s. His Honor the Chiof Justice yesterday gave judgment in tho case of Williams v. Hitchman, heard before him at. the December sittings of the Supreme Court in Napier. The following is the decree made :— "The plaintiff is declared entitled to redeem the mortgage in place of Hitchman, and, after paying the mortgagee all principal and interest due thereon, to an assignment of the mortgage of the lease, the defendant, upon payment to tho plaintiff of all principal, interest, and costs, including the costs of this action, to be entitled to have from tho plaintiff a discharge of this mortgage, the lease being lirot rectified in accordance with this decree. If the defendant does not within three months after notice to him or his solicitors from tho plaintiff, pay all such principal, interest, aud costs, then the lease so rectified is to be sold under the direction of the Court, and the proceeds are to be applied in payment to the plaiutiff of her costs in this case, and the balance, if any, to be paid to the defendant. If the proceeds are not sufficient to pay such principal, interest, and costs, the defendant is to pay tho same to the plaintiff. The plaintiff' is to bo at liberty to bid at the sale of the lease ; the defendant is to pay the plaintiff the costs of this action, and the lease to be rectified." Costs on the lowest scale and a second counsel were allowed. Judging by Press notices of Mr J. Driscoll Foley's performances, those who patronise him during his short season at the Gaiety Theatre will get more than a guidpro quo. A Northern contemporary thus speaks of one of Mr Foley's recent performances :— " He has been named the colonial Maccabe, and deservedly so, for | his changes ot dress, face, and voice are most rapid, complete, and mystifyiig. i All of his impersonations are lifelike and realistic, and serve to introduce him in , characters to which he has given long anil i careful study, and which when aeon are 1 quickly recognised by his andienco. As ' to his performance with bis two dolls in the ventriloquial part of his entertain-

ment, his ability ia unquestionable, and his two friends, Jimmy Roundhead and Tommy Squarehead, keep his audience in screams of laughter from their entrance" and introduction until they how their heads and retire for the night. The Chinese /orchestra is another feature in which Mr Foley excels. It consists of eight ordinary brandy and whisky bottles, in fact a genuine display of dead marines, and on this eccentric instrument he discourses moat sweet and melodious music, including 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'The Wearing of the Green,' ' The Highland Fling, 1 waltzes and polkas ad infinitum. Mr Foley is assisted in his entertainment by Mrs Foley, the celebrated and accomplished pianiste, and we heartily recommend those who wish to enjoy a good avening'a amusement to avail themselves of the opportunity. " A great boom has sounded in Australia over the Fairfield discovery, and the assay teat of 185o_z to the ton after 93 experiments. This is all very well, says the Auckland Herald. We know what •ssaya are. Ore, from a mine on the Hanraki Peninsula, assays 50oz of gold and, 810 of silver, and yields loz 2dwts of gold and 430z 2dwts of silver. Ore from Owharott assays a yield of something equivalent to £10 per ton, and under the battery process turns out a total of £18 10s Gd from 70 tons. Frank . R. Stockton, the American novelist, at one time suffered much pain . in his eyes, and was forbidden to Tead. The first day that the doctor granted him . half an hour with a book his friends were curious to know what book he would select. " Give me some advertisements," he demanded, and explained as a shout was raised, " Yes, I am pining for advertisements. My wife has read everything else aloud to me, but I hadn't the heart to ask her to read the advertisements." For several days ho devoted the whole of that precious half hour to advertisements. The Wild West propaganda continues its activity. A youthful inhabitant of HrixtOß lms been detained at Liverpool, having travelled there unprovided with a railway ticket. In his bag were found a dagger, a bowie knife, the inevitable revolver, and several cartridges. He explained that he had been so much impressed with the feats of the Wild West troupe that he had determined to go to the Far West and do likewise. This boy is a good, sensible boy. He might have determined to start on his adventurous career in the Brixton road. What have the Wellington newspapers to say to this? A deputation from the Auckland High School governors waited the other day on Mr Mitchelson, and represented that if the Government grant were withdrawn the rent of the girl's high school could not be paid, and the school ifould have to be closed. The governors had a site in Howe-street, hut no meaus of erecting a building. To this Mr Mitchelson rejoined : "No ; unless you do as they did in Wellington — steal a hospital reserve, and put up a school building on it without leave." The principal of the Auckland Grammar School in a recent prospectus says : — "There is no taking places, or giving of marks. At no time is it made a merit that a boy has doie better than someone else — the best may be bad in him, and the worst may be good ; all we ask is that each one will do his utmost. Couse?uently we have no prize distribution. s there anywhere in school life a more painful sight than the crowd of unsuccessful ones called upon to cheer the more fortunate, but each with an aching heart, often caused by sense of injustice. | The system is bad for the many, and not j always good for the few." The Thames Advertiser in recording the fact that marriages and births have recently been nnmerous in that district, says, "The number of perambulators lately imported into the place has been something enormous. By one trip of the Kotomahana no fewer than eighteen of these infantile vehicles wero received per single consignment. With facts of this nature before us, whatever others may think, it certainly speaks well for the I permanency of the place, the yield per \ head of the population being to all intents and purposes good." What is delicately referred to in the mysterious phrase "yield per head?" Is it peram- | liulators, babies, or what ? | Bishop Cowie, of Auckland, says the New Zealand Herald, was known as " the fighting chaplain " in the Indian mutiny. On one occasion, when the officers ef a small detachment had been killed and the guns had been taken possession of by the enemy, Chaplain Cowie assumed command, and under his leadership the guns were re-taken. During the terrible pressure of tho mutiny, when every Englishman with a brave heart was of value, Bishop Cowie saw that righting was a great deal more urgently wanted than preaching, and he practised the formsr almost exclusively for a time. The army authorities Raw all this, and not being nble to give him a step or several steps in -ank, the idea occurred to them that ho would make a good colanial bishop, and that that would do a fitting reward for his valor in India. The Hon. It. Pharazyn writes as follows to the New Zealand Times : — " Referring to the paragraph in the Times in which it is stated that the gentlemen who drow £25 honorarium did so by way of protest against tho Parliamentary Honorarium ami Privileges Act passed lost session, and refuse to refund for the same reason, I heg to say that so fnr as lam concerned i I signed the roucher simply because I was requested to do f-o, the Speaker of the ' Legislative Council having certified to its correctness. Not having been asked to refund, I cannot have refused to do so, < and as I approve of the Act and supported ' it on the broad ground that it substitutes ] payment of expenses for payment of members, I have no wish to protest against it, i though, in common with many others, I ' do not consider it an ideally perfect piece , of legislation." i In a lay discourse upon sermons in one of the November magazies, it is remarked i by a writer, who is no doubt referring ' exclusively to the Anglican Church, that , if you want to hear a sermon an hour t long, your only hope nowadays is to attend a Bampton lecture, or to chance ] o.i Canon Liddon at his longest. Iv fact, , the Anglican preachers have for the most i part gone to the opposite extreme. "Do you think," asked one of the newest patterns in curates of his somewhat older i vicar, "do you think if I preached ten minutes in the morning I should be too long?" "Decidedly, answered the vicar, sarcastically; "in a church like ours it 1b quite sufficient for the poacher to mount the pulpit, and having uttered a fervent ' dearly beloved,' to descend again. Brevity in the soul of wit and the essence •f preaching." A recently published volume of sermons actually preached at a fashionable watering-place does not contain one discourse that could have occupied more than five minutes in the delivery. Its author's church is crowded The convict Lingg, one of the condemned Chicago anarchists, committed suicide in an extraordinary manner. This was the man who made the bombs which were u&ed against the police with such fatal effect, and undoubtedly he meant thorn for the crime afterwards effected. His gaolers regarded him as a human tiger. His fellowconvicts exhibited signs of weakness, and Parsons seemed in danger of becoming insane ; but Lingg always ate and slept well. It appears that on the morning of November 10th the guard saw Lingg use a burn ing candle as though to light a cigar. An explosion followed, which tore away the tissues of the head and neck and smashed the bones. A Bearch revealed that there had been concealed in the candle a duplicate cap, such as is used in exploding dynamito ; it waß lin long, and had been charged with fulminate of mercury. This he appears to have placed in his mouth and set fire to it. Despite his shocking wounds, tbe murderer lived for fiveMionrs. The. gaolers excuse their apparent carelessness by alleging that there must have been treachery among their own number. This incident has deepened tho distrust felt throughout Chicago, which was already alarmed by the recent discoveries of some terrible bombs, one of which was a steam pipo, seven inches l° n K> loaded with dynamito and iron missiles, and another was three inches round and charged with gun-cotton. The prosperous foundling in the Spectator was careful to provide himself with a "complete set of ancestors"; but no one hitherto has rendered a like service to Charles Dickens, whose biography is perhaps an absolutely unique example of an account of a world-famed man of letters, which carries the family history no further back than the marriage of his parents. The great novelist is said to have rarely talked or his parents, and never of any other progenitor, and lie clearly made no communication en this subject to his appointed biographer. Some glimmering of ight, however, has at last been shed on this obscure question by a correspondent of a leading Indian paper quoted in Notes and Queries. The story is that the second Lord Crowe, who died in 1835, had an old nurse of whom he and his sister, who became the wifo of the late Lord Houghton, wero extremely fond. Her power of telling stories— all, so far as they over knew or could make out, spun out of her own head — amounted to something like genius. She was also an excellent mimic, and had a different voice for each of her characters. This remarkable old woman, we are told, was Dickens's grandmother. These statements are said to have been mndo to the writer's informant by Lord Houghton himself. Surely wo shall yet hear something more about this newlydiscovered ancestor ot the great novelwriter. " Blatant folly of impotent verbosity, riding supreme. In this way (says the Melbourne Telegraph) did the Chief Secretary recently describe tho obstructionist tactics of a section of the Opposition during the last Bassion of Parliament.

Mr Deakin was addressing a iaTgely attended meeting of his constituents at Newmarket, and ne appealed to tbe public for support in the attempt the Government intend to make when Parliament reassembles to put a stop to practices which; if permitted td go unchecked., wo.ild mean that members had better stayaway altogether from Parliament House. "A few men who set themselves to defy Parliament can, by means of the forms of the House, successfully obstruct business," said Mr Deakin, who was enthusiastically cheered as he described the '• miserable efforts 6f half-a-dozen men " — " blatant, brawlers" he called them— to prevent useful legislation. Many suggestions have been put forward as remedies for obstruction, and Mr Deakin evidently thinks that in the recess the Government will be able to combine these proposals — a limited clOture and a limited period to be allowed each speaker — in snch a way as to meet with the approval of Parliament and the country. "The obstruction," he told his luidience, "is striking tit the root of our democracy, and if there are any who regard it with disfavor it is the masses of the. community." Mr Deakia has great faith in the people. Once they grasp the real state of affairs they will not, he believes, allow a " band of brawlers " to render the voice of Parliament nugatory. Mr Robert Stewart, of Kinltchmoidart, cihairman of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, speaking at the annual meeting the company held in Edinburgh, said : — " I cannot well pass over the attention which has been called to New Zealand securities by the inability of several of the prominent colonial institutions to maintain their usual dividends. To investors in this conntry, many of whom have slight opportunities of acquiring an accurate knowledge of New Zealand, this fact cannot fail to cause anxiety ; but to those who are brought closely into contact with the colony, and can appreciate how very dependent tbe banks and other money-lending institutions are on the success of agricultural and pastoral pursuits to secnre them their pront/it is not" surprising that there is a shortcoming in dividends at present in the face of the existing depression. While New Zealand has perhaps been somewhat reckless in its borrowing, it must be remembered that the money has been chiefly spent in developing the country by the construction of railways, harbors, telegraphs, and other public works, which although scarcely remunerative with only about 600,000 people in the country, will at once bec»me so when population grows greater. Even now the railways pay about 3 per cent. The nature of the soil and climate is such that a dense population could be carried without further expenditure in public works, and what is most required to bring a return of prosperity is the influx of agricultural immigrants who have sufficient working capital to give themselves a fair start. If New Zealand we r e an old and worn-out country, which was falling back after having been fully developed and populated, there might be cause for grave anxiety. But who it is a. young, half-peopled colony, with as tine a climate and soil as is to be found in the world, there is surely every reason to believe that it will soon come snrely find safely through its trials, and, as it matures, will prove itself as sound as any colony in the Empire."