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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8332, 8 April 1889, Page 2

On the fourth page will he found an ■ article entitled "The Old Shares of the Bank of New Zealabd." Two inebriates— lady and gentiehlali— will interview the Resident Magistrate this morning. There was a very large attendance at the rink on Saturday evening, the lloor beiug crowded with skaters of both sexes. The Railway Band, as usual, provided i good music. I Members of the Amateur Operatic 1 Society are requested to meet at Mrs Heath s at 8 o'clock, this evening, in connection with the proposal to visit Gisborno. The Auckland Hospital Trustees want a resident house surgeon and to attend outpatients, and they offer a duly qualified man £100 a year I An amendment to makß the salary £150 was lost. Members of tho committee appointed in connection with the Dunedin exhibition are requested to dttb'nd at thb Mayor's office at noon to-day, to meet Dr. Hocken, who comes from Dunedin specially in reference to the exhibition. The telegram from Wellington which appeared in our issue of Friday, stating thatthe Ilth inst. had been fixed for the opening of the shosting season, was au error. By tho Gazette we learn that the proper date is the 18th— the day recommended by the Acclimatisation Society. The Rovers Cricket Club are arranging a cricketers' dance in aid of tlieir funds, to take place on Easter Tuesday in the Theatre Itoval. As this will probably be the first dance of the season, tliere will no doubt be a large rluuitler present, aud the club reap agood benefit. St. Augustine's Church, which for several weeks has been in the hands of (he builders, being altered and enlarged, will be re-opened for public worship on Wednesday evening, when there wilt be a choral service. The offertory will be I devoted to tlie building fund.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before Mr G. A. Preece, RM., a man who gave the name of John Smith, hut who boasts of several aliases indicating that he has been born in England, Scotland, Ireland, and various other countries at different times, was lined £1 and costs for frequent drunkenness. The alternative was seven days' hard labor. Some people hold that policemen are never at hand when wanted. That view of the ease did not hold in St. John's Church last evening, when two men under the influence of liquor, and who were annoying the congregation, suddenly found themselves each in the grasp of a sturdy " man in blue." Constables Gantley and Pardy were the " visiting brethren" in the church, and they took the offenders off to the lock-up in splendid style, and at almost " blitzograpb speed.

The following important return collated from official sources relative te the astonishing advance in the exports of native flax for the whole colony appears in this month's number of the New Zealand Trade Mevieio. For the year 1886 the exports of flax were valued at £15,000 ; for the year 1887 at £25,000 ; for the year 1888 at £75,000, whilst it is estimated by reliable authority that, there will be exported from the Wollington provincial disrrict alone for the year 1889 at least 12,000 tons of flax, which valued at £20 per ton gives £240,000.

The Vivian Dramatic Company will open in the Theatre Koyal on Satnrday evening next for a season of five niahts. This is the company recently referred to in these columns as doing sterling business in Auckland. Mr Charles Bichner, advance agent, arrived in town on Saturday, and at onco under his directions the advertising boards began to look gay with huge posters. The company will open in "Current Cash," which will be played two nights, to be followed with "East Lynne" for two nights, and "A Woman of the People " as the concluding presentation. The Wellington Athletic Club have challenged the Napior Club to a friendly match at football, to he played on the 20th instant. The local club's committee met on Saturday evening and decided to accept the challenge, and they request the following players to at once go into active practice *•— Robson, Trotter, F. Kennedy, N, Kennedy, S. It. Kennedy, Gibbons'; W. Goodall, Wi Hape, W. Williams, Harden, Miller, Guy, Rochfort, Stanton, Peaeoek (2), Bryson, Connell, Hughes, Flemming, Stock, Mackay, and Crowley. Practices commence this morning on the Recreation Ground, and will continue every morning. All players (besides those above mentioned) are requested to turn up before 7 o'clock.

There was a good attendance of members at the bowling green on Saturday atternoou, and several tournament matches and other games were played. A scratch match was also arranged, Messrs Holt and J. Dinwiddie choosing sides. The formers team won easily, being well ahead in botli rinks, and tlie scores finally were— Holt, 69 j Dinwiddie, 38. The following were tlie players :— ln No. 1 rink Dr. Hitchings, Messrs Stubbs, M'Lean, and Balfonr (skip) made 26 points against 20 scored by Messrs Kevans, Cook, Hodgson and Gilberd (skip). In No. 2 rink Messrs Morrison, Parker, and Holt (skip) scored 43 against 18 made liy their opponents Messrs Miller, P. Dinwiddie, and if. Dinwiddie (skip). Holt's men were therefore winners by 31 points.

-he annual meeting ot the Meanee Football Club was held in Mr P. Dooney's hotel, Meanee, on Saturday evening. There was a large attendance of members. Mr E. Maney occupied the chair, and briefly congratulated the club on the success which attended it last season. The acting- secretary, Mr B. Gallagher, gave a resume" ot last season's matches. He stated that altogether six matches had been played, of which the Meanee Club won three and lost three. The matches played were those against the Clive, the Herald, and cabmen. The club won both matches against the Herald nnd beat the Clive on one occasion. The matches loet were one against Clive and two against the cabmen. On the motion ot Mr Gilding, seconded by MrDooney, the report and balance-sheet were adopted. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : — President, Mr J. Beatson ; vice-president, Mr H. Lansdowne; treasurer, Mr E, Maney ; secretary, Mr P. Dooney. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee :— Messrs J. Hawkins, J, Lopdell, and J. M'Conachie. Several gentlemen resident in Taradale and Meanee were proposed as members, and it was decided to hold the first practice match on Saturday next, when all members are requested to put in an appearance. A few subscriptions were handed in to the secretary, after which the meeting closed.

Vesuvius has lately been very active. It has been rapidly throwing up a new cone of eruption about thirty to forty yards to the south-west of the original one, and the fissure across the crater plane toward the west-south-west is increasing in size, and is richer in acid emanations.

A Mr Turner, a wealthy merchant of Chicago, who has been on a prolonged visit to this colony, purchased in Dunedin tlie traiued St, Bernard dog Hercules, paying £100 for it. This dog was for a long time giving skating exhibitions down South, he having been trained to go on roller skates.

The world has become familiar with the fashion of watches worn in bracelets and walking-sticks, but Englishwomen have not yet gone so far as to imitato the ladies of Paris, who wear them as ornaments of the hair and instead of rosettes on their ball slippers. This mania, which began with the ugly bnt convenient fashion of wearing a watch round the wrist, fastened in a leather bracelet, is clearly nearing the point when the saying may be applied to it, " L'exces en tout est un difaut.

A fearful and wonderful thing is the legal terminology in Her Majesty's faithful kingdom of Scotland ; a special chair is devoted to the tuition of it in all the Scottish Universities. One of its eccentricities led into error the other week every daily newspaper in London. They stated without exception that the appeal case of Parnel I v. The Times was referred to the " summer " roll. The Courtof Session takes no cognizance of the.seasons. The roll to which the case was relegated was the "summar" roll, and "snmmar"' is legal Scotch for summary.

Quite a romantic story comes from America about the projected marriage between Mr Coats, a youthful member of the Paisley cotton manufacturing firm, and Miss Clark, the daughter of those equally well known in the same business across the Atlantic. It seems that for years a keen and bitter rivalry has existed between the firms, till it occurred to Mr Coats to send an ambassador to America to see whether' some friendly Cpmpromise could not be arranged. And it was to such good purpose that the wedding is expected to take place in June.— (?{__.«• Mail. .

After all, Volapuk will have its uses, and after its introduction, no more " English" circulars, such as the following, which comes from a merchant firm at La Riochelle, will be " wrote":-" We have the honor to inform you that pur hoven with profound water, at La Faljice, will he opened, according to probability, by the commencement of year 1890. In prevision of the important affairs, that will be treated here soon, we offer to execute, ourselves, your orders for the transit, the landing of merchandises ana your commissions re'Ming to the produces of your trade house. It yon wish already some informations, we will jfive you them with pleasure and immediately/

Each little village has its great- joke. In Berechurch, ofie of the villages wi'icn is intensely concerned in the late Coi*Chester election, a story is told of an old church clerk, who, being unable to read or write, forgot to announce that on the following Sunday there would be no service, the vicar having promised to officiate for a friend at a neighboring church. Directly the congregation were outside the blunt old clerk thought of his omission, and rushing out and mounting the nearest tombstone, he shouted at the top of bis voice i " This is to give notice, that tliere won't he no church here next Sunday. The vicar's goto' a fisbin with a friend."

The following quotations from the Aqricutt-ural Gazette of January 21 will show what -New Zealand butter was fetching at that dates — "London (butter), Saturday.— The business passing is not on a large scale. Finest Normandy makes up to 1245. Fresh butter in rolls has advanced is per dozen. Danish butter has continued depressed, the supplies on offer far exceeding the present demand. Of Cork buttdt the outturn fast diminishes at this season of the year ( and the value has tended downwards. Ne\v Zealand

butter has fifet a brisk sale at extreme rates— common at 84s to 88s, good at 90s to 98s, fine at 100s to 110s, and extra choice at Il_s to 116s. M. de Lesseps' letter to the subscribers to the new issue of Panama shares of

February 2nd is. says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Neivs, to be regarded as his hna) bow to Ihem, and to the old Panama share mi ttontl holders. In tell - idg them that they unanimously choso the person who is charged with liquidating the concession and plant, he washes his hands of the affair. Tho assurance that he gives of gratitude and unalterable devotion is more than a vain form of speech in his case. Old age has suddenly come upon him. His family do not allow Panama to be talked of in his presence, and thd daily lev&s which he bsed to hold in his little fed study and at his office are at an end. If the season were not so advanced he would go to spend a few months at his villa at Ismailia.

The coroner for North-east Middlesex recently held an inquest on the body of Minnie Hannah Adams, aged nineteen, the daughter of a fruit salesman, living at Hackney. The deceased, her two brothers, and a younger sister were left in charge of the house while their parents attended a funeral in the country. In the evening the girl's sweetheart called to see her. As she was alarmed at noises whicli she fancied she heard, he stayed at the house all night to reassure her. During the night he— so it is said— dreamt that he saw the girl walk past him, beckoning to him to follow. He awoke, and, becoming alarmed, went into the passage. Having dressed, he went to the dooi- of deceased's room and knocked. Receiving no answer he then woke the others. On the bedroom door being opened the deceased was found lying on the floor with blood issuing from her mouth. A doctor was sent for, bnt on his arrival life was found to be extinct. From the doctor's examination it would seem that the girl died at about the time that her sweetheart dreamed she beckoned him.