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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9145, 31 August 1892, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found our special correspondent's " Wellington Gossip " nud a parady on Rudyard Kiplinc's famous "Tommy Atkins" headed "Election Squibs." The business notifioatlons of Mr H. Naphtall ate Inserted to-day on onr fourth y age,

11 "■ A meeting of the Rugby Onion will i >c beld iv tho Criterion Hotel at 5 p.m. i ;o*day. i We have to acknowledge the receipt of ' ihe September issue of the " Time-table " For the Government railways. The Wellington people appear to be greatly dissatisfied with their bakers. Correspondence in the local papers states that what sbonld be 21b loaves are only from ljlb to If ib. Napier was complaining in a Bimilar way a few months ago. We are reqnested to state that the correct name of the unfortunate little girl who was recently drowned in the Tuki Tnki, and wbo was oalled in the report of the occurrence " Flossie Alexander," was " Florence Annie Powell." The council of the Auokland section of tbe National Association' yesterday afternoon sent a telegraphic message to the Hawke's Bay section, containing congratulations on having held snch a successful meeting on Saturday evening laßt. There Is said to be a great demand for' small farms In the Woodville district jusb now, but as the present holders of farm sections ask from £18 to £35 an acre, according to distance from the centre of the township; there are no transactions to record. Mr P. A. Herman, the well-known anctioneer, has decided to relinquish thab business, and will shortly take possession of theCarlton Hotel at Hastings. Mr M. Laseelles has purchased Mr Herman's auction business, but will retain his present premises. The members of the House, weary of immolating themselves on tbe altar of country, are arranging for a holiday trip in the Government steamer Hinemoa. They propose to start on Friday next to Blenheim and Nelson, returning to Wellington on the following Tuesday morning. A member of the Legislative Conncil estimates that tbe fall in wool last year caused a loss to New Zealand of £800,000. He does not say, however, how much of this loss was borne by foreign companies, but a large proportion must be debited to the colony. However, the price of wool is not a question of politics,— N.Z Times. The New Zealand Times says It has seen a letter which speaks in glowing terms of the progress made by the first Masonio Lodge of the Grand Orient Con- ! Btitutinn, established ln Sydney, under a I charter recommended by Sir .Robert Stout. The correspondence speaks of the probability of another lodge being founded ab no distant date in tbe same capital; The usual meeting of the Wesleyan Literary Society was held last night in Trinity schoolroom, the Rev, G. W, J. Spence in the chair. There was a good attendance. The business of the evening was the reading and criticising articles in the " Magazine." The following artioles were read and freely discussed : — "The W eakne»s of tho Stabe Education System," "Slang," "The Field of Fiction," " Exercise." and " Preservation of Health." The Earl of Meath has been writing to tbe Premier on the qnestion of immigration. The Earl ndvocatea thab the Government should oak Parliamenb to defray tbe cost of introdncing a Crofter population. The Earl of Meath, who was recently in this colony on a visit, is president of a colonisation society in Great Britain, and a man of much influence in political circle at Home. New Zealand is not likely, we should Imagine, to entertain tbe emigration proposals. Professor Theodore Ltchtwqrk held a very successful class at Hastings on Monday night, to teaoh his system of educating tbe horse. A sullen unbroken horse was dealt with to the great 'satisfaction of all present." To-morrow night Professor Lichtwark will give an exposition of bis powers in Mr M'llroy's smi'hy, ab Hastings, when' a " wagh ' customer " will be operated upon. This wilt nob be one of his classes, tut open to the publio generally for the small fee named in the advertisement. The colony either is, or is supposed to be, under the delusion that something like a fair system of representation of men, as opposed to property, is in force. Ib is therefore worth while pointing ont that the existing system is a farce for many reasons, one of them being the great difference between the numerical strength ot the voters in Bingle electorates. In some parts of the colony 2000 people nre granted a representative, while in other electorates more than double the number have bub one representative. The extremes are seen in Parnell, 1776 voters, and Masterton, with 4264, a difference of over 2500. Onr Hastings correspondent writes under yesterday's date :— The nominations for the scats on the Borough Counoil rendered vacant by tbe going out by rotation of Councillors Beilby, Murdoch, j and Tanner closed to-day, when the following were the candidates nominated : ■—William Beilby, Thotua9 Crosse, Donald M'Leod, and Hunter Henry Murdoch. It will be Been that there will have to be an election to decide who is to be " the odd man ont." Mr Donald M'Leod will be remembered as a clear-headed, independent, and ontspuken member of the old Town Board. I think that, however the election may go, we may reckon on a good working, harmonious Council. It will be remembered that, in connection with the last chrysanthemum show of the Wellington Horticultural and Florists' Society, two knotty points wore referred to the National Chrysanthemum Society of England for decision. Replies have now been received from thab body, in accordance with which the National Society's bronze medal falls to Mr J. Anderson, of Napier. The dlfflonlty was as to tbe tie in the special competition for the largest number of Grst prizes taken at the Bhow, Messrs Clark, Anderson, and Kerslake having equal numbers, and the National Society proposed that it should te settled by giving pride of place to the gentleman whose aggregate prize money for first prizes showed the largest total. Following the asme dictum, tbe local society have awarded Mr C. J. Hill the corresponding prize ln the amateur class, where, by a coincidence, he also had tied with Mr W. H. Green. -Post. Some time ago a Government that lovea bhe people found It necessary in the public interesb to tell Mr E. Patten, then the Collector of Customs here, that he was to clear out of the service, whether he liked to do so or not, and take a pension. He did nob like to do bo, bub his protestations were ot no avail, and he went. This involved a series of changes, from port to port almost throughout tbe colony, that cost the country several thousand pounds. And now comes the end. The Government, which loves the people aforesaid, find that Mr Patten is good enough to retain in the service after all, and have appointed him Collector of Customs ln Christchurch. Mr Dugald M'Kollar, whose appointment to Christchurch was originally contemplated, is now to be stationed as Collector at Wellington. Mr A. B. Reynolds is appointed AssUtant Landing Waiter and Examining Officer at Auckland. Home papers to hand by last mail have several notices of our new Governor, the Earl of Glasgow, from which we learn that he forms an interesting link with the days of Queen Anne. In bis earlier years there was little prospect of his ever attaining the title. Born ln 1833, his father was merely a very distant cousin of the then Earl— a yonng man who had sons of bis own. One of these sons became fifth Earl, and dying childless was succeed by his half brother, the sixth Earl, who bad only two daughters, and bo the heir to the title had to be soughb for iv the lino represented by our Governor. The ancestor from whom the pro-jent Earl derives his title was his great grandfather, the seoond Earl, who died In 17*40. His younger son, the Hon. Patrick Boyle, had a son.Divid Boyle, M.P., whose son married Mary, daughter nf Sir Robert Elphinstone, and became in 1533 father of the present Earl, Governor of New Zealand. A very pleasant bill will be presented at the Theatre Koyal this evening. It will Include two items, each of which is in its way a gem. One is tbe Btronglyconstrnoted and charming comedy-drama "Alone." Tbis, the joint work of P^-. grave Simpson and Herman Werlvale was given in Napier some time since by the oast who wiil present ib tonight, and was then so very successful thab its repetition is certain to attract a large audienoe. The central figure in the piece, that of the blind Colonel Cballice, will be played by Mr J. G. Swan, who gives an artistio interpretation of the part. The other charaoters will be taken by the Misses Hitchlngs (2) and Messrs C, D. Kennedy, Finch, Mackintosh, and Hughes "Dream Faces," whioh will be given lever dv ridcau, is a quaint and pleasing dramatic fancy, and altogether those who patronise the Theatre Royal this evening may count npon thoroughly good entertainment. The performance will be under the patronage of the Canterbury football team, who will arrive by this evening's express train. The full casb of both pieces will be found iv another column. We have received tbe current number of the Public Service Journal. It is well up to the standard of former issues— indeed, in aome respects there are improvements—bnt we are sorry to notice in an " answer to correspondents," iv whioh a lighthouse keeper is replied to, a tendency to argue thab the Government cannot do wrong. The writer objects that although he is " In tha CIvU Service " so far as reductions are concerned, the new Civil Service Bill omits lightkeepers and labor members from its benefits. He charges the conncil of the Public Service Association with negleoting the interests nf the " labor " subscribers to the association, The only reply vonchsafed is the following lame note:— "The interests of tbe 'labor' subscribers were not overlooked by the Conncil, bnt sa the inclusion of large bodied of employ.^ pot at present

1 I — — » nnder" the Civil Service Acta wonld Involve a retry large increase of expenditure, and is entirely a matter of Govern* ment policy, the Conncil wonld not have been justified in suggesting suoh a step." From which it appears that one part of the Council's business is to deprecate discontent at " Government policy." In that case the association baa no ration d'tlre, At the Resident Magistrate's Conrt yesterday, before Mr Wardell, K.M., a number of civil cases were disposed of. The first batch were borough summonses, and judgment was given for plaintiff in each case as follows :— Bate receiver vi O. H. Brassey, 9s, costs 7s. Same v. E, Buchanan, £6 6s Od, costs 10s, Same v. P. Hall, £5 8s lOd, costs 10s. Same v. J. Ireland, £4 83 6d, costs 6s. Same vt C. Maloney, 9a, costs 6s. Same v. J, T. Benouf, £9 18s 4d, coats 10s. Mr Logan appeared for plaintiffs in all the foregoing coses. Judgment for plaintiff was also riven in the following eases :— Haigh v. Black, £19, costs and expenses £5 10s t Sir William Wasteneys for plaintiff and Mr Laseelles for defendant. W. M, Newton and Co. v. Ekingaranga Hapukn, £18 12s 6d, costs £1 12s. Same ▼. Hamiora Tupaea, £2 Bs, costs 16s. Adams v, E. Moore, £9, costs and expenses £1 7s 6d ;Mr Dinwiddle for plaintiff. Wilson and Co. v. M. Hamlin, £1 19 a, costs 7s. H. P. Cohen v. Haines, £6 18j, costs 10s. Williams and Kettle v, J. Duncan, £5 13s, costs and expenses £1 3s 6d; Mr Logan for plaintiffs. Laseelles v. C. Mortensen, judgment debt of £37 2s lOd ; Mr Sheath for plaintiff and Mr Carnell for defendant. Stubbs v. Hata (costs io a settled case), £1. Onr Waipawa correspondent writing yesterday says:— The secretary of the county hospital reports far the week, 18 males and two female inmates ; one male received daring the week, and fonr males discharged; deaths nil.— The Woodville paper of Monday is qnlte a curiosity, Twelve columns are occupied by the year's balance-sheet and accounts of the 1 Pahlatna Connty, printed In large type I Three hundred inches of space, covered with stuff that nobody mil read, bnt which at the ordinary rate charged for advertising wonld cost £45. Naturally one glances at the accounts to see what the advertising bill for the year amounted to, and I am not surprised to find it waa over £75. A slight analysis Is interesting. The rates oolleoted Came to £1134, Government subsidy £287, fees and licenses £81, miscellaneous £39, contributions from ratepayers £18, forfeited deposit £8, sundry balances- transferred from special funds accounts £647. and there is a debit balanoe of £2013. The expenditure comprises administration £1512 (including £811 for salaries), miscellaneous £183, charitable aid £77, contribution to Pahlntua Pablio Library £10, publio works £1721 (including £607 compensation for land, and a judgment against the Connoil on account of Makalro bridge contract 4200), and interest £44. Under tbe heading "statement of revenue" is -shown three allotments of one acre each. Tha " statement of pnbllo debt " shows that the indebtedness to tbe Government nnder the Local Bodies' Loans Act is £20,851. A large space is also occupied with a reiteration of the balances, already printed in extenso. Comment on suoh a wasteful exposition is needless.