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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9319, 14 March 1893, Page 2

Oa the fourth page will bo found reports of the meetings of the Napter Hospital Board and Charitable Aid Board, an account of the welcome given to the delegates of the Women's Christian Temperwoe Union, and a report of the arlekefc match played on the Recreation Ground yesterday. The business announcement of Messrs Baker and Tabntcan are inserted to day on our fourth page. There are 29 males and two females in the Napier refuge, and 24 families are in receipt of outdoor relief. The purse presented to e»Sergeant Pickeriog yesterday by. the citiaenß Of Hastings contained £4g,

A relief committee Is being formed In Wellington iu connection with there cent floods there. These appear to have caused muob temporary suffering. The Wellington Press learns, on reliable authority, that Sir Roberto Stout has determined to oppose the Hon. Gr. F. Richardson for the Mataura seat at the next election. A Dunedin paper, commenting upon the recent native land laws meeting iu Napier, gravely informs ita readors that Mr P. S. M'Lbbii, " the cliiel speaker Iu opposition," represented u number of Hutb aettlera ! Tlio nuisance of horses straying abouli the streets of the borough, both bills and flat, is becoming a great source of annoyance ( to aay nothing of provable danger. It is time that the Council took this question up in a proper fashion. To-night the Amateur Dramatic Society will produce " Vice Versa " and " Written in Sand " at the Theatre Royftl, in aid of the Queensland Relief Fund. As the object to be served is such a good one, there will no doubt be a large attendance, especially if the weather clears up. Owing to the inclemency of the weather last night there was no meeting of the members of Conrb Captain Cook, No. 5840, A.O.F. The nexb ordinary meeting night will be a specially summoned one to transacb the business which should have been done last night. The Tarndale licensing committee met yesterday, Mr George Rymer in the chair. The transfer or the license from Mr Delamalle to Mr L. Binnie, of the Greenmeadows Hotel, was granted. The transfer of the Taradale Hotel from Mr Ryan to Mr O'Rourke was held over, in consequence of repairs ordered not having been carried out. The following are the levies for hospital purposes for the year 1893-94 :— Hawke's Bay County Council, £343 15s ; Napier borough, £135 8s 4d ; Wairoa Connty Council, £91 lls ; Hastings borongb, £34 10s, With the Government subsidy thn total is brought tip to £1275 Is Bd, and this is distributed as follows :— Costs of administration, £19 Is 8d ; to Wairoa hospital, £180 ; to Napier hospital, £1076 A two roomed cottape with its contents was entirely destroyed by fire at Greenmeadows early on Sunday morning. The occupants, Mr and Mrs Pointon and their four children, barely escaped with their liveß. Mr Pointon arrived home late on Saturday evening, and made a fire on the colonial oven to cook BOme food. 16 is supposed that the high wind blew the embers into the room and so set fire to the place. The building was insured for £5» and the furniture for £60, both in the Norwich Union office. Oar Waipawa correspondent writing yesterday Bays : — A new post-office has been opened in the back country of North Makareta, under the name of Wakarara, and MrSymonds has been appointed postmaster. — A man named Edward Collard was found dead at 9 a.m. on Sunday. The death is regarded as mysterious, and is supposed to have taken place at midnfght on Saturday. Mr V. Jensen, J.P., acting in the absence of the coroner, will hold an inquest to-day, and in the meantime Dr. Ititldell ia making a post mortem examination of the body,

The United Diatriot Charitable Aid Board met yesterday, and decided upon a levy of one-fiftieth of a penny in the £1. The amounts to bB paid by the several local bodies will be as follows :— Hawke's Bay County Council, £275 ; Napiei borough, £108 6s Sd ; Waipawa County Council, £162 10s; Patangata County Council, £150 la 9d ; Wuiroa County Council, £73 4s 9d j Hastings borough, £27 12i 6d ; Woodville borough, £15 10a Gil. The Board appear to have forgotten Danevirke borough, or is it that) the latter Is too young to be included ? At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Turnbull, K.M., John William Bible, brought up ou remand oharged with drunkenness, was certified to be still in need of curative treatment, and on the application of the police was remanded till Tuesday next, Archibald M'Alister, an old offender, waa sentenced to six weeks' hard labor for- vagrancy. Robert Everaon, for drunkenness, was discharged with a caution. George Smith was fined 10a and costs for drunkenness, nnd was sentenced to seven days' hard labor for using obscene language. To land additional attraction to the novel scenes abounding in the production of " My Jack " by the Holloway Dramatic Company, permission has been obtained through the kindness ot Captain Smith for a detachment of the Naval Artillery to take part &nd execute several manoeuvres and drills during the evening on the stage of the Theatre Royal, The box plan for the season, the programme for which may be seen in our advertising columns, is open this day at Milner and Thompson's, We would also remind Hastings citizens that on Thursday next — the company's opening night— there will be a late train leaving here ati midnight, thus giving them an opportunity of attending the theatre that night. They have got a ehnioh and stage squabble in Wauganui. It appears that the son of a settler named Hay ward was a lay reader of the Anglican Uhnrch there. He joined the Darapter Dramatic Com. pany, and his name was consequently expunged from the list of lay readers by the curate in charge of the parish, the Rev. Mr Herman. A meeting of parishioners was subsequently held ab Upokongaro, to consider the mutter. There was a largo attendanse, and lUr Q. IS. Robertson was voted ta the chair. After remarks from the chairman, Mr Beard and others, a resolution was unanimously carried condemning the action of Mr Herman, and affirming that i Mr Owen was a fit and proper person to I hold the office of lay reader. It was also ordered that a letter be written to Mr Herman conveying this resolution, and a request that he would reconsider the matter and reinstate the lay reader.

Shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon one of the heaviest downpours of rain ever experienced in Napier set in. Fortunately it did Dot last long— only ahonb 20 minutes— for it it had kept on for a tew hours the wholß town would have been flooded. The wafer came down almost in sheets, and very shortly Has-tings-street between tho Post office and Newton's corner w«s like a yellow sea, and portions of Tennyson-street and Emerson 3treel; were nearly impa,ssaMo, The lower portions of the town nearer Clive-square wero also, flooded. The water (jawed over the footpath on the west side of Hastings street, and found its way right through several of the shopa. The rain whs accompanied by lightning, and by one orash of thnnder of exceptional .'oudness, After the downpour had lasted some 20 minutes it eased off a b'tij bat in a short time the wind, changed! veering from the nort&-ea3t to the southwest, and thca a steady and continuous rain sei in from that quarter. The flooded streets, however, were all passable again half an hour after the first downpour had ceased.

Our Hidings boriespondent writes under yeaterday'a date -.—This atternoon at 3 o'clock Sergeant Pickering met the Mayor and a number of prominentcitizens ab the Athenfeam. The object was to present him with a token of esteem. The Mayor made the presentation, which consisted of a purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the citizens. Jn doing so Mr Ellis bore willing testimony to the manner in which Sergeant Pickering had performed his duties. While doing bis work as an officerof police he had done eo with such urbanity as to earn the respect of every one. Mr C. A. Loagbnats, on behalf oi the legal prof.ese^on, bore willing testimony to the reßpecti Sergeant PickeriDg bad earned from the Bar in the course of discharging his duties, which had often been of a painful charaoter. Mr Murdoch (HawKK'S Bay HERALD) and Mr Shanly {Daily Telegraph) said that daring their experience hs Press correspondents they had received invariably the greatest possible courtesy and assistance from Sergeant Pickering, and on behalf of the Press thanked him heartily for his assistance, and wished him all prosperity in the future. Mr W. Y . DeaneM, as an ex hotel keeper, wished to add his testimony to the general feeling of respect to Sergeant Pickering, He wißhed him all prosperity i.n his new oareer. Sergeant Pickering said that according to a trite expression the lot of a policeman wa,s not iu all oases a happy one, still he had no reason to complain. The testimonial he had received, valuable as it was in itself, was far more valuable from the fact that It represented the proof that ha had while doing his duty carried the e3teem of the magistrates, the Bar, and the citizens of Hastings, An adjournment was then made to Mr H. O. Caulton's hotel, where a pleasant h?U an hour was spent, "'