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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9545, 4 December 1893, Page 2

On the fourth page will be fonnd a report of the races at Hnneflin on Sotur day, " Cyellner Notes " (by " Z^nlandia "), and an article enthled " Wool and 'Wool.'"

Ib was predicted that we were to have a dry summer. Wheie are those prophets ?

Weather permitting there will be a fnll rehearsal of Gnul's " Hoy City " this evening at So. Paul's Cnurch, A full

attendance is requested,

There will be a confirmation sarvice in the Cathedral on Sunday evening next ob 7 o'clock, A good miny candidates will be presented to the Bishop on tbe occasion,

Shearing has been stopped on the East Coast owing to the weather, consequently very little wool his come forward for shipment as yet, There will be a big rush when fine weather sets in.

V\ eather permitting, it in the intention

of the Union Compony to give the Napier people another moonlight tilp "on the briny" by the Australia on or about Wednesday, the 20th instant. The Earl of Warwick (Warwick and Brooke), whose death is recorded ji our cablegrams this morning, was born in 1818, and succeeded to the title in 1833. Bis successor is Lord Brooke. We are requested to state that as the Hanroto will not leave Wellington in time to connect with the mail via Naples leaving Sydney on the 11th instant the mail notice in reference to tbe Naples mall is withdrawn. At the Resident Magistrate's Conrt on

Saturday, before Mr J. S. Large, J P., Thomas Wilson was fined £1 and costs for drunkenness at the Spit, and for using obscene language was sentenced to seven days' hard labor.

A tremendous quantity of rain fell yesberday. The low-lying lands in tbe district are all more or less flooded, nnd

last night some of the roads ia Hastings were almost impassable by reason of Butface water.

Since the Union Comptny took up tbe timber trade from Auckland tbe East Coast steamers have been felt supported. The Moa has engngements far two full loads to Blackhead, The Australia and DiDgadee are bringing large quantities of kauri for Napier and Wellington.

The chess match between the Napier and Gisborne olnbs was brought to a

termination laat Saturday night, bat all tbe games were nob cnno'.uded. Of tbe games actually finished Gisborne has won three and iVapier t wo, one is declared drawn, and fonr remain to b 3 adjadioated upon.

In reference to a question a<-ked by a correspondent in Saturday's HERALD, as to whether the mother of the PostmasterGeneral was not keeping a publiohonse in Invercarglll, another correspondent writes stating that Mis Ward doea not now keep a pnbiichouae, bnt that formerly Bbc kept one at the Blnff for many years. New Zealand has a fine climate. Also, this it cummer, Furthermore, there have been five wet Satnrdaya and five wet Sundays in succession, to say nothing of other lens important jours. Still further, before the ran of web Saturdays and Sundays commenced rain fell regularly every Wednesday for many weeks in succession. How miserable tbty mnet be in England, not to bave Bnch a fioe climate as we have I

The "Berry Blight" s-rew oat of a big ranjorily. Are we to have a "Seddon Blight ? " There is one thing that should prevent) it, and that ia the terrible distress flow Wlsting In New Sooth Wales and

Victoria, That proves how little formß of government have (o do with the real prosperity of tho people. What has worked the harm is a wrong social system giving birth to financial immorality.

In Mr FilzKoy's letter on Saturday, dealing with the question of Mr Colbubo's name being wrongly and without notice struck off the roll for Hawke's Bay, there occurred the following statement :— " At

the end of the said supplementary roll for the Bawke's Bay district is a synopsis of all the numbers on the rail that had been Btruck off for one of the reasons mentioned herein, hu thut any person by looking aft thin list would rco at a glance if bis nnmoer was amongst these." If Mr FitzHoy will take the trouble to look he will ste that ha was mistaken. Mr Colenso's number on the roll was 481, and that (ioeß not appear on the list of numbers on the last page of the last supplementary roll.

The temperance people hare been completely sold by helping to return a mepiity for the Government. The c'nuee most oVjacted to in the Liquor 3 lies Pi!l is that giving three years' vested interest in licenses. Unless there is a aefsinn of Parliament and the Act is altered before next March, when the first

j oil under the Act is to be taken, that clause cannot be altered for three years, and probably by that time other interests will have knocked the united temperance vote "kite high." All that the Governm«ut hive to do, to keep the present Act

in force for three years, is to avoid a special session. But one can hardly sympathise with those who have been so completely stultified by their own efforts. They professed to be'ieve the existing Act the worst ever passed, and to prove their faith (without works) they all over the colony went en bloc in support of the Government that forced the Act through

the House, and that are pledged to sustain the Act now it is law.

Some people, when it snifs tbeir purpose, object to the dead being refeired to except In complimentiuy terms, and then to show how much In earnest they are they immediately give reins to their imaginative faculty In order to vilify the late Sir Harry A'kinsoD. However, concerning the general question of "De mortw's nil nisi bonum, as some of the greatest Bconndrels that ever cursed the earth are dead, and some others may b s reasonably expeoted to go the same road, are we to cut oar tongues out, burn oar books, and act up as wooden hypocrites ? Not at all. The fact that a man is dead does noli alter the quality of the work of his life. The ruffian who died wai a ruffian, as are ruffians those who woold canonise him, AH that is required about the dead is silence, except when for the good of the living speech is necessary, and then the only duty rightly thrown upon the speaker is to be truthful. Mr Seddon might think abont this, in connection with the accusation charged against him by the Post on the score of what Mr Billance really said when dying. A telegram from Wanganui to Wellington reports the disappearance of Captain Leys, of the cable steamer Terranora. It appears that on the passage of the Storm bird from Wellington to Wariganul \atst Friday Captain Leys was a pa?senger, and was last aeon alive about eighb miles from the heads. His coat, hat, nnd umbrella were fonnd on a pee in the bunk where he had been sleeping. Eviry exertion to discover him wan futile, Captain Leys was a very old New Zealand coast?r, and was formerly master of the Maori, Wallabl, Lawrence, and several other well-known steamers, and np to bis disappearance the tslegraph steamer Terranora". Oapt \ln Leys was well known in Napier. Another oase of disanpearanee occurred on the Wainui from Wostport to Nelson, where a young man named Smith, who was second steward, was found to be missing. Smith was well known on this coastassecondßtewardotthe Australia, and was a most courteons and obliging nfiicer. He was transferred to the Wainui when the Australia was recently laid np for alterations to her passenger aoioimdatlon,

Mr J. Higglns has gob into extensive litigation over the building of the Hastings Hotel, The oontraob for this was let to one Frank Anderson, who failed to complete if. Workmen and otbere now sue Mr Higgins under the Workmen's Lien Act for moneys due, the contention being that after the eclipse of Anderson the. plaintiffs were supplying and working for the proprietor. There are five cases in all, as follows, and they nre practically beina heard together :— M'Ooll v, Higginc, claim £130; Bills v. Hipein.-, £125 17s 9d ; Webb and others v..Higgins, £116 ; Huwke's Bay Timber Company v. Hig'in?, £267 lls 2d ; Moore v. Higglng, £50 The legal puzzles involved are made still more entarjeled and complicated by the fact that Mr diggios urges a olaim against Anderson, the contractor, for £260, being the sum of specified penalties of £20 a week for 13 weeks' delay bayond the contract i line for completing the building, MrCornford appears for the Timber Company, Mr Lougbnan for M'Coll and otbere, Mr Moore for self and for Anderson, and Messrs Cot'erill and Humphries for defendant. The hearing of the cuses was begun st Hastings on Friday, and was con inued till mid-day on Saturday, when they were adjourned to Napier. They are likely to occupy the att.ent'on of the Court for a long time yet. It Is also probable that before the matter is done with it will have to be thrashed out in a higher Court, as it bristles with nearly every variety of law point known and lmtgtned. Therefore the affair is likely to cost) somebody something, to say ftO'.hlng of the enlightenment the wir (\ \"ill get on the subject of the Con-t-rncior.s' Liens Act nnd the Workmen's W ges Act, Our VVnipawa ooi respondent writing on S iturday says :— The finance committee ci the Waiptwa County Council met yesterdnv, when there were present Mpss's Blbby (chairman) and Sciimgeoar, Acuom ts were p»s ed for payment on ordinary fund account £551 Isi Id and on loan account £30 3s Id. No other business was done.— At the Native Land Court yesterday judgment waR given aa to the internal boundariP9 of Ngapaern.ru between the Ngatikare and Ngatimanuhiri, and farther judgment will probably be given in a few day?, allotting the acreage to the different hapus. Today some small succession cases of no public Interest were dealt with, and the Porangahau allocation CS3 was called on.— l understand that the scrutiny following the election in the Waipawa electorate has revealed several cisps of personation and apparent doublevoting, of whioh it is likely core will be beard shortly. One case was very gross ; the party actu illy voted at both polling bootbsio Dnneviike. Withtheexeeptionof the fonr large cit : es more votes were polled In this electorate than in any otber in the colony, nnd the roll as prepared for the Rpgi-trnr looks practically exhausted, so few names remiin unmarked. The total votes given were 4028, and the number on tbe roll was 4971. The Registrar will now strike off the roll the remaining names, and the expurgated roll, with fresh claims added, will be the one to be need next March, when the election cf the licensing oommlttee and local option poll wi'l b? taken together, under tbe Alcoholic Liquora Sale Control Act, I may be mistaken, bat I fancy the excitement will be greater then than during the recent election. It v not generally known that the returning officers for the electorates are now permanent officers, and by thfl Alooholio Aot they are made returning officers nnder it also, and have very important funotlons.