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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9954, 2 April 1895, Page 2

On tbe fourth psj>e will be found a report of the sitting of the Assessment Court yesterday morning, a letter to the editor, and onr Hasting and Waipawa correspondents' letters. A monster banana, weighing 11 ounces, is on view at the Cafe". The meeting of the Prohibition League, postponed from Friday evening, will be held to-nigbt. On Tyson's fetation, junction of Lachlan and Murrumbidgee (N.S.W.), there were killed, iu 1894, 2,094,452 rabbits. Two hundred tons of rabbits, hares, and poultry were shipped tbs other day per Thermopylae at Melbourne for London. The Hawke's Bay Highland Society will hold their monthly meeting in tha Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday, 3rd April, T. Mansfield and J. Calders were eaoh fined 2a 61 and coati yesterday morning for having failed to register their respeotive dogs Tray, and were ordered to license them forthwith. Extract from a recont lecture :—Do we want any more Homers?— No! Do we want any more Miltons?— No ' J Do we want any more Saakespeares ?— No I ! I (Lond applause.) The latest thing in insurance In Eng. land was the insurance at Lloyds recearjly of gate money at a race meeting. The weather happened to be bad for two days, and Lloyds had to suffer accordingly. Oivneraaro reminded that acceptances for all the events of tbe Waipawa County Racing Club's autumn meeting close with the secretary at Kalkora at 8 p.m. this evening. The telegraph office at Kaikora closes at 5 p.m. We have received the programme of the chrysanthemum show which is to be I held in the Atheeiouin Hall on the Wednesday and Thursday after Easter (17th and 18th inst,). We learn that considerable interest is being taken by growers, so that a good exhibition will result. Me are P, A. Herman and Co. will offer on Friday, next the whole of the furnitnre and effects ot Dr. tf*igh of Hastings, who is about to leave the dlotriot. The furniture is almost new, and the traps and horses to be offered at the same time are so well known that buyers will no doubt) av&il themselves of securing one of them. The old boat-shed in Wollesley-road, along with the Union Rowing Club's plant, were totally destroyed by fire at 3.30 o'clock this morning. The fire was first observed by two railway employe's, who hastened to the spot, but) all they j succeeded ia saving was a pleasure-boat I belonging to Mr W. Slater. The building I and plant were Insured, but it Is said that tbe amount is considerably short of the club's loss. Though only three or four oases of appeal from the Hawke's Bay County Council valuations oame before the Assessment Court yesterday thero were In all same 40 objections lodged. However, before the Courb sat abatements satisfactory to the appellants were made In most of the casi s. The amount of reluotlon, we understand, totals about £40,000. The report ot tha Hawke's Bay hospital ' for the past month shows that thero were ' n the institution at last report 19 males J md 12 female patients. Thoro were adnitted during the month 25 males and 14 ■emales, or a total of 44 males and 26 ernales. Of these 19 males and 12 { aruules were discharged, and ono male c lied, leaving in the hospital at date 24 : ualea and 14 females. * The Minister of Lands has declined to c iccept the Paluierston North Borough f fenncji^ suggestion to call tifaftj) town. I H^^HH^^B^^B^hHHHS- district t ■h|H|H^HHBHHHHnSci before li nnfIH^BHj^XH^HHBS of the ? |HH|BtWßH|HßHtW^^eadlesß t MSB^mSffifiEHSßH^Hßttmlny HHHBB^^^^H^^BRHKn pro- s B|lli|B!BßHfflMßMßg>e'iee- a: MMBWBJBilaHfflimßHßa^ tl .aL #

sen embarked on the Tasmania under 1 le name of SallivaD, and intended to avo gone on to Sydney had tbe police ob intervened. The Gauison Bind intend giving the r*?t concert with tbelr new instruments, 'bleb, arrived yesterday by the s.s. [awke's Bay, on Thursday evening week rior to the Volunteers leaving for the lister encampment, when a choice proramrne will be submitted. The band old a social on Thursday evening next at he Cafe" to celebrate' the arrival of the aetruments, the possession of which bonld enable the band to attain a high bate of proficiency. The Hon. J. M'Kenzle, Minister for jands, will visit Greytown on Friday lexb, and Carterton on Saturday; Saturlay niehl and Sunday he will spend In Masterton ; on Monday at Maurlcevllle ; )n Tuesday at Ballanee, where he will formally open tbe Biilnnee Dairy Factory; ju Wednesday at Pabiatua and Makuri ; m Thursday at Woodvllle. The Minister Df Justice will probably accompany the Minister for Lands on his trip. It Is not definitely knowa N when he will reach Napier. \ Mr Frank Tregellea had a large numbei of words to say about "Poebiy" in tbf Abhenceum lasb nlghb.C Ue said them of] many tedious sheets oftt^ilscap, and onl of divers books, and he* aid them in t mournful and wearisome which caused the healthy-sized'-, audience to squirm painfully in its seat. v Mr Tregelles evinced a praiseworthy knowlfedee of the authors, bnt a sad lack of elodrrt2Bfiflrjr . training, and if he will allow us to give him a word of friendly advice, he will remedy this defect before posing as a platform lecturer again. . On Friday next, sth Instant, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Limited, will offer a draft of Mr H. Gilford's well-known , Mount Herbert shorthorn heifers for sale at Scrimgeour'a yards, Waipawa, when all on tbe look-out for lira 5 class cattle of this breed wiU do well to bs present. After the sale of shorthorns a number of steers and polled Angus heifers, bred by Mr D. S. Fleming, of Flemingtoh, will also be submitted. The sale will commence ab 2 p.m. sharp, and Mr Scrimgeonr, of the Empire Hotel, will have luncheon on at 1 p.m, William Williams, of Rissington, was charged at the B.M. Court yesterday with being tbe owner and driver of a vehicle plying for hire within the borough of Napier without a license. Mr Salnsbury represented tbe Corporation, and Mr Cornford defended. The evidence of tbe prosecution was to the effect that the defendant drove the Hlssington coach to and fro regularly and oarried passengers. Mr Corutord contended that defendant was simply carrying out a private contracts and that there was no evidence of his having plied for hire. After hearing argument at length Mr Turnbull reserved bis decision. The junior branch of the Napier Piw« byterian Society of Christian Endeavor will celebrate their first anniversary by a concert and terap'.e service" in St. Paul's schoolroom this evening. Tbe entertainment will possets many novel features. There wl'l be songs, choruses, and dialogues by the children, and J;he "temple service," which as an object lesson is calculated to be most impressive and instructive bolli to tbe audience and to tho juvenile performers. The charge for admission has been fixed ab a small price, so that there should be a large attendance to witness and encourage the efforis of. the youngsters. A man named Ralph Smith (better known amongst bis associates as Te Kapu Jack) was brongub in to the NapteT hospital on a stretcher by a uncalei of Maoris irom tbe vicinity p'^iuui yesterday, snftariug tromJi,->?uKen thigh and superficial injuries. He was one of a party of five or six who went out on Thursday last to commence qnarryiog operations in connection with a metalling contract) far Mr John Prebb'e. From what we can gather a fall of earth and rooks took place whera tbe men were working, and Smith was thrown down and partially covered, with the effect stated. Another man (whose name we have been unable to obtain) was also a good deal knocked aboub by falling rocks and sto>ies, and it was found necessary to btlng bim into Napier for medical attention. ■•-'■, Premier Reid of New Sooth Wales in a recent article in the Review ofßevietvs on Federation has a good word for the referendum. He says, ib is a principle greatly detested by Australian Conservatives although rather fashionable amongst some English Conservatives. Before Federal Union as before marriage ceremony, the referendum seems absolutely sound. Ib is quite a familiar feature in municipal legi'sation and is never suspected. Surely If it is right to give ratepayers the option of " Yes " or "No" as to a loan, it is right to give eleotors the same option as to a new form of national existence! Even in national affairs the referendum Is a thoroughly well establishrijH^^iJjLgbobhof the British and the coTistituenciesT^*What is thab but a referendum to the eleotors ? The objection thabfebhe reference to the eleotors by referendum gives tbe go-by to the Upper Houses is founded on a fallacy.- The central principle of a constitution which embraces responsible government and a political franchise is that the will of the eleotors la tbe supreme will of the commonwealth and. must be carried ont by Lords and Commons alike.