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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10017, 15 June 1895, Page 2

A report of the annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay Aprioaltnral and Pastoral Society yesterday will be found on the fourth page. The business announcements of Messrs Baker and Tabateaa are iasored to-day on onr fourth page, The sinking ot the artesian water bore at Woodvllla has bsen abandoned for the present. The Post also characterises the killing of Annio Friend by Nicholson a brutal murder of the Bill Sykes type. Thomas Wilson, convicted of drnnkenneaa for the third time In six months, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment by Mr Turnbuil, S.M , yesterday. Oar cyclists mast look to their laurels, lor several young. ladies are practising assiduously in the gloaming, doubtless with visions of surprise record-breaking. | There will shortly come before the Oam&ru Court a caec in which an alleged sale of grain will farm the bone of contention. The rise in the price of grain his even brightened np legal matters. — N,O Timet. Monday the 24th Inst. is the day appointed for the hearing of the* libel aclioa Cohen v. Wbltiingtun. We doubb, how« ever, if the criminal business will have been concluded by that time, and we anticipate an adjonrnmeat. Mr D. M'Kenzle, an emplojd of the Examiner, was presented with a puree of sovereigns by a largo number of admirers at Woodvllle last night. Mr M'Kenzle is well-known in cricket and football circles, and was for some time secretary of the Bash Football Union, In reference to the paragraph published by us a few days back regarding the appointment ot Mr U. S, Humphries and Mr G, E. Sainsbury as notaries public, we learn that the necessary papers have arrived earlier than was expected, and these gentlemen huve already been sworn, and can now act la that capacity. Messrs K. Hannah and Co., tho boot providers of Napier and Hastings, are np and doing again. They have lately bought two large bankrupt stocks from leading mercanti'e firms in Melbourne, and now offer the same to the public. The sale commences to-day, and a perusal of their inaet la worth the reading.* The LiederkrttEz concert, which will take place on Friday, at the Atheoajum Hall promises to be a brilliant affair. Amongst other attractions Mias Carrie Wataon, Mr Hoben's well-known pupil, will perform Mendelashon's famous concerto in G minor, In the scene from Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" the part of " Fran Mary " wl'l be sung by Miss Bowes. The box plan will open at the Dresden Company tbis morning, where seats may be reserved. Mr James Caklers, a telegraph operator, sustained a nasty accident tbis morning. He was examining a meat mincing machine at Mr Jones' pork butcher's, Shakespeare-road, when one of his fingers got caught in the gear, and the machlue being in motion, the top of the digit was severed from the main portion. Dr. Milne-Thompson, who was consulted, hopes to be able to preserve the linger, but the accident is a peculiar!; unfortunate one. Mr Gilders was enjoying leave of ab«nce from duty at the time. The Prince of Wales ia, says a provlnoial contemporary, very decided as to the conditions upon which he will attend a publis dinner. He has contented to preside at the Typngruhlcil Society's benefit) banquet, which will be held shortly at the Imperial loetltnte. Before glvtag bis consent, however, he laid down four rnles. The first was that evening dress should be worn, the second that do ladies should be admitted, the third confined the dinner to an bonr, acd the fourth limited the speeches to as hour. An Albury telegram states :— A plague of mice la overrnnnlug some of the famine districts of Kiverina. It is said to be due to the continued dry weather in districts bordering the -plain country. Mice are eating the wheat as fast as It can ba sewn, infesting barns, destroying seed wheat and harness. At Cnlcairn tho mice are eating up everything edible, including the wearing apparel ot tho residents. Nothing id safe unless hang up. Swing bridges of wire are haog between trees, and horse feed, See., is placod on thorn for safety. We expect to witness a fine exposition of football und a large attendance on the Recreation Ground to-day between the representatives of Wellington and Hawke's Bay. The Wellington team ia weak, and being just off a sea voyage, will not be expeoted to beat the locals by much, but it is almost certain that they will do the trick. However, the game is sure to be fast, close, and scientific, nod spectators should be well repaid. The 4.20 train lo Wnipukurau has been dulnyed till 5 5, p.m. lo give the country people an oppoitunity of being present The Hawke's Bay players will play in black und white, and the visitors will probably don black jerseya. David Jeffrey, a retired grocer, who formerly carried on business in North Molbourne, but has latterly lived sib a hotel in Melbourne, sot down to his midday meal one day last week when he was very much the worse tor liquor and in a very bad humor. Wiion he received a plate containluE enrued botf. for which he had called, he was unable to cut the meat np. The attendants offered to cut up hia dinner for him, bat he rudely declined assignee nud inking np a piece of meat trom bis plate about two iuches square he attempted to bolt it. The piece, however, was so large that ho wah unable to swallow it, and It become fastened in the top of tho wlud pipe. As nobody present could relieve him ho was conveyed to the hospital, but died from suffocatloa before medical aid arrived. The x>ost quotes the following amnsin« bit of • nBWH" from the San Francisco .*«»!«';. of 11 Hi April:- '' Caused Wide ltuin.-Suddcn Eruption of an Old Volcano — Many Mnoria Slid to Have Perlaued.— Anslralfnn culvico by the s.s. Wnrimoo: An eruption baa taken place beyond Taupo, in the Hot Like district. Mount Rnapehn, which Ims-beon In a sKto of plumber for years, broke out without) the slightest warning. Sfeam and water were thrown up a tbonsand

eel in the air, followed by 6re and water. I Lava belched forth for seven hours. All 1 8 tlie tribes of Maoris which hnve had their I camps in the vicinity of the mountain nro j J thought to have lost) their Hv-s, for the I ' destruction was widesj rad and the I ' country was buried deep la lava. Stenra I i Is still furiously ascending, and the sun is I t entirely obacured by naheH, which will be I in the air for weeks. The outbreak haß I attectea the neighboring mountains of 1 Negarrlro (I) and Toogmlro. These | volcanoes nre rivaling Ruapebu, and I every water pool within a radius of 50 I miles has been tnrned Into a geyser. 1 Details of the destruction wrought by the I volcanos are still very meagre, and are I awaited with anxiety, as one de<pit<-h I says that a Dumber of white settlers have I petished." I ' Professor Medeleef has advanced the I theory that petroleum is of mineral I origin, and that its prodnclion is going I on and may continue almost indefinitely. I He has succeeded in making it artificially I by a similar process to that which he I believes is going oc in the earth, and I experts find it impossible to distinguish 1 between the natnral and the mannfac- I tnred article. His hypothesis is that 1 water finds its way below the ernst of the I earth and then meets with carbides I of metal, particularly of Iton, In a j glowing state. The water is decomposed ioto Ha constituent gasea ; the oxvgT unites with the irod, while f"p iijflr^qen takes np the carbon und aiconda to a higher region where part of it is condensed into mineral oil | and part remains as natnral gas, to escape where it oan find an outlet or to remain stored at great pressure until a borehole is pnt down to provide a passage to the surface. OH-bearlng strata occur in the violnity of mountain ranges, and it is supposed that the upheaval of the bills has dislocated the strata below sufficiently to give the water access to depths from which It is ordinarily shut out. If the centre of the earth contains large amonnts of metallic carbides, we have in prospect a store of fuel against the days whjn oar coal will ba exhausted. — Engineering. Coneregational services will be held in the Gaiety Theatre to morrow, at 11 and 7, by the Rev. H. W. J. Miller. Evening subject, "A Lovinc Entreaty."* Triniby Wealeyan Churoh, to-morrow night, the Bey. W. H. Beok will preach a sermon to young people. Subject),"The Elder Brother of the Parable of the Pro-, digai Son."* To-morrow morning the snbjeot of Mr Paterson's sermon will be, "Kedeemed from nil iniquity," and in the evening the subieoti ot the lecture will be, " Hard TT- ll»