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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10482, 11 December 1896, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found our Waipa\ra correspondent's letter and reparts of the meetings yesterday of the Hawke's Bay Board of Babbit Trustees and of the Hastings Borough Council.

News was received yesterday of the arrival at Melbourne of Mr W. K. Blythe's son from the Old Country, en route to Napier.

Mr H, Fletcher, of Wakororo, has drawn the first prize Id Tattersall's sweep on the Kosobill himdlcap. We are told it Is worth £900.— Mail.

Mr Ashor Cohen hns bought Mr Crarer'a Interest in the Exchange Hotel, Cai-lyle-street, and takes posaesoiqn on Monday next, 14th last.

Wo have received the following snbeoriptioDß in aid of the Barka family •— H. Campbell, Poakawa, £3 : VV. T Irvine, £1 j S. Laird, £1.

The official writ giving the result of the polling for tha Haivks's Bay seat was forwiirded to Wellington yesterday by Che returning officer, Mr Hnnt.

Tho Seventh Day Adventlsts intend holding v series of Gospel uieotings, commenclnf! to-night «': half past 7. Particulars are announced eisß where.

7.'ho HistlDgs Firu Brigndo hold a most successful prf.cice lasij evening — The Hastings Bided, under CipJain Lewis, went through soma very nsefnl drill. StaffSergeant Hopkins was also in attendance.

A younfr woman named Adolfine Wil* helmina Stenberg, aged 20, died at Powg.iroa, near Fahlatna, after giving birth to two male children. Deceased hod previonsly threatened to drown herself.

The Tnlune, wbloh onlved at Wollinij. ton on Wfidnesday nlghb from Sydney, brought 46 "olom und 51 oteoroge p»B---sengerB. English mnils via Briodiei and VuDOouvor cume to hond by the same steamer,

Id is understood that the. Boy. P. K. Mouro, huvins accepter! the position of editor of iha Christian Outlook, pnblisbnd iv Duneclln, will iioordl^ be fiivi'Jg np tho charge of tho Prasbytetiiu Church all Kanglora.

At leant one csbs of personation at Hastings darintt the eJcotioa has oome to light, rbe wife of a well-known resdent on golog to the pnlllnK booth finding taut some Indy had olreedy voted for her. Is there golnß to bo an euqahy ?

It la proposed to farm a ladies' olnb in connection with the Chibtwhnroh Working Men's Cinb, so as co offoid tho aud lady relatives of members fuollitiea

fur iuso uua aooM iuidManna similar to i i>nue provided far tun nthcr vox by the awn's clnb.

Dotsotive Cnryotal yesterday arrested » young man named Robert Alexander HiiCkett nji a chuvfifl of atcallrig a cheque tor £2 from Gcnrga Hood and forcing tho latter n nmloisemtint theronn. Aconnßd will b". bmnght up at the Meplstmto's Court this morning,

An luntunco how tenders vnry, For bnildlng a BDiall brick building at Woodvtlle the following tenders wtiro received : — B, Hill, £25 laocopteuJj'G. Petfeot, £30 ; J. Check (Palmerotaa JNoroh), £42 53 j J. Tuacker, £56 18s ; Cooner aud Sous (Napier), £74 10*.

Tho dnntli Is announced of Mr George Piinl Clifford, one of the founders of the Obttgo Acclimatisation Socially, Rnd the first man to import trout to Now Zealand, he having brought fr.,ni Tasmania a shipment of ova thut served to originally atock aavernl of the Otwßo otreams. | At tho meeting of the Napier Harbor Board on Tuesday next Mr S. Carnell will move, " That in all contracts euteied into in future by the Board a clause be inserted providing that a fair rate of wagen shall ba paid to all persons employed on tho mild contracts."

A sea leopard measuring about six feet in length canio uehoie at St. Clalr bench on Monday. Constable Parker dragged the visitor baok into the water, brio ns it

persisted In roturnlng to the shore be at length killed It. Professor Parker pronoanced it to be a sea leopard, of no commercial value. Mr C. Stoeokle, the lightning wire artist, whose exhibitions have bean attracting ninny people to Mr Lasceta 1 auction mart, announces that he will remain In Napier only two days longer. Anyone desirous of obtaining neat and fashionable designs in gold wire should apply without delay, Fifteen stud Lincoln sheep— seven ewes and eight rums— the property of Mr Tanner aud Mr M'Donald, Hawko'a Bay, were released from quarantine on Monday (aaya the New Zealand Times). Thay w ore brought out from England about' two months Blnoo by the Rnahlne. Tha aulmnls were forwarded by mil to their i domination in capital order and condition, Tho Key. A, S. Webb, In a letter to the Giiibome Herald, ttrnn concludes on thn r.itenti liconslog poll:— "Thank God, In Wftiipn olactorato, thongh the t<rado has : juat received a three years' lease from the ■' public, if 1906 electors voted for continuance, 1896 voted for no lioeuse. The tide is steadily riilug, aud all the Mrs iogtons lv the world woti'o ba able to Hweep it bank— not evon those who wear a mibre as a head-dress." Our Hastings correspondent writing yesterday caya :— The wedding ot Mlbb A. Sbevens, the duuehterof an old resident, with Mr Henry Castle, a member of tho Poat-office staff, was'oolobroted yesterday ut the Wesley..m Chnrch by the Kdv, Dr. Hoaklng, ia the presence of v large number of friends of the bride and bridegroom, and of their well-wishers. A large assortment of hr.ndsome presents have been received by the happy couple. The following inquiries for missing frlendß are from Lloyds' Weekly of November I:—Joiipi',1 :— Joiipi', Emily Dobblo, went to Australia or New Zaalsnd abend 1876 Connln William oaks. Uncle and annt are. dead. — Walter, William Henry, Itft Coventry la 1881 ; Insb heard of in 1884, In Auckland, New Zealand. Mother is anxious. — M'Carroll, Adam, of Desborongh Terrace, Paddington, went to Auoklond, New Zaaland, about 30 years ago. Sister Annie inquires. Taking advantnge of recent fine weather Messrs Saunders, the breakwater contractors, have been pushing tho repairing work rapidly oa. A new monolith will ba put In on Monday evening, and a few days afterwards another will be ready. Block making Is proceeding apace, nnd in thist connection the contractors have struck upon a new plan, whereby lowering aud hoisting by the cranes is greatly facilitated. Altogether there are eoine 60 men employed on the worku. It is rnmored that the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, having oome to the conclusion that, as a result of the Liberal victory, the Totnro estate will be raken nnder the compulsory claneesof the Land for Settlements Act, will throw the estate in the market for salo with little delay, The reason assigned for this ia a hope that by forestalling the Government) a higher prloe would be obtained for the land at auction than the Cnmpenoablou Court would award, — North Otago Times. Writing under date London, Ootiober 31st, the correspondent of the Christchurch Press aays : — " A letter was received to-day by Mesara Weddull and Co, from Mr John Cooke, who, writing from Port Sold nn bis way baok to the colony, states thut ou hi 3 way he carefully inupeotHd the refrigerating stores at Malta Bnd Port Said, and was well sstießed with their, condition and general arrangements. Ho l» vory pangulue a<s to tho prospeota of the tmde ia frozen maaS with the leading Mediterranean ports. Surgeon Majoi-General W. G. Manlcy, C.8., V.C, whose services in the Crimean, New Z«a!and, nnd Afghan cutnpalgns I (London currespnuden6 of the Dautriin Star) had occasion to rsfer do whan his retirement from aotivo service was announced a few months ogo, has been awarded a good service pension of £100 par annum, He won bin VC. for noble conduct during iha assanlD ou tho robol pa at Tnuranga on April 29th, 1864, rloking his llfo In endoavorlDg to Have that of tho Into Commander Hay, R.N., and others.

Thsre was a large attondanso at the Methodist school, Carlylu-sbrcet, kst night, when Mr Thomas Walker, formerly for seven years Mf.P. In tho New Sontti Wales Parliament, nnd now lecturer for the Grund Lorige of New Zealand, 1.0.G, 1., gave one of hia forcible aJdreasea. He dealti with oome of the current objections to tbo Prohibition movement, und fully maintained bla reputation as v temperance orator. Tonight ho lcctnroa in the Gaiety Theatre nt 8 o'clock, his subject being "Somo roaaona why we are teototallero." The medals given to tho winaor of tbo Hawke's Bay championship and the junior race, and fhe three placed men in ohe 10-mtie (M'Lean Cup) handicap are on oxhloitlon at Mr 6nslg'p, in Hastings etreet, and are a fina speclfnen of Mr F, Howard's workmanship. In nrder to i stiow the fitati »»tnre of thu K- creation Ground track, Mr E. Keyuoldo. of Auokland will do an exhibition mile dnriug the sports, and will endeavor to pub up a North Island reoord. The Amateur Dramatic Society has kindly invited tbo visiting cyclists to their peifoirnftuca at the theatre tonight, Water in vary scarce nb Piievoa ju3t now. and many ot the inhabitants are buying It, water being dally brought iv by mcttun of tanks from the Tarareke creek, and cold at 10t par tank. Within a mile and a half of the township there Is an excellent stream of water, and It Ia C9n» eldered likely that steps will ba taken by t&e Ohlnemurl Counf>y Counoll to provide the townohip with a water supply. At Karangahake water Is ulso sQorrje, and the Connty Council has voted £100 towards bringing in a water supply for domestic purposes at that township, While a man named Gallagher was qnletly eating his breakfast at) Hakarla'a hotel, Otaki, a tew mornings ago, the I cook suddenly took It into her head to make mince meat of hltn,, a.nd before he bad time to protest against being made bo familiar with tho commenced to flash the carving kulfe about him in real good earnest, and inflicted a severe gash on her vlotlm'a forehead, Subsequently she was brought before fonr J.P.s, who, after hearing evidence, inflloted a fine ol 10a and costs, or ooe weeij's Imprisonment in the Terrace rbol. She elected to •• take it out, 1 ' and was duly escorted to Welllne- '' ton by Constable O'Ronrke. i

An Inducement is ofiared f-o smokers ol the " Otto de Hose " and " Yellow Puoh "

cigarettes by the manufacturers, Liverpool, who Intend to present the ten largest smokers of their brands In this colony with a bloyole eaoh, In each I paokeS or tin ot their olgaractes a photo will be found. To enable Messrs Ogden to do this the photos should ba aoenmnlated and returned to their agents not later than 31st March, 1897. Tho ten senders of the greatest nnmber of photos will eaoh receive a high-grade oyole, list price- £21. The names and addresses of tho ladies und gentlemen to whom the presentations are made will be published in the principal New Zealand papers. The distribution will consist of eight gentlemen's aud two ladles' machines, and . the preference of selection will bo given to the senders of the largest nnmber of photos, Messrs Kobjohnß, Hlndmnwh and Co, are the Napier agents.

Our Makotuku correspondent writing yesterday says j— The schoolmaster's resldonee oaught fire a few dayß ago. A little girl, Sophia Keloima, saw the out break and subdutd It.— A number of voters In this electorate, when voting in the licensing poll, Btruok oat She top line, viz., "Walpawa. Licensing Poll, 11 — a good deal of misunderstanding wonld be avoided if the Herald would give Its readers a leaeon in arthmetio by showing how to count the licensing votes. Some peopleln explaining a three-fifths majority say it means an addition of 20 por oent but these uro met by the statement *} ,9'o n J lh . a votßd leiß for contianance and 1989 for prohlbision, a majority of 373 for tan Jauer, while 328 omrfbt, It is bM, to have carried pioblbition. [A three-fifihs majority means 60 per oent of tho : total votes cant, lens informal vote*, The total votes «t Clufcha wero 3734, lens 49 informal— 36Bs. A threefifths majority of 3685 would be 2211 — Ed. RBHI ■..-,.

T bo Hasting dlefcrlot aohool oonoert look place last nlgOn the Piiooeaa

Tueitare. The hun«; v.-, 3 puc ked. The I «n"aitelninaui ws* highly mummuM. „ l:.8 cbornste, biiliu, Kction Bongs, and j, randoo drill met wlfch ih a g.eateat Bp pjeclatton. Songa w«ra sung by Misses .Nawton And C*nltnn. and Mrs Johnaon ; flnoli by Ml«a B. Joll nnd a. Spencer: trin by Mlhsbs Newton, Kmwh, mid liiofirMon ; rocHatlon hy Mr /v. K. Jtmionf. Dmioi; M,,, Intnrvitl Obtain j Koßfipll, chairman of tUo iwmmiUco, f made a speech, in which ho rof.-rred lo » tjp harmonious way i n which the . J staff worked, and to the excel* lull* prngresa made. He drew special attention to tho fact that ! it hod been found ueceeaary ta add on Infants department to the eohool. which ' waa doing Rood work nnJer Mlso Perey'a ' tuition. Ho also pbid v high compliment 1 to the result* attained by the headmaster, 1 Mr J, A. Smith. The accompaniments : during the evening woro played by Misses i Percy, Roach, and Canlton. The concert should result in a Roa>l amount being available for tl^e children's prlza fnnd. The barqnentiao Dolrairn, which wai I wrecknd on a reef about two miles dig- I tftDtfrom the White Rook station, north Of Capo Palllaat, waa built in 1864 at the Rhodee works, Cheator. Since then the Delmlra has bad some thrilling experiences, nn (Helen fc to Gil a three-volnme novel. Otltjinolly Bhe was engaged In tbe slave trade, mnulug andec the Bpanlfh H*K •"> the Gnaranz, which name itlll eoialas on portions of tlie vunafll's fidtlnta I Snbseqnently Bhe was Bold to Liverpool I iwnera, and Is now run by the Melbourne j inn of Grloe, Sumner and Co. On a j recent voyage the Pelmlta left the Bltiff last Christmas, and had a long and eventEnl trip of five months and a week, Soon jffcet leaving, the wife of the captain (who was Booompanylng him) was seized with byphoid fevor. She, however, recovered, and the second mate took her place on the nick Hat, suffering from the same illness, but fortunately he also regained his health. Fntthei trouble, however, was In store for the barqnentlne, for several of thp cipw wore nblincked with ccurvy, and, to finish up, It wao discovered thst they had run short of provisions. Kventnally the ship reached her deebloatlon. The Post-office, by means of a eonspionous notice placed over every poatlncbox iv the colony, cautions the public againnt sending money and valuable articles in unregistered lutters. Notwithstanding thin warning, money continues to ha soub by poet In not«glfltered letters, and frequently in the moat careieea manner. It •will hardly be credited by people who are careful iv auch matters that it ia ti common thing to find in the Po9b-office letters orammed full with bank notes, very often in the flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envolopes,' or are found loose in the mnil hags, havinß burad their envelopes, and freqnently letters filled with notes are carelessly thrown looaninto railway-vans for the gn«d to dellvpr witb the malls. Many other caae3 conld be instanced of carolesaneßS on the part of bhe pnblio in sending money by post. No record ia kept of unregistered letters, and persona who post Buoh letters containing monoy exewso to bemptaiien everyone through whose hands they may pasa, and in the event of noiv delivery snspicion 1b cist on many innocent pereons, The pnbllc are ooain earnestly reqneßbed to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. Letters can be registered at every Post office in the colooy, and the fee for such registration la only three-pence. If 111 required an .annual outlay ct £10,000 to lnanro a ipmlly against any seriouu consequeucetrirora an attack of bowel complaint during the year there are many who wonld feel it thflr dnty to pay it j that they oonld not afford to tlsk tbelr liven, and thOße of their family for snch an amount, Any one oan get this lnsntonoa for 25 cents, that being the ptice of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhcei Remedy. la almost every neighborhood some one has died from an attack of bowel complaint before medicine conld be proenred or a physician summoned, One or two doses of this remedy will onre any ordinary case. It nover fails. Can you afford to take the risk fnr no small an amoant? For sale by A. Eccles, Wholesale and Retail Chemist, Napier and Haatlngs. 937