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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10629, 7 June 1897, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found letters to the editor, sporting news, and a contribution entitled "Present Day Phlian. fchropy." The Napier Licensing Committee will meat at the Court-house at noou to-day, Napier Oddfellowb' annual aoolsl, Gaiety Theatre, Wednesday next. Excellent muaio and oaterlog.* The Rotorua ooach had to drive through several inobea of snow near Lake Tanpo the other morning. Tbe Mare and Ketetahl orators, at Tongarlro monntaln, are reported from Tanpo to be ateamiag aotively. Starr-Bowkett Building Society shareholder! are reminded by advertisement that to-night is the usnal monthly pay night. The Rev.J Father Huault, of the Meanee mission, conducted the Whltsuntide service la the Catholic Chaioh at Hustings last night. The Wellington Anglloan Cathedral Committee haa subscriptions in hand and promhea amountlnf? to £4485 183, of whloh £3102 U oash In the bank. The mutilated cable regarding the death oi a relative of the late Robert Louis Stevenson la now eiplained. The deceaeed party turns out to be the mother of the novelist. Five carpenters and one bricklayer will be selected at tbe offioe of the Government Labor Bureau at 3 p.m. to-day for the ereatlon of the Ekelahuna-Woodvllle railway-station. The mine manager of the Golden Tokntea, Ooromande), reports:— No. 2 drhe: The reef is one foot thick, the Btoae being of a kindly nature, and gives a little gold by testing. A meeting of snbtoilbers to the Hawke'B Biy Children's Home will be held at the Athecsnm this evening, when the report and balance-sheet will be presented and vaoanolea on tbe oommlttee filled. At St. Matthew's Cburob, Hastings, last night, the Rev. J. Hobbs stated that some mlsoreant on Saturday lsst had entered the Chnroh and badly damaged the organ. The offender If discovered will nod be leniently dealt with. Tbe many friends oi Mr Alex, Jones, Jan., of Waipnkarau, will regret to hear of his death, which took place on Satnrday. Deoeaaed, who was generally esteemed tbronghont tho dlstrlot, was aged 35, and leaves a widow and three children. We understand that the Mayor has preferred a request to the Napier Gas Company to illuminate the Council and Fire Brigade buildings on tho night of the record reign celebrations, tbe late disastrous floods having prevented the Council from Incurring any expense in this dlreotion, The annual general meeting of the Napier Shorthand Association will be held in the Philosophical Society's room at the Atheossnm to-night, when all writers of Pitman's system are cordially invited to attend. It Is proposed to remodel the working basis of the association in the direction of confining It 'to shorthand writers. The local volunteers are bard at work arranging for the military sports on the 22nd, All the corps, inolndlng Hastings and Woodville, are preparing teams for the different events wttlcb are sure to be keenly contested. The marobiog competition will ba an interesting Item, The entries for the bloyollng and running events promise to be nnmerow,

._.... . . Mr Jamea MIU«, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, estimates (he cost of the bnlldlng of tbe Moans, Walkare, Hawea, and Roiti, and the pnrohoffft of the Rakanoa and the Llddw dale (renamed tbe Wanaka) at between £250,000 and £300,000, The fleet of the company will now number 57 steamers, aggregating olose npoa 70,000 tons, Frank Llnooln brought bis short Napier season to a olone at tbe Theatre Royal od Saturday night, when he again amused bis audience for a couple of hours, A number of fresh jokes were cracked, as well as some old ones, which did not lose their mirth by being repeated. Mr Llnooln leaves for Falmeriton North to* day. He opens In Wellington on Thursday night. Tbe Very Bey, Father Devoy has sen* a olrcalar to all the parish priests of the Arohdiooese of Wellington (which inolndei Hawke'e Bay), recounting the many and manifold blessings whloh have fallen on the Empire during Her Majesty's long reign, and dlreotlng that a solemn "Te Danm " be ohanted in every ohnroh on the 20 th June, and that reference be made to tbe great oooaeion of the Jubilee celebrations. The Cathedral servlees were of a festal character yesterday In oelebration of Whit Sunday. There were processional and recessional hymns, and the antbsm in the evening was "Led not your heart bo troubled." Dean Hovell wai the preaohec as both services. We are requested to state that the first practice for tbe apeolal ■ Jubilee cervices on the 20th and 22ad will be held at the Cathedral to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at 8 o'clock. The flholr will be strengthened for those services by St. Augustine's and St. Andrew's Oholrs, and also, we understand, by the Club orchestra. Yesterday being Wblt Sunday the services at St. Patrick's were of a speolal character, In tbe morning Mozut's Seventh Mais was sung, Mr Madigan aandnotlng and Mrs St. Clalr aotlng as organist, the soloists being Mrs Allen, Miss St. Clalr, Messrs Reardon, Allen and O'Meara. At vespers Zlngarellls "Magnificat" was rendered, Knight 1 * 11 0 Salntarlß " being Bung at the Benediction by Mr and Mlts Madigan. A procession of the g?orament followed. Fathers Qrogan and Bull preached appropriate sermons at thd morning ana evening services respectively. Jobn M'Connoohie Brown, a young man employed in the Napier Foatomoe, was arrested on Saturday afternoon by Detective Chrysbal or) a charge of stealing letters. Complaints bad been made that letters containing money bad gone astray,, and A tfatob wai kept, Bcown'e arres* being the restrt*. Two registered leMertt containing £4 eaotv one addressed to Mr Downs, Buttery-road, on* the other to Mr WillUm Scott, Roalyn-road, are alleged to have been taken, as well m a letter containing a £1 note, addressed to Mrs William Finlajson, Shakespeare road, from Wellington. Accused will be brought) up at the Magistrate's Court this morning. The local musical examinations under the auspices of Trinity College, LondoD, were held on Saturday last at the Naplet dlabitot sohool. There were In all 28 oanr didateß, nine for thelatermedlata divislot) and 19 for the junior. The examinations were conduoied by Mr W. T. Sharp, the local secretary, but as the regulations provide that one or more honorary visitors Bball be present, as well as tbe looil secretary, Mr T. Morrison, at Mr Sharp's rsqueßt, aoted bb supervisor. The form of examination was, as nsual, by printed papers, whloh will be forwarded to London, and all candidates who obtain the necessary number of marks will receive the Trinity College certificate for profiolency in music Mr Elsdon Best, writing from Te Wbaltl, Urewera Country, to the Rotoros Chronicle regarding bis disoovery of moe> bonea on the range' at Taraponnamn last week at a place far in tbe dense bush, says they la; at the base of a large rlmu tree on a steep sidling. Some moa remains were discovered some years ago by the Maoris at Nga Whatu-a-Marn, a rough broken mass of huge rocks near the summit of Manngapohetn. The Maoris have a tradition that some generations ago a moa was living at or near the waterfall known bb Te Korokoro on Tawhloau, a high bill above Mr Grant's homestead at Galatea station. Occasionally feathers of this moa wonld be blown ont and oarried by tbe wind to the plains below. At the Magistrate's Conrt, Pabiatua, on Toesday, Constable Bowden applied to have a boy named Jones, aged 12 years, oommltted to tbe Bornham Industrial Sohool. The constable stated that tbe boy was a native of Napier, and was an orphan. He had been sent to live with Joseph Jessop, from whom he ran awaj to Makuii and lived for a period with a man named Hlgglns. The boy also ran away from Higgles and lived for a week In the bush. He was nothing but a waif. His Worship said It was a most extras ordinary thing that in a district like Pahlatua a boy like Jones could not find employment. He then questioned tbe lad, who burst into tears. The application was granted, and the lad committed to the Bnrnbam Industrial Sobool. Mortality is still prevalent) among the Maoris (writes the Walkftremoana eorrei* pondent of the Guardian), A woman who had been ailiug for some time wai supposed to be reooverlcg under the cars of the Maori doctor, but on Thursday morning the guns annontced that she had gone to her " tlpunn "—forefathers. She left a newly born baby to oonsole her husband, who has during the last few years lost sis children, and now his wife. Two others— a man and a girl— are laid up with some Maori slckoess. They beliove themselves to be subject, in tbe matter of diseases, to an epidemic beyond tbe comprehension of Knropeans, and they exhibit faith in their " taknta,'- whloh certainly is as Incomprehensible as the methods of cure— one musb not say hill. In placing a tax of £50 on oil commercial travellers visiting New Zealand, Premier Seddon has not pleased tue oom» merolal comronnity (remarks tbe Sydney Daily Telegraph). Mr James Inglis, In the piper which he road before the Conference of Chambers of Commeioe, facetiously referred to the matter. Later in the day, dnrlng the speeches at the barbor plonio, Mr M'Corqaodale, of Auckland, practloally apolojjißed for It. Every mercantile man in New Zealand, Mr M'Corqaodale said, hated the taxwas heartily ashamed of U. Few had sympathy with it>, and before very loog it would be recognised throughout the colony that the feeling of mercantile men was dead against it, Tbat feeling wonld be so strong that he wbb oonfident tbe tax wonld be abolished. At least he, and others like him, einoerely hoped It wocld, for It had given rhe to a great deal of ill-feeling, that could not possibly have oropped np in any other way. Further particulars regarding the shoot* ing of Mr Hamilton M'Einnon. a well* 'known Victorian journalist, at Mcl« bonrne, are to hand. It appears that Mr Matthew D. Alkmao, a well-known agent, called at Mr M'Klnnon's lodgings by appointment to transact some business. Mr M'Eiunon took htm to bis room, and on entering, M'Eln* non picked np a revolver, and said, " Now, prepare to die." After a little fooling, they sat down to bnslneis. Ai Aikmßn was leaving, be picked up tbe revolver, and pointing it at M'Elonon, said, " Now, I have got yon this time." M'KlnnoD said, "Ob. let us have fair play," and he secured another revolver. M'Einnon then caught hold of Alkman by tbe shoulder and they were faolrig one another,' when the revolver held by Alkman went off. He did not know it was loaded, and was not aware that be had done any damage nntil M'Klnnon said, "You've killed me," and to Aikman's horror showed the bullet wonnd, He was removed to tbe Alfred Hospital, and subsequently tbe bullet, which bad riddled bis intestines, was extracted. His dying depositions wero taken, wben he stated that the occurrence was purely accldental, and that they had been old friends for years. Shortly after making tbe statement he died. The late, Marcus Clarke, it may be added, was greatly Indebted to Mr M'Klnnon for bringing hie literary efforts before the reading public. Oar Walpawa correspondent writing on Saturday says:— Last evening at 837 p.m. a splendid meteor appeared in the western sky. It suddenly burst out at about 30 degrees above the horizon and fell, leaving a line of white light, for about five degrees, when it burst into a ball of blueiah white light with eorrusoatlons, for all the world like a rocket.— The Masonlo Hotel, Uanevlrke (Sorlmgeour's) had a narrow oaoape of being burned down on Thursday evening. About 9.30 p.m. an alarm of fire waa raised, and it was seen that a passage leading to the billiard room was in flames. There was a number of persons present, and a bucket chain was formed. Meantime the fire spread np the Btairoase, For some minutes the water seemed to have no effect on the fire, and it was not got nnder control for some time. In nbout half an boar all danger was over. In originated id a closet la the passage where kerosene was kept, and tbe floor was saturated with it, and it was supposed that someone bad been there and thrown down a match. Great praise was given to Constable Brosnahan, who happened to be present. The crowd pressed on Into the house and were beyond oontrol, impeding those who ware engaged In saving the place, The oonstable donned bis . uniform and exercised his authority, and by so doing doubtless did nmoh towards saving tbe house, Had It gone, all tbs heart of tbe town would have been wiped out. - Full stock or Barnet Plates and Barnet Platino Matt Paper to hand,— H, Owen, Chemist.- [Adtt.] ' When most needed It )% m| flrnwwl ! for your fondly' pnyitojM to be my .'