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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10657, 10 July 1897, Page 2

Oq the fourth page will be found sporting news, the proceeding at the BHblng of the Racing Conference yesterday, a report of the meeting of the Walpawa Connty Connoll, and the buslnesa disposed of ad the Hastings Magistrate's Coart yesterday. The business announcement! oi Mesafa Biker and Tabutean are Inserted to-day on our fourth pßgfl, The exeontlve of relief fund meet Mon* day afternoon at 3 30 p.m.* There are at present 26 prisoners Incaroerated la the Napier gaol, There will be a meet of the Hawke's B*y Sonnda at Frtmley to day, open to subscribers only. Messrs S C wnell, J. H, Vautier, and H. Wllllttmß, have been re-appointed members of the Napier Hitbor Bjard by (he Government. Wlbh the blowing! np of the weir £906 9s lOd goes into !he air. That is to say, this amonnb was expended on the work from 1893 to 1896 Twelvo doz^n p^lre of socks and stock* Ingb have been knitted by the children of Si. JosppVa Orphanage, Wellington, for the auffarers by the Hawktfd B»y fl )od. The prloe paid by Mr A, M'Hardy, of H»wke's Bsy, for Mr Pascal's " Bsaulleu" property, Bnnnythcrpe, was £18 per aore, the total purchase money amoantiog to £21,600. ltlobard Thomas Blake, of Hastings, licensed interpreter, has filed a petition in bankroptcy. The first meeting of creditors has been fixed for Thursday, 15th lost). The following amounts have been re* oelved by the treasurer of the fbDd relief fund j — Chrlatohurob, per Mr W. K. Mitchell (final), £100 ; Mr L. Filooner's Hat, £1 tii. Mr J. C. M'Kerrow will inquire Into the olalms nnder the Naval and Military Settlers Act, at the old Provincial build* ings, Nader, on Saturday next, 17th instant, at 0.30 a m. Mr JuaUce Edwards leaves for Wel« llogtou by the express to«day. His Honor will deliver three judgments ia Wellington—South v. Palmer, Dalgety and Co. v. Loughnan, and T. Pollard v. J. V. Brown and others (appeal owe ) An old constituent of Mr Seddon's sayß that If he were to appear anywhere in tbe vicinity of the celebrated Kamara sludge channel in his Court gulee, his digger friends would want to pan him out to see how many pennyweights be would go to the dl-h. S:me weeks ago the exeoutlve of the Hawke'4 Biy fbod relief fund passed a resolution that the Press should be supplied with a reauruu of the business done at each meeting. It wonld be Interesting to know why thh la nob being done, beoauae the public la hungry for information. Captain Edwin wired at 1,10 p.m. yesterday:— Wind between south and east and north-eaßt; barometer rise at all places, but fall again Biter from ten to twenty hours ; sea moderate on east coast ot South Island, hea?y on eaato ooast ol North Island ; tides high on east const of North Island j easterly gales with rain probable, The meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of A. M. Straohan, laborer, of Taradale, called for yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum, The debtor, who was represented by Mr Cresßwell, was examined by the Deputy Assignee. The ■ estate showed a deficiency of £76 9a 4d, The oauee of the bankruptcy waa attributed to want of regular employment and pressure of some of bis oreditorß, H.MS. P.yades left Wellington on Thursday morning for Akaroa and Lyttelton, and proceed! thence to Auokland, Her further movements will depend upon tbe date of the ariival of the Earl of lianfurly in New Zealand, bub she la almost certain to return to Wellington. H.M.S. Goldfinch will remain in Welling ton for about a week before sailing for Auckland and the South Sea Iriands. A private letter received in Auckland from the Rev. Joseph Campbell, F.G.S., ot New South Wales, states that be will arrive in Auckland on the 12th lost. The machinery for Mr Clmpbsll's hyperphorlc process arrived by the Star of Victoria, and bas been landed and stored pending that gentleman's arrival. He will Btay a few days in Anokland, and then take the machinery to Te Aroha and proceed with its ereotlon at onoe. A speolal general meeting of the Wanderers 1 Bloyole Glnb la called for Tuesday evening aest, for the purpose of dlsounslng the proposed reorganisation of the Alliance tales, whereby It la intended to allow amateur and cath ildera to compete together nnder the olasaes A and B, the former taking trophies and the latter cash. The soheme it a moat important one, and members of the club Bbonld attend tbe meeting and carefully conelder it. We yesterday inspected some excellent pleoeß of oablnetware, whloh are at present on exhibition at Mrs Ford's residence, Sea View Terraoe. They are wholly tbe woik of her sod, Mr A. T. Ford, and show a keen knowledge of the blending of oar New Zealand woods for display to the best advantage. AmoDg the articles laepected were a very neat Ouohess pair, afternoon and occasional table) in polished riniu, five polished corner oablneb with mirror front, glove and handkerchief boxes In mottled totara pine and rlmn, handsome inlaid tea trays, with honeysuckle, totars, rlmn, and cedar, besides other artio'.ee.* Mr B. T. Hooley, whose name baa been prominently beforo the public of late, and who wants to puronase all the Australasian meat freizlng companies, has already some tremeadonß investments— the Dunlop Puenmatlo Tyre Company, Singer's Cycle Company, Sohweppe't, B^vill, and Treffjrd Park, near Mancheater. He hat just bought Mllner's safe. He has purchased more than one estate, his most recent being some land adjoining the Qaeen's plaoo at Oahotoe. He has also bought Lord Aibbnrton's yacht Venetia, having previously purchased the Verena of Lord Lonedalo, the ynoht whloh the Emperor of Germany used to be so fond of. St. John ond Hayman's company oommence their Napier bsbsod at the Theatre Koyal on Thursday next, July 154 b. The opening prod notion has baon oarcfalty selected by the management, and ia from the pen cf those papular playwrights, Messrs Sims and Pettit, entitled " The Vagabond," a sensational drama, abounding throughout in strong situations and [ Incident?, wbtlo the oomedy parts are humorously written. The oompany is a very strong one, including Mra Harrle Marshall, Mlsaos Mostyn, Corcoran, D'Altnn, VYillmotc, Messre HByman, Bailey, Tolano, Field, Brace, Patey, Donaghae, Frank*, and Griffon, Qome

ol the above are well- known to Napier tb; atregoers. Mr Percy So. John la the general manager of the oompaoy. The ninth annual mootlDg of ahaie* holders in the Napier Land, Bnilding, ami Investment Society wan held last night, Mr J. V. Bown In the chair. The report and balauoa sheet showed that the total amount of loins applied for during the year wan £3925, of whioh 81925 wa» deollnod, the balanoa, £2000, being granted, The balanoe standing to the oredib of the profit and loss account on Jane 30-h, 1897. was £677 19* 2J, of whlob £341 16) 2d wai absorbed by Intercßt credited to Investing members, and £303 15 i, being a bonus or. 7b 6 1 per share, credited to borrowing and Investing members. These bonnies reduce the rate of Interest on borrowing shares to an average of 6 per cent. A balance of £32 8 1 was oanied forward to next year's account. The Chairman congratulated the members upon the satisfactory state offff.lrg disclosed, nnd on his motion, jfCDoded by Mr Davidson, the report BDd balance-sheet were adopted. Meisra J. Snlllvan and S. E Cooper were re-eleoted to the oommltteß, and Messrs W. S. Tflylor and C, W. Cato were re-eleoted auditors, A rote of thanks to the offices ana chairman terminated the meeting; Commenting upon the treatment of the Napier volunteers by the Government the Chrhtohurch Press aayi s— Their guns are no doubt antiquated and dangerous— ld these respeots they do bnt resemble those of the Chrlstohuroh battery^jnd their drill mnst therefore be old-ftshloned. The fault of this does not lie with the men, bat with the authorities, and surely the better way to remedy It would be to equip not only this particular battery, bat all the otbera la the colony, with modern guns, We hear that only the batteries at the four centres are to be retained, but exoept at Wellington, where they have Nordenfeldts, are any of them any les» useless than the Napier battery. And if they are not, what 1b the goed of keeping them up? They, too, ahonld either be properly armed in the Interests of defence, or disbanded in those ot economy. The treatment of the volunteer force In thla oolony la really bo contemptibly wrong' headed lhat Id la am e zing that there should be any volunteers at all. The splrlb animating the men is, bow« ever, worthy of all praise, and gives an Indication of the fine defence fnroe we should pooects if afhirs were differently managed. Mrs Stevenson, motho? of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, who died at her residence in Edinburgh mi 14th May, of pneumonia, was about 70 years of age. She survived by jast two yearß and a half her famonß sod, whom she was visiting at the time of hh endden death. The critics of novelists who write about their mothers may still with that they knew more about Mrs Stevenson from her son'B account of her. But what he has told U not muoh. It was to her, however, we know, that the novelist confided his feelings of revolt against the wishes 1 of his father to devote him to an engineer's career. "Mother," he said after returning from one of the lectures to which he had been sent by bia father. " Jetikln was leo&uring about strains upon a bridge I don't want to know what s> strain upon a bridge U ; I like something with human interest." Lang before that ho brought to her hla first attempt at bookmaklng, a boyish history of Moses, with illustrations repreimntlog the laraelites osneollng themselves in the wllderneai with tobacco pipes. This wag «hen the novelist was six years of Bge. As far back in his life as the mother could remember his child confidences, her ?on had an ambition to be a writer of romanoe. In reference to Mr E. T. Hooley, the Tivcrton Gazette of May 18 >h has the following;— la company with Mr M. B. Kucker Mr Hooley was la»t week de» fandant In a lawnalt, in which Mr R 0. Rid was plaintiff The oaae arose onfe of certain dealings in the shares of the Grappler Pneumatic Tyre tSjd Cycle Company. It is alleged that at a time when the shares of that company were celling at very low prioea— ranging from le 94 to 4i— Mr Hooley and Mr Rucker bonght large quantities. They then entered into an agreement to purchase the whole undertaking of the company tor £385 000 the agreement containing a proviso that they might cancel It on payment of £25,000. Hooley and Backer oaueed their intention to purohase to become publicly knswD, whereupon the •hares rose In valne to £4 At this price Hooley and JRaoker sod the shares they had bought, realising a profit) far In exee»» of the £25,000 for which they bad rendered themselves liable. They never Intended to oomplete, and never did complete, the pnrohase of the undertaking, and their option of cancelling the agreement wai oonoealed. Mr R. C Reid, as one o! the public induced by this mscroavre to buy worthless shares at a high price, hsi commenoed an aotlou, which last week came before two Judges of the High Court on a point of law raised on the pleadings. On behalf o f Meiers Hooley and Rnokor, the defendants, V) was argued that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action, bnt their Lord' ships were of opinion that it did, and gave judgment accordingly. Mile. Antoinette Trebelll, of who«e oompwy Mr John Moginnlby, formerly of N'ipler, Is a member, epant three monthi In San FmncUoo an'tf'nefghborhood, extending her tour dntlng that period no further east than Sacramento, nor south than San Jote" Everywhere the Frenoh soprano was welcomed with enthusiasm. Mile Trebelli is now starring under Mr P. Vcrt'B management In Central America, where her tour, which opened it Guatemala last month, will embrace )he States of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and sven farther south. This tour will last until next Ootober, when the singer will star in California for three raontbe, and will start for New York eaily next year, travelling via British Colombia and Canada. Thli ground was lately covered by Mme. Albanl under Mr N. Vert's management, and Mr F. Vert will now familiarise himself with the route In the expectation of taking Mme. Albanl over It next year en route to Australia. The postponement of the great singer's visit to Austrail* wai due to her unprecedented success in her own country, the receipts for one concert at Wlnnipec in the far north-west reaching 5000 dollars. Mr N. Vert Is now taking Slgnor Foil through Onada, and next season Lady Hal'd wi>l pay her first visit to the fti&tes under bis management All negotiations for bringing either Slgnor Sarasate, the great violinist 1 , or Mr George Groesmltb, the entertainer, to Australia have fallen through, as both artists are booked for engagements elsewhere too far ahead. Owing to Mile. Trebelll's cordial reoeptton In Amerloa dates hare been arranged for her well Into next year, to that her promoted return to Paris will be Indefinitely postponed. Tom orrow morning the snbjeotof Mr Paterson's sermon will be "Consumed with a Burning Desire for Souk," and in the evening the Bnr.jeot of lecture will be " flow my Mother got her Soft FaceMargaret Ogllvle — J. M, Barrie'B Mother."* " The Anointing Oil aa an Emblem of the Holy Spirit " will form the toplo of 8 sermon by the Key. George D. Cox to* morrow evening, at the Baptist Church, Tennyson- street. Sarvloea at 11 and 7.* Congregational services In the Forester.! 1 ! Hall to-morrow at 11 and 7- Preaoher, the Rev, Henry Miller. Evening subject, "First Steps in tho Path o! i Crime."*