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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 20 January 1899, Page 2

Several letters to the editor, Bush news, and a report of the business at the Hastings Magistrate's Court yesterday ■will be found on the fourth page.

The warships Tauranga and Boyalist left Gisborne for Napier laat night.

The Telegraph Department advise us as follows:— "A censorship is placed on all telegrams from or to Manila which contain political news."

The Eev. Dr. Sidey and Mr C. A. FitzEoy were nominated by the Hastings School Committee last night for the vacant seats on the Education Board. .

Mr G> A. Kemsley, late captain of the Wellington Sire Brigade, intends to take up agricultural pursuits on his farm at "Waikanae, on the Manawatu line. The brigade have presented him with a purse of sovereigns.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Btirden, J.P., Thomas Cracker, for drunkenness, was fined 10s. James

B. Edwards, charged with having been found drunk and with being an incorrigible rogue, was remanded for seven days for medical attention.

In connection with the Marine Department scandals it is stated that a prof ound secrecy is being observed departmentally as to the proceedings taken and the reason thareof. In the meantime Captain Allman hiis been suspended. Sir Egbert Stout has been retained to defend Captain Von Sohoen.

A sticking-np case occurred on the Buller-road, Eeefton, on Wednesday. Mrs Milligan, the wife of a settler at Inangahua Valley was proceeding on horseback to Eeefton, when two men, one masked and carrying a knife, attempted to unhorse her. She galloped away, however, and the police subsequently arrested one of the men.

At a meeting of the Wairoa Railway League Mr J. H. Brown proposed, and Mr Torr seconded, and it was carried, " That the seoretarv write to the president of the Hawke s Bay and East Coast Eailway League, Napier (Mr Swan), asking if they would join in all working together in the advancement of ruilway communication in the East Const district."

At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court on Monday, Charles Edward Wise was charged with having, on July 14th, 1898, at Napier, fraudulently converted to his own use a cheque for £3 ss, drawn by J. Chicken, in favor of J. Clark. On the representations of Inspector Broharn the acouaed was remanded to appear at Napier on 23rd instant. Bail was allowed, the accused's own security of jBIOO, and two sureties of .£SO each. A very nasty accident occurred last night at Hastings to Mr A. Spencer, the well-known native interpreter, who was crossing over Station - street when a baker's cart came suddenly round the corner, and the driver happening to be looking the other way, Mr Spencer was knocked over, and a wheel of the oarfc went over one of his arms and his side. He 63csaped with severe bruises and a bad shaking, Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday s— Wind, gale from northeast and north, and west at all places northward of Napier and New Plymouth, and from north to east and south east elsewhere. Barometer fall everywhere. Saa heavy on all west coast ; also on feist Coast north of East Cape and south of Napier. Tides high on both coasts, but decreasing between Napier and East Cape. Rain is probable in all parts of the country. A child named Lane, aged one year and nine months, was found drowned at Hastings yesterday afternoon. The mother was attending to her honsehold duties and left the child playing in the back yard. On her return, and looking for the child, she found it with its head down in a hole of water. This occurred at about 2.15 p,m. Dr. Linney was immediately sent for, and on arrival he found that life was extinct. An inquest will be held to-day. A special meeting of the Napier School Committee was held last night, Present —Messrs Edwards (chairman), Gilberd, Barrett, Fielder, Griffin, Garner, Bear, Hall, and Williamson. — It was decided to meet the select committee of the Education Board on Wednesday evening next to discuss the control of the side school. — Three names were sent on by the Board for the vacant fourth mastership, Mr E. V. Hudson being selected. He is at present assistant master at the Wairoa school, with Class D 3 certificate, served his pupil teacher course at the East Christchurch sohool, and attended Training College ; also relieving teacher at East Christchurch and Hastings.

The local agents of the Government Labor Bureau report :— Napier— Building trades : Busy in all branches. Engineering trade, &c. : Still busy ; no apparent change since last report. Boot trade: Busy. Clothing trade : Very busy. Retail trade (general): Very busy in all branches. The Christmas trade has been considerably better than last year's. Unskilled labor : The town at present is practically free from unemployed, and in the country work is sufficiently plentiful to absorb all willing hands. Hastings — All trades very busy during the month. Unskilled labor : There was a demand for good steady men for harvesting, and in many cases a high rate of wages was offered.

Things were made very pleasant on the Mokoia coming down from Auckland this trip. Apart from the comforts of such a fine steamer and the beautiful weather, there was a good deal of musical and other talent on board. Among her passengers were the Very Eev. Dr. Lenihan, Catholic Bishop of Auckland, and the Revs. Fathers O'Reilly and Lightheart. The Bishop, who is a musician, had his 'cello with him, while I'ather O'Reilly made a splendid chairman at the concerts. A passenger from Auckland describes the concerts and the talent displayed by many of her passengers of box sexes as a musical treat. Dr. Lenihan and his priests go to Wellington to be present at the council of Catholic bishops and priests, presided over there by his Grace Archbishop Redwood.

Our Waipawa correspondent, writing yesterday, says: — The civil business at the Magistrate's Court to-day was very brief, only two cases being heard, and judgment passed for plaintiffs in each. Mrs Gundrie (Mr Loughnan) v. G. Walkingshaw (Mr Lee), £o 6s 7d, with costs 235, solicitor 15s 6d ; M. C. Synions (Mr Loe) v. E. Cullinane, X4 19s 3d, costs Ba, expenses 7s 6d, solicitor 26s. — The first sitting of the Pension Court was held to-day by Mr Turnbull, S.M. Thirty cases were heard or partially heard, while several persons called failed to put in an appearance; of these, oight were granted pensions, but the amount remains unfixed, and the bulk of the remainder were adjourned till the 2nd February for some proof of age. In soveral cases the Court admitted the age from appearances, and iv some the required assistance was given by the Registrar of Uirths, Ac. Ono individual presented himself before the Court opened and he was drunk, two were adjourned sine <?tV, one fer a year, one for six months, one for two months. The localities of those granted are ICaikora 4,

Waipawa 2, Elsthorpe and Patangftta 1 ei'ch. Several persons attended without having received notice to do so, and the Magistrate stated that no person need attend until they got notice from the sub-rogiul.rar, Coustahlo Cnrr. Throo married couples applied, and two were successful.

The s.s. Elingamite's time of departure from Napier- iot pot them ports is altered to 8 o'clock to-morrow night.

A ctpital programme has been prepared for Sir George Garry's concert at the Athenreum Hall this evening. Master Jack Garry's violin solos will be - Faust-' (Gounod) and " Mazurka " (Musin) ; Mv A. Kennedy,- a well-known Wellington vocalist, -will sing " Bedouin Love Song " and "My Life for Thee"; Mr G. Garry

will play as a cornet solo "The Lost

Chord") Mrs Gardiner wUI sing "Call Me Sack" (frontfa) with violin ohligato by Master j Garry j Mr Charles Maofarlar\6 8 banjo fantasia is the popular "Courier" (Armstrong) ; Mr G. Swan will recite Clement Scottfe "Midnight Charge," while Messrs Spaokman and Garry and Master Garry -will play two i instrumental selections. With such at.

tractive items at popular prices the concert should draw a large audience.

An interesting and historical picture has been presented to the Napier Bowling Club by Mr Alfred Elliott, Collector of Customs at Wanganui, but formerly in the department at Napier, when the late Mr J. M. Tabuteau was Collector. Tha picture is an enlarged photograph of the famous game of bowls that was played in the 16th century by Admiral Sir Francis i Drake, Lord Howard, and other courtiers

of Queen Elizabeth's time. Whilst the admirals and captains were playing the game news was brought that the Spanish Armada was off the Lizard. The story goes that Lord Howard was eager to pot to sea at once, but Drake pushed him aside, saying " There's plenty of time to finish the game and thrash the Spaniards too." The picture further contains facsimiles of the . autographs of Drake. Howard, and several other officers of the period. It is being suitably framed with English oak moulding, and will occupy a prominent place in the Napier club's pavilion.

Now that interest in the supposed kumi at Gisborne has waned it is time for someone else to discover another monster to supply the lack. It has fallen to Mr T. E. Taylor, M.H.B.,and the Bey. F. W. Isitt (says the Press) to fill the empty void. They return fresh from the southern lakes with a story that is already grown hoary with age, bat whiob. in the light of recent partial corrobora- . tion is worth printing. Some years ago the well-known guide Sutherland saw from a distance a great animal like a short-legged elephant coming down to the banks of- the Poseidon river. His avers that he has frequently found the tracks of the animal since. The story has . hitherto been treated as either romance or the ebullition of a heated brain. Now Mr King, postmaster at Gore, comes on' the scene. He has informed Messrs Taylor and Isitt, with all the solemnity of troth, that he has seen the huge tracks of the animal in the sand and shingle. ' The tracks resemble the footprints of a huge elephant. Mr King has made numerous photographic trips 'to the coast, and is said to be a cautions observer. Our Sydney correspondent writes:— Now that the holidays are over and the park palings are painted there ia a good deal of qniet distress among the unemployed. There ia every reason to fear that the epidemic of suicides will shortly commence again. Two Sydney ministers, the Revs. Buchanan and Tellman, the other day invited the men to church and endeavored to impart some religious comfort to them. But even gratuitous feeding of a more sublunary character would not have met the case. What the greater number of the men really need is an opportunity to earn their own living honestly. In a country capable of supporting with ease ten times its present population, and absolutely "aching" for intelligently applied labor to develop its magnificent resources, this ought not to be impossible. The trouble, however, is that those who " own " the resources either as freeholders or mortgagees, don't accept any responsibility. Within ten miles of Sydney there is enough unoccupied and unimproved land to absorb all the unemployed in New South Wales, and the same can probably be said, with greater truth, of every inland town in the colony. Those who take up land for mining purposes are compelled by law to employ labor upon it. If the same principle were made to apply all round it is possible that the unemployed might be absorbed. Meanwhile it has been left for another clergyman, the Bey. J, J. Curtis, to place on record his solemn conviction that" it is the duty of the State to see that none of its able bodied citizens shall be deprived of the opportunity of earning a living. At present the number of persons who are living in semi-pauperised conditions jb positively appaliing. The time-honored principle, " everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost," is breaking down badly. It is to be hoped that it will be superseded by a more enlightened and humane rule of conduct before there is some terrible social convulsion.

Consumption is responsible for more deaths than any .other disease. . No less than 523 persons die annually in New Zealand from consumption, and as medical authorities now hold the disease to be not merely preventable, but curable, the directors of the Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society have had 100,000 copies of a pamphlet, by Dr. P. Jamieson, printed for gratuitous circulation. The society intimate that a copy of it can be had at their office on application, personally or by letter:

I STOPPED THAT CODGH and CUBED A VERT BAD COLD by a single bottle of Or. PascaU'n Cough Mixture.-(Slgued) C. M'JJonaM. Is 6d and 2s 6d. Eccles, Chemist. Kapler and.. Hastings.

Ecoles' Corn Faint has no equal forthe speedy, permanent, and painless core of hard or soft corns ; usually oared after a few applications. In bottleß, Is, from A. Ecoles, Chemist, Napier and Hastings.— Advt,

J. S, Welsman'a Speoial Proprietary Medioiao — the Liver Mixture for biliousness and indigestion, Dysentery Mixture, Neuralgia Mixtnre, Quinino and Iron Tonic; Wine, Wind Mixture for Infants, &c, Locock'a Hoix Lotion, Corn Faint, &c, &c. The Pharmacy, Hastings-street. — Advt.

The Hawke's Bay Permanent Building and Investment Society are now propared to advance money on mortgage on freehold and leasehold securities on the new reduced tables of redomp. tion payments aB low as 5 por cent per annum, which are lower than any other society in the colony. Apply to the secretary, J. B. Haider, at the Society's office, or Joshua Bennett, Hasting?. — Advfc.

Orion Ranges, all sices, from Sft to Sft, always on hand, A large assortment of Kearsley mower fittings, knife bars, driving rods, section, Xc, just arrived; • 10 per cent allowed on cash purchases of Ironmongery.— J. A. Fryer, Hastingsstreet, Napier.

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ABVEBTISEMENTS. Smoked fish, fruit, poultry at I'rebble's. Fortnightly stock sale at Danevirke January 25th, by H. Monteith, 1.30. Notice under Dog Registration Act by H.B* Couufcy Conncil. Notice to coilsiguees s.s, Aotea. Notification new byelaws Borough of Napier j special nieefmg to confirm same March Ist. Mr Davies, of Jtfessra Wilson and D&vies, dentists, attends Hastings to Jay from 10 a.m. to ■1.30 p.m. Mrli. Ashcroft Noall resumes tuition February fitnation wanted as companion. W., bo* 9, Nnpier. Woman cook wanted Shakespeare Hotel. Sale of stnd sheep at annual ram fair, February 2nd, by Wenley ana Lauauze. Appointment of C. W. Davis as registrar of dogs H.B. County Council. Dr. Tibbies' Vi-oocoa unexcelled. Mushrooms at The Cafe. Accounts against Napier Hides must be rendered to J. P. Thomson at once.

Regular market sale by Montague Lascollos at People's Salerooms, 11 and 2. Vulcan Foundry insert business notice over leader.

Queen's College, Ingestre-street, Wellington, board and day aohool for yoiuig ladies, opens February 2nd.

ENGAGEMENTS. Camera Clnb meeting to-night. Grand concert, Athansmm Hal], by Mr Georga Garry and Master John Garry, violinist. Harmston's circus at Hustings to-night.

SALE. "Montague Ltiscelles, frnit at People's Saja rooms, 11.

That popular remedy, "Dr. Pascall's Cough Mixture," has made hosts of friends since its introduction here. Everyone who lias tried it spanks highly of its wonderful qualities, and take pleasure in recommending it to their friends as the very best romedv they have over used for coughß and colds. Is 6d and 2s 6d box. Wholesale and Botail Agent, A. Eccles, Napier and Hastings

Great Redactions in Table and Dessert Knives, Forks, Spoons (C. Johnson and other reliable makers). Carvers, Steels, Bread Saws, Knives, and Platters; ram valuo and ftolection' of Cruets, Teapots, 5 o'clock/ Toa Spoons, Cases Carvers, Fish . Knives nnd Forks, Broad Forks, Pon, Pocket, and Sheath Knives, Princess Piano Lamps. All goods inarkod at sale prices.— James Ilardy,