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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11322, 5 September 1899, Page 2

Cablegrams, a report of the business at the -Magistrate's Conrt yesterday, our Waipawa and Woodville correspondents' letters, the acceptances for the South Canterbury Jockey Club's spring meeting, and articles dealing with football, cycling, cricket, and hookey will be found on the fourth page. Tha Supreme Court sittings at Napier open on Tuesday next. The oriminal calendar is a light one. The meeting of the Napier Licensing Committee, which should nave been held yesterday, but lapsed for want of a quorum, was adjourned until this afternoon, In view of the discussion on the decline in the birth rate the following Dunedis vital statistics for August are interesting! — Births 91, deaths 75, marriages 45. .For August last year the figures were : Births 98, deaths 74, marriages 29. > Herr Handke (formerly of Napier), who recently resigned his position as prinoipal of the Nelson School of fltuaio in order to take up a musical appointment in Germany, left Wellington, en route for the Fatherland, on Saturday afternoon by the Waikare. The choral and floral festival in aid o the Children's Home, whioh was interrupted by various ciroumstances last spring, will be gone on with this season, and the cantata " The Hermit Cell " will be produced. The practices for the girls will be resumed in St. Paul's schoolroom on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. It came ont during the hearing of a case in the Hawera Court that if a constable's uniform is torn while he is making an arrest or doing other rough work in the execution of his duty, and the person who did the damage is unable to pay; the constable himself has to bear the cost of repairs or reinstatement. Surely (observes the Star) this is deoidedly unjust to the constable. Our Danevirke correspondent writing yesterday says :— At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs Knight and Maokay, J's.F., a first offender was oonvioted and discharged for drunkenness. Henry Donovan and William Wall were charged with a breach of the peace by fighting in the publio streets. Accused were each fined 10s and 11s costs. Aage Moller, for inoiting Donovan to resist the police, was fined 20s and 7s costs. The opening up of the Eakautatahi block for publio selection is attracting great attention in the bush distrusts. The applicants so far are very numerous, and it is expeoted that they will amount to several hundreds when the ballot is taken at the Napier Land Offioe on Thursday. This block comprises 1614 acres of first; and seoond-class land, and is situated between Takapau and Norsewopd. The Native Land Court at Matetu, under Judge Johnston, is still hearing tEa Kotoiti bloojc case/ whicfi will iakp Some time yet tp settle. On t^is block" arj) some grand' puriri and totarafeeeg and a number of valuable hob springs. ' Ie seems likely that the Government will eventually purchase the land. An adjournment of the Court was made for a few days owing to the death of a noted ohief, Mitai Mataiwhea.

Last week a lad named Charles Striokland was admitted into the hospital, suffering from a severe eye wound, an operation being necessary and the eye removed.' The" injliry was caused in this way : Strickland and two other boys were on the Marine-parade, when they made some remarks to three men passing by. One of them, Henry Connelly, employed at the Caledonian Hotel, pioked up a stone and threw it at the boys, the missile hitting Strickland in tho eye. As a result an information has been laid against Connelly, who is charged with doing the lad grievous bodily harm. Dr. Pascill's Cough Mixture is proounblo from all leading nountry storekeepers. Wholesale and Betai] Apiut, Eccleb, Chemist, UnsqnalleJ and Invincible Woodi" Grail , Peppermint Ciwa^wr Cougbi and CoJOi, It M,