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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11593, 20 July 1900, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found re- ' ports of yesterday's proceedings in Parliament and of the opening of the Kaoing ; Conference at Wellington, Beveral letters | to the editor, sporting news, and our Hastings and Waipawa correspondents' communications. Crptain Edwin wired at noon yester- ' day: -Frost to-night ; glasa rise; good ' tides. | We have received ,£1 8s sd, collected in I aid of the Indian Famine Belief Fund at ■ the recent Church of England bazaar at . Danevirke i Mr H. P. Cohen purposes leaving for . England and the Paris Exhibition next r week. He will apply for leave of absence from the Borough Council for a " few months. ■ A very heavy sea was rolling in the bay ' last night, coming over the Marine- > parade wall in some places. There was a ' steady flow of sea water through the , street channels. ! The name of Georgina Mitchell, of the Napier main school, was accidentally omitted from the list of second year pupil teachers which appeared in our Wednes- > day's issue. Miss Mitohell's marks were i 1281, so that her name would have been . entered eeoond on the list. Mr J. A. Stevens, of Napier, was again ; very successful at the Wellington poultry show, whioh opened yesterday, gaining : second and third prizes for Black Minorca | pullets with two biids not previously shown, and third prize each for a Black | Orpington cockerel and pullet. The Ahuriri Mounted Rifles paraded at i the Garrison Hall last night, when they . were exercised in their drill by SergeantMajor Finn. All the men have been [ measured by Messrs Parker and Co., and : it is expected that they will parade in , full uniform at an early date. The parade of the Mounted Eifles in company with the infantry corps of the East Coast Bat- , talion should lend an addional interest to the drill nights. The Munioipal Council of Parkes (N.S.W.) have paßsed the following resolution:—" That a letter be sent to the Premier, requesting that a short bill be introduced early during the present session of Parliament prohibiting the playing of football, tennis, crioket, or other ' similar games within municipal boundaries on the Sabbath Day ; further, that a oircular be sent to all munioipal bodies within the colony asking their cooperation in the matter." Messrs C. B. Hoadley and Co. held a successful clearing sale of Mr Sam Charlton's farming stock at " The Lawn," Clive, yesterday. Owing to the large number of lots the sale was not concluded, and the balanoe will be sold this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Delivery will be given at 11 o'olook this morning of yesterday's purohases. A number of horses and household goods are included in to-day's sale, and those in search of bargains should make a point of being present. Viotoria haß now built seven railways on the co-operative or butty-gang principle, i.e., without the usual contractor or middleman. The results are Btaggering. In each case the estimated cost was made up on tfie basis of what the State had paid for similar lines in similar country under the contract system, and in every case the butty-gang did it for much less. The estimate for the seven lines was £517,908 under the contract system, and on the co-operative principle they cost £351,111. New Zealand's experience is just the other way. Addressing the eleotora a few days before the contest, Mr T. Mackenzie, who has been returned for the Waihemo by a large majority, said, " Every means were beipg put forth to defeat him. Hireling emissaries from Wellington were taking different portions of the electorate and straining every means to keep him out of Parliament. It was a scandalous proceeding, and every honest-minded elector should resent it to the last degree. He had no combinations behind him, nor was he lavishing Government money to seoure his return." The wreok of the Elizabeth Price at Long Point, Mahia, formed the eubjeot of a Magisterial inquiry at the Courthouse yesterday, before Messrs Vautier and Large, J's.P , and Captains Davidson and Owen, Nautical Assessors., Mr Howen, Collector of Customs, conducted the inquiry. The evidence tendered at the preliminary inquiry held by the Collector of Customs was sworn to by the witnesses. The Court found as follows :— " Coneidering the exposed situation of the anchorage more oare might have been eseroißed in keeping anohpr watoh by üßJng the deep-sea lead, co that immediate steps could have been taken to let go the second anchor. Otherwise every precaution seems to have been taken for^ne safety of the vessel." The certificates of the captain and mate were returned.

Our Wellington correspondent wired last night:— Drawing attention at this morning's sitting of the Raoing Conference to needed reforms, Sir George Clifford gave some interesting particulars concerning the "Bpuriona jookey, may be_ tout, spieler or general rogue, who still discredits the honorable profession to which he is an unwelcome hanger-on." Taking the official calendar as his authority, Sir George found that 447 jockeys hold licensee. Tv the past season 90 of these never rode a race, 23 only once, and 60 others twice or thrice. ( >f the jockeys who never sported silk Hawke's Bay supplied 25, Dunedin 10, Wellington 15, Taranaki 19, Canterbury and Waaganui 0, Auckland and Groymouth 6 eaoh. No less than 106 jockeys rode without licenses, the owners risking fines and loss of stakes, and the racing officials displaying grave laxity. Mr Voleur Lamb Machado Janisch, who recently died in Wanganui, had an interesting family record. On both sideß his ancestors were persecuted for their religion. Early in the 17th century the Janisoliß were driven by persecution from Siberia, and settlod in Hamburg. His mother's family were exiled from Franco by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The father of the subjeot of this sketch accompanied Sir Hudson Lowe to St. Helena as private secretary when Sir H. Lowe was in charge of Napoleon Buono"parte, and the set of ohessmen with which :he great Napoleon so often fought his battles over again became a family possession. Mr V. L. M. Janisch arrived in New Zealand in 1857 as the guest of Sir Thomas Gore Browne, the then Governor, became Sir Donald M'Lean's private secretary, afterwards entered into business in Napier, accepted a Civil Service appointment, and finally settled on St. John's Hill, Wanganui, where he died suddenly on June 30th, 1900. He married the third daughter of the late Colonel Lambert, Hawke's Bay. — Chronicle. Corporal Hamilton, of the First Contingent of New Zealanders, who came back by the s.s. Aotea last week, told a Southland Times reporter of hiß experience in the hospitals at Kimberley, Winburg, and Maitland Camp. The medical men were Bhort-handed at first, and the condition of the hospitals was very bad. A sick or wounded soldier might lie for a night and a day and would get no attention, not even anything to eat or drink. Now, however, the hospitals were improving. The arrival of the "Sisters" had made a great change. They were doing splendid work, and. had quite altered the conditions that prevailed in the hospitals. Speaking of the manner in which invalided colonials were sent home, Corporal Hamilton said that at Eimberley he and many others could not obtain clothing. When leaving the hospital he was told that if he could not get clothing he would have to turn out in his pyjamas. In Kimberley they were very wretched. At Winburg they fared better, were well looked after, and comfortably sent away. At Maitland— that is the camp for the Australians and New Zealanders outside Cape Town — no provision was made for the men coming from the front. "You might arrive to-night an^l get nothing till the day after to-morrow. Nothing is requisitioned for you or laid oub." The new Boxer outbreak ominously recalls (the Daily Mail says) the Taiping rebellion, which began in 1850 and lasted over a period of 14 years, being the result of a popular outcry against the existing dynasty and a general dissatisfaction owing to the reforms which had been promised being unfulfilled. The province of Kwang-se was the first to rise in open revolt, and ohose for a leader Hung-sew-tseusu, whose energy of obaracter and political and religious enthusiasm speedily gained for him the support of the discontented. Seizing on the longing for a return of an absolutely Chinese dynasty, he proclaimed himself Emperor, under the title of Teen Wang, or the Heavenly King. Having embraced Christianity, he professed to abhor the vices of the rulers both in their laws and in private acts. Crowds gathered to hia standard. Without much difficulty he succeeded in Bubduing the neighboring provinces. The war which England proclaimed against the Tartar dynasty, and in which France joined, seemed to aid and abet his scheme, but on the complete victory of the allies a combined force was sent against the rebels under the late General Gordon, which was successful iv utterly defeating Teen Wang, with whose fall the whole rebellion came to an end in July, 1864.