NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 305, 25 September 1882, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

" Trader's " letter arrived too late for insertion to-day. A late telegram crowds out a couple of letters on Borough affairs. A slight accident occurred to Young's coach at the Manawaupou bridge to-day. No great damage was done. At Saturday's meeting, the Waimate Road Board agreed to strike a rate of 9d. in the £ for the curront year. A report of the proceeding of the Board is held over. Our Opunake correspondent wires us that at Friday night's panorama of the Mirror of Ireland, several lamps accidently capsized in Courtuoy's Hall, causing great cousternation. However, the fire was put out before any harm resulted. The paragraph in our last issue with reference to the recent suicide at New Plymouth, was made rather obscure by the sentence, " The jury found that deceased had committed suicide while of unsound mind." The finding of the jury was, " while of sound mind," and that is what the copy said; but the compositor printed what he no doubt thought would have been a resonable verdict. There was a little excitement this morning owing to the starting of a new coach on the line from Hawera to Waverley. Messrs. Prosser, are the promoters of the oppositiou, and sent off a bran new turn out, the very creditable production of local industry — Messrs. O'Donoghue, Chisliolm, and Smith having constructed the coach, and Mr. Meuli the harness. The' new coach set out with a full load to start with. Mr. Young's coach also had a fair number of passengers. The Patea County Council's proposed expenditure for year ending March next is estimated thus :— Overdraft to be repaid, £1200; salaries, labor, and contingencies, £1800: total, £8000. The receipts are expected to be £3000, made up thus : — Rate of ope shilling iv the pound, £1200; rates in arrear, £500; publicans' licenses, £200' (doubtful amount) ; dog tax, £200; moneys now due from Government, £800; sundries, £100. As to the liquor licenses (6ays the Mail), the claim of the Waverley Town District

The Chronicle says that Mr. Bryce has returned home for a brief respite from his Ministerial and Parliamentary duties. The cricket match between Shaw's Eleven and the Australians, which was concluded on Thursday at the Oval, ended in a draw. It is understood (says the Post) that another contract for construction on the Foxton-Taranaki line will be offered for tender very shortly. One cannot help observing the happy contrast iv this district between last spring and the present. Iv place of " war and rumorfc of war," we have Maori feasts and carousals, and everything appears to go kapai with our dusky brethren. Captain Jackson Barry, a well-known colonist, is about to lecture in Hawera and Manaia on the experience of fifty years of colonial life, and the sights in England that struck him as a returned wanderer. He also gives an account of a recent interview with Tawhiao. "With such a subject Captain Barry ought to well entertain an audience for au hour or so, and according to his testimonials be succeeds in doing so. Tins afternoon William Heaslop, charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £7 10s., drawn on the Bank of New South Wales in Patea and purporting to be signed by " C. F. Barker," was committed for trial on two charges. The circumstances under which the offence was alleged to have been committed have already been published in the Star. Heaslop, though presenting a rather rough appearance when arrested, have evidently seen better days ; and it is said that he was once a lieuteuaut in the navy. At any rate, he has latterly been holding responsible positions in stores near Pateo. The directors of the Patea S. S. Company have given bonuses to the captain and officers for their exertious iv extricating the Wakatu from perilous positions lately. The directors say they feel sure the mishaps were not in the least caused by the captain's want of judgment, nor that of the officers and seamen under iiis command, but were merely the result of insufficiency of water in the river : and the directors believe that had the captain aud officers not shown unusual skill on these occasions, the loss to all concerned would have been far heavier, or even the entire loss of the vessel would have accrued. The New Zealand Times says that the Native Minister, prior to his visit to Auckland to meet Tawhiao and the king natives, proceeds to the West Coast to complete arrangements for the further settlement of lands which were formerly allowed to stand over in deference to the convenience of the natives who had squatted on or cultivated portions of the name, either in ignorance of, or, more properly speaking, in defiance of the rights of the Crown. The result of this visit is expected to be a final and permanent removal of all past misunderstandings respecting the occupancy and ownership of the lands in question. We are glad to hear that Mr. F. H. Brett has at last obtained his award in the coach accident suit, Brett y. Young. Litigation has now been proceeding for over two years, and Mr. Brett has exhibited a great deal of courage in fighting a man like Mr. Andrew Young, who was known to be well provided with the sinews of war, and to have a fixed detertermination to take advantage of every technical opening for escaping payment of the award. People here generally agree that Mr. Brett's claim wasjust, and that Mr. Young would have got off easily had he at once paid the £550 awarded by Messrs. Jackson and Livingston last year. At the annual meeting of the Patea Cricket Club, held last week, the invitation from the Hawera Club to contribute £5 towards a trophy to cost about £20, and to be competed for by Hawera, New Plymouth, Constabulary, and Patea Clubs, was declined, as that Club is in debt about £22, and not financially in a position to join in a trophy at present. Mr. Jacob was re-elected Captain, on the understanding that his duties be relieved by appointing a practice captain ; Mr. Taplin, Trea&urer.f.Committec : Messrs. Tennent, Read, and Norman, to act with Captain and Secretary ; Mr. Rupert Jacomb was elected a life-member, and appointed practice captain. Agreed to iuvite the Auckland travelling team to play a match at Patea, if terms not too high, g A meeting of the Manaia School Committee was held on Saturday eveuiug to consider the question of fencing the school ground. Present— Messrs. Sutherland. Mitchell, and Yorke (chairman). It was resolved to erect a fence with posts and three plain and one barbed wire, provided that sufficient funds could be raised to supplement the fund voted by the Education Board, to enable such a fence to be erected. The chairman reported that he had waited on the Commissioner of Crown Lands re the vesting of the two sections on which the master's house was built, iv the Education Board, aud lie believed the matter would now be satisfactorily settled in due course. He had received one payment from the board for the contractors. A subscription list was drawn up, several subscriptions were handed in, and the collection of others was entrusted to Mr. Mitchell. The promoters of the Sandon-Carnarvon tramway scheme are losing no time in forwarding the undertaking. The Raugitikei Advocate understands it is their intention to ask permission from the Government to proceed at once with the work, in anticipation of the Roads and Bridges Construction Bill being put into operation, the necessary steps for which will take a good deal of time to complete. If this can be managed, the settlers in the Sandon-Carnarvon district may be able to reap the benefit of the tramway at the next grain season, which would, of course, be of immense advantage to them. The election for Manaia Town Board takes place on Thursday. A notice should have appeared on Friday, but the letter in which it was forwarded to this office was carried on to Wanganui, The quarterly meeting of the Loyal Union Lodge of Oddfellows will be held at the Protestant Hall this evening. Cobb and Co.'s Opunake coaches leave Opunake at 6 a.m., and Hawera for Opunake at 3 p.m. daily. Mr. Mcßae advertises Premier, Cashier, and President as sires for the season. The horses will be in Hawera on Thursday next, Messrs. It. H. Nolan and Co.'s stock sale day. Mr. G. A. Hurley lias several special lines in fnrms for sale. Mr. J. Vickery gives a fencing notice to owners of sections in Manaia. Messrs. McCutchan and Co. invite ten* ders for carting wheat. Mr. Joseph Pennington will hold his first cattle sale, at Waitara west, on Wednesday. The advertised list includes several large and important items. Pirate, a Clydesdale, and Cocksure, a blood, two horses with very fashionable pedigrees are advertised to travel in Hawera district this season. The Hawera Rifles are reminded of tomorrow evening's meeting. CABLE NEWS. , — ♦ | Reuter's Telegrams.] ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 21. It has been discovered that a plot has been recently formed among adherents of the Albania League to attack and massacre all Christians in Scutaria, a town in the south of Albania. The conspiracy was detected, and a number of arrests have been made. ST.PETERSBURG, Sept. 21. The Czar has reached Moscow, and

Exhibition now being held there, and not, as was supposed, for the coronation ceremony. » LONDON, September 22. The homeward mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on 15th August, were delivered here yesterday, four days before contract time. The cricket match at Glasgow between the Australians and the West of Scotland Club resulted in a victory for the Australians in one innings. SYDNEY, September 23. The Art Collection in the Garden Palace was insured for £3000. This, as already stated, was the only insurance on the building or its contents. By Telegraph. — Reuter's Copyright. Received 25/9 12.45 f.m. BRISBANE, This Day. The steamer Ganges, bound from Melbourne to Calcutta, with horses, which went ashore recently on the Queensland coast, has been floated and has arrived at Cooktown, all the horses having been lost. Received 25/9, 12.45 p.m. ALEXANDRIA, September 23. Damietta was yesterday occupied by the British troops, under Sir Evelyn Wood. The bulk of the rebel garrison had previously deserted, and had made their way to Tantah, where they submitted to the British. The remainder fled before the arrival of the troops, but only after they had looted and plundered the town in every direction. The commander of the garrison, Abdelled, yielded to Major-general Wood. The entry of the British cavalry took place to-day at Cairo. Since this display the attitude of the populace (previously most insolent to our troops) has become most abject, the parade having had an overawing effect on the people. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 22. At the instance of the Russian Government, a conference of European envoys is to be held here for the settlement of the difficulty •which has arisen between the Turks aud the Greeks at Arta regarding frontier Hue.