LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 807, 12 June 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Revision Court for ihe Eloctoml Bis* trict of the East Coast, was held to-day at the Court House, for hearing appoals against objections. A number of objections against Europeans were adjourned until to-morrow to allow of time for them to appear to substantiate their claims. Many Natives have been disfranchised, owing to their names nob having been attested by an elector. Mr. Tucker was in attendance all day, and did his best to get names reinstated, but the apathy of the persons objected to prevented any groat service being done. Tho jury list for the coming District Court sitting has been struck, and come prises 220 names. It is anticipated the sitting of the Court will extend over a week. There were no cases at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. The refusal of certain bush public-house licenses by Captain Gudgeon has met with general approval by the residents and settlers of the districts in which they were located. Sergeant Huddleston, of the A.C., lias been appointed by the Government at Wellington to be drill instructor to the local volunteers, comprised in the Gisborne Rifles and J Battery N.Z. Artillery. A more efficient and able officer than Sergeant Huddlestone could not have been appointed. The Rev. Father Chastignon appeals to all the Catholic members of this community to attend Mass on next .Sunday morning, as immediately thereafter there is to be a meeting at which matters of considerable importance will be discussed. Mr F. Whitmore Isitt, some time in connection with the Wesleyan Ministry, is announced to preach this (Thursday) eveninjr, in St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, and as the gentleman is possessed of ability of no mean order, and is eloquent withal, we expect to find on this occasion a large audience in attendance. At a meeting held last evening, in Mr Townley's Hall, of the members of the Exhibition Committee, Captain Porter in the chair, a resolution was passed, requesting Mr Baker to prepare a map of the district in illustration of the same. It was then proposed by Mr Townley that the Government grant for local expenses be applied for, The exhibits to be forwarded will consist of alpaca, Leicester, and Merino wool, grass seed (several specimens), maize, and Maori curios. Mr J. Bryant, the indefatigable secretary, is doing his utmost, and doing it well, to get up a set of first-class exhibits which shall represent the wealth and industry of the Poverty Bay districts. About tuweek ago a meeting was convened by Wi Pere and others, to take place at Waereuga-a-hika, at the Maori meeting-house there, called the "Poho-o-MahakJ." *°* tne P ur P ose °* taking into consideration the question of the. Native insurrection at Wahnate. o»wing to the severe wet weather at the time, it was found impossible to hold the meeting, and as the recent flood has left about two feet of silt in the meeting-house, it has been found necessary to change the venue. A meeting, therefore,' will take place tomorrow, at Pakirikiri. The object, so far as we understand, ia principally to express an opinion upon the present attitude of Te Whiti and his followers. Another instance of the bungling of acclimatisation societies comes froin.Duuedin. A reward is offered for the detection of any one snaring hares. Iu about three years the snarer will be rewarded. The hare is quite as great a nuisance aa the rabbit, and where young trees are planted it is far worse. O'Donovan Rossa, formerly a Fenian convict, and now in New York, has commenced a series of letters in the Irishman simultaneously with the reappearance of James Stephens in the city as a reorganiser of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He says that much iqpre money must be collected in Ireland, ; England, and Scotland than during the former Fenian movements, if the cause is again to prosper. Stephens was received enthusiastically by the New York Fenians on his arrival from Paris, and an address read to him issued by a number of Irish and English Fenians whose names and places of residence are attached. He said it was his purpose to re-establish the organisation in New York, and reunite its various fragments, so that Irishmen of all shades might fall into line and work for the liberation of their country. As a new way in which " the ends of the earth " are beginning tol " come together" in one day, (says a correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald) may be cited the curious fact that a short time ago a despatch, telegraphed from Yokohama on the 22nd February, at 10 a. in., was received in Paris on the 22nd February, at 9 a.m., the difference in longitude causing the apparent anomaly of the telegram arriving at its destination an hour before it had been despatched from the other side of the globe. • If any Hawke's Bay settlers fear (says the HawJct's Bay Herald) that the disaffection among tlie natives will spread to our province, it may reassure them to hoar that Major Routledge has at his immediate command 130 Volunteers, fully armed, supplied with ammunition, and well drilled ; besides which there are 300 stand of arms here, with 60,000 rounds of additional ammunition, which can be served out if the necessity arise. Over 50,000 rounds more, with a large supply of ammunition for the big guns, are now on the way from Wellington. We should thus ( be far from defenceless if the natives showed any signs of a departure from their present friendly attitude. ( A party of natives gave a haka, or war- < dance, at Wellington, last week. The ] cashier (a dusky lady) made off with the proceeds while the dance was in progress. Who says the Maories are not civilised ? ] In a state of benighted barbarism the foolish woman would have shared the money with those who earned it. The Wanganut Herald gives ciirrency to a story that one dabbler in Maori intrigue, during a recent visit to the West Coast, ► actually submitted an offer to the Plains natives that if they would raise a fund of -, £2000 he wonld go Home and place their i claim to cancellation of all confiscation before the Privy Council of England. t