The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Ooast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 809, 14 June 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Ooast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1879.

The determined attitude which the Govemmemi'has 'Assumed towards tbe disaffected Natives at rWainiate has taken them by surprise. They are now ready to submit to terms. The Government will act wisely by not withdrawing their forces until guaitintees are given that the Maoris shall not again disturb the peace of threaten the safety of the European , settlers. ! ' > ' ' ' The dairyman have raised the price ' of milk on^ penny the quart. This is' bad policy. They should have kept to the old price and reduced their losses by a proportionate reduction in the strength of the milk. People do not like direct taxation. Many persons would sooner have a short-weight loaf oj inferior quality at four pen^e to a full weight one of good quality kt fourpence halfpenny. This is human nature with a large section of mankind, and in a special degree of womankind. t • . - * Dots the Government place a New Zealand Gazette in the, hands of masters and mates of vessels,, sailing or Btea#j*g in^rTew -Zealand, waters 1 If not, how are those in command of vessels to know of hidden dangers which have been accidentally dis- 1 covered. In the last New Zealand Gazette there are shoals laid down ; hidden rocks brought to light ; sand banks which have shifted, and all that is done by the Marine Board is to conceal these discoveries within the pages of a gazette which is not seen by one in a thousand. A cabman has been fined five shillings in Dunetlin for smoking in his cab, as being a breach of the Municipal bye-law. Are not some of these bye-laws ultra vires, or at any rate are they not, some of them very harsh. A man hiring a cab may smoke in it if it so pleases him, as he is driven along, but a cabman may not smoke in his own cab. A man's bouse is said to be his castle which, by the way, is a great mistake ; but a man's cab would »p*pear to be anything but his own. A Canterbury paper reports a very lively dispute which lately took place between Mr. Ick, the Mayor, and Mr. Cass, a Councillor. The Mayor said there was nothing so humiliating as having to set at the

same table with this man. Nature had never intended that Councillor Cass should have moi*e than three letters in his name, meaning thereby that " Cass" should be denuded of the first letter of his name, which would make him what the Mayor took him to be — an " ass." This may have been witty, but it was vulgar. It is these sort of things which make Councillors say, as one Councillor lately did, at Tuapeka, to the Mayor" when he asked him to go into the street, and he would " jolly soon take it out of him."

Mr. Forsyth, a butcher at Port Chalmers, has been receiving the plaudets of the Dunedin press because he was able to show the carcase of a bullock which weighed one thousand eight hundred pounds. Why do people rejoice at so muoh grease, fat and blubber which must invest a beast of such tonnage. Half of it must go into the melting pot, while what was eatable would be coarse and unsavory

At the Christchurch Licensing Court, the other day, the Inspector of Police stated that the number of arrests made during the year was 313. Of this number 256 were arrested before, and 156 after ten o'clock at night. If this be the case, then, instead of the strongly advocated early closing of hotels, it will tell in favor of a law insisting upon the late opening of our drinking establishments.

A telegram announces that the names of Edward William Stafford and William Fox, have been added to the huge batch of creations known by the style and title of "Knight Commander of St. Michael and Sfc. George." Who was St. Michael and who St. George 1 and how can Mr. Fox and Mr. Stafford be a Knight Commander over Saints who, if ever they did exist, which is doubtful, exist no longer ? Tliis is what a good many people would like to know.

Furious riding through the thoroughfares will not be put down, and offenders made an example of, until a child or two or a female, with perhaps a baby in her arms, is ridden down and trampled to death. It does, however, seem hard that such a dangerous practice cannot be surpressed until there has been a Coroner's inquest. It is no use, in such cases, asking where are the police, because before one of our conservators can lay hold of a truant, he js a mile away. It. is not well to advocate preventive measures which may be looked upon as jtujsS& little, too harsh, so we do not recommend the shooting of offenders, although one often has a feeling tending in that direction when he sees some harumscarem fellow, reckless of the lives and limbs of his fellow creatures, galloping at racing pace along the Gladstone Road, and turning full speed round one or other of the corners of side streets.

The next steamer from the South brings to Gisborne Judge Kfnny, who will open the first District Court ever held in this town. The cause which is certain to excite most interest will be the trial of Mr. Robert Cooper and Mr. John Brobie. The Maories appeared to be greatly exercised as to the issue. Judge Kenny has engaged quarters at the Turanganui Hotel.

The Baldwins, who pronounce themselves the " world-nenowned exposers of Spiritualism," are coming Gisborne way in a few weeks ; but we have received from Messrs Hiscock Hayman & Co., a circular headed " Warning to the Public," that there are two sets of Baldwins in the field. Of course the Hiscock — Hayman Baldwins are stated to be the real article — pure an unadulterated ; but how are we, the simple minded and unenlightened of Gisborno, to know who is who, or which is which 1