LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 851, 2 August 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to our reading space being encroached on by a crush of advertise, ments, we have had to hold over our report of the County Council meeting, which was held yesterday afternoon m the Council Chamber.

The Secretary of the Building Society notifies that the first meeting for the receipt of payments on account of the sixth financial year of the Society's transactions will take place on Monday evening next. Shares taken upon that date will be entitled to participate m the profits on the whole year's transactions. We learn that interest at the rate of eleven per cent, has been apportioned for the past year, after paying all expenses and carrying a good sum forward to the credit of profit and loss account. This should be an inducement to persons desiring a safe and profitable investment for their savings. 'The shares are of two classes, viz., Investing and Permanent. The former are paid up by fortnightly instalments of two shillings, while £50 cash secures one of the latter, The meeting takes place between 7 and 8 p.m.

The Committee of the Football Club are anxious that there should be a good muster at the Saturday afternoon matches, as the timo for the Napier match is drawing near, and the Committee want to choose the most likely players, m order that .. a light course of training to get themselves fit, may be indulged m. A meeting will be held during the course of next week to arrange preliminaries for the match, &c. The Telegraph of Saturday says : — " The Committee of the Napier Football Club have decided upon the following members from whom to pick the team which is to try conclusions with the Poverty Bay Club : — Messrs Phillings, Sim, Wood, Beamish, Smith, Gibbons, Ridings, Ormond, Beauchamp, Cadwell, Kennedy, Dov, H. Gibbons, Bremner, Lauanze, Tanner, Von Tempsky, F. Kennedy, and Cotterill. As the Poverty Bay team takes a deal of beating, we hope the Napier footballers will go m for good and steady practice. The match will come off at Gisborne on the 13th August.

Our readers will notice by our advertising columns that copies of the plan and specification . for the dam at Ormond, for the construction of which tenders are now invited by the County Council, may be seen at the Chandos Hotel, Ormond.

Mr S. Locke has telegraphed intimating that he will not be able to stand for the general election, should one take place.

At the celebration of High Mass tomorrow, m the Catholic Church, the choir will render selections from Mozart's, Weiber's and Winter's Masses, and a portion of Rosina's Stabat Mater will also be sung with solo and full choral accompaniments. The choir, including as it did not a few vocalists, has received lately a considerable accession to its numbers. A large new harmonium has also been obtained. The members of the choir having been assiduously practising will, on this occasion, we have no doubt acquit themselves creditably.

In the R.M. Court yesterday, Wi Mahuika appeared to plead his inability to comply with the order of the Court on a judgment summons for the payment of the first instalment of £20 due on the Ist August. He said he expected £60 from the Government on account of the sale of lands, but there was a great delay m the arrival of this money. After the consent of the applicant was obtained by the Court, His Worship "ordered him to give a written order on Captain Porter, Lands Purchase Commissioner, for £50, and that the balance be paid m instalments beginning the first of November. He had made the order unusually severe, because it had been proved that Wi Mahuika had squandered some three or four hundred pounds with which he might have paid his debt.

A blythe and active young man (says the Star) lately performing at Cambridge m connection with one of the many troupes which have entertained the Maoris brought his individual exertions to a close by eloping with the wife of a Ngatiraukawa chief, and the two came to town. A Waikato J.P. was consulted by the woman's relatives, and an Auckland solicitor was instructed to take all possible proceedings m the matter m order to restore the dame to her lawful husband. Thirty Ngatiraukawas came down on Thursday night, and a vigorous search was made for the tenant and the offending pakeha. After a display of great skill m tracking, the friends of the lady secured her, and she has returned to her liege lord.

An instance of honesty has come under our notice (Auckland Star). Mr. Thorn, of the Illusionists, m his hurry to catch the steamer, forgot £150 m his bedroom at the Pacific Hotel at the Thames. On his arrival m Auckland he was informed for the first time of the loss by a telegram from Mr. Curtis, stating that the servant girl had found the money. Mr. Thorn at once telegraphed back to reward the finder with £5,

The following atrocity is from the Auckland Free Lance : — Hurrah for Auckland ! One of the sons of the soil has just been made an M. A'. We understand that many of the daughters were made MA's long before.

The Wellington Chr6nich says:— "A letter received by last mail from Mr. Edward Pearce states that the interest charged m England on trade bills at the time the mail left was If per cent, per annum. Just so } but m New Zealand the banks do these things better, and charge only a modeßt 10 per cent, with any extra charges they can clap on.

The large station bell at Port Chalmers was removed the other day, and the following inscription left m its place : — "Great inconvenience is caused to the inhabitants of the port by the extreme loudness of the station bell, and it is unanimously agreed to remove it to a place of safety j also, owing to the general stupidity and ignorance of the employees, it is thought prudent to abolish it altogether, its last resting-place being the jetty end. — Signed, Wake-em-up."

Here and there the pastime of snowballing was vigorous at Raugiora lately. A smart bit . of skirmishing was engaged m High street. Plenty of substantial targets were there, and it was no game of chance or skill to hit one. The fun was fast and furious whilst it lasted, and the tempers of the snowballers sweet and serene. One man who had a cigar holder m his mouth, received a good size ball right fair on that opening m his face. The bolder got broke, and his lips assumed a bluish tinge. The children attending the Eangiora schools, after tuition hours, erected, walls of snow as barricades, and pelted one another to to their hearta' content. Two accidents occurred through the snowball engage* ments, the windows of Messrs Kidley and Bailey being broken thereby.

A desperate encounter with a wild boar occurred at Mercer last Wednesday. Mr. R, Hunter was m the bush near the Bluff when his two doga started a boar and seized him. Mr. Hunter rushed m just as the dogs loosed hold of the boar, which went at Mr. Hunter open-mouthed, knocked him down, and ripped his leg open to the bone. . After a fearful struggle, and aided by the dogs, the boar was driven off. Afterwards Constable Walker sewed up the wound. Mr. Hunker is progressing favourably.

The murder of Mr. Kinder by Bertrand m Sydney, on the 2nd. December, 1865, will have not been forgotten by our readers, who' will also remember that the murderer was reprieved on the ground of insanity, and the sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. The Sydney Evening News says:— "He is at present located at Darlinghurst, and is considered a valuable acquisition to that institution. He does not appear to have suffered m any way from his fourteen years' incarceration, but, on the contrary, has. apparently entirely recovered from his insanity. As an artistic painter, modeller, engrosser, etc., he stands high among the criminalsof the present as well as the past age."

The rules of the Civil Service are says the Rangiora Standard very useful things, to ministers of the Crown at all events. Whenever it suits their purposes they break through them with the greatest facility ; at other times they shake them up before peoples' faces to show how sadly compelled they are to be- religiously bound by them. Mr. James Mackay, we perceive has again been taken into the Civil Service as Government Native Agent. The Government have winked at his past peculiarities. There is a clause m the Civil Service rules affecting adversely men within the pale of tha Bankruptcy Court. Seemingly, it has been ignored m the case of Mr. Commissioner Mackay. But the Pakeha-Maoris with mischievous tendencies are eagerly sought after m troublesome times.

An inquest was held at Kooranga South Australia, ' on the 18th June, upon the body of Annie Stanton, a young woman -who had been married only three days. It appeared from the evidence that after their marriage the deceased and her husband went to Adelaide, but returned home on the third day. . They retired to rest about 11 o'clock, and the young woman was just falling asleep when a tremendous crash on the iron roof of the house caused her " to* jump fully two feet from the bed, and to fall back panting like a dog." Her husband said he could hear her heart beat. She lay awake all night, trembling violently, and was unable to rise on the following morning. Medical assistance was called m, but she expired on the following evening from the effects of the fright. An examination of the roof revealed the fact that a large stone must have been thrown on it from a bill behind the house, doubtless by some young men anxious to have a "lark," but the individuals could not be found out.