LOCAL AND GENERAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 873, 26 August 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An, enterprise is on foot, if such a venture may be allowed to come under the name of an enterprise, , to send twenty Maories — male and female, well-assorted — to exhibit during the season of the Sydney Exhibition. Mr. James Scott, the lessee ef the Masonic billiard-room, is the chief promoter, and there are others with him. The schoouer Telegraph, owned by Mr. Eichard Kelly, is to be fitted up with bunks, and chartered for the voyage there and back. We have no doubt but what the Maories will attract much attention, and draw money, A second and final dividend m the estate of Thelwall and Co., will be payable at Mr Stubbs' shop on Saturday next, after 10 a.m. The first annual general meeting of the Turanganui Caledonian Club will be held m the Club-room, Masonic Hotel, on Monday, the Bth of September. The Evangelistic Mission Services will be continued this evening, m Macfarlane's Hall. The Rev, J. S. Hill will give the address. The sittings are free. There was no criminal cases at the E.M.s Court this morning, while two unimportant and undefended small debt claims comprised the business on the civil side. Telegraph Stations are now open at Pipitea,. County of Hutt. and at Kaitoke, County of Wairarapa, West. Hollo way's Pills. — Nothing preserves the health so well as an occasional alterative m changes of weather, or when the nerves are unstrung. These Pills act admirably on the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify the blood, and they are the most efficient remedy m warding off derangements of the stomach, fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, and maladies, and giving tone and energy to debilitated constitutions. All who nave the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health, cannot do better than trust to Holloway's Pills, which cool, regulate, strengthen. These purifying Pills are suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions, when all other means fail, and are the female's best friend.

The people of Healdsburg, California, have a very stringent way of dealing with the larrikin, or, as it is called there "hoodlum" nuisance. The fire-bell is tapped every night at 9 o'clock, and all lads under age who do not at once go home are subject to arrest under the city ordiance. A detailed account is given m the ' San Francisco Bulletine" of the shipment on board the steamer China, bound for Horn? Kong, of seventeen Chinese "Lepers," whose passages were paid, and who received blankets and ten dollars each. For three months the authorities had tried m vain to get rid of these terribly inflicted wretches, some of whom are described a having lost portions of their feet, and otherwise presenting, with only a few exceptions, a repulsive appearance. It would appear that sailors can only with great difficulty be prevuiled upon to remain m ships, which are to carry such loathsome passengers, and no wonder. In this instance they were shipped very quietly just before the departure of the steamer, and none of the Crew knew that the men taken on board were considered lepers. Here we have a fearfully significant warning of what may happen to New Zealand unless Government at once checks the stream of immigration of these pestilential Asiatics ; and at the forthcoming general elections every candidate should be compelled to state his intentions on this point m a most distinct and unmistakable manner. The London Examiner says that the mild and merciful Emperor of Russia has set a glorious example to the unspeakable Turk, by the establishment of a school for hangmen. The institution, we are informed, came into existence recently at St. Petersburg, the plan of organisation, drawn up by General Grenteln, having received the signature of the Emancipator, Alexander II himself. The object of .the founders is to provide an efficient staff of hangmen for the wholesale executions that are likely to take place all over Russia. Thus far capital punishment has been carried out m an extremely bungling manner — Dubrovin, for instance, having struggled for 10 minutes on the Bcaffold, while at Kieff Antonoff, Bartner, and Orinsky endured torture almost as long. The pupils for the School of Hangmen are to be selected from the ranks of "intelligent and deserving men" m the army, and for the present the number is not to exceed a dozen. Under the heading " How far the Eagle Screams," the following paragraph appears m a Philadelphia paper : — Few people are aware that the proud boast of Englishmen that the sun never sets on the British Empire is equally applicable to the United States. Instead of being the western limit of the Union, San Francisco is only about midway between the furthest Aleutian Isle, acquired by our purchase of Alaska, and Eastport, Me. Our territory extends through 197 degrees of longitude, or 17 degress more than half-way round the globe. Theßocky Mountain Presbyterian, m commenting on this fact, says : — " When the sun is giving its good-night kiss to our westernmost isle, on the confines of Behring's Sea, it is already flooding the fields and forests of Maine with its morn-, ing light, and m the eastern part of that State is more than an hour high. At the very moment when the Aleutian fisherman warned by the approaching shade of night, is pulling his canoe towards the shore, the woodchopper of Maine is beginning to make the forest echo with the stirring music of his axe."