LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 945, 8 November 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Our London cablegrams published m this afternoon's issue of the Herald are very assuring. The late increase m the price of wool will add very appreciably to the profits of the wool growers of the Bay, and will give greater encouragement to obtain an increased quantity of fleece m the next season. We have had a splem lid lambing, and the shearing looks well for .a heavy clip. At Home the markets are mentioned as buoyant. Bank rates for discounts are- low. .Railway traffic returns are improving, and trade generally reviving. Iheß6 be the pleasant signs of an immediately coming prosperity. The Post-office will not be open on Monday. The Telegraph stations will keep Sunday hours. The Banks will be be shut — a good day for giving cheques, providing the funds are all there ou Tuesday. The day is a close one, excepting always for the hotel-keepers, and with them it is a festival. The Herald will not appear on Monday, but will come out on the next evening with a full, true, and particular account of the race meet, Mr. S. M. Wilson advertises that his four-horse brake and several coaches will leave the Argyll Hotel at 10 a.m. sharp, for Wairenga-a-hika. As the first race is to be run at 12 noon, intending visitors who desire to be present throughout the day will do well to be prompt m engaging a seat, m order to arrive m good time for the first event on the programme. One more Five Thousand — Mr. E. ff. Ward, junr., has been served with a " declaration" from Mr. W. L. Bees, for defamation of character. This is one more item to make up the half-million which Mr. Rees is to take with him to Bristol, where he intends being carried on the shoulders of his constituents to the doors of the Imperial Parliament. Still ever and again, we do wonder where the money is to come from. At the present juncture of affairs the money will not come out of Poverty Bay. One royal sportsman furnished us yesterday with the *' tip " for Monday's racing. Another royal sportsman furnishes us with a different one to-day. When doctors differ who shall agree ? If one be right aud other wrong, then we say to those who are giveu to betting it would be better to bet upon both tips, which will make things come out about equal. And this is just what a London youth asserted to be the case when he lost a handkerchief and found a knife. The following ia tip No. 2 : — Hurdle Race — Harry Mouut, 1 ; Queen of Hearts, 2 ; Sylvia, 3. Maiden Plate — Gisborne, 1 ; Awahou, 2 ; Day and Martin, 3. Birthday Handicap — Flatcatcker 1 ; Little Wonder, 2j Merlin, 3. Waerenga-a-hika Plate— West End, 1 ; Little Wonder, 2 ; Merlin 3. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star, writing by the last mail, says:— " Within this last month no less than 2000 souls have left the United Kingdom for New Zealand and the rush sjiill continues. The N. Z. S. Co.'s fine vessel Wanganuij which sails for Otago m a day or two, will take out over 200 second cabin passengers, almost all of whom are middle class farmers. I saw several of them at Captain Ashby's office the other day, and noted with satifaction that they appeared flue sturdy and eminently respectable men. The majority have capital to start with." Our Wellington telegrams (says the Hawkds Bay Htaald) announce a new phase of the Repudation agitation. It appears that a charge similar to that preferred recently against Mr. Kinross is to be made agajnst Mr^Sutton M.H.R. — at least we so gather from the report of the Parliamentary proceedings and our correspondent's message. It is probably m connection with this case that a number of nativesirecently left Napier for Wellington, to be examined before the Native Affairs .Committee. The first General Government advertisement fsay the Napier Telegraph) that has appeared m our columns for two years — throughout the Grey Administration — is published to-day. It is from the Public Works Department, and invites tenders for the laying of the permanent way between Kopua and Makatoko. In reference to this subject of Government advertising, we may mention that the Colonial Secretary has issued instructions for an impartial distribution of advertisements. This is at least one of the results of a return to honesty of administration. A hope is held out that the German ironclad Grosser Kurfurst, sunk off Folkestone, will soon be raised. The work of | preparing to fix the shield for closing the collision hole has been one of great difficulty, as the ship is lying m the tideway, and the stage requisite for divers to work upon has been repeatedly swept away. This difficulty has now been overcome, anil all is prepared for the final operation of lifting the vessel by means of a number of inflated pontoons. We are informed by persons who have visited some of the battlefields m South j Africa (says The Colonies and India) that whiles the bodies of Zulus and of horses and cattle slain there have been devoured m a few days by the carrion crows, the bodies of white men have been left untouched by these scavengerg. This was observed particularly on the field of lsandhlwana, on its being revisited for I the first time after the disaster of our troops there, when the bodies of the European soldiers were left untouched, while those of the Zulus were almost entirely devoured. The reason of this preference of the birds for the flesh of black men is difficult to understand. Possibly the fact of the Europeans being clothed, while the Znlus were naked, may help to explain the circumstances, though this solution is not entirely satisfactory, as some of the bodiest of our fallen troops were stripped by the Zulus. My husband killed a hog, weighing about 1501bs, last July, late m the afternoon, and, after allowing it to hang about half an hour, cut it m pieces small enough to handle easily, and, having a kettle of boiling brine ready on the firo, put the meat m until scalded so as to look white, and long enough to cook the blood. The pieces were then placed on a large table, and salt sprinkled thickly over it while hot. Next morning, he hung it up over a good nrioke, and m five days we had the swuetest of (bacon. The recipe is extensively used here m warm weather, — National Farmer.