LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1057, 1 July 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A notice appears in a late Government Gazette, convening a meeting for this evening, for the purpose of winding up the old Petroleum Company.

We are informed that Mr. and Mrs E. A. Hart, celebrated for their " Happy Hours " entertainmeuts, are engaged to appear in the Masonic Hall for four nights, commencing on the 19th instant.

A meeting of the Licensed Victuallers will be held to-morrow, at 2 p.m. at the Gisborne Hotel. .

Messrs. Pitt & Bennett announce an auction sale on Tuesday next, of trees, shrubs, &c, from the celebrated Parnell nursery of Messrs. Mason. Brothers, of Auckland. .

Our telegrams from Melbourne, on Tuesday, detailing the capture of the Kelly Gang, was somewhat vaguu as regards the burning of the hotel in which the affray took place; The telegrams should have read as follows : — -Owing to the outlaws still continuing their resistence the police fired the hotel, which was burued down. The charred remains of Hart and Dan Kelly were found armored.

. We are pleased to notice by the Sheep Inspectors' returns for the quarter ending June 306h, tliafc the number of infected sheep in this district are- on Jhe decrease, the total for this quarter being 70, 944.

The estimated cost of the printing the evidence taken by the Civil Sarvice Commission is £700. ' ■■■.••■

The following instructions have been issued by the QoVerument auent the filling up of form No/3sy of the Property Tax schedule. The"Prdpei*ty Tax Commissioner desires it to be generally known that the assessors do not oin any way obtain information respecting personal property, unless they should be requested by an owner to assist in filling up the No, 3 -statement which gives the return of personal property. — not an inventory, but the total value only as fixed by the owner. After these statements have been sent in by the owner to the Deputy-commissioner's office^ they ai;e not referred to the asssessors— are not seen-by them— and the contents are known to the permanent officers of the department only.

For some time past Mr. J. Lukins of the Port at Nelson has been engaged in constructing a boat to be propelled by a screw, which, in itself ; is a novelty. It has been designated the. 6s' boomerang " propeller, .and in shape very much resembles the weapon used by the the Australian natives. The screw will be moved by a shaft; -which in turn will work an innunerable number of cog wheels, the multiplying power of which is 10 J, that is to say for every turn of the shaft the propeller will revolve ten and a half times. Steam is to be dispensed with altogether, the shaft being turned* by those in the boat, and as there is room for a dozen to -work this will not be a, difficult task. The boat -is only a sma^? one, being 14 feet in the keel, and 17 -feet /overall. She has been named the The machinery was tried Kna^rorning in .the presence of our reporter avisairably. JVf r. Liukins ex-