LOCAL AND GENERAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1070, 16 July 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

.' It is something not pleasant to learn, but we are afraid that what Mr. Hill, Inspector of Schools for tlie Hawke's Bay District; states is only too true. Mr. Hill has, amoiig his other acquisitions, a knowledge of geology, and is intimately acquainted with the strata of our districts. This gentleman has visited the beach, where the stuff is being taken for the metalling of our roads. We have said " stuff," because Mr. Hill says we must not say stone. It has none of the properties of stone ; but is I simply hard clay and nothing else. Soon I after it has been laid down, and subjected ! to traffic, this clay which Councillors were told was stone will resolve itself into mud, which will have cost so many thousands of pounds. | The annual general meeting of the GisI borne Ladies' Benevolent Society will be held On Wednesday, 21sb inst., in Macfarlarie's Hall, at 3 p.m. • ■ It is very satisfactory to learn that sheep farmers of Poverty Bay who had been proclaimed as having infected flocks, by their exertions and employing the proper remedies, have succeeded in. almost- every* instauce in eradicating the disease. Messrs. Pitt & Bennett will soil by auction 1 to-morrow, a lot of dress pieces, ribbons, ladies' neck-ties, perfumery, &c. ; ; The annual meeting of the subscribers to. the G-isborne Library will be held to-morfow evening, at 7.30, in the Library room, The : choice garden seeda of; every variety, imported by Mr. E;'K. Br.own from 1 Messrs. Duncan's nursery; Dunedin, are being rapidly disposed of, and it would therefore" be well for intending purchasers to pay an early visit to the establishment in order to procure those which- may be suitable to their requirements. , . .: ■ . .

Only one case was brought before the Court this morning, being that-oi an: inebriate who was fined in jtbe. usual penalty; with the usual alternative. • _ On dit, that it is determined bY the' members of the "Pates dfs Conjifutfk " : >to; celebrate the concluding night of the season with a fancy calicodress ball, and that with the view of completing arrangements, and issuing invitations, a meeting of the Committee will be held "to-night. We believe that hotel-keepeepfirs would most willingly give a handsome'^-boiKVS- to anyone who could instruct them how to keep thirty, up to say fifty Maories from exercising their tongues as, only ..Maories know how when there is auyfchirig to excite j them. They don't quarrel, and they don't fight. Probably they use highly improper : language ; but most hearers do not* know ' the meaning of the words spoken or shouted. Those who do have-heard" tlic : same language before and are quite indifferent. We believe it would not tend to the advantage of any lady to leirn Maori. We would strongly recommend any if so inclined to give up the idea. You tell a Maori to restrain his noise when he immediately commences to intensify it. He laughs ; he shouts ; he gesticulates. He does anything or everything but hold bis tongue." A flutina or a fiddle sends him hilariously mad. He seems to be at peace, with all the world; but he shows his peacenhleness by making strange and discordant noises. It; is hard to say whether .^he woman- or- the? inau-Maori is the no.isiest, : If they are turned out of! an hotel, j. they fasten on to the doorway, or doorsteps, or tliey backup against; posts, or- r anjthifig' tending to give the body suppoefc^but there is no abatement of iioise. It can be m3a*d from house-tops and in -back rooms at remote distances, and there is no getting rid of it. Landlords can't do it. The police can't do it, and so then what is to be d6ne? There may possibly be some -way out of the difficulty, and we are quite: sure that anyone suggesting a remedy leading to satisfactory results will be most liberally rewarded. We observe that Mr. Page, of the Masonic Hotel, has a notice posted on his walls, which is in the Maori language.; giving the words a free and- liberal translation, they mean somewhat as follows :—" Don't kick up a row or the police will be down on you." But the Maories heed not the warning, for do we not hear them from where we write.