The Poverty Bay Herald East. Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1175, 18 November 1880, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald East . Coast New s Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING,

THURSDAY/? NOVEMBER 18, 1880.

.At • the' • R.Mw Court"; this morning, before M.m Price, Esq., Captain W. Daly, . of the Cadet corps, was charged with aßsaultmg,G-....Xi>. Bridger. It transpired from the evidence that on Monday evening last, on the occasion of the distribution .of.. prizes, the;> complainant in the company of other lads caused annoyance by throwing shingle among the Cadets, and that this conduct has ; been7 persistently pursued by a r band of youths, who make it their Bport to be. present, at parades to Jeer at and"^ otherwise irritate Captain )aly. On the occasion in question not only was shingle thrown,- but stone pelting -was indulged in, one "or i- 'which hhssiles struck a Cadet named Maker. - - R wasa.yei.red by Capt; Daly that he saw the complainant throw the stoneM He went .for the lad in order to arrest him, but being, unable, to overtake himjb^ threw, his walking stick (a very heavy by the : way) at Bridger, catching ,him ."3'n %^jhe cr.o'jyn of tbehead., and inflicting a * severe wgund..- JLleutehants Dickson' and Webb, and Sergeant-Major Donnelly stated-.-ih 'Evidence th.it there ■were frequent occasions "bf -annoyance of a like nature and that Bridger invariably was : in the company, .of this- ragamuffin brigade. The "coinplamant denied, having: thrown the stone wffidlf Struck Maber, and offered to call^iJ^>fiamedV^etersen who would admit threw - it, "but His Worship said"hi3..wqald'ive him thehenefit of the doubfc, aDd' then proceeded to give judgment. • .-He said he coald not help -iatroduchig his . milifcaiy feelings into his decision: whether^they liked the law or not. There .wasCapt. Daly an old man, taking the trouble of drilling the boys ..and making them accustomed to the profession of bearing arms. If he hpd a; son he should certainly, put him under Capt. Daly's tuition. This man wa"3 r to be subjected to continual annoyance hy a pack of ragamuffins—rthat was the word, and a good old English word, being more suitable than "larrikin" which he did not like, being slangy and un-EngEshc /Howv did these ragamuffins go on?" ' What did ttiey do? They went to annoy. . Had they any pride or self respect ? . No, The evidence of Lieutenant Dickson and Webb proved that when the prizes were befog" I distributed" gravel, and stones, were thrown by these ragamuffins. Mind 'they were the same as a mob, and evenjf r an innocent person chose to go and mafci"' nimself one of them, he was..r,esponsifge£dr.afly misconduct and mnsfteike the consequences. Capt. Daly acted perfectly right. On finding what was. going on, he tries ..^5 catch the complainant, hut b'dng unable to do so, throws the stick which caught him on the head. It served him right as he should shun the. company of vtb^ae who indulged in misconduct. Captaiii fDaly was perfectly right in what he did. He. wpuld dismiss the case and the defendant would leave the Court without any.. r§propeb> £ "Jdj.. r Oaff, who appeared for" C^lit. lMy/ivsked' for a certificate of discharge, the application being granted. • '"

Mr. Sam Stevenson,, always on the ; alert and his eyes wide open,, will startin a few days for Auckland with a mob. of horses, which *he intends! to sell iif that* market. Sam now advertises thajt b&p a cMh buyer for. about twenty te'&dd-Hro-i.be number of his riioh. -". ' ■ " - <?:;■■£■ ->a-. x:--r

The following sizes alijatefcs. computed in Imperial gallons have tiSift approved by the Cdmnfissionter of Ciistpms runder.thfc ßeer Duty Act -—Hogsheads of a capacity riot greater ..than ,fif ty-four. apjl^ps ; .barrelCof, a capacity of thirty-six gallons ; half-barrels of a cagacity^pf eightefen gallons ; casks of a'cSfdoity^df: thirty, -"twehWeight, twentyseven, ten, fivfej-J-hrie^oanaitwo gallons re-, spectiyely. , Hogsheads will be assessed at -gallons, ■ and 'other casks at - the number of gallons they are capable of .hold* ing. ■ M . .M ' '

It will be seen by oar advertising cbiumns that the two candidates for the honor of being Mayor of Gisborne will, each of them, address the burgesses at the Masonic Hall, on Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock. The occasion wiU be felt as one of considerable interest, and there will no doubt be a very large attendance. A passage in the last letter of the Wellington correspondent of The Argus on the financial and commercial condition of New Zealand is significant as showing._how how a course of. .persistent political agitation works-Hsow'n c\ik. though sometimes at frightful cost to the community. The, correspotadent".s%;:th,a£ iSir George Grey continues to agitate for an elective Governor, 'sffid that - " u&^tisfisd with having beeu -Premier as well as Governor of this colony ihe. regards bis election by the people 'as their -ohosen Governor in the light of the. prede_#hied keystonein his arch of triumph. But he 'will never see that day. There has been a good deal of uneasiness lately as to the condition "of the Colony. Much has been expressed, sometimes iturather rash and injudicious language ; much more has been felt but for motives of prudence not . expressed."- - • - — - One ;of the.most painful accidents it has ever been bur (QamuruMail) lot to record, attended with fatal results, occtfrred on Saturday evening ..to the .youngest -sqn.of Mr. _W- J' Smith, of this town.- The Tnur^emaid,. it appears, in preparing a bath for the children, first poured boiling water into tlie vessel; and then left' the room to - pf oeSre sonic csld Water to reduce the same to the desired temperature.- Whilst she; VasMbsent the.snbect of the > accident fell' from' a bed iuto the vessel containing the boiling water. D. Garland being sent for, was promptly iv attendance, but' although all that medical skill could devise for the little fellow, he expired on Sunday morning, at 8 o'clock.. j ■; An exceedingly interesting and curious sight may be seen at Mr. Dickson's Argyll Hotel,' It is' this:— Some few weeks'back Mr. Dick3oh had two hen chickens from a :" clutch of eggs. A day or two afterwards he had one chick from a second clutch. About the same time Mr. Dickson's cat came to be the mother of several kittens. Of these one was saved, aiid the others disposed of in-the way kittens are dealt with when it is considered there are too many • of them. Now, 'Mrs. Dickson placed the one solitary chick with the two belonging totbemo.tker^tt..^ But the ; mother hen? would not recejve it into her family,- and the little chick'did just as do. human beings * With'thSse'V'Wftio'vHive" no if riends. She rejected, it ; pecked at it ; refused to scratch rforit, and fin^Hy, Jacked it out of li.er nest: ; Then, how it it came about is not very well known, the little desolate, deserted and unhappy chick^foundits way into the box which contained the mother cat and her kitten. Here the cat took to it ; allowed the chidk for warmth to nestle under her with the kitten. Presently the cat was seen to take the chick up tenderly by the neck and so lift her from the box to the -ground, and when the chick had been fed by Mrs Dickson the cat lifted it back to the box in the same careful manner, and kittei and chick were both comforted. We know of no siniiliar instance of such a curious adoption ; but if there be those who doubt, our statement they have only to visit Mr. Dickson's back yard and' there' for themselves they will see cat, kitten, aud chick in company. As cats are generally.- :r the great enemies of chickens, usually preferring them as a meal, the spectacle is all the , : more curious and singular.