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

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1203, 22 December 1880, Page 2

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

TODNESDAY, DECEM BER ~22^ 1880.

y-'-W*' have' te wake the painful record that jjohn'iPrendh, "^who was accidentally shot at . Clark aiKi/Dobbie'a '.station, died .during last night In great agony at the hospital. tThiß;is : onßaiiore .tb/be . added to ■the ; ma»y fatal accidents -.w.hich have; occurred of late through playing with fire-arms ; and until <the' offence; is made penal, and the sooner ifc .Wimadelthe.bjßtteri.fof jthe safety of life, we - ( fearjsach casualties are likely to continue. 'If^&e^manswho'discharged tHe gun-^-atid fthat'he T - did sowithout intention: of ' doing -injury jttS£. : certain-~w.erej tarrefce*ive six : . rmonthsbJimpraonnient:..with^;hard. -.labor, ,R^[9tvery t ;Bpare,4ipfc it would be no' more' JJ6h*ti JWwgU merited. ;.;It^ \riil lie remembered by some 6f the readers of the London ten years ago a celebrated Indian recommended a remedy againstCplaying with' fire-arms, ■which was to get behind the person and to stun him with a bottle.. or anything at hand which would serve the same purpose. Having Btuiihi&d^fietmari, 1 the gun was to be taken .jfxom him : and broken in pieces. Were this adopted, wrote the old Gfeneral,'' playing 'with' fire-arm 3 would be greatly lessened; A ;The recommendation of 'qthe old, General was intended to apply to l 3h'j>?,©;^yH9;played y?tyi fi?e-arnis loaded or v '-tmioaded.:^He ?^said-it' made the cure more certain. liWe, are surethat some law should r.bA.made to touch the offence. . W,e must vkilTdie u som'eti^W "other: wp know, but .that is no reason' tliafcmen' should be killed r ?£aßithe s^ikeTof r fools. . • For the.f ool has too -often- said in his' heart there is no harm in ;. by Captain W. R. v fbr-sewing, *to" be competed for by the pupils of th&Bb'ard'sfschools, attracted .jj^j competitors.; - la the , '^shirt and pinafore" jCIaBB 'tyenty 'whipeted. The total ont^be^ormari^ ! ;^DtaiiiM ;i was 100, the pVize beingjiamed;pff 'byMiss, Helen Grant, of with : 96. ;Mias Lizzie Hall, of GisborneV-^ja'de' ' the highest ' possible score for cutting—out, but Miss Maria rjJPtillen^of/Napier, came next .to. the prize &ker "wjwi r S^ "iiiaris; ' Ji ' the' • • stoi'king darning- cliass' there '%ere fourteen com- ? : petitops'.: i,,TMa:\»aß closely, contested. The ,;, total tl marks; obtainable, was 50, the .prize being awarded ,to ; Miss Annie Oatridge, of Gisborne, with 48 marks. F6r "seating trousers " four young ladies entered the Jist; >Miss:Erama jFaulknor carrying off the prize with the/top score of 48. The judges were. .Miss, Herbert, Mrs. . W. K. Kussell, anfl Mrs. *Bl Hill. ; In the report 'furnistiod of the prizes ii-ip.ven.hby, . $Ie i.Gisbprne ... School, Master' v ; : Edwin/LowU was, only; mentioned as obtaining first prize for attendance. He should nlgo have been— credited with receiving prize.ipr-marksdn No. IV standard. Mr. S.,.J^ason.'yVilson announces through our columns that he is using the celebrated " Wellington tonio lemonade and soda-water .^fpf MßwKtiiMde^tfd^ -y??y.i^at. Now^ that the holiday season is so rapidly 11 ''approaching,' suitable' attires for such qcca--Bions as picnics, boatangTexcursions, and the , holiday employments, or, ~rather, 4s>.wjb should- say "enjoj/roents, must be prpcufedf vi PaSkell & Boylan, specialities ■ in. this way,. which our laidy '.readers will doubtless take an early "opportunity" of inspecting, (See Windows. — Advt. J