GISBORNE, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1884.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XI, Issue 3069, 26 April 1884, Page 2

GISBORNE, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1884.

A private letter received in town from Sydney states that the directors there of the South Pacific Oil Company are quite agreeable to the management being transferred to NewZealaDd, thinking it only right, as twothirds of the shares are held here. The general meeting is to be held at Sydney on the 30th lust., and, if names are submitted from Christchurch in time, a New Zealand directorate will be elected, and the management at once transferred.

Under the heading^of " Mr. DeLau tour's Discovery," Mr. George H. Wilson writes : — Sir, — It ia particularly refreshing to the student, who is weary and often baffled in his pursuit of knowledge, to know that now there is a way to attain to the possession of the much coveted power — knowledge — without having recourse either to the scholar or the divine. And this discovery, for such it must be, is what Mr. DeLautour has announced to the innocent yokels of Gisborne at the meeting of the Institute the other night. 1 beg of Mr. DeLautour to favor an audience at an early date with a more detailed explanation than he thought fit to give on the first occasion of his learned and sublime discovery, ere Oxford, Cambridge, or Wellington hear of him, and send him an invitation to occupy the Chair of the New Philosophy, to be created immediately either of those institutions hear of tho vast intellect that is only hidden here in Gisborne and lodged in the keeping of Mr. DeLautour.

At the R.M. Court yesterday the case of E. Matthews v. W. Hitchens was heard, being a claim for L 4 for damages caused by defendant negligently running his cart into that of plaintiff. (DeLautour for plaintiff, Robinson for defendaut.) Plaintiff and his wife deposed that they were in the Gladstone road, in the act of turning to come down the street when defendant ran in to them, breaking the panel of the back board aud side of the cart. They were not across the road but in a straight line. Defendant had plenty of room to get by. — Defendant said he was coming dowu the road at a trot. Plaintiff's cart was looking up the street. When he was about twenty yards away from the trap plaintiff got iv and turned it across tha street. He shouted, and as he waa trying to pass, plaintiffs cart backed on to his, thereby causing the smash. This was corroborated by H. Bruce, B. Hird, W. Davidson, and W. Gray, Land Registrar. Mr. DeLautour argued that defendant when he saw pbintiff turniug ought to have pulled up, or turned up the by-street just before he met plaintiff. His Worship did not think proper caution had been used, and allowed 30s, damages.

The Cross arrived about 7 last night and left ag*in during the night. The Te Anau reached the Bay at 3 this afternoon and goes on at 5. Messrs. Carlaw Smith and Co. held a small miscellaneous salo to-day. Fair prices were obtained. At Messrs. Graham, Pitt and Bennett's miscellaneous sale, held this afternoon, there was a large attendance and satisfactory prices were obtained. Nothing was sold at the horse-sale. At the R.M. Courtjthis afternoon Christina Tardien was charged with being a lunatic and not under proper care and control. Dr. Pollen was examined, and considered the woman to be of unsound mind. The case Was adjourned until 5 p.m. for fcho evidence of Dr. Innes, who was absent. She will probably be sent to Auckland to-morrow. A private letter received in Gisborne from Mr. Bowron, the Inspector (now at Auckland) says : — " I sent a telegram to the Secretary of the Wanganui Cheese and Butter Factory to send one of their cheese to the Albion Club, Gisborne. I did so with the idea of showing all interested in the manufacture of cheese how they are got up. I fear all their early made ones are gone ; if so, the one which comes will not be fit to cut at present, but will answer the purpose of showing what they should be. I expect in about three weeks to viiit you again with a deal more information. The Ashburton Factory people have had good reports from London, and have just sent off 17 tons more. Bulter sent from Inglewood, sold at 1003. per cwt. ; it was only worth 50s. when sent off last November. The report is ' If it had been made better it would have sold in London at 1205.' You may rest upou my word, there is no finer spot in j New Zealand than the rich vale which stretches beyond your town, and I am sure j the dairy produce will bring more wealth to j Gisborne and the surrounding district than I any project which can be devised." Two libel actions are to be heard at the New Plymouth ensuing sittings of the Supremo Court— namely, Dr. Gibbes and | wife against Mr. Samuel (in which the plaintiffs seek to recover £4,000), and Alex- | ander Boswell against the same gentleman, in which the sum of £1,000 is sought. Mr. George Hutchison, of Wanganui, is solicitor for all the plaintiffs, aud Mr. Govett for the defendant. Mr. Hesketh, of Auckland, is also retained for the defence in both cases. Mr. Samuel was acting only as solicitor on the express instructions from his clients. Of the Public Works Minister's trip up through the island the N. Z. Herald says : So far as the central line itself is concerned Mr. Mitchelson speaks of it very favorably. He considers that Mr. Rochfort deserves great credit for laying it off, considering the country he had to go through. The grades are all easy, one in eighty being the steepest. He thinks it scarcely possible to obtain an easier line than Rochfort's, that is, one that can be constructed for LSOOO a mile. The distance from Marton station, on the Wellington side, to Kihikihi, on the Auckland side, is 200 miles. If this Hue were constructed, the railway distance from Auckland to Wellington would be 420 miles. Mr. Mitchelson has gathered a large mass of interesting information by the way. This information will be laid before Parliament in detail, and will be accessible to the public by the publication of the next Parliamentary blue-book.

Almost incredible depths of immorality and degradation were revealed in the case at Wellington, in which Alice Lynch was committed for making a false declaration in getting her 12-year old sister Emma married to her paramour. She had put the girl to board at the convent at Auckland, and then took her away, telling her she was to be married next day. When she put the girl into the convent the authorities desired her to take Emma away, as she taught the children things that unmarried women ought not to know. The details of the offences form a startling and melancholy narrative of real life, more strange than the most sensational of modern works of fiction.

The Auckland Sugar Factory will be able to turn out 400 to 500 tons of refined sugar a week. The following large vessels are already afloat witti cargoes for Auckland : Androkles, from China, with about 600 tons ; Maubegan, from Java, with 1,500 tons ; Maroon, from Java, with 700 tons ; and Thames, with 700 tons.

A London correespoudent writes that the N.Z. Shipping Company cannot keep up the present high speed of the direct steamers, because the consumption of coal is so large. It is stated the other Company wanted the N.Z. Co. to join iv a fortnightly service, and with their combined influence here get a subsidy and a Government contract, but the N.Z. Co. refused. Such a combination woald have i.. rilled the San Francisco service. It is said Sir Dillon Bell is averse to the San Francisco service.

Some interesting figures aro given in a recent number of Irath, showing the earnings of a number of well-known writers. Disraeli, it is stated, made by his penL3o,ooo; Byron, L 23,00 0; Lord Macaulay received L 20.000 on account of three-fourths net profits for his history, Thiors and Lamartiue received L 20,000 each fir their respective histories. Thackeray is said never to have received LSOOO for any of his novels. Sir Walter Scott was paid LI 10,000 for eleven novels of three volumes each and vine vols. of " Tales of My Landlord." For ono novel he received L] 0,000, and between November, 1825, and June, 1827, revived L 26.000 for literary work. Lord Lytton is said fco have made LBO,OOO by his novels ; Dickens, it lias been computed, ought to have been making LIO,OOO a year for the three years prior to the publication of " Nicholas Nickleby ;" and Trollope in twenty years made L 70.000. Miss Alice Crisp, Matron of the Auckland Hospital, who has just been presented with the order of the Royal Red Cross by the Governor, went through the Zulu War and the last Egyptian War as a nurse of the wounded, #ho has the Egyptian medal and the Khedive's Star, Jn making the presentation the Governor said, »| wjsh that Her Majesty could have herself, conferred this honor upon her. Prom all her career, from all you have heard, and, I venture to say, from all you will hear of her, I think the people pf Auckland, and the people of New Zealaud, aro fco b,e congratulated that they have amongst them one Tike Mjss Crisp a3 superintendent of nurses of one of their hospitals." (Cheers.) Over twenty of the Tongariro's crew were locked up last Saturday Rfght at Port Chalmers for refusing duty. "The njeji stated that they considered they had no right to work after 2 p.m. on Saturdays when in liarboi'. On Monday, their defence was that they were entitled to a half-holiday on Saturday. They were Gonvjcted and discharged, having been locked up sinoe Saturday. At the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce Mr. G. Bell, the Chairman, in the course of a lengthy speech, referring to the new Baukruptcy Act, said : — "One very extraordinary phase of its operations seems to favour fraud, and add to the oxpense rather than reduce it. This Act has omitted to make provision for conferring on the Official Assignee the right to examine a debtor except through a solicitor. I have a sort of hereditary reverence for the profession, and can quite understand the desire for putting their fingers into every dirty pie; but it seems to me a trained business-man, who is thoroughly acquainted witli the debtor's doings and misdoings, and technically acquainted with business accounts, is the fitter man to investigate a debtor's affaire thoroughly." At the Auckland Apple Company's farm, a crop of barley has been obtained, running 50 bushels to the acre, for which 4s per bushel has been secured ; a higher prioe than is at present given for wheat. There is some movement in Auckland to get up opposition to the Union Co. on account of the bad comparison the Sydney service makes with the service between Melbourne and the South. At Auckland, 3,000 shares have been taken in the North New Zealand Farmers' Association. In Canterbury 91 persons own blocks of land of over 50,000 acres each. A West Coast paper states that a woman lately found a quantity of fiuo gold in the stomach of a flounder. G. Foster, bootmaker, Auckland, has failed for £5,800. A man named Win. Schultz, a labourer, dropped down dead while at tea in Prince's Crown Hotel, Otautau (Southland), on Tuesday evening last.

Says a Melbourne literary man: — " When Sir Julius Yogel was here ten years ago, and Berry was the despised ' Run-down Dingo ' of his party, Yogel said he was the only man. But look at their cause of sympathy. While Yogel was the out-at-elbows reporter at Inglewood, Berry was the little twopenny-half-penny grocer at Prahran, a Melbourne suburb. No wonder then !" The Kennedy Family had a wonderfully successful seasonj in Auckland, and on the la3t night the building was so packed that some actually climbed on the roof. Mr. Kennedy made some affecting remarks in bidding* farewell, and said: "Perhaps the audience might see ]some of the young folka in days to come, but they would never see ' the auld man.' He must ' gang awa', ' and leave room— plenty of room— for the young. He thanked tho3e~present warmly, and assured them that it was with great pain he bade that assemblage farewell. He asked them to all rise and sing a verse of ' Auld Lang Syne.' The appearance of the vast assemblage during the singing of ' Auld Lang Syne ' was such as to send a thrill through the most apathetic." At Woodyear's Circus at Auckland when representing Turpin's ride to York, the " dead " Black Bess being carried out on a litter suddenly sprang up and jumped off, to the terror of the bulk of the audience. The mare had to be caught and was made to 11 die" again by force. The Fielding Star says :— " It is not improbable that an action for libel against one j of our contemporaries will be taken in order to clear the reputation of a Palmerston man who was mixed up in an attempted turf swindle at the recent Fielding races." The ; journal referred to is stated to be the Manawatu Times. The Napier Telegraph says that the rosumption of the Government pre-emptive right over native land is " splendid news for the colony, but it will strike dismay into the hearts of the land-jobbers and monopolists." What we want is the reasoning to show it is " splendid news " for the colony. The Auckland R.M. has just nonsuited a tradesman who sued for goods supplied to a wife without the husband's authority. A new railway station is about to be built I at Auckland at a cost of L 25,000. Rewi's house at Kihikihi, provided for him by Government, is said to have been leased by the aged chief as an adjunct to a neighbouring hotel. The Dunedin Star says the Governor has approved of the pl.ms for the onal from Dunedin to the Ocean Beach — which is to cost L 500.000. Times are desperately bad in Dunedin, and drinking is of necessity stopped. Three large hotels are in chancery, and if the proprietors can keep out of the official assignee's clutches they will be very lucky fellows. If a man having thoroughly committed to memory the words contained in the Holy Bible aud Shakespear, strictly carrying out the good precepts and advice therein given for his hereafter and present, he would not only be one of the wisest, but one of the best men in the world. Who does not remember the words in Shakespear's play, Henry the Sixth, "A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench." And to what does this apply? Why, to disease, which should be like fire, trodden out at once. At the first symptoms of sickness, try one bottle of Hitchens's Blood Restorer. It is the remedy " par excellence " for all diseases of the blood, and is procurable from all chemists and respectable storekeepers in New Zealand. Ask for Testimonials.