Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1885.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4181, 5 January 1885, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1885.

During last year 249 vessela, aggregating 129,866 tons, entered the port, and 251 vessela, aggregating 130,376 tons, cleared. The total imports for the quarter ending the 31st December, 1884, amounted to £5412, and the exports to £28,792. 798,2361bs of wool have been exported, valued at £28,602. The meeting, called for Saturday night, of those interested in the formation of a Working Men's Rowing Club, -was adjourned until Thursday, owing to there being only a very small attendance. The arrangements as to the Wai-o-mata-tini Court have been altered. It is now stated that Mr Alexander Mackay will come np from Wellington to be Judge, that Mr Brooking will be interpreter, and Mr Hall clerk. Messrs Brooking and Hall going will leave Mr Grey without assistance in the native office. The Auckland Herald remarks on the fact that there are aix Land Court Judges now hi that city and that they have been holding consultations. What the rest of the island complains about is that they are always in Auckland. The public would prefer to see them doing the work they are pajd to do rather than lounging a Way nearly all their time in Auckland. Like some other public officials — some of the surveyors for instance — they seem afraid of working too hard lest their billets should cease. The Government find they have not that great power in finance which they and their admirers claim. They proposed to raise two and a-half millions just now in London, but such strong hints of failure were given them that they have withdrawn and are only trying for a million. They say, however, it will not matter — not in the least. They will get on very well with a million, they say, md do not want the two millions and a-half. Sir Julius Yogel declared not long ago that the scheme of borrowing a million a year was i i complete failure, but the Government find 1 that with all their financial power they can- > lot go beyond it. A number of papers have • leclared that their failure ia due to the diver- 1 lion of the sinking fund, and a telegram from « London stateß " The members of the Stock 1 Exchange protest strongly against the alien- i ition of the New Zealand Sinking Fund." ] }n this being published the Government i lotified in the Post " Ministers have-not re- » jeived any information as to the alleged pro- i ;est by members of the Stock Exchange < tgainst the alienation of the Sinking Fund, i md the Colonial Treasurer expresses strong 1 loubts as to the correctness of the statement £ nade in the Press Association special cable." < 3ut, despite the doubts, they are only try- i ng for the million. The Treasurer expressed c itrong doubts about the telephone lawsuit f ielegram, and even declared it "utterly « alse and libelloua." It is to be earnestly I toped that the million will be successfully I aised, for the money ia wanted urgently and n he effect on our credit if we met with a re- a »uff would be severe. There will be many n leople very anxious till the tenders are b pened and Vogelism would look blue if there n ras a breakdown. C

The Freemasons meet at eight to-night. The Tarawera arrived early this morning trom the South and left for Auckland at 8.30 There was no business at the R.M. Court to-day. Mr Locke and family returned this morning from Napier. Entries for the Go-as-you-please on Jan. 17 close at 7 to-night at the Roseland Hotel. The proprietor of the Roaeland Gardens publishes a notice of interest to fruit thieves. MrW, Ratcliffe was married to-day to Miss M. Browne, daughter of Mr J. Snyder Browne. Messrs Bracken and Galvin have given up the idea of starting a weekly paper in Wellington. We have received the first number of a Napier paper, the Evening Newß. There is considerable room for improvement it it. At the recent great Liberal demonstration at Bristol, the motto on one of the flags was : " The Lords will be done." The Colouial Secretary is not at Napier, as supposed. He "will inspect Gisborne and Napier hospitals on the way down from Auckland. Major Scully and Detective Grace arrived this morning from Napier. The object of their visit is not known. It is stated that the late rains and wind have done much injury to the grass seed harvest, and that some owners will suffer very considerable loss. We are informed that the proposed mooting at Ormond on Saturday evening to consider the tramway question did not come Off. Messrs Smith and Cadman'a splendid block of bush, 10,000 acres, near Tahoraite, H. 8., is about to be opened up by a branch railway, that will enable trucks to be run up to the sawmill. When all arraugements are completed it is intended to export totara logs to Auckland. A facetious young joker of this town, who attained his majority today, occasioned considerable alarm to the other members of the household, by rousing them up shortly after midnight, crying out lustily that there " was a man in the house !" In the Wollington R.M. Court it was stated that the amount paid for extra tuition by the Education Board was Is an hour if the pupil was successful, and 6d if the pupil failed. "Is that so ?" said Mr Wardell, in astonishment, " it is about half the price ror digging potatoes." A New York exchange writes : — Joh n Habberton wrote a book called •' Helen's Babies, "and made money; he endorsed a note and lost it. Judge Tourgee wrote a book called " A Fool's Errand," and made money ; he started a paper, and found the errand. On Jan. Ist last, the authorities in the Greenwich Observatory altered the " time nomenclature,'' and adopted the system which originated in the United States some time ago, in reference to terming thw hours of the day consecutively by their proper numbers up to 24. Thus 12 o'clock midnight will be known as " twenty -four o'clock." Here is a piece of good advice to bathers, issued by the Humane Society : " If in the sea, it m;iy sometimes be a great error to get to land. If there be a strong ' outsetting ' tido, and you are swimming either by yourself or having hold of a person who cannot swim, then get on your back and float till help comes. Many a man exhausts himself by stemming the billows for the shore on v back-going tide.iand sinks in the effort, when, if he had floated, a boat or other aid might have been obtained." The Auckland police had Sheehan under watch for months, and a constable dressed as a swagger went to work near him at Russell. He would have ljeeu arrested had he attempted to leave the cbjony, even though the warrant had not arrived. The Star says : — Sheehan maintains the utmost composure in his confinement at Mount Eden gaol. Ho expresses confidence that the fullest investigation will onlyresuit in absolving him from any connection with the dreadful crime with which he stands charged ; but this remains to be seen. Messrs Spackman and Mears, directors of the Southern Cross Oil Company, arrived by the Tarawera from South this morning. They left byjthe steamer for Tuparoa, from whence they will proceed to the works on a tour of inspection, returning by the C'Ojs on Thursday. A telegram from Chri3tchurch. on Wednesday lu3t stated : — " The directors of the Southeru Cross .Petroleum Company are advised that the depth of No. 3 bore on Wednesday was 612 feet, having gone d>wn ten feet iv one day. There were 290 shares in the company sold at auction yesterday at 3s 9d ; 1200 shares were withdrawn from sale inconsequence of the above advice." Mr J. W. Nolan writes :— Sir, — Immediately on my return from Auckland my attention was called to the following paragraph in your issue of the 2nd instant : "Mr Brassey requests us to state that he has made no arrangement whatever as to his mare Nobo running a trotting match with Mr Nolan's Nellie." In reply thereto I beg to furnish verbatim copy of the arrangement made between Mr Brassey and myself, in Mr Brasseifs hand-writing, signed and initialled by both of us : — 3 miles — starting from scratch— ll and A stone up, on Waerenga-a-hika course— pull and go. J. W. Nolan. Dec. 27, 1884. W. Brasskv. To be run on Saturday, Jany. 11, 1355. Nellie v. Nobeo. J.W.N., W.B. In the N.Z.L. and M.A. Co.'s circular, dated January 1, there are the following entries under the heading of Gisborne: — '" Sheepskins : Dry station skins are readily bought at prices varying from 2s to 33 6d, according to quality and condition ; pelts, from 4d to 7d each. Tallow aud Fat : No improvement in value; inferior to medium mixed, 20s to 235, and superior mixed, 24s to 265. Hides : The market is without change, light to heavy ranging from 2Jd to 3£d. Wheat : Owing to the lowness in prices very little has been sown. Barley : A considerable breadth of this cereal has been sown this year, and the crop locks promising. "Grass Seeds : Harvesting is in active operation, and new season's seed will be in the market about the middle or end of January ; the yield and quality will be fully up to the average ; it is too early yet to correctly forecast the course of the market. Hops : The area under hops this year has been more than doubled ; the plants are very forward and look healthy and promising. Cheese and Butter : A dairy factory, the first in the district, will commence operations in the course of a mouth." A writer in a Northern paner alluding to Sir J. Vogel's libel action says : — lf he gains a verdict, which is by no means certain, it will moat probably be for a small sum. Ido not believe that he will get a verdict, as the average juryman believes that a professional politician is a fit aud proper object at which anyone who wishes may throw mud, and that he has no character to defame. That was certainly the opinion of the 'ate Mr J. S. Macfarlane with regard to Sir Georga Grey's henchman, Mr -, On one occasion, the latter brought an actiou against tti3 former for defamation of character. When the writ was served on " Jai S." he asked what it was. He was told that it was a writ, served at the instance of Mr -, who was proceeding against him for defamation of character. " Deary me," said "JaiS.,"l did not know that had a character." Marriage bureaux, in spite of the growing want of institutions where marriages can be made on earth, have hitherto been avoided by the •• respectable " classes as frauds. 3ince, however, an American missionary has jpened a lovers' bureau at New York, with the philanthropic view of combating the langerous tendency of young men towards bachelorhood, the institutions ought to be in i fair way of becoming a bucccss. The principles on which the first religious marriage bureau is grounded are very simple, md the way to enter the blessed state of natrimony is made very easy. Intending :andidates pay 20s, write down their individual characteristics on a slip of paper, and ;he search for a dual soul among other deicriptive papers begins. To judge from the >ptimistic remarks of the missionary, the leighbourhood of New York is filled with lual souls, and it is by no means difficult to md ajright Jack for every Jill, Should, howiver, the better half, after marriage, not >rove the genuine article, there is no need to te discouraged. " Come to us," says the Qissionary cheerfully, " and we'll get you , divorce." To what religious body the lisaionary belongs we are not told, probably lecause no existing body, not even the Morions, would acknowledge him. — ' Pall Mall razette.' ■ ,

Grand balls are to be given on board the Aiawa both at Wellington and Napier. Tiie Education Board notify that thn annual election of School Committee's will be held this day three weeks — Monday, Jan. 26. T ho constitution of the new school district of Tologa Bay is advertised. The first Committee will be elected on Jan. 26. For the first time the Government are able to get telegraph stationery in the colony for less than the imported price, and are now procuring £16,000 worth (not £160,000 as telegraphed) from Whitcombe aud Tombs, a Christchurch firm. From Tologa we learn that the remaining body, that of Miss Sarah Harvey, was found on Saturday evening, bub it is not stated where it was found, though it is reported that it had been disfigured by fish. The body of the boy and that of Miss Maggie Harvey were interred on Saturday, after an iuqueat had been held on the latter. The match of 10,000 points up between J. Roberts, jun. (champion of the world), am) J. G. Sala (champion of Scotland), the latter receiving 3000 start, was concluded on Nov. 20 at the Palais Royal, Argyll-street, London. Throughout the contest Roberts played maguiricentJy, and made no fewer than twenty-aix breaks of over 100 and one of no fewer than 266 ; the latter being with one exception the highest on record. Cousidering the fact that the spot-stroke was barred, the play was of a very high order. Roberts scored so rapidly that lie overtook his opponent at 6144 ; aud then, drawing away, won easily by 1625 pointa.