Poberty Bay Herald

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4200, 27 January 1885, Page 2

Poberty Bay Herald

PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING

GISBORNE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 18S5.

The Dairy Factory is now «tated to be get ting about 240 gallons a day.

Mr E. K. Brown has declared a final divi dend in the estate of W. D. Lysnar.

There will be a general meeting of the Working Men's Political Association tonight.

Mr Tutchen is building a fine 10-roomed house on Wh'ataupoko, for which tenders are invited by Mr Quigley.

The Gas Company directors met last night. The annual meeting of the shareholders will be held to-morrow evening at 7.30.

Shareholders in the Dairy Factory are notified by advertisement that the second call is overdue and they are requested to pay it.

The steamer Herald left Auckland at 11 last night and will be Klue here in the morning. Mails by her for Napier and Wellington close at 10 to-morrow morning.

The Thomas Russell leaves Auckland this evening for Gisborne with a large cargo consisting mostly of transhipments. She landed her cargo of live stock in first class order. On her way down she will call at Awanui for Captain Porter, who is unwell.

Mr Winter, County Engineer, invites tenders for three contracts in the Government road works. They are for widening five miles of the Waimata road, widening five miles of the Waiapu road, and for making two bridges on the Waiapu road. Tenders close on Thursday week.

There are on view at Adams's four remarkably fine apples grown on Mr Hurrey's place at Matawhero. They are from a three year old tree, and were shaken off by yesterday's earthquake. Each is about 4$ inches in diameter, and 12 inches in gi^th. They afford a good instance of the fruit, growing capabilities of the district.

About twenty-five ladies and gentlemen went to the top of Kaiti last night, being obligingly allowed by Mr Adams to see the heavenly bodies through his teleacope. The night was unsurpassably fine, and everyone enjoyed the excursion greatly. Extremely fine views were obtained of the moon and of Saturn, the ring of the latter showing very clearly. Mr Adams expects to leave for Napier, the next observing station, on Saturday.

The new steamer Ohau got here very early this morning and went on to Tauranga and Auckland at 10. About 20 gentlemen went out to inspect her. There ia nothing very distinctive about the steamer. She appears to be a splendid cargo and stock carrying boat. Her decks are wholly of iron. She is not intended to carry passengers, though some half-dozen could be taken on emergency. There ia no provision, however, for ladies. The visitors saw the refrigerat; ing machinery, but the freezing room was filled with cargo. The Ohau will probably prove a most serviceable boat to ports like this. She is able to carry a big cargo and a large amount of stock. A lady went off this morning to go North, but bad to be b^n«ht back, a»d two pther ladies were refused v£**&**l

The annual treat of the Gisborne School children is being held to-day on the recreation giounds. A meeting of shareholders in the South Pacific Oil Co. is being held as we go to press. Nothing certain has yet been learnt as to tho Government nominees to the Harbor Board. The Borough valuation list is now ou view, and the usual notices are being sent out. Mr John Drummond has written 26 foolscap pages to the County Council developing his views on harbor works, river conservation, and tho tramway. He proves the necessity of all three, but his long letters do not solve the financial problem. Mr A. Parsons writes asking •' If in School Committee elections the cumulative voting is done away with, if there were seven candidates and a voter erased the names of six would the seventh be entitled to the full number of chat voter's votes ?" The proposal of those who have in Parliament been striving for the adoption of the cumulative vote is that no one shall give more than one vote to each of as many as there are to be elected.

A very pretty entertainment has been inaugurated by the parishioners of Holy Trinity Church, which takes place to-mor-row afternoon in McFarlane's Hall. Much ti-ouble has been taken and time spent in the getting up of a gift auction, the proceeds to go towards the funds of the Church. Refreshments, including tea and coffee, will be provided, and various amusements will be offered certain to suit the tastes of both young aud old. A most enjoyable afternoon and eveniug is looked for. The very many and varied articles to be displayed for sale all at extremely moderate prices will be a show in themselves. These comprise numerous beautiful goods which have been donated by the liberal patrons, members and non-tneinbera of tho Church. The auction sale, unreserved, will commence at 8 o'clock in the evening.

Very little is known (says a Napier paper) about the home industries practised in the Seventy-mile bush, more especially by the Scandinavian women folk. They are adepts at carding and spinning wool, and from the raw fleece will turn out excellent knitted socks and other woollen garments. At lace making, too, they are most industrious, and some very beautiful specimens of this industry are manufactured in many a bush cottage. If the ladies of this district knew how much good they could do by patronising these local industries we are certain they would do so. The bush people are very poor in money, aud they are probably disposing of real lace at much under its wholesale market value.

News has been received from Marmaros Sziget, the most north-easterly county of Hungary, that the priest Krasnisora went lately with his wife and child iv a sledge to Lonka. On the way they were attacked by a troop of wolves, about twenty in number. The horse reared, and then bolted iv terror. The wife of the priest was so terrified that she let her child^fall from the Bledge. The father immediately jumped out to save it, aud the horses carried on the sledge with the woman lying upon it swooning. The til fated husband engaged in a desperate struggle with the wolves, killed two of them ; but first the child and then himself were torn to pieces. When the sledge arrived at Lonka, the wife had given birth to a dead child, and presently was a corpse herself. The whole family had thus perished miserably in an hour.

Waikato telegrams state : — Mr Ballance will meet the natives at Otorohanga, 20 miles down the King Country, so as to prevent, as much as possible, the attendance of European strangers, and to keep as much aa possible aloof from the King natives, with whom Wahanui aud those with him have little interest in common as regards the land. The usual preparations for the meeting are being made. Wahanui has purchased some tweuty-four sheep, which are being kept in readiness for the occasion. A meeting to discuss preliminaries has been held at which Wahanui and the Ngatiraukawanativeswere the principal parties present. The question of roads and railways going through their territory was fully discussed. The general feeling arrived at was that while they would throw no obstruction in the way of railways and roads they would not entertain the question of selling land until their lands had been put through the Court aud the individual titles to them been determined.