Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1880.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4490, 1 February 1886, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1880.

■ In the months of November and December the Cook County Cheese Factory turned out 16? tons cheese from 36,210 gallons of milk —November, 18,329; December, 17,881. A porpoise, five feet long, was captured on Saturday morning by Mr T. Burns, laborer. The monster was in the sea close to the shore, and Mr Burns despatched it with a big rake he had with him. Attention is called to the alteration in the departure of the magnificent steamer Arawa. Instead of leaving Wellington on March 13 ahe will leave on March 6. The alteration ia to enable intending passengers to be in time for the opening of the Colonial Exhibition. At the close of Divine Service, conducted by Mr McKinney at Te Arai last evening, the following were elected as a committee of management for the year : — Messrs Watts, Beaufoy, Lange, and U'Ren. The drawing for Miss Bacon's Art Union took place at Napier on Jan. 19. The following is the list of prize takers in Gisborne —Ticket number 108, 2nd prize ; 33, 23rd ; 35, 16th ; 134, 26th ; 28, 7th ; 58, 15th ; 113, 21st. The prizes may be now had from J. VV. Cook, New Zealand Clothing Factory. Mr J. Nicol has purchased the interest of Mr H. McClutchey in the Marahea Hotel, and Mr McClutchey the interest in the Wai-o-matatini Hotel. Both those gentlemen are well and favorably known on tho Coast, and there is little doubt but that the public will benefit by the change. | At the R.M. Court to-day Rewai was fined 10s or 24 houra imprisonment for drunkenness. Renata was fined £7 or 30 days for obstructing the police when arresting the first prisoner. Constable Bowers and Mr Keefer proved the charge. George Campbell alias Allwright for obtaining money by false pretences was remanded till Thursday, as also was William Long for house breaking. Te Hau, on two charges of horse stealing, was remanded for eight days. At the Native Land Court to-day the Chief Judge stated that the Court adjourned from Jan 18 until to-day would have to be further adjourned, as also the Court gazetted for to-day, owing to the Kaiti case not being completed. Any succession cases ia whioh Honi Peti was interested would be called on to-morrow, and both Courts would then be adjourned for three weeks. In answer to Captain Porter the Chief Judge stated that the present Court would iv no way affect the Wai-o-matatini Court to be held on March 1, In the Court to be hold there succession orders would be taken first. Evideuce in tfee Kaiti case U being continued.

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Gas Co. takes place to w night at 7,30. The Works Committee of the Harbor Board meet at 2 to-morrow aud the Board at 7. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Harding's Almanac (Napier) for ISB6, a most useful publication. Iv South Australia the emigration for the la9t exceeded the immigration by 6846. S. J. Farnell, telegraph construction overseer at Ta.tnvorth, N.S. \V., a son of Mr J. S. Furnell, lato Minister for Lands, lias committed suicide by blowing out his brains. They had very bad weather for the Regatta at Auckland ou Friday. It rained and blew all day. In Thibet, tho women do all the hard work, while the men do the visiting and gossiping. The men are very much excited over their down-trodden condition, and are agitating for a recovery of their rights. The sawmillers of N.S.W. urge ontheGovernment the absolute necessity for increasing the duty on foreign timber, as at present they are working at a loss. The 400 mills in the colony employ 10,000 men. At the annual meeting of the Matawhero Presbyterian Church held at the close of the public worship (yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Mr McAra presided. The report and balance-sheet were read by Mr W. Ball and were of a satisfactory nature. The adoption of the report aud balance-sheet was moved by Mr McPhail and seconded by Mr Reid aud carried nem con. It was decided that the .committee of management number five andthe following were elected to that position -.—Messrs W. Morrice, C. Young, E. Cameron, W. Ball and A. Lange. At a meeting at New Plymouth of the Bush fire Relief Committee ou Saturday Mr Samuel, M.H.R., protested strongly against the fund, which was subscribed for relief of the destitute, being given in proportion to the claims of each sufferer, as tho list contained a large number of thoroughly well-to-do settlers. Ec said subscribers to the fund never expected such to put in claims. Mr Bauchopa stated there wtre very few cases of positive hardship ; in fact, he could not say there were mo c than six families who were really destitute. The New Plymouth subscription list Ins retched £978, aud the Hawera list to £420. The first heat of the Gisborne Rowing Club Trial Fours will be pulled off to morrow afternoon, when the following crews will compete :— Jackson, sir. ; T. B. O'Meara, 3 ; F. W. Skeet, 2 ; E. Brown, bow. Barnes, str. ; Dawson, 3 ; luoker, 2 ; W. A. O'Meara, 1. Crews will leave the ahed at 4.30. Course from D. Hepburn's brickyard to boat shed. E. A. Pavitt's crew having collapsed, the wiutier of the above event will pull off with B nrne, atr. ; E. H. Pavitt, 3 ; E. J Chrisp, 2 ; Rawson, 1, and will take place on Wednesday at the same hour. A prize will be subscribed by the competing crews. Some excitement was caused in town last night by information being brought from the hospital that a man'suffering from typhoid fever had escaped through the window. A number of people proceeded up round the back roads to look for him, but on their arriving at the hospital it was found the unfortunate -,ii an had been secured in one of the paddocks opposite the hospital by Messrs Lucas, Scanlou and others. The man's name is John Sullivan, and he had been working on Malone's Pa'utahi contract. When captured he was very violent and knocked Scanlon down three times. A Nelson telegram says : — ''The Chamber of Commerce has resolved to draw the attention of fruit - growers to the increasing prevalence of the codlin moth in certain portions of the district, and the Chamber recommends tho bringing into operation of]the Codlio Moth Act, 1884. It was stated that within Nelson city the codlin moth was very destructive, and that in Totara and most of the country districts it was unknown yet. Mr Service, the Victorian Premier, threw out in the course of a recent speech the following which is worth pondering over by our own Government. He Baid : — " I want the people of Victoria to lay it down as a rule that these railways should be made to pay the interest on the national debt, and always to pay for it, for as soon as this can be done taxes can be reduced in all directions, and in time you have one of the finest properties you could ever wish to possess. If you adopt that principle, and only let it be known in England, the credit of Viotoria will be the best of any country under the sun." Elder S. N. Haskel, of California, who recently visited Auckland writes as follows in the Bible Echo and St^ns of the Times regarding New Zealand t — "The people of ;his colony are different in some respects from those of any other colonies of Austra- ( lusia. A combination of Irish wit, English courtesy, Scottish honesty, and Amerioan enterprise is Been in both the people aud in the Press. America owes its greatuess to the fact that tens of thousands of every nationality in the world flock to its shores yearly. In this respect New Zealand resembles America raoro than does any of the colonies." Ths following delightful sketch of the residence of a teacher in the Greymouth district on the West Coast is given in a recent inspectoral report : — " The teacher was living in a hut in the immediate vicinity of the school. The hut was purchased by him for £1, and he has expended upon it the sum of £2 10a in procuring tongued-and -grooved timber for lining. The necessary labor w.ib performed by himself. He has also made a very good swing for the children, and an easel for the school. As he has shown a disposition to make the best of the circumstances, I beg to recommend that the commissioners refund the sum of £3 10s expended by him on the hut. If a new school is built, the hut will be handy as a fowl-house." Mr D. F. Crawford, who has dissolved partnership with his brother, Mr W. F. Crawford, and is about to leave on a visit to England, was the recipient on Saturday from the brewery employees of a handsome gold signet rincr engraved "D.F.C." accompanied by the followingaddress :—" Gisborne, Jan. 27, 1886. To Daniel Crawford, Esq. Dear Sir, — Being on the eve of departure from this district we the undersigned accept the opportunity to express to you our earnest wish for your future Buccess in life ; and to cherish the memories of many happy associations in the past. We beg that you will, accept this ring as a slight token of the hearty esteem and goodwill from your lafce employees and well wishers. We have, <fee, [Here follow seven signatures.") Mr Crawford's many friends will join in wishing him a pleasant trip and a-safeieiAirn. He will be away about a year.