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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4769, 21 January 1887, Page 2

There ia a column of leading mattar on paga four. The raia fall in Giaborne during 18S6 was 28^ inches in 144 days, Tho visitors have returned from the Pacific oil bore, but there is nothing new to report. No business was done at the Land Court to-day, and it sat only a short time. The Valuation Roll is on view at the Borough office, and will be till February 15. Mr Locke leaves on a short visit to Napier to-day. The Harbor accounts to Dec. 31st are now being printed. They are so voluminous that they took M r D. Johnston, the auditor, a week to go through them. A meetiDg of the High School Governors was lield yesterday to ballot out those who shall retire in February. Archdeacon Williams, Mr D. Johnston, and Mr J. W. Johuson retire, but will be eligible for reappointment by the County Council, and the Borough Council, and the Governor respectively. A large theatrical company has just left Wellington suddenly and their creditors are mourning. There have been large and successful bush burns at Woodville. There was a death from sunstroke last Friday at Christchurnh— Fred Voss, aged 15. The British national debt has cost the taxpayers in simple interest alone the sum of L 2,764,413,726. There is a good deal of typhoid fever in Auckland. A Russian journal, speaking of the terrible misery which prevails in St. Petersburg, mentions that one of the largest asylums is filled with destitute needlewomen, any one of whom would be glad to give ten hours' work for 20 copecks, which ia equivalent to five pence. The Wellington Posts comments on the fact that the Manapouri from Sydney was inspected there but not at Gisborne and Napier, and thinks such a system of inspection futile. At the R.M. Court to-day judgment was given in the case of Paddeu v. the Borough Council, claim £13 9s Gd for wages due by Corcornn, contractor of the Ciunoi!. At the hearing of the case Mr Finn, for the Counoil, raised the nonsuit point that there vas no order made by the Court in accordance with section sof the Workmen's Wages Act. On this point th». Magistrate granted a noLSnit. No costs were a^ktd for.

The last launch for tho Manapouri this evening leaves at 7 o'clock sharp. Passengers will need to be punctual, as if there is any delay the launch will :ni.3s the tide. A livuuch also leaves at 5 o'clock. Tiie man who has besn convicted at Sydney of great land frauds is not a son of Air Oliver, ex-Minister of Works, but of Mr Oilivier, formerly R.M. atChristchurch. The statement was copied from a Tarauaki paper. A wouderful discovery is said to have been made by experiments carried on with funds supplied by the Prussian Government. It ia of a gluss which will increase the power of the miscroscope enormously. Ordinary glass contains six substances — the new glass contains fourteen. The most essential elements of which it is composed are phosphorous aud l)oiou, n-ither of which is used in common gkss. With the old glass the the full power w;i3 the discernment of the 500 th part of an inch, and with the mwv gla33 it ia claimed that the 204,700,000 th part of an inch can be perceived. Opium eating is sadly on the increase in many parts of England. Iv one of the prisous it has been found absolutely necessary to give one of the iumatea doses of this narcotic to keep her alive, her constituion having become wedded to it. The expense is half-a-crown a day. A startling announcement has beeu made in reference to a projected Transandine railj way, by which a new route will be available to tne Antipodes, and by whioli it is contemplated that a saving of about a fortnight will be effected. The voyage will mm, in the first instance, be by steam to Beunos Ay res, by rail as above to Valparaiso, and then by steam again to Australia.

Pastor Wallace preaches next Sunday at 11 and 7: "Great Scandal or Sins Uncovered," Makaraka, 2 ; Te Arai, 3.4.3. All seats free. Strangers invited. — (Advt.)