Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1887.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4770, 22 January 1887, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1887.

There is some reading matter on page four The comet was not visible laat night, the sky being overcast. The natives up at the East Cape are reported to have large and fine crops of maize this season. The Tokomaru school is finished and will uo\v Bhortly be opened. There was no business at the R.M. Court nor at the Native Land Conrt to-day. Mr DcLautour notifies that he has shifted his offices to the Loan Co. 'a buildings. j Mr M. B. Ford gives the usual notice to his debtors who do not pay up. The Aikshaw with the Ilarbor works plant was three months out yesterday. She may now be expected at auy hour. The Harbor Engineer's offices will be shifted over to the new buildings on the other side of the river next week. Out of a large number of tenders McNeiil ami Co., of Dunedin, have the contract for 2000 tona more cement for Napier harbor a t £3 8s 6d a ton. The following tenders were received by Mr Quigley today for erecting a six-roomed houee for Mr Bryson at Patutahi, labor only : —Curtain, L7O ; Holmes, L 65 ; J. Maher, LGI ; Thompson, LGO ; Martin and Kowley, L 47, No tender has boon accepted.

A Southern paper calls Mr Richardson "the Jonah of the present Ministry." A Paris doctor has recently grafted frog skin on the human body, Some Wanganui natives have been fined £10 aud costs for sly grog selling. The New Zealand Wesleyans are in luck, having sot a legacy of £3000 from a benefactor who was neither a Wosleyau nor a colonist. The Timaru Harbor Board has accepted a pioposal to fiuish the harbor works for L 34.000. The maiu work is carrying out the north wall. The area of the enclosure is to be CO acres. The Church of England Parsonage, West Charleston (Victoria), was burned down on Sunday, Jan. 9, and oue of the Rev Mr Hay ward's daughters was burned to death. A Dunedin telegram says :— " Eight more fire brigades have entered for tho competition at the intercolonial demonstration which takes placi> next month." The Gisborne team expects to leave here on Feb. 11. New Zealand will celebrate her jubilee in three years and the Wellington people are becrinnjng to consider how it ought to be celebrated, The Post thinks the openiug of the Trunk Railway ought to be one way. An Auckland telegram to-day says .— "At the Wcsleyan Conference, on the second reading of the list of stations, the Rev Mr Lee wa allocated tD Gisborne." Gisborne will shortly be visited by tho Rev. H. T. Kobjohns, 8.A., of Sydney, as a deputation of the British and Foreiga Bible Society. Mr Robjohns is now iv Auckland and proves himself nnable preacher, as well as a lively aud skilful lecturer. In future officers of the postal and telegraph departments will not be allowed auy commission on fees collected from the public from other departments, except in regard to work done for the Government Insurance Department.

A Wellington correspondent says the Government will when Parliament meets propose a bill extending the duration of thiß Parliament for two months so as to prevent the chance of the Representation Bill being stonewalled till August 6th, when the Parliament expires unless it is so prolonged. As was the case last year, bathers at the beach arc removing the scuta from off the bank nearer to the water's edge. These I they do not return but leave to be washed out by the tide. Last year two oE the seats were broken up and washed away through the same cause. The Borough Council should attend to the matter. The Auckland newspapers are urging the severe punishment of offenders fouud guilty of wilful neglect or malice in setting fire to the scrub or bush, owing to the magnitude of bush fire 3 and the lossocca3ioued thereby. A late telegram from Auckland says : —Mr Cornwell has taken the preliminary steps in an action against Macarthur and Co., for the recovery of LGO.OCO. The action is supplemental to the one recently concluded, in which the same defendants were adjudged to pay LIOO damages and costs for actual trespass, and against which decision they are appealing to the Privy Council. A Mr Cross, of Prahran (Melbourne), has accideutly shot a man who was trespassiug on his property. Mr Cross, when retiring to bed, heard a noise in the garden. He took out an old gun, not knowing it to be loaded, for the purpose of frightening the man, whom he prodded with the muzzle, and the gun exploded, discharging the contents into his grian. The man was named Shaw. He was a carpenter, and he was making a short cut through the garden. He died the same night. Mr Fisher, M.H.R., of Wellington, is going to attempt to do the impossible. Next session he will introduce a bill to amend the Licensing Act iv the direction of preventing brewers or wine and spirit merchants from owning a proprietary interest in public houses. The effect, it is said, will be to preventbrewers putting in " dummies" as licensees, and to improve the quality of the beverages dispensed. Justice Richmond hai been condemning loug date bills, saying they are principally given by purchasers of hotels, and adding : — " Long date bills were a nuisance, and ought to be put a stop to, as they led to a lot of litigation, The drawing of bills together with bills of sale was a very bad Australian enstom, which was all very well until the bills and bill of sale got into different hands, and then the matter came before the Court."

A true lover's tragedy has just occuired in Lyons. A young man of twenty-five who had completed his term of military service, finding that his means did not enable him to marry the girl of his choice, whose parents were obdurate, wrote to her to say that, as life was intolerable without her, he intended to amother himself with the fumes of charcoal. The girl agreed to die with him, and they were both found lying dead in a room several days after they had carried out their fatal plan. A German journal publishes a curious por. trait of Prince Bismarck. " Bismarck," the writer says, " was an enigma when a child, and he is ao enigma still. He never knows one day what he will do the next day, and for years past he has simply taken advantage of present circumstances in directing the affairs of Europe. The great source of his strength i.s the facility with, which he changes bis opinions, abandons his friends, coddles his enemies, and profits by the malice of one, the hatred of another, the pride of a third, while he makes fools of them all. His conscience knows no scruple, and he professes an equally passionate fondness for the Bible and the latest bad French novel." In the case of Cheymol, Wellington, sentenced to four years for forging bond warrants, the evidence showed he had gotLSOOO worth of goods from France and sent no payment for them. His counsel applied for the benefit of the Probation Act. Hits Honor said the Probation Act appeared to him to apply exclusively to offences which might be prevented by placing prisoners under surveillance, and it could not be said that the best interest of the community would b« conserved in this case by placing the accused on probatiou. The, Act must be read between che lines, unless it was to be made a perfect farce. He was of opinion that the Act was oevcr iuteuded to apply to offences of such a character and maguitude. He had seldom seen a case iv which guilt was more clearly brought home. The evidence proved a determined serieß of forgeries, part of a long continued design to defraud. A special meeting of the Ormond School Committee was held last night at the schoolhouse, when it was resolved to apply to the Board for a mistress forthwith as the number of children has greatly increased since the closing of the school last year. As there are some parents who are very neglectful of sending their children to school the committee notify elsewhere that the compulsory clauses of the Education Act will be enforced.

A letter from Auckland states :— " The land and property agents report a decidediy improved tone in the real estato market. There have been many enquiries for eligible properties, and this is accepted as a sign of reviving confidence in property investment, although there is a possible connection between these enquiries aud a reduction of the Bank rate of interest on fixed deposits. A Dunedin gentleman has written pointing out as one of the blessings of protection that a large increase of vine culture would give a fillip to the glass industry. Other correspondents point out that grapes sell wholesale in Sydney at Id per lb, and retail at 3d, while iv Duuedin 1601bs hothouse grown sell at from '2s to 2s 6d per lb, the grower receiving Is a lb from the retailer. Reference is made to the fact that only only one grower in Dunedin or the suburbs even sent a supply to the local hospital tc soothe the dying patients' lips. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Diseases of Women. — Medical science in all ages has been directed to alleviate the many maladies incident to females, but Profeßsor Holloway, by diligent study and attentive observation, wa3 induced to believe that nature had provised a remedy for these special diseases. After vast research he succeeded in compounding his celebrate.! Pills and Ointment, which embody thc> principle naturally designed for the relief and cure of disorders peculiar t ■> women of all a«fß and constitutions, whether residing in warm or cold climates. They havo repeatedly corrected disordered functions which had defied the usual drugs prescribed by medical men, aud with the still more satisfactory result that tiio malady has been completely aud permanency removed ,