MEETING OF LADIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4896, 23 June 1887, Page 3

MEETING OF LADIES.

A meeting of ladies, convened by the Mayor, in accordance with a lotter received by Lady .Tervoia, was held in the Court House last night. There were present — Major Porter (in the chair), Me9dameB Porter, Adair, Dunlop, Thomson, Andrews, Pearson, and Boush'eld ; Misses Porter, Nesbitt, and Bousfield. Major Porter read the correspondence he had received on the subject, and from which we glean it is proposed that all subscriptions collected in each provincial district shall be sent to the general committee in Wellington to be administered by thorn, and further that a yearly income of £10 from the subscriptions of any county shall entitle the subscribers in that county to nominate one case for relief, and that a yearly income of £50 shall entitle a county to a separate committee, and to the entire disposal of iis own subscriptions. Afte* some discussion it was decided that the ladies present form a Committee to arrange for a large meeting of ladies, to be held on July 7th. Miss Porter was elected honorary secretary.

A writer in a southern paper says : — A good newspaper should be a special study in fifth and sixth standards nsan examination paper, say once ;i week. Take the cablegrams a'oue. From these the teacher could ask quotums on nearly eviry branch of education, showing what latent ability did exist in the pupils outside tho ordinary cram of the school. We belong to tho greatest empire in tho world and wo take infinite pains to instruct our children on its early history when wild in woods the azure-tinted Briion ran, hut we allow them to reach manhood or womanhood absolutely uninstructed on the great events of our day, and thua unfitted to lake a properly intelligent view of their privileges and responsibilities as citizens of that empire. More dignifying and ennobling teaching could not be given* and its influence- in restraining from larrikinism would be enormous. There are many other subjects which a judicious teacher could select from the living history contained in a newspaper, but I fear to mon tion them lest I curtail the history of this one too much. Charles Leroux was tho best known man in tho clubs and gambling houses of Paris. Originally he was a waiter in a travern, and was glad to receive the customary four soua gratuity from clients. He rose to acting as banker for an hour to players. He lent 500 francs for a game, and in half an hour was repaid GOO francs. He hecamo so rich that he was able to have caslles, town houses seaside villas, a picture gallery, carriages and a stable with twelve horaes. He dined off the plate he often washed. He had two valets, and when he travelled he had his own physician— like a sovereign. H ; s fortune collapsed with tho bad times ; hie mind cou'd not support the seven years' famine after the seven years of plenty, and he is now in an asylum cell. Sir Tlenry Hawkins is getting a reputation as a witty judge. Recently a prisoner pleded guilty of larceny, and then withdrew the plea and declaivd himself to bo innocent. The case was triotl and the jury acquit ed him. Then said .Sir Hy. Hawkins : "Prisoner, a fow minutes ago you aaid you were a thief. Now tho jury says you are a liar. Consequently you are discharged." A pol'cyholder in the Government Insurance Association writes to a Nelson paper giving the result of his own and a friend's policy as follows : — i having paid £13 have received a bonus of £15 ; he, having paid between £17 and £18, has done even better, receiving £20. I' is only fair to add that we are both young lives, and that the amounts were those added to the policy, not cash value. Intelligence of the murder of seven men during an election di .spate in Kansas states that while the sheriff and hi 3 little urray were not allowed to enter Colarado his force was so overwhelming that it was decided to give up the actual murderers on condition that they should be protected frnm mob luv an 1 the gnaiantte of a legal trial. ()a thesfi term* 15 men were given up. The sheriff held warrants for 52 pK>rs'ins, but he compromised the matter on this basis. The demand for the American remedy Hop Bitters, in this part of t>'e country has becme so groat that the Hop Bitters Co. , whose headquarters are at Rochester, New York, U. S. A. , have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr. M. H. Van Burgh, a gentleman of several years experience with thi* company and the trade may be assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the moat courteous treatment. The H. B. Co. have establishments at London, Paris, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and their American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world. " ROUfiH ON RATS."— Clears out rats, mice roaches fiius, wita, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, ck-rabbits, sparrows, gophers. At chemists' and d u-'trisfx'. ' BUCHU-PAIBA."— Quick, complete cure, all an noyinif kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. At chemists and dnitffjwts. Kenipthorne, Prosser, and Co., agents, Auckland. (Continuation of News on Back Page)