Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4938, 12 August 1887, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING

GISBORNE FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 18S7 On page four is a letter on the Bible in Schools. The members of the Temperance Al'iance are reminded of the meeting this eveoing. As will be seen elsewhere, the Hall Company have decided to remain in Gisborne playing in town ta-uiglit and UwnorroiV. The Bishop of Waiapu will arrive in Gisborne on Sunday and officiate in floly Trinity Church. To-day probifoly has boen the mosb bitter and ioclemen day within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. .. . There haa been a piercing wet cold, and more disagreeable weather is hardly possible. The cases aruing out of the seizure of effects in the estate of S. M. Wileon have been proceeding in Chamber these two days, Itia reported to be a rather complicated business. The criminal charge for alleged concealment of goods comes on on Tuesday. The Wairoa Guardian of Wednesday has the following pari'giaph : Mr A. McDonald, a candidate for tlie East Coaafc electorate, arrived ho;e overland l'rom Gisborne on Saturday evening, accompanied by Mr J. H. Aislatie. Chief Judge McDonald of the Native Land Court arrived by the Suva this morning and has been engaged all day in settling gome native matters that have been held over since the last sitting of the Court. The Judge goes North on Sunday. The Ormond people are to have a great and unexpected pleasure on Monday evening when the Hall Company will appear there and give one performance, which will probably be attended by everyone for miles round. An account of £20 waa passed by the Council yesterday to Mr J. Dover for registering dogs. Mr Dover had registered 1200 dogs and killed 230. A Councillor asked how the number of dead doga was certified to. The Cle k stated that the tails were brought to him and he counted them. •« Yes" he added, " and they do smell too." A Clerk's billet is by no means a sweet one J when dogs' tails are to be counted. Mr John Hall is going to give a prize of j one guinea to the person who hands in the most suitable name for the Bay. Competitors are to hand in the names at the Masonic Hotel, and »t Saturday evening's entertainment a Committee will be chosen to judge what they consider the roost suitable one. Mr Hall remarked that the Bay had proved auything but one of poverty to him and his Company. The detective who recently reported as to the disliibuiion of charitable aid at Auckland Bta:ci i/hat lie came across cases where the ratious were sold at a discount for cash ia orrte: 1 to raise fuuds for drink, and he aUo mefc'Wtbh instances wliera recipient 3 ot relief b-ive f-eeiiold property aid are drawing rent for subdivisions, tlie plea given in extdnuation beiug that they liad been advised not io mo 'gage their property, but to apply foi* rations. There waa a good attendance at the Congregational Church Band of Hope last night when a capital programme consisting of souses by Misses Paruell, Lunn, Hitch, and Nelly Steele, and aduet (Little Sistersgone to Sleep) by Misses Green and Lunn was very nicely rendered. Recitation by Misses J. Adair and M. Findlay met «vith the approval of the audience. Readings by Messrs Fraser and Ambridpe were ;ilso t:iven. A very able and interesting lecture by Mr R. H. Scott on Our Influence and Responaibility was duly appreciated by those who had the good fortune to be present, and an enjoyable evening was brought to a close at 8 35 by the benediction pronounced by Pastor Wallace. A public meeting took pace on Saturday evening laßt at the Court House, Tologa, for the purpose of making some arrangements about collecting subscriptions and putting up two headstones over Joseph James and Ropicna Huatau, who lost their lives at the late accident here on the 11th June last. There waa a pretty fair attendance, Montague tstopford, Esq., J.P., being in the chair. A Committee was appointed to collect all subscriptions E.nd make all the necessary arrangements for gnfcling the stones and to report to a public meeting to be called in a month. This is, I think, a step in the right direction, and I am glad to see the step taken by Mr Stopford in calling the meeting, for which he deserves great credit. — (Own correspondent.) The Wairoa Guardian of > Wednesday states: — " By the s.e Wuirm on Monday a portion of the Wairoa County combined team of footballers left for Napier to play a series of matches against Some of the Hawke's Bay club 3. The Mohaka contingent went overland, we belieye, and unfortunately some of the Wairoa men missed their passages." The following list of sixteen are the names of Hall's combined team for the match against the Gisborne senior fifteen tomorrow :— Full back : Abraham ; halves : Rua, Skeet, Muuroe ; quarters;: W. Perman, Lynch ; forwards : V. Perman, H. Hall, J. Hall, Waud, Grifroo, Arundel, Whitehead, Weston, Mitchell, and Harman. The above are requested to muster at 3.30 sharp on Saturday 13th (to-morrow). The names of the Gisborne men were public hed last night, and an interesting game may be expected. The Auckland representatives of wholesale traders have held a meeting in reference to the system of discounts and terms of crecit. The Star,in referring to the subject, says : — " The real remedy for the gigantic evil wl.ich everyone deplores ia, however, in ihe hands of wholesale houses. If they were less eager to push bust \ess, more cautlous in givicg crec'it, and more loyal in their support to retailers who are doing sound trade, we should have fewer bankruptcies. Iv order to briup: this wholesome cl: iuge about it is uot nece jsary to await the slow injvenientß of a paternal Government. Whether the Bankruptcy law is retained, abolished, or a tieuded it will rest with the trading community itself to secure punctual payment?, and we hail, therefore, the meet in<r of wholesale houses to consider meaiures for restricting credit as a promising'sien.and one which may lead to a more wholesome condition in our system of trade," Dublin stit'sticß prove that* the annual mortaJry among children under five years of nqe is five times as threat ;itnong the working population as ia the professional and independent clasees. Presbyterian Church— Services next Sunday : Patutahi, 2 30, Rev. J McAra ■■; \J»tawhero, 2 30, Mr R. H. Scott ; St Andrew's, 11 and 7, Rev J. McAra.— (Advt.) The members of the New Zealand Alliance and Friends of Temperance are requested to met at the Good Templar's Hall, on Friday, August J2th, at 8 o'clock. Business import t:,_W. an Ranger, Hon. Sec— (Advt,)