Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1889.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5436, 28 March 1889, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1889.

j At T) o'clock last evening a sham ..hock of ' . • ..; ,, j o vvas felt in Gisborne. iur the convenience of witness ? in the Maori case and others, the s.s. Australia, which leaves Gisborne to-morrow morning at seven, will call at Waipiro. To day's mercury readings in Gisborne at P. and 12 a.m. were 50 and 50. At 10 a.m. at AucklainV63, Napier ,")5, Wellington .">:>, Christchurch 53, Dunedin 50,Invercargill of). At the R.M. Court sittings this morning three cases were called on and two struck out, plaintiffs failing to appear. The case Robinson v. Tauriki was given by consent. To-night a dinner will be given in the Masonic Hotel to the Napier representative crew. A great many tickets have already been sold, and there is expected to be a large attendance. At the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon it was announced that the remaining ciiininal caoC, Regina v. Mossman, sheepstealing, would not be taken till Friday morning, and till then waiting jurors would be granted leave. His Honor Judge Richmond has been considerate to the wants of the jurymen, especially those engaged on tile murder case. Yesterday afternoon he asked the jurors if they had been comfortable the night before, and whether they were satisfied. The foreman said that they were perfectly so. At a meeting of J Battery members List night for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the corps the balance-sheet was read and adopted. Other minor business was also transacted, and another meeting is to be held on April 10 to finally wind up. The members decided unanimously that the Battery's flag, which had been presented to the corps by the ladies of thcdistrict.shouM be handed over to Lieut. Kenny, who in a few words suitably acknowledged the gift. The question is being considered in Napier of bringing up to Gisborne the amateur operatic troupe which last week performed so successfully in that town "The Mikado.'" This opera is a very popular one, and with Napier performers is sure to be a lingo success in Gisbornc-. Tiie scenery and mounting of the opera is said to lie as fine as that used by Messrs Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove. It is likely Mikado will be produced in Gisborne at Easter. Mr Cock, Chairman of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, said that at Nelson the imports in 1887 WLte £141,223, rud in 1888 £150,004, or £9( J more. Nelson showed a total of £60,000 of exports for the year. This was not quite complete, but was substantially correct. The population of Nelson, in IS7O wi\s o",W)0, and in ISSit it was slated at 7793, so that in ten years the town had only increased by 1000 inhabitants. What can they have been doing iv Nelson that the total value of their exports only amounts to £(30,000. The French newspaper La Cacardo says the " lifers " in New Caledonia afford the happiest example of what comes of not being executed for murder. After five years, these gentry, if well conducted, are placed in the first class, can become landowners, and are free to marry any lady convict in the same foi-tunatc position. One of them who has been thus successful has sent for his two sons in Fiance to join him in managing his coffee plantation. Unhappily, he is iv his 66th year. "All, sir," he said to the Governor of the colony, "If I had but known! I ought to have committed that murder ten years earlier." The Wellington City Council recently ordered a house to house inspection, anil the following is an extract from the report of the Sanitary Inspector : — " One. of the causes, perhaps, of the death-rate in this city being large is that numbers of children are to be seen — particularly on fine sunny days — congregated about the mouths of the main sewers of the city, just where the contents empty into the bay, amusing themselves by fishing, etc., and seated in many cases right in the midst of the odours that arise from these- drains. Another cause is doubtless the fact that the rubbish which is removed from backyards in the city is deposited in whatever place may offer itself. This evil will no doubt be removed when a regular system of collecting rubbish and nightsoil is instituted and the offensive matter destroyed in the destructor. It will be observed that a very large number of patent water closets have been constructed lately, and this now seems likely to become the favorite house appurtenances wherever it is possible to construct them so that they will attach to pipe drains. The Council may look for a much larger revenue from this soure every 3 ear, but they j all empty into the bay." Rather a curious scandal hag cropped up in the shape of a statement by the Paris correspondent of the Times that " Ary Ecilaw," the authoress of a number of semipolitical Russian novels published in France, and who has for some years resided in Paris, is no less a person than the Grand Duchess Sergius, one of the daughters of the late Princess; Alice. The sensation has been increased by the fact that " Ary Ecilaw " is also the authoress of a comedy entitled L'OlTicier Blue, the production of which was prohibited by the French Government just when it wa.s on the eve of being brought out at the GymnasG Theatre, the reason assigned for this stop being that it might disturb the good relations between France and al'iicndly power — meaning of course Russia. One of the novels contains a not very flattering sketch of the putative authoress's grandmother, her Majesty the Queen. It seems rather strange that the Princess Alice's daughter should write of Queen Victoria in this style.

Messrs Anderson and Anderson, well-known shipping agents of London, are in cominuni■ation with the Canadian Pacific Company, , md propose that they conjointly should build steamers of the highest class for the Atlantic passenger trade. It is expected that if the* proposal is brought to a successful issue they will eventually carry Australian passengers and mails to Vancouver. Church of England services, Sunday, March 31st— Karaka 11, Makaruka 3, Patutahi 3, Waercnga-a-hika 3, Ormond 7, To Arai 7.— Advt. Final Rewards and Punishments -How arc. they to 1)0 determined ? Will there be degrees in Glory ? Tent, 7.3o.— Advt,