NEWS OF THE DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5569, 14 September 1889, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

'Eiusio Mail. Strike about over. Great blaze in Melbourne. Ilawkesbury Handicap run to-day. Football : Auckland v. Wellington today. Mr Von D:nlelz>>n lias been lecturing on Fiji at Napier to a diminutive house. The export of gold from West Australia luring- the .Jimo quarter this year was f>2Ol><>/.s. Mr John Graham, for many years relieving officer in Auckland, died of heart disease. At the last football match in the township of Whangarei no less than four of the players met with accidents. During the past month 14,0001bs of bread, and 14,582 rations were issued by the Relieving Officer at Auckland. James Morrison, a noted Australian sporting man, trainer and jockey, is dead, lie was brother-in-law of Mr Puflett, Union Co.'s agent at Napier. Sixteen applications for the position of captain of the Wellington Fire Brigade were received by the City Council. No appointment has yet been made. Mr Steward in asking the Government if they will make enquiries during the recess with the view to submitting a proposai'to Parliament next session for labor settlement. A Napier paper says : — "A good many of our readers, in common with those of our local contemporaries, have been grumbling somewhat at the amount of space devoted by us to football matter." Jimmy McCann is the name of Wanganui\s champion drunkard. He ' went up' the other day for the 87th time. Like most of the ' hard nails ' on the West Coast, Jimmy is 'an old soldier.' Principal Rainy, speaking at Auckland, admired the power and development of Presbyterianism in the colonies, but stated that a failing was want of inspection of the ministers and work done. Principal Ramy has just hit it. There is a little insurrection at the Chatham Islands, one of our dependendencies. The trouble has arisen over the collection of the dog tax. Several members of the Permanent Artillery have been ordered to proceed thither to act as

police. Says the Sydney Bulletin : — ' .Jimmy ' Moore, James Allison, and .lames Scott (tho latter manager for the Maori football team) have gone in partnership, and will soon shed the light of their presence upon N.Z. The three Jays. A widow in Auckland who holds 80 acres of splendid Kauri bush land, had 10 acres of her property sold the other day by a County Council for rates. The lady alleges that the rates were paid and that she holds the receipt. The Public Health Bill before Parliament, is a short one, and gives power to local Boards of Health to regulate dairies and the supply of milk. They may also inspect slaughterhouses outside districts which supply meat to that district. From a Napier paper: - Mr Willoughby Brassey, the well known Gisborne lawyer finds business in Poverty Bay to be too dull, aud is at present in town making arrangements to start an office in Napier. [Huiiri] " Please, Miss, lots of silly things what fellers and girls thinks over in their sleep," was the scientific definition of the word " dreams, " with which a Gisborno school urchin paralysed his demure young "jacket-duster" yesterday morning. '" Anne Thomas," author of "Jenifer, " Dennis Doove," "Played Out," &c, writes to Mr Courtenay, who is at Home endeavoring to procure settlers with money for New Zealand, making a cool offer* She will write a book on her impressions of New Zealand, if soine colonial society will give her her travelling and hotel expenses and those of a lady companion, and £1000 for the copyright of her book. She would start in the spring of 1890. A peculiar disease is affecting Mr Ormond's cattle at Woodville. It is something like th« foot and mouth disease. The feet of the cattle decay, and the disease eventually kills them. It is thought the cause is the fescue grass. Professor Wallas, who examined the cattle the other day, thinks it has nothing to do with it. Mr Ormond's cattle on his Heretaunga plains property are affected in a similar way, and he is having the fescue grass on his property grabbled up under the belief that it is this grass which causes the disease. A Napier paper says that tjie life of a school master or mistress in the majority of the townships in the Hawke's Bay district is not all beer and skittles. The | " houses " in which some have to live in aie little short of disgraceful. Not «nly are they too small, but some of them require renovating, the occupants leading a life of misery in the winter time. In one district— the Blackburn district— the lady who teaches has to find yoom. for herself and her live children in a small two roomed cutlatje ! iThis ia scandalous, to say the least of it. Of late the Relieving Officer of the Auckland Charitable Aid Society has had several openings in the country for men, but has had the greatest difficulty in getting any of the applicants for relief to look at them. One man after going returned to town, as he did not consider it good enough, and coolly called upon the official, and requested him when he heard of anything better to let him know. Another man"who stated he had been living on his wife's earnings for over a twelve month, preferred the domestic hearth to going into the country, which is looked upon as a sort of exile.

During the lasb financial year L13,4b'3 Os lid was received by the Marine Department for light dues. This includes the sum of L 2365 8s 3d paid by the Post and Telegraph Department in respect of dues remitted on the San Francisco, N.Z. Shipping Company's, Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamers. It also includes the sum of L 3717 Os yd paid in respect of coasting vessels. The number of wrecks and casualties reported on our coasts during the past twelve months ending March 31st was 50, representing tonnage amounting to 10,024 tons, as against 55 casualties affecting 10,420 tons in the previous yeai*. There is a decrease in the number of total wrecks within the colony, 14 vessels of 2991 aggregate tonnage being lost, as against 19 vessels of 5120 aggregate tonnage in 1888. There is also a decrease in the number of lives lost during the year, being 31 as against 38 in the previous year, those lost in the colony being 19 as against 31 last year.

Three members of the Salvation Army at Rangiora were charged with obstructing the thoroughfare by assembling at a corner of the street and kneeling down praying to the annoyance of passers-by. The charge was proved. The Magistrate, Mr Whitefoord, in fining two of the accused, said the Bench did not take into consideration whether the Army was a religious body or not, they simply looked upon them as a body of people only, and the question was whether they had the right to obstruct the street and prevent others enjoying the privilege of using the thoroughfare. The case was not serious, but the streets were made for the use of everybody, and it was never contemplated that a body of people should be allowed to constantly parade the streets with flags and bands to the annoyance of those who had rights and privileges which should bo respected. Mr Whitefoord then read for tho defendants' benefit Mr Justice Richmond's remarks in the Napier case. He expressed a hope that they would act in future so as not to bring themselves within the arm of the law. His Worship lined the defendants 5s each, costs 375, or 24 hours hard labor. The two[men, named Tom Nicholas and Matthew' Brown, elected to accept the alternative.

It is not by skimming the newspaper that a man can get the cream of its contents.

When you feel like calling a big man a liar, be sure you're right, then use the telephone. We say a man has been "out on a lark " when iv reality he has been out on the swallow. Recent English papers tell of n singular prevalence of measles in London — adults and children alike being attacked. The primrose hue of Lord Randolph Churchill's cheeks is said to be caused by his enormous appetite. [Libellous if true. ] Russia new uses h considerable amount of naphtha as fuel. Last ye#r 890,000 tons of it were sent up the Volga for this purpose. The Town Board of Suva invited tenders a few days ago for " the immediate repair of the sides of the Board's wheelbarrows, ten in number." The British Nurses Association has been formed, where trained nurses shall be registered. Of the 15,000 now estimated lo°be in England, nearly 2,500 have joined the association. St. Petersburg is the only capital of Europe in which population is steadily diminishing. During the last seven years the inhabitants of the city have decreased by 85,000. Salmon fishing this year in the United Kingdom has been very unproductive. It has been a bad reason for anglers. Some large fish have been taken though — three aggregating 1721 b were caught in the Severn. A half-caste negro named Wilson Perry pleaded "guilty " to a charge of stealing half-a-crown and some cigarettes from the Tauranga Hotel, and was committed for burglary. John Cockerill, a horse-tramev, Avas accidentally killed at Palmerston (Otago) by a young horse lie was leading rearing up and jumping on him after Cockeiill had fallen to* the ground, completely crushing in his chest. The unfortunate man only lived about an hour after the accident." Another big daily paper is shortly to be started in London, and by a rich American, Mr Joseph Pulitzer, of New York. It is said the paper will be the same size as The Times, with illustrations taken by a new process direct from photographs. It is to be an enlarged and improved daily Graphic, embracing the best points of that popular paper with that of a daily journal run on exceedingly smart lines. Peter Malcolm, a Scotch sailor, fell overboard in the Indian Ocean, 500 miles from land. He was reported drowned, but after two years lie bobs up to claim a 40,000d0l legacy, and N to report that after floating two days he was picked up by a Russian vessel and carried round the world.

The Melbourne tug Eagle had a thrilling experience in towing a hopper bargo from Adelaide to Port Phillip lately. Early on the 20th during a heavy S.W. gale, the tow line parted ten miles south Rivoli Bay. Both vessels drifted with a heavy sea till midnight, and were only three miles off the shore, when the Eagle again made fast and was able to resume towing. A heavy sea carried the quarter boat away. When entering Port Phillip Heads on Friday the tide carried the barge forward, causing the line to say. It was caught round a rock, bringing the barge and the steamer up, and nearly causing a collision. A verdict of death from tight lacing is, perhaps, still to be sought among the curiosities of law. But a Birmingham jury have come near it in a verdict of " Death from pressure round the waist.' The victim was a poor servant girl who died after a fright, and her death was attributed by the medical witnesses to tho fact that she was too tightly belted to enable her to stand the wear and tear of any sudden emotion. She was a notorious tight lacer ; her collar fitted so closely that it was impossible to loosen it at the critical moment ; and under her stays she wore a belt so remorselessly buckled as to prevent the free circulation of the blood. | The most extensive floods ever known in the district are being experienced at Nurmurkah, New South Wales. The creek is very much higher than in June, when the level reached was the highest known up to that time, The principal residence portion of the town is cut off from the business portion. Boala Creek is spread over many miles of country. Horses, cattle, and sheep have been drowned. The floods are very severe in the distriots on the Nurmurkah side of the Murray, and it is feared that tho waters will rise higher, as the snows on the mountains are melting, and the water from the late rains has not yet. come

down. A deputation representing the newlyformed Licensed Interpreters' Association of New Zealand has waited upon the Native Minister to ask his approval of the objects of the Association, Avln'eh are, briefly, to suppress illegal and dishonorable practices, to provide means of reference for the most amicable settlement of professional difficulties, and generally to watch over the interests of the profession. The Native Minister gave a most cordial approval to the purposes of the Association, and also the code of rules drawn up. He was then asked not to iHttko.'inyncn' appointments of interpreters until the four councils to be formed by the Association are in existence, or without having first referred the question of any applicant's fitness to the council of his district for «i report upon his qualifications. The Minister undertook that this should be done, but he reserved for further consideration the scale of fees submitted by the deputation. A Patea Maori was relating his experience of the law and its peculiarities the other day. He said :— " My lawyer came to me and said he could get me some land I claimed by Maori title from an ancestor, and which the pakehaknew was in dispute. I told him all about it, and he said, ' It is a very good case ; you ought to win.' I thought that was all right so I said, 'Go on quick, and get me my land.' He said, 4 Very good.' By and by he came to me and said he wanted one of my pigs to pay expenses, and I caught the pig and gave it him. Very soon he came for another pig and I had it caught for him. In a few weeks he had taken all my nine pigs, but he had given me no land ! I said nothing, but I did not like this. In about a fortnight he came and took away my horse. Then I said to him I have had enough law. If I let you go on, you will eat up the land too. You have taken all my pigs and my horse; this is enough— enough law for me and enough pay for you !" The Napier Telegraph Bays : — An amendment in our criminal law which lias been urged, namely granting bail on easy terms for all prisoners awaiting trial, should receive fresh adherents from a

plain statement of the recent criminal sittings at Napier. There were seven prisoners awaiting trial, and of these six were acquitted. These six men, whom juries rightly or wrongly declared innocent of the crimes with which they were charged, suffered imprisonment for various terms, though not prisoners in a strictly legal sense, because of the delay in their trTals. In once instance the man was tried at the previous sittings, but the jury disagreed, and the accused was remanded to gaol to await for four months till the Court sat. Practically speaking the disagreement of that jury sent an innocent man to gaol for four months. Increasing the facilities for granting bail, it is considered by past experience, would not result in any large number of disappearing, but would be one step further in purifying our legal administration. Sending uiitried men to gaol is barbarity of the I worst form, and any modification of the syst'-m in the direction we have indicated would be welcomed by many thoughtful

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Twenty-three mad dogs were captured by the London Metropolitan Police during the first five months of this year.

On the same Sunday recently one missionary and 50,000 cases of liquor were landed at an African port.

A tax of 4d per ton on all coal coming into London is to be levied for one year for the purpose of increasing the city revenue by L 150,000. A writer named Arbuthnot, who lived in the last century, thus describes the law : — •" Law is a bottomless pit ; it is a cormorant, a harpy, that devours everything. " The Duke of Edinburgh has*' left the service, and unless war breaks out is not likely to ever again serve on board a tighting ship. The cruiser Melpemone, recently turned out of Portsmouth dockyard, is answering all the expectations formed of her. She is a very fast vessel, keeping up a speed of 20 knots for four hours. The new warship Trafalgar — the heaviest and most powerful ironclad in the navy — is an immense success. She has a mean speed of 17£ knots, three quarters of a knot inoi*e than anticipated. Emigration from Grea^Britain is greatly on the decrease. From the returns for the six months ending June 30th, the emigration to the United States has fallen off fully 40,000, and to the colonies there are fewer people departing than usual. This is probably due to the improved state of trade in England. An inspection of the Highlands of Scotland and investigation of crofters' grievances have been recently undertaken by Lord Lothian, a responsible member of the British Ministry. He made exhaustivo inquiries, and the conclusion come to is that but one remedy is available — a large scheme of emigration. The shipping trado for the past six months has been unusually prosperous. The shipbuilding trade on the Clyde has had a boom. The total number of vessels placed in the water aggregate 131,205 tons, against 92.020 tons in 1888. The returns from the Wear for the half year show that 48 vessels were launched, with a gross tonnage of 97,099, as compared -with 31 vessels of 04,124 tons in the same period of 1888.

Women's rights are sometimes imagined to be acknowledged only in Christian countries. Uganda is certainly an exceptional to the rule, if it is a rule. Here is a passage in proof from Mr Asho's new book on that country : — " Sometimes women hoeing near the- roadside will capture a passer-by, and on pain of a severe castigation or of robbing him will make him take a turn while they sit quietly down."

Hollowatfit Pilla and Ointment are remedies which should invariaMy be taken by travellers in search of health, pleasure, or business. Many deleterious influences are constantly at work in foreign climes,tending to deteoriate the health ; these and the altered conditions of life will entail on those who travel the necessity of carefully attending to early symptoms of disease, and they will find the use of these remedies to he highly necessary, the action of the Pills being purifying and strengthening and of great service in cases of fever, ague, and all inflammatory diseases, whilst the Ointment is a sovereign cure in cases of piles, bad legs, bad breasts, wounds and ulcers. Holloway's remedies do not deteriorate by change of climate.

(ContitHud from third page) \ The proapeotus is published in Melbourne of tho Daily Mail Newspaper pub. lishing Company. The capital is to be L 259.000, in 10s shares. The first issue will be of 20,000 shares. The object of the company is to bring out a daily morning newspaper. The venture will lose as much and move money than the newspaper the Standard is doing if it is gone on with. The Melbourne Argus contains the following:—"The exports from Melbourne to New Zealand have become so shrunken that no encouragement odors for shipping enterprise, and it results therefore that it costs more to send goods there than it does to bring thorn from the United Kidgdom, which is a severe handicap for the "Melbourne merchant. But if intercourse were fostered there would be a larger trade between the two colonies, which would be further promoted by a consequent reduction of freights. To the Victorian manufacturer New Zealand offers a market at present only second to that of New South Wales, and probably in the near future it will be a better one."

Says the Auckland Herald :— The iron industry is now assuming extensive proportions in our western seaport, and large quantities of Onehunga iron are being used in all parts of the colony. A blast furnace is in course of erection at Onehunga for utilising the enormous deposits of iron sand on the West Coast, converting it ' into a marketable commodity. It is proposed to use a consideracle quantity of hematite iron ore with the ironsand at the blast furnace, and tenders are being invited for the regular supply of iron ore at the Onehunga Ironworks. There are large deposits of hematite at Kamo, Kawau, the Thames, the shores of the Manukau, Nelson, and various places in the neighborhood of Auckland, so that there should be no difficulty in obtaining regular and abundant supplies of the article required. Captain Russell presented a petition to the House from Robert Bullen, ex-In-spector of Police at Napier, praying for compensation for loss of office, and that , the House may see tit to recommend the Government to gain him some employment, he cared not what so long as he was engaged at anything that would pay his actual expenses. The petition is a very lengthy one, and points out that Mr Bullen was put in charge of the Hawke's Bay district, where he remained till after he was dispensed with in March, 1887- after a faithful service of 27 years in the public service— receiving LfiOO compensation for loss of office. He further states that he is 55 years of age, and isascapable of discharging his duty for the next ten years as at any time during his past services. The petitioner fails to sec why he has been picked out by the present Government, especially as he states that the Premier and the Defence Minister agree that he is one of the most capable, judicious, and zealous officers in the public service. The Argentine Republic has just tried the experiment of shipping live cattle to Europe. A herd of 48 oxen have been despatched to Paris, and have sold at rates varying from LIG to L2O per head. The experiment cannot be taken as a fair criterion of the of opening a paying trade in live cattle between the River Plate and the European markets, but in the opinion of the promoters, it establishes the fact that a suflicier.t improvement has already been introduced into the native breeds by judicious crossing with English cattle for it to be feasible to breed animals which, delivered alive in Eu r ope, would return a large profit to their owners. It is stated that the Argentine Republic has about 20,000,000 head of cattle whose present average value is not above 15s, and it is therefore held to be possible that a very considerable number may eventually be exported alive at prices which will enable the breeders to realise a large profit. Out of the 48 head exported to Paris, only one died during the voyage. An oldNewZealand resident, Mr Francis Woorell Stevens, described as late of Dunedin, and now of Buxton, England, has petitioned the Imperial Parliament claiming that he and not Rowland Hill, was the real inventor of the penny postage system. The petition was presented in the House of Commons by the Marquis of Carmarthen on the 17th June last. It sets out that the petitioner is now 83 years of age, and that in the reign of William IV., when Lord Althorpe was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he devised the scheme and submitted it to that statesman. Petitioner was then 2(> years of age, and kept a school at Laughton, in Essex, and Rowland Hill, who was ten years his senior, was engaged by him as teacher of French. He communicated his ideas on the penny postage scheme to Hill, and showed him the official correspondence, and Hill asked permission to write a pamphlet on the subject. It was not till after the petitioner had been many years in New Zealand that he learned Hill had published the pamphlet claiming the scheme ,is his own, and that ho had been

rewarded by Parliament and the Crown for the invention which was really that of the petitioner.