NEWS OF THE DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5570, 16 September 1889, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr A. Graham, M.H.R., returned from his Legislative duties this morning. Mr J. M. Dickson, Gisborno delegate to the Masonic Convention at Wellington, returned this morning. Bolt in Gladstone Road this afternoon. No one in the road to get hurt. The local law examinations are now being held, and will last over a week. The Rev.°Mr Gnrdiner is acting as supervisor. There are three candidates. L 2007 was collected at the Napier Customs house in one day last week. Eighty thousand Canadians have settled in the United States in a year. Soundings show 25ft of water on the bar and 10ft fiin in the river at Grey mouth. Mr George Norton, of Wellington, who is a builder of racing and practice rowing boats, is obtaining large orders. The Stewards' and Cooks' Union of New Zealand have forwarded £200 to the funds of the London dock laborers. A girl named Barbara Walsh. 11 years of age, has been accidentally drowned in a river near Mercer, Waikato. On the supplementary estimates appears a vote, payment to Wi Pere on account of his claim to land at Poverty Bay, £300. Messrs Fleming and Fergusson, of Paisley, have received an order from the Timaru Harbor Board for a paddle tug of 600 horse power. A number of large salmon, or sea trout, are reported as having lately been seen in Wellington harbor, and some were caught in Evans' Bay in the nets. The Kauri Timber Company have loaded the barque Yolande, now lying atKaipara Heads, with 343,C00 feet of prime kauri in flitches for conveyance to Shanghai direct. When the Auckland and Otago footballers met at Dunedin it was the fifth match played between the two provinces. Each had won one game, while the other three had been drawn. The Auckland Harbor Board have accepted a tender forJLIBB9 for reclamation works in Freeman's Bay, and the work of cutting down Acheron Point and making a road across the bay has been commenced. The removal of this point will take away one of the land marks of A uckland. At Remuera, Auckland, the other day, a funeral took place, and when the coffin was laid in the grave the sexton refused to fill in the grave, on the ground that he never made it a practice of working on Sunday. Consequently the coffin was left exposed to the elements till next moraing. Barnum's big show will shortly make its appearance in London. It will occupy the Olympia. To give some idea of the size of the circus and its belongings, I may mention that it will require three steamers of the size of the s.s. Doric to convey the whole lot from New York to London. The 2>arade in the streets will be a procession three miles in length. Between the Ist of October and the 3rd of December last the travelling expenses and allowance drawn by Ministers were as follows :— Sir H. Atkinson, Ll6 lls 6d ; Hon. Mr Hislop, Ll3 17s ; Hon. Mr Fisher, LIOO 0s (3d ; Hon. Mr Richardson, Ll6 Gs ; Hon. Mr Fergus, LlB 7s ; Hon. Mr MitcheLson, L 9 3s ; total, L 174 10s. ' At a meeting of the Dunedin Exhibition i Commissioners, the President reported . that he believed everything would bo in i order by the opening day. The buildings were now being closed in, and this would . be completed by Saturday. For the . opening ceremony 1250 invitations had been issued. New South Wales has • already commenced fitting up her court, i a large number of exhibits having already i arrived. Victoria would commence fitting up in a few day s. The Sydney Referee recently got off the i following bit of bombast : — The world ac- : knowledges the fact that that Young Aus- : tralia, Queen of the Southern Sea ! has i taken the whip hand in all kinds of sports. j We lisivo thrown down the gauntlet o. ; battle on their own soil, to England's - greatest, and from little beginnings in that line we shall undoubtedly go on till the Kangaroo has devoured the old lion in fair combat, and the Emu shakes his bald eiv.xt above the prostrate Eagle and screams " Advance Australia !" Sullivan, the reformed athlete, is now s conducting services on his own account at Christchurch, having had the churches f shut on him. He is indignant at the l Ministers' Association for this, and in his / Sunday night's lecture he said if it were not for the grace of God in his soul he - would challenge the clergymen of Christi church into the ring and knock them silly. His patrons now are mostly women y and such folks as follow the Salvation c Army demonstrations. — Exchange. 1 An aristocrat in reduced circumstances, :1 who has been gum-dig<jing at Wairoa, has •1 just 1 earned that he has come intoposses- ,, sion of the family estates with a rent roll >f of close upon £20,<-09 a year. Like a r genuine aristocrat, he intends to fulfil his c engagement to marry the daughter of a >f neighbor with whom he fell in love with c whilo in his low estate, and take her a Home to enjoy the .splendor and luxury ir of his inherited position.