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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5672, 20 January 1890, Page 3

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Bpwing Olub ■"'(at' pre* r hß,ye accepted a '^^^^^^^^^WL-'thfr^i>rerly\3ivy -Bowing off about the match. . -vvhich .is Wellington ; : Tl»e Gisborrie te]£e.'thelr own hits been

I ' *t us 4iF <it li. V .S«,U-]6 left LBO6O. ' - ■.'M^-T'^tin'SvhiriniJAteHrl, Hiiwke's Bay, has .3»e6tV bur ned du ivu. " -J&%£ : jtojiti . Prosit ien t ■of the •ExliihU'ioftiJs.ltkety..- to stand for Tniori seat a£ fclV# next election. Mr Thumiis Proctor, an old identity at Qamaru, is dead.- / .The Rev. J/ S: Hill, the well-known Auckland-clergyman, proceeds Home on furlough. . ■•"■•- --;Ib; ii? very easy to be a fool. One can be a foot and nob know it. Wellington Gas Company pay. dividend ,6 per cent., making -13$ for the year. ; Wairoa. people ar^ number of j Sheep to Napier for : freezing; ; .-Six huhdredfSunday school children are practising Jubilee hyinni at Wellington. . A~Wellington lawyer got rather talkative in Court on Thursday, and he was arrested for drunkenness. _ :. The s.s. Manapouri, which arrived at Melbourne on Thursday, owing to an accident to .tier engines, which were disabled oh . fcKe third day oufc, did not call at Hobart. , Th 6 open Season for red and fallow deer shooting at kelson is from February 15th to. March 31st>i' Down South the weather is still remarkable foiii^ inconsistency. One day the heat^s^atniost overpowering, and another of a Siberian intensity. .Several, bank- have subscribed LSO and Fire Insurance;companies *rom LlO to L 25 ea^h^wards. the Auckland Jubilee celebßitiojfts^ -' --• ■.""' ? l Thile^ are 40 Primitive Methodist churches in the colony, and 11 parsonages. Costing -L 26,402 and having a debt of L6M6. ~ Supt.£ Lucas, M. and W. Barry, T. Corinor^Labrooin, and Gifford comprise the Spjjt Fire Brigade representative team. ;•{; --'>- : 'A;mß^iiauied Charles Jackson, one of the rie'ei*-do-wells at present infesting the .•colony, Ha&~been arrested . at Oamaru for •^larcenyi. > At his lodgings was found a quantity of stolen property and burglar's tools. If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ough 1* to pay you, what^peopJe think of you, and then to you nothing will be pure, and you will always feel wretched; -The superintendent of the Cable Company informs the Press Association that ;500 knots of the • cable to duplicate the line to Australia are already manufactured, and the work is proceeding as rapidly as "poss'sible. -";"-. ". . .'.„-...-'' What a. great hold; racing is getting in the colony fßvei'ybody says so, but still it increases.^ Jfhe - Woodville Club have decidedfio hold"an extra autumn meeting, and to giye' a much larger sum in stakes than, formerly. n"l-^ who in this world would rise," ;says.j4n unknown American poet, " must bust or advertise." A man was enquiring in. a' Wellington suburb where a 'Mr Smith lived. "Te Aro House," was the immediate reply gi^en by several j'chilarun. The marriage rate in Queensland in 1888 was 8 63 per thousand of population, iv Victoria 8.3, .whilst in New Zealand it was only 5 -97^ 'a propor ion which compares unfavorably with the 7-1 per thouj sandWof^Tßngland and 6 "25 among the I canny Soots; ■i Great Britain is congmtulal ing herself that the Budget will show a very substanj;tSaK: surpluß, and the question is asked ;wh.at will Mr Goschen do with it? It is generally believed in parliamentary circles . tha|(he will devote part of it to the reductiori,'lf not tho abolition, of taxes on tea, coffee, or cocoa, thus encouraging the old political cry of a free breakfast table. The San Francisco Commercial News reports the supposed loss of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co?s ship Hermione, Captain Parker. The Hermione came into collision, and on Nov. 30th was passed at sea leaking. On December 5 she was seen , dismasted, jand -since then nothing \yas heard of her, though search has been made. ,; . John H. Myoss, a farmer near Rivertop^was fourteen years ago compelled to seeK .the ' : protection of the Bankruptcy Court,' and since then he has been struggling to earn a living. The other day" he became a legatee to a small extent, "and he has no.w paid off every penny he owed. .; ;A; trio of the spieler tribe lately arfiyep in Dunedin from Melbourne elegantly attired in the garb of Roman Catholic priests. Their get up and demeanour were quite in keeping with their assumed posjtions. But before they had tin>e to commence ! Operations - .the detectives "spotted" them and spoiled their little -game; -by politely firmly requesting I them to move on, and Dunedin soon knew them no more! \? The question is, where will they turn up next ? The Wellington Fost states that tho present year will witness a some what new departure in regard to tho distribution of agricultural produce in the colony* Hither- J to 1 the North Island has been < profitable and large customer to { the Middle Island if or all kinds of cereals. = This year a con- '. siderable extent .of land in tho Wairarapa [ aud.'Hawke's Bay has been sown in wheat, and magnificent crops have resulted. For j tho first time wheat will this year figure as a considerable item of export both from Napier and Wellington.: * : A cable to-day announces trouble ;with ' the Westphalia miners, tiast month a Loiidpn^ correspondent wrote : — There is great distress among the coal miners in Germany, especially in tiie Saar district. '■ Two hundred thousand of them have sent a petition to the Emperor to intervene on their behalf. They complain that even the unmarried men cannot live on the wages they now get, as all things are very dear. They ask that a courb of arbitration may be appointed. Several collieries on the Rhine have notified their customers that they are forced to 'interrupt I delivery in rder to keep a reserve against contingencies. ' ' • The New York Herald sent a corves- ' pondent from Zanzibar up country to inter- ' view Stanley, with a request that he would write a personal letter for publication in that paper. Stanley did so with . the result that the next day the letter appeared in the London and New York editions of the Herald. The cost of wiring 1 the letter to New York was 8s 6d per word, and the entire cable message cost the Herald over L7OO. This is newsapor enterprise wit h a vengeance. I could preach a whole sermon on the everlasting blessings of a good newspaper. A good newspaper is the grandest temporal blessing that God has given the people of this country. In the first plaoe all the | people read the nowspapers, and the newspapersf umish thegreaterproportion of the reading to the pepole. They don't read books. The old people look for the deaths, the young look for the marriages, the busi- ] ness men read the business and financial columns, and those who are unemployed' read the wanted advertisements. Great libraries make n few Intelligent njen, nnd yomeq, but newspapers ]\fi the nations into the sunlight. My idea of a. qoud newspaper js a mirror of life itself. Some people complain because the evil of the world is reported as well as the good. The evil must be reported as well as the gjPP^i <\V how are we fa know what to guard against or wha'c to reform. There chance for : discrimination as to h,Q\v much shall be givng to, rp.p,p,Vte| fl? s,uch tlwgs as prize. %ht«, b«t the newspaper that v merely presents the fair and beautiful and the bright side of life is amisrepresentation. That fatrjily is best qiiaU^ed fqv the duties of life 1 who lmye told to fchtsm not only what good there is inthe world, but the evil, nnd is told to select the good and reject tho e-yij,-?

... The sale of spiritous liquoi's* at railway stations within 20 miles of Melbourne has been discontinued. . ' At Patea on Friday there were 16,300 acres of the Pohupura block and 1300 acres of the Huiakiuna block, inland of Stratford, sold privately to twelve buyers for hona fide settlement. This makes 40.000 acres sold within the past six months on the line that was proposed for the Stratford-Auckland railway route. Watercress is said to contain an antidote to the poisonous oil of tobacco, and a writer in a medical journal says : "It lately entered into my head to try how dried watercress would smoke. To my great satisfaction I found that, when put into my pipe after a couple of days' drying in the sun, it had all the flavor of the best cavendish without the treacle, and it was even stronger than cavendish." We do not by any means vouch for the virtue of the new solace. The cost price of tobacco annnally imported into the United Kingdom is but. L 3,000,000, taxation of one sort or another amounts to L 9,000,000,, 000, 000, and when we have included retail profits and costs of the apparatus required by smokers, we may put down cost of smoking to- the British and Irish public ~at\ L 16,000,000 being nearly L 3 per head per annum of the adult male population" of the United Kingdom.

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