The Maori Elections.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5906, 27 October 1890, Page 3

The Maori Elections.

Napier, to-day. Nominations for the Eastern Maori election were received to-day as follows : James Carroll Sydney Taiwhanga WiPere R. Sturm, of Hawke's Bay T. VV. Rimini, of Whakatane Nominations for the Northern Maori ■eat have been. received as follows : — Sy da ey Taiwhanga q Timoti Puhipi WiPirihara Whakarangoura Wjremu Katene

Thees corid crop of flax in many parts of the Manawatu district (says the Times) is already Assuming a promising aspect, and as much as five and six feet appears as the result; of a year's growth. In some places mills are outting flax which has been growing only two years. About sixty teams are now on the road carting coal from Hikurangi to Whangarai at the rate of 7(ftons a day. Both coal pitd are worked from the surface like

A Chinese storekeeper" at Round Hill Southland, has been fined LSO for sly grog selling.. A party of expert oil drillers has just sailed from New York for India, where they are wanted to search for oil. The year 1890 will long be remembered in the annals of TSew South Wales as having been marked by the biggest rainfall, the biggest strike, and the biggest fire Australia has yet seen. An Invercargill telegram says : — Since the strike the Nightcaps Coal Company Mave supplied 3500 tons of coal to steamers, giving the railways over LIOOO ia freight, the mines being 60 miles from port. The mine is worked by free labor." One or two cowardly attacka and assaults have been made on the Rev. J. T. Wills at Opotiki. Faction feeling is running very strong there. Mr Wills has just received the following announcement through post office :— " Mr Wills,— You will be mobbed, tarred and feathered in a short time. Look oufc." The Auokland Herald says :— " The Lumpers' Union, we understand, is practically broken up, though some of the men aye still holding oufc who have a little means. Further applications have been made to the local manager of the Uniou Company for employment, and one or two men required for special purposes have been taken on, but the rest; will have to come in behind free labor, and take their chance of employment when surplus labor is required. Puff in the Press says : — I hear there was a bit of a scare over at the forfcs the other day ! They " touched her off" without locking the breech and the charge camo out the wrong end of the gun ! A little thing like that amuses them ! Yes, when they find no damage done ; it might have been rather awkward if they had to gather one of the gunners up in a basket ; The Wild West Show had bad luck on account of the weather at Wellington and had to play in the Theatre Royal one night Puff, in the Press, says :— The circus has not been able to show for three -r}»ys-!-"The oi»ous — ©no-o£-fch© anfce-rooms to a warm-region ! —was pitched at the back of the Salvation Barracks ! A direct challenge ! The Army formed up on Thursday night over against the enemy and had a good time ! The enemy has been baling out his tenb ever since ! Notice it ? I don't suppose, though, that the Janet Niccol had a circus aboard when the wind nearly sent her down below and the sea began smashing up things all round ! Puff did not know that the Janet Niceol carried the circus from Gisborne to Napier. The Bay of Plenty Times says : — We think in the matter of mail communication Tauranga has been most abominably ill-used, publicly and privately, and that it should be one of the acts of the new Parliament, as it is one of the most obvious duties, to put the matter of through road connection straight. We would then be able to get to ■Gisborne without going three hundred miles about, which ia often very inconvenient, h'ow- [ ever attractive the Capital of the North ' may be. It is the intention of the Government to call for plans for a fireproof building or buildings for the safe custody of State papers, public records, and Government archives. It is not stated what form the projected structure should take — whether " as towers," to be connected each one with some Government building, or a block with classified compartments. There Is not yet any detailed estimate of the cost of such aids as to the security of official deeuments, but the cost is stated | roughly at from LIO,OOO to L 15,000. ' The recent production of "Rip Van Winkle " by Napier amateurs resulted in a profit of nearly Ll3O. Te Kooti is about to pay a visit to Martinborough (Wairarapa) in order to be present at the formal opening; of the new meeting house there. It is expected that a large number of natives will accompany him. A remarkable horse race is said to have taken place recently at Sydney. Two local horses are reported to have run five successive dead heats, though the jockeys were changed twice. At the sixth heat one of the horses won by a short head. The number of missionaries stationed in Africa now exceeds 500. There are 400,000 converts, and the number is increasing at the rate of 250,000 a year. Within five years more than 200 natives suffered martyrdom for their faith. A meeting of an interesting and somewhat piquant kind has taken place at the War Office between two generals — General Lord Wolseley and General Booth. Mr Stead was the intermediary who brought about this meeting of the secular and spiritual arm. Lord Wolseley ia said to have beeu much impressed with the Salvationists' ( ' only general." "He ought to have been a real soldier," said the ex- Adjutant-General, ; " he would have made one of the finest soldiers of the century." According to information received by the Government, the officer in charge of the Thames telegraph office had a very ! startling experience a day or two ago. During a storm the office was struck by lightning, and the operator (Mr Beale), who was sitting on a stool at the time, was knocked backward off his seat, and for the momont almost stunned. The room was at the timo filled with bluish flame, and the lightning fused tho gaspipe and ignited the gas, the flames from which ran up the Avail.' Fortunately Mr Bealo was only slightly hurt, and with great presence of mmd, he succeeded in extinguishing the flames and saving the office from destruction. Mr Beaic's coolness in a moment of great danger has not escaped the notice of his superior officers, and it is satisfactory to learn that ho has been recommended for a reward. A select committee of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria is inquiring into the claim of a Ml- Frencham to bo regarded aa the discoverer of the Bendigo goldfield. The inquiry has had the effect of causing old identities to spring up from all parts the colony to dispute Mr Franchara's claims and testify to the fact that the precious metal was first found by a shopherd, and that one of the first to engage in sluicing operations was a woman, who is still alive. She was the wife of the overseer of Ravenuwood Station, which included what became the Bendigo goldfield, aud afterwards the city of Sandhurst. The name of Bendigo seems to have been taken from a sailor on the station, who, being a good fighting man, whs nicknamed after an English pugilist. Auckland Herald says the tourist traffic to that district is steadily growing. Last season it was the largest ever known, and at the two chief hotels here, Lake House and tho Palace, more than eleven hundred people were passed through the bowks. A careful estimate of the numbers at all the other places of accommodation would bring the total to at leasfc 1700. The value of this traffic to the colony may be judged when it is stated that the expenditure of each tourist reaches fully LIOO from first to last in railway and steamboat fares, hotel bills, photographs, curios, and other miscellaneous items. The total expenditure last year was therefore at least L 170,000, and the time is not far distant when this amount will be increased three or fourfold. A good story is told by the Rev. Charles Clark regarding his lecture on "Oliver Goldsmith." This was first given when Mr Clark was pastor of a Baptist Church in Australia. After the subject had been announced one of the flock waited upon the lecturer and said : " Look here, they have made a mistake about that lecture of yours. They have announced it as * Oliver Goldsmith,' when it ought; to have been Cromwell. Who the dickens ever heard of Oliver Goldsmith V Mr Clark says that convinced him still more of the necessity of lecturing upon Oliver Goldsmith,

The following is a copy of what purports to be a genuine composition on v Breathing," written by a boy : •' Breath is made of air. If it wasn't for our breath we Bhould die when we slept. Our breath keeps the life agoing through the nose when we are asleep. Boys that stay in a room all day should not breathe. They should wait till they get out of doors. Boys in a room make carbonioide. Carbonicide is more poisoner than mad dogs. A heap of soldiers was in a black hole in India, and a carbonioide got in that black hole and killed nearly every one afore morning. Girls kill tho breath with corsets that squeezes the diagram. Girls can't run or holler like boys because their diagram is squeezed too much. Gore was illuminated by gas for the first time last Thursday evening. The gas is the invention of a local resident, Mr Watt, who calls it 4i water gas." The process of manufacture is a trade secret. It gives an exceedingly satisfactory light, and can be produced at a very cheap rato.

Mr H. Überhn Brown, Pianoforte Tuner, will remain in Gisborne till the end of the present week in order to fulfil existing engagements. -Advt. Poverty Bay Rowing Clvb — General meeting Monday evening naxt, 8 p.m.,. Masonic Hotel. Important business. — Advt. Cynics may scoff,bnt facts are facts, ant I've got tho goods, and I'm going to sell a prices cjuoted Here a: c a few eye-openers — Men's Iron Clad Union Bluchers 53 lid, Ladies' pretty Evening Shoes 4s, Men's Goloshed Bulmorala (v nice Sunday Boot) 10s lid. A hig variety of Ladies' Slippers from Is 6d, Ladies' Cashmere Button Boots 6s lid, Men's Pegged Solid Kip Watertights 11s 6d, Ladies' Kid Balmorals (leather lined) 10s, Ladies' Mikado Slippers 3s 6d, Men's Nailed hhooting Boots 11s 6d, Ladies' Kid Oxford Walking Shoes (The Langtry)ss 11s. The above bargains to be obtained at Hemiessy's Cash Boot Market. Strangers visiting Gisborne and desiring to know the best establishment in which to purchase Watches, Clocks or Jewellery will please note that S. McLernon offers special advantages. He imports direct and buys for cash from the leading manufacturers, consequently he claims to be in the best possible position to serve the public well. One month's trial given with each Watch repaired by him. If not satisfactory, money returned. — Advt