Bad Weather between Auckland and Sydney.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6144, 17 August 1891, Page 3

Bad Weather between Auckland and Sydney.

THE MARIPOSA IN A GALE. Auckland, to-day. Arrived 8.30 a.m. : Mariposa from Sydney after a terrible stormy passage of six days. Two days after leaving Sydney, she fell in with a strong easterly gale, which increased to hurricane force, and blew for three days incessantly with a tremendous sea running. The ship was hove to for 48 hours in the gale and was washed continually by tho seas. The pilot house and dock moveables were lost. A boat was smashed and other slight damane done. Two passengers narrowly escaped being washed overboard. The doctor had his ribs broken. The captain describes the weather as bad as any he ever experienced. The Sarah Bernhardt company are on board returning to San Francisco.

A return haa been prepared of tho average number of foreign telegrams transmitted from Victoria during the last four months of the old rates, and the first three months of the reduced rates, May, June, and July. The monthly average receipts from January to April were L 5090, but for May, Juno, and July, notwithstanding the substantial reductiou, the average was L 4287, the decrease in the revenue being at the rate of 15 77 per cent. The average number of words transmitted monthly from January to April whs 11,400, and for May, June, and July 21,222, the increase in favor of the new rates being 80 12 per cent. The bank returns for the June quarter 185)1, says a Southern journal, show tha there is a remarkable increase in deposits in tho six months since December last of L(i30,000, mostly in deposits at call. We are in the remarkable position of having deposits in our banks to the amount; of L1_,592,000, and advances of only Lll, 101,000, so that the banks arc lending us L 1,790,000, 790,000 less than our own money. However satisfactory it may be to see that our financial resources are so largo, it would be still more satisfactory if the money were being profitably used. The Hawko's Bay County Council spent a long time on Tuesday considering the new Counties Bill. Strong exception was taken to the one-man-one-vote clauso, to keeping the accounts of ridings separately, and to the clause facilitating tho. subdivision of counties. It was also decided to ask the Ministers to add now clauses making the minimum rate payable Is, to allow 10 per cent, to be added to rates overdue three months, and to provide that subsidies payablo to counties shall be paid on the county rate instead of the rates struck by the Road Boards. Ji^The total ariivals in the colony during July was 867. The number that came from the United Kingdom was 208, from Queensland 8, from New South Wales 340, from Victoria 188, from South Australia 5, from Tasmania 74, and from other places 44. Of the total number 127 were children. The departures were 1284, as follows : — To the United Kingdom 122, to New South Wa'ea 645, to Victoria 272, to South Australia 2, to Western Australia 32, to Tasmania 160, and to other places 71. There were no arrivals of Chinese, but 8 departures. The following farrago of nonsense if from Hnnsnrd. It was uttered by Sii George Grey during the debate on the Financial Statement. He was referring to the Legislative Council: — "When ] hear of a whole family of little ones bein^ enriched, and think of the hundreds oi thousands of little ones who will be here are here now, or must bo here, who wil bo impoverished to enrich the few childrer of the mighty, who have tho power to dc j these things, and to derive these vasi benefits from thorn — when I hear these things, then life is rendered a sort o: burden, and a wretchedness comes ove] me. I grieve for those thousands of little j ones. I grieve for those I lovo. I cannoi help it, when I think of what they have k< undergo to enrich these others. I woulc almost gladly escape from life itself rathei than to have to bear the consciousness ii my own mind that such things must taki place in reference to those I lovo, tlv children of impoverished people, who know, ought not to be so impoverished When I hear this, and that is to go on, '. venture to implore this House to say tha an end shall be put to a second Chamber so that such a system as I have describoc shall no longer bo imposed upon us." On her way down here from San Fran cisco the Monovvai landed at Tutuil (Samoan Islands) a little party of fou Samoan natives, including one woman who had rather an eventful experience ii the United States. They wero brough to New York last year under contract b; a showman. The story of the suffering and privations of the little band, original!; nine in nnmber, but reduced by disoas and death, was a pathetic one. Manogi the chief, was ill with consumption in th Bellevue Hospital (New York), but wa strong enough to start on his long journe home. The party were sent back fror New York by tho characteristic enter pris of the proprietors of the Now York World and were accompanied throughout) by M Jones, a World reporter, who saw thei safe to their destination. They were pu on board an Apia mail schooner at Tutuite and were overjoyed to reach their ialan home again. They had been stranded i New York for a long time.