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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6258, 4 January 1892, Page 2

The berries of the kar.ika tree poisoned a little boy named Paton at Wellington. The Fire Brigade meet for practice this evening at 7. We have received from Mr T. Adams a very neat ca'endar for the office table. The January number of the Post and Telegraph Guide is to hand. Mr C. D. Bennett is up to time with the P.B. Turf Club weights which appear in this issue. The settling-up in enmection with the Ormond races wiU be held to-morrow even ing at the Ormond hotel. The Bank of New Zealand this morning received from Wellington one box containing cold valued at LSOO and one containing L3OO worth of silver. Dr. McGregor, Inspector of Hospitals, was a passenger through to Auckland by the s.s Wakatipu this morning. He came ashore and visited the local institution. Tt is now suggested that all Corporations, Borough Councils, &c, are liable to pay taxes under the Land and Income Assessment Act on the whole of the money borrowed on debentures, ns they are not expressly excluded. On New Year's Night at Ormond a party of larrikins went about beating tin cans and generally making themselves a nuisance. They carried away the gates from one property and otherwise behaved in a senseless manner. They will appear before Mr Booth shortly to give an account of themselves. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following London market cablegram: — Frozen ment — New Zealand mutton : There is rather better demand, quotations unchanged bince last telegram. New Zealand beef market firmer, price of beef has advanced Jd per lb, The Xational Mutual Life Association of Australasia is a most prosperous concern. The annual report submitted at the general meeting on the 16Hi December showed that the funds during last year had heen iucreased by upwards of L 1.32,000, the accrued funds now amounting to L 1,145,119., 145,119. Water Bentley appeared at the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, on Tuesday, and scored one of t hegren test triumphs ever remembered as Hamlnt. The theatre was crowded in all parts The vast audience rose en masse at the finish and cheered Mr Bentley to the echo. The company supporting him are Tery powerful. Te Kooti arrived at Parikino on Wednesday last, says the Wanganai Herald, from P.irapara, accompanied by a bodyguard of .SOO horsemen Te Kooti immediately sought the seclusion of his tent, and refused audience to all and sundry, notwithstanding that the Mayor of Wanganui ineffectually passed in his card. The Wairere took up a number [ of excursionists, nofc only from this colony, but also from England and Aulstraia. The Swimming Club neglected to remove a stake which they placed in the Waimata river for their sports last Friday Th<? result was that Lieut -Colonel Porter sailing in his boat this morning with his two daughtprs ran on to the stake, the boat's side being stove in. There wft nearly a fatality, for the water is very deep at tho spot, and the boat sinking Lieut. -Colonel Porter experienced some difficulty in getting the Misses Porter ashore The officers of the Swimming Club should remove the stake immediately. One of many instances will serve to show how destructive the caterpillars have been to the grass seed crop this season. One gentleman thinking that he would get ahead of the post, set three machines to work to cut the grass and immediately put it through the threshing machine The result was that after half a day's working he got two bags of seod, and as this return did not pay for labor the crop was abandoned. From off this field last season 40 bushels to the acre were gathered. There is published this evening the programme of tho concert to be held iv aid of tho funds of the Vo'unteer Firo B-igade, in order to enable a team to visit the general competition which will be held at Christchurc' 1 next month. It should be needless to inform our readers that the Brigade's representatives carried off high honors at p'evious competitions, and as the efficiency of ' the corps has been well maintained, we have no doubt that this year's te»m will I also do honor to Gisborne The programme i if the the concert is an cxcelleni one, and is 1 sure to draw a crowded house The mn«io | wi'l be both high-class and popular aivi fcho | entertainment is of such a nature as deserves f to b« encouraged E3pe<*ial ftt tractions are afforded by fc'-e appearance of Mi°s Large, of ■, Napier, who has won go'den opinions from Gisborne audiences in the past, and also by f the promised recitation of Misi Mayo, a 1 ymmg lady of Christchurch, who has frequently delighted audiences there by her elocution,, a

Th« following ilttcrestlctf paragraph appears in a recent insue of the Melbourne irgus : — •• We are in a positioD to set at •eßt the v.-rious surmises put forward as to ;he reasons for Lord Onslow's resignation of he Governorship of New Zealand, by stating kuthoritatively the true and only cause of Sis Excellency's retirement. If any other :own than We lingto ■■ had been the seat of government in New Z aland, or if the We'inetori people had Be< n their way to do something towards properly draining their :ity, Lord Onslow mujht have remained until the end of his term of office But ifter the rejection by the ratepayers last year of the proposal of the Wellington City council for the improvement of the sanitary arrangements of the town, and the return af typhoid to Government House last winter, Lord Onslow felt that the risks to which his family were exposed through th» unhealthiuessj of their surroundings were too serious to be incurred for any lengthened period, and he therefore reluctantly made up his mind to resign without further delay. It will be remembered that borne two years ago Lord Onslow'a aon and heir and his aide de camp were struck down by an attack of typhoid fever, from which they narrowly escaped with their lives." The Wkathkr. — Weather forecast for 24 from 9 a.m. to-day : Wind between north and west and south west at all places northward of Blenheim and Nelson, and between »ast and south and south west at all other places Barometer further fall everywhere but rising at all places northward of Auckland soon, and all places from thenc? south ward to Blenheim and Nelson after 10 hours. Sea iucreiise on western, moderate on eastern coasts. Te'egrams to expect strong westerly winds have been sent to all pl<ces northward of Blenheim aud Nelson and for strong easterly wind? to all other places. Synopsis of last 24 hours : Throughout the country the barometer has fallen steadily since about midday on Saturday. Rain has fallen at all pi ces northward of Blenheim and Nelson with strong northerly gales during Sunday night, but the weather has been generally tine elsewhere with moderate northerly wiuds. — R A. Edvtin. It was the s.B. Fairy, not the Fanny, which was sunk at Napier. Further particulars regarding the accident are supplied by the Herald :— On Thursday evening a most regrettable accident occurred at the Spir, but fortunately unattended with loss of life. The s.s. Ahuriri was returning from tendering the barquentine Pondle Hill, and was steaming in with a streng flood tide and a heavy westerly gale. When rounding the cattle wharf to enter the Iron Pot one of the links of the Ahuriri's wheel chains jammed crossways in the sheave, and thus deprived the steersman of all control of the vessel. Losing her guidance lit this critical moment, the Ahuriri dashed stem on to the s.s. Fairy, which was lying loaded in front of Murray, Roberts, and Co.'s store. The Ahuriri's stem cut a large hole in the Fairy near her foremast. The shock also snapped the Fairy's wharf ropeg. The Fairy drifted a little way from the wharf and sank in a very few minutes in about eight feet of water. The Fairy had 192 bales of wool on board for transhipment to tho s.s. Coptic, and all but 20 bales were thoroughly soaked with salt water. A gang of men were soon set at work to unload the wool, aud by daybreak yesterday it was all on shore and on its way to the woolscourers. Great sympathy is felt for Captain Tonkin in his unlooked-for and uuavoidables misfortune. The Ahuriri is looked on by all travelled judges as the finest boat of her sisse in New Zealand, aud she has been always handled by Captfiin Tonkin in such a masterly manner as to earn tho greatest confidence of all who travel by her.