PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6483, 28 September 1892, Page 2

PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING,

QISBORNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1892

A report of last night's Borough Council proceedings will be found on the fourth page of this issue. Nominations for the Poverty Bay Turf Club's spring meeting handicaps close on Saturday next, Ist October, at the Masonic Hotel. Teuders are invited for annual supplies for the Hospital, to close on Wednesday next, oth October. The quarterly summoned meeting of the Turanganui Lodge, U.A.O-.D. , ia convened for to-morrow night. A meeting of the Charitable Aid Board was held lasb evening, Mr H. Lewis in the chair. The business transacted was of the iisual routine character. A settler at Makora, near Masterton, has had 200 per cent, of lambs from a small flock this season. The sheep had, of course, plenty of shelter. A bushinau named Richard Bourke was brought down last evening by the Kanieri from Tolago Bay and taken to the hospital. He had split his foot with an axe while engaged bushfelling, and had to be carried out a long distance to Tolago. Messrs Cummings and Percival, the local operators who " took " the Public Works Statement, are deserving of -commendation for the excellent manner in which they discharged the duty, the copy supplied being •well written and intelligible from the first to the last page. The message contained 9000 words.

The dance to be held in the Theatre Royal next Wednesday, in connection with the Young Men's Quadrille Assembly, promises to be a success, as the tickets are going off rapidly. The committee who have the arrangements in hand are determined to make it select, and are • doing all in their power to ensure an enjoyable and fitting wind-up of the season. We are informed that the surplus accruing from the gathering after paying expenses, if any, will be devoted to one of the local charities. A cricket match has been arranged to take place at the Hapara on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., between teams representing the Law and the World. Great enthusiasm is being displayed by both teams, each of which thinks it can win, so an interesting game can be looked for. This will be the first match this season, and it is hoped that it will be the forerunner of many more, and a successful season. It is a great pity that this noble game has been allowed to lie dormant during the last three or four seasons in this place, and lovers of the game are in high hopes of reviving it again this season. At the inquest held yesterday to enquire ! into the cause of death of Ihimaera, killed at Waikohu on Saturday last while bushfelling, evidence waa given that deceased was struck by a dry branch of a tree, and that he got up and walked to his whare about four hundred yards distant from where he was working. He complained to his wife of being hurt on the head and was bad tliroughtout the night and died the following morning. There was no mark to show his hurt except a redness on the top of his head. A verdict of accidentally killed by a branch of a tree falling on him was returned. The Wkatjieb. — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day : Wind between north-west and west and south at all places northward of Napier and New Plymouth, and between east and south and south-west at all other places during the next 12 hours, but changing to between north and east and south-west after that time. Barometer fall everywhere. Sea heavy on western and increase on tho eastern coast. Warnings for northerly gales and rain after from 12 lo 20 hours have been sent to all places. Synopsis of last 24 hours : Rising barometer generally, and strong winds from the southward with rain have been experienced in all parts of the colony. — R. A. Edwin.

Professor Theodore Lichtwark gave an exposition at Little's Stables last night, of his method of training and educating the horse. His audience, who were more or less interested in horses, watched the proceedings very critically. The animal he had to deal with was a three-yeai'-olcl colt, the property of Mr A. O'Meara, and had never pre- [ viously been handled, and when the professor had finished with him, he was following him about like a dog, and would come to his call. Great interest was taken in the first phase of tho lesson, that of teaching the horse to be handled, and from that out it was easily seen that a complete mastery of the animal was obtained, and the putting of a halter on and off was done without the slightest resistance on the part of the colt. The subsequent operation of tying one of the forelegs up, mounting and sliding over the tail, putting on a crupper, and teaching the horse to follow him, showed that he had gained the animal's confidence. No harshness, throwing, or using chemicals, as ho said in his lecture, was used, but simply kind and gentle treatment. The professor gives another exhibition this evening. The Hawke's Bay Herald of Monday gives the following account of the fire at the Rowing Club's boathouse :— The Napier Rowing Club's boathouse at the Western Spit was with all its contents destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Mr Johnson, fisherman* custodian, and general utility man to all who venture afloat, lives within a few feet of the boat shed, and was awakened about half -past three o'clock yesterday morning by a crackling noise 1 . Rushing out he found the boat shed a mass of flames, and beyond the reach of any attempt to save it. In the boat shed were five boats of the Napier Rowing Club (three of which were four-oar boats), a sculling boat belonging to Mr C. D. Kennedy, and two new boats, the property of the Union Club, only landed about a fortnight a^o. A few yards away was the wellknown sailing boat Wave Queen, which is badly charred along one side and almost past restoring. In the shed was also a quantity of material of all kinds belonging to the Sailing Club, valued at about £40. On this there was no insurance. Mr Johnson is also a loser to the extent of about £20 by the loss of nets, rigging, blocks, and various odds and ends. The origin of the fire is quite unknown, and the house was almost destroyed before the disaster was observed. The insurances on the boats, sculls, and oars belonging to the Napier Rowing Club amount to about £175, but we hear that the club's loss is estimated at over £100 above the insurance. Kanakas at Bowen are applying for exemption certificates, to enable them to follow general agricultural pursuits, from which they are debarred by regulation.