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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6690, 3 June 1893, Page 2

Mr W. A. Leach has bean appointed postmaster at Akuaku. §The Gisbornc-Turangmui football match is being played this afternoon. The meeting in tha Theatre Royal to-night ia free to all, and not for men only, as previously advertised. Captain Baldwin, who is concerned in the case of suspected arson at Wellington, was recently proprietor of the New Zealand Times. The time for sending in the annual returns of income under the Land and Income Tax Act has been extended from 31st May to 14th June. Mr A. F. Matthews in a member ef the deputation from the Farm Homeitead Association, which visits Wellington during the ensuing session of Parliament. Nine hundred sacks of gras«-seed were shipped for Dunedin by the Taluno, 150 by the Farmert Co-operative Association, and tho balance by Messrs Common, Shelton, and Co., Limited. The weather has bean very sultry, and the barometer is falling. The thermometer registered 72deg. in the shade at two o'clock this afternoon. Captain Kennedy, of the s.s. Talune, predicts a heavy storm. Wo havo received the April number of Dr Barnardo's Night and Day, which gives an interesting account of the opening of the emigration season for 1893, and the projected departure of the first band of youngsters for Canada, some 300 in number. A painful accident happened at Patutahi the other day to Mrs A. McKenzio, of Ormond. The lady was driving with Mrs [rvinc, and tho wheel of the vehicle falling into a deap rufe caused a big jolt, which threw her oub of the buggy, her collarbone being broken in the fall. Wairoa has the same neod as Gisborne. The Guardian states : —Our attention has been drawn to the want of house accommodation at Wairoa. It is almost impossible to get a house of any description, and there arc no facilities for building as there is no building society. Anyone who has capital ready for outlay would find in building a few cottages for letting a sure return for his money. Mr D. M. Orr reports a good attendance and spirited bidding at his last auction sale uf fruit produco, and a considerable amount of business done. Onions realized :|'l per lb. in small bags, potatoo3 (local) 4s to oa per sack, Canterbury do. 7s per sack, Canterbury bacon S-Jd, hams 10id, fowls Is 4d to Is 6d each, pumpkins about 2d each, oranges as to 6s Gd por case, apples 2?£d per lb, oats 2s 5d to 2s 9d, chaff 2s per sack, pollard Ss Gd par sack, barley 3s per bushel. The mission services still continue to draw crowds of people together. The Theatre Royal was again crowded last evening. Mr Edwards' subject was "Too Late." The afternoon service was also well attended, "Christ's coming " being under considerat ion. This morning Holy Trinity schoolroom was well filled, an interesting bible study being given. The evangelistic services in tlic Theatre Royal to-night will be open t» all, and not for men only as previously advertised. To-morrow's services will be at 3 o'clock for children, and at 7.45 for all. Mr Kllen arrives on Monday. Captain Russell, speaking at Hastings on Saturday night), said fchab on the whole, Mr Seddon's speech was marked by moderation ; but when he claimed that Sir Harry Atkinson had advocated further borrowing, and that the present Government had first proclaimed the policy of non-borrowing, he was guilty of colossal "cheek." The proposal originally came from him (Captain Russell), and was supported by the Atkinson party. All the present Ministry, with the exception of Mr Seddon, voted against him, and Mr Seddon stayed away, and did not vote. As to the charge of the Atkinson Government which succeeded Sir George Gray's Government having borrowed £7,500,000, that sum included £5,000,000 authorised during the term of the Grey Government, of which £3,500,000 had been anticipated. The statement that the public debt had been reduced was audacious. Here is a delightfully naive remark extracted from the Auckland Star's report of Mr Vv". L. Reos' recent meeting. Mr Withy was speaking, when Mr M'llhone rose and asked if'thoy had come to hear Mr Withy or Mr Rees. The question was greeted with cheers and cries of "Go on." Mr M'Uhone said they had come there (so hear Mr Roes, and did nob want a long speech from the Chrirman. Mr Wrigley—Sib down, sir, we have come here to hear tho truth. Mr M'llhone-rWe havo not ; we have come to hear Mr Rees. Roars of laughter here brought the proceedings to a temporary cessation, and it was sometime before the meeting recovered its self-possoasiou. Tfc does not appear to bo well known that To Kooti, who began his notorious career by a massacre, ended it through a dog fight. In conversation with an intelligent Native woman, a Northern contemporary learned the following particulars : —Te Kooti was encamped with his followers one evening, and lying near the camp fire. Standing near on a slight rise was a dray containing provisions, etc., and the wheels were not checked. During the night two large dogs belonging to the Natives began fighting, and in their scuffle went against one of the wheels of the dray and started it down the incline. To Kooti was lying right in its course, and before he could ba warned one wheel crushed into his chest. From that time he became ill, and finally he diod from the effects of this peculiar accident. Judging by the following from the New Zealand Times, tha responsible members of the Ministerial party seem to hold the member for Hawke's Bay in high estimation : — "Captain Russell's speech stamps him, as all bis speeches have done for three years past, as the most capable man on the Opposition side of the House. It has long been apparent that he ought to be leading the party which elected Mr Rolleston to the command two years ago and has been obeying nobody in particular ever since. Capt. Russell, had he been the elected leader, as he ought to have been, would have exacted the obedience due to a leader. He would, moreover, have made his party help the Government to do some useful work. His speech at Hastings is an index of his character. He hit straight and hard, as becomes a pronounced Oppositionist { he praised what he thought ought to be praised on the other side, as became one holding responsibility as the leader of a party ; and he said several very true and wise things. For instance he said a great deal about strikes in a small compass, and he drew the proper moral, viz., that the practice of compulsory conciliation should be general. That conclusion has just been sufficiently demonstrated by the gaunt misery of Hull. Had there been such j a measure in Great Britain there would not be eight men looking about the Humbercity for every single vacancy. There ought to be such a measure on our statute book. If Captain Russell ware leader of tha Opposition we believe that before the el©se of the coming session there weuld b 9. Tub Weather.—Weathor forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day :—Wind between north and west and south-west afe all places northward of Napier and New Plymouth and southward of Lyttelton and Queensfcown, between north-east and north and west at all other places ; barometer further rise generally, falling at all places southward of Now Plymouth soon ; sea heavy on western coast and between Castlepoint and Kaihoura; tides high on western coast of both islands, rather low elsewhere. Warnings for westerly gales and rain have been sent to all places, Synopsis of last 24 hours: A falling barovt meter everywhere until about 8 p.m., and since then it has risen slowly. There has been a heavy westerly gale from Napier and Wanganui southward",

The motion that Dean Hovell be appointed to tlio Bishopric of Wellington was negatived by the following votes :— Clergy, aye* 10, uoes 18 ; laity, ayes 9, noes 19. A scheme is afoot for the formation in 1 Wellington of a Public Livery Stables and Ilersu JW.aar Company, with a capital of £10,000, in 2000 shares of £5 each. Mr C. Rous Marten, tho well-known Wellington journalist, succeeds Mr Philip Mennell as London correspondent of the Auckland Herald, Otago Daily Times, and Christohurch Preaa. The North Otago Times states that working men cannot be got in that district to do gorse-cutting work owing, it is alleged, to the greater attraction the Government employment has for thcin. Tha Gear Meat Company's slaughtering operations during the paHt summer were on a very extensive scale, the output being larger than in any previous season. The minilur of sheep killed was no Usa than 160,000. Farmers will be interested in the fact that one really good work is claimed for the sparrow. It is said that - thia bird, by his strict attention to norae refuse, keeps down the bot fly by destroying the larva;. The total area of the Awarua block is •240,000 acres, divided by the Native Land Court into nine sections. Mr Butler, the Government Land Purchase Agent, who is acting under the Native Minister, is making exceptionally rapid progress with the acquirement of shares. Although the authority to purchase was only given last session, the interests in 70,000 acres have now been acquired, and this is expected to be swelled to 100,000 before tho session. The Premier, in his Napier speech, stated that the Government would probably acquire land in Hawke's Bay under th« Land for Settlement Act. The Ministers arc anxious ' to do so, but so far only one Hawke's Bay J property has boeu offered them, and as this was pastoral land, and agricultural land is what is wanted, it could not be entertained. So far, the only recommendations to purchase made to the Government by the Land Purchase Board has beon with regard to a small area of under 2000 acres in Canterbury, at an average price of £10 per-acre. Mr G. M. Benson, who represents Mr Anderson, of Fielding, the patentee of a new cattle and sheep clip, is now in this district with the object of bringing the patent under the notice of stookowners, in ordor to obtain an expression of opinion as to whether it would be advisable to make the uso of the clip compulsorily by law, Mr Hull, the Inspector of Stock for the West Coast, having expressed the opinion that it would be advisable to do so. Mr Ritchie, head of the Stock Department, speaks in high terms of the clip, and advised Mr Benson to see the stock-owners and sheep inspectors on the subject. The many friends of Mr J. K. Warburton, , Public Trustee, will (says Post) regret to learn that he is threatened with a serious danger, before which the worst tortures of the Inquisition pale. Mr E. M. Smith,

M.H.Rm does not approve of the Public Trustee, and he told his constituents the otlier night a.t New Plymouth that " he had described the new Public Trustee to a lady who had come to Wellington to interview him aa a perfect gentleman as a man, but an autocrat as Trustee. The Public Trustee had more power than any servant of the Government should have. He (Mr Smith) had asked for authority to forge a steel crown with which to crown tho Public Trustee King of the Native Lands of New Zealand." It will scarcely be credited that Mr Smith's constituents received this atrociously cruel statement with laughter. Mr George Patterson, owner of a quicksilver mine at Ohaeawai, Bay of Islands, recently arrived in Auckland with a box of ore from the mine. Tho Star says that the true lode, which was lately discovered, has been driven on thirty feet, and showa a strong reef, rich in ore. There is an immense quantity of ore in sight, and it can be worked by an open cutting. The belt of country in which the lode is enclosed is about thirty feet. wide, all carrying cinnabar more or less, some veins and pockets heavily charged with native mercury. When the spade is inserted in a block of carboniferous clay the quicksilver squirts out. This mine promises to be a most valuable mining property. It ia the first true quicksilver lode found in the Southern Hemisphere. Ik can be mined and treated for less than £1 a ton. Analyses made by Mr Pond and the Thames School of Mines of the lode stuff vary from 160 to 2501bs of quicksilver to the tou, but there are veins and pockets alongside tho lode that could go many bottles to the ton. Some light on recent cablegrams re Birthday honors is thrown by the London correspondent of the Manchester Courier, who states that the list will be a short ono, and be found to merely consist of departmental honors and promotions in the orders of knighthood, especially in the Indian orders, consequent upon the opening of the Imperial Institute. Thia will be a disappointment to many, for it was thought that the lack of notabilities in the New Year's list would be compensated for by a more than usual lavish distribution of honors in May. As an explanation of the smallness of the former list, the correspondent learns that the Prime Minister did submit to the Queen a good many names of noblemen and gentlemen whom he wished Her Majesty to honor, containing proposals among others for the creation of two new baronets, a new peer, and for two or three advances in the peerage. But tho Queen absolutely declined to grant his requesD in no less than three cases, whereupon Mr Gladstone, it is added, was so annoyed that he bogged for permission to withdraw all his recommendations, which permission was granted. A reform of the electoral law was indicated by the Premier in his Napier speech in these terms :— " In places where there are only perhaps fifteen or twenty votes to he recorded by men working on tho station, if they record their votes against their employer's convictions he cannot go far wrong in deciding that it is inconvenient to keop the mon in his employment. He is not obliged to tell them that politics have anything to do with it. I trust that there arc a great many employers who would not do such a thing, but there may be soma who would, and in any case there is fear in the mind of a working man that should not be there, and he may then voto in a way that he would rather not. Of course he would in that case be a man with not much courage, but still there it was, and the temptation should be removed. Where there were no more than thirty to fifty votes recorded in a place, the ballot box from that booth should bo sealed up and not opened till epened with the rest at the central booth. Our duty as a Government depending upon the people for our support is to have the electoral laws aa per, eet as we can." Speaking of the Hon. Mr Seddou as a worker, the Wellington corresponded of " Truth " (Christchurch) says :--" Tho Premier came through from Napier last night and went to Greymouth to-day. It is instructive in many ways to take these last three typical days. On Wednesday he left here at 6.30 a.m., after spending the previous day and a great part ,of the night in despatching business. He arrived at Napier at 5.45 p.m., received a deputation, made a big spoech, received mue deputations, came back here yesterday, arriving at 9.45 p.m.; went at once to the office, speut the greater part of the night transacting departmental business with the Under-Secretaries. Ho started 'work early this morning and kept ai high pressure till 12.30, when a Cabinet was held while the steamer waited. Ho then rushed off to the boat with bis private Secretary taking notes in the cab, and the Under-Secretaries had a last word on the wharf before tho steamer moved off. That ia only a specimen of what goes on day after day." Regarding this the H.B. Herald remarks :— Somebedy or other in Wellington is imperilling his soul— to put it that way— by inventing various fables on behalf of Ministers in geueral, and Mr Seddon iv particular. One statement is that Miuisters, after leaving Wellington for a trip, make up for it upon returning by " writing from fourteen to eighteen hours of ihe twenty-four." As a matter of fact they ■arely write at all. They talk their letters :o a poor devil of a shorthand writer, who ;oes away at the end of a li»ng " take " and •eproducos the Ministerial " brains" on the ypewriter. And none of the newspapers iave discovered that the shorthand writer's lealth may suffer, and that he ought to get) £1000 a year iv consequence.