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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6691, 5 June 1893, Page 2

Bishop Luck, accompanied by Father Kehoe, left for Auckland to-day. Mr Arthur Klein, evangelist, arrived this morning, and will assist Mr Edwards to-night. There being no quorum present the monthly meeting of the Kaiti Road Board was adjourned to Monday next, 12th inst. The Hon. Geo. McLean, chairman of directors of the Union Company, was a passenger on board the Manapouri 'to-day hound for Auckland, [thence he proceeds to the hot springs. News has heen received from the Underwriters Association that the various insurance companies have combined and the recent cut-throat competition is to be discontinued. It has been decided to revert; to the old tariff in existence twelve months ago, upon which there will be a reduction of 20 per cent. Amongst the crowds which are being attracted to New Zealand just now,^ are a number of street musicians. A German brass band, resplendent in uniform with plenty of gold lace about it, was on board the s.s. Talune on Saturday. Fortunately they did not land at Gisborne,

H.M.S. Orlando is expected in Wellington from Sydney to-morrow night. Tho Premier has instructed tho police to prevent all glove fights. Government have accepted tenders foi printing the electoral rolls. Sir Robert Stout met with a cordial reception at Westport on Saturday night. Wellington has a sensation to-day. A woman named Mary Atkinson, living on the Ohaira road, has died from injuries to the head, and there is a suspicion of foul play. Wellington benevolent, trustees report that the cost of each inmate of the Home amounts to B£d por day or 4s O.Jtl a week. Purchasers of fruit trees are reminded of tho extensive sale of first-class fruib trees to be sold at Bushman, orchard on Wednesday at noon. Enquiry ia mado in Lloyd's Weekly for the following : Ernest Edward Gibba, aged about 30, was at Poverty Bay, Novr Zealand, when last heard of, 11 years since. His aged father and sister Fanny seek him. Mr fi. Matthews, who was injured through a buggy accident about six months ago, was an interested spectator at the football match between Gisborne and Turanganni on Saturday afternoon. It is hardly necessary to state that he was highly pleased at his old club goming out victorious. Mr D. Hepburn left by the Manapouri for Auckland this morning, in order to witness Criminal's running in the big hurdle race at the A.R.C. meeting, which takes place on Wednesday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received tho following commercial cablegram from London : dated June 3rd, 1893 :— Mutton market firm. New Zealand lamb is in Jfair demand but quotations are unchanged since last telegram. Tallow is dull of sale and has declined Od per cwt since last report. On tho 25th of May a negro named Freeman left the Spit in an open boat for the purpose of fishing. He never returned to port, and his boat lias been picked up on tho beach betwean Waikare and Mohalca. There is no doubt that the man has been drowned. Writing on April 14Hi the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age says : — " Professor Douglas Archibald has reported to Messrs Nelson Bros, on the practicability of exporting New Zealand and Australian frozen meat to India. I am not aware of the nature of the report." " Murrumbidgee," the well-known menkey man who frequent! race meetings, is suing the Town and Suburban Racing Club, Napier, for £oQQ for alleged wrongful imprisonment. He was ejected from tho course at the last meeting, and the constable mistakenly locked him up. A proclamation, giving currency to the new coinage, appears in Thursday's Government Gazette. The new coins are the following : — £o, £2, £i, half-sovereign, crown, half-crown, ilorin, shilling, sixpence, and " Queen's maundy moneys," viz. fourpence, threepence, twopence, and one penny. Hastings has a sensation. A woman sued a man named Taylor for maintenance, alleging that he was her husband. She produced a certificate of marriage with him, but on cross-examination admitted that she had been previously married to two others named Skelton and Palamountain, both of whom, like Taylor, had deserted her. Referring to the speech of the Minister of Lands, the Wellington Post says:— "Mr McKenzie's remarks respecting Mr Justice Conolly were utterly unjustifiable, and most unbecoming from the mouth of a Minister of the Crown. We might use much stronger terms of condemnation, without exceeding the bounds of propriety." The Christchurch Press states that a farm owned by Messrs Dowdall Brothers, situated at the Styx, was submitted to auction the other day, and after spirited competition it was knocked down at the unusually high figure of £45 10s per acre. Live stock also sold at proportionately high rates, as much as £15 a head being givan for dairy cattle. Nineteen estates were placed in the hands of the Public Trustee during May, of which the chief were : — Robert Parker, Nelson, £2000 ; Henry Burgess, Timaru, £1250 ; Samuel Parker, Gisborne, £700 ; Mary Cotter, Gisborne, £700, and Isabella Macdonald, Sunnyside, £260. In only four out of nineteen cases were relatives of deceased known. A huntsman sends us the following rather late for publication : — Last Monday, one of the most successful runs of the season came off on Mr Woodbine Johnson's country at Wairakia. The day was all that could be desired, and a very large assemblage took the field at 12.30, a little time having been allowed to late comers. Mr Johnson had been to an immense amount of trouble in providing a course, and the result furnished a most exciting run ever perfect country. The obstacles consisted of post and rails, hedges and ditches, wire fences (rickered) <!feo., which were nearly all negotiated by the majority of the field in workmanlike style. Mr Johnson's country is the best yet hunted over, more particularly from a spectator's point of view, as the hills around furnish a coign of vantage from which almost the whole of the run could be Been distinctly. Amongst those present were Mrs Dormer on Jim (most prominent throughout), Miss Reynolds on Midlothian, Miss Palethorpe on The Chief, Mr T. M. Fergusson (master) on The Bishop, Mr Trotter (whip) on The Briton, Mr Williamson (whip) on New Year, Mr A. 0. Arthur on Pirate, Mr Cyril White on a bay, Mr Frank Arthur on Greyling, Mr Peter Bourke on a grey, Mr R. J. Reynolds on Ginger, Mr J. A. Harding on Bay Jim, Mr R. Sherratt on Hikurangi, Mr Dormer on Mattie, and several others. Mr and Mrs Johnson entertained the members at luncheon, and the day's proceedings were voted most enjoyable by all who partook in them. The hounds met at Mr Dormer's to-day, and an account of j the run will be published later.