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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6986, 26 May 1894, Page 2

There waa some disappointment at the sudden break up of the Caledonian Ball the other evening, the second part of the programme having only just started, and a strong desire has been expressed to have an opportunity of completing the programme. To meet the wishes of those who desire it the Caledonian Sooiety has arranged to hold a dance until 12 o'clock, on Monday night, wh en the second part of the programme will be gone through, and m the meantime the decorations will not be removed. A small charge will be levied to meet the expenses, and if there is any surplus it will be given to the Hospital

A report of the annual meeting of the Park Company and other reading matter appears on page 4. Prominent among the decorations at the Caledonian Ball were a number of oil paintings by Messrs Meston and White. , At Dunedin races to-day tbe Provincial Handicap resulted : Skirmisher 1, Hippomenes 2, Bay .Bell 3 ; won by a neck. Returns of income must be sent m by Thursday next, or pains and penalties will follow. The Rev. John McNeil, the Scotch evangelist, leaves Capetown for New Zealand by the Gothic on June _th. The rainfall for April is gazetted. At Gisborne the rainfall was 7*23 inches, Matahiia 3*29, Patutahi 6*27, Waipiro 3 74, Tolago Bay 10 88. The Labor Journal reports : — " Gisborne — The supply is m excess of the demand, and apparently will be sufficient to meet all requirements for the winter." Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : — North- east to east and south gale with heavy rain and very heavy sea after ten hours from now ; glass fall and very high tides * indications of flood. The Auckland Herald says it is rumored that the great delay that has taken place m the Validation Court over petty matters about an interpreter is because the Government do not wish any of the decisions to be m time to be laid before the coming session. The Hon. Mr Cadman narrowly escaped injury through a coach accident between Lyell and Murchison, on his way to Westport. The coach overturned, and there was a general "spill" of its passengers. Fortunately, no serious damage was done. The Minister of Mines escaped with a bruised ankle. A correspondent writes to the Post :— " Sir, — Is ib not a lasting disgrace to the people of this colony that to this day there is no stone to mark the last resting place of I Sir Harry Atkinson, and his grave is not even fenced m? That this neglect should be meted out to one whose whole life was devoted to New Zealand, and who died worn-out m her service, ia' an indelible blofc on the annals of this country." A paragraph which appeared m the Gisborne paptr, stating thab the Native Parliament ab present m session there, is likely to"* soon disperse owing to the food supplies giving out, suggests the thought that the adoption of the plan of placing our pakehat legislators on a fixed allowance of kai and waipiro during session time might prove an unusual blessing to the colony at large.— Wairoa paper. The butter industry still keeps up its reputation, and is likely to be very much increased by next season. Most of the farmers m the district are arriving at the conclusion that there is more m ib than sheep. No doubb time will make this a very large butter-producing district, although m some parts chee_e would suit better, according to soil and feed.— Waipawa correspondent. On May 15th a number of suburban and country properties held by the City of Melbourne Building Society (m liquidation) were offered by auction. In some instances, notably lobs at Geelong and Hawthorn,^the ' bidding was spirited. The total proceeds ; realised were £30,590. In most cases the i prices were above the reserves fixed. Deposit receipts of the building society were ; accepted m payment ab face value, but cash , to the extent of about £3000 was received. i The Premier has given instructions to the i Clerk of the House of Representatives that no clerk of committees or extra clerks, or [ messengers of the Houses of Legislature j shall be employed without reference to himself. This employment was formerly at the disposal of the Speaker. It is said that one " most efficient clerk has been refused em- ' ploymenb because last session he did some J clerical work to the order of one of the I members of the Opposition. ' Tho Woodville Examiner learns from a r . private source that Mr H. Knight, who a * few months ago left Mangatainoka for New J Australia, but has now returned to Sydney, * stigmatises the affair as a huge swindle, and c it is his intention to bake legal proceedings :, to recover from the Association the money t paid by him for land, eto. He further states c thab from the time he left Australia unbil a returning was the worst f ourmonths Jieever ~ l-_r's"pll--engersarrived in -excellent | spirits * is altogether misleading, he Says. Mr - Knight warns New Zealafiders against going [. to Paraguay. ti News_ from Samoa states that a large : . proportion of the Government army is now n m front of the rebels at Luatuanu (Atua), ir the old classic battlefield of 1888-89, when so many lives were lost m an ineffectual ° attempt to capture the position from the late Tamasese's forces. Any hour may bring n news of the two parties coming to blows. |* The Aana party were given to May 19 to h make their entire submission to the King. _ In the event of their not doing so they were c to be attacked by the Savii and a portion of y the Tuarusaga. The Buzzard, Falke, and 3 Curacao are m harbor, but without instruc--3 tions. t There are open for selection as village t settlements sections 4to 10, block 11. , of one _ acre each, Motu, situated m the centre of a _ large tract of timber country, of which about 3 12,000 acres are open for' selection, 55 miles - north-west of Gisborne, m the valley of the . Motu river, through which the main Ormond Opotiki road passes. Also, sections Ito 85, village of Hangaroa, situated on the Han--1 garoa river, eight miles from the Gisbornep Wairoa main road, with which it is connected 1 by a formed road, about 30 miles south-west I from Gisborne ; also, section 4, block X, J Norsewood, three miles from Ormondville I railway station. The above may be selected - at the Crown Lands Office on Wednesday, [ July 11. General satisfaction is felt that the Hon. 1 Mr Ward proposes to introduce a Bill next ' session for the establishment of public abat- * toirs and the inspection of dead meat mari kets. Three years ago a Parliamentary i Committee enquired into the condition qf ' the stock markets generally throughout New ; Zealand. One of the witnesses examined . before that committee was the Rev. Mr Van Stavern, the Jewish Rabbi at Wellington, who fills the additional office of meat inspector for the Jewish community, of the whole province. His evidence was startling m respect of the number of cattle affected with anthrax, tuberculosis, cancer, and other diseases, m various stages. The introduction of the measure proposed by Mr Ward is regarded as a publio service. Extraordinary though ib may seem, says the Otago Daily Times, the late Dr. Stuart attributed his rise m life to no less potent an agency than a bottle of whisky. In the days when he conducted bis "adventure school " at Levin he attracted the attention of two maiden ladies, who seeing the rawboned young Scotchman, as he was then, walking daily along the street with his only pupil, were led to make enquiries about him, and having ascertained that he was a schoolmaster they called upon him. In those days Highland . hospitality dictated that whisky should be offered to visitors, and as it occurred to the young teacher thab he snould m such a manner entertain his' visitors he sent out for a bottle of whisky. The ladies, Dr Stuart used to say, were much struck with his hospitality, and through their good offices he obtained an , introduction to a family m which he obtained tbe position of tutor. The gaining of this tutors situation he regarded as the foundation of the measure of success he was enabled to achieve m life. The Timaru Distriot Court was occupied on Wednesday with a curious case. Two men were driving along a country road and left the vehicle on the road side for a few minutes. On starting again they missed the ; whip, which had been left on the seat. A hawker's van had passed m the meantime and they suspected that the hawker took the whip. They overtook him and demanded it, when he said he knew nothing of it. One of the men named Mulhern, a publican at \ Temuka, and an ex-policeman, pretended to : be a police officer, assaulted the hawker, and ' took him to the police station four miles off, to give him m charge. The constable at the station searched the van and finding no whip i let the hawker go. The whip was found on : the road the men had traversed. The i hawker sued tbe two men for the arrest, i and the case was tried to-day. Both men denied the plaintiff's story, but it was corroborated on several points, apd the jury gave him £100 damages for falae 'arrest, j

I Mr B. Thelwall has been appointed careI taker f»r the P.B. Turf Club. ! Masterton is full of unemployed waiting for bus!ifelling to begin. 1 Major Kemp is said to be seriously ill ab Wanganui, suffering from bronchitis. The steamer Chelmsford has been floated off therocks at Tututaka. Thebrigantine Coquette has turned up safely at Wanganui. The i Rev. 'Mr Hobbs, of Hastings, has taken' a new departure. On Sunday evenings he addresses crowds m the street on " Idleness,",'" Language," "The influence of one man on another," etc., considered from a purely moral and social point of view. Sincere sympachy with Mrs Caro, the well-known surgeon dentist who regularly visits Gisborne, will be expressed by many of our readers this evening on perusing the Napier telegram, which tells of the death of her son, Mr Percy Caro, ab Michigan, United States. ' A large number of tailoresses who were recently discharged by the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory have commenced a co-operative experiment. They have been granted the use of St. John's schoolroom, Canterbury, and have set to work to make up a number of garments which will be disposed of ab a " sate of work " to be held shortly. The Premier says he is nob prepared to adopt the principle of giving subsidies to local bodies so as to let them gc on with works of " beautification " about towns, and doing odd jobs. He hoped there would be less whining, and that everybody would take off his coat, metaphorically speaking, and do what he could to help the distress. Never m the history of intercolonial steam navigation have the passenger fares been as loto as at present (saya the Telegraph). From Napier the s.s. Wakatipu takes passengers for Sydney ab 35s m the saloon, and 15s m the steerage. From Wellington the return fare to Sydney is £3. 10s saloon and £2 steerage, and to Auckland £1 10s saloon single, £2 5s return, £1 steerage single, and £1 10a return. | A story is told of the late Dr Stuart I which speaks as to his large-hearted sympathetic nature. In the course of his visiI tations he came across a home where, a poor i worrtan was siok, and had bub a very poor -bed, and the Doctor was touched thereat. _jfe made up his mind to send the necessaries to make a comfortable bed during the day, but owing to bis multifarious duties he forgot until he was going to his own bed late thab nighb, when he remembered the poor woman's want. He then_and there bundled up his own bed, and m the act of carrying it himself upon bis back to the house of the poor woman was accosted by a policeman, whe, nob knowing him ab first, questioned him as to what he was carrying at that late hour. When the man m blue knew the matter he kindly took a spell with the load to its destination, the doctor by his side. Such acts of kindness shows the character df the man more' than mountains of marble. — — — — — — i — —^- > ■