Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING. OIBBORNE, BATTRDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1894.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7135, 17 November 1894, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING. OIBBORNE, BATTRDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1894.

GISBORNE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Library Committee have, since tbe opening of the Library more than twenty years Ago, had very hard work to carry on the institution from year to year. Unlike many similar institutions, oar Library is not anainted by the local bodice, neither is it endowed or subsidised in any way, aud the Committee have to depend upon subscriptions of members and the donations of the philanthropically disposed. Happily in the course of a couple of years the position of the Committee will be much more satisfactory. Tho rent received from the Borough and County Councils, which is now absorbed in the extinguishment of the mortgage on the property, will at the end of the period mentioned be available for library purples, and as the amount is LI 12 per annum it will be * most welcome addition to the Committee's present scanty income. That the institution is a most useful one, and is largely patronised, can be seen by anyone who chooses to piy a visit in the afternoon between S and 6 o'clock. The chairs are always fully occupied, and as there are thirty - three newspapers and periodicals to select from, there is no difficulty in 6nding something to suit the individuil taste of the readers— " From grave to gay, from lively to seven." Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a sufficient recognition of the advantage conferred upon the com-

n unity by the existence of a free pablio , library, nor tbe doty of the pablio to st»sisfe the Committee so far m they are ia a' position to do. The many persons who I km a profitable half-hour at the library table, rarely thick of the trouble and worry the management often experience. They are aware that the institution could |be greatly improved, and th«t many important works, now not obtainable, could be provided if the Committee were poeeeased of more fund*. They frequently grumble liecauee of the absence of tome periodical or book which »,hey would like to read, but it doen not seem to bo recognised that the .small public assistance rendered to the Committee is responsible for the shoru.<miinK" "f the institution. In order to add to their funds, the Committee recently decided upon holding an Art Union. Some really oxcellent landscape paintings, by Mr W. Bloomfield, of Auokland, a piano and other prises hare been purchased, and HQO tickets at 5s each have beeo offered to the public Up to the present time some 400 hare been purchased, and as will be seen from an advertisement elsewhere, the Library Committee make an earnest appeal to the public to take op the remaining 200. It was decided to draw for prues on Monday next, but it if now found neoeesary to postpone the drawing until the 21st December, as at the present moment the Committee would loae L2O if the drawing were proceeded with. Under the circumstances, and taking into consideration the good objects to which it ia intended to apply the surplus from the An Union -the purchase of additional books for the Library— we hope that the Committee's appeal will be satisfactorily responded to, and that there will be no difficulty in disposing of the remaining tioketa. The Rev. L. M. Uitt ri.it* Gisborne oo | November 27th. Captain Edwin wired this afternoon: — North and north-west gal*. Indications for rain and for heavy aea on coast with good tides. Glass falL By the coast mail we received sabecriptioos of £2 and £1 from " Sympathisers " to the Wairarapa relief fund. The s.s. Australia brought 200 bales of wool from the Coast, which are being transhipped to the ship Wellington. Entries for the Hoepital Sport* in all the principal athletic erents, also for horse races and horse iomp, dose with the BeoreUry (Mr H. McKay) at his office, Lowe street, at 9 o'clock this erening. An exhibition was held the other day in the New Zealand Electrical Syndicate's premises, Wellington, displaying not only the usual electrical instruments for lighting purposes, bat, in addition, cooking utensils, such as frying* pant, saucepan*, kettles, stoves, etc. Greytnonth people are very angry with Captain Fairchlld because of his persistent refusal to take the Htnemoa into their port. They say the depth of water on the bar Is 18ft 6in. and the Gorernment steamer only draws 12ft Bin. This morning Mr C. Dean Pitt offered the goodwill of the unexpired term of 18 years in sereral blocks situated near Te Karaka, but there were no bids. A section of 7 acres 19 perches at Pakirikiri was knocked down to Mr W. Bailey for £21, the bidding starting at £5. The Wellington Post thinks that though the day has not yet arrired wbeo a swimming or gymnastic pass will be ss much a matter of course in ordinary educational standards, that day is fast approaching, and we will yet tee a scientific physical culture placed on as high a plane of appreciation as it occupied in the olassio civilisations of antiquity. Dt Wright has •erred the proprietor of the Westport Star with a Supreme Court writ, claiming £500 damages for alleged libel His complaint is the alleged publication in a district court report of the case Wright v. Fergussoa, of aportioo of Dr Rwart's evidence, taken at Wellington, but which, Dr Wright says, was not read to the jury. The ease can not come on for hearing until about March next year. The Napier Rrening Mews learns from a private and reliable source that the health of the Premier shows signs of giving way under the terrible strain to which be has •übjected himself since his moot— ion to office. It appears to be beyond doubt thai his heart is seriously affected, and that bis medical advisers hare giren him s«oh precise directions as te regimen as are only giren to persons whose state is more or less precarious. On board the Talune between Gieborae and Aaokland on Monday erening, a coo cert, got up by the saloon passengers, yielded a sum of money which was handed orer to a lady on board, widow of a drowned seaman of the Wairarapa, who had beeo left with two children. She had been a stewardess in the Company's service and had married one of the seamen She was living in Daoedio and came up here to search for th* remaios or relios of her late hnaband. The amount was banded to Ike bereaved lady with assurances of deep sympathy. It seems that another person bound for Gisborne by the ill-fated s s. Wairarapa, and not mentioned in the list of passengers published, has to be numbered with the lost. Hie name is Thomas Baird, and be came out from England in the Austria! A friend, Mr J. M Taylor, of Patutabi, received a letter from Mr Baird at Sydney, statiog that he did not like the weather there and intended leaving for New Zealand two days later (that would be the date of the Wairarapa's sailing). Nothing has since been beard of Mr Baird. and Mr Taylor, becoming anxious interviewed Miss aL Wheat lev, who was also a passenger from Kogtaod by the Austral, and who was fortunately sared from the wreck of the Wairarapa. Miss WheaUey states that she knew Mr Baird well, and l« an re that he was on the vessel. It is only too certain that be it not amongst the survivors. A man named Joseph Geddu created a disturbance in Gladstone Road last night, for which he was brought before the Magistrate at the Police Court this morning oo charges of being drank and disorderly, using obscene language, and assaulting Coosteble Law in the execution of his doty. Ueddes, who was represented by Mr Jones, pleaded guilty to all the cbatges. The evidence of the constable was that be found the man drunk lying on bis back, kicking his heels about and creating a disturbance. After bis arrest he became very violent, and used obscene language. He said be could thump all the policemen in New Zealand, and proceeded to batter the ooostable about, tearing his waistcoat and kicking him on the jaw. With the assistance of a native the ooostable succeeded in carrying him to the lock-up. Ueddes, who had a record of seven previous convictions for various offence* at Wellington, Oiaborne, and Waipiro, was ordered by the Magistrate to pay a fine of £10, or in default to endure two months' imprisonment in Napier Gaol for the offence of assaulting the constable ; on the charge of using obscene language he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment ; and for drunkenness was fined £1 or 24 hours imprisonment ; the last two sentences to be concurrent with the first. Keferring to Poverty Bay, the Nelson Mail aars :— " There is no other part of New Zealand of so much importance that is so isolated and co badly off for means of land carriage. The people there have to pay their share of the interest on the public debt. The rail way a of the colony generally do not earn enough to pay all the interest on the cost of construction, and the whole of the colonists are taxed to make np the difference. In Nelson we have bad little benefit from the expenditure of loan money, but in Poverty Bay the people have not had any at all. They have been permitted to tax themselves for the construction of harbor works, but that has been at least a doubtful benefit, as the works hare proved a failure, and of conrec the taxation remains. On both aides (iiaborne is oast off from its neighbours. There is not a road worth calling by the name to Napier, and to go to Auckland overland is a very difficult business. The New Zealand achem* of public works started by tjir Julius Yogel had in it from the first the element* of injnatioe. There would not be anything unfair if the railways and other works paid their way, or if those whom they serve paid for them, but it is highly inequitable that those who get nothing should be taxed for tb* benefit of those who g«6 much.

The Uuu«.iia Jockey Club ha decided to urn ait of dray's starling machines at ths spring meeting. The scholarship examination ia connection with the Hawke'a R*y public schools will take place on the sth and 6th of December. A milking machine wm tried at Woodvill* recently and prored a failure. The invention worked fairly well on an easily milked cow, but from a hard milker very little fluid could be drawn. An average attendance of 1106 children U recorded at the Napier district echool. The actual number on the roila ia 12M2. Daring the put nine month* 44,8530 iof gold h»vs been received from New Zealand for coinage in the Bydeey mint. At Urn Melbourne University, oat of 593 students 73 are gtrU— 43 of them in tb« aru, and 14 in the medical division. Eleven oaaee are set down for the criminal •Melons of the Supreme Court at Christchurch oo Mondaj, comprising sheep stealing, keeping disorderly house*. perjury, false pretences, larceny, a&i breaking and entering. The OUgo High BchooU Oovemore have appointed Miaa Katharine Browning as mathematical mistrrea at the Girls' High School. MiM Browsing wm trained at Girton College, Cambridge. Bhe he* been teaching »t the Napier school for the pas; six months. There was the osnaj celerity in despatching Urn wire to New Zealand announcing the winner of the Melbourne Cap. The line* were specially kept clear, and toe result was known ta Wellington before the jockey dismounted from Patron to be weighed in. Parser Fen wick in his evidence at the Wairarapa enquiry Mid he was lying dressed in the saloon when Urn ship struck ; be did not go to his cabin because be felt a little nervous, seeing that bis cabin was right ia the bows, and he preferred to lie down ia the saloon. Urn Hobart Exhibition was opened on Thursday with great oeresnooy. A prooeasioo numbering 10,000 marched through Urn •treete to the building, where the Governor formally declared it open. He hoped Urn Exhibition would lead to the closest commercial relations by fall and fiss interchange of products and manufactures. A telegram has been sent by Reynolds k Co. and Urn New Zealand Dairy Association to the Secretary for Agriculture, suggesting that as the milk suppliers of the Auckland and Taranaki districts are dissatisfied with the results of the milk testing, a portion of the grant to Urn dairy industry be devoted to subsidise tbs Government analysts to test all samples on behalf of Urn milk suppliers The Public Trustee had 25 aew estates placed uadsr bis charge for management daring tbs month of October. The estate of the highest value *v that of Charles B. Koorpp, lav of Urn Public Works Depart meat, Wellington, who left £8000. Next w*s Urn estate of Mrs Hals*. Wellington, £3200, followed by Rev. Lorsnxo Moore's, of Nelson, £1850; Peter Sommerviirs, of Pkrtoo, £1000 ; John Smith's, of Duaediu, £1150 ; and O. A. Mill's, of Kaipara, £800. Mrs Beeant't chief word of warning to colonists ia, in effect : Beware of worshipping the great god of Getting On. Tbs ideal whose goal v mere material or worldly success is debasing sad dangerous to humanity ; and Mrs Bcsant has all Matthew Arnold's •corn for the glorification of Urn kind of creature who begins his commercial career ss an office or erraad boy, with sixpence in his pocket, and dies a millionaire as the result of life- long devotion to money -grabbing. Mr* Besant significantly asks ss to beware of ideals of thai description. The North Canterbury Education Board has rescinded its former resolution that girls above Urn age of 12 should not be subject to corporal punishment. An amendment that the ags should be raised to 13 was rejected. The mover read letters from teachets of various schorls complaining that this portioo of the regulations had the effect of weakening discipline amongst the pupils, as some of the elder jrirlr, finding that they would not be punished, became insubordinate, and led other pupils on to disobey. The description of two of those drowned in Urn Wairarapa published in the news papers tally with those of two passengers from Gcelong and bound for Nsw Zealand. The missing youths are named Andrew Sherry and William WinstanUey, both wellknown in athletic circles. They were travelling to New Zealand, it is believed, under Urn names of J. Donovan and W. Stanley, along with their trainer, a young man named Hiokey, whose name appears in Urn list of theee caved from the wreck. A Boy was walking ap Oxford street, LytteJtoa, on Saturday warning, carrying a large bundle of straw on his back, when he was overtaken by another boy, who stealthily pot a lighted match to Urn bundle In an instant the straw biased up, and the carrier bad to drop it very quickly to save himself from the flames. It was a good thing for him that the bundle wax not attached to him in any way, or fatal results might have ensued. The straw lay in the street and was burnt, while Urn perpetrator of the mischief and a companion looked 00, evideoUy considering the owner's loss a splendid joke. News has been received that Mr Fiu gerald, a celebrated English mountaineer, is now on his way to New Zealand to make the accent of Mount Cook and other New Zealand peaks. Mr Fttncerald was Mr CoDWsy's climbing companion ia the Kara-korom-Hunilaya expedition, fitted out by the Royal Geographical Society, and as be will be accompanied by lbs no less celebrated guide Zurbriggaa, a number of Urn nmet difflcult New Zealand peaks may be expected to go down before him. BtitnulaUd by the news of this expedition, a party from the New Zealand Alpine Club have made hurried though careful plans, and are now on the way to Mount Cook, anxious that Urn honor of Urn first complete ascent of Aorangi should not be wrested from New Zealand and New Zealanders, Many unsuccessful attempts to ascend Mount Cook have been made, but given floe weather and a satis factory condition of Urn upper snow slopes, Urn party mentioned now hope to succeed. The Napfor correspondent of Urn Wairoa Guardian says :— *' Touching educational matters, two or three remarkable stories are in circulation as to the means whereby a large percentage of passes was Moored in some publio schools (not iocluding Wairoa. of course). It is stated, with great circumstantiality, that thess psssn were — not to put too fine a point upon it — the result of ''cribbing," practised openly by the children, and winked at by the teachers. The latter, of course, cannot gain permanently by such a practice, sines children thus undu'y advanced must fail at next examination when inspected by the Inspector ; but, if these statements are true, it is dreadful that children should be thus trained in deception. There can be no doubt, after comparing the passes ia Standards L and 11 with the results of previous years, that a great mistake was made when the work of examining children in those standards was transferred from the Inspectors to the teachers." Auckland has another grievance. At the Chamber of Commerce masting on Thursday, the Chairman said there was a matter to be dealt with of very greet importance to the merchants of Auckland. It was in regard to freights from London. He had beeu advised that in future the steam shipping companies would not send their mail steamer* to Auckland, having decided to despatch them to Wellington only, and that Auckland would ia future be served by cargo steamers. These had, be pointed out, of late come very irregularly, and great inconvenience had been caused to importers. It bad been decided to charge 10s a too extra freight on all Auckland cargo shipped by steamers other than those cargo steamers which came direct to Auckland. Several members gave expres sion to their views, and it was resolved to communicate with the directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company in London, and the directors oi the Shaw, Savlll Company on the subject, calling attention to the drawbacks which increased freight charges would mean to the trade of Auckland, and asking that Auckland freights be put oo equal tertns with the rest of the colony ; also that it be pointed oot to the shipping companies that the geographical position of Auckland was such ss to enable importers to take advantage of the Australian steamship lines, by which they could have their goods delivered at lower rates than the shipping companies propose to charge.