Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7137, 20 November 1894, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISH ED EVERY EVENING

OIBBORNB, TUKBDAY, NOVEMBER 90.118 M. The Borough Council meet* thia evening* Mowra Williftins arid Kettle hold a ttU of stock «t MaUwhero yardi tomorrow. The programme of event* of the Caledonian Bociety't iporU, to he held oo January lit, appear! at an in»et in thu iuuo. Captain Edwin wind thU afternoon:— "Strong north -west to we«t and iouth winds. GlaM r_*." The attention of r«adcn, especially thoee redding in the country, U directed to Mr K. WUIiAOM' new advertisement. Elsewhere will be found particular* of the Summer Meeting of the Guborne Racing Club, to be held on January 17th and ISth. The programme U an attractive one, and owner* will find on perusal thai they have been liberally treated. A Native named Tutene te Poki, who wm fined at the Court yesterday for drunkenness, was again before the Magistrate this morn ing on a similar charge, to which be pleaded guilty, and. addressing His Worship, said '• If you give me a good talking to and make me cry, perhaps I will promise to leave oft drink." Needless to say be got a good talking to, bnt he went away broiling, promising to p*y his fine of £1 before the day was out. The monthly meeting of the Tnrangaaal Lmlije No. I4SO, XC, was held In the Masonic Hall, Childers ro»d, last night. The business consisted of the election of W M. »nd officers for the ensuing year. Bri). W. O. Skeet. the retiring W.M., was re-elected to tho chair of K.S., and Bros. W. Parnell P.M., J. A. Harding P.M., and A. J Fyson ware again elected to the offices of Secretary, Treasurer and Tyler respectively As was to h« expected- A preliminary meeting of the settlers of the Po^hska Downs Estat« has been held to consider the question oi asking the Government for a reduction in the rents.

; The Government ha»e declined to lend £3,000 to the Thames Harbour Board. The barque Kenmore, bound from Melbourne to London, ii retried as mlMiog. JiaiM Bertie wu committed for trial at Auckland for unlawfully wounding Constable iKoep. Twn Canterbury buyers have just pur chased 300 f*t bullocks in the Hawera district, to be shipped South. Some Engliah capitalist* will likely put a fast boat on th« N*Uon- West Coast trade. Says Sydney Troth . — "The political cry of the Mtfuriland women in ' Down with the drink.' The men do tic do^.l, ami don't make much noise about it." The Colonial Treasurer will address a public meeting in Aocklacd aarly in December. Both the Premier and lie will attend the formal opening of the Auckland ■ Rotor ua line on December Bth. The expenditure on the Rock* Road, Nelson, up to September 31st last waa X7H93. It is estimated that £450 is required to complete the sea-wall. In a recent article the New Zealand Tablet, in referring to the primary schools of the colony, uttered a wail that "Godless schools still flourish, and do their hellish work of gradual dechristianisation." The New Zealand Rhipping Co.'* mail steamers from New Zealand to London will in future call at Monte Video aa well as Rio, commencing with the Kaikoura, leaving Wellington oo 27 tb Dumber. The fares to Monte Video are the same as Rio. There were two fatal accidents at Wakapuaka. Nelson, on Prince of Wales' Birthday. A young man named Alfred Frost was killed whilst bushfelling, by a tree falling on him. A trap containing a party of picnickers fell over a bank into the sea, and Miss Bovey. of Btoke, was kicked by the bone and killed. Max OTtell denies that he said, in his new book : "In Australia everybody is drunk every day before evening seta in." He adds : " Let me be judged by my works. That will be quite enongh for me to answer for on thejday of reckoning." Quite enough ! Says the Review of Reviews :— " Not a few signe seem to show that the wave of feeling in favor of prohibition, which was apparently sweeping over New Zealand, is losing volume and force. The danger of recoil is always the chief peril in a moral reform of this character, but it will be curious if the first Parliament which has b*en elected on women's suffrage should prove less resolute in temperance reform than a House elected by male voters only." An impudent theft was committed in Gore the other day. A notorious light- , fingered kleptomaniac " lifted " a leg of mutton from the larder of a local parson and then sold it to another religious dignitary for the magnificent sum of eighteen pence — representing to th» purchaser that he bad just started in the butchery business, and was selling cheap to parsons as be entertained a great respect for the cloth. The bait took, and with the subsequent three drink* the swindler was shortly afterwards seen rolling half seas over. " Castor," la the Canterbury Times, says "the Oiisborne-owned horse Mahaki made th» ranmnc in the New Zealand Cap tor a mile and a- half, and on the second day finished second in the Criterion Handicap. He, however, was beaten out of a place in the Metropolitan Handicap, and he failed in the Jockey Club Handicap. Probably the son of Ingomar i» a better horse than his performances wonld suggest, and I shall not be surprised to Hod him winning a gocd race before the close of the season." Mr Te Kani Pere's cheque amounted to £14 ss. The Rev. Mr Malcolm, who has filled the country charge of the Presbyterian Church here, has resigned, having offered for service with the China Inland Mission, from the Melbourne Council of which he is awaiting a final reply- Mr Malcolm's resignation has been accepted by the Presbytery, and the Rev. Mr Ryburn has been deputed to " preach the charge vacant," which he will do next Bandav at WaimaU in the morning and Ormond at night, Mr Malcolm taking the town and MaUwhero services for the day. Mr Bertram, from Dunedia, is expected here shortly to take up the country work as from the first of December. Referring to the New Zealand Government's loan proposals, as set forth in the Budget, the Manchester Courier says that :— " New Zealand finances aad financial schemes are not iust now viewed with much favour in those circles where syndicate support is customarily reckoned upon. In snch circles it is felt that the Government have entered upon an ad venturous policy in regard both to the Banks and to the land question, which may end in plunging the colony into serious troubles at no distant date. In the meanwhile English investors would do well to keep clear of New Zealand securities until they learn how this vast land-jobbing eaterprise is faring." In another column it will be seen that an endeavour is being made to collect the local contributions to the Bishopric Endowment Fund before the end of the year. Upwards of £200 has been already collected in this district, and another £100 has been promised. The local treasurer will be glad to receive further contributions that have been promised, and also any further sums before the end of the year, that he may be able to remit the same to the diocesan treasurer before the consecration of the bishop. Thit ceremony is to be performed in the Napier cathedral on 20th January next, and it is to be hoped that considerable additions will have been made to the fund before that date. The steamer Falcon arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland, on September 15, bringing back the members of Lieutenant Peary's polar expedition, all welt, inoluding Mrs Peary and her baby. Lieutenant Peary himself remained in Greenland, with a colored attendant, and provisions for twelve months. In March last he started on an inland journey northward from Bowdoin Bay, with eight men and twelve sledges He travelled 134 miles in .11 days, but the party encountered such hardships that the expedition had then to be abandoned. On one occaasion they experienced a temperature of from 40deg. to OOdeg below »n>, The sledges had to be abandoned, and out of 92 dogs only 36 returned alive to headquarters. The following is a list of the principal winners in Tattersall's consultations :— 100.000, which closed with 50.000 sub scribers : Patron (first horse). C. Roylott, Berryl street, Broken Hill. £13.500 ; Devon (second horse), Boldieand Lees, Cannamulia, Queensland, £4500 ; Nada (third horse), F. L. Wail, Regent street, Camperdowo, Bydney, £21.10. No. 1 of the 100.000 at 5s resulted as follows:- D. Milne, Hughenden, Queensland, £8750 (first horse) ; 8. N. Newtown, Tattersall's Club, Bydney, £2256 (second horse) ; W. H Ajra, station master, Oteki, near Wellington, New Zea land, £1125 (third horse). No. 2 of the 100,000 at ss: F. J. Sabine, lceworks, Broken Hill, NB.W., £6750; Wirdeo and Selby, care of Mandelson, Tumut, N.S.W.. £2250 1 Miss Pegus, Carlisle street, Leichhardt, Sydney. No. 3of the 100,000 at ss, which closed with 50,000 subscribers. F. Qwennson, No. 167, Pyrmont street, Pyrmoot, Sydney, £3375 ; C. Clark, Tauranga, Auckland, New Zealand, £1125; Rnmney and Stilbard, Post Office, Dundee, NS.W., £562. Speaking at the luncheon in connection with the Cbristchurch show, the Premier is reported to have said :— The beet news be probably could tell them was that wool had risen ldntr lb. But be could not tell them that. He could tell them that prioes were hardening, and that there waa an upward tendency, and that if we had a rise in the price of wool the depression would disappear like mist from the mountain top. Ht then quoted figures snowios? the increase in the export and oonsnmpUoo of wool, the export of froseo meat and dairy produce (stating that there were sow 55 ohssss factories, 02 butUr factories, 60 creamefies, aad 57,000 cows being milked, lands taken up and in cultivation ((^anterburr repreeeatlog a sixth of the whcla), and lands laid down in grass. It was the duty, be pointed out. of our public men to, so far m lay in their power, increase hope in the breasts of the people, who for this oolony had shown a glorious example. They had labored under serious difficulties like men. and all honored them. (Hear, hear.) His friends of the A. and P. Association bad done a great deal in the past, but more remained to d« door, and great responsibility rested upon them.

Nrws wu received in Sydney on November 2nd of the disastrous wrack of a coal laden vesest bouod from Newcastle to Manilla. Th* American beruue Richard Parsons left Newcastle on July 20th U»t with 1720 toot of Cardiff (own* of loo»l miss) eosl. She encountered a typhoon off the cowt of Mindora on October 3rd. Tbe ehi«f officer and lix of the crew were drowned. In the Field, the well known Kngliah ■porting paper, appear* thia advertisement: — "New ZoaUod Fuhing.--A party, limited to eight rodt, will start for New Zealand «*rljr in October, retnrninx to England in Much, which willallowlhree month*' fishing on many of the riven of the colony. The whole of the expeoaee can be ascertained of, *nd the management of th« toor undertaken by, an experienced gentleman. — Apply to ••Timera,**Tbe Old Hooae, Chepstow, Moo." Mr Gladstone, In a letter tells of the pro i ceedinga at the time of bta firvt Newark i eteotioo :— " We ■tatted on tbe norui at H in the morning, and worked at it for about nine hour*, with a great crowd, band and flagi, and inaunerabU glaaaea of beer and wiae all jumbled together ; than a dinner of 30 or 40, with speech** and aongs until, aay, 10 o'clock ; then we always played a rubber of whist, and about lti or I I got to bed. bat not to sleep, for never in my life did I undergo any excitement to be ormpared with it." Ten yean ago a rich dtisea of Brussels had a very good idea which will soon help to make the capital of Belgium prettier than tho Ville Lumi6re. The man, an architect and an artict, two things which go well together, but which are not very often found so, has left by his will an income of 3,000fr to be presented to the proprietor who shall have built for himself in the course of the year the boose with the most artistic facade. Three thousand francs and the chance of having one's pile discussed in all the paper* must nave proved attractive, for in the new Quarters of Brussels the eyes are not offended by the hideous cubic heaps of stonee which are called in Fraaoe ma%m>*» dt rapport, but they oan rejoice in a succession of lace work, sculptures, dormer windows, and gables, all rivalling one another in eleganoe. An amusing incident is reported from Broken HilL Mr Justice Stephen, a son o( the late Sir Alfred Stephen, while presiding over the civil sittings of the Broken Hill Circuit Court, was called upon to hear a case in which a miner named Bowden sued the Broken Hill Proprietary Company for £2000 for injuries sustained in a cage accident. When the case was called on a curious difficulty arose. Mr Justice Stephen said as he was a shareholder in the company, he coold not hear tbe case. He would settle the difficulty, however, by disposing of bis shares, and aaked who would buy them. The plaintiff's attorney intimated his willingness to purchase if they could agree as to the price. His Honor said be would take fair market valne, and the bargain was con* eluded. The case then proceeded. No one can exactly uodentand what tbe plaintiff's attorney's feelings most have been when he was thus unexpectedly called upon to fight fiercely against a company in which he was personally interested. The plaintiff got no damages.