NEWS OF THE BAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIL, Issue 7274, 7 May 1895, Page 4

NEWS OF THE BAY.

The Pope wants his successor appointed. » Melbourne Hospital is in debt L 12,000, and a self-denial week is proposed. The police in the South are prosecuting larrikins who obstruct the footpaths. A dairy factory is to be started in the Waimea, Nelson. The ship Opawa, now loading frozen mutton at Timaru, will go direct to Manchester. During the past fishing season Mr James Hedley, of Oamaru, has landed 168 trout, the majority of fair size and weight. A Golf Club has been started at Wellington with 70 members. An enlarged photograph fiend has caused much distress in Woodville households in consequence of his " collect and bolt " tactics. Fop reasons of economy the Wellington . Education Board decided to retire the in- . structor in calisthenics, saving about LSOO per year. A man was sent to prison for a month for laying totalisator odds at Wellington. I The Pahiatua County Council have to raise a loan of L 2500, repayable by a speoial rate, to repair the damage done to the roads. Wellington and Wairarapa charitable aid levy this year is L 10,538, against L 7919 last year. The ketch Kestrel, recently stranded at the Crpixelles, has been refloated, and will be taken on to Nelson to be repaired. The damage to the hull is estimated at between Ll5O and L2OO. There was a terrible wind in the Bay of Plenty on Friday week. Trees were uprooted, and there was a heavy sea. The Telocity of the wind is'stated to have been about 120 miles per hour. The Tasmania took the following racehorses to Sydney :-St. Hippo, Sylvia Park, Coala, St. Valentine, Osculator, Webley, and Aphony. At the Government auction sale at ' Uotorna town, suburban, and rural sections — leaseholds for 99 years— the bidding for the town sections was spirited, and 108 sections were sold at a rental of L 215. The Pomahaka correspondent of the Clutha Leader reoorte that the -flames from the burning-lignite have broken out in the middle of the county engineer's road, and that the roar and crackle of the furnace are awe-Inspiring. An' Auckland paper vouches for the fact that Powell, the chemist, who was recently released from gaol on a plea of ill-health after serving about one-fifth of the sentence passed on him for illegal practices, has commenced business again as a chemist, in Grey-street, Auckland. He is stated to look anything but a dying man now. Wellington City Council will construct baths at each end of the city costing lil,&oO;each. * .. The average expenditure by the settlers ' of the Whareama district on rabbit {destruction is LIO.OOO. One stationholder's expenditure for some years has been between L7OO and LBOO a year, and another quite L 1.200. Mr Labouchere, writing in Truth on the great currency question, says "I regard a Bi-Metallist as either a wellmeaning person under the influence of a delusion, or as an astute person possessed of a silvermine." , Sultry correspondence is passing between Mr Larnach and the Premier because the Ministry was not represented »t the banquet to Tuapeka's member. The Government has decided to purchase under the Lands for Settlement ,'!Act the Oporiao estate, 4000 acres, in the valley of the Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, and some 6000 acres in Canterbury. Much regret is expressed in the South lit the bankruptcy of the old firm of 1 Friedlander Bros. , Ashbur ton. A. % Ngata, the clever Ngatiporou ~ toy, 1 has passed his political science M. A. examination. ? The sohooner Alice May, Captain Champion, has arrived at Auckland from Norfolk Island. On the 11th ulfc. the barometer registered 29.30. She got into the tide off Three Kings, and was in danger for two hours. The boat was smashed and the mainsail burst. The crew were only saved from being washed ' : overboard by fastening ropes to the rigging. Several of the officers of the Spanish , warship Reina Regente, which foundered near Trafalgar Bay, are said to have belonged to the training ship Nautilus when the vessel paid a visit to New i: Zealand some time ago. The Taranalci News hears that there is a good prospect, amounting to a pracx tjcal certainty, of the systematic development of the Mokau coal seams. An English' syndicate, commanding ample capital, has just purchased the property from Mr R. Parrls. No less than 84 men gave in their names at the police station, Wauganui, as willing to take up work offered by the Government. Only ten were selected, and the remainder complain bitterly of the action of the Government in sending the Canterbury unemployed to Stratford. A train was , derailed by a bull at Halcombe last week. It was bad for the bull.. Captain Halliday, who is shortly to be relieved of the duties of Health Officer at Wellington, has held the position for 28 years. He receives three months' pay as _ _compenaatioD, which amounts to the _^jnnnificent sum of L 6 ss. v;^tis rather absurd, says the Wellington Post, for the Government to talk about supplying America and Europe Wffch railway sleepers when it is itself importing Australian ironbark sleepers for use-on New Zealand lines. The s.s. Mon6wai on her last voyage brought a i large number. The collapse of Oscar Wilde's case and subsequent arrest, says the correspondent of the New York World on 6th April, have caused a sensation without parallel | in London since the exposure and flight .of the forger Pigott during the sitting of the Parnell Commission. / . The Rev. James O'Bryan Hoare has been inhibited by the Bishop of Christohuroh for preaching. without a license. % Miss Ormerod, the well-known English : entomologist, has been appealed to from Canterbury respecting the effectiveness of the bumble bee in the fertilisation of clover, and the varieties of the bee in New Zealand. Miss Ormerod does not advise any alteration of the varieties, and considers that the fact thab locally-grown red clover seed is now an important article of commerce, whereas before the introduction of the bees' it was unknown, is sufficient evidence of their value. During the meeting of the South Canterbury Charitable Aid Board the Chairman said that the people of New Zealand were losing their independence, and for the most trifling thing rushed to the Charitable Aid Board; even the labor market was getting as bad, men coming to him, andin the raoab impudent way saying that ho must find them work or feed them.; There was no disgrace attached to it now. If anything was wanted the Government must provide it. A Urge meeting of Kingite Natives is now proceeding near Cambridge. Several hundred Natives are noiv gathered at the settlement, and amongst the chiefs present are-Mahuta (the young Maori Kinj?), Taingakawa Te Waharoa (the Native Premier), Henare Kaihau, Te Heuheu, of Taupo, and many others. The principal subject to be discussed is the proposed federation of the Maori people to take United action with regard to legislation affecting the Natives and their lands. The gist of the demands of the federation is that tbe Natives should be given power to -denl as they like "with thoir own lauds, the fame & Mropieim,

A lady and gentleman travelling to Sydney by the Neutral Bay ferry the other night were suddenly clutched by a huge octopus that had climbed up the side of the vessel. They were released, and after a struggle of ten minutes the octopus was thrown back into the water. "Yes," said the lady lecturer, " women have been wronged for ages. They have suffered in a thousand ways." " There is one way in which they have never suffered," said a meek-looking man, standing up. " What way is that," demanded the lecturess. '* They never suffered in Bilence." And then the lecturess demonstrated beyond a doubt that he was right, n her case at least. In summing up in a case of fortune telling at Bathurst (New South Wales), Acting- Judge Murray referred to the exposures of spiritualism made in the press last year, and said that judging by the exposures that evil was again becoming tangible in the colony. The most unmitigated frauds ever produced to abstract money from a gullible public were perpetrated, and not only this, but the mental faculties of many personslwere so affected that the number of occupants in Callan Park and other lunatic asylums had greatly increased. This is an interesting judicial opinion, in view of the position of Sir William Windeyer, the senior puisne judge, as patron in chief of Mrs Mellon 's " Bpopks." In a review of the frozen meat trade the Otago Witness shows that New Zealand is still the largest exporter of this product in the world. In 1893 the export of mutton and lamb amounted to 1,895,546 carcases. Same year the export from the River Plate was 1,363,605 carcases, and from Australia 540,153 carcases. In 1894 New Zealand exported 1,963,308 carcases against 1,376,742 from River Plate and 930,961 from Australia. In the export of frczen beef New Zealand was before Australia in 1891, but the -next year Australia was in front. The figures for 1894 are— New Zealand 1131 quarters and pieces ; Australia, 171,925 quarters and pieces. The c sport of beef from the River Plate has fallen from 11,889 quarters and pieces in 1891 to 3844 in 1894. The robbers of Canton are getting more <i:dacious every day, judging by tbe fact thab a gang of desperadoes of the city have been sending *' expresses " to all the leading and wealthy families of Canton, asking them to pay premiums to a newly organised " insurance " company, called the Ying-hsiung Insurance Company, which will guarantee the subscribers immunity from robbery and plunder for one year. Some of the premiums demanded by this precious set of underwriters amounted to as much as Tlslo,ooo, the amounts varying according to the recognised status of the family to be laid under contribution. Those refusing to subscribe are threatened with the particular attention of the gang. There set out from Dunedin last week under the experienced leadership of Mr Malcolm Ross, an expedition, organised by the proprietors of the Melbourne ' Leader,' and having for its objective point Milford Sound via Manapouri and the Sutherland Falls, The party, who | are ten in number, will be away from civilisation for about three weeks, and include Mr and Mrs M. Ross, Mr Kenneth Ross, and Mr T. C. Fyfe (of the New Zealand Alpine Club), Dr and Mrs Roberts, Mr W. Hodgkins, and Mr E. T. Luke, the 'Leader's' photographer and "special."; The expedition are well supplied with photographic apparatus and all tbe paraphernalia for overcoming what appears to be an arduous task, and Mr Koss and his coadjutors are confident that their mission will not only be successful, but that they will be the means of opening up for tourist traffic another stretch of comparatively unknown country. The Government and the Union Steam Ship Company are aiding the enterprise, because the result of it will be the publication of a now tourists' guide entitled . " Fiordland," which will be profusely illustrated with sketches of wayside scenery and have its statistical and other information brought up to date. Given fine weather, the expedition ought to have a really good time und render a satisfactory account of themselves. It is computed that England has £200,000,000 invested in shipping. . .