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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7386, 15 July 1895, Page 2

In the Validation Court to-day His Honor Judge Barton heard, legal argument in the Rahokopua Block case. A cable from London states that Sir W. Vernon Harcourt has been beaten by Messrs Primrose and Drage by majorities of 840 and 242 respectively, at the election for Derby. . Mr H. 6. Spackman, professor of music, has removed his residence from Palmerston road to Read's Quay. The thermometer readings at nine o'clock this morning were as follow : — Auckland 51, Gisborne 48, Napier 50, Wanganui 44, New Plymouth 50, Wellington 45, Blenheim 47, Nelson 38, Westport 40, Greymouth 40, Christchurch 34, Timaru 45, Oamaru 42, Dunedin 45, Invercargill 36, Bluff 45. A big crowd assembled at the wharf yesterday morning to wish the footballers bon voyage, and as the launch left the wharf they were given three hearty cheers. In Auckland the team stays at the Central hotel. It is the intention of the Waiapu County Council at its next meeting to be held on the 7th prox. to strike a three farthing rate on the ratable property in the occupation of Europeans and § of a penny in the pound on that in the occupation of Natives. The N.Z. Times of Friday last says :— The Hinemoa left at 2 o'clock this morning for Pencarrow and The Brothers lightbouses. She will return to-morrow, and will then leave on her usual trip to the Northern lighthouses. When the Hinemoa reaches Poverty Bay she will surveyy the rocks that the steamers Waihora and Anglian reported as having touched. ' The attention of members of the craft is drawn to the advertisement notifying that the annual installation of the W.M. -elect, and investiture of other offioera of Lodge Abercorn No: 76 is to be held in the Masonic Hall, Childers road, this evening. The Grand Suprintendent of the district, Bro. W. Beilby, has arrived from Napier specially to conduct the cermony, and the brethern of Abercorn are naturally anxious to have a good muster to meet him. Visiting brethren of every constitution will be cordially welcomed. The annual meeting of members of the Gisborne Racing Club was held on Saturday evening at the Argyll Hotel when a large number were present. The reports and balance sheets as read were adopted, showing a loss 'on the year's racing. The retiring committee :— Messrs Martin, Tuoker, HardiDg, Harris, Harper and Adair were reelected. At a committee meeting held subsequently last year's officers were re-appointed with the addition of Messrs F. A. Martin and A. Taylor, to the list of stewards. It was decided that the owners indebted to the Club should be placed on the forfeit list. The meeting of the P.B. Acclimatisation Society, which was to have been held on Saturday afternoon lapsed for want of a quorum. The President (Mr A. C Arthur) although Buffering from indisposition, made a point of being present, and ia to be commended for his attendance at a time when he should have been nursing himself at home. llf the other members of the Society exhibited a little more interest in it, it would not have been necessary to postpone the meeting. By advertisement it is notified that the meeting will be held at the Masonio Hotel on Saturday next, and we hope that the members will arrange to attend. A Nelson paper says that :— As the Rev Mr Harker was returning to Motuaka from Dovedale on Monday last, he had a narrow escape from drowning when crossing the Rosedale creek in Ngatimoti, which was in high flood. Owing to the horse getting into deep water, he must have lost his footing, for he swerved round and was carried under the footbridge. Mr Harker, who was in the sulky, just managed to catch the wire of the bridge and raise himself on to the bridge. The horse took the sulky some little distance down the creek, when, with the speedy assistance of Messrs Lines and White, he was driven on to the shingle beach, and, going some distance into the dreek, Mr Lines got the horse and sulky out safely on the opposite side, but everything movable was swept out of the sulky and carried down stream.