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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7461, 15 October 1895, Page 2

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times suggests that the true explanation of the feud between Mr Gillon and the Hon Mr Ward leaves the integrity of the two principals unimpeached, and throws the whole onus of the misunderstanding upon the departmental officer to whom Mr Ward made reference in his remarks to the House. The theory is that this gentleman, without Mr Gillon's knowledge, made a suggestion to the Treasurer that he would disarm editorial criticism if he woald give a Government appointment to a member of the editor's family, and urged, this with such insistence that the Treasurer believed he waß acting on Mr Gillon's authority. The opinion among the thoughtful part of the community is that the whole incident is most deplorable. The Otago Daily Times says :— The takes of trout in the Waitati on the first day of the season appear to have been better than report at first stated. Mr A. Anderson took 23 flah. chiefly with the Pomahaka and quill gnat flies, and another well-known angler made a fine basket of 43. Messrs W. Aitken and J. Telford had a happy experience on the Waikouaiti river, getting 29 fine fish for two days' angliDg, the two largest being s£lb and 4|lb. They fished from Merton up to the rookery, and the most successful lure was the artificial minnow. Messrs McGill and Forsyth were even more fortunate on the little Tokomairiro stream, the former securing 14 fish, weighing in all over 451 b, and the latter 13, of a. total weight of nearly 371 b. It }a to be presumed that these were all taken with the minnow, for that is the lure in common use on the stream, The Southland Timea learns that the Hinemoa on her reaent trip called at Dusky Sound, when Captain Fairchild took occasion to lift a portion of the wreck, by some believed to be the Endeavor, the ship that Captain Cook first came to New Zealand in, to exhibit in one of our museums. He was fortunate enough to get hold of the forefoot of the old ship, which, strange to rel&t" c was scuttled in Dusky on 28th Sep^ moer ' 1795 (vide Brett's "History $J N ew Zealand"), exactly a century ago . The timber, and planking— oak and teak-after one hundred vests' submersion, show no sign of [ decpy, and the copper sheathing nails are perfect and fit to drive into wood again. Of course, the ship was abandoned in Dusky long after Cook visited New Zealand in her, and to account for her presence in New Zealand waters in 1795 it is said that the Endeavor brought out convicts to Botany Bay. , For seven days previous to the mail steamer Monowai calling at Honolulu on September 26th, no deaths from cholera were reported, but previous to that date (the 19th) there had been 85 cases, of which 60 proved fatal (says the Auckland Star). The disease broke out with fury on August 31st, the next day after the steamship Mariposa left port for Auokland and Sydney. Owing to the refusal of the natives to be treated, and their ignorance of treating themselves and non-attention to sanitary measures, they were the principal sufferers. Of the deaths, two were Americans, one Chinese, and the rest Hawaiians. A Sanitary Committee was appointed during the epidemic to make a round of the houses twice a day. The city has been thoroughly disinfected, and as stated above, there had been no cases for seven days previous to the Monowai calling, but it was anticipated that the round of inspection would be continued for at least a fortnight. During the time that the disease was raging badly the schools and churches were closed and business to a large extent suspeuded ; but everything was going on again pretty much as usual when the mail steamer passed through. The Melbourne community, says the correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, has rod the bicycle craze. The fact that Ju&dy Brassey strides the wheel has made it the fashion among the fair sex. A bicycle dealer told me the other day that if he had a gross of ladies' bicycles he could hire them all out to learners. The Cycling_ School in the RotiiDda in Bourke street is doing a roaring business. There is talk of a procea« Bion of lady cyclists, headed by Lady Holled Smith (a well-furnished lady, who is assiduously practising), to meet and welcome the uew Governor's lady. The latest pupil at the schopj ia the Premier (Mr G. Turner). He is a stoutish, medium-sized man, wearing spectacles, and his learning ia consequently a matter of time and many spills. Hors Beuuo Scherek has been at it for, some months. Last week he rode fpovci North Brighton to Elsternwick (three miles) with i much pride, but he returned by rail, the j Lw&ltotog unfavorably ; S r-il