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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7650, 8 June 1896, Page 2

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CUBBORNE, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1896. On page 4 will be found the official record nf tho work done during tho year by the Receivers appointed by tho Validation Court. Owing to pressure of work on the wires, telegraph messages were slow in transmission to-day, and messages put in at 1 p.m. only reached us at 4 p.m. For this reason we are unable to publish the results of to-day's racing at Auckland. A settler in the Feilding district has had to pay about £4 for shooting a hen pheasant on his own land. The freezing works at Woodville are closed. Some of the employees have been shifted to Christchurch, and the remainder discharged. Mr Matthewson has received a telegram from Mr Humphries, Crown Lands Commissioner, statiug that the next sitting of the Land Board in Gisborne will be held on Tuesday, June 16th. There is joy in the camp of local sports at a Gisborne horse carrying off the principal event at the Grand National meeting in Auckland on Saturday, where he was pitted against some of the best racers in New Zealand. Mr J. W. Cargill, who takes the place of Mr Dougherty as local manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived by the Waihora yesterday. Mr Dougherty leaves Gisborne on Wednesday to take up his new duties as manager for the Company at New Plymouth. Mr Dougherty's friends will meet him to say good-bye in the Maßonic hotel at 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The Roy. Father Ahearu is suffering from a very sore throat, and was so bad yesterday that he was unable to deliver a discourse at the morning service. He was sufficiently recovered to be able to go through the full service in the evening, although it was a great stain for him to do so. The nursing class in connection with the St. John's Ambulance Association was commenced on Saturday afternoon at the City Rink, and was attended by abont two dozen ladies. A very interesting and instructive address was delivered by Dr Grahame Browne. A number of young mon are coming forward for the male " first aid " class, which commences on Tuesday week. The Waipawa Mail says that there were six policemen on duty in the local hall on the occosion of the Premier's recent speech, and tho slightest attempt at barracking the Premier was quickly suppressed. One individual who applauded at the wrong place was promptly thrown out. J JMr W. A. O'Meara announces that he has commenced general business iv Gisborne. Having been connected with the leading business houses iv Gisborne for the last twenty years and being well known by commercial people throughout the colony, Mr O'Meara should succeed iv his now venture, and his many friends hero will, we are sure, join with us in wishing him well. At the Police Court this morning before Mr Booth, S.M., two first offenders were convicted of drunkenness. One was discharged with a caution and tho other, who did not appear, forfeited the amount of his bail, 203. Another offender, named Pehemana Pairimu, against whom there were four previous convictions, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. In the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr W. A. Barton, Registrar (in the absence of the Judge), in the matter of Michael Sullivan, of VVaerenga-a-hika, bankrupt, Mr DeLautour moved for an order vesting all tho bankrupt estate and interest in lease No. 21,609, of sections 35, 36, and 48, portion of the Waerenga-hika Native School estate, iv the trustees of the Waerenga-a-hika School estate, now known as the Waerenga-a-hika Trust Board. After hearing Mr DeLautour and reading the affidavit filed, Mr Barton made tho order as pmyed. Owing to tho prevalence of Bicknesa, and with the hope that its spread may he somewhat stayed, it has been decided to close the Convent school for tho winter holidays a fortnight earlier thun tho usual date. Another reason ""why it was deemed advisable to close the school is that one of the teachers Ib hvid down with an attack of fever, and ia being attended by another Sister. This being tho case, the teaching staff is reduced by two. The To Arai Eohool committee on Friday night resolved to appoint Mr Alex. Crawford to the position of head master. Mr Crawford is n,t present, and has been for some time, an assistant teacher at the Middle school, Onmaru, and as a teacher has a good reputation under the Otago Board of Education. Mr Crawford was selected on the casting vote of the chairman, four voting for iiim and four for Mr Greigg, of Invercavgill. I'oth of these teachers are originally from i Hinedin schoola. At the meeting of Trades Union members and other workore, held in Auckland recently, when four candidates for the city electorate were nominated, a rather exoiting touch was given to the proceedings near the conclusion. The chairman called upon those mminared to address the mooting, and Mr Hughes, who was not amongst the chosen ■' ur, took possession of the platform, and, ulrily flourishing a big slick, siiid that he pposed the nomination of Mr John Fiuvcns. \uy m»n, he stiid, who had not eutlioitnt net to retain a situation at. £4 per week nhen approached by a fuw electors with a view to contesting a seat, would uot be the man to represent them in Parliament. Tho chairman tried to smooth matters over by asking Mp Hughes to sit down, but that excited and forcible individual replied, with a flourish of the atick in the direction of the chairman's head, " I'll eit you down directly."

"Kirby is in Wellington, and police must find him."— N,Z. Times of Wednesday. There are at present 49 oases of typhoid fever being treated in the Auckland hospital. ] The Newcastle strikers have cabled to the Labor Federation in England for financial assistance, j Mr John Leslie, a settler at Otakeho, Tara- ' naki, has died from injuries he received J through being gored by a cow. A general average of 1 per cent, has been struck on the cargo of the s.s. Waikato to ■ cover damage by fire. , The Kirby eacapo and arrest caused a I great sensation in Southern towns last week. ; The talk this week will be the Ward Farmers' Association. 1 It is estimated that at the present moment : the English Governmeut could, if occasion arose, raise a hundred millions sterling at 2 per cent., on a guarantee of perpetuity being ' given, as in the case of French Threes. ' Mr George Grey, who is now in West Australia, draws no less than £20,000 a year , from the companies that employ him aa consulting engineer. Mr Grey's sorvices (says a Sydney paper) are sold in open market, and presumably do not fetch more than they are worth. Tim Chairman of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce says there will not, be the shortage in the colony's wool crop which was exp< cied this year, but by his reckoning the figures will be about the same this year aa hist. From Gisborne 13,105 bales were , nhipped between July 1, 1895, and April 30, i 1896, as against 14,612 shipped between July 1, 1894, and June 30, 1895. The Dunedin centre of the St. John's Ambulance Association numbers 1192 members, an increase of 895 on last year. The Hon. Mr Ward expressed his opinion that the country should give some contributions to the noble medical officers who visit these portions of the country where medical men do not reside to give instructions in ambulanance work. The Premier has booked lecturing engagements right up to the eve of tho opening of Parliament. On Wednesday evening be lectures in the Wellington Rink. From that date until the end of the session he will lecture in the House of Representatives, and he will doubtleßS receive with much greater itpprecialion votes of confidence from that smaller assembly than those of crowded audiences in different parts of the colony. The new steamer India, one of the six large vessels under construction for tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, was Hunched last month from the yard of Messrs. Caird and Co., Greenock. She is tho largest steamer yet built for that company, her dimensions being :— Length, 500 ft; breadth, 54ft; depth, 3f 6ft ; and gross tonnage, 8000 tons. The India will bo driven by single screw triple expansion engines of 11,000 horse-power She will carry 600 saloon passengers. She will run on the mail lines of the P. and O. Company. The China, one of the four sister ships now building, will be launched from Messrs. Harlnnd and Wolff's yard at Belfast on June 13. The Auckland Herald calls the attention of the health authorities ot the city to a vury bad state of affairs in their midst. Under the heading of "A Death Trap " it says : — " At a time when typhoid fever is rife, and everybody is impressed with the importance of enforcing sanitary laws, there lies in the very heart of the city, and at the junction of two principal streets, one of the filthiest pestiferous hotbeds of fever. Animal and vegetable matter in unctuous sliraey decay, scraps of cast-off clothing, broken food, bones, bottles, meat tins, rags, some of them covered with blood, poultices apparently, horse droppings, street sweepings, and all the heterogeneous and unsavoury mixture that constitutes the contents of what; is euphemistically called the "dust" box, are. piled up and rolling over the footpath in all their hideous uglines, emitting a stench that must be the very breath of death to the passers-by." The article concludes in the following trenchant manner :— " Where is the Board of Health ? or what is the purpose of its being that it should allow this reeking j mass of concentrated putridity, several yards in depth, and covering an area of some hundreds of superficial feet of nastiness, close by the Fresh-water Baths, and at the intersection of Cook and Albertstreets ? And the owner is the City Council, and the City Council is the local Board of Health."