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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7655, 13 June 1896, Page 2

Mr G. A. Loughuan will oppose Captain Russell at the next general election. " Tannergrams " ia the latest name {or the new system of sixpenny telegraphic messages. They are having too much of a good thing over Rangilikei way. The unusual growth of grass ia blamed for a great mortality in hoggets. Delegates representing working men's clubs will shortly meet in Wellington to oppose the proposed legislation dealing with club liquor licenses. By the Taruwera, which reached Auck' lantl from Sydney this week, a further contingent (52) of Austrians arrived, the majority of whom are for the gumfields. At Napier this week Mr 0. Bidwell, of the Wairnrupa, was married to Miss Ida Locke, daughter of the late Samual Locke, formerly M.K.R. for this district. Messrs H. D. Bell and Geo. Hutchison, M.H.R.'s, return to the colony by the s.s. Alonowai on Thursday next. The Rev. Li M. Isitt is a passenger by the same steamer. Miss Parsons, daughter of the Hastings stationmaster, occupied the pulpit at the Wesleyan Church last Sunday evening. Her eloquence and earnestness are said to be unique A family near Masterton narrowly escaped being poisoned through mistaking arsenic for sale. The error was discovered just as the meal was being commenced. A Wanganui resident, named G. D. Kirkwood, was found up to his waist in the sea, and was committed to the asylum for 12 months. The auction sale of trees and shrubs announced by Messrs Bull and Sous has been postponed until Wednesday week for the reason that the public half-holiday occurs oik the date originally announced. Section 1601, Kopuakairongana, Gisborne district, 4 acres 3 roods 27 perches, in whom Robert Newnham is interested, has been vested in the Public Trustee under tho Unclaimed Lands Act. There is a notable increase of bankruptcies in the Wellington district for the five months of the present year, 38 being recorded, as against 24 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The Hawera Borough Council has re" jeeted a proposal by the Mayor to ask Parlia" ment to puss a Bill authorising a poll of local ratepayers on the question of borrowing £22,000 for water and drainage works. A very bad case of sweating has been ventilated iv Ohristchurch — that of a young woman, 26 years ot age, who after working three weeks received pay at tho rate of 2s 3d per week. For allowing the game of " Yankee grab," or in other words "shilling iv and the winner shouts," to be played in his hotel the other night a publican at Oakum, Taranaki, was lined 5s and costs, and had his license endorsed. The mildness of the season may be judged from the fact that new potatoes were to be procured in Nelson the other day ; and Mount Kgmonfc, usually long before this covered with snow, ia clear right up to the summit. Mr lan Simson, on behalf of the Farmers' Co-operative Association, reports having sold Mr Chuter's property, Kaiti, 16 acres, to Mr Paulson for £44 per acre cash, and also ou account of Mr H. H. Wall COO wethers to Mr W. Wethered at 8s 3d. The electoral district of Egmonb is likely to be well contested at next election. The following are spoken of as sure to be candidates: Messrs F. McGuire (M.H.R.), G. W. Gane, J. J. lilwin, J. G. Harkness, Walter Symes, and — Mackay. Government has granted a subsidy of £2475 10s Sd towards the erection of the uew hospital at Wanganui. This sum re- , presents 24s in the £ on the voluntary contributions of the district, Tho cost of the new hospital ia estimated at about £10,000. It is rather a sign of a coming storm vyhen two Government nominees for the position of director of the Times newspaper were placed at the bottom of the poll by the shareholders, and the present directors declare their intention of running the paper as a commercial and not as a political venture. Two lads, about 16 and 17 years respectively, who passed through Kaiapoi last week, stated that they were tramping it from Dunedin to Blenheim in search of work. There is some pluck left iv the Young New Zealand party, says a contemporary. But the depression must be pretty keen when lads like these have to take to the road. Mr Hill informs that during his last visit to tho schools in the Bush distriots he was pleased to notice that out of an aggregate of over 1000 on the rolls not more than 50 were absent— this in localities where in many instances the ohildren have to walk miles to school, over the worst of bush tracks, and oftou crossing swollen Btreams by means of treacherous surfaced logs. — H.B. Herald. There has been a rumpus in the Hawera Borough Council. A councillor accused the Mayor of some shady transaction and with having been kicked out of the Egmonfc Jockey Club, and asked was it not a gravo scandal that he should hold the position of Mayor. His Worship retorted that he would clear himself iv a court of law, aud used Borne expressive epithets against his accuser." Eden, who passed himself off at Pahiatua aa a. medico, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Christchurch for falße pretences. Defendant said ho honestly believed that he had money to his credit. Judge Danniston told him his defence was a most impudent one, as for.the two years previous to issuing these cheques ho had been in gaol for a similar offence. He was apparently irreclaimably addicted to this class of crime. The Lytteltou Times is agitating for a reform of tho police forco. It 3ays it is absurd to any ihu. police are unable to secure sufficient evidence to obtain convictions iv hoi el cases, and remarks ; — " It is notorious that Sunday tradiug is curried on, to some extent at any rate, ia half the hotels in the city. Tho ovil is not nearly so rampant as it was a year or two ago, but it is still bad ouough to constitute ft public scandal." Tho Government do afc times receive checks even in their " overy confidence " inarch through the electorates. At the rtcfut meeting of Mr John Stevens, M H.R , ii staunch Government supporter, at Clielieuhd.ui, the usual motion uf thunks for the speech and " confidence iv the Government " was defeated by an amendment of " thanks only." The Press Association have been blamed by the Premier for not at all times telegraphing to the papers the votes of confWenco passed in the Government, but the Opposition might complain with greater reason, for the Press Association bus nob given publicity to instauces when votes of ! no-confidence ia the Government were 9»me4, |

The Hawko's Bay sawmillers have raised the price of timher. Sydney streets swarm with children who are being systematically taught to beg. A woollen factory ia about to be started in Bruce to spin fingering yarns and worsted goods. The new prohibition law in Hew York State f Ol liids absolutely the Sunday sale of wines mid spirits, oven in clubs. The latest London realism is v Spanish bull-fight, %vhieh occurs in the new melodrama "True Blue." Mrs Ward, wife of Judge Ward, died iv Ohristchurch last week. The deceased lady took a prominent part in all social reform matters. Nearly 600 children of members of the Wellington Working Men's Club were f6ted the other evening and each presented with a toy. The Christen urch Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ADimals recommends that dehorning be performed before the animal reaches its third month. A railway eDgine was derailed near Timaru last week by a calf getting on the line. It was " bad for the coo." A train near Hawera killed seven bullocks a few days ago. The Rev. John M'Neill, of Victoria, predicts that some day the Sunbeam will strike on a rock and sink, as a result of Lord Brassey's thoughtlessness in throwing open his yftoht on Sundays. Mr Curnow, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Stratford, inherits, through the d-ath t.f a relative, a fortune of £15,000, according to a correspondent of the N.Z, Times. In the recent twenty-four hours' ateam trial in connection with the Channel fleet, H.M.S. Majestic beat H.M.S. Magnificent by twenty-four miles. The maximum horsepower obtained was 10,400 and 10,429 respectively. With one exception, Bishop Qbwie jo Auckland is the oldest Bishop in the Church of England, all others having ln-oi* consecrated after him, except the Bishop of Gloucester. Williamson and Musgrove'a Royal Comft Opera Company opened their New Zealand tour at Dunedin last night in the famous gaiety musical comedy "In Town," to be succeeded by " A Gaiety Girl." It is stated that satisfactory arrangements have now been made for the shipping of produce from the Now Plymouth breakwater by direct steamers ; also, that New Plymouth is to be declared a port of export under the Dairy Act. Mr Charles Louisson, of Christchurch, who recently visited the Chinese quarters in San Francisco, gays he can hardly describe tha feelings of horror inspired by that visit. He insists that Chinese immigration into New Zealand mußt be checked. While only one football accident, has been recorded in Wellington this season, no lesa than five players have been admitted to the Dunedin hospital— four of them with broken collar-bones, the fifth case with a dislocated shoulder. The Auckland Amateur Opera Club wil produce " The Gondoliers " probably about September. The opera is to be put into iiclive rehearsal almost immediately both in Wellington and Auckland, and it is probable that negotiations which have been opened up for a combination production will be successful. At Christchurch the Premier, in the course of an address, said ho had .been offered double his present salary to leave public life and take a position connected with mining. (A voice " Take it.") He would take it when they could Sad a better man to take his place ! Tha Pollard Opera Company will play at Hastings from 22nd to 27th June (race week), and Napier from 28th June to 3rd July. Seasons follow at Palmerston, Fielding, Marton, and New Plymouth. The company leave Bhortly for South Africa. It ia not certain yet whether they come to Gisborne. The Southern Cross has been asking its readers to time the sermons of their ministers on the first Sunday in May, and last week it published the result. About 70 sermons were measured, and the extremes were found to be at the top 65min and at the bottom 20min. But the great majority hovered over the reasonable length of half an hour. That seems to be the golden mean for Australia. Last March a life-buoy marked " s.s. Catterthun " was picked up floating by the coast of Norfolk Island. The Norfolker boys who swam after it and brought it to shore knew nothing previously of the loss of the ill-fated vessel. The buoy, which was iv a perfect state of preservation, must have drifted more than a thousand miles from the scene of the wreck before reaching the island. Football seems to have a stronger hold in some of the towns of England even than it has in New Zealand, for we read that the Birmingham magistrates are trying to cope with the football mania, which is becoming a nuisance to the general public. During the dinner hour and in the evening the public thoroughfares are being treated as a football field. Recently no fewer than fiftyfive persons were summoned for playing football in the street, and the magistrates, in fining the footballers, remarked upon the nuisance which they caused. The Rangitikei County Council has prepared a petition praying the Government to purchase the Manawatn railway. The petition says that owing to the Railway Company being a private company, the petitioners are subject to an extra and grievous charge on all live stock and goods carried over the railway, and if the line was under the control of the Minister for Railways a more convenient Ume-taUe would be arranged, and at a reduced charge for passengers and all classes of live stock. The petitioners believe that the purchase will be a public benefit and a profit, The petition , has the support, in addition to that of the Rangitikei county, of the counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kiwitea, and Horowhenua, and of the boroughs of Marton, Feildiog, and Palmerston North. That the rates charged for goods on the Manawatu line are excessive is amply proved by the- following circumstance that has come under our observation. The Levin people are at present haviug their goods from Wellington sent by steamer to Foxton and brought to them by road from that port, and find that this circuitous route, involving a double handling, is cheaper than to have their goods brought by rail and landed at the station in the town, Mr Seddon'a meeting at Wellington on Monday night appears to have been lively. The H.B. Herald correspondent, describing it, says: — Your "special" arrived on the scene about 10.30, and at that time one could easily have imagined that a promenade concert on " free and easy " lineß was going on. There was certainly a large orowd present, but thero was room for several hundreds more. Doaens of people were j walking about and conversing loudly, utterly oblivious of the Hon. Richard Seddon, who was shouting himself hoarse at the other end of the hall iv the vain attempt to i demonstrate that the Seddon Government wan the purest administration that had ever hold office in New Zealand. Tbo Premier on several occasions when referring to the Colouial Treasurer was met' with the interjection " What about the oats?" followed by loud laughter. On another occasion, when the Minister of Lands, who was seated on the platform, was observed to be dozing, an irreverent listener shouted out " Wak« up, John |" Mr Seddon spoke for nearly three hours. Long before ho had finished people had trooped out of the hull by the score, but of course the faithful Liberals remained to pass a vote of unabated confidence in Mr Seddon and his Government. It was noticeable, however, that the mover of the motion of confidence met with loud cries of "No ! No! " and there waß general uproar, so much that he had to resume his seat in the middle of his oration. After the chairman (Mr George Fisher) declared the motion curried three cheeis for Mr Seddon were fallowed by three cheers for Captain Russell. The Post, referring to the speech, aaid that i\lr Seddon's mis-statements weie as usual very gross, and that the Premier seems incapable of making an accurate statement. It instances the fact that the Premier makeß the increase of publio debt since 1801 only £1,710,085, whereas it is at least, inclusive .of the loan for advances to settlers £4,500,000 " What," exclaim* the Post, •' can be said of a Premier who makes sus'i , mis-Btateraeofca ?\