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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7661, 20 June 1896, Page 2

To-morrow is the shortest day. The Second Ballot Act has been given notice of by the Premier. A Dunedin baker was fined 203 for selling light weight bread, remains of the wrecked steamer Marramarra were sold for £5 103. lour lady cyclists at Blenheim have been served with summonses for riding on the borough footpaths. " Trilby " will be staged in Napier by Williamson and Musgrove at the end of August. During last year them were 2000 applications in England alone for patents in relation to cycling. It is stated that Mr Ward's speech will be circulated throughout the country to the number of one hundred thousand. Who will pay for it ? The Napier School Committee has decided to ascertain whether it is advisable to heat the buildings under its control by means of gas. A newspaper in the Maori languagei edited by Na Ihaia Hutana, will, it is reported, shortly make its appearance at Hastings. The Marlborough Education Board has erjgaged Mrs Miller, of Dunedin, to give a course of lessons in cookery to girls attending the Board schools. Feilding is to have its electric light. The proposal to borrow £3000 for the purpose of the installation was carried by just one vote above the number required. In a junior football match at Christchurch last Saturday afternoon some feeling was shown, aud clods of earth were thrown at several of the sucoesaful team. The Dunedin City Council will introduce ', a Bill during the present session of Parliament to authorise the borrowing of £50,000 to pay off the present overdraft and the loans of 1868 and 1871. Christchurch has a Socialist Church, which, at a meeting in Cathedral-square on Sunday, passed a resolution of sympathy with the miners on strike at Reefton. The first test match between the Australian cricketers and AH England ia fixed bo commence at Lords on Monday. Gisborne is well represented in the entry list of the New Zealand Grand National Meeting, and amongst those nominated we notice the names of Zanzibar, Sam, Hukatere, and Lord Raven. Mr T. J. Dickson leaves to-morrow upon a visit to Australia, where he will make necessary arrangements for the commencement of business as coal merchant in Gisborne. Amongst the patents applied for last week is one by Mr P. G. Harwood, clerk, of Wanganui, for an electrically-controlled stop watch for timing athletic sports and fire brigade competitions. Two Wellington tobacconists have been fined £2 each and 28s coats for keeping open on the Queen's Birthday and also on the following Wednesday. A plea of ignorance of the law was put in, but Mr Martin, S.M., refused to accept it. The Napier High School Governors have given up the idea of introducing cookery classes into the school, for want of sufficient support. Only eight pupils and two outsiders applied to join the classes. The Rev. F. W. Walker, a Church of England clergyman, has been granted a shipmaster's certificate in Brisbane, and will in future be privileged to use the title of captain. Mr J. E. Hill, of Patutahi, has now his flour mill in working order, and has sent us a sample of its product, which appears to be flour of a good quality. Mr Hill desires us to state that the mill will be working all next week, and anyone wishing to inspect it may do bo. This is how a wrathful lady with a grievance writes to a Taranaki paper : — " Those who have spread such vile and untruthful reports against a defenceless woman and mother of a family, are fit to sharpen their knives on their father's tombstones to out their mother's throats." A temperance lecturer at Oamaru the other evening overbalanced himself and fell off the platform, landing, however, on his feet. The happy remarK, " Now I am on the level of my audience," turned into mirth an incident that might otherwise have acted greatly to the detriment of the lecturer's reputation. Strawberries all the year round ia something beyond expectations. Mr J. G. Baker's Mikado plants which gave such luscious fruit all last summer are still bearing, and in proof thereof Mr Baker brought us a handful of ripe fruit this morning and says there are hundreds more berries in the garden. The fruit is not grown in a shaded sunny position but where the plants are exposed to the keen air and frost. Mr Duthie intends putting a poser to the Minister for Lands, namely, whether the Walter Buller gazetted on the 27th May last to the Commission of the Peace is the same Sir Walter Buller whom he deuounced as being guilty of assisting to rob the natives, and whom he said ought then to be in gaol for such dealings, and if it is the same person docs the Minister now admit that he then spoke in error ? The Review of Reviews maintains its high reputation aB the busy man's magazine, and the current Australian edition which has just been received contains a number of brightly-written leading articles, extracts from the reviews, interesting character sketches, and an able critical review on the book of the month, Mr Lecky's " Liberty and Democracy." At Holy Trinity Church evening service to-morrow the choir will sing Trembath's anthem, " Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled." Soloist, Mr Dalrymple. — Advt.