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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7663, 24 June 1896, Page 2

The Waihora is due with a San Francisco mail this afternoon, but up to the time of going to press there was no word of the steamer's arrival. Should it arrive at an early hour this evening, there will be a counter delivery of the mail at the Post Office. There are at present 17 prohibition orders in force against persons in the Gisborne district. The last four orders were granted within 22 days. At the Gisborne Women's Political Association's meeting this evening, " Prohibilion " will be the subject of debate, and the meeting is open to the public Before the session was two hours old, notices of the introduction of no fewer than forty-six Bills were given. Ministers are responsible for twenty-three, and private members for a similar number. Between 300 and 400 Maoris gathered at Nuhaku the other day to see a football match between the Murewai natives and the Nuhakaiteß. Wo have not heard how the game resulted. The men's ambulance class was attended last eveuing by about a dozen members. Dr Grahame Brown delivered an interesting and instructive addreas on the arteries, and subsequently some lessons in bandaging were given. Mr Morgan has been elected chairman of thejTechnical Classes Association provisional committee. A sub-committee has been appointed to draw up a draft prospectus which will be submitted to a meeting of the whole committee on Friday evening. The person who committed suicide at Tuparoa on Monday was a Native named Tula Ngamu, aged about 18 years. An inquest was held yesterday before Mr George Boyd, J.P., when the jury returned a verdict of " found hanging from a tree," in accordance with the evidence submitted. The Library Committee have received a number of new volumes for the library, amoDgst them being "By Fire and Sword n the Soudau," "The Chitral Campaign," i' Rudyard Kipling's two Jungle Books," 'and several other works by popular authors The Nelson Colonist says : —" Captain Moore, whose death resulted from an accident at Lyttelton, was the mate of Captain Levy in 1865, when, on March 12, they rescued the Rev. T. S. Grace, from Opotiki, by means of a boat. There was £1000 reward offered for the rescue of the reverend gentleman, but neither received a Bhilling of that amount." The Hon. T. Thompson, Minister of Justice, has written to the Mayor of Auckland asking that the street lamps may bo kept alight till daylight. Ho states that it has been pointed out to him more than once since he has assumed charge of the Police Department that great facilities are afforded to evil-disposed persons by the custom which prevails in Auckland of extinguishing the street lamps at midnight. Mr Cecil F. Lewis, resident agent for the Scottish Metropolitan Accident Insurance Co., draws attention to the weekly compensation paid by his oompany for the small unnual premium of one pound. Mr Lewis informs us he took a risk on Monday last from a young man in the employ of Mr Veale, who yesterday met with an accident;, and is consequently entitled to one pound per week till he can resume work. A surfaceman on the railway near Dunedin was violently assaulted recently when passing through a tunnel on his way home from work. He was assailed by a man and was struck a severe blow on the head with a stick, being knocked senseless, The assailant at once ran away, leaving the stick behind him. It is thought that the man was lying in wait for someone else, and either attacked the surfaceman in mistake, or to hide his identity. Whatever was the cause, ib waa a most cowardly aotion to attack a man in the darkness of a tunnel. These sensible remarks are from the Hastings Standard : — " A full, fair, and impartial inquiry into the cirenmstanoes which led up to the banking legislation is desirable and necessary, and unless the mattor is remitted to a competent tribunal the country will never be satisfied. The Premier would be doing an invaluable service to the colouy if he proposed that the examination be undertaken by say three expert financiers with a knowledge of banking, to be nominated, say, by the Premier of New South Wales, and to be seleoted from either Victoria or New South Wales. The report of such an impartial and competent body would be accepted at its full value, and would nettle once and for all a very unsavoury subjeot." The usual half-yearly meeting of Court William Gladstone, Ancient Order of Foresters was held last evening, there being a large attendance of the brethren present. The recent " Masterton decision " was discussed at groat length, and a communication from the District Executive, relating to this case was received, which placed a different aspeot on the matter to that published. A proposal was carried that on the death of a member a levy of 3d be made on each financial member iv the district), the sum Ihus realised to added to be the benefit assured by the laws, Ib was unanimously resolved to celebrate the 19th anniversary by a social to take pluce some time iv August, and a strong committee was appointed to carry the affair to a successful issue. The members of Couro Townley (female branch) are 10 be asked to purticipate in the gathering. The election of officers for the ensuing term was aB follows :~ C.R., Bro. W. T. Kauger ; S.C.R., Bro C. Woods; Seoretary, Bro. W. L. File (re-elected); Treasurer, Bro. H. J. Buthnell (re-elected); 5.W.,8r0. C. Taylor; J.W., Bro. P. Harrison; 5.8., Bro. W Robertson ; J. 8., Bro. R. W. Cole; Auditor, Bro. Sceats, P.C.R. The sum of £08 was received during the evening.

Quite a phenomenal number of young Maori men are now serving sentences in Napier gaol, says the H.B. Herald. On the 2nd of thin month the Melbourne Argus celebrated its jubilee, its first number having been issued on June 2nd, 1846. Mr Ziman is suid to have already almost doubled the money he invested in Reefton properties. The Timaru woollen mills, which now employ 100 hands, have been running night and day for the last six months. About 1100 bales of wool, mostly of local growth, are used annually, and the firm distributes in wages and repairs in the town about £7000 a year. The sheep thief is very active just now in the south. Exchanges recently have mentioned several cases that have occurred in different districts. One of the latest raids by these midnight drovers was made on the' station of Mr G. M. Bell, near Mataura, when 600 sheep were stolen. The Mataura Ensign, Gore, tells of a business man in the neighborhood who finds that he has £600 out on his books — four-fifths of the amount reputedly as " safe " as if it were money in hand — but yet he cannot get a penny of it in, and is about to relinquish his business place, not being even able to pay his rent. At the last meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee no less than five applications for renewals of licenses were objected to by the police. In two cases the licenses were granted for 6 months, the hotels in the meantime to be sold to some reliable person. In the other cases the licenses were either granted or consideration was adjourned. A fairly vivid idea of the terrible virulence of the tick plague io Queensland may be gathered from the following clipping from the Australasian : — " A mild sensation was caused by Mr Willis laying on the table of the House a piece of hide, about Gin square, which was cut from a hide in a Sydney warehouse, from Bundaberg, Queensland. This fragment of skin contained about 30 fullgrown dead ticks and thousands of younger ones (also dead) in all stages of growth. I was a source of great interest to the members, who crowded round it to gain some idea of the pest, to guard against which they were legislating." Dr Lennox Brown has declared positively against the anti-toxin process. He has revised the statistics put forward, and shows that the diphtheritic mortality under antitoxin treatment has been 2S per cent, as compared with 13 per cent, under ordinary treatment, while accidents have been numerous and serious. One doctor was seized with paralysis while experimenting, through accidentally getting some of the anti-toxin into hiß system. Another killed his own child by treating him with the jnjection. " Too dangerous and uncertain " js the verdict.