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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8412, 11 January 1899, Page 2

Stock sales at Matawhero to-morrow. The Harry Richards Company is expected to visit Gisborne uext week. The Hannaron. road is now open for traffic, all the slips having been cleared. The Gisborne Pigeon Club's monthly shooting meeting will be held to-morrow afternoon atKaiti. The Chamber of Commerce wait upon the Hon. J. Carroll at the Borough Council office at 8 o'clock this evening. A concert will be given by the Orchestral Society one evening during the visit of His Excellency the Governor to Gisborne. Judge Conolly stales there is no foundation for the report that he has applied, or intends to apply, for leave of absence. At the Dunedin wool sains yesterday, there was a general improvement on last series rates. Crossbreds fetched as high as 7id, merinos Bd, half-bred BJd, pieces 4?d, bellies 4Jd. A total of 9HIB bales were offered, against 9074 offered last year. Entries for the following handicaps at the Poverty Bay Turf Club's meeting will recjuire the attention of owners on Saturday evening next, viz : Trial Hurdles, Telephone Handicap, and Flat -Race Handicaps. Acceptances for the Turauga Stakes, Electoral Stakes, First Hurdles, and Flying Handicap aye duo on the same date. The Wellington Racing Club have decided to pay over the stakes in the Flying Handicap at the last meeting, won by Osborne, to the owner of the second horse, Chasseur. Osborne really belonged to Myers, and the gentleman in whose name he was nominated refused to make any claim to the stake, although requested to do so. The Secretary of the Gisborne Rowing Club has received advice that the Napier Rowing Club's representatives will visit Gisborne on February 4. The Gisborne and Poverty Bay representatives are assiduously training, taking a considerable amount of rowing and other exercise. They leave for Auckland on January 21 to take part in the regatta, having entered for four events, and the Gisborne men will row Napier on their return. Subscribers to the Telephone Exchange will regret to hear of the resignation of Miss Nasmith, one of the cadettes, from whom they have always received prompt attention and courtesy, but Miss Nasmith's friends in regretting her departure from this useful office will also be glad to learn that she is about to enter a sphere of life in which we are sure they will wish her every happiness and prosperity. Miss Nasmith will be succeeded by Miss Rylaiid, formerly of Gisborne, who arrived from Auckland this afternoon to take up the duties. We are informed that the Cabinet have appointed Messrs Wi Pere, Jackson, and A. F. Matthews as trustees in the Trust Estate, and that the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr Jackson, and Mr Matthews are to be trustees of the 80,000 acres of Mangatn. At a meeting of the Mangatu Natives the appointment was approved, and it was decided to have the lands thrown open at once. We hope that facilities will be afforded the new trustees to get to business at once, and that the scandal of having the Native lands of the district locked up from year to year, a drag on their owners and on the district, may not much longer remain. The tendency to over-indulgence in intoxicants by young fellows between 18 and 21 in Napier has been (says the H.B. Herald) largely on the increase of late. Saturday nights especially, after the "hops are closed, "schools" of these young men may be seen endeavoring to take possession of the side of the street they happen to be on. They are sufficiently* noisy to be a nuisance, though hardly drunk enough to justify their being placed in a police cell to bring them to their senses. Some of them, the sons of very respectable citizens, are going to ruin very fast. The Union Steam Ship Co. has been somewhat unfortunate of late with its steamers going aground in the Upper Harbor at Dunedin. On 15th November the Waihora was ashore for 25 hours ; then the Talune stuck fast opposite the Cement Works to<- several hours on Monday week ; and now the Monowai is the latest boat to meetwith similar mishap. Sheleft Tongue Wharf at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday last, but had only proceeded a short distance when she took the ground and remained there all day. Over two hundred tons were removed from her hold, and it was not until after midnight that she got under way for Lyttelton and Wellington. Very good progress has been made with tilt work of preparing the foundations of the proposed lighthouse on East Island, off the East Cape, and erecting houses for the accommodation of the keepers. Twelve men were sent up from Wellington to carry on the work, but three haveleft the job. The Hinemoa will call at the island on her trip to Auckland next week to land some more men. Mr Judd, of the Thames, is getting on well with the work of manufacturing the iron, tower, and will be able to deliver it in two or three months' time. In all probability the lighthouse will be ready for use before the end of the year. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of " Hazell's Annual," for 1899. This indispensable reference book contains, as usual, the most complete information, in a condensed form, on all the leading questions that have agitated the world during the year, in addition to new articles on various important subjects, biographies, reviews of the year as to art, literature, science, sport, session of Parliament, Home, foreign, and colonial affairs, thoroughly written up to date, and in all forming one of Ihe most useful annuals sent out by London publishers. " Hazell," which is now in its fourteenth year, as a cyclopedic record of men and topics of the day, is not surpassed, and, especially to newspaper men, is invaluable. By the Te Anau this morning Mr S. Percy Smith, Surveyor-General, arrived in Gisborne upon business connected with his department. Mr Smith remains here until Friday, when be leaves for Whakatane. A meeting of the Urewera Commissioners, consisting of Judge Butler, the SurveyorGeneral, and five Maori Commissioners, will be held at that place for the purpose of devising measures for the administration of the Urewera Country. The SurveyorGeneral will visit Ka'wakawa, Waipiro, and Tokomaru on his way, and endeavor to arrange at those places with the Natives regarding the laying off of townships under the Native Townships Act. A meeting of the Committee of the Holy Trinity Church Fete, to be held in Humphreys' paddock on the Walkanae to-morrow afternoon and evening, was held yesterday afternoon and final arrangements for the gathering were made. The promoters have gone to considerable trouble in order to make the preparations for the fete as complete as possible, and the only thing required to assure its success is a line afternoon, of which there is at the present time every appearance. A cake guessing competition has been added to the programme, also a race for ladies, the prize for the latter being a handsome silver plated pickle jar presented by Mr C. Lewis. j The cutter Coralie is still in port, having been prevented from sailing for the scene of the Tasmania wreck on account of the adverse winds prevailing. Last evening Mr Pascoe tried the diving apparatus hired from the Harbor Board. Some delay was occasioned through the faulty nature of the air valve in the helmet, but this being remedied the diver went down in one of the deepest parts of the channel, and remained under water for about half an hour. The gear was found to be in good working order and should be adequate for Mr Pascoe's requirements at the wreck. It is expected th?t the cutter will get away this afternoon or early to-morrow. No sitting of thfi Validation Court has been held locally sinco the New Year, there being (we are informed) no business ripe for the hearing of the Court. Judge Batham, since his return from Wellington, has been every day engaged upon matters relating to the Carroll and Wi Pere trust estate. The Judge has intimated his intention to dis- j pose of all the unheard claims as advertised, at a Court to be held on the 6th proximo. Sittings of the Court will be held during the present month, and applicants will require to attend in support of their claims. If they fail to do so, the Court will take the matter into their own hands and dispose of the claims. It is the intention of the Government to dispose of all matters as far as possible before the end of March, and to close the Court here about that date. Mr Sim, who has been so intimately acquainted with the procedure of the Court as Registrar, has returned in order to render his valuable assistance in wringing affairs to a close.

Freezing sheep in Canterbury are fetching 2s per head more than they did at this time Jasfc year. It is stated that the Hon. A. J. Cadman will retain his seat in the Cabinet until the dissolution of the present Parliament, but lie will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives. The Hastings Standard complains that it has been left lamenting by a widow theatrical manageress. Hastings Borough produces 2000 tons of polatoes this season, and the district round about another 3000 tons. " The honorable liar." This is the way Belgian deputies address one another. Hence it seems to follow that democracy is very much alike in all countries. Captain Jackson Barry, the well-known old pioneer, is about to take a party to locate certain discoveries of copjier, coal, and cinnabar which he has made in the King Country. According to the latest Fiji files to hand by the Miowera, business at the islands was never more prosperous than at present, and the climatic conditions are favorable to a bountiful harvest. A considerable expansion in the export of bananas is chronicled, viz., between 50,000 and 100,000 hunches. A young colonial remarked to me (London correspondent Auckland Star) the other day, " Our fathers went out to the colony to seek their fortunes, but the sons come back to the Old Country for theirs," and this seems really to be the case, judging by the nnmbernf young New Zealaudera here studying medicine, law, music, science, and art. A Home paper publishes a report to the effect that a scheme is under consideration by the Imperial Government for the extension of the hours worked by some of tho Civil Service departments. At present the daily hours are from 10 to 5, but the growth of work in recent years has been such that many of the departments are constantly in arrears, and the proposal, it is said, is for an additional hour's work per day. At the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, yesterday, Thomas Palethorpe, formerly manager of the Burnham Industrial School, was charged with perjury in having given five separate certificates, all of them false, purporting to he for goods supplied which were not so supplied. Accused was committed for trial. Four other informations, charging the accused with obtaining by means ot false pretences articles referred to as " extras," were abandoned. The other evening a burglary occurred in a house oft" Park road, Christchurch, occupied by Mr C. J. Owen. The burglars helped themselves to a gold watch and chain, and a very considerable sum of money, and also to some bottles of wine and spirits which they found. In their hurry to decamp they smashed several of the latter. Not satisfied with robbery, they mutilated a neiv bicycle which Mr Owen had just purchased. A sensational incident happened on Christmas Day at St. George's Church Yendon, Ballarat. The preacher was the Bishop of Ballarat, who was assisted as lay reader by Mr F. V. Brown, the superintendent of the Sunday School. The latter, when reciting the Lord's Prayer, suddenly stopped, swayed for a moment, and fell back into his chair. He was carried out of (he church unconscious, and died a few minutes after, failure of the heart's action being the cause of death. An experimental chemist named F. H. Lindon met with a singular accident at Ararat, Victoria, recently. He was returning from Ballarat, where he had purchased a compound largely composed of phosphorous. After passing Rossbridge his horse shied, and the bottles in his pocket broke, and he found himself on fire. He was not far from a river, and setting spurs to his horse, he plunged into the water. He was badly burned down one side, from the arm to his foot, and his clothing, even to his hat, was riddled with holes. With regard to the drowning of James Bullot, tinsmith, at New Plymouth, it appears that the unfortunate young man, in company with a cousin from Nelson, named Alfred Bliss, was fishing from what is known as the Fishing Rock at Moturoa. Bullot hud hooked a sehnapper, iind wua leaning forward the better to land it, when a wave washed him off the rock. Bliss, who had warned him that the wave was coming, at once threw out a line, but it fell short of deceased, who urged his cousin to hurry up. The line was again thrown out, but once more missed the mark, and Bullot sank never to rise again. Deceased was au excellent swimmer, and had on two or three previous occasions been washed off the Fishing Rock. Mr Duncan Pukle, formerly of Pahiatua, and now goldmining at Klondyke, writes to the Woodville Examiner that he expects shortly to be at the head of one of the richest goldmining companies in the world. He has secured ten claims extending for a distance of 2000 feet along an old river bed, which is considered to be the origin of the vast wealth of the Eldorado and Bonanza claims. This he is now negotiating in London to have turned into a company, and his letters express rosecolored anticipations of success. The only thing that has kept men from working this old bed has been the enormous distance to bed-rock, it being from 60 to 80 feet. This is too big an undertaking for one man, and needs a company. Claim 23, the latest discovery, Bonanza, out of which the owners have taken 15001 bof gold dust during the last twelve months, is only ten chains off Mi- Puokie's first claim.