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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8425, 25 January 1899, Page 2

The Hospital Trustees meet this evening. The Ormond School concert will be held to-morrow evenin". o The Cook County Council have received a grant uf £500 for the Waiomoko bridge. The annual meeting of .St. Andrew's congiegation will be 'held in the Church this evening. Mr A. T. Danvers, handicapper to the Poverty Bay Turf Club, arrived from Napier this morning. The racehorses Nightingale, D.irin", iuid Coolgardio nrrived by the Tc Anau tin's morning to fulfil their engagements at the Poverty Buy Tutf Club's races. ; Members of the Poverty Bay Sheep Dog Trial Club, and all persons interested in the subject of dog trials, are reminded of the meeting in the Masonic Hotel tomorrow evening. The Law Union and Crown Fire Insuiance Company of London invite applicntion.s for the position of resident agent at Oisborne. Messrs John Holmes and Co., ; general agents for the Company at Welling- , ton, will receive the applications. » Practically Mr Carroll's famous railway memorandum to the Premier has vanished into thin air, and Air Soddon has no more intention of building a light railway on the East Coast than he has of making Scobie Mackenzie Treasurer in the Government. ? — Wairoa Guaidian, 2 The number of co-operative workers employed under Government Departments in December last was 27SS), ot whom 1397, all labourers, were under the care of the Survey Department, while 219 artisans and llf>4 labourers were in the employ of the Public Works Department. The entries for the Maiden race, Handicap running, trotting, and Amateur events of the Caledonian Society's sport* close on Saturday next at 9 p.m. The Society have decided to ask for an extension of the ordinary holiday. The sports are being 1 held at the Park and there is a Ion" programme to get through. The mystery arising out of the recent discovery of skeletons of an adult and a child on Rabbit Island, near the Nelson Harbor, has apparently been cleared up. A correspondent of the Colonist stales that on 29th of June, 1543, a boat belonging to „ a Maltese named Polo Porlello, returning from Massacre Bay, was capsized crosshu' the bar. The night was very dark, and a heavy sea was running. Portello and a man nomed Pelham escaped to the shore, but Morgan, his wife, and daughter were drowned. Subsequently the greater portion of the remains were found and buried on the Island by surveyors. At the Newcastle Jockey Club's meeting held on the sth insfc.. an accident took place during the running of the January Handicap which resulted in the death of a well-known jockey, George Durston. The accident was caused by one of the contesting horses falling, and" the animal Durston was riding was brought to grief. It was at once recognised that the unfortunate jockey was seriously hurt, and he succumbed a few hours after the accident. The deceased jockey was a native of New Zealand, and he was for some time a resident of Gisborne. He leaves a widow (daughter ot a Makavaka resident), nnd three children. The difficulty between the Education Board and the Napier School Committee in respect to the control of the Hastings street school seems on a fair way to settlement without the aid of a conference. The committee approved the Board's proposal to take control of the school provided that situations were found for i.he teachers. The Board decided that they could not comply with that condition, but advised the teachers to apply for vacancies. As a result three of them have succeeded in securing positions. Miss Parkinson has been transferred to the main school, Miss Goulding has been selected for Gisborne and Miss M'Vay for Olive.— Telegraph. ' A case which created a groat deal of local interest was heard at Carterton on Thursday. As the result of statements made in a local paper controlled by Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, and of representations made to the Justice Department in connection therewith, Mr G. XV. beller, Mayor of the town, and a resident of Ion" standing, was charged with having used obscene language in a public place. Mr Commissioner Tunbridge (possibly in view of some statements made concerning the alleged dilatoriness of the local policeman in regard to the case) watched the proceedings on behalf of the department. The ease was dismissed. Mr Haselden, SM was on the Bench. Mr A. R. Bunny was the solicitor for the police, who prosecuted and Mr Gray, of Wellington, appeared for the defence. A meeting 6f the committees of the Borough Council and Harbor J3oard appointed for the purpose of conferring upon the question of the establishment in the district of public abattoirs Mas held at the Council Chambers last evening, the following members being present :— His Worship the Mayor (in the chair), and Messrs Cooper, King, Graham, Lewis, Hepburn, and Skeet. A long discussion took place regarding the question of the advisability of establishing abattoirs, which was unanimously approved of. In connection therewith two offers were received from Messrs Maynard and Wilkinson, who were both willing to rent their premises to the Council for the purpose. The Committee decided to inspect, the two sites and any others that might in the meantime be submitted to them, and to briii" up a report by the last week in March. D An old colonist writes to the Ot,i"o Daily Times to point out that the agitation ag.iinst the Austrian gumdiggers has been got up by storekeepers and grogsellers. "Many of the gumdiggers," he says, "belong to the class of ne'er-do-wells. The storekeeper furnished the swag and tools, received the produce of the digger's labour at his oun price, and weighed' it in his own scales. The surplus, after payin c the cost of the outfit, was applied by the storekeeper to providing the digger with refreshments necessary to compensate him for his hard life on the gumfields, and when that surplus was exhausted the digger— if he was then alive— got back to the field to repeat the process. The Austrians do this work well, and save their money, neither of which suits the storekeeper, who is now working the labour unions and the Government for all they are worth to keep out the industrious and frugal workman, who insists upon being paid for his produce in money instead of grog." The Verto-Vaudeville Company, who will introduce- their panorama of the Spanish-American war to the Gisborne public at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening, arrived by the Te Anau this morning. An exchange s.iys : " The interest attaching to this war, by reason of the fact that the Americans— our brothers in blood — were engaged in it, was quite sufficient to draw a bumper house to witness the fine views depicting various scenes and incidents during tin: war. Among the first pictures shown were those of some of the largest warship-! in the United Slates Navy. Included among these were the cruisers Baltimore, Boston, and Cincinnati, also the battleship lowa, and the cruisers Marblehead and New i'ork, all names rendered familiar to us by their exploits in the recent sea fights with tne Spanish. Great interest "vas taken in the views dealing with the Maine disaster. The views of the Maine after the explosion and others, were so clear and exact as to leave no doubt that they were genuine reproductions of the events they represented. This specially applies to the pictures showing the Battle of Manila Bay."

One of the Judges of tlio Native Land Court about to be retired is Mr H. Duubar Johnston, formerly Registrar of the Court iit Wellington. During the month of December the Manawatu Dairy Union received 81,000 more gallons of milk than were ever received during the same month of the previous year. The net. amount, paid for milk for December (not including cream) was ■'J. 1741. A singiil.it fatality occurred at Dunedin hist week. Miss ICllen Boyle swallowed a piece of steel about 1:2 indie long, belonging to her corset, which was bent double More it was pushed down her throal. The hospital doctor.-! performed an operation to remove it, but perilonitisdcvelopi'd four days afterwards and she died. Wellington architect, speaking to a Times representative, gave it as his opinion that in another decide Wellington will have donbled its population. The vigour with which building operations were carried on last year, ami the large number of public, business and residential premise', now in piogress and shortly to be put in hand give an impression that the prophecy will not. fall far short, of fulfilment, says the Times. There was a collision between the Bench and Bar in the fierahltou (W.A.) Court the other day. -Mr Whitcombe, -M. L.C., who had appeared for the unsuccessful party, said he had never had justice from the ileuch, and never would get it. The Magistrate asked him to apologise, but Mr Whitcombo refused: The Bench then ordered Mr Whiteomhe's airest, and as he persistently refused to " take it back " he was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. A Maori axe of exceptionally large dimensions, anil probably one of tiie most perfect pieces of stone work of its kind extant, was unearthed by Mr W. Munro on his farm at Mokotua" (Southland) the other day. It is 17in long, weighs Kilb, and has an edge almost as fine as wellground Ktcel. The front surface for about Sin from the cutting edge has been worked as smooth as gla^s., and the underneath is slightly hollowed. Every part of the axe, including the handle, is intact. The Wanganui Borough Council is having some trouble with regard to it Iwaterworks at the Virginia Lake, mviim to the leaking of the earthenware pipe-, originally laid down. The engineer, Mr James Fulton. CM, ha« now recommended the Council to substitute iron pipes for a length of seventeen chains at an extra cost of about V2IU). The Council is indignant about the business, and at its last meeting passed a resolution dispensing with the further services of the engineer, and instructing its foreman of works to use iron pipes where required. The Wyndham Farmer propounds this conundrum : — Who is the M.11.R. representing a constituency not MO miles from Mataura electorate, who poses as a purist, a prohibitionist, an opponent of gambling ot all sorts, and the champ-ion of sundry other progressive measure? (allegedly or otherwise) ; and yet he can be seen at most of the race meetings, plunging on the tote, hedging with stable boys, and associating with anybody and everybody from whom he has the ghost of a chance of "picking up a good thing '!" Echo answers : Who ? A sad shooting accident is reported from Daylesford. A party of children who were playing in a yard amused themselves by shooting at a taiget with a pea-rifle. A girl named Lawsou aged fifteen, threatened to turn the hose on them, and a lad who had the ride in his hand, and who had just fired at the tarset without the clmige exploding, playfully presented the rifle at her, and pulled the trigger. The cartridge exploded, and the pellet struck the girl in the mouth and passed out through the hack of her head. Medical men say she cannot recover, A German resident in Auckland has received a letter from the Herman Consulgeneral in Apia, in -which the Consul emphatically denies that he led Mataafa's party in the fight against the party of Malietoa, the elected king. The Consulgeneral stales that he look no part in the fight, and that he was on horseback "in order to see the fun." We should have thought (remarks the Hern Id) thai the Consul, instead of being present " to see the fun," should have been exerting his influence to make these men keep the peace. He should have endeavored to prevent bloodshed. His very presence, and the prominent position he assumed, were encouragements to those men who were resisting the decision of the Chief Justice At the last sitting of the Vienna Association of Doctors some extraordinary proofs of the bold skill of modern surgery -were reported on. Dr Habart, an army doctor and reader at the University for War .Surgery, showed two patients whose lives were saved by opening their chests and stopping internal bleeding. The first case was that of a young man who fired four charges of shot at his chest, and then opened the veins of his wrist. Dr Habart enlarged the wound, opened the chest by removing the fifth rib, and then placed some iodoform gauze between the heart and the lungs. The young man, who was taken into the military hospital in a dying condition, is now perfectly well. The second ease was that of a young man who was stabbed in the armpit with a knife. His chest had also to be opened in order to stop the internal bleeding.