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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9408, 7 April 1902, Page 2

As Mr W. L. Rees is suffering from a severe cold, his lecture announced for this evening will be postponed. Members of the Committee of Mr S: Hooper's benefit concert meet at the Cosmopolitan Club-rooms at 7.30 to-night. At the Magistrate's Court this morning a prohibition order was granted by Mr Barton, S.M., against Edward John Burch. The Harbor Board staff are proceeding with the building of a slip at the mouth of the Waikanae. It is stated that tho work will take over eight menths. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states:—'"There is a s>harp-.:de-mand here for maize for export fe. Sydney. Buyers here are offering as high as 2s 4d per bushel." The West Christchurch School Committee has selected Mr P. Menzies, 8.A., as assistant master of the school in place of Mr Rowley, who has taken the position of headmaster at the Gisborne school. Holy Trinity Sunday schoolroom was taken over by the Education Department to-day and fitted as a schoolroom, a number of pupils from the overcrowded infant department being drafted into it. Owing to lack of sufficient support, the J Blenheim people have postponed the proposal to hold a week's carnival in that town,'ithe idea of which was apparently suggested by the success of, the Nelson jubilee festivities. v, Fifty remounts were sent by the Inspector of Stock (Mr Campbell Thomson) to Wellington by the Te Anau last evening. Mr J. R. Redstone and staff superintended the work of embarkation. The animals were purchased at from £12 to £20 each. The party of Ngatiporous who visited the Wairarapa district to attend the Native farewell to the Premier return by the Moura on Wednesday morning, and leave for the Coast by the Omapere on Thursday. They will probably jjive a performance in Gisborne. The large circle of friends of Captain Thomas McGee will be pleased to. hear that- he is again in command. Captain McGee has now the s.s. Darius, in the Melbourne^Singapore trade. The Darius arrived at Melbourne on March 18 from Singapore. Major and Mrs Evans will conduct a special musical meeting in the Salvation Army Barracks to-night, when a special programme of vocal and instrumental music will be rendered. By special request. Major and Mrs Evans will sing some Welsh songs. After the meeting there will be a sale of fruit, etc. The Cornwall Concert Company open at the Theatre Royal this evening. All who paid the company a visit on the occasion of their last performance here speak of them as a very talented combination of musicians, giving a most enjoyable programme of excellent music. Their Spanish band is worth going a long way to hear. Mr Henare Kohere, a candidate from the Coast for inclusion in the Native Contingent at the Coronation festivities, left for Wellington by the Te Anau last evening. In common with several line young fellows who have left Gisborne with the object of going Home. Mr Kohere should certainly find no difficulty in obtaining a place. In future the old time-table for the steamer service from Onehunga to New Plymouth and vice versa will be reverted to, and mails between those two places will only be sent four times a week, instead of^daily as recently. The timetables will be:—Leave New Plymouth Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays; leave Onehunga Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. The daily train between New Plymouth and Wellington will continue to run. The question of providing a town clock for the new Post-office was discussed at the meeting of the Liberal Association the other evening, and the opinion was expressed by members that the Association should not allow'the proposal to fall to the ground, as it had first been, mooted by them. It was decided to allow the matter to stand over until the building is completed. Eiidy's score of 566, reported in our cablegrams, is the second highest score ever made in the history of cricket in all matches. Until recently A. E. Stoddart held the record with a score of 485 in a match Hampstead' Heath v. Stoifcs. Then a boy of 14 years of age, Collins, of Clifton College (England), "made the enormous number'of 628 runs hot out in a "house" tmatch at his school. The big Tasmanian's score is the largest yet recorded in a match between men, and is the highest yet made in all matches in Australia. The previous best was 417, made by ,T. Warne, of Melbourne. A. C. Maclaren holds the record for the world for the highest score in first-class cricket with 424, and Clem Hiill the Australasian record with 367 not out. A first offender was convicted of drunkenness at the Police Court this morning, •md disaharged with-a caution. —Bernard Anderson was charged with having on the Ist October last stolen a silver chain, valued at Ss, the property of Henrick Svenssen. Sergeant Siddells nakl in I his c-ise h« would ask leave-to withihaiv the information, as the owner of the chain had left the country, and he was unable to proceed with the prosecution. Leave to withdraw the information was granted under the circumstances. — Thomas George Lawless was charged with riding a bicycle without a light between the hours of sunset and sunrise in Peel .street on 10th March last. Defendant pleaded guilty, and remarked that it must have been very- early in the evening. A fine of 10s, costs 7s, was inflicted.— Christopher George Challis Was also charged with riding n bicycle without a light. Leave to withdraw the information was granted, on the application of Sergeant Siddells, who stated that defendant had left last evening for Wellington as one of the Tenth Contingent.

Since 10 years ago the number of vessels arriving at Wellington have increased by about a fifth, and the tonnage has more than doubled . News has been received of the death mi England of a talented young Jady from breymouih, Miss Tarrant, who had goneHome to prosecute her musical studies. A proposal to' send another representative team of footballers to Great Britain will probably be brought before the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union. ° J Dr Mason's arrangement for inspecting passengers from plague-infected ports for a given period after their landing, and for tracing their whereabouts, is working very satisfactorily, although the arrangement entails a great deal of work on the Health Department s staff. The Premier's visit to Nelson in the lauekai last week was a private one, the purpose being to bid good-bye to hil daughter (a pupil at the Girls' College) and his local personal friends, before leaving to attend the Coronation celebrations in England. An officer of the Wellington Rifle Battalion has made the statement that on Easter Sunday, just before the night attack, in the Wairarapa district, one of the mounted men found a ball cartridge in his pouch. In the ordinary course he would have drawn on his bandolier,, first and then his pouch. The date tentatively fixed for the departure of the Tenths-Contingent (says the N.Z. Times) is the 12th instant, but the probability is that the sailing date will be eight or nine days later. The department is prepared to have the stay lengthened beyond the 12th instant, tenders for supply of necessaries to the camp having been specified t»-be carried out until the 20th instant. : '■■••-'■J,. /■..:, The Greymouth Harbor Board has received a letter from the Minister of Marine objecting to the Board's employing another engineer at £2 2s a day, and stating that the expenditure would not be authorised. It was decided that the resolutions on the minutes temp6rarily appointing an assistant engineer be forwarded to the Minister, with a letter pointing out that the Board was quite within its rights. H The Premier continues to have strange requests made to him with regard to volunteers for South Africa. The other day a widow wired to him that her only son had offered his services with the Tenth Contingent against her wish, and she concluded with the earnest prayer Stop him." Mr Seddon stopped him and wired the mother to that effect when, instead of thanks for his action he received a further telegram: "I don't object to his going with the Coronation Contingent." ' . The Cambridge correspondent of the Waikato Argus says :— "A gentleman who .returned from Rotorua on Monday says hundreds of people who went, by the excursion train to that place last week could not obtain shelter, and had to return next morning. One aged couple spent the night under a tree in the sanatorium grounds, the devoted husband holding an umbrella over his spouse the whole night. It is cruel for tjie Railway Department to induce excursionists to go to any place when they must know that accommodation cannot be obtained at any price." The jury have disagreed in the case of Clajide Hamilton Stowers (of New Zealand) and his wife, charged with the murder of their infant, whose body was found in the Yarra, writes a Melbourne correspondent. The wife, during the two days' trial, did not exchange a word with her husband nor look, at him, or in any way indicate that she was aware of his presence in the dock beside her. She read in a clear distinct voice a statement to the jury, giving all the history of her married life and of their dealings with the baby; but as there is to be a second trial the judge withheld it from publication. fhe Palmerston correspondent of the New Zealand Times says that the contract for securing 750 remounts for the Imperial Remount Department has been secured by two of the leading horse authorities of the North Island, Messrs John Stevens, of Rangitikei, and E. Stevenson, of Palmerston. The former has- had considerable experience in buying horses for the Indian market, and is a recognised authority on the subject. latter is regarded as one of the keenest judges of horse-flesh in the Manawatu district. • He carried off the points prizes in horses at the last show of the local Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and has supplied more Contingent horses to the Government than perhaps any dealer in the colony. "• Mr Basil Sievwright, who died at Dunedin on Thursday night, after an illness that commenced three years ago, was (writes a Dunedin correspondent) born at Lerwick, in. the Shetland Isles, in 1836,' the son of a notary public. He sailed for Australia when a lad, and after remaining a while in Victoria, left for Otago in 1865. He entered the service of the late MrWm. Johnstane, solicitor, and was'admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1869. Soon afterwards he helped to start 'the firm of Sievwright and Stout. The old partnership being dissolved, in 1887, Mr Sievwright practised by himself until 1890, when he was joined by Mr Alfred James. Mr Sievwright took a large personal interest in public company matters, and his name is on the original list of many important and thriving concerns. Amongst these is the New Zealand Drug Company. Deceased was first chairman of directors of this company, and held the post for twenty-two years, up to the time of his death. Corporal Jeffeiy, of the Seventh Contingent, writing to his brother in Wellington, on Bth February, says:—"Colonel Porter has told us that we. shall be in the field until 10th May, and Lord Kitchener will get us home as soon after .that as possible. It is very hard to carry anything except necessary clothing when trekking. We have been well supplied with clothing so far, in fact, I believe that our share has been overdrawn, and the Imperial authorities are rendering accounts to the New Zealand Government for it. Some fellows' took every opportunity of getting as much as they could. This means that others have had to suffer. Even our pay seems to be that way. They cannot pay us as we want the money, and yet we signed for certain sums to be got here. They irqn't supply enough. The paying of colonials seems to be reckoned a big item by the head paymaster in Capetown. .We haven't got Christmas goods from New Zealand. Supposed to be near though. Have almdst forgotten about them myself." The large crowd of onlookers which gathered to watch the riding test for candidates for the Tenth Contingent on Saturday afternoon were highly diverted at the efforts of the prospective crintingenters to get their horses over the jump. The first hero to lead off had his' manly breast ornamented with several medals. Nothing unpleasant as to the origin of these decorations was suggested until the wearer took his gee-gee to the rail. Although the rider looked as if he wanted to get to the other side, the horse refused to shift into the next paddock under the gentle persuasion of his jockey. On returning from the hurdle the third time the spectators hazarded some unkind opinions as to what the medals were obtained for, one wag suggesting that they were won at a poultry show. The next half-dozen riders were mounted fairly well, and although they in\ turns either struck the hurdle or fell on top of it, they managed to scramble to the other side. The horse who cleared the jump without touching was an exception. One animal was ridden furiously to the hurdle, but at the'last moment swerved and buried his head in the foliage of a poplar tree in the hedge. Compared with previous exhibitions, the jumping was poor, and the "barrackers" were not slow to recognise the fact. In one or two cases it was not altogether the fault of bad horses, and where thw' was suspected the rider did not have a happy time from the onlookers, whose comments were of a caustic order. When an embryo contingenter dill not race his horse with a will at the obstacle he was immediately charged with not desiring to get on the other side. One individual in particular came in for a lot of good-humored comment. He did not appear to ride at the hurdle ala the Mexican cowboy; indeed, he appeared •to be trying to keep his mount back. In his third attempt to get over he was encouraged by shouts of "Look out, they'll take yer." After most of the candidates' had got over in divers fashions, the order was given to come back. The hurdle was down, but, in obedience to the vox populi, it was raised, and the crowd were expectant of further fun. After a few had got over, the senior officer of the Recruiting BoaW damped the hopes of the spectators by ordering the log to be taken down. The candidates then streamed back over the open space. The Hunt Club will need to look for a new fence for their opening jump in the Waikanae run, so much was it belabored,- the log being broken clean through.

Efforts are being made to secure a visit of the ships of the squadron, or at least one or two of them, to New Plymouth. The Corinthic will be die next new White Star steamship to reach the colony. This vessel is expected to be in Wellington about July or August. Peter Stuart, engineer on the Earnseleugh dredge, was found drowned in the Eraser river. His pockets wera full of stones, mid a large stone was tied to his neck. He leaves a wife and family living in Scotland. At the inquest *a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Let us suppress street betting as demoralising, let us abolish the "walking" totali•sator as a public nuisance, and confine gambling on races to the course; but to attempt to eradicate the betting propensities of the people by the abolition of the •totalisator would be akin to prohibiting speculation on the London Stock Exchange. — N.Z. limes. While the legalised totalisator is with us as a popular educator in the art of gambhng," we shall have plenty of people ready to trade on the cupidity of its finked pupils. Th e -only remedy, therefore, that m worth considering is the removal of the tutor. People would continue to gamble in spite of anything the Legislature m.ght do to prevent them, but they would not gamble half as much, or a quarter as much, if the facilities provided by the State were withdrawn.— Lyttelton limes. That lonely grave in the grim Matoppas will speak for centuries to come of the uetof Cecil Kkodes's life of which he was probably most proud, and with some jusl\ CB' J° .Te? tM? UDarrae^ with but three attendants/ into the heart of the country held hythe enemy against whom he had personally been fighting, was an act of great courage;-to induce his savatre foes, in whose honor he had placed such implicit trust, to surrender when they had him so completely at their mercy, was a feat of diplomacy worthy of all praise.Chnstchurch Press. A message from Honolulu, dated January dlst, says that beneficial results in treating leprosy have been obtained by Ihe use of tua-tua, a shrub brought from Venezuela. A concoction of this produced violent convulsions in the patient to whom it was administered, whose nose had frightfully swollen and whose nnger-nails had fallen off. The treatment checked the swelling and removed the stiffness from the hands. The plant has been sent to Molokai. Great hopes are entertained that a cure has at;-last been found. A collision took place at Baker's Hill ne',l£ eJ th' on March 18> an the extern goidnelds railway, between a water train and a goods train. The water train was coming down from Chidlow's Well, and iL was to stop at Baker's Hill to allow «a goods train coming in the opposite direction to cross. Some mistake occurred, and the water train went straight through the station, and crashed into the goods train a mile a*d a half-further on. No one was injured, but eight trucks were derated and damaged. A relief train was sent from Nortlmm to take the passengers by the mixed train, which left Perth at 9 a.m., over the break. The continued silence of the cable as to the progress of the peace negotiations (says the Wellington Post) is disappointing. Mr Schalk Burger and his party were timed to reach Pretoria to meet Lord Kitchener on Sunday last, but so far we have as yet no hint of any such meeting. It is remarkable also that there has not been wired to the colonies any indication of the opinions of the leading Enzlish papers on the situation. Either the correspondents are negligent, or—and this is extfemely unlikely—the press is waiting for developments in silent expectancy The probability is that the Boer leaders have not yet arrived at agreement amonjr themselves, in which case Lord Kitchener is not in a position to report any progress Mr Northcroft, S.M. (says a Waikato paper) made some very caustic comments upon the evidence given by witnesses in the sly-grog cases at Te Awamutu. He said the King Country produced the greatciie ii i°- he llas had t0 d(> with in all his experience as a magistrate." If Ananias were present in the King Country he would be-'biken as a paragon of veracity. He thought the King Country contained the sweepings of New Zealand—he felt tempted to say the world —so far as accomplished liars, were concerned. He did not intend his remarks to apply to the general body of settlers in the King Country, but to those who had come before him in connection with these cases during the last two years. Among recent visitors who toured the colony was » party of twelve Americans, who came over to see the new country about which they had heard so much lately. Rotorua folks declare that that party was the most talkative whkh had visited the region. The Americans visited the Wanganui river, and talking afterwards to a Wanganui man, who was curious to know the thoughts of the visitors about New Zealand's Rhine, one of the party eulogised the river in the highest terms of praise. "You take it from me," he said, "that you have a wonderful river. The beauty of its upper reaches paralysed us—it actually made twelve Americans shut up their jaws and give old Nature silence!" Wanganui river is wonderful; a silent American is a marvel. Mr yVason, late M.H.R., and now a member of the House of Commons, writes vigorously to the Times on the state of affairs in Scotland. 'He sees "a tract of land little over 200 acres, on which not long ago there were seven homesteads. Npw there is not one, and the land is let to an adjoining farmer at grazing rental." Another farm is "tied up by the craft of lawyers and the laws that have driven our best blooa from God's free country to the slums of towns^ the hand of the dead still pressing jJttun the living." As a colonist he wHJHke to see the best men of the 01d|^^^V exploiting the colonies, but asJ^^Khman he is aghast at seeing our beHJpTd leaving the country, or swelling tne overgrown cities, even there entering into fierce competition for existence with the pauper aliens, who bring dirt, disease, overcrowding, and sweating in its worst form in their train. The large twin-screw cable steamer Colonia was launched on February 14 from the yards of Messrs. Wigham, Richardson and. Co., .Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Colonia has been built to .the order of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (owners of the cable steamer Anglia, which visited Auckland last week), for the purpose of laying submarine telegraph cables, and will carry about 3000 nautical miles of cable in four large tanks, built up in her holds. The vessel is the largest cable ship afloat, being about 500 ft in length and 56ft in breadth, and 39ft in depth, and when completed will carry 10,000 tons deadweight at a speed of Hi knots. She has an overr hanging bow and elliptical stern, both of which will be fitted with the necessary cable gear. When completed the vessel i will proceed to the Pacific to lay (he cable from Vancouver to Fanning Island in, mid-Pacific.