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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9547, 30 September 1902, Page 2

The local butchers announce a rise in ■the price of meat.

We understand that Mr Lissant Clayton has been asked to stand for the Tiiiiroto and Hangaroa riding of the County Council, and has consented to do so.

Colonial mails from Auckland (August 29) arrived in London on the morning of the 28th inst.; and from Melbourne (Au v gust 27) arrived in London on the after-' noon of August 28.

At the Police Court this morning, before Mr J. TownJey, J.P., Alexander Thompson Ritchie was convicted of drunkenness yesterday, and fined Ss, costs 2s.

Included in Lord Hawfce's team is Randall Johnston, of Cambridge, who is slated to be- a son of Mr Randall Johnson, a former resident of Poverty Bay. This member of the combination which visits New Zealand this summer was born at Wellington, and has. toured America with Lord Hawke previously .

Some few weeks ago Mr Hawley, Collector of Customs, wrote to the Government, suggesting that people who had magazines or other literature which they might like to send to the lighthouse-keep-ers on the New Zealand- coast should have the privilege of sending it through the post free of cost. It will be seen from our last night's telegrams that the Post-master-General has agreed to accede to tho request.

The Hawke's Bay Herald says of Mr W. K. Chambers' importation:—By the s.s. Elingamite yesterday Mr Bernard Chambers, Te Mata, shipped to Gisborne a very fine two-year-old bay draught colt by Stanrigg Duke (imp.), dam Jewel, by Rabin Adah1, dam Diamond. The youngster is pronounced by good judges to be one of the best colts bred at Te Mata, and should be a decided acquisition to the draught slock of the Poverty Bay district.

Sergt. Walter Miller (son of the Chief Stock Inspector in Hawke's Bay) who returned from South Africa by the Athenic, is still suffering from the effects of ■the gunshot wound which he received in the Bothasberg engagement. During the celebrated drive of the Boers a bullet went, through his right thigh, and he has brought, back with him .to Wellington seven pieces of 'the shattered bone. The right leg iis now a, little shorter than the other, and Miller is only able to walk with the assistance of a stick. It is probable that he will enter the Napier hospital for further treatment.—Post.

A telegram from luvercargill stales that the New 'Zealand Shipping Company made a complaint to the Biuff Harbor Board that the ss. Whakatane grounded on going out by the north cl'annel of the harbor, and asked I hat their vessels be not taken through thai channel. Deputy-Harbormaster Lovat denied that the vessel touched bottom. She was drawing 20ft, and there was o.jft in the channel. The leadsman at the lime said tho vessel touched. He had ji.*>t called "By the mark five." There was a bit of a roll on, and a stack of timber on deck full, and that may have been taken for the grounding of the s-hip. The correspondence was referred to « copimsttee.

In answer to a question received, "Are you in favor of the Bible in schools?" presented to the Rev. J. Lyall last night, the evangelist said most certainly he was, and dwelt at some length upon iits necessity. He said the reason why the people of New Zealand were so easily carried away with false doctrines.. was because they do not know the Bible. He hoped the institution of the Bible in the schools would soon be an accomplished fact. The Bible was recognised by all scholars as unequalled literature. Why should a book that transcended Shakespeare and Homer in literary excellence and v;ilue be barred from our educational institutions? Our whole national life and history was professedly Christian. Why exclude the Christian Bible from our schools ?

An interesting compensation case was before the Native Land Court to-day, when Judge Butham heard the claim of the Native owners interested to compensation for portions, of the Waioharore block, taken by the Gisborne Borough Council and Cook County Council under the Public Works Act, for the purposes of cemetery and abattoirs reserves. ■ Mr DeLautour appeared for the County Council and Mr Chrisp for the Borough Council. Evidence was given by Messrs T. Chrisp, George Grant, Major Winter, F. Harris, John Warren, and W. J. Quigley, all going to show that the fair value of the land was between £5 and £6 an acre. The case for the local bodies has closed, and the Court adjourned to enable the Natives to get evidence, if they wished it, as to the value of the property.

Though ithe office of Mayor of Wellington carries wiith i'l, many tribulations, i,t luus its compensating humors. At a banquet on Saturday, says the New Zealand Times, Mr Aitken. related that on one occasion—at half-past 1 o'clock in Che morning—he was awakened by his telephone ringing, and found there was a cabman ait tlie other end who had come lib grief over an obstruction in the road, and wanted the Mayor to come down and see about it. On another occasion a stranger walked jnto the Mayor's office, and asked to <be recommended respeeiablu lodgings. Mr Aitken was on another alternoon rung up by an excited butcher, who demanded to know what the Mayor recommended should bo done with a bullock which had got into a small outhouse and could not be extracted.

The extreme care exercised by the United States Patent Office in ascertaining the novelty of an invention, and the strict attention] to detail and procedure imposed by the regulations, sometimes leads to delays in grant of letters patent, which tax the patience of anxious inventors. In avoidance of delays a great deal of course depends upon the ability and experience of the attorney entrusted with the formulation of the claims and prosecution of the application. In this connection we have recently heard of what is considered to be a, record in official promptitude. An application for patent for a device for preventing a horse from bolting with a vehicle, filed by Messrs Baldwin and Wayward for MiFred. Matthews, a Wellington inventor, was lodged in the United States Patent Office on 22ud August last, and on 28th August (only six days later) a notification of the allowance of the application was mailed from Washington to Messrs Baldwin and. Rayward, much to the delight of the inventor, who had expected some weeks would elapse before the result of his application became known.

In n private letter to the Mayor of Dunedin, Mr Walter Hislop, who is at present in England, emphasises the great importance of public reserves to Dunodin. Ho says: "Nothing has struck me during my travels more than the immense benefits the possession of ample breathing spaces are to the inhabitants of both larger and smaller cities. ... It is a sight in the evenings and on Sundays to see hundreds and thousands of men, women; and children, who leave the hot, sweltering houses and streets and find their way to the many public parks, and there breathe air which is not scr pure as that to be had on our own Town Belt, but still an iinmenseimprovement on that within the city walls. Then, too, there is the greatest freedom—no stand-off-the grass business, and everything has been done for the comfort of those frequenting these places. . . . We have much to be thankful for to the founders of- our province, and city especially, for that grand heritage—the Town Belt, clad in many places in its native bush. I do not think you can improve it, but there arc niany parts that might, with the judicious expenditure of a few pounds, be. made real beauty spots, and I hope the citizens will not allow a yard of it to be taken from them for any purpose whatever." Bearing out Mr Hislop's views, the Dunedin City Council had before it at its last meeting, offers from Mr P. Duncan and Mr R. Hudson, whose residences adjoin the Belt, to maintain an acre or so in the vicinity at their own expense provided permission was given.

The pupils of St. Mary's Convent hold their annual concert in the Academy of Music this evening.

The Waimate Witness (Manaia) states: Following are the prices paid for butterfat in connection with local factories in this district for the season just passed: Stratford Farmers' Co-operative, lO.lld; Riverdale Co-operative, 9.95 d; Kaponga Co-operative, 9.90 d; Eltham. Co-opera-tive, 9.85 d; Kaupokoiiui Co-operative, 9.80 d; Normanby Co-operative, 9.38 d.

Many of the New Zeakmders who rushed to South Africa on the declaration of peace, under the impression that the Transvaal would be a working man's paradise, are rapidly being disillusionised (says the Napier Herald). A junior in the postal service, in Hawke's Bay, who left some months ago to take up a position in the post office at Johannesburg, has written, to a friend in this district ithat he would be very glad to get back to his old position, and that notwithstanding the fact that he in now receiving three times the .salary he was getting i n this colony. Ho strongly advises young men to be car<ful about going to South Africa, as every day makes it more apparent that the majority of those who go will find it wry difficult to get work at any wage