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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9646, 22 January 1903, Page 2

Mr T. Morgan, headmaster of the Napier school, and Miss Morgan are visiting Gisborne. Mr L J. Burkitt and Mr F. Renaub, late of the Elingamite, are now first and second mates respectively in the Zealandia.

Messrs Crawford and Son have a change of advertisement in this issue. The East Coast Mounted Rifles, parade on Monday and go into camp a.t Makauri for their annual six days' training. The. two Supreme Court sittings at (Jishome during 1903 will be Held on April 20th and September 10th. To-day is the anniversarv of the King's accession and of the Wellington province. The first judge to go on circuit on an autocar is the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland. On one journey he. found his ca.r more expeditious than" the train, At Yamba, New South Wales, a fisherman secured a swordfish measuring 16ft lOin overall, with a sword 4ft lOin •in length. It is stated that the prohibition party of the Ka-iapoi electorate do not intend I to take part in the nomination or election of the next licensing committee. Captain Campbell, one of the oldest coastal captains trading out of Wellington, is in a critical state of health at the present time. Dr Craig, of Te Aroha, hues been appointed house surgeon and assistant Government pathologist at Rotorua. vice Dr Kenny, who takes charge of Te Aroha. Nominations for the Harbor Board election close on Saturday. Messrs Cooper Jand Hepburn for the county and Messrs j Whinray and Tucker for the town are [the retiring representatives. I John Dawson, arrested at Auckland on !a charge of horse-stealing in this district, arrived by the Zealandia yesterday. He will appear before the Court on Saturday morning. Dr. DeLisle, at the conference of the i Sanitary Committee' this morning, firmly expressed his opinion that the quantity of water at Wa.ihirere, when he visited it prior to the rainfall, was ample for the needs of the town. A prohibition league has been formed at North Melbourne, on similar lines to that in operation in New Zealand. One of the first steps of the league will be to obtain legislation to enable the necessary prohibition vote to be taken. Six seamen for the barque Gladys, which is expected to sail for London about Saturday, arrived by the Zealandia yesterday. They formerly belonged to the barque Manlin, which was abandoned recently off (.lie Kermadecs. The remains of the late Mr W. McKiuley were, interred at Makuraka Cemetery this afternoon. The deceased being an old mail contractor, the ensign om. the post office was lialf-masted, and Mr W. Sampson , chief postmaster, attended the • funeral. A special train is to run next Thursday afternoon for the accommodation of townspeople desiring to take advantage of the half holiday by making a trip to the country. The special leaves town at 2 o'clock, and the ordinary afternoon tmin will be delayed tail 4.15. "I would sooner have half the membership with a distinct declaration against prolubition, than .three times their number with no declaration. It is the crux of the whole position." — Mr W. D. Lysnar at the first general meeting of the Waiapu Reform League last evening. As will be seen from our advertising columns Miss Wellsted, who has for some years past studied the violin under Siguor Squarise, Dunedin, will be prepared to receive pupils from Ist February Her address is cure of London Piano and Music House. A conference was held by the Sanitary Committee of the Borougfi Council this morning with Dr. DeLisle. Further information was given by the Health Officer in regard to several points in his report (previously published) on the sanitation of the town, and the report was adopted. Whilst at the Bowling Tournament last week Mr A. J. Massey exhibited his game of table bowls, which was inspected with great interest and favor by bowlers. The Auckland representatives ordered a table, and there is likelihood of a number of the clubs going in for the game during the winter. There was a large crowd of passengers; from here for the Zealandia last evening, and the Huddart-Parker steamer was a full ship. The prospects of the Wailii being overcrowded on her 7 o'clock trip were so great that all but passengers by , the Zealandia and Omapare were, refused , a passage by her. i Mr T. J. Thomas, of Pouparae, met . with a painful accident the- other evening, a. young horse, was caught in « wire fence and on his going forward to release it it sprang forward and knocked ■ him down, rendering him unconscious, ! and inflicting a severe shaking. His head I was considerably bruised, and his face scarred. The Inangahua Herald slates that the '~ weather at Reef ton during the past few . weeks bus been of the most wintry des-, , cription, and snow has fallen on the adjacent hills. On the 9th showers of hail fell, aaid altogether the usual summer is ; conspicuous by its absence. The gardens also are suffering; and the farmers will i lose their crops of lmy unless the weatj her takes up soon. Mr Danneford, director of the. Soldiers' Mission, Poona. Bombay, India, accom- ' panied by his wife and child, is now on a visit to this colony, and expects shortly to be in Gisborne, when he will hold a number of meetings in the interests of his ; mission. He will while here give lectures descriptive of his work amongst the sol- ; fliers, illustrated with a large number of \ limelight views. Mr Pete Hughes, manager for Mr Wil- -. liamson. was a through passenger by the I Zealundia. yesterday, on his way to Na- [ pier to prepare the way for the Opera , Company's season there, commencing next Monday evening. Mr Hughes is arrangs ing for visits of "The Runaway Girl, ' , to Blenheim and Nelson, and when ques-" [ tioned as to why he was passing Gisborne • made the excuse that the lauding charges , were too heavy. Judgment by default was -entered up at the Magistrate's Court this morning in :• the eases of "Gisborae Harbor Board v. Laura Annie Boniface, claim £1 14s, ' costs 155. ; Gisborne Harbor Board v. •■ W G Watson (Mr Jones) claim £3 4s : 9d, costs 15s. W. N. Attwood v. James > Kelso, claim 13s 6d, costs ss. In the case of O. B. Hubble v. George Henry For- ' rest, claim £2, costs ss, judgment was ■ confessed. Following the example of the s.s. Maori, ' which obtained quick despatch through 1 taking up a more convenient anchorage ' than is usually occupied by visiting cargo ■ steamers, the Tyser liner Niwaru this 1 morning shifted her moorings and came 1 nearly two miles closer in to shore than 1 she had been lying- The anchorage is a ' good one, and it would be well if the i port authorities took bearings and had <• marked on the charts as one most suitable ior visiting steamships to take up. f In urging that the members of the f Waiapu Reform League should endeavor • to get as many members enrolled as ■ possible, Mr W. D. Lysnar at last night's , meeting stated there was a large number [ of people who he was sui-e would read- . ily join. The League was an absolute i necessity. They had two forces, prolubi- • tionists working for Prohibition, and the i publicans striving to maintain the pre- . sent position, and they wanted to come . between these two forces. To get rei forms they want membership, and they , needed people's assistance and their minds > in deciding what reforms should be made. 1 "With all the prohibitionists' work, 1 they have only gained 6 votes from the [ 1899 election up to the last poll," remark- ' ed Mr Lysnar at last night's meeting 1 of the Waiapu Reform League. "This 1 shows that they are not increasing their : supporters in the district." — Mr Webb : "I know eight people in one house who voted for Prohibition this election because ' they could not get anything better. If '' the League had been formed they would : have joined." — Mr Lysnar: "We want to [ extend our League." — The Chairman (Mr | Wallis) : "We need to extend it to Wel--1 lington, Cliristchurch, and other places. Until it gets there it will be very little good." H.M.S. Archer retunecl to Lytteiton ; on Saturday from a cruise to the Southern ; islands. Campbell Island was reached at ' 2 p.m. on January 11. Stores and Messrs , Scott, and Graham were landed. Mr Gor--1 don works the island for Captain- Tucker, of Gisborne, who has about 4000 sheep. ' They appear to be doing well. The island k is well covered with mative tussock, on j which the sheep thrive, and the absence p of scrub, so prevalent on Auckt&md Is- , land, renders the place more suitable for settlement. The vessel embarked Messrs , M. MacDonald, Gordon and Darham, who [ are in the employ of Captain Tucker, for : Lyttelto.il, -and left an January 12. Mr R. M. Birrell asked at the meeting of the Reform League last evening if there , was to be a programme as to meetings . and so forth. He did not call what had been submitted that evening, a programme. It was for. the League to draw up a proper programme of what it was going to accomplish. — The Chairman (Mr Wallis) said that the proper way was for the Committee to draw up a programme , and then call a general meeting. The present meeting could go on talking a . long time without coming to anything i definite. "I don't think we should get i very far if we express any opinion tonight. You have got yours and I mine" added the Chairman, wiio afterwards stated that his idea of dealing with the question was to establish a trust to take i over the hotels and work them for the public benefit*. — Mr; Birrell understood that a discussion on the programme of the League was to take place that night. — Mr Lysnar pointed out that several leading members were unavoidably .ab- ■ sent, and as the bulk of the members were country men a canvass of the town should be made. He -would have liked to have seen a fair discussion of the lines of the programme that evening, and that was the intention of the "Programme Committee. — Mr Birrell •. The reforms of the League are conspicuous by their absence. — Mr Lysnar : We must have a start — a foundation — and then we cam get to work.

The Opawa estate, in South Cai'tevbury, which whs recently purchased! by the Government, will shortly be thrown, open for selection under the name of the Chamberlain Settlement. The Public Works Department sent down forty men to Milford Sound by the TulaJii'kai for employnieiit on the roadmaking works in the district. Men art: sent down each summer for this purpose, returning to civilisation whe.n the weather 1 becomes too bad for work to continue. 1 A slight disturbance Vvas created in St. l Patrick's Church, Greymouth, the other s Sunday evening by an unfortunate lunatic, j; a stranger to the town. He was removed '. from the church, struggling violently, by four or live members of the congrega- j tion. Outside- it took half a dozen men to hold him, his loud shouting being heard . in the church much to the discomfort of t the congregation. An unusually tragical .shooting accident \ occurred at Tenterfield (N.S.W.) a few j days ago, when Mrs John McKerihnJi was killed by her son William. The .boy was playing with a.n old Winchester* rifle, which was not supposed to be loaded, when the weapon exploded, and the bullet passed through the neck and head of his mother, who was standing in the doorway of the room. Death was instantaneous. A section of the residents of Queens- j town are up in arms against the action : of the Government in advertising Sunday , excursions to Lake Wakatipu, and declare their intention of leaving no stone un- ■ turned to compel the Government to cease what they regard as an unwarrantable in- \ trusion upon the observance of the Sabbath in Queenstown. The Government have since decided to discontinue the excursions. The Waipori Electric Falls Company ] whose works are in course of construction, | have evolved an ambitious project, name- , ly, the supply of electric light and motive j power to Dunedlu and the surrounding j districts. The power will be generated at ( a very high voltage, probably 20,000 volts and then transmitted by copper wire on j poles a distance of 26 * miles to a. sub- j station near Dunedin. If necessary, 7000 horse power can be readied. • The works will be completed within 12 mouths. A comparison of the indebtedness of the four chief municipalities in New Zea.land, made by the ChrLstchurch Press, shows that " Auckland lias a debt of £554,900; Wellington, £1,156,074; Christcliurch, £136,140; Dunedin, £687,725, a total of £2,534.839. borne by a population not much exceeding 120,000. ' Wellington, which had a population, of 43,638 at the last census, has thus a municipal debt of about £26 a head to be added to the indebtedness of about £67 per head for the colonial debt. There is. stated to be a great scarcity of stock in the Marlborough district. A prominent squatter there recently visited the West Coast, where he hoped to be able to procure some store cattle. He was unsuccessful, for the coast is as bare of stock as other parts of the colony. In this connection, says a West Coast paper, it is regrettable to notice thut store sheep are being frozen in very large quantities for the South African market. Such a course, rendered necessary by shortage of stock, must be detrimental to the New Zealand trade there. The epidemic of sickness, which was so prevalent in Auckland for some time last spring, and which was generally described as gastro-enteritis, has lately made its appearance in Cliristchurch, where, according to our exchanges, it is classed as { English cholera, a diagnosis which was pronounced by some Auckland medicos when the nature and origin of the disease was being discussed in this city. The complaint does not appear to be so virulent in the Southern city as it was here, but the symptoms have been -severe enough to keep those attacked in bed for several days.— Auckland Herald. The Hawke's Bay Herald, in pointing out the advantages of the Wairoa-Wai-karemoana district as a tourist resort, expresses a fear that the traffic will not be sent via Napier. The writer says : — ''We' ore informed that the route between Waikaremoana and Taupo and Rotorua is being investigated, and we. fear that before long this district will be. annexed to Auckland unless pressure is brought to bear on the Government. It is desirable that the Government should be urged to • investigate the Wairoa bar, and see whether, with a moderate expenditure, a serviceable entrance could not be secured. They did as much for the Wanganui people in developing the river wliich lias Drought so much grist to the mill of that town. They should be urged to do the same for this district." The passengers from Otvehunga to New Plymouth by the Northern Company's steamer Ngapuhi (the Auckland Herald reports) had a thrilling experience last Friday morning. Owing to the vtery thick weather and the heavy downpour of rain, it wi\s impossible to see the light at New Plymouth breakwater, consequently the steamer over-ran, her distance by 10 miles. About this time the weather cleared .somewhat, when the first object seen was the company's wrecked steamer Gairloch, right ahead of the Ngapuhi. The distance between, the two steamers appeared to be about only 100yds r but of course it was greater than that. As soon as the position, of tliet- Ngapuhi was realised she was at once headed out t» sea, and a course steered for New Plymouth, where she arrived in safety, but too late to connect? with the express train to Wellington.