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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9795, 15 July 1903, Page 2

The Fire Brigade meet for practice this evening. The Matawhero stock sales will be held to-morrow. There are large entries. Dannevirke experienced a severe earthquake shock on Saturday. The s.s. Talune, which arrived from South this morning was a very full ship so far as cargo was concerned, being literally loaded to the hatches. , She discharged some 160 tons at this port. There was a good attendance to-day at Messrs Williams and Kettle's sale of fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, etc., on behalf of Messrs D. Hay and Son. of Auckland. Everything offered was sold without reserve, and the prices realised, which showed an advance on last year's bidding at a similar sale, were of a satisfactory nature. Mr G. R. Wyllie acted as auctioneer. With the object of distributing their favors the Union Company obtain packet licenses for their ships at the different ports m the colony. It has been suggested that as Gisborne supplies a good deal towards the bar trade on the boats travelling this coast it would be fair to ask that local revenue should be supplemented by two or three of the licenses being token out here. The Government offices were closed today for Arbor Day. The occasion will be celebrated here to-morrow by a little tree planting. At 2 p.m. the Mayor and Councillors and members of the Beautifying Association will assemble on the Waikanae beach for the purpose of planting a number of trees with the object of beautifying that favorite resort. The City Band wfll provide music for the occasion, and it is to be hoped there will be a large assemblage of the public to assist m the good work. Two lads of about 14 years of age were before the Police Court this morning on a charge of stealing a number of theatre tickets, of a face value of £3 10s 6d, the property of F. J. Larkin. One lad admitted he took the tickets. The second stated the first * had given some of the tickets to him, but he, knew where they were obtained from. The S.M. said thia amounted to a plea of guilty. Sergeant Siddells stated the tickets were locked up m the box office, and the boys by some means had fished them out. Fortunately only one was used, but on Monday night the cashier had to pay for two tickets for which he could not account. Therei.were a number of boys hanging about the theatre as a rule, and this would no doubt have the desired effect of keeping them away. Mr Barton, S.M., severely reproved the boys for their conduct, and discharged them with a caution nob to offend again.

Tho canoe Tilikum left Napier for Gisborne at 2.46 p.m. on Monday. She must 1 have met tho recent rough weather, and 1 is probably sheltering on the Coast. Ladies will be interested m an an- $ nouncement of Messrs Adair Bros, about ] special dress bargains, appearing m this issue. ] Air C. F. Lewis has a fresh advertise- < ment m this issue, notifying the arrival of a large shipment of new music, and is i making a special display m his window. < Marton is evidently not troubled with t the domestic servant problem, considering thore were 50 applicants to fill the vacancy of "a strong girl, able to milk." Captain Voss' canoe Tilikum, after i visiting Auckland, will proceed to "Mani- 1 toba, via Torres Straits, Mauritius, Cape- I town, Pernauibuco, London and Quebec. The body of Captain Darragh, of the 1 Emma Sims, who was drowned at Hokitika the other day, was found on the Cob- i den beach on Monday. Identification was '. completely established. According to a telegram forwarded by Sir William Russell to the Wairoa Harbor Board, Ministers are disinclined to make a grant towards the proposed harbor works. Mr Ellerbeck draws attention to the fact that his traveller is now visiting the country districts, where country . clients may expect the highest satisfaction m any work done. The Musgrove Comic Opera Company with Lempriere Pringle, Madame Slapoffski, and others, commences a New Zealand tour at Dunedin with "The FortuneTeller" next month. Mr W. D. Lysnar requests farmers to meet him on Saturday at the Farmers' Club rooms to discuss the prospect of obtaining a better supply of pigs, the pi^sent supply not being sufficient to keep Okitu factory going. The Post Office will be open for delivery of the 'Frisco mail from 7 to 8 o clock to-night. That portion usually delivered by letter-carriers may be obtained at the wicket m the private box lobby; the remainder over the public counter. Return fares between Australia, and New Zealand and single fares from Australia to New Zealand have been increased by 10s. The steamship companies state that this has been necessitated by the increased expenditure they are forced into by the health regulations. The Rickards' Company gave their second performance m the Theatre Royal ast evening, when there was another large and appreciative audience. The entertainment went with a swing, and seemed to thoroughly please the audience lhe company leave for Napier by the Waikare this evening. Steps are being taken to identify several of the spots made famous during the Maori wars m the South Taranaki district. Mr J. P. Ward, one of those who slept on the battlefield of Te Ngutu o te Manu on the night before the battle, has been examining the locality, and is positive that the spot which is pointed out as that where Von Tempsky fell is not the correct one. Parliament is to be petitioned to set up a Commission to determine historic sites. ' The lads who received a lecture at the Police Court this morning for their theft j of tickets from the Rickards 1 Company s box office, used an ingenious device to secure the coveted passes. The tickets were printed upon a roll of perforated paper, and were kept on a shelf inside the box office. The boys obtained a long piece of wire and by skilfully inserting it under the ticket office window and manipulating it managed to get it hooked on to the end of the roll, which they drew through the aperture, tearing off the number of admissions that they required. * A weighty testimony to the successful application of the Government's"^ native land policy (says the New Zealand Times) is provided by an issue of the Maori Goaette (L.O te Kaliiti o Niu Tireni) just to hand. This number extends to 220 pages, and it deals solely with blocks of native land that have been individualised under the Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896. The blocks comprise areas of varying sizes, some being between 50 and 70 thousand acres. The share of each family or individual is declared to be "inalienable except to his Majesty." . l A well-attended meeting of the shareholders of the Poverty Bay Co-operative bupply Association, Ltd., was held last evening m the Church of England schoolroom. Mr W. Sievwright presided. The draft rules were read, and the Rides Committee s report was adopted, and it was unanimously resolved to register the Association at once. All the shareholders present signed the rules, which will be handed- to the Registrar for approval and registration. A vote of thanks to Mr hievwnght and the promoters for establishing the Association was carried with acclamation. The statutory general meeting will be called to elect officers as soon as the Association is registered.' The Selection Committee appointed to select teams for a trial match next Saturday, m view of the representative junior fixture with Hawke's Bay, met last evening, and picked the following teams for a trial game : Tate, W. Coleman, Puflett, bhaw. Witty, Grinlinton. Oman, bceats, McCuUough, C. Taylor, F. Higgs D. Scott, V. Somervell, Moore, «nd Ingram, versus Holder, Faulknor, G Petersen, J. Roderick, Pettie Kinnimont, B. Bright, Sharp, Hickey, H. Webb, Third, lapu, j. Robb, Watson, and Piesse! Emergencies — Forwards, Parker, Fox, Nuia Hmgston, Hicks, Poole; backs, W. bcott, Heany, Bennett, and Power. Sir J. G. Ward is considering improvements m the telephone system by the installation of metallic circuits, which will have the effect of rendering conversation clearer, and the installation of the central battery system. Under the latter system there will be no battery required at each place where the telephone is fatted up. The present method of ringing up will be done away with, and only a bell will be attached besides the receiver. The lifting of the receiver from the hook will indicate to the girl at the bureau that her services are required, and when the receiver is restored to the hook, the bureau will know that the conversation is finished. Thus the ringingup and ringing-off operation at present m vogue will be done away with. The management of the New Zealand Rugby Union (writes a Wellington correspondent) was pretty generally con•demned on Saturday afternoon for asking the New Zealand team to play m such bad weather. A few minutes after play started one of the team had to leave the ground with an injured knee, and towards, the end of the first spell Wallace had to leave m consequence of a similar accident. The provincial team was decidedly the stronger forward and m the second spell they ran over the New Zealand team. Their backs also were not to be despised, and the chances are that even on a dry ground the New Zealand team would, have been defeated. One thing is quite certain, and that is that a stronger selection could have been made. Anything m the shape of a new industry or outlet for the district's produce is worthy of support, and m the past suffi- j cient attention has not been paid to the fruit grown m Poverty Bay. Mr W. I. Petchell, of Ormond, whose orchard is well and favorably known, is showing the way m a new line m which he deserves the heartiest encouragement. We have inspected a sample of preserved prunes grown and prepared by Mr Petchell, and can vouch that the quality and flavor of the local article, treated without the latest appliances, equals that of the best imported. Mr Petchell has ordered from America a most up-to-date evaporating plant,? which will be m full swing next season, and he anticipates with an average crop to produce at least 20,0001 bof prunes. He will also be able to treat other fruits m a similar, way, either by purchase or commission. It is to be hoped that Mr Petchell's action m commencing a preserving works will lead to the establishment of a jam factory, which' will fill a want that has been apparent fn this district for some time. The sample of prunes may be seen at the office of the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. An amusing mistake has been made m connection with the Arbor Day holiday. The secretary of the local branch of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union under the impression that to-day was Labor Day, knocked off work this morning, and communicated wtih several master builders m the town m order to see that they followed suit or paid the specified overtime allowed for holidays. Most of the masters at once gave their men the holiday, especially where there was no par-' ticular hurry for the work, as they understood that to keep them on would mean additional pay. In one case the men knocked off, although an hour would •have completed the job, and the employer who wanted the work finished as soon as possible was left m anything but an amiable mood. In other instances- the men had started work, but when the word was passed round that it was a holiday tools were put away and coats resumed. It was not until after the men were scattered to their homes that it was learned that an error had been made, and that Labor Day had been confounded with the day set apart for tree-plant-ing. It was then too late to recommence operations, and those put out by the holiday had to "grin and bear it." Arbor Day is not a holiday under the provisions of the recent award of the Arbitration Act which sat at Gisborne. The following is the particular clause having reference to holidays : — "Work required to be done on New Year's Day, Easter Monday, Labor Day, and tne King's birthday, shall be paid for at the rate of time and a quarter from the ordinary hour for commencing work up to 10 a.m., time and a half from 10 a.m. to midnight, and double time from midnight to the ordinary hour for commencing work. Work required to be done on Sunday, Xmas Day, and Good Friday shall be paid for at the rate of doable time."

Some 10,000 live sheep have already been sent from the colony to the Cape by the South African steamers. Mr T. E. Taylor, M.H.R., says that m six years' time the retail sale of liquor m New Zealand will be a thing of the. past. It is stated that thousands of sheep have gone this year from tho Eketahuna district to runs m Hawke's Bay. Statistics show that the standing timber of Canada equals 'that of the entire , Continent of Europe, and is nearly double , that of the United States. ] Says the Post: — The Premier's Shops ' and Offices Bill is exciting interest among ] shopkeepers. One of its chief debatable '<■ features is the provision for "Saturday * half-holiday. Many traders feel that 1 this is unworkable. i When the s.s. Talune was coming up to No. 7 wharf, Lyttelton, on Saturday morning she came into collision with the dredge Manchester, which was lying at [ No. 6 wharf. Some slight damage was [ done to the dredge's bulwnrks, galley, and smithy. Passengers by Saturday's DunedinChristchurch express state that between Timaru and Rakaia the fall of snow was thickest, a depth of between eight and ten inches of snow lying on the rails. The landscape right through to Hornby was dazzlingly white, except at Shag Point and Moeraki, which appeared to have escaped with a slight sprinkling. The net increase of population during 1902 m the two principal cities of Australasia is worth noting. That of Sydney was 11,500, making a total population of 508,500, while that of Melbourne was 4000, making its population 502,000. The last few years have a marvellous change m the relative proportions of these two centres, not only m size, but m every other way. Napier furnishes an example of how successfully the woollen industry can be carried on. The best friends of that town would hardly dare to call it progressive, and yet the woollen mill started there some time ago is working so successfully that great difficulty is being experienced m coping with orders. — Manawatu Standard. The Vice-President of the Conference of the Farmers' Union, now sitting m Wellington, is not surprised that young New Zealand farmers go to Canada. Not only do they get 160 acres of land free, but the indebtedness of Canada is only £16 per head. When Mr Leadly thought of the national debt of New Zealand he was not surprised that the children of our colony were born with a stoop m their shoulders! A recent visitor to the M'Kenzie cairn has informed the. Palmerston Times that the Oamaru stone which encloses the granite tablet has been cut and hacked m a disgraceful manner. The informant states that initials^ some cut to a depth of half an inch, have been carved m numerous places m the comparatively soft Oamaru stone, and the handsome memorial tablet lias consequently been very much disfigured. The Stratford Borough Council have had an unpleasant experience. To save the expense of taking land under the Public Works Act, they agreed to a proposal to deal with the matter by arbitration. This process involved them m an expenditure of £137 16s for legal and arbitrator's fees. The amount of compensation paid for the land was only As one of the immediate results of the enforcement of no-license m Gore (states the Mataura Ensign) all the proprietors of refreshment rooms report that Saturday last brought them the busiest day m the matter of dispensing light refreshments they have experienced for some considerable time. All the other tradespeople state that there was no diminution m the volume of their business on Saturday. Air Compere, the Government entomologist of Western Australia, has made a most important discovery, which is creating much interest m Victoria. On a trip to Europe (specially sent by his Government) he discovered m Spain a parasite of the codlin moth, which prey^ ed upon the pest with such vigour that m one district it had cleared it out completely. Victorian fruit-growers lose heavily by the eodlin moth/ and it is intended to procure a supply of the para- ! site from Spain. ' When the snow-balling process became irksome to some of the drivers of tradesmen's vehicles, reports Saturday's Timaru Post, they resorted to a device which effectually saved them from being further molested. What they did was to secure a box of eggs, the only virtue of which was m their extreme old age, and, not wishing to take anything for nothing, they gave a forceful and telling-— not to say smelling— exchange of eggs for snow, much to the disapprobation of the snowballers. The recent snowstorm caused a most unprecedented block m the South Island telegraph system. There lias been no communication by wire with Dunedin since Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. At 4.30 p.m. yesterday Christcliurch reported: — "Great delay on all telegrams for stations south of Timaru. Six hundred messages of the 13th will reach Christchurch from South by train at 8 p.m. on the 14th. All other wires m the South Island are restored." This morning it was reported that there was still a great block m communication, only one wire being available south of Timaru. Careful observers m China are noticing the gradual decay of Confusianism. Its sway over the minds of the Chinese Literati (the North China Herald asserts) is by no means what it was even as recently as 20 or 30 years ago. It is true that there is apparently no marked diminution m the number of ancestral halls, the existence of which all over the land serves as an indication of the vitality of the State religion; yet, nevertheless, the more the country is permeated with Western knowledge the more are the minds of the educated class becoming alienated from the teachings to which before unquestioning obedience was accorded. The experiences of people m the city during the gale and rainstorm of Saturday (says the Post) pale into insignificance before those of a household at Island Bay yesterday morning. Mr and Mrs Estall, of Barrett's Hotel, have a small four-roomed cottage built on made ground on the high land at the mouth of the valley, to the right going from town, They and their family were m occupation of the house on Saturday night. About 8 o'clock on Sunday morning they were disturbed by poundings on the roof —which proved to be the chimney coming down — and the gradual procession down hill of the house itself. All the doors became jammed, and it was with the utmost difficulty the occupants eventually got outside m then- night clothes. The chimneys^ two m number, fell on the roof of the rooms occupied by the children, but luckily failed to perforate the roofing. The power of the enormous moving Dody of earth, however, practically wrecked the two back rooms of the cottage, which was also shifted some sixteen feet before the subsidence stopped. It is calculated that some hundreds of tons of earth were involved m the slide, which brought down a number of steps leading to another residence higher up. An idea of the sang froid of a young Dunedinite (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) is amusingly' conveyed m the course of a private letter received recently from New York. "I had a lively time- with young H.M., of Dunedin, who arrived here this week," says the writer, himself an old New Zealander. "Took him round expectantly of wonderment and surprise, but was disappointed. The only thing that roused him at all was Coney Island. Oh ! Dunedin is a wonderful town. That boy walked as unconcernedly" among the whirl of New York as if he was m Livercargill. Sky-scrapers and ferries and electric cars— all were weighed m the balance and found wanting. An illustration comes to my mind. He had made friends on the voyage with a young Londoner, a broker's clerk, used to London sights — therefore not easily impressed. But a Broadway car passed us one evening a blaze of electric light, racing at twenty miles an hour, and crowded with people _; and the Londoner stopped and gazed m wonder. Said the young Dunedinite: 'What are you waiting for?' 'Oh ! I said, 'I guess he is surprised at the rate the car goes and the way it is lit up.' And H. replied, 'Ah ! he should see the Roslyn tram running down the hill at Bishopcourt.' " Referring to the Hon. Henry F. Wigram's statement jn Parliament that disfigured bank notes should be compulorily cancelled, the Southland Times learned from a bank accountant that the pollution and disfigurement of notes by the public is a standing grievance with the banks. One Invercargill bank returned to Wellington a short time ago as unfit for further use 5000 notes, all collected within three months. The issue of fresh notes is costly to the banks, and it is manifestly unfair that they should be called upon to bear this; expense every now and again. It is unfair for the reason that m many cases the defacement of the notes is purelywanton. They are scribbled over m ink or indelible pencil, or begrimed m a manner that suggests deliberate intention on the part of the holders. Surely it is not too much to expect the public to be reasonably careful m handling notes to keep them clean, and to refrain . from writing alleged witicisms such as "Will yo no' coma back again" upon them. Moreover the disfigurement of banknotes is an offence punishable by law, and it is a pity that some of the people who seem to delight m this form of destruction could not be traced and taught a salutary lesson. Some of these notes are withdrawn by the banks after being onlythree months m circulation ; and plainly only wilful abuse could render them unfit for use m Ibo short a time. This is a matter m which the public, to whom dirty bank notes are objectionable; might materially assist both themselves and the banks. - ,