TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10763, 7 September 1906, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. hold a gaslight display this evening.. Their shop windows have been very artistically arranged. Iv granting the order for the admission of Mr H. Hei, LL.B., as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court this morning, his Honor Mr Justice Edwards congratulated Mr Hei on his achievement, which was a credit to him. Instead of continuing on the usual ground, one or two of the trawlers (6ays the Napier Telegraph) recently went to the Mania-, with the result that at least one of them came back after a two days' trawl, with Upwards of six hundred bundles of fish. Tlie present sittings of the Supreme Court concluded at noon to-day. With a duration of a day and a half, it is one , of the shortest on record, if not absolutely the briefest. The collapse of the civil actions, which it was estimated would take the best part of a week, was the cliief cause of tne brevity of the sitting. Mr H. Hill (says yesterday's Hawke's Bay Herald) litis received word that m blasting some shale deposits near Wainui, petroleum springs were discovered 1 . Mr Hill had some time ago suggested on geological grounds that such a discovery might be made. Among the many fancy costumes at the Caledonian Society's ball last night was that of a Maori Highlander. Well-known Native materials used m the making of Maori mats composed the kilt, stockings jind upper dress, and head gear of woven flax was a capital imitation of the Glengarry cap. The cowcatcher of the second express, from Ashburton, which collided with a horse at Fairfield on Monday, was taken into Ashburton m about a score of pieces, the inch thick bars having beeu broken clean tlxrough as though they were so much matchwood, while others were bent into all sliapes. The front plate was twisted into a bow. The horse had got down between the cattle stop and was cut literally into mince meat. Mr Wesley Spragg, addressing milk suppliers at Auckland the other day, said : I am safe m saying that no money which is circulated hi the colony is more honestly earned, more widely or evenly distributed, more wisely spent, or is more generally beneficial m its influence than the money which is divided among dairy farmers for milk supplied to creameries or factories. It is like a general fertilising rain that is not heavy enough to cause a flood anywhere, but wliich benefits the Country from end to end. 'When a gang of prisoners was being escorted from the Mount Cook works to the Terrace Gaol, Wellington, shortly after four o'clock on Monday afternoon, a man named Thomas Williams, at present serving a sentence of five years' imprisonment, made a dash for liberty. He ran through Broadway-terrace, Arlingtonstreet, Hopper-street, into South-avenue, and hid m a stable. Warder O'Shean soon found him out, and after a bit of a scuffle overpowered him and took him to the Erison. Williams m due course is to be rought before the Court on a charge of having escaped from custody. Mr Bernard Von Rotter, who disappeared outside Wellington Heads m an open boat on Friday last, and has not since been heard of, was a son of a gentleman (believed to liave been connected with a distinguished German family), who for many years was a clerk m the Thames post office. Tlie family (says the New Zealand Times) is well-known m the Tliames district. A Wellington citizen, who had known young Von Rotter for a number of years, states that he was quite capable of managing a boat ; sailing was a sport he was very fond of as a lad. Mrs Von Rotter, sen., still lives at the Thames. A biography of the late Right. Hon. R. J. Seddon, by; Mr James Drurnmond and Dr. James Hight, will be published by Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs m November. The work was commenced' nearly two years ago, with Mr Seddon's approval and co-operation, and considerable progress had been made at the time of his death. At Mr Seddon's own special request, the work includes a history of the Liberal Party m New Zealand, its policies and reforms, its difficulties and victories; and deals at some length with its legislation. Sir Joseph Ward will contribute an introductory chapter, giving an appreciation of Mr Seddon's life and work m New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald writes as follows on the railway question ; Mr HallJones told a Cheviot deputation that after the North Island Main Trunk line was finished m 1908, the next main line to be constructed would be that between Blenheim and Oliristchurch. With a view of making this tlirough service, with ferry connection, between Invercargill and Auckland, other lines now going on could "take a rest," and only under exceptional circumstances would new lines be commenced. If tliis. is Mr Hall- Jones' railway policy, it wilt require the very serious attention of our North Island members and, indeed, of the whole country. . . . . The colony can only be developed if such lines as that for the East Coast, the Stratford, the Kawhia, the Waiuku, the Helensville Northward apd others are flushed forward, as they will very promptly be if tlie North Island receives its very legitimate sliare of .public expenditure. There are lines m the overrailwayed South Island which can cany little and lead, nowhere. They should be stopped, of course. But while it is good policy to stop worthless or unpromising constructions, it would be utterly bad policy not to push on those railways which will open up some of the best aud least developed parts of the colony.