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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 25 August 1885, Page 2

On Sunday evening Mr M. Moore was thrown from his horse close to Read’s Gate, and sustained serious injuries. Another of the loafer genus has been secured, and will be brought up this morning for soliciting alms in the street. We are pleased tc welcome Mr Carlaw Smith back amongst us. He returned from Melbourne by the last boat.

Mr Gladstone is reported to be suffering from an obstinate catarrh of the lungs and has lost his voice. Perfect rest is enjoined.

The gentleman who took two keys from a door in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall last Friday is requested to return the same to Mr R. Watson.

Isabella Carron the girl who was rescued from drowning in the Taruheru river last week has been sent to the Avondale lunatic asylum, in Auckland. Tenders are called for by Mr W. J. Quigley for the erection of a stable and additions to the residence of W. Wethered, Esqr., Lorn station, Waikohu. Plans and specifications are to be seen at Mr Quigley.s office. A public meeting is announced to take place at Ormond on Saturday to consider the state of the roads in that direction, when Mr H. Campbell will ask some pertinent questions as to “ where the money goes.”

Policy holders in the rlamburg-Magde-bourg Fire Insurance Company will be interested in hearing that Messrs. Neill Bros, the general agents for the above company, have failed, their liabilities being set down at £60,c00. The Wash. Norton company gave their final performance on Saturday night. Judging from the vociferous applause which greeted the various events of the evening, the tastes of the audience were not of the most refined description.

Robert Goldsmith was brought before the R.M. Court yesterday charged with driving a vehicle through the public streets after dark without a light. Being the first case under the new by-law he was dismissed with a caution.

It is intended to present the two bronze medals and certificate of merit forwarded to the Town Clerk by the Australian Humane 'Society for Miss M. M. Ballantine, G. A. Allom, and J. Berry, for saving life, at the next Library entertainment to be held shortly. The Anglican Synod will meet at Napier on the Feast of St. Michael and all Angels, the 29th of September, 1885. The representatives of the Gisborne district who will attend the synod will be Messrs C. Gray, R. Watson and H. Hill.

The Standard thus reverts to Lord Randolph Churchill: —“ If his pranks be allowed much longer he will smash the Government and the Conservative party. We will follow Lord Salisbury, but we will not follow this overgrown school-boy who is without knowledge sufficiently to fathom his own grounds of Statemanship.” .The first sign of approaching spring might have been seen in the Gladstone Road on Sunday morning, when dense clouds of dust came swooping along, and nearly blinding every body. It is difficult to believe that only two or three days ago the same road was little short of a quagmire, and that it was difficult to find a crossing without going over your boot tops. In spite of the great vigilance shown re the rabbit question, it would appear that a little more care might be exercised to prevent tame ones running about in gardens and sections in town, as there is nothing to prevent these animals making for the hills, where they would soon breed and become an intolerable nuisance. Owners of tame rabbits should also be aware of the fact that they are laying themselves open to a heavy penalty by allowing them to run at large.

The business done at Mr Green’s auction sales on Saturday was of a very limited nature, and buyers were very coy. We hear that the lambing season which has commenced, gives promise of a good one, and the lambs already dropped are generally healthy and strong.

The mailman reports nothing fresh from the Coast, other than that the feeling re the severance from the parent county has caused the greatest excitement, and the opinion seems to be that the news is almost too good to be realised. All are, of course, in favor of the movement. Mr A. Keefer met with a slight accident on Sunday evening in the Gladstone Road. A horse which he was driving jibbed and kicked A few bruises, and some damage to the horse and harness, with a broken shaft were the result. Constable Bowers, who was passing, assisted to fix up matters.

Our readers attention is called to the advertisement which appears in another column re the assault of arms which will take place in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall to-morrow evening. The programme is a most entertaining one, and a refreshment bar will be provided. The entertainment will be over about 9.30, when the hall will be cleared and the doors opened again for a dance, at which the J Battery Band will provide the music. The Rationalist says in referring to a lecture given by the Rev. J. Hill, in Auckland, on “ Biblical anticipations of modern science :—“ We hear, with the greatest pleasure, that Mr Hill not only permitted questions to be put to him at the close of his address, but that he replied to such questions, kindly and courteously. This we believe is an altogether new departure, and we sincerely congratulate Mr Hill on his manliness and courage. By such methods he will secure, not the belief of Infidels in his tenets, perhaps, but certainly, their respect. In reviewing the action of the House with respect to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, the Wanganui Herald says : —“ Where is this tomfoolery to end ? Is every measure of colonial importance to be picked and pecked at bj’ the rank and file of the House until nearly every clause has been eliminated, and nothing remains but a limp disjointed-'framework of denuded clauses which can never become law in the mutilated state it has been the pleasure of the obstructionists to leave them ? If the obstructionists are not satisfied with the Government why do they not say so straight out, and put the matter to a fair test, instead of carrying on a sort of political guerilla warfare of the most despicable kind.”

The formation of a National Licensed Victuallers Association, or Trade Protection Society, with its head quarters in Auckland, and ramifications extending all through the colonies, is undoubtedly a necessity of the times, and may be looked upon as an outcome of the oppressive measure recently introduced to the House by Mr Stewart. The objects of the Association are stated to be “ (1) the protection of the interests of the trade, politically, commercially and socially ; (2) to support such candidate to the House ofßepresentatives, Licensing Committees, and other representative bodies as are not biased against the legitimate interests of the trade ; (3) the protection of members of the association from vexatious or oppressive prosecution.” The formation_ of a local branch of the parent association has already been determined upon and the adoption of the rules, &c., will take place at a committee meeting of the town members to be held at the Argyll Hotel during thejpresent week. The Wellington Hospital employees seem to be having a very lively time of it. It would appear that the whole, of the nurses in the institution had committed the heinous sin of having signed a “ round robin,” setting forth certain complaints against the matron, whereupon the chairman of the committee, the Hon. Rar dal Johnson, wrote to Dr Levinge, authorising him to dismiss all the nurses, and to give one month’s notice to the male attendants. Upon receipt of this authority the whole of the nurses were at once turned out into the street, notwithstanding that some of them begged to be allowed to remain over night, as it was too late to make arrangements for fresh quarters. One nurse, who refused to leave the bedside of a dying man, was removed by force. The whole affair has given rise to the greatest indignation, and it is to be made the subject of a special enquiry by the House. The following is a translation of a letter which appears in the Korimako newspaper, and shows the fulsome nonsense which is at present written for the natives : —“ To Tawhiao —0 father, salutation unto you according to your powers, your uprightness, your grand influence in confirming the laws of the Blue Ribbon Army. Fallen are other chiefs, fallen—fallen—but my lord Tawhiao stands firm as the rocky cliffs. The news has reached unto Europe and to other lands that Aotearoa is the island and Tawhiao is the man. Who indeed shall bind the words. Shall not Tawhiao the representative of man. O inhabitants of the island follow the end of the rope which is being properly held by Tawhiao. Do not think indifferently of the Blue Ribbon or Good Templerism, for it is powerful, it is prominent, it is extensive, it is life. 0 father Tawhiao it is you that the Europeans and Maoris, are praising for your upholding (or exalting) the rules of the Bine Ribbon movement, and calling upon the people to follow your example.—Hare Reweti, (C. O. Davis) August 15, 1885.”

The announcement made from the pulpit of Holy Trinity Church ou Sunday morning to the effect that the Rev. Fox had received two annonymous letters during the past week and took the only available means within his power of publicly thanking the writers, tends to show that the despicable and cowardly practice of secret letter writing is extending itself outside of business even to Church matters. In our simplicity we had thought this practice was confined to newspaper proprietors, and people of such like ilk who were unable to meet their opponents on fair and open grounds and therefore resorted to slanderous inuendoes and “private” communications of a nature calculated to cramp and destroy both credit and good name. In all cases where such a dispicable practice is resorted to the receipients would do well in the interests of justice to always send the communication to those who have been made the subject of the secret correspondence in order, if possible, to trace the cowardly perpetrator.