THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, AND Saturday Morning. Tuesday, October 13, 1885.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 61, 13 October 1885, Page 2

THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, AND Saturday Morning. Tuesday, October 13, 1885.

Shaw and Savill’s trader, the Lochnagar Captain Perriam, is expected to arrive in the Bay on or about the 25th inst. This well-known barque was the first wool ship which the enterprising firm of Shaw and Savill sent out in 1875. since which time she has made an annual voyage between this port and London, always making excellent passages, and never having once damaged a single bale of wool. The Shaw Savill and Albion Company by their enterprise and perseverance have entitled themselves to the support and patronage of all wool shippers in the district. By reference to our shipping columns it will be noticed that the freight is less than the other two vessels loading at this port this season. The Lochnagar will com. mence loading at once, and will be Home long before the April sales.

The Harbor Board meets at 7 to-night. On Saturday G. Seymour was fined 5s for drunkenness. During the year 1884, 90 persons were indicted for criminal offences. We understand that the Roseland Hotel is about to change hands. Messrs Graham Pitt and Bennett annouce the sale of a quantity of first class furniture on Friday next. The Gazette contains a notice that a sitting of the Native Lands Court will be held at Hastings on the 23rd inst. Persons requiring the services of a first class sign painter, gilder, or grainer should apply to E. F. Webbe. Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co advertise _the sale of a number of South Pacific Petroleum and Minerva Company’s shares. The thoroughbred horse “ Ruapehu ” is now running with his mares at Toanga. His stock are too well known in the district to need any comment.

We hear that an action is about to be entered against the proprietors of a local paper for breach of contract. Perhaps this accounts for the lowering of “ the tone.’’ Mr A. G. Croll has just received a fine assortment of Sutton’s seeds comprising mangold-wurtzel, turnip, peas, beans, and a fine assortment of flow'er seeds. The plans in connection with the harbor works will, it is understood, be submitted to the Board to-night, but whether it will be deemed advisable to make the same public at once is not quite so certain. An inquisitive correspondent wishes to know whether Mr Baumber, in his effective sermon at Makaraka on the text “ And when Jesus drew nigh unto the city He wept over it," referred to Gisborne. New Zealand has during the last 15 years spent over 20 millions sterling on public works. The taxation averages L 4 per head for every man. woman, and child m the colonies, and we have to remit to London over a million and a half a year for interest on borrowed money.

Mr M, Hall’s draught entire “Earl Derby ” was in town on Saturday, and his splendid appearance excited the admiration of all who saw him, and reflects the highest credit on his groom (A. Pritchard). The horse has not his equal in the district.

Tenders are called for by Messrs Stevenson and Joyce for completing the balance of R. Douglas’s contract adjoining the Taruheru Bridge, Whataupoko. Tenders to be left at the British Empire Hotel up to noon on the 17th inst.

The present population of the four chief cities is respectively estimated by the Registrar-General as follows :—Auckland, 28,580 ; Dunedin, 24,999 ; Wellington, 23,092 ; Christcharch, 16,462. To the latter ought really to be added that of Sydenham, which is a part of the city, and has a population of 9741, which would then give Christchurch 26,203 inhabitants.

The impetus which Freemasonry has received in this district by the opening of a new Lodge under the Scotch Constitution on Saturday last must prove a source of sincere gratification to all brethren. We only hope that the brethren of the new Lodge will zealously endeavor to show a worthy example to some of their elder brethren who are apt to forget that example is better than precept. It is also to be sincerely hoped that our brethren of the Irish Constitution will before long, take steps to re-open their Lodge.

“ Where the devil is the water cart,” said a pedestrian in the Gladstone Road yesterday afternoon to a friend who was endeavoring to hook out a quantity of pulverised metal which had stuck in his eyes. Just then, a shout made them look round and there was a horse’s head .close upon them, but what it was attached to could not be seen for a cloud of dust which enveloped them. After a short time it was seen to be the water cart itself. “That’s a lot of good’’said the fellow, “ why it can’t even lay the dust around itself.”

A Chinese linguist was riding in a Melbourne omnibus. Another Traveller got in, of the clever Sydney American sort, and immediately commenced to patronise the Chinaman. “ You likee a lide, Johnny ?” asked the genius, but there was no response. “Welly much good the lide you likee, Johnny,” was the next venture, but still no answer. At last, after nearly ten minutes of this sort of thing, the clever one was electrified by “Johnny” sternly giving utterance to “ Sir, you are a puppy to pester a stranger, and I would advise you to master your own language before you attempt to dilute it."

The intelligent native to the fore again I Last week a Maori sauntered into Mr T. Adam’s shop, and after pricing several articles walked out without making any purchase. Some time afterwards Mr J. R. Scott called and enquired if they had sold a native a book, as a new one had been offered him with “T. Adams” marked on it. A look round resulted in finding out that a book had been taken. After some time the thief was discovered in the Argyll Hotel with the book under his arm. Constable Villers happened to be present and snatching the book away handed it to the owner to examine. As soon as the book had been recognised they looked round for the native, but he had taken advantage of the opportunity and cleared. Notwithstanding a vigorous search he was not to be found again.

In his recent speech at Newport the Marquis of Salisbury stated “ that he was opposed to free education, and granting peasants allotments. He threw discouragement on the Irish demands, but advocated the adoption of liberal proposals concerning, local government, and expressed a desire to further colonial interests. .He also propounded a scheme for the selling of glebes to the peasantry, and advocated the acceptance of an enlarged Bulgarian barrier.” The Russian newspapers are greatly impressed with the moderate tone of the speech, which they say resembles the liberal sentiments expressed by the Duke of Argyle and Mr Forster. The Radical press allege that the speech is simply an attempt to dish the Llbefttls,

Mr S. Locke, M.H.R., arrived by the Manapouri on Sunday. The adjourned meeting of the CoOperation Society was held on Saturday evening. A pedestrian contest for a-side is being arranged between Scott and Hancock at Christchurch. The current Gazette contains a notice that a portion of Block V., Te Aral No. 2 Block, in the Turanganui survey district, has been taken under the Public Works Act, for use as a road. According to intimation notice has been filed in the Registrar’s Court for having the decision of the Registrar in the case of the Official Assignee v. Common Shelton and Co. reviewed by the Judges. The Gas Engineer to the Dunedin City Council, in asking for an increase in salary, thus dilates upon his qualifications:—“ I am one of the very few men in the gas profession who am a draughtsman, and who has received a practical engineering training, besides a fairly good practical education, both at the Madras College, St. Andrew’s, and at Glasgow University, and, as is well-known in my profession, as large a practice in London and other gasworks as it falls to the lot of most men to obtain.”

Some scientific gentlemen, experimenting with dynamite, threw a charge with a five minutes’ fuse attached, into a Caermarthenshire lake. A sportsman and his dog happening to pass by, the animal jumped into the water and seized the cartridge, which it brought ashore. He would not “ drop it.” Never was there so sad an example of “too much zeal.” It is most painful to read how his master had to keep him off with continuous showers of stones, while the scientific persons fled for their lives into the hills. When the five minutes had elapsed the poor dog, of course, was literally “ nowhere,” and the sportsman only just escaped sharing his fate.

During Sir Julius Vogel’s examination before the Public Petitions Committee he said :—“ I submit that I have received a cruel, wrong by this cancellation of my appointment and the failure to re-appoint me. The canclement and failure to reappoint me was a marked slur in the eyes of everyone who knew what an important part I had taken in procuring the passage of the Colonial Stocks Bill, and in making the arrangements with the Bank of England. It was an insult to me in the face of the world. The sense of wrong and the suffering occasioned to me by the feeling that the colony, to serve which I had passed the best years of my life, could put on me such an unmerited slight, defies description. At probably the nearly approaching close of a life which has been passed much more in endeavors to serve others than in attempts to serve myself, I ask the Parliament of New Zealand to say if I have deserved the treatment I received in deprivation of this office.”