THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, November 3, 1885.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 69, 3 November 1885, Page 2

THE Poverty Bay Independent. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, November 3, 1885.

The Borough Council meets to-night at 7.30. The clever Faust Family appear in McFarlane’s Hall on the sth inst. Mr W. S. Greene will sell by auction, a Makaraka to-morrow, 25 to 30 head 0 quiet cattle.

A man named Hunter had free quaters last night, at the invitation of Constable Marsh.

Ling’s horehound beer has been pronounced to be the healthiest tonic beverage for summer use. At the R.M. Court, yesterday, G. G. White was charged with drunkenness and discharged with a caution. The favorite wool-ship Lochnagar has arrived at Timaru, and will be here about the end of next week. Mrs Pattison, the affianced of Sir Charles Dilkie, is a rich widow who, independent of her own fortune, had left her by her husband.

A direct mail for London, per Aorangi, leaving Wellington on Thursday, the 19th instant, will close on Friday, the 13th instant, at 3 p.m. George Clark, an old Gisborne identity, is seriously ill in Napier, and is suffering from cancer in the stomach, brought on by excessive drinking. The interminable Makauri case came on before the Registrar yesterday morning, but had to be again adjourned until the 10th, in order to afford time to serve summonses. Mr Larnach telegraphed the Mayor to the effect that as the Hinemoa would leave Wellington that night he had instructed Captain Fairchild to render any assistance he could by taking on the mails or passengers of the Wairarapa. Monday next (Prince of Wales' Birthday) the Post office will be closed, and Telegraph Office open from 9 to to a.m. and from 7to 8 p.m. Mails for the Ormond line will close at 7 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. on that day.

A meeting of the Building Society took place last night, and although there was /200 for loan no applications were made. Mr J. Bushnell’s resignation as Director was accepted; and the nomination of another in his place was left to the Secretary and Chairman. During the Land Sale yesterday, Mr W. S. Greene handed in a protest against the sale of Mangahei No. I, on behalf of the natives concerned, and on the ground that the majority of the Native Committee had not consented to the sale. In answer to the protest Mr DeLautour produced the Crown Grant for the land, and the sale proceeded. Lord Lonsdale, the hero of the Rotten Row brawl, is the young fellow who was so careful of his honor that he brought a libel action last winter against Mr Edmund Yates, of the World new-spaper, which resulted in getting that gentleman committed to gaol for four months. Referring to the naturalisation of Prince Henry of Battenberg, and his marriage with the Princess Beatrice, the Melbourne Bulletin says :—“ The Bill making him an Englishman was then scampered through all its stages, and rushed through both Houses in a way which shows how well Legislators can work on Bills presented by ‘ Royal command.’ As Prince Henry can only speak about four words in English, viz.,‘Yes,’ and ‘ No,’ and * Money, please,’ it is somewhat difficult to discover what good is to be effected by making him a natural Englishman by Act of Parliament. After this we may expect a Bill introduced, naturalising all Germans—at least, all of them who desire wives with money and pensions, and who have not more than per annum.” The following notice appears in the Napier Evening News of the 31st ult. “We have received a copy of the Poverty Bay Independent, apparently a recent addition to the ranks of journalism, as it is only now issuing its sixty-seventh number. While wishing the journal every success, and complimenting it on being fairly produced, we regret to say we see the hand of death upon its brow-. Under the title are the words “ A good cause makes a stout heart; Candour and open dealing are the honor of man’s nature.” A paper that prints such statements cannot hope to live. In Napier it would be rubbed out with libel actions in a month’s time, and the editor offered by auction for dog’s meat. Independent, try again, and put on your front page, “ Success and prosperity are right, failures 0/ struggling efforts are wrong.”

It is probable that our readers will be entertained shortly by a local divertissement similar to that of the Grub-Evening News episode in Napier, the only difference being another department. “ Merry Andrew ” took its rise from Andrew Borde, who on account of his facetious manners was welcomed at the Court of Henry VIII in 1547. Mr. C. Bennett, travelling agent for Leather’s patent Beer Extractor, will arrive in the Bay to-day for the purpose of submitting this valuable invention to the Licensed Victuallers trade. The invention is being generally adopted throughout the whole colony. The Ringarooma left Wellington at 3 p.m. yesterday for this port direct in order to take up the rnnning of the Wairarapa. She will leave here to-day for Auckland and Sydney, taking the cargo and passengers booked at Gisborne. Truly “ It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” On Sunday last a devout and enterprising piilar of the kirk moved, doubtless, by a yearning desire to alleviate the sufferings of the Wairarapa’s waifs—and a mouldering stock—generously threw open his store “ by request ” of his needs, and invited all to partake of his stock—at Sunday prices, the soothing balm to his conscience being cent per cent.

At the Annual Public Meeting of Emanuel Congregational Church, Oamaru, on the 27th inst., the following resolutions, moved by the Rev. Edward Walker and seconded by the Rev. John Rishworth, were unanimously adopted : — “ Resolved—That this meeting expresses profound thankfulness to God that universal attention has been so effectively aroused by the recent disclosures in the Home country to the widely prevalent and terribly diabolical traffic known as procuration, and for the instalment of preventive reform which the Criminal Law Amendment Act provides there ; (2) That this meeting also expresses its earnest conviction that the safeguarding of the present and future youth of New Zealand imperatively demands speedy similar, but more thorough-going, legislation in this colony ; (3) That the duration of protection should extend to the age of 21 years and corporal punishment be inflicted for violation ; (4) That, further, this meeting hereby appeals to every congregation and philanthropic organisation in this country to express itself by resolution or petition upon this question, and requests that the Chairman, the Rev. F. Seth-Smith, will forward a copy of these resolutions to the Premier, the Hon. R. Stout,”