HAWERA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3961, 8 February 1882, Page 2

HAWERA.

[TELEGRAPHED BY, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] February 8. — The result of the Mayoral election was — McGuire, seventy-five ; Davidson, forty-six ; Winks, throe. The last named loses bis deposit. The affair passed off very quietly, as the Council elections to-day are doing. Seven nominations for Licensing Committee to-day. Captain Edwin telegraphs this afternoon — "Expect wind between east and. -north and north-west. Glass will further fall. Sea heavy within ten hours, and heavy rain." A meeting of the Provisional Directors of the " Albert Hall Company (Limited) " was held in Mr. Matthews' office last evening, when it was decided to leave the share list open till tbe 21st instant. It is confidently expected that after that date no time will be lost in commencing the building. The means adopted to euro the mania for suicide, which became prevalent at Florence with the young women disappointed in love, was an Ordiance issued by the Civic Authorities, that the body of every female suicide should be dragged naked through tbe public streets. The Ordinance was scarcely ever put into operation. Suicide is becoming so common an offence in Canterbury that the police liavo "' recommended the Magistrates to commit all future I cases brought before him for trial." Tbe Press says it is a " grim sarcasm to think that a man or woman who does not fear death, but courts it, and eagerly hastens to meet it before it is due, is to be deterred by the fear of being committed for trial." Two of the A.C. Force have recently been admitted to the Hospital suffering from the effects of having been bitten by the venomous spider known as the katipo. One of the men, after having been discharged from the Hospital, and sent out to the camp at Paribaka, was compelled to return to New Plymouth, and re-entered tho Hospital, as he was still suffering from the effects of the bite. While the A.C's wore recently engaged in excavating the foundations of a cookhouse at the camp at Maniai, on the Plains — about a hundred yards from the Ngariki Pah — they came upon some Bilver spoons, knives, forks, and other articles, belonging to the steamer Lord Worsley, which was wrecked near Opua, on the Taranaki. coast, about nineteen years ago. — Wanganui Herald. The s.s. Wanaka, Captain J. Anderson) arrived in the roadstead early this morning. She left Manukau at 11.30 a.m. on the 7th, arriving off Taranaki at 3.30 a.m. and coming to an anchor at 5 a.m. on the Bth. Experienced light westerly winds with cloudy weather during the run down. Having landed passengers, mails, and cargo she proceeded ior Wellington at 10 a.m. We have to thank the purser (Mr. James Wess) for full files of Auckland papers. In referring to the late earthquake, the Christchurch Telegraph says: — "Last night, when the bells were being rung in tho Cathedral spire it was distinctly seen to wave to and fro in obedience to the swinging of the heavier bells ; but to-day, during the passage of tbe earthquake, its oscillation was something fearful, many who saw it expressing the opinion that what with the vibration caused by the bells, and an occasional convulsion of nature such as the one experienced this afterroon, our Cathedral spire is not destined long to grace our city." A gentleman who is engaged writing a book on the Colony, arrived in New Plymouth last evening, and will reside here for a short time, with the object of obtaining material for a chapter on New Plymouth in his new book. We trust he will be supplied with accurate information, and, if possible, vW- 1 all the localises of interest in tbe Pi •■ iii'-ial District. The expedition from Home for the observation of the transit of Venus in New Zealand, is expected to arrive at Auckland some time in July. Dr. Hector has recommended the Government to erect the observatory at Napier in preference to Auckland, the chanccß of obtaining a clearer horizon being at the former place, where j the sun rises over the sea. A, paragraph in a Mauritius letter to a Sydney paper states that "the British Government has already chosen two astronomical observers to make observations in those latitudes. Both arc Roman Catholic clergymen — the Rev. Messrs. Perry and SidgreavoH. It is reported that they will fix their observatories at Tamative Madagascar ; but, in the first place, they will make a' short stay in tb M utritiuß ; and it is Raid that they will b, i ; v : l'i them as many as GOO packages, the a\!. ilu of which, however, it can hardly be supposed will contain scientific instruments." _ , < 1 ,:uii.j