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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9254, 2 December 1891, Page 2

A supplement is published with our present issue which contains " Hints to Farmers," "The Farmers' Wool Clip," Hints, to Poultry-keepers," &c. The annual sports in connection with the High School will be held in the scfhool grounds to morrow (Thur/day), commence, ing at eleven o'clock, when the public are invited to attend. • • The annual meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held, , this (Wednesday) morning, wnen Mr -T. Bellringer was le- elected chairman. " Patriotics " letter shall appear tomorrow. Mr W. Walton's new advertisement re fruits, &c, for' the Christmas season will appear to-morrow (Thursday). f The Fire Brigade Sports Demonstration programme for New Year's Day appears in .'thia issue. There are several . open events in the programme, nominations for r which close. with Mr R. H. Kivell, the handicapper, on Thursday, Decefiaber24. The Rifles Band intend to play at the, raoes on Boxing Day, and are now practising for that purpose. It is the intention of the members to keep the Band together, and with that view a meeting will be held shortly to appoint a bandmaster. ' The meeting of ladies, which was to have been held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of considering the advisability of re-organis-ingthe Rifles Band, did not take place, on account of the small attendance. \ On Tuesday night Mr Selby the last of his ", Anti-Infidel Crusade " lectur.es in the ; Alexandra Hall, his subject Aeing " The Footprints of the Creator : or Is There a God." The Rev P. W. Fairclough presided. Mr Selby leptured for pver at* hour. Hymns were sung before and after the lecture, which was opened and closed with prayer. A land sale by ballot will take place at the Land Office to-morrow (Thursday) morning. Applications for- the sections closed to-day, and it is understood that they are very numerous, so that the cany petition for the land is decidedly keen: There are 13 first class and 12 second-class I sections to be balloted for, the land b.-ing situated a few miles in from Midhirst, in the Huiroa and Ngatimaru Survey I)istricts. There nro also two or throe sections in blocks already put up that will be disposed of at the same time. A tramp was arrested, taken before an Australian justice, and sentenced to three months. His worship, in explaining the sentence, remarked that while there was no 4 evidence that the prisonor had been guilty of any crime, he thought it prudent to commit htm, as be had the wild haggard look of a man about to start a nowspaper. The overdraft of the Taranaki County Council, including accounts passed at the meeting to day, is £1372 5s 3d. . A cricket match between a team of Old Players and the New Plymouth Club, . will be played pn the racecourse to morrow. ' A brake will Jeave the N,atiqna} Bank coin,er for the ground at 10 a.m. The attention of those in want of a good tonic is directed to Mr Unghson's advertisement in another column. The " Edinburgh Tonic," of quinine and steel, has been tried by a large number o£ nefrsogs throughout the district with beneficial results. Mr Hughson holds a nuuihgr- -of testimonials to that effect. >

Mr J. Veale, jun., announces the arrival of his new fruits for the Xiuaa trade. Mr Jackson Palmer, in reply to the Premier's request that Mr Palmer should accept the position of one of the Council for the Auckland provincial district in the new " Liberal Federation," has written that the position of officers in the new Federation should be elective immediately upon the Federation being formed and not nominated at first, and that it would conduce to the popularity and success of the movement if this course were adopted, and that it would, ih-rofore, be inadvisable for him (Mr Palmer) to accept the position offered him. At the same time, while declining the position offered him, ho thanked the Premier for the honor which ho had sought to confer. We take the following from tho missing friends' column in Lloyd's Weekly of October 11:— Mrs Grennett (Mary Taylor) went to New Zealand in tho Blue Jacket in 1866, and in 1868 left High-street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, for Wellington. Brother John.— William Henry Hatherley left Plymouth in November, 1878, and when last heard of five years ago lived with Mr Hooker, Youngst'eet, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. A relative asks. By the kind permission of the contractor for the mountain house, a sraa i party are arranging to start in a few days, to occupy such rooms in the building aB may be completed. This visit is intended ;.s t ost of the curative power of that higi.n' and clearer atmosphere on those who have been suffering from the prevailing epidemic, or are otherwise debilitated. All the arrangements are being made, by the person who is organising the trip, with a view to securing all possible freedom from fatigue and worry, both during the ascent and visit, so that all may enjoy the fall benefit of tho position during a short stay. When the house is finished and open to the public, such rest and quiet will hardly be possible, ' therefore it is hoped that every success may attend the enterprise, the result of which will be of the utmost importance to this district. . There has .been considerable controversy in the colony over the moot point as to who is the oldest European born in the colony. I There have been several claimants for tho p honor. The man who has the best claim, bo far as is known, is Mr John Wheeler King, who was born at tho Bay of Islands, September 29, 1816. He is at present living at Lake Takapuna. His father is stated to have arrived in Now Zealand by the Active. The first white child born in New Zealand was his brother, his mother being confined with him ton February 21, 1815. ■ The following is tho representation in the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the ensuing year :— Messrs J. Bellringer and F. P. Corkill (New Plymouth Borough) ; J. Davidson (Hawera Borough) ; JR. Price, C. M. Lepper, A. Kyngdon, G. A. Adlam (Taranaki County Council) ; T. Elliot (Clifton County Council) ; J. Heslop, F. H. Brett, and C. F. Wordsworth (Hawera County Council) Stratford County Council is not represented on account of there being no provision in the Act. The charges against George A. Tapper, a bankrupt, of converting money in his estate to his own use, were called on before District Judge Kettle in Palmerston North on Saturday. Mr Skerrett appeared for the Official Assignee, and Mr E. G. Jellicoefor the, bankrupt. Mr Skerrett asked leave to take the case out of the District Court on account of the Judge being called on as a witness by Mr Jellicoe. The J udge consented to this request, and tho bankrupt was brought before Messrs Mowlem and Rush, Justices. The evidence given was precisely the same as that given in the District Court, and at the conclusion Mr Jellicoe asked that the bankrupt should be committed for trial at the criminal sessions at Wellington, which open to-day, stating that he would at once telegraph to the Registrar, asking that the case should bo inserted in tho circular. This request, says the N. Z. Times, which caused some 'surprise in Court, was granted by' the Bench, and tho bankrupt was fully committed. The Registrar-General estimates tho population of the colony on 30th September at 629,093, exclusive of Maori?, whose number is estimated at 41,523, giv-, ing a total population of 670,61 6. During the quarter the births exceeded the deaths by 3161, and the emigration exceeded the immigration by 1048. In a divorce case in Sydney — Freeman v Freeman — the evidence showed that the man had pushed his wife into a well 35ft deep, and on her being drawn up he dropped her in again, the violence of the fall causing her to be unconscious till the following day. And this was at a time when her condition of womanhood was such as' appeals most piteously to a husband for tenderness if there is a spark of humanity in the man's nature. On other occasions he had fractured her cheekbones with a loaded whip; he had shut her up with her three little children — one of them an infant in arms — in a cold, damp cellar, the livelong night in midwinter, where she had to divest herself of clothing to wrap her baby in and to continue breathing on the infant to prevent its dying of cold. Notwithstanding this treatment the woman could not obtain a divorce from the man; but-she was enabled to find proof that another offence had been committod — the only one which oxisting law regards as justifying divorce — and she got a rule nisi for deliverance.