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Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2478, 29 July 1890, Page 2

On our first and fourth pages will be found “ The Death of the Marchioness of Ely,” and the account of the last meeting of the H.B. Rabbit Board of Trubtees.

Mr Wildman’s String will hold their usual dance to-morrow evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall.

The sale of trees by Mr B. B. Johnson last Saturday was uot well attended, and very few lots were disposed of* Attention is drawn to a change of ad-

vertisement by Messrs Mitchell and Co., Waipukurau. A special meeting of the Town Board will be held to-night at 7.30, for the purpose of appointing a poundkeeper. A concert was given in Napier last evening in aid of the Balaclava relief fund, and attracted a large audience. Mr W. Vesty has been appointed ranger for the Hampden Domain Board, Mr G. Parkinson having resigned owing to pressure of other business.

Mr Thomas Parker, a respected Wairoa resident, died there-last Saturday, at the age of 38 years. He had been for many years a prominent member of several local bodies in that district.

The Government will contest Sir Julius Vogel’s claim for compensation in connection with loan conversion. Messrs Bell, Gully, and Izard have been retained by Sir Julius.

The Secretary of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for the week ending July 26th, 1890 Patients in Hospital, M 14 ; F 3. Received during the week, M2; Fl. Discharged, M2' PO. Died, M 0 ; Fl.

Mr Poison, formerly in the employ of Rasmussen and Co., of Danevirke, is building a new hotel on the site of the one recently destroyed by fire at Mangatera. The new hotel will be a commodious one, and Mr Polsen will be the licensee.

The return football match Town v. Richmond Park was arranged to come off to-morrow (Wednesday) ; but as several of the players are engaged in the contest at Napier, the match is postDoned to another day.

Father Dawson, of Waipawa, preached a powerful and impressive sermon in the Catholic Cathedral in Wellington last night, the occasion being the beatification services in commemoration of the martyrdom of the blessed Peter Louis Chenalproto, martyred in Oceania. The members of the Gordon Juvenile Tent 1.0. R., Ormondville, are practising singing, so as to take part in an entertainment to be held on August sth. The affair will be a lecture on temperance, with singing at intervale.

The railway department is having a large well sunk at Danevirke. The well is down 20 feet, and the men employed expect to go 20 feet deeper before striking water in sufficient quantity for the requirements. Davidson, the poor fellow who was injured by being jammed between two logsat Tahoraite, has recovered sufficiently to resume work, but has not, of course, completely recovered from the effects of bis injury. He complains of severe pains in the loins, which shift from one side to the other ; in time they will cease, but any exposure or cold will probably cause the pains to return.

The Ambulance Class will meet to-mor-row night (Wednesday) in the Oddfellows’ Lodge room, at the back of the Hall. The reason for the change of place is that the Hall is engaged for a dance. Members of the class are requested to be punctual in attendance, so that business can be commenced at eight o’clock sharp. We hope to see a better attendance of the general public than was the case last week.

The long looked for concert in aid of the prize fund of the Takapau school will take place on Friday evening. The first part of the entertaiment will be a .concert, in which several ladies and gentlemen of Well known musical talent will take a part, and this will be supplemented by a very laughable farce known as “ The Tame Tigers,” in which the principal parts will be sustained by Messrs Gavin, Woods, and Shugar, all of whom made their first bow to an audience long ago. The celebrated bill case, Bank of New Zealand v. Fletcher’s trustees, is apparently' as far from a settlement as ever. On Saturday the jury found that the bills had been materially altered ; that Fletcher, by

his negligence, had enabled such alter, tion to be made ; and that the Bank, bui for want of care, would have discoverd such alteration. After hearing counsel on both sides, His Honor decided to reserve the case for further consideration and argument. We are glad to see that £4OO has been put on the estimates for a Court House at Danevirke. When building the court house, a police station will probably be built ; but not before it was wanted- The old station may have been well enough for the time when it was built, but is now anything butj&uitable, being more than a mile from the busiest part of the town, and too small. When the constable has to take a drunk to the lock-up—particularly on a dark or rainy night—the inconvenience of having the station where it is now is keenly felt.

The celebrated case, Sowry v. Hawke’s Bay Land Board, was decided at Wellington by the Chief Justice on Saturday morning. His Honor decided that the Governor had no power to withdraw from sale land already selected under the Act, and . farther that Sowry was not disqualified by reason of his having, within two years previously, been allotted a special settlement section, Had the first ground been taken, a number of the other. G 4 applicants who allowed their deposits to remain pending this decision, would have had another chance of balloting for the much coveted section. The return football match between the combined junior teams of Waipukurau and Waipawa and the first fifteen of the Napier High School will take place in the Napier Recreation Ground, to-morrow (Wednosday). XU© following will com'

prise the High School team :—Backs : Carter, Welsman, Speedy, Rudinan (capt.) Collet, J. Ormond, and Hunter ; Forwards: F. Ormond, Thompson, Bryson, Fraser, Bell, Bal harry, Rathbone, and Watt. The country team will consist of : —Backs : Britten, Stubbs, Winlove, Gore, Pellow, and Beaumont (capt.) Forwards : F. Kelsall, McSUerry, V. Kelsall, Hopkins, Smith, Greneide, Adams, Fee, and Peters. Emergencies : Rush and Bajrrie. A Woodville correspondent of the Herald writes as follows under yesterday’s dale :—“ A man named M’Dermott was arrested at 1 o’clock on Sunday morning last for trespassing in a married woman's house, insulting her, and refusing to leave when to do : so. The woman’s husband was absent. Constable Treanor arrested the culprit. When brought before the Court this morning he seemed to think the matter a light one, and when asked if he did not think it an offence to enter a house and lay hold of a married woman and kiss her, ho replied “ Ahin shure it wudn’t offend any dacent woman.” He was sentenced to a month’s hard labor in Napier gaol. Annoyance to lonely women is rather prevalent here, bat I hear that the police are resolved to put this down with a firm hand. It is to be hoped that it will be so.

The Waipawa -correspondent of the Telegraph complains that Nordloff was liberated without proper authority. Our friend has mistaken his vocation. He ought to be an official in the Red Tape and Sealing Wax Department. The popular verdict will be, we imagine, that as soon as reasonable doubts were raised as to the justice of Nordloff’s sentence, its execution should be deferred until those doubts were either removed or justified. Nordloff, if proved guilty, can serve his time us well afterwards as now ; but the country could not so easily compensate him for wrongful imprisonment. Every paper in the district, except the Telegraph , has agreed in censuring the Justices who convicted Nordloff. We took care that the Minister of Justice was promptly informed of the circumstunces ; and if he constituted himself “ a court of criminal appeal,” he did wisely and well.