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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2715, 30 January 1892, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found articles entitled “ The Codliu Moth,” and “ Unclaimed Bank Dividends.”

A gentleman reported to us yesterday having seen two rabbits yesterday 7 morning, chased by dogs, crossing the main street of Waipawa near Mr Corskie’s. Whether they escaped or were captured he did not discover.

Canon Fox, of Gisborne, has been selected by Dean Ilovell to fill the vacancy at St. Augustine’s arising from the death of the Rev. J. Parkinson.

The Salvation Army have made a new departure in journalism, having just started a new weekly paper for children, somewhat on the lines of the War Cry , and entitled The Young Soldier. Judging from the sample copy forwarded to us of the first issue, we believe it will be a most useful publication.

Father Dogell, a Catholic missionary, who has just arrived from Dahomey, says, according to an exchange telegram from Paris, that the funeral ceremonies for the late King will last 12 months, during on his tomb. He also says that the slave trade between Dahomey and Portugal is still carried on to a large extent, an order for 10,000 slaves having been given just before lie left Dahomey. It is an •* open secret” in Wellington that the majority was secured by the Government for their candidate Mr McLean, by the threat that if he were rejected, large numbers of “ extra hands” employed in the “ biggest wooden building in the world” would be discharged. And yet this is a “ Liberal Government.” The Ministry evidently prefer slaves to free men.

Mr Pope reviews the question of land tenure, and he says that the State in New Zealand having sold the land, must abide by what it has done. He Bays: —“It would be extremely unfair for the State to say to these people, ‘ We find that we have made a very bad bargain, and we wish to break it, so you must give us back the land, and we will return you the money you paid for it.’ Of course it would be still worse to take away the land and keep the money too.” Yet this last is just what the Government party propose to do. Attracted, perhaps, by the glowing reports and fishy stories circulated by a certain newspaper man in Waipawa, Mr Fitzroy, secretary to the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society, arrived here yesterday for a day’s sport ; but though he gave the river a thorough trial, he failed to effect a capture, whereat, of course, he felt much disgust. There are fish in the river, but there are so many licensed and unlicensed anglers hereabouts that we would advise a sportsman to try some other waters.

The Manawatu Times , under last Thursday’s date, reports another case of leakage of arsenic, as follows:—“This afternoon our reporter noticed a keg” marked ‘arsenic ’ in the railway goods shed, from which the deadly powder was issuing in noticeable quantities, and it at once struck him that the Pahiatua poisoning affair may have been caused by arsenic which had escaped in some such manner, and become mixed with flour, salt or other articles of consumption. May not the poison have been contained in some biscuits which were probably all eaten at the marriage feast ? The recent poisoning case at Mangahao, where a settler partook of some biscuits, and in consequence was attacked with all the symptoms of arsenical poisoning, appears to bear out this theory. The railway authorities should certainly insist upon having the dangerous poison securely packed before undertaking its carriage.