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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3240, 11 June 1895, Page 2

A report of the football match between the Napier and Waipawa branches of the Hawke’s Bay Union, which was played at Napier last Saturday, and a report on the Dean Commission, will be found on the fourth page. We hear that the flour mill at Ooga Onga has resumed operations.

A meeting of the Fire Brigade will be held in the Empire Hotel at 8 o’clock tonight.

Mass will be oelebrated at St Patrick's Church, Waipawa, at 9 a.m. on Thursday □ext ( Corpus Christi).

A settler at Tauranga has grown some excellent bananas. The bunches were grown and ripened in the open.

No less than 1100 loaves were served out by the Christchurch Charitable Aid Board the other week.

Applications for the position of clerk to the Kaikora North Town Board will be received np to the 12th inet. (to-morrow) A meeting of the Patacgsta County Council will be held at Waipukurau at 10 30 a.m. tomorrow. The Hospital Board will meet in the afternoon. The Avon Road Board voted £IOO to provide work for the unemployed, on condition that the sum was subsidised by the Government.

Mr T. Stafford who ia suffering from that painful complaint, canoer in the tongue, has beoome a patient in the Waipawa Hospital, whore an operation has been performed.

Chief Justice Way, of South Australia, who is a Bible Christian, of whioh religion his father was a minister, will not attend a racecourse, even in his official capacity as Acting-Governor. The Maoawatn Farmer and its Otaki contemporary are quarrelling almost to bloodshed. The former in its Wednesday’s issue, says of its opponent—“ If we spoke the blunt troth we should call him a confounded liar, bat we refrain.” How saintly to refrain thus !

A number of country residents visited Napier on Saturday for the purpose of witnessing the football match between the Napier and country reps. Amongst the number was Mr C. L. Mackersey, president of the Waipawa Union, who waa greatly pleased at the victory of the local men.

At the Melbourne Easter Monday ebam fight :—Captain Bnggins coming out from behind a fence, waving a white handkerchief to the enemy : “ Will Captain Jobaoo oblige with a few hundred rounds of cartridgoa ? If not, we mnat retire.” Cartridges sent, and to the amusement of the crowd, the firing was renewed.

Mr Wallace, who has been employed as clerk at the Waipawa Railway Station for some time, hae been transferred to Woodville, for which station he will leave to morrow. DuriDg hisr esidence in Waipawa Mr Wallace baß made many frieods by bis oonrteous and obliging disposition, and they will unite in wishing him success in his new sphere of work. Mr Robert Wilson, engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Midland Railway Company, states that the telegram from Wellington that “ the manager and other officers of the Midland Railway Company have resigned their positions and taken service under the Government ” ia not correct. They are only working the railways. The staff and linemen have, with hia consent, joined the Government service. The Dunedin assembly of the Knights of Labor, claiming to be the only lawfully constituted assembly in Dunedin, held an emergency meeting last night and pasaed a resolution placing on record their deep and heartfelt sympathy for those out of work, and tendering grateful acknow lodgements to those citizens who bad so generously and magnanimously come forward with private means to help to alleviate distress ; and in order to give practical effect to their feeling on the matter, voted £5 as a first instalment toward the relief fund.

The taking of evidence in the inquiry into the management of the Christchurch Hospital, conducted by Dr Giles, was commenced yesterday. Ten witnesses were examined, when the commission adjourned till to-day. Allegations of harshness and neglect on the part of the house surgeon ; also that be bad sometimes been under the influence of liquor when on dnty, and that he had smoked in the corridors and wards, and that the food was sometimes bad, were made.

The O >car Wilde Bcandal is a delicate subject for a newspaper to commont upon, but the Otago Times has managed to do it Deatly. Dealing with the snhjeot of base vices historically, it is shown that great wealth accumulations, and tho aggregation of wealthy people in cities have always tended to produce immorality. From consideration of the past and the present this lesson is drawn for the guidance of the future : “ That the labor of life, tho work and Btrnggle, the anxiety and the worry whioh men and women are so apt to dread, are, after all, the great tonics of mind and body that preserve the haman being against descent in the moral scale So that the parent who works and struggles that bis children may live in idleness and luxury may be at one and the same time sowing the seeds of their destruction and assisting in the degeneration of the race.” The American Transportation Commission, which arrived in this ooloDy the other day, has picked up some valuable hints in Australia. During the course of au interview in Sydney, Major Pangborn, the President of tbe Commission, said : On the South Australian railways they have got a system of eleotric lighting that is better than anything we have seen anywhere else in the world. They have succeeded in working tbeir electric light ing on the cars by means of a dynamo ruD from the engine, and worked by steam But our plan, you see, takes Bteam from the engine, and so lessens its power for actual work. In South Australia this is avoided, aod tbe motive power of the revolving axles, which would otherwise be lost, is employed to work the dyoamo. It is simply splendid. And that is not all we learned about electrio lighting oo trains in South Australia. It is a wonderful system of electrio accumulation they have there. On tbe train from Adelaide to Broken Hill, for instance, the journey being at night, the eleotric lights Rre on all the time. Well, on the way back from Broken Hill to Adelaide, this journey being in the day, electrical energy ie being stored np, and enough is stored to light the train on its return journey from Adelaide to Broken Hill, without any electrician being in attendance to look after it, so that they save the expense of an olectriciau every second journey they make. Lighting by electricity on this system is actually less expensive than kerosene, and tbe light they get is the best light I ever Baw on a oar.”

Recently there have been., burglaries at suburban show ? church. The plunder in nearly ' consisted of tobacco. ” Tbe funeral of tbe lata A j yesterday was ooe of tbe lar.L, ' in Onrietchurch. The Cortot. * throe quarters of a mile in leopj'