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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 September 1886, Page 2

Alessrs AI. Henderson, D. AlcCallum, H. Carlson, AAA Bierre, a-niZ JJ. E. Rasmussen have been elected commissioners of the Danevirke Town Board.

I The Napier train on Monday ran into : a cow near Hay’s farm. Tin; remains had to he cleared off the permanent way before the train could proceed. I Wilding & Co. are going to cease opera- ! lions on the Tarnaki block on Monday ' next, having given up the lease. This ; will he a serious blow to Danevirke, as | upwards of twenty hands will he thrown I out of work. | AMr Lynch is suing for .DIoO damages from AA'. J. Moore, a Fitzroy (Melbourne) • publican, for having written a post-card ■ on which the plaintiff was requested to j pay for certain drinks if he were an honest 1 man. i There area couple of dangerous holes j on the I’ahiatua side of the approach to the Ngawapurua bridge which should receive the attention of the Wnirarapa County roadman as soon as possible to prevent accident, j The sum of .14000 has been voted by 1 Parliament for distribution to public libraries. The distribution will take place on the Bth February, 1887, but no claim will be entitled to consideration unless sent in before the dlst January, 1887. Some of the Pahiatua Village Settlers have fallen their bush in the Mangaramarama creek. This matter should be looked to by the Hoad Board overseer, as the blocking up of the creek will cause the flood water to go over the and road adjoining properties and a great amount of damage may be occasioned thereby. The AVaipukurau School Committee have under consideration the removal of the old part of the school building and the erection of a now building to provide the necessary accommodation. It is probable the funds will be provided from the Hoad Board revenue. The old building will in all likelihood be re-erected as a gymnasium. AVaipukurau will thus set an excellent example to Hawke’s Bay schools. Alfred Reynolds, who was charged at Sydney with compelling his wife to take poison, from the results of which she died, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. He freely admitted his guilt. In the other Sydney poisoning case, in which Henry Kent was charged with the murder of his wife, and Caroline Roberts (the servant) with being an accessory, the accused have been acquitted. The AA’anganui Herald is responsible for the following : —“ It is rumored that a very spicy case will shortly engage the attention of the Divorce Court in Wellington. It is said that a well-known citizen of AVellington intends to petition for dissolution of his marriage on the grounds of his wife’s alleged misconduct with a southern member of Parliament.” A shocking accident happened at Woolwich (England) recently. During the casting of a steel ignot for a 100-ton gun, an Irish laborer was sent down into the pit to do some necessary work, when the mass of molten metal exploded. The man was overwhelmed, and it was with the utmost difficulty that part of his body was withdrawn. The other portion remains to-day part of a 100-ton gun ! Two boys, John Austin, aged 10 years, and Arthur Hutchins, aged 9, were charged at Groymouth withiplacing several obstructions on the railway line to make a train hop, as one of the boys said. They pleaded guilty, and both were sentenced to receive six strokes with a birch rod at Greymouth gaol, and to be sent to the Industrial School till they are 15. Richard Austin, brother of the other Austin, was also sentenced to be birched, but not imprisoned, for petty larceny, his age being 11. A prisoner who was convicted at the Oamaru criminal session asked His Honor to deal leniently with him, because he had been imprisoned for about six months in'the Dunedin Gaol, which was badly situated and badly ventilated. During the whole of that time he assured the Court that he had not seen the sun or moon rise or set, and his health had suffered through the closeness of his confinement. The Court was to some extent influenced by the appeal and passed a sentence of three months’ imprisonment. There have been great doings in Napier over the Salvation Army by-law, which was to have had the effect of stopping the Army processions. The Army marched in spite of the by-laws and several were fined, and in default of payment, sent to gaol. Still the processions went on and more Salvationists were summoned, but on this occasion they had a solicitor named Mr Dick, who proved the bylaw was not a law at all, not having been made strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Act. The charges ag.iinst the .■■■al.vationi.n;?, were dismis.-.eu, and now the Salvationists are rejecting and parading more than ever. The following are the successful applicants for Crown Lands offered at the j recent land sale under the cash perpetual leases, and deferred payment leases, and deferred payment s3'stems in the Mangaone, Mangahoe, and Makuri districts: Messrs F. Affin Reden, J. King, D. H. Jenkins, T. Hastie, E. Y. Grevillo, R. H. Rcaney, R. Connor, AA 7 . Richardson, J. Britland, H. AVillianis, A. Reese, T. Roberts, E. C. Bcetham, J. Hall, AV. AA 7 . McCardlo, H. Haines, H. McDonald, P. Dawson, T. Sexton, AV. D. Kibblcwhite, 1). Mcßeth, J. Hceley, D, McGill, T. McKenny, J. F. T. Redmond, J. Keslo, E. Smith, J. T. James, B. Budden, J. G. Blair, W. McGrundy, AV. 0. McGrundy, and B. McGrundy. The Utica (N.Y.) Herald chronicles the fall into Spring Pond, near St Regis Falls, of a huge aerolite, which, it says, nearly filled the pond. The bodj' of water usually contained in the pond was nearly all spattered out, and the supposed smoke seen was steam, generated by the water running back round the heated mass. Mud was thrown into the tree tops, and trout were scattered promiscuously around the pond, literally covering the banks. The news soon became circulated through the neighborhood, and scores of boys and men were seen all Jay engaged in picking the fish up, and bushels of them were drawn away. The fish nearest the pond that flopped back into the still boiling water were completely cooked. AA’ork on the AA'ellington and Manawatu Railway is progressing famously. In a fortnight the tunnels will be finished, and trains will run right through to Paikakariki by the end of the month. It is certain that through communication with New Plymouth will be established next November, but before the final ceremony there will bo an intermediate one of driving tire last spike in the rails at the connection at AAkiikanae. On that occasion (here will be a meeting of trains from Palmerston-North and AA’ellington, and a commingling of citizens of both places. A A'hen tin; railway does run light through to New Plymouth the journey will occupy two days, unless the speed on the Government part of the line can bo accelerated, which is not very likely. AA’anganui will bo the stopping place for the night in all likelihood. —N.Z. Times.

Mr Morion, on leaving Norsewood, was presented witli a set of Dickens’ works by his pupils. There is a “ "host" at Wellington, walking every night and frigthening the good people out of their senses. The police are on the " "host's" track. The Judges have fixed the next Supreme Court sittings in Napier, to open im Nor. 29th next, the civil business bein" commenced on that date, and the criminal business being taken afterwards. Thomas Hall, one of the prisoners in the Timaru attempted wife-murder case, was committed for trial on twelve charges of forgery on Monday. He was committed to the Supreme Court at Timaru. Lady customer ; “ My little boy wishes for a Noah’s Ark. Have you one ?’ Toyman: “No mum—no. We’ve given up keeping Noah’s Hark’s since the School Boards come in. They are considered too denominational, mum.’ The Wairarapa East County Council have decided to notify the Government that unless they provide F 1374 for repairs to tho Forty-Mile Bush road for the ensuing year, the Council will refuse any longer to undertake tho repairs of the road or its responsibility. During the recent flood at Blenheim, the water rose in the market-place 12 inches in four hours. The water was breast high in some of the streets, and families were removed in-boats from their homes. Business was quite at a standstill, the principal streets being from two to three feet under water. Tho farmers have had a considerable loss of stock. The outward San Francisco mail takes Horae 118 nominations, by persons in the colony who wish their friends to join them, and have paid the necessary deposits, amounting in ap to FIO2O. The number nominated from the respective provinoial districts is as follows: —Auckland, 40 ;Taranaki, 5 ; Hawke’s Bay, 18; Canterbury, 8 ; Otago, 20. The Napier Telegraph is agitated and complains at the action of the Government in abolishing the lunatic asylum formerly existing in Napier. There is no doubt such an institution is sadly needed in that town at the present time, judging from the excitement caused in discussing the famous municipal by-laws as to street processions which are being adjudicated upon. —Press. Some time ago Dr J. Logan Campbell, of Auckland determined on experimenting with the cultivation of the olive tree —the olive of commerce —and commenced with planting some two acres at the base of One Tree Hill, on his One Tree Hill estate. These were again planted out over some 20 acres, and are thriving capitally, the soil and position being apparently very favourable. Some of the trees are already 10ft high. At the Justice’s Court yesterday, before Messrs Carlile and Hall, Mr Florance, for a breach of the town by-laws in allowing his chimney to be on lire, was fined 5s and 7s costs. —Win. Barlow was charged on the information of Thomas Hicks, baker, of Pahiatua, with the larceny of horse feed. Prosecutor did not appear, and the case was dismissed.— Janies Antis, for being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night (out on bail) did not appear, and his bail, FI, was estreated. John Woodcock Graves, an old colonist who had attained his 100th year, recently died at Hobart. He arrived in Tasmania in 1888. One of his sons who pre-de-ceased him had made his mark as a barrister. The name of John Woodcock Graves will go down to posteritj- as the author of the well-known hunting song, “ John Peel.” He was a native of Cumberland, England, and the song with its rattling chorus, was descriptive of the fox hunting for which the border counties on both sides of the Tweed are famous. There a hunt dinner, of which there are many in the season, is regarded as incomplete' w’ithout the well-known refrain, “ D’ye ken John Peel.” A case was heard at the Wellington E.M. Court on Tuesday, in which A. Young sued Capt. Bussell, President of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, for Flfi. Young took the horses Poet and Minerva from Bates at the time when forfeit money was due on them to several clubs, and under protest he handed over a cheque for the amount, to be held, as he alleged, pending the decision of the Canterbury Club on the question. The latter gave it in his favor, and the Wellington Club gave back his cheques. The Napier Club declined to do so, and Young sued them, Judgment w-as given against him with costs on the ground that the weight of evidence was in favor of the contention that H.8.-I.C. was in do lie arbiter and not (he C.J.C. The Anglican Vicar of Plumpton is a master of words, and knows how to blend a certain frankness with judicious firmness when dealing with his ecclesiastical superiors. We gather from tho recentl}’ published correspondence, that the Bev. 11. M. Kennedy had the misfortune of being accused of being very drunk on one occasion at Carlisle station. The matter was referred to tho Bishop, who was all for mildness, and resolved not to proceed legally against the Vicar but to try an admonition, and accordingly wrote a gentle and diplomatic letter. The Bev. H. M. Kennedy replied with the judicious firmness above alluded to, and wrote in this fashion: “ I would rather go and pistol you in tho cathedral, chalice in hand, then allow my name to stand blasted by this infamous charge in the manner you now propose And I am, forsooth, to rest content (at being let off with an admonition from you as I my father in God.’ Do yon think that lam a fool, or that I have no Celtic blood in my veins? Hew dare you, who have become a bishop with a blasphemous lie in your right hand, propose this vile thing to me ? No. Let this case go on ;or let apology, full, wide, and ample, be made ; or by the God that made me whose I am and whom I serve, I shall spare no effort to expose to the utmost this latest phase of a tyranny which has been going on now for more than five years.” Mr Kennedy also wrote to the Archbishop of York after receiving the Bishop’s letter stating that the Bishop had said that ho wished the matter to end with a mere admonition, and informed the writer that the case was now in his Grace’s hands, and it was tor his Grace to reject his Lordship’s request. He demanded that rejection, and said, “ The charge brought against me is a piece of downright villain}’. Let it be one thing or tho other—-either trial, fair and thorough, or else apology full, wide, and ample. An angel from heaven could not induce me to be satisfied with less than this requirement, and unless conceded I shall do my utmost to expose all those concerned. That the desire is to wrong me and blacken my character I have not the shadow of a doubt; but whoever lends himself to this foil design, I tell them plainly, from your Grace down, I defy them all." The Vicar is to bo left unmolested.

Mr Whitmore, baker, of Pahiatua, has ' Hied. S Dr Brant mg. who, we are pleased to | say lias quite recovered from his illness, j has decided on coining to Woodville to reside in the course of ten days. Mr Armstrong has nearly finished his survey work on the Tautane Block, and intends settling at Woodville. | A two year old nauLrhtor of T. Cross, j Blenheim Telegraph Department, died of' oating matches on Wednesday. | At Messrs F 11. dackson and Co.’s ; Fcilding sale, the Makino Butter and ! Cheese Factory was bought, in bj- the , directors, who intend to work the concern | on their own account, for L 225. I At the last company meeting of the Woodville Pitle Volunteers the secretary I was instructed to apply by postcard to I honorary members for the annual sub- j scripliou, 10s lid. j Fine hundred tenant farmers, who hold leases in the north of Ireland from the Salter's Company of London, have purchased their holdings, under the provisions of the Irish Land Act of 1885, at the i valuation of nineteen and a half years' ! valuation. A meeting of the Woodville Town j Board was hold this afternoon. Mr J. Howry was unamiously appointed Chairman, and Mr Hiau treasurer. Fresh tenders were ordered to be called lotfootpaths in McLean street. The first Monday in each month, at U pan., was fixed as the time of meeting in future. Hodgson, the hill clerk at the Union Bank, Wellington, was remanded till next Wednesday. It was stated in Court that the total defalcations amounted to over LIOOO. Hodgson is a cousin to a man of the same name, who, while in the service of the National Bank some years ago, stole a large sum in gold from it, and buried the money in the churchyard at Christchurch. We would like to call the attention of the county ratepayers in the Maharahara Block to the decision of the County Council at its last meeting rc their county rates. It was that as the Government had not paid the rates in question Mr Fennell be ordered to collect them without delay. Possibly the difference between the county and road board rates arises from the fact that the rating years of the two bodies commence at different times. Perhaps the strangest domestic pet ever heard of was recently exhibited at a meeting of the British Association by Sir John Lubbock. It was a tame wasp, which had been in his possession for about three months. It now ate sugar from hvs hand and allowed him to stroke it. The wasp had every appearance of health and happiness ; and, although it enjoyed an “ outing ” occasionally, it readily returned to its bottle, which it seemed to regard as a home. Sergeant O’Mally had a narrow escape from drowning in the Manawatu river on Saturday. At the crossing from Oringi to Kumeroa, when in the middle of the river, the horse bucked and threw him over its head into the swollen stream. He swam about fifty yards, coming out on the side he entered, the horse going on to the opposite bank. Procuring assistance and another horse ho proceeded again, and crossed safety. There is a Hospital scandal at Wanganui, Mr and Mrs Adcock, the custodian and matron of the Hospital, have been dismissed from their charge, and Mr Freeman Pi. Jackson, the chairman of the Hospital Board, has laid an information against Mr Adcock charging him with pretending that certain goods charged to the Hospital Board had been procured, including 9-1711) meat, 9091 bof bread, 14201 b potatoes, 1801 b sugar, 171 b sago, slb coffee, 41b cocoa, and UOlb pearl barley, and that he procured au order for L 45 13s 9d in payment of the goods, of which LU 2s 5d was taken by him with intent to defraud. Henry Hall, better known as Harry Hall, aged 45, who lias been employed for years as ticket-taker at the Opera House Auckland attempted suicide on Tuesday night at his lodgings by firing a pistol into his mouth. He was found tying on the floor bleeding profusely. He used an old theatrical property pistol with a large charge of powder but no ball. The discharge smashed his face and shattered his jaws. Hall lived some time after doing the rush act, but subsequently died of liis injuries. Before dying he wrote his will on a theatrical poster. The salary due to him at the Opera House is to be given to his mate and fellow lodger, Edmond Broad. Hall’s watch and chain are to be given to his uncle, Mr Hall, saddler, of Gisborne, and the money and land to Ins brother, who lie hist heard of at Whangarci. One of the most tragic features in connection with the recent devastation caused by the cyclones in the United States was the calamity which befel a wedding party at Pice Station, and in which the bridegroom and nine other persons were killed. The principal State which has suffered through the great storm was Minnesota. It appears that just before the cyclone broke over the town of Pice Station a wedding party had assembled at the house of Mr John Schultz, a farmer, whose daughter had been married an hour or two before. In the midst of the merriment, the cyclone struck the place. Tnere were then assembled about forty guests, and in tive minutes the whole place was destroyed, the dead and dying lying in every direction. Of the party ton were killed outright and several injured. The bridegroom was amongst the former, while the bride escaped with some injury. There was not a building left on the farm in which the survivors could place their dead friends. The sad affair cast a gloom over the place. ’The corpses were afterwards collected and placed in the Pice Station schoolhouso. Many other houses and buildings in the town were destroyed by the whirlwind. The following debt cases were disposed of yesterday at the Woodville Justices’ Court before Messrs Garble and Hall:— Sian v. J. M. Whitmore, Liu 10s, goods supplied. Judgment for plaintiff (for whom Mr Burnett appeared) with costs, L2 10s.—P. G. Williams v. Archibald McLeod (judgment summons). Mr Florance was for plaintiff. The amount, L 7 10s, with LI os Gd costs, was ordered to be paid in monthly instalments of LI, first payment to bo made on the IGth of October.—Pichard Burtoseh v. Paul Debreceney, claim LG us wages, and Gurgenski v. same defendant, Liu 10s wages. Mr Gothard appeared for the plaintiffs, who obtained judgments in their favor ; costs in the first case L2 17s, and in the second LG 11s. S. M. George v. J. Taggart, LG Is Bd, and LI Us costs ; judgment confessed. S. M. George v. H. Hodgson, a disputed claim of L 4 17s 10s. A set-off was put in, and plaintiff was given judgment for LB 7s lOd —each party to pay liis own costs. Mr. Gothard appeared for Mr George.—John Cosgrove v. J. A. Anderson. Mr Burnett for plaintiff; Mr Gothard for defendant. Adjourned by order of the Court till next Court-day.