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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 712, 26 August 1869, Page 3

Beautiful Weather has prevailed since our lasb issue. New "Wharf.—The contract for the new wharf at the entrance of the Iron Pot lias fallen to the lot of Messrs Days and Bristovv. They commenced pile driving yesterday.

A meeting of those interested in the Waipukurau Circulating Library is convened for Wednesday next, Ist Sept., at 7 p.m., to be held in the school-room, Waipukurau.

The Poverty Bay Massacre.— }lv Atkinson, Resident Magistrate at Po\ erty Bay, and other witnesses ia the matter of the Poverty Bay massacre, were passengers for Wei lington by the s.s. Si, Kilda on Tuesday night.

Death by Drowning at Waipu. —We regret to have to record that Assistant-Surgeon ISTewell, late of the Armed Constabulary, was acci drowned on Monday last whilst attempting to cross the Waipu river. Deceased was going on a professional tour to the Ngatiporou tribe.

The Gourlays gave their last performance last night to a large foidience, and were ably supported V the Napier Garrick Club. The Programme began with scenes from foe operatic play of -" Rob Roy," in *Mch the part of " Bailie Nicol Jarvie " was well sustained by Mr W-lay ; and terminated with the fusing sketch of "Mr Little »niie,"

G-iving Okbdit to Maoris —Mr J. O. Richmond h&i obtained leave to bring in a bill to restrict the giving of credit to the Maoris. Nkw Zeavakd Mining Journal.—-We observe in the Auckland papers the prospectus of a new journal to be published on the Thames gold field, exclusively devoted to thj mining interests of the Colony. It is to be a weekly paper, somewhat similar to Dicker's Victorian Mining Record, and will be edited by Mr Varley, lata editor of Auckland Punch. We wish it every success. The b.s. Taranaki.—The operations for lifting the Taranaki (says the Evening Post of Saturday last) are still going on, but more slowly than was at first anticipated. She has been moved in end, about 240 feet altogether j at present she is being lifted against a steep bank, which renders the process extremely difficult, but when once this is surmounted things will go on much faster. A portion of one of her masts, which has been broken off, was brought over in the Storm Bird this morning. A Step in the Right Direction. —It is announced in most of the French papers that the principal shops in Paris will henceforth be closed on Sundays. This important social reform is not the result of a religious movement, but has been brought about by the same kind of agency which, in England, has introduced the Saturday half-holiday. The Society of the Employes de Commerce inform the public that, with few exceptions, all the mercers, and hosiers of Paris havo consented to close then* shops on Sunday, and the employe' "appeal to the goodwiil of the public to aid them making the measure general." TnE girl Addison, who has been lying in a state of unconsciousness and without food since October las;, has at length, to the astonishment of the medical men in attendar.ee upon her, regained consciousness, and commenced talking and eating. Her body was reduced to a mere skeleton, and it seemed impossible that she could recover ; but under a fitting dietary, prescribed by Dr Robinson, she seems to be daily improving, and there is reason to hope that she may ultimately recover thoroughly. She has been fully 25 weeks without one particle of solid food passing her lips, and 16 weeks without evea her lips having been moistened. Gold in the Ukjweha Country.—We havo it from a gentleman who has recently been in the Urewera country, that some of the forces there have been doing a little casual prospecting close to the camps, and have found gold ; whilst the men who have had an opportunity of going into the country, state that there is plenty of gold in the ranges. Dr. Stratford of Auckland, in 1857, wrote a letter to a newspaper there, in which he stated that "New Zealand would be the richest gold field in the world," At that time, beyond a small quantity of gold being seen at Coromandel, mo traces ot the precious metal had been found ; and it must be gratifying to that gentleman to find that the theory on which he based his statement has been realised during his lifetime.—Taranaki Herald. Wo i Washing with Hot Water. — In Monday's issue we quoted a paragraph from Messrs. Williams, Overbury & Co.'s trade circular, strongly condemning the practice of washing sheep in hot water, as tending to injure the wool very materially. Since that time we have seen in the Australasian a letter to the editor asking '' what the impression is in Victoria among sheepholders regarding washing sheep in hot water before being spouted, as since the receipt of the last news from England, which comments not very favorably on the hot water process, many persons are halting between two opinions, whether to adopt the hot water at a medium temperature of, say about 90 degrees, or dispense with it altogether." In a note to this letter, the editor answers the inquiry as follows :—"Hot water improperly used maybe injurious, but there is no doubt that, warm wuter, not over 110 degrees, with soap and soda in the soaking den, gives brightness to the wool, and softens the dirt, so that it can be removed more quickh and more thoroughly than afterany amount of soaking in cold water." " Organs Political." —The Wanganui Evening Herald, discoursing on " organs political," says that every Government ought have an organ, the ¥ox Government in partim'ar. Its views require such careful elucidation that it must have a very powerful organ before they are perfectly intelligible. The Evening Post had a many pipes in its organ, but they were not large enough —the sound had not sufficient volume, and consequently the Independent had to be engaged—for the session only, we suppose. Mr Anderson having resigned his chair, Mr Fox and a bevyofcleiks have probably by this time crushed themselves into it. The change in the organ's tone was manifest in the next issue after Mr Anderson resigned, for it went in a huricane against self-reli? ance ; and the same unconscious types that conveyed the glorious old principle of selfreliance to the world of Wellington, are smudging paper from the same bale with a howl for Imperial troops. Wecongra ulate the Post that it has been restored to its independence, and condole with our more ambitious contemporary over the loss of its prefix, which it has parted with for a mess of pottage. Wo suppose we must now consider it the Independent without the In. What does Wellington say to this violent change of principle ? Mr Fox has now got two organs, the Independent and the Wanganui limes, and their opinions are entitled to a vast amount of weight, from the consistency of the one, and ability of the other! " [Our Wanganui contemporary has surely forgotten the Hawke'e Bay Herald ]

j Inquest. —ln our " Extra "of Monday last, we quoted from the Taranaki JELerald the account of the death by drowning, in the Mimi river, of an orderly named James Curran. We nbw find from the Herald of a later date that an inquest was held on the body, and resulted in a verdict of I"Found Drowned " being returned.

A Man Wobeied by a Donkey.-—A singular case was reported to the Sheffield police on Sunday. At the Bull Inn, PunEelds, a number of men were drinking, and about half a dozen of them went out into the stable-yard, in which was a donkey, belonging to a hawker named Edward Parker. One of the men, Frederick Hooton, also a hawker, commenced to teaze and then ill-use the animal by kicking and otherwise maltreating it. At last he took hold of one of the donkey's ears, and twiated it round, causing the animal acute pain. It thereupon ran at him, and knocked him down, and whilst he was on the ground seized his lower jaw and bit his under lip completely off. As soon as possible his companions dragged him from under the feet of the infuriated animal or in all probability he would have paid with Jiis life the penalty of his brutality. So cleanly was the piece bitten from the man's lip that his gums and teeth were laid entirely bare, as was also his jaw-bone. — Manchester Guardian, May IH. A Tbujg Woman. —We are glad to make it known (says the Melbourne Argus) that the self-sacrificing courage recently displayed by a young lady under circumstances naturally terrifying to one of her sex and age is not to be allowed to pass unrecognised, but that subscriptions are being collected for the purpose of compli menting her, and thereby encouraging the like unselfish heroism in others. The lady is Miss Evans, daughter of the late Dr. Evans, of St. Kilda, who, being a governess in the house in which Mr GHover sickened of small-pox, remained by him when all others left, and, assisted only by a hired nurse, attended upon the unfortunate gentleman to the time of his death. Sue continued in the house in a sort of quarantine for eome fourteen days afterwards, and then went on a visit to to residence ol a friend of the deceased, where, after the lapse of a week, she was herself prostrated with the disease, and was removed thence to the temporary hospital at the Koyalpark. Her case, as the chief medical officer states, was the severest he ever knew which had not a fatal termination. She is now convalescent, and recovering strength very slowly, but she will carry through life the, to her, honorable marks of her sickness.

Ma Busßi's Claims, —We find the following in a recent issue of the New Zealand ilerald : —"Amongst the news from Wellington is that of the attempt of Mr Busby to get a bill passed through the As sembly, to compel the Provincial Government of Auckland to give him some £36,000 in money as compensation for his old land claims —claims which if just at all ought in all fairness to be made, not against the Province of Auckland, but against the Colony of JN'ew Zealand. The people ol Auckland and of the Thames should openly protest against this attempt of Mr. Busby, made through his friends in the Assembly, to deprive the revenue of this Province ol so large a sum either in money or land. They should protest against the proposal to recompense old land claimants out ol the revenue of the Province, or from its lands. In the one case, if the House sanctioned Mr. Busby's bill, it would do what Mr. Creighton said of in his reply to Mr. Travers—namely, legalise a public robbery. If wrong has been done, it was done by the Governor under the old Downing-stivet regime, and the settlers who have since arrived and have created the wealth of a particular district of the Colony, which is coveted by the old laud claimants, are not in any way concerned in making restitution. If any wrong has been done to Mr, Busby, or any other old land claimant, it is the Colony that has done the wrong, not the people of a particular Province in which the land may be situated." The Wellington Evening Post also refers to the matter, and gays that there can be "no doubt that the allowal by the Assembly of Mr Busby's claims against Auckland would be a great hardship and injustice to that Province. However just these claims may be, Auckland is no more responsible for them than any other Province in JN'ew Zea- j land."

A Musical Tigek SNAKE.—The Melbourne Herald says that "an amusing, but, as we are assured, most veritable snake story, comes to us from Warroi Valley, on the Upper Yarra. A youth of about 15, named Hector Turner, was out a few days ngo with three of his brothers, splitting wood on the ranges, their temporary habition being an old slab hut. The young fellow was left in charge of the place while his brothers were abroad, and to amuse himself he had brought away with him from home an aceordeun, with which he was whiling away the tedium of the day, when a tiger snake four feet long came bounding into the hut, evidently relishing the music amazingly. The youngster was not, however, so enamored of his visitor, and, dropping his accordeon, he scampered out as smartly as he could to his broihers, who took his scare for muke-believe and would not credit his story of the dancing snake. ■Next day the lad took to his music again, but this time it was out of doors. After he had played a few burs of a popular melody, he saw the head and shoulders ot the snake emerge from an old kangaroo-rat hole outside the hut, and bob about in unison with the tune; but before the reptile could bring all his folds to the surface, the involuntary charmer stopped his music, and once more summoned his brothers. The rat-hole theu was up, aud the snake being found at the bottom, he wa» speedily despatched.