HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 251, 5 September 1877, Page 2

HAWERA.

BREAKING WINDOWS. On, Friday the 3fst August, before Major Brown, J- P. and '.Captain' Wilson, J* P., at the Court House, Hawera, Patrick Conway was brought up on a charge of unlawfully ' and willfully smashing a window at the Empire Hotel.—'Thomas Lloyd, landlord of the hotel, William Rowe, the ostler; Bernard Doherty, a labourer; and Sergeant Cahill were examined by the Court. From the evidence it appeared that Conway was intending to put up at the hotel and had paid for a portion of his board. About ten o’clock on Friday night he became quarrelsome and noisy. Persuasive measures were tried in vain, and after some time as Conway would neither go to bed nor be quiet he was put out of the house and into the yard. About an hour afterwards prisoner put a ladder through the tap room window, completely smashing glass and frame. Sergeant Cahill was then called in and as Conway still continued quarrelsome he was given in charge. There was a desperate struggle to get him to the lock up, and three men were called upon to assist. Prisoner was committed to gaol for -two months witli hard labour.

There was a bustling day at Hawera on Monday, which was Court day. This place has a somewhat unenviable notoriety for law affairs. Two live lawyers now here. Guess they’ll grow fat. It was reported on Monday, to Captain Wilson, that on the 20tEx of August, as some Maories were passing along the Harriet Beach, they found the body of a European woman lying dead in one of the creeks, quite close to the beach. The body appeared to be that of a bulky woman. The legs were partly eaten away probably by fish, and part of the face was decomposed Communication was at once opened up with Now Plymouth, to ascertain if the authorities knew anything of the circumstances, or of.- any person missing. A mounted messenger was also' despatched to Harriet Beach, from Hawera. A quantity of wreckage has been washed up on the beach,' probably frpm the Queen Bee, which vessel is ! reported to have broken up. s ; • :: ;■

On accoimt of a mining reporter havinghad obstacles thrown in hia Way,'arid 1 been refused admission to orie of thegoM'mines, the Thames Star devotes an article to the subject of the potion of the Press and minipg , ,companies,; and says-s—“-During the best days, of the Caledonian and: .other premier mines, whatever regulations.were enforced as to the visits of the the .Press, representatives were at all times accommodated and shown every coprtesy. . . . ’ If is a recognised principle that the Press should' hate ■ access to the fountain, head ptHnfpnpation concerning matters of the public are interested. ... We

feel ,< under • managers for their favours." Weenueavoi to procure the latest and most reliable hew. fri this we are but "Carrying out the practice of journalism ; but we do most strenuously protest agairihfc being made a • convenience df’by : irane managers or directors. We have before objected to . sending a reporter on certain days arid - at a particular hour. We regard such a rule with suspicion. If the Press is to give reliable’informatipp t<>:t|i^»-pnblie y the representatives should be allowed to visit ' the mines at uncertain times, lx they ‘ kre refused, there will necessarily be a feeling that there;is something; fishy in tfa§ wind, andhnine managers will; not,'be- ab|e; to disabuse the public mi'hd ; !bf ;rthe: idea that they: have' some : ulterior, object in view.” ■ . T Cruel. —A western woman having, been spoken of as “ having one foot in the grave,” a cruel commentator remarks that tfeere must be a big hole out there someWhere.