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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 160, 16 April 1874, Page 2

The Rev. W. Hevingham Root will (D.V.) hold Divine Service at Ormond on Sunday next, at 11 a.m.

Census.—The Napier Telegraph says that the population of the Province of Hawke’s Bay has increased 50 per cent, since 1871.

Masonic Hotel Stables, —We learn that Mr. C. Bettington has leased the stables attached to the Masonic Hotel in Gisborne which are now being enlarged so as to admit of increased accommodation. We wish him every success in his new undertaking. Prorogation.— The Napier Telegraph says : “ A Gazette publised on Tuesday, March 31, further prorogues the sittings of the General Assembly until the 31st day of May.” The Gazette of the 31st March, as far as we are able to read, prorogues to the 11th of May only.

Government Gazettes.—Recent numbers of the General Government Gazette contain the following : —The appointment of Captain Walter Edward Gudgeon to command the Militia and Volunteers in the Poverty Day District. The disbandment of the Napier Rille Volunteer Corps ; and the appointment of His Honor J. D. Ormond to be the Wairoa Confiscated Laud Commissioner. Index to Provincial Acts. —We have received from the Provincial Government an “ Index of the Acts of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland, Session 1 to 28 inclusively and now in force.” It has been arranged by Mr. Leggett, Clerk of Provincial Council, and will be very useful as a reference. The next best thing would be a compendium of the condensed laws themselves, emasculating all the obsolete ones.

Shooting Season.—A notice in a recent Provincial Gazette, says that “ pheasants shall be open to be hunted, shot, taken or killed within the Province of Auckland, during the months of May, June, and July” Also that “ all native game included in the fifth schedule of the “ Animals Protection Act 1873 ” except curlew may be killed within the province during the months of April, May, June, and July, 1874. The schedule alluded to comprises : —M ild Duck of any species, Bittern, Pied Stilt Plover, Wild Geese, Dotterel!, Tui, Native Pigeon, T.-al, Black Stilt Plover, Curlew, and Quail.

B.M.’s Court.—Major Westrup and W. J. Johnson. Esq., occupied the Bench on Tuesday morning last to hear a charge preferred against a man named McDermott for having attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Dr. Nesbitt deposed to haring attended accused, and found him very weak from loss of blood, his throat was cut very severely, making deep incised wounds from ear to ear. He considered it would be unadvisable to put the prisoner on his trial in his then precarious condition. The Bench decided on remanding McDermott to the Napier hospital, to be brought up again to answer the charge when sufficiently recovered. Prisoner was sent to Napier accordingly by the Rangatira on Tuesday. Desertion. —The following from the Auckland Evening Star, is a painful evidence of the temptation to which young girls are subjected. Poor Minnie, the victim of this brute’s brutality, has just been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, for concealing the birth of her infant, while he, the victor, is at liberty and free to despoil others. The Star says: “ As will be seen in our police report the unfortunate girl, Minnie Garlic, was charged with-the murder of her infant child, and committed for trial. ; The poor girl has a very simple rustic appearance, and

evidently is not over-sharp. She put no questions to any of the witnesses, amt inaintaine I tin- same expressionless demeanor as she exhibited at the inquest yesterday, as though utterly careless of her destiny or unconscious of her position. She eaine from England it seems by the Wooilark some months ago with a batch of immigrants, clad so to speak in her native simplicity. While On the voyage she became acquainted with a sailor named Charles Letty, who seduced and then deserted her, but against whom she uttered no complaint. The scoundrel who effected this simple creature’s ruin is still following his occupation as a seaman on board the Rover, and who may now be carousing at Napier, while the hapless victim of his passion awaits her fate within the walls of prison. The heartless, bloodstained, seducer may escape the iron hand of justice and triumph in his infamous victory over a poor friendless girl :• - Yet, sure not all the sin and crime belong, To her who feels and suffers for the wrong. Nor shall the wicked always go unpunished.”