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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1028, 26 January 1882, Page 2

The J Battery Volunteers will parade this evening in the Drill Shed, at 7 o’clock sharp. The inspection will take place at 7.30. A recent Government Gazette announces that His Excellency has been pleased to appoint MrG. L. Greenwood a Superintendent Collector of Agricultural Statistics for the Counties of AVairoa and Cook, under the Census Act of 1877. We hare to acknowledge the receipt of the first number for the current year of the New Zealand- Industrial Gazelle. This interesting publication now appears in a new and improved form. It is issued in a neat wrapper, and is extended in size to 40 pages, inclusive of advertisements, which are printed in alternate pages with the subjeet-inatter of the publication. Captain T. W. Porter having severed his connection with the Government, has undertaken the business of Land Purchase Ageut. Captain Porter is prepared to undertake the Adjustment of Land Titles and give opinions upon all questions of Native Land Tenure. From his long and varied experience as a land purchaser along the East Coast, he is eminently qualified to carry on the business he has now entered upon. An inquest was held at Napier last week before Captain Preece and a common jury into the cause of death of a native prisoner named Mohaka Kaipau, who. died suddenly at the Napier Gaol. After hearing the medical testimony of Dr. Hitchings, a. verdict was returned that the deceased died through natural causes, the result of an abscess. A defaulting juryman was brought up for nonattendance, and dismissed with a caution. —- Napier Telegraph. The process of “ canning ” fruit as practised in America and Canada is not usual in New Zealand, if it is known, but it cannot be surpassed as a cheap method of preserving our over abundance of the produce of this district. Mr J. W. AVade, tinsmith, has manufactured tins of the description used for the purpose which are thoroughly efficient, and by which the contents can be perfectly secured from contact with atmospheric air with the least possible expenditure of time and with a mere shadow of cost. Any housewife would determine the value and simplicity of their construction at a glance. Directions according to the usual American plan are issued by the “ can ” manufacturer, who should drive a good trade. Samples can be seen at our office or at Mr Wado’s shop. In the District Court, before his Honor Judge Kenny, the case against Peter Sorry for larceny as a bailee, continued for two days. The case closed at six o’clock yesterday evening. Both counsel for the prosecution and the defence made able addresses to the jury. His Honor summed up, and the jury retired. In about three quarters of an hour they returned and gave a verdict of guilty against the prisoner Sorry upon tire two counts, that of stealing the money and stealing the clothes. On the application of Mr. Finn, prisoner’s counsel, sentence was deferred until this morning. AVe reported this case fully in these columns when it came before the lower court. There was no material difference in the evidence of the parties before the District Court. From an advertisement in another column it will be seen that the sale of Mr Barker’s interest secured to him under a certain deed of mortgage from Messrs Bees and others, will take place on February the 7th. The mortgaged premises comprise a large and valuable portion of the Whataupoko Block. The sale is entrusted to the well-known firm of Auctioneers, Messi's Pitt and Bennett. The amount of the mortgage is £27,500, to which is to be added the interest at 8 per cent per annum that has accrued for about two years past. This valuable estate will bo put up in two lots. Lot 1 comprises the mortgagee’s interest in 12,400 acres of the Whataupoko Block, included in which is that portion connected with Gisborne by the Taruberu Bridge. Lot 2is the reversionary interest of the mortgagee in a certain thousand acres of the Whataupoko Block with which Mr Allan McDonald’s name is associated. The opening up of this block is a matter fraught with so much importance to the whole community that the prospect of it passing into the hands of small holders at no distant date, is gladly welcomed. Mr Barker, we understand, is as anxious as any one to promote the settlement of the land, both for I his own interest, as well as for that of the whole district.

At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, Herbert Vincent, a deaf and dumb man, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on two charges of forgery committed in October. He was an old offender. He had been employed in the Public Works Department, and had forged the name of the head of the department. Notwithstanding the dull times in Oamaru, the Hail says that during the last quarter of last year there were no less than thirty-one buildings in course of construction, including seven large stores and business places. At a moderate estimate these thirty-one buildings represent £60,000, three of the number amounting to nearly half that sum. A Christcnurch papers says : —Madame Lott ieWilmot gave a farewell lect lire on Thursday at the Oddfellows, Bali to a very fair audience. The subject chosen was her “ One Year’s Experience in New Zealand,” in the course of which she touched upon the opposition she had encountered here. A Spiritualistic seance brought the evening to a dose, several of the audience ascending the platform and taking their places at the table. Taramana. native youth, whose parents reside at Kirikiri, and who has for the past year been a pupil ab St. Stephen’s School in Parnell, has succeeded in carrying off the first of the six scholarships given to the Maori lads of the colonly by the late Sir Donald McLean and leaves for Napier about the end of January to complete his education at the native school there. Taramana, it may be mentioned, attended the Parawai .School for about two years daring the time Mr Isaaj Uoburn was in charge.— Thames Adoerliier, Visitors to the Milan Exhibition can see ! there the petrified body of a girl IS years of age, petrified by a new progress the secret of of Dr Cam. When he took the body of a girl from a Florence hospital it was ulready in a state of putrefaction, but the doctor, wit hout, touching the intestines, set to work and grr.duai.iy reduced the body to nrirb’i-• — that is, the body has become quite white anil hard as marble, but the hair has remained as as soft as during life, and even the down on the arms remain as in life. The World says, the literary ladies of our day should really supply themselves with dictionaries ; for they have taken to using long words in a spirit ,cf cheerful haphazard winch fills the manly mind with apprehension as to what they may say next. One of them lately deplored white-marble mantelpieces as 1 unthinking,’ and now Mrs Hawcis credits her furniture with something besides intellectual powers. She says, in her latest pronouncement on ar! in the house, that Queen Anne tables are not nice, because they stand upon “ emasculated little legs ” 1 “ From time to time,” says the Neto Zealand Herald, “ notices have appeared in the New Zealand journals of sums of money having been sent Home to the Irish Land League fund by sympathisers in this Colony. We underst and, on the other hand, that a number of the Orange lodges here are also forwarding contributions to the Emergency Committee in Ireland. This committee renders assistance and protection as far as possible, without reference to creed, to all persons who arc Boycotted by the Irish Land League, for paying their rent, or for refusing to obey the behests of that illegal association.” Writing on the subject of vaccination the New Zealand Times says : —“ Perhaps the present intimation of the narrow escape the Auckland people have just had of passengers being landed in their midst bearing among them the infection of this dreadful disease may serve as a warning that delay in taking precaution may be fraught with the most disastrous results. No quarantine regulations that can by any possibility be devised will effectually serve in the stead of vaccination. It should be seen to in every household as a matter of persona] and public duty, and the full compulsory provisions of the law put in force to compel the careless or unwilling.” The marriage of Sir C. Gavan Duffy with his cousin, Miss Hall, of Liverpool, who is also his second wife's niece, has hig.ily interested colonists at Home, and his countrywomen in Ireland. The young lady is twentyfour, not twenty-one, years of age, and Sir Charles is sixty-five. The young lady is spoken of in the highest terms by those who have her friendship, as possessing considerable intellectual talents and accompliscd manners. It appears that only a few months ago she had made up her jnind to become a nun, and her reverend instructor was somewhat astonished to receive a letter from her that site had “ changed her mind.” The reason is now apparent. Sir Charles, whom I saw the other day, is looking very fresh and so rejuvenated that a leading assurance company has accepted a policy on his life for a goodly sum.