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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1297, 15 March 1883, Page 2

t Referring to the recent mysterious disappearance of a Wairarapa resident from Mr : Hutchison’s run, at Poverty Bay, the ! “Wairarapa Observer” says :—“ Mr Lyster Kaye, who was of a very good family at Home, was well-known throughout the Wairarapa, He at one time owned a farm next to Mr Tancred’s and again had a run at the • e Taueru. He was a man of very pleasing manners, and was a great favourite. For j some time, also, Mr Lyster-Kavc held a commission as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony, and, besides being a member of a B former Taratahi-Carterton Highway Board, j was a prominent member of the Pastoral f Society. His untimely decease will be „ deeply regretted by many well-wishers in # this district, if the present apprehensions . were to unhappily prove to have any foung dation. ” ■ Messrs Large and Townley advertise that the premises lately occupied by the Union Bank of Australia may be leased. The J position is an excellent one for business purposes. The furniture stock etc of the Sir George Grey Hotel will be sold by auction at Messrs Carlaw Smith and Co’s mart on March 17th under a bill of sale. Mrs Hubble announces that she has commenced business as Milliner and Dressmaker in Gladstone Road, in the shop formerly occupied by Mrs T. Willshire, and also that „ she has received a choice lot of new goods of * the latest style and shape. The business at the Resident Magistrate’s • Court on Tuesday last was unimportant. F. Dufaur A Co., v. H. Trimmer, £4 IBs for advertising went by default. R. Colebrook V. J. Smith, claim £l6 on a dishonored promissory’ note. In this case judgmen was given for the plaintiff with costs, £1 Ils. A case, the evidence in which has been previously published, concluded - the business. It was that of Pene Heihi and q Te Rana Hokehc V. Rori, the claim being £25 for wrongful detention of a horse. About 1 a week ago Heihi sued Rori, but was non--0 suited because Hokeke’s name should have also appeared on the plaint. Judgment was given for £25 and costs, £4 9s. Mr Booth B however reduced the amount to one shilling, _ should the horse be returned within twenty 8 four hours. A very interesting Native Race Meeting is to be held on the Waerenga-a-hika Course on Saturday next. These meetings are always enjoyable, because the minds of those attend2 ing are disabused of the tricks which are so e common amongst the Anglo-Saxon race. g Every Maori jockey means winning, and, with but few exceptions, the European jockey * has to be informed by the person giving him h the mount as to whether he is to ride to win or to ride to lose. It’s rough, but it’s fact. To-day Messrs. Ratcliffe and Co. will sell at a their Mart the privileges -that is, the gates, , Grand Stand, booths, 4c., and as the weather h now promises to be fair, no doubt there will be a good sum realised.

A Napier exchange says i It is stated on ; > good authority that the Europeans at ■ Waipawa who “ entertained ” Tawhiao at J dinner wanted the “King” to got his : people to pay for it, but Tawhiao “ didn't i see it.” j 2 On the 9th of February Jem Maec, while t in New York, was advised of the drowning • i of his son Albert Edward in the Thames ; , i be was thirty years of age, a graduate of the ' Liverpool Institute, and engaged in mercan- . i tile life. Mace sailed for home on Febru- i ary 10th. Major Withers, who was to have arrived ' } by the Southern Cross., from Auckland, yes- ' terday, missed his passage, and has had to wait for the Rotomahanas departure. In . consequence of this the inspection parade of i the J. Battery has been postponed until Friday, the 16th inst., at 7 p.m. We, on a former occasion, expressed a hope that the i men would muster well, and we reiterate it. | Let Major Withers see that the Captain ' Commanding has cause to boast—- “ And he it understood, nty »neq arc sery good, • My men arc vcr\ jrood, few. ' During the Victorian elections it is believed that numbers of minors voted. A story is "told that at one of the booths a ' young fellow claimed his electoral right, and i the returning officer, noticing his juvenile appearance, said i “ You appear rather young to have a vote ; when were you 19 !’ ! “ I was 19 last April.” “ Then you can I return in two year's time, and will be j i allowed to vote.” Of course if the returning ; i officer had asked the youth, “ When will • you be 21 ?” the reply would doubtles have. ; j been, “ I was 21 last April.” We regret to hear that Mr C. F. Bull is j ' again exceedingly ill having had another re- ! i lapse. It is not low fever, as was rumorod, ■ i that Mr Bull is suffering from, but an in- ; I ternal complaint. The Cook County Council will meet at 7 o’clock, to-night, when the following business will be considered :—To confirm a resolution to abolish the Arai, Tologa and Waimata Ridings, and to re-constitute Arai, Tologa, Waiapu, and Waikohu Ridings. Application from Borough Council for further 1 use of the tramway on Ormond Road. Reply ' I of Government on works under Roads Con- , struction Act, 1882, and give instructions re I 1 poll of ratepayers. To consider the report of • j the Committee on by-laws. Kere Omatiti was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning with being drunk in a public place at Ormond on the 14th instant. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, but on the evidence being taken, and there being three previous convictions against him, was fined forty shillings or in default of immediate payment, to receive forty-eight hours imprisonment in the Gisborne Gaol, j This was all the business. i Messrs. Graham, Pitt, and Bennett announce, in another column, that they have I just received, ex Famenoth, a quantity of ' goods, a list of which they give ; and also that they have to arrive by the Warwick another addition to their already large stock, which they also specify. This firm evidently mean to maintain the position they now hold, and to have on hand everything from a ! needle to an anchor. The Hom Ivo’s last .’ In responding to the congratulations of the people of Maryborough, Queensland, the English captain “ hoped that as the heat was somewhat severe, the local team would be merciful with his voung men, and not keep them too long in tfie field, H “Talk about fair play in Sydney,” says a visitor, “ I never heard heartier cheers in my ' life than greeted the English captain as he j went to the wicket on Saturday, or that fol- • ' lowed every big hit of Steel’s after he had i made the century." , Says “Mid-on’’ in the Melbourne “Leader:” > . “ Evans is done -and I write it with the , greatest regret, for a worthier cricketer on . ; and off the field 1 never knew. I belicx u, . with practice, he could still bat and field fairly well, but flrst*class batsmen would see . no terror in his bowling now’.” The same • critic cays Bryant, who made his debut J ns a wicketkeeper in big matches, amply , : justified his selection, and will certainly \ take high rank in the difficult position he has j chosen.” 5 The effect of having a real lord travelling i about like an ordinary commoner is someI times productive of amusing results, as recorded by a correspondent from Wakatipu, who writes to the “Otago Daily Times:”—

“ During the recent hot weather a bachelor settler in this district, hailing ‘ frae the land o’ cakes,’ received a visit from a gentleman, who asked for a cup of tea. Our bachelor, who conducts his establishment upon the principles of the canny Scot, complained of the frequency of callers, and grudgingly poured out some tea into a dirty pannikin. A conversation showed that the visitor was also a Scotchman, and that both came from nearly the same place. Yet this did not soften the host towards his visitor. Upon takin his leave the visitar presented his host with his card, which read —‘ Lord Gordon Lennox.’ Picture the dismay of our bachelor who being born on the Duke of Gordon's Estate, had been trained to look upon the ducal family as second only to that of the Queen.” His Lordship a short time since visited Gisborne incognito. The Hatvei’a Star has the following amusing paragraph : —A portrait of Tawhiao, the Maori king, has been issued in Wanganui and after a glance at it we can testify to its ugliness. The first glance at his head forcibly reminds one of an American axe, or Maori tomahawk, it being broad at the chin and narrow at the crown. If his head were iron, it would be a valuable acquisition to the bushfaller for spliting shingles. The tatto marks, with which the face is covered, destroys all facil expression, and a simple minded person could easily be presuaded that for a minute at one period of his life has been in a sasauge machine in full opeiation. The picture also represents him as fearfully swivel eyed, and it would be hard to tell whether His Highness is represented to be looking at his subjects, or contemplating the shawody prospects of a banquet from the Wanganuiites. The “New Zealand Herald ” speaking of the Native Lands Court at Cambridge, says that they “ have been of a most unsatisfactory character, and we have several times thought of drawing attention to the subject as a scandcl. It has been sitting some four months, at an enormous expense to th Natives and to the Colony. The value of the land before the Court must have been eaten up in legal expenses. And now we have a fitting climax. Judge Williams announced yesterday morning that, a judgment had been prepared in the Te Whetu case, and signed by himself and-ludge O’Brien, but that the Native Assessor wouldjnot consider and thus the whole proceedings collapses, and is of no effect. It would seem that this is the law, for the Act of 1880 states:—‘ One or more of the assessors shall sit at every Court and assist in the proceedings, and the concurrence of at least one assessor shall be necessary to the validity of any judical act or proceeding of the Court.” This assessor was sent up because it was thought that the grevious one was inclined to be partial, and now he is accused of taking a .-i le. It is not to be wondered at that the Natives are not disposed to bring their land before the Court. These are consumed by lawyers, who are fed at the rate of 10 or 15 guineas a day. and even after this delay a cost a decision cannot be given. It is clear that the law in this matter needs amendment.”