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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 8, 6 July 1886, Page 2

A rather severe shock of earthquake was felt at almut 2 o'clock yesterday morning, preceded by a loud rumbling noise.

Potatoes have advanced 20s per ton in Sydney, and are now quoted at 98a, ‘•A few very questionable veraes” will appear iu our naxt issue. Another destructive fire occurred at Auckland on Friday.

At a meeting held at Wellington on Friday night, it was decided to form a Shortiiaud Writers' Association.

The Kkatahuna Road Hoard intend at its next meeting striking a rate of Jd in the £.

The great Northern Goldinining Company at West Inangahua have struck a rieli leader in the low levul tuunal altar driving 270 faet. All is quiet again at Rotorua, tha clouds of smoka over Tarawera having dispersed. Tilhotu, the old Maori, who was rescued after having been buried over four days at Wairoa, died in the Rotorua hospital on Thursday afternoon. Kapai! Mr Taiarow has obtained the consent of the legislative Council that the correi|nmdenee between Karl I>erby and the Colonial Government, relative to the visit of Tawhiao to England, be printed. Mr William Row*, formerly M.H.K., for the Thames, died on Thuniay evening. Mr C. Oalham announoee that ha has shingles and palings for sale.

There waa a very heavy froet laet night, tlie whole country around being completely covered this morning ; even water in dwellings was frozen hard. We understand Mr Wakeman ia prepared to give a site for a reeding room and library in a very favorable position.

The East and West Coast (Middle Island) and Nelson Railway Construction Act Amendment Hill passed, its third reading in the House on Friday. The meeting called for Saturday night re County matters again fell through, so we presume the settlers are content to allow things to go on aa they are doing. We are willing to aid the district all in our ]>ower, hut our hands must be strengthened by the voice ot the people. Very few attended tWr Parliamentary duties last night, although it was known an important debate waa likely to take place on the Education question.—Mr Miller introduced i» bill to amend the Education Art, providing amongst other things that tlie Bible should be read in schools, with a conscience clause. The question was very eblv debated by Messrs MeCardle, ltesuiey, lteese. Crewe, Yeats, and A. W. Sedcole, all of whom were oppoeed to interfering with the present system. —Tlie debate was adjourned until next meeting.—Mr Lows also introduced a bill to graut advances to iiu]ieeunioua Battlers.

Sir George Grey has introduced another “ fad” into the House under the bead of " a Bill to l’reserve the I jvee of Young Children fr<«n Poisoning by Matches." The next move of the Knight of Kawau we suppose will Ise the introduction of a Kill to provide for the manufacture of noaexplosive gunpowder. There is one thing certain, thi* Purifier Kill will give mem. here another opportunity of string their eloquence at the expense of tha country. At a meeting of tha committee of the l'ahialua Cricket Club, held on Saturday evening, it was decided to aak the Hports Committee to baud over balauoe in hand (amounting to about £5) from laet Tear to assist in further clearing the ground. The reason for making the claim ia that the Cricket Club have borne all the expense of clearing ao far, and considering the Sports Committee have had free use of the ground, it was thought only fair tliey should contribute wwnelhing towards the improvements now contemplated. A meeting of the members of the Cricket Club, the Sports Committee, and those interested iu athletics generally, is eon vened for Friday eveuing, at the school, room, wheh no doubt tlie matter will be settled.

A meeting of the Jubilee Ball Commutes was held last night, when it waa arranged that the ball should be open ouh to iiMtubem of the Union in PahuUua; but that invitations ooitld he issued to friend* at a distance. Owing the lull u*t yet being finished, ao lime has been fixed for the gathering, but it will no doubt le within two weeks.

W* inn-ud. if pmiiU*. II fivf t Nai plel* till of thus.- rlaclad at th* Hutu--slsctions in our n*xt lour. Mr l>. llseae. m»iuti*r for Staiumorv. was on a nail to liia l.rjthsr un Saturday, anal loft again for W'alluigXon l>y way of th* Gorge yesterday morning Mr ilnxr ia unr at th* few who trail*' r implicitly in Sir George firry a* th* only true Liberal in tlie colony, arul it would taka a clsvor man to shake him in that hahat. Pm tha mainhar for Htanmore live* in tha • South Island. wtiara Uia trus aviU af Ota I Maori war war* not known; ilharnm wa haliav# tia wouM hol<l a vary different ' opinion to the so-calla-l Liberal of N*w ''inland Soma of Ilia seltlrn of Paliiatu* lava an erroneous nlaa regarding tha objects of the “ Star." They imagine it «u start a-1 solely for tha purpose of supplying nawa. ami that telegraph poiae. atraat door*. Jtr., are still to bo advertising iiia-liuuis. Thu sort of thini; no dnubt answered vary wall liefore Pahiatua boasted of a n*wi|<ap*r of its own: but il looks exceedingly had now. Wa are awar* that hail habits taka a long time to aura, hut it is to I* ho|ied this one won't taka as long as most.

The South Australian Advertiser save:— “It ia rather a ranuvrkahle (act that although ‘JO years ago rabbits wars plentiful at tils foot of tha Mount, ynt now one may walk two or three miles from Melrose without getting a single shot, and rahlut pie is on* of tha things of tha |<aat. The ilaatruetion of tha bnnnia* ia ascribed to tha presence of so many iguauaa, which devour the young ones.'' The following paragraph should interest farmers :—Fortunately lima la oue of tha most generally found of tha organir constituent* of tha soil, whan we rameuiber that iu twenty -five btiahele of oats there are nine pounds of linis; in thirty-eight bushels of barley, fifteen pounds; in two ton* of clover hay, thirty-five pounds ; in twenty-five tons of turnips, oue hundred and forty pounds; in two hundred and fifty bushels of |>otatoee, two hundred and seventy pound*. In delivering judgment in the eaaa of the ship Lyttelton at Timaru. the Court said that considering tha lose of tha vessel was mainly due to want of skill on the pari of tha master of tha Grafton. ha should i*y the c<«ts of the impiiry, but did not deal with his certificate, as thare was no evidence to show inefficiency in oedinary navigation, but only when acting as tug ms tier. The captain and officers of the Lyttelton ware entirely exonerated from blam* and their certificates relumed. While li Special train was returning from the opening of the railway to Kingal on Wednesday last, it Uft the rails at a place about twenty miles from Hobart, and became a complete wreck. The engine wa* shattered, the driver being killed on the spot, and the stoker has sinre died of injuries received. Two carriages were telescojied. Amongst the passenger*, Mr Dodds, Attorney-Oeneral, Mr Iturgess, Colonial Treasurer, the Mayor and six aldermen, the Press representatives, and several others were

more or less seriously- injured. The Premier, Dr Agnew, wa* severely shaken. Mr Heethant, It. M., ha* given an iinjiortant decision at Christchurch under I the Licensing Act. The licensee of the Terminus Hotel, who has an extension of the cloeing hour to li o'clock, was accused of selling liquor during the | time his house should be closed, vis., i about midnight. The Magistrate held that tlie amended Licensing Act of KWi, while providing for the granting of extended licenses to 11 o'clock had mads no provision for the closing at 11 o'clock of hotels so licensed. Clause 154 of the Act of 1881 provided that hou.es haring extended licenses should be closed at uihlnigtn, and as this was the only clause dealing with the subject, he dismissed the information. He remarked that there hail elearly been an oversight in the amending Act of 1081 That is a curious case of Mcllae's insurance (says the Wanganui Herald.) Hare is a man who, in the midst of a night of un*<|tialled horror, keeps cool, and undoubtedly did save his projvorly from the numerous fireltalla by heroic exertion. The house, saved from fire by Mcltae, is wracked hy the ashes and mml. The Compsmv refuse to pay, as they consider destruction bv blue mud “not iu the hill,'' so to s|ieak. Now, if Mcllae when leaving had allowed two or three fireballs to ignite the place, would the coiujiaiiy have paid ? In case of deslnartion hy lightning, 1 lielieve an insurance company is liable, and twixt fireballs and lightning there is little difference at any rate in the results. Considered from this point of view, Mcltae should liave allowed tlie fireball* to work their evil way, and so entitled himself to the compensation which the company now somewhat stingily refuse. The captaiu of the Triumph intends jiroceeding against the Union Company's agent at Sydney for damages, on account of the agent cabling to New Zealand the new* of the Triumph grounding at Sydney Heads. He considers that undue haste we* shown in wiring the news, and that the danger to the ship was much magnified. Sir Ueorgc Grey has asked the Government, if they can take any Maps to prosecute, under the Poisons Art, the person 1 who sold the wax vesta matches, hy whieh the female child of Mr W. P. Mackey, of Invercargill, was recently poisoned, the case I coutaimug the matches not having been marked " poison," as required by the Asl ?—Ths Minister of Justice eaul be was of opinion that tliare was no ground for a criminal proeecutioa.—Sir George llien gave notice to introduce a ltsll to prevent the sal* of pussuoone matches. At the last meeting of the Wellington Education Hoard it was mentioned that there were 11,57 m children between the age* of 6 and 15 in the district. (HMD of whom were receiving lutSsew at the State schools, which showed that MttH were not accounted for. The question of com pulsory attendance was deferred until next meeting. Per the first four months of this year (saw* Hie Napier Telegraph) the imports of wool into England exceeded those of the rurm|*«ndmg period of the previous year by eleven million lbs, while the elporta from England of foreign and onlomal wool increased by ten mdhotis, so Lite Uoui market's consumption had in- - creased very slightly. The Sydney Morning Herald’s nma tondeul of tlie Indian and Colonial Ex- ; hibiuon. after referring Iu the Micros* of the South Australian buah arena, ears’ I have no hesitation ui saving that, m my humble opinion. Sir Samuel Davenport is Ur aud aw ay the ablest practical cihihtliouiet now m Sooth Kensington. He m pre-asm nan! I v *• a working man." aud to the absolute horror of vervain member, at

that class who to tbcsiaelvat that daaignattoc exclusively. Le it.s.its os

being in his court at 6 a.tu., vch.ii, with his "mat oil," he pr.a-.-fd* to work in a I msnu-r that miu|Jv breaks thv Start' «■! hi. " stall" i.iid (airly di'gdsfe lls Prili.li artisan - -supl yert to is -1 them "Call hun a Six. " ,t lsum-1 one ui these wortlnes to a male the oilier day : “ why he actually n-nrice himself, with e •'list* of torvis. with his cjM -.T.' Jhit after all thu class is q i.uk at detect ng ! the genmne gentleman tr-.m th* "pest-- | imitation a* are the vllad writing | classes, and everyone in the Ifeulh An* i tralian court quickly begin to realise that < in tlie homelv looking old man <d three tr-ore-and ten. who knew everything ami con Id work longer and better thau any if them, they lied a somewhat n,.te\v orthy personage to deal w itb William Howland. <-barged with the uiur<l*r of Edward Neave, was trie,l a second tune at Giabom* uu Thursday, and the jury relumed a verdict of guilty, with a reromnietidatioii <*f inrvvy. Sen fence of death was passed. Ths jwisocier declared himself tn be innocent. Tlie Native Minister, in answer I*. Mr Grace, said it was not true that lb Hector • had recrmtmetelcd the removal of the

townahip of Kotorua to the vr-t side of the lake. If Dr Hector had made such a 1 rerouiiti.tidiilion he should consider it a very foolish one. The township of Kotorua had bs-uii fixed bv law, and could It.* be altered. Mr Chamberlain has given notiee to move in tlie Council on I'nday next. That Li tlie o|>mion of this Council. it is of the , utmost importance to the permanent pnaqa-rity of Ui* Colony of New Zealand that every encouragement should be given to manufacturing industries by tlie iinpoei tit'll of protecti'e duties. Haliffs Isays the New Zealand Times, are not noted for their bowels of com passion, and therefor* little syrapathv is expected from them when pursuing tVieir impleaaanl avocation. The Itesident Magistrate’s Court on Friday w as amused, however, at an inatance of seal on the |art of a well-known bailiff which was mentioned in the course of evidence taken. The bailiff in question, while distraining for rent, took a saucepan off the fire. - turned Um> meat out which was being rooked for dinner, placed it on a piece of iwjier, and seized the saucepan. Such real in tlie execution of duty is worthy of reward—but of what kiud it is perhaps heat not to stale. A letter has been received by a gentle i man in Dunedin (says tlie IHago llaily Times) from a settler near Tara.lab-, about eight mile* from Napier, ia which he states that a well of water which wa* , used for domestic purposes, and which prior to the eruption at Tar aw era was beautifully cold and clear, lias since tlien Income quite hot, and now runts steam ll* also static that the Maoris of the dis i trirt some months prior to tlie eruption , predicted that the town of Napier will be destroyed by eathquakes in the month of , July. It is to be hoped this latest pralsr turn will uol become an accomplished fact.

The Dunatan Times saysA good thing reaehea us from Bald 11 ill Flat, and a* record it as a grin. It ap|>ear* that during a recent examination of the school there the question was put by the Inspector to the whole school—“ What n the name of the County you live in f" The answers came thick anil fast—Bald Hill Flat, Otago. New Zealand. Speargraa*. Old Man Range. One of the advanced pupils, on returning home, told Ilia mother all shout it, and got the ready reply—“ If hr hail asked me that question I would have soon told him. Sure and its the Comity Council." Nays an Exchange :—According to a decision given by Mr Kevell. U.M., and Mr E. Herbert, J.l‘., from the Lawrence Bench, " Boarders in hotels are not privileged to shout for their friends after hours." We should like to nee ths decision of a Judge of the Supreme Court on this point. For our oven part we feel assured the lergialalure, let whatever the written law say to the country, never intended so serious an infringement on the liberty of the subject as to prevent him according to a friend tha hospitalities of his house, as for the tune being the hotel is as much a hoarder's house as would be a rented furnished house that was not encumbered with a license. .According to a Gisborne paper, a somewhat amusing incident occurred st the last meeting of the Cook County Council. It appears that the Ho** Hotel property at >S aiapu lias been assigned to the Council for debt, and to protect the rate payer* iuterest in the property, it devolved on the Council to apply for a renewal of the license, whieh wa* granted. At the Council meeting —" Cr Cannon suggested that thu Chairman go up and run the hotel. Cr Ferris thought the Councillors should take a month about. He could assure them that the Council would not derive much benefit from the month hs was there. (I-aughtcr.)" The Council ultimately decided to earn out their new function* of hotel-keeper by deputy. As a strict matter of law (ears “ Fuff " in the Wellington Press), I behave the leasees must pay relit to the end of ninetynine years, and take the chance <4 good or bad bad luck from volcanic action. WTell, | am advised differently ! My bsjrw says Tarawera ia a Government volcano, and tlie Government are dietinctly liable for the damage douet Not unless negligence is proved I Thera we* no on* in charge of the volcano at the time, and Dr Hector did not arrive to stop the eruption until after the mischief was done. Contrary to the expi-etaliona ef many (says the N. Tunas), tlie alias Lstnds Administration UsN gut safely through committee on Frida* afternoon, all attacks upon il* prut istons being defeated by large majorities. This scores another point to the Government, of w bnee policy the me* sure was deemed- by many ooe of lb* most accessible u> assault.