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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4056, 26 May 1900, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found an account, by a former Hawke’s Bay resident, of the state of affairs at Ladysmith, during the siege.

The Waipawa volunteers paraded on the Queen’s Birthday and fired a feu de joie.

The Queen has promoted Colonel Baden-Powell to the rank of MajorGeneral.

The Premier is expected to return from the islands about June 15th, calling first at Auckland.

It is stated that within the next twelve months over 20,000 acres of the Mangatoro estate will be opened for settlement.

It may interest the many friends of Lieutenant Collett to know that he does not leave Wellington for South Africa until this day week. Attention is directed to the sale of Mr W. J. Standley’s furniture, which will take place in the Oddfellows’ Hall, on Friday next. The present high price of fat sheep is shown by the sale this week of 3000 wethers on the Corwar estate, Rakaia, at £1 a head in the paddock for freezing.

Somo feeling has been arouse 1 in the south by the action of the Minister of Mines, ip conducting his official inspection of mining properties on Sundays, and he has been taken severely to task in both the pulpit and the press, for this violation of the sanctity of the Sabbath.

This week's issue of the Weekly Press contains a number of views of the Wanganui encampment, taken by Mr W. Golder. Mr Golder announces that he has purchased Mr Standley’s photographic outfit and can supply photographs from negatives taken by that gentleman. News from Taupo states that on the day after the famous old priest Rangitahau was buried at Opope his old friend (tried and sturdy companion in many a scrape, Te Hemopo) took ill and died a few hours afterwards. This, as predicted by the Maoris nearly 50 years ago, completes the seventh' and last victim doomed to suffer death because of the violation of some law of tapu said to cover Mr Nelson’s carved house “Rauru ” at Whakarewarewa, which was opened by Rangitahau lately. At the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, before Messrs Johnson and Inglis, Justices, George Massey-Watson appeared to answer two charges of ob taming goods by false pretences. Sergeant Smart conducted the prosecution. On the first charge, of obtaining goods valued at 19s 6d, from Mr A. Buchan, of Waipukurau, he was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, without hard labour, in Napier gaol. On the second charge, of obtaining a suit of clothes, valued at £5, from Mr Horton, of Waipukurau, accused was committed for trial. Accused told the prosecutor that Bishop Neville, of Dunedin, held funds of his amounting to £24,000 but the Bishop, who was a witness, said he had never seen accused before and held no money of his. It was evident that Watson had beeu drinking, for Detective Benjamin, who arrested him, said he was then suffering from delirium tremens. John Cosgrove, of Elsthorpe, who was remanded to Napier for medical treatment, has been pronounced to be insane. In all probability he will be taken to the Wellington lunatic asylum.