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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2978, 11 January 1881, Page 2

Mr E. Lyndon will sell at his rooms tomorrow 20 cases Poverty Bay apples and a quantity of new potatoes.

The Charitable Aid Society have dispensed the amount of £250 during the half-year ended December 31st, in rations, clothing, etc.

The regular monthly meeting of the Victoria Lodge of Freemasons takes place in the Masonic Hall, Munroe-street, this evening.

A pigeon match is to be held at West Clive on the 21sfc instant. From tho support promised it is expected that the prizes will amount to about £100.

The San Francisco mail was duo at Auckland, by contract date, yesterday, but as tho steamer left San Francisco a day behind her time, she need not be looked for till to-day.

We would remind intending excursionists that the steamers Boojum and Result leave the Spit to-morrow morning for the Wairoa races, the former at 7 a.m., and the latter at 8 a.m.

A meeting of all Foresters interested in the establishment of a sanctuary of tho Ancient Order of Shepherds is convened for this evening, at 8 o'clock, at the Working Men's Hub Hall.

A meeting of tho committee of the Napier Rowing Club was held last night, at whioh it was resolved that the match for tho silver sculls should be rowed in tho inner harbor on th 6 22nd instant.

It will be seen by our Sydney telegrams that another massacre is reported at tho Solomon Island, the crew of tbe Sydney schooner Zephyr having been murdered and the vessel plundered and burnt.

A special meeting of tho members of the Union Rowing Club has been called for this evening at tho Provincial Hotel for the purpose of electing a match committee to select crows for the forthcoming regatta.

We learn that further informations have been laid against several Wellington publicans for Sunday trading. Tho polico intend to carry out their instructions until tho provisions of tho law are strictly complied with.

The Egyptian Gazette, discoursing on visitors' books in Continental hotols, rooords tho fact that threo American young ladies, at an inn at tho villago of Simplon, filled in the column of the book hoaded "Occupation" with the words, " Looking for a husband.'"

A man was brought up at tho Christchurch Polico Court yesterday charged with driving across the railway lino thrco foot in front of tho engine. Tho Bench inflicted a fine of Xl with £1 Os costs. Tho defendant pleaded that ho never heard tho whistle, although it was provod to have been blowing for some time before. We loam that it was a miracle tho man was not dashed to atoms.

The Dunedin Cricket .Association intend playing a team of twenty against the Australian eleven.

In response to numerous applications from the residents in tho Ellesmere district, the Government have given instructions to continue platelaying for eight miles more on the Christchurch and railway. Our correspondent says the railway will then be as useless as ever.

Another insurance company—the Ham-burg-Magdeburg—has commenced business ir. this district, and is prepared to take risks at the lowest rates. The advertisement states that the company has no connection with any tariff association. Mr F. Pell has been appointed agent for Hawke's Bay.

A Dunedin clergyman was reported by ono of the papers some time ago as having put up a very comprehensive prayer. He prayed for " all who were in jails," and also tor "all who ought to be there tut were not," a petition which, as the reporter judiciously remarked, might be regarded as a prayer for " all sorts and conditions of men."

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Capt. Preece, R.M., Charles Tippiny, on remand for lunacy, wasfurther remanded till to-morrow, as no medical certificate had been received. Henry Piiue, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s and costs, or in default 48 hours imprisonment. This was all the business before the Court.

Hawke's Bay sheepfarmers have carried off two second prizes for wool at the Mcl bourne Exhibition. Mr Donald Gollan, of Mangatarata, has obtained a second prize for merino, and Mr Thomas Tanner a similar honor for unwashed longwool. With the competition Hawke's Bay wools had to contend against, our sheepfarmers may be well satisfied with gaining second places in both classes.

vVe are informed that a determined attempt was made last night to burn down the house occupied by Mr Rose, butcher, at Havelock. The incendiary piled a lot of straw against the side wall of the building and set it alight, expecting the wall would catch fire, but the rain coming on soon after, together with the drippings from the roof, extinguished the flames without any damage being done. The matter has been reported to the police.

A New York telegram to the Fan Francisco Post says:—"Three weeks ago Mrs Mary Mayer, of 462, First-street, Jersey City, died of typhoid fever and was buried. The body appeared lifelike, and the cheeks after death were highly colored. This preyed on the mind of a daughter of the deceased to such a degree that she caused the remains to be exhumed. It was then discovered that the woman had turned on her face in the coffin, and that in her struggles she had torn one ear almost off."

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Loan Society connected with the "Working Men's Club took place last evening. It was decided, after placing a moderate sum to the reserve fund, to declare a dividend of five per cent, on the half-year. As showing the present commercial state of Napier, the savings of the members of the Working Men's Club invested in the Loan Society amounted to £286 for the half-year. This does not look muoh like commercial depression amongst the working classes.

In the Cape Argus on September 17 we find the following from a correspondent at Tulbagh : —" Not very long ago a friend of mine was complaining of a severe cold and hoarseness. I told him to chew some blue gum leaves, and in one hour he came back to me and said he was neai'ly well. I may say it has been tried with children also, by stamping the leaves fine and using the juice thus extracted, and in every instance, has, I believe, proved efficacious, even in very severe affections of the chest. A more simple —though nauseous—cure for a cold I cannot well imagine."

A clever robbery was effected in Paris the other day. A young clerk had just received a sum of £120 in gold from a house in the Rue de Maubeuge, when a rogue, bareheaded, with a pp.n stuck in his ear. rushed after him, told him that a mistake had been made in the account, and pretended to offer a packet of notes, made up to the right sum, in place of the bag of bullion. The young clerk supposed that the rascal was an employe in the house he had just left, and handed over the bag, whereon the bareheaded impostor made off. He has not since been heard of, and his address is unknown to the police.

The first meeting for the new year of the Taradale District Board of River Conservators was held yesterday in the Taradale Hotel at 3 p.m. Mr George Condie was elected chairman for the year. The minutes of the previous meeting were road and confirmed. Mr William Lord took his seat as a member of the Bo*ard. The sum of £11 18s 3d was passed for payment of small accounts. Mr S. F. Anderson was reappointed secretary to the Board. The members of the Board then adjourned to the river Tutaekuri to decide upon several small works for the better protection of the river bank in one or two weak places.

The Waimate Times of Saturday publishes the following as furnished by an eyewitness :—"The fastest time made at any of the athlectic events of the recent holidays was done by an Oamaru member of the light-fingered brigade, who shot past me in the main street, at about 10.45 on Tuesday night at a 'maddening' rate of speed, doing the mile in something like 3min. 375e0., while behind him, in the distance, laboring heavily, were three rather corpulent cits, from whose demeanor I drew the conclusion that, had they been able to overtake the fugitive, the result would not have been altogether ' bootless.' "

TheLyttelton Times contrasts the courage of a girl with the cowardice displayed by a number of men, who, but for the girl, might have found themselves in a rather awkward position. The youngest child of Mr Nashelski, while playing on the bank of the Avon by tho Madras-street bridge, fell into the water. Had it not been for the presence of mind displayed by a young girl named M'Dermott, who jumped in and rescued the child, the accident must havo terminated fatally. The water was very deep at the spot where the child fell in, and it was not until some considerable time had elapsod that it recovered from the effects of its immersion. There wero a number of men near the spot, but none of them mado any effort to save the child.

We learn from our English files that Mr Swan, a chemist of great repute at Newcastle, and brother of our follow townsman, has invented an electric lamp, which for brilliancy and economy supersedes Edison's. His lamp is small, simple, and inexpensive; is, in fact, a hanging glass phial containing the necessary appliances, and the light can be turned on or off instantaneously. Wo learn that Mr Swan has amassed a largo fortune by other scientific inventions, his business for some years past having been in collodion for photographic purposes, and that which he produces has perhaps the largest sale in tho world. Mr Swan is so satisfied with his light that ho proposes to illuminate one of tho streets of Nowoastlo at his own expense.

On the subject of snuffing, a curious calculation has been left on record by Lord Stanhope. " Every professed, invotorate, and incurable snuff-taker," says his lordship, "at a moderate computation takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeablo ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose and other incidental circumstances, consume one minute and a half. One minuto and a half out of ovory ten, allowing sixteen hours for a snuff-taking day, amounts to two hours and twonty-four minutes out of every natural day, or one day out of ton. One day out of every ten amounts to thirty-six days and a half in a year. Hence, if we suppose the practice to bo persisted in forty years, two entire years of the snuff-taker's life will be dedicated to tickling his nose, and two more to blowing it!" '

Several men lately swam the Mississipi River above New t h-leans for a wiger. A reporter of the race says:— "None of them seemed to be putting forth much effort till ifc was discovered that an alligator had struck out from shore as a competitor ; and th en — we ll, every man did his best to keep the alligator from carrying off the stake?."

The Parisians are going to pay a graceful compliment to the memory of a distinguished man. A statue is to he erected to Alexandre Dumas in tke Place Malesherbes, where he lived. " Brave, good, kind, old Alexandre," as Thackeray once called him, certainly deserves this tribute from the people of Paris, whose lives ho did so much to enlighten while he lived. His brilliant, storiesriiis admirable plays, and his own personality were the delight of Paris for more than forty years, and have been read with the greatest pleasure by Englishmen m every part of the world. It has been the fashion for a certain class of critics, both French and English, to sneer at Dumas, and to attack him for getting assistance in his books, a charge against which Thackeray very strongly championed him. There is a recompense for the malevolence of some of his critics in the homage which the Paris of to-day is ready to pay to his memory.