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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2985, 19 January 1881, Page 2

The Ringarooma, whioh leaves Port Chalmers to-day, brings 175 Linooln rams from the of Messrs Sutton, Southland, for the Napier ram fair.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preeoo, R.M., Thomas MoManus, charged -with drunkenness, did not appear, and his bail of £1 was ordered to be estreated.. The Court then rose.

The following gentlemen are Gazetted Reviewers under " The Property Assessment Act, 1879," for the Hawkes Bay Distriofc:— R. Stuart, C. J. Nairn, J. Lawrence, J. C. Herrick,H.R. Duff, J. Powdrell, T. J. Steele,

Elders Sorensen and Bailey, of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, advertise that they will hold meetings at Hastings on Thursday, at Kaikora and Waipawa on Friday, at Waipukurau and Takapau on Saturday, and at Kopua on Sunday. They express themselves willing to answer all honest and respectful questions.

We learn from Te Aute that several children lately set out for a walk to the pa. On the road they found some tutu berries, of which they ate a great many. One of tbe children was in a fit for two hours from the effect of the poison, and its life was at one time despaired of. Ithag been suggested 'that all such plants should be cleared from the road-side by the authorities.

. The return matoh between the Hawke's ;Bay County and the Waipawa Town Uricket Clubs will be played at Hastings on the 29th instant. The following players will represent the County:—Messrs Brathwaite. Cluny, Gilberd, Kettle, Liddle, Luke, Murray, Scruby, Tanner, Alien Williams, and Alexander Williams; Emergency, Chad wick and Moore. ',

Professor Haselmayer did not complain ;of the quality- of the gas last night as asserted by the Herald this morning. "All that the Professor said was that his canaries iwere accustomed to a stronger light than that which the arrangement of the gas jets permitted; he had spoken to the lessees with the objeot of getting an alteration, but 'they did not see their way to make any alteration, as.bis season was to be so short. The fact is the quality of the gas was never better, ..-..-,-

We learn from Wellington that Mr Bryce finally relinquished the charge of the Native and Defence Department yesterday, and Mr Kolleston assumed control., The Wellington Post says we havo the best authority for stating that the vacancy in the Cabinet ■will not be tilled up until the majority of Ministers have reassembled in Wellington. For the different guesses hazarded as to the Native Minister, there is no foundation whatever, and the matter has not yet come even indirectly under the consideration of the Government. Indeed it would probably be safe to assume that nothing will be done in the affair before the close of the ourrent month.

Our Lendon cablegrams announce that the sculling match between Hanlan and Laycook will take place on Saturday next. A telegram to the Melbourne Argus states that Laycock is jubilant as to his chances of success, but, on the other hand, wo learn by a later message received through Reuter that the betting is 5 to 2 on Hanlan. These are heavy odds, and show that in England the result of the race is looked upon as a foregone conclusion. Hanlan is generally admitted to be the finest sculler who has ever appeared on the Thames, and it is extremely unlikely—barring accidents —that Laycook will be able to wrest from him the honor of the championship. On Sunday last Richard Wood, son of a resident at Hastings, who is on a visit to Taupo, aocompanied by Mr McLeod, of the same place, while visiting the springs in the ivicinity of the Crows Nest sank through a thin crust of earth into boiling water, scalding himself above the knees. Had it not been for his companion being near more serious consequences would have ensued. Mr McLeod promptly telegraphed to Mr Wood's father to the bffeot that his son would not be able to ride back, and advising him to come up. Mr Wood left by the coach this morning for Taupo, and intends to ride the horse down himself, and have his son conveyed in the ooaoh when able to

travel. , A writer, with statistical predileotion, says:—"Tho capital employed in feeding and olothing the civilised world is amazing. It is estimated that there are from 484,000,000 to 600,000,000 sheep in the world, or, at the lowest estimate, 320,883 miles of sheep, if strung along, one closely following the other—or nearly enough to encircle the earth thirteen times. Of these, the United States have 30,000,000— that is, nearly enough to make a solid column of sheep, eight in a row, from New York to San Francisco. Great Britain has about the same number of sheep as the United Stateß, and her wool clip increased from 94,000,0001bs in 1801 to 32.5,000,0001bs in 1875. France and Austria produce about as much, but the United States product is only. about 200,000,0001bs —not two-thirds of that of Great Britain.'* The great sheepbreeding countries of Australia, New Zealand, South Afrioa and tho River Plate, brought the total wool olip of the world last year up to 1,497,500,000, worth, at a ttwi estimate, £300,000,000. .-

The adjourned meeting of the Distnot School Committee took place last evening. Tho draft report and balance-sheet were submitted t •■> the meeting and adopted, The Rev. D. Sidey aud Mi R. Dobson were nominated to the vacant seats on the Education Board. Votes of thanks to the chairman and secretary for their services during the last year brought the melting to a termination.

At a recent ball given by Lord Ardilaun in Ireland, constabulary escorted the guests, the house was patrolled, sentinels paced under the windows, and weapons were stacked in the hall.

On the eightieth birthday of the Count yon Moltke, which occurred a little -while ago, the Emperor William proposed to surprise him by creating him a Prince, but the old warrior proudly declined the honor.

The Russian traveller Remirowitch-Dant-schenko has discovered on the highland of Datrhestan a tribe resembling Consacks, but following 1 the Mosaic law strictly, and retaining ancient Jewish names—undoubtedly one of the lost tribes.

If republicanism should ever get the ascendancy in her empire during her life* time, Queen Victoria becomes plain Mrs Wettin, as that, and no other, is the family name of her late husband, according to Theodore Martin, his biographer.

Mr Froude, the hi-torian, has written to an Irish gentleman a Ittt-er whi;h is printed iv The Times. He says:—"The present state of things canrut la»t, and the agitation will probably oblige the Government to call. Parliament togethfr eaily, perhaps for a November tfesrion. They will then bring in a bill to satisfy the Parnell party, and the House of Lords will throw it out. Then there will be an appeal to the country. So farjl see, and no further. Ido not know what answer tbe consiituenoies will give. Ireland and the Irish people may still be safe'if we snow that we are not afraid; that we will at last try to be just, and that one function of just'ee is to punish crime. If Messrs Gladt-tone and Forster have their way, then, civil war, which the Prime Minister spoke of, is, I think, inevitable. Home rule will follow, and Ulster Protestants will never submit to the legislation of a Home Rule Parliament. I am greatly attached to the Irish people. I wish to save them from the fate which surely awaits them if they are again brought into oollision with this country."

Mr Cardono, who is conneoted with' Womwell's Menagerie, gives a very good account of the manner in which he tamed his pet tiger. '1 his tiger, the only one in the menagerie, was captured in India in the jungle, when a oub, and is now aoout five years old, and is confined with four fine lions in the same cage; they seem to get on very well together. Mr Cardono, who is called the great American lion tamer, enters this den with all the coolness imaginable, and seems to be as much the pet of the lions as the lions are pets of his. The most remarkable thing in this performance is the affection manifested by the tiger for his keeper. After the lions and tiger have gone through their performances the tiger walks gently toward his keeper, puts his fore paws on his shoulders, and licks his face, 'with all the seeming affection of a petted child. The keeper assured the public that all this is the result of kindness, tempered with firmnesa and judgment. This is the only man as far as we know that the public have seen exhibit suoh wonderful power over a tiger. All the animals under Mr Cardono's control are in splendid condition, especially the lions, there being no less than sixteen splendid ones. It 'is worth going a long journey, to see the result of kindness on one of the most unlikely animals in the world.

The St. James's Gazette, referring to the death of Sir Alexander Cockburn, says:— } " The los-i which the judicial bench and the legal profession have sustained by the death of the Lord Chief Justice will, serious as it is, be far more easily made good than that which the public at large may be said to have suffered by the event. There are, no doubt, many English lawyers who cculd worthily claim the succession to Sir Alexander Cockburn,.and in whose hands the office now left vacant would be administered with equal efficiency ; but to those—and they probably include the majority of educated Englishmen—who have been wont to look: beyond the strictly judicial qualities of the late* Lord Chief Justice, and to find a special appropriateness to the dignity of his position in the exceptionally brilliant and varied abilities which he possessed, it will seem difficult, if not impossible, to find his fitting successor. In hia oratorical gift alone he had for many years past been beyond the reach of rivalry, and the faculty in which he excelled is one which is apparently becoming.more and .more rare in the profession to which he belonged, if not, indeed, in every department of our publio life. But, beyond and above all special acquirements, there was a general air of intellectual mastery, of mental force and grasp, about fir Alexander Cockburn's work in every branch of his duties which was willingly recognized even by those of hip colleague! who:<e legal learning may have been more profound than his own. It was this which maue him so: impressive a figure in the eyes of his countrymen, and which now makes: them f'?el even more strongly, as we have said, than the members of his own profession the great difficulty of; filling his place."