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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2998, 3 February 1881, Page 2

Mass will be celebrated by the Rev. E. Reignier next Sunday at Havelook at 11 a.m.

We understand that there has been no communication as yet from the agent of the Australian eleven fixing the date of their match, with the Hawke's Bay team. Their match with Wanganui is fixed for the Ilth and 12th, aud it seems probable that they will only vißit Napier if it is quite convenient.

The monthly meeting of the Church of England Temperance Society was held in ■St. John's Sohool-room last evening, the Bishop of Waiapu in the chair. A design for a monogram was submitted by Mr P. Bear and approved of. A committee was appointed to make arrrangements for the first quarterly meeting at which it is probable Sir William Fox will be present.

The prizes won at the recent shooting competition of the Rifle Association, will be presented by His Worship the Mayor on Wednesday evening next, at the Supreme Court House. Tickets of admission will be given to members of the association and others, and a portion of the room will be reserved for ladies. "There will be a full parade of volunteers on the occasion, and the bands will be in attendance.

In the report of the Inspector of Nuisances tv tho Borough C mncil it is stated that several dogs lad been buried under his (the Inspector's) orders. These orders are evidently not disinfectant. Now, if the dogs had been buried under ground there wonld be fewer carcases and less smell.

In our report of the meeting at Farndon for the formation of the Pakowhai and Waitangi Road Board an error ocenrred, which our contemporary, in this morning's issue, faithful to its proclivities, has cooied With unimpeachable exactitude, clearly indicating the source from whence he obtains his local information. Instead of Hore Katene, it was Mr Theakstone who was elected a member of the Board.

At the hospital committee meeting yesterday afternoon attention was called to the general consumption of the supplies, and to the expenditure in the ordinary work of the hospital. It was said that there were rumours abroad concerning the extravagant management of the institution. With a view to remove all false impressions upon the subject, the visiting committee weie instructed to enquire and fully report upon the matter.

In our report of the Municipal Council proceedings of last night it will be seen that the Mayor and Councillors paid a high compliment to Mr F. 8. Peppercorne for the zeal and ability that gentleman had shown in the discharge of his duties as borough engineer, an appointment he has held for six years. Mr Peppercorne leaves for Sydney next Saturday, and will take with him the hearty good wishes of the residents of this town.

The accidental firing of a patch of long dry grass in the vacant space between '1 ennyson and Emerson-streets, opposite the private residence oi Mr Tuxford, shows the danger of permitting vegetation to grow rank within the town boundary. There are many places where a spark falling would set Sre to dry grass and weeds that would threaten the destruction of gardens, and even of houses. Something should certainly be done by the authorities to lessen the danger that exists during the present dry season.

The County Council should feel much indebted to Messrs Hollis, Conroy, and Martin, for the oourse they pursued in order to bring prominently forward the oonstant evasion of the Slaughter-houses Act that is going on in the County. It would appear that many butchers are in the habit of borrowing the licensed slaughter-houses of others, under the impression that the Act permitted the lioensee to slaughter," or cause to bB slaughtered." A reference to the Act will effectually dissipate any such idea. Section 23 is as follows: —" Any such license may be granted in respect of large cattle only, or of both, at the disoretion of the authority granting the same ; and such license shall entitle the person named therein, or Ms servants , to slaughter only the description of cattle named in the license at the place in respeot of which suoh license is granted." By no interpretation of the Act can an independant butcher be deemed the servant of the holder of a slaughterhouse license.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, Captain Preeoe, R._. gave his decision in the case of Grubb v. Ruddock, the evidence in the case being taken yesterday. His Worship said he believed this was the first case which had been brought under this Aot, and as there seemed to be some doubt as to the meaning of a portion of section 16 of the Act he thought it right to read the " Injuries by Dogs Aot, 1865,'' for the purpose of oonstruing it. He found that olause 2of the Act of 1865 clearly made the owner liable for any injury done or occasioned by bis dog. In this case (if it were a strong one) he should read the Aot as if the words " on conviction" were not there, as it is clearly the intention of the Legislature that a person shall be liable to a penalty if his dog oauses injury to or startles any person whereby life and limb shall be endangered; but as he did not think thip case sufficiently strong to justify a penalty, he would dismiss it, each party paying their own costs. William Swanson was charged with drunkenness, and fined 10s, or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labour.

A good story comes from a State school not 100 miles from Te Aro (Wellington). A teacher enthusiastic in the cause of temperance offered a prize of £1 to any boy in his class who could answer the question, " What is worse than strong drink ?" The youngsters were fairly puzzled; but one diminutive urchin determined to make a shot for the filthy lucre, and answered, " Weak drink." The horrified master still retains the stakes.

A Berne telegram to a London paper says that a merchant of that city has been sentenced to imprisonment for three years and a half for a very hearties fraud, perpetrated on a young lady to whom he was going to get married. He took her to London to marry her, and while there he possessed himself of her fortune of 15,000fr. and all the jewellery she had, and left her at an hotel without a penny. The jury found him guilty, without any extenuating circumstances.

Some amusing anecdotes are told of physicians. This one, though very amusing, I think has a fairy-like foundation: Littre and Robin, the distinguiehed French physicians, were engaged in the preparation of a " Dictionary of Medicine." Once, while they were seated side by side at the same table, one of them, feeling an itching sensation in his leg, laid down his pen and scratched his companion's limb instead of his own. The latter, feeling his leg scratched, concluded that he was scratching it himself, and laid down his pen in order to devote himself exclusively to the operation.

A London paper reports that the London Presbytery met recently, and took up the charge against the Rev. Dr. Donald Fraser, moderator of Synod, for publishing a sermon on " The Lord's Day," which was said to be at variance with the Confession of Faith. Mr Robertson, an elder, read extracts from the sermon in question to show that Dr. Fraser held that the Lord's Day was not the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment, hence its observance was not morally bindin?. Dr. Fraser made a statement to the effect that he held and taught the moral obligation to religiously keep the first day of the week. He would not oppose the opening of museums and picture galleries on the Sunaays, but for his views on this question he did not hold himself amenable to the Presbytery. Dr. Fraser'a statement was considered entirely satisfactory, and the Presbytery unanimously resolved not to proceed further in the matter.

A special correspondent of the Freeman gives the popular version of the case of Captain Boycott and the cause of the enmity against him. He states that Captain Boycott is brave to a fault, and is also eccentric. He says his rules in his dealings with the labourers were punctilious to a harsh and Quixotic degree. The labourers state that, instead of summoning them, he used to fine them himself Id a fowl for every hen that trespassed on his grass farm; that a man was fined if he left a spade or shovel in the wrong place ; fined if he left a gate open; fined if he took a short-cut across a field ; fined if he was two minutes behind the ring of the bell—with the result that a man employed at 9s a week sometimes found himself only entitled to 7s after his week's labour. His dogmatic and domineering tone with the people appears to have been another prolific cause of enmity against him. "He treated his cattle better than he did us," said one of his tenants ; " he nevar had anything but a curse for us." A certain amount of gratuitous " duty work" was done upon his farm by the tenants for some time after his appointment as agent for Lord Erne, but his unpopularity led a refusal to continue the duty work any longer.

The price of a wife in Siberia is eight dogs, and an exceptionally good wife is worth ten dogs. But dogs are plentiful in that country, and a wife dosen't cost as much m the doge seem to indicate.

A man in lowa has been arrested fo* assaulting his own wife, and he was found guilty, even though it was shown that he only stuffed her mouth full of putty when he wanted to go to sleep. Do men have no rights at all ? Atßilston, England, not long ago, a woman, in reply to the inquiries of the magistrate, informed him that she had been married 40 years, and having been whipped by her husband every day since, had received 14,600 beatings. The Mormon Church at Salt Lake City has just excommunicated six of Brigham Young's daughters. They were plaintiffs in the recent suit against the Church and the executors of Brigham's estate whioh put Delegate Cannon and others in goal for contempt. The Ogdenburgh Critic says:—" A Mrs Denny, in the Scotland Ward, vVest Side, has two thumbs on her right hand. All her seven boys are marked in a similar manner. This is certainly a particularly hand-thumb family, eight persons having twenty-four thumbs. Who can beat it P" A regular thumbs orew, sure enough. Some time ago a letter addressed to " Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle," waa mailed at the Boston Post office. For some reason the letter was sent to the dead-letter office, where it was found to contain a request for the Queen's autograph, with a silver dime for return postage. The point of the circumstance is that the writer, a boy 14 years old, boaßta that he tried again and got what he wanted. The regular monthly meeting of the \ " Scinde Lodge to-night at 7.30. V__ Meeting of the Fire Police at 8 o'clock. A meeting re a Town Hall Company will be held at Hastings on the 9th inetant. Messrs Price and Inness have just received new goods. _ Mr Peter Hansen has declared his inability to meet his engagements with his ' creditors. Mr J. Stevens will sell at an early date short-horned cattle, draught horses, &c. Mrs Barry, Taradale, has coal and firewood for sale. Mr B. Lorigan, Taradale, has firewood for sale. The eighteenth list of subscriptions to tho Hospital is advertised. Mr F. Sutton has Lincoln rams for sale. The bailiff of the District Court will sell on the 7th instant bullock-dray, &c, Several new advertisements- appear in out wanted column.