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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3005, 11 February 1881, Page 2

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning James Walsh was charged with drunkenness and fined 5s and costs, or 24 hours' imprisonment.

An effort is being made to arrange a cricket match between twenty-two muffs and the beet eleven of the twenty-two eelectedto play against the Australians.

Messrs Moule and Tobin will not p lay with the Australian eleven in Hawke's Bay. The former has injured his hand, and is at present in Napier. They will join the eleven in Auckland.

Henry Wairoa (a native) has been committed afc Gisborne for forging and uttering a bank deposit receipt for £29, and a man named Wyllie, charged with being an accessary, was discharged after being severely censured.

The Artillery band will perform this evening, in front of the Fire Brigade station, at 8 o'clock —Quickstep, "Souvenir de Rubens;" polka, "Tout a la Joie ;" waltz, "Venezia;" quadrille, "Shamrock leaves;" gallop, "Zazel;" "God save tho Queen."

The privileges of the ground during the cricket match on Wednesday and Thursday next were sold by Messrs Banner and Liddle to-day. The grand stand, with the right of erecting a booth on the ground, brought £13, the refreshment booth £5 10s, and the fruit stall £4.

The first of the series of eight preliminary matches of the Napier Rifle Volunteers was fired this morning, ranges 200, 400, and 500 yards. There was a fair attendance of competitors, and the scores made were good. Sergeant Redward and Captain Batham succeeded in obtaining first and second places, with scores of 52 and 51 respectively. The next competition takes place on Tuesday, 15th instant, at 5.30 a.m.

Persons interested in horse racing will notice that at the Poverty Bay races yesterday Mr Murray's Merlin won the Tradesmen's Handicap of a mile and a half, the celebrated horse Foul Play coming in fourth. Merlin carried Ist 31bs less than Foul Play. In the Napier Handicap, the weights for which eamo out on Wednesday, Foul Play has to give Merlin 2st lib, the respective weights being Foul Play 9sfc 81b, Merlin 7st 71b. If the two horses should run as they did at Poverty Bay Foul Play will stand no chance of winning the Napier Handicap, and, probably, will not go for it.

Mr Pittman, the agent of the Australian eleven, has making an effort to-day to get the members of the Holiday Association to reconsider their decision to close only one half-day during the visit of the team. It appears that the eleven had a liberal guarantee from the people of Hawera if they would pay a visit to that township, but the offer was declined in favor of Napier. The expenses of the eleven on their journey to Napier will be very considerable, and as two half-days have been granted in every other town In the colony which they have visited, it is to bo regretted that the Association does not see its way to grant tho very reasonable request. We are under the impression that the want of interest displayed in the match by the townspeople is very much due to the great carelessness displayed by the twenty-two selected to represent the district in anything like united practice, and feeling that onlookers are not likely to see anything like a good display of cricket. We would suggest that an effort should be made to finish the match in two days and that on the third day the Australian team should divide'and and make up two elevens out of the pick of the Hawke's Bay twentytwo. If this be done, and a match played between the two elevens, we believe that the third day's play might attract a larger number of spectators than would otherwise be the case.

A cricket match between elevens of the Petane and Wairoa Clubs will be played at Petane on Monday next.

How is it that totara timber can be obtained at Fielding, forwarded by rail to Foxton, shipped there for Napier, and landed here at 2s per hundred feet cheaper than totara from our own Seventy-mile Bush can be bought; in this town ? The distance by train from Fielding to Foxton is 45 miles ; the distance from Ormondville to Napier by railway is 68, the difference being 23 miles. Surely the cost of carriage by rail those twenty-three miles cannot exceed the cost of shipping, freight, and landing charges from Foxton to Napier. Is the prime cost of timber in the forest dearer in the Seventy-mile Bush than at Fielding; is it the difference in cost of carriage ; or how is it that totara from the West Coast can undersell on the East Coast the timber grown close at hand ?

The Napier District School Committee appear to be exercised over the method of voting at the election for three members of the Education Board. Three members of the Board being obliged to retire by effluxion of time, their places have to be filled during the month of March next. Four candidates have been nominated for the three vacant peats, and the election rests with the School Committees within the Board's district. At the Napier School Committee's last meeting it was proposed that a plump vote should be given for one of the candidates—Mr Dobson —but opposition to such a course being shown the further consideration of the matter was postponed. In the meantime it is argued by one side that the vote of the Committee can be given by resolution of the majority, while the other side hold to the opinion that the vote of the Committee must be determined by the aggregate votes of the individual members.

The following important paragraph is taken from tho Bankers Record of December the Bth 1880. It is found at page 408, where comment is made on the thirty eighth report of the Bank of New Zealand. "It is worthy of notice that the Bank's assets in London amsunt to nearly two and a half millions, or nearly a million more than its paid-up capital and reserve fund, which would seem to imply that the Bank's London business is in part carried on with funds acquired in Neiu Zealand and the Colonies, to which it is affording no present financial aid from its oivn resources. Profit and Loss shows some increase on profit made, but also that, in the absence of soma special receipts, such as premiums on new shares, an allooation to reserve fund is im« possible after providing dividend and bonus at the generous rate of 15 per cent per annum." It is almost impossible to resist laughing at the skill displayed in the construction of the last sentence we haye quoted.

Those who think that land troubles ara confined to this sida of the Atlantic may possibly have forgotten that a state, of things very much like that at present prevailing in Ireland once troubled the State of New York. Owing to circumstances existing previous to the establishment of American independence, the land in the State had to a great extent fallen into the hands of large landowners, who let it on long leases. In process of time the tenants began to view the payment of rents as a grievance, and banded together for the purpose of resisting the enforcement of the law. Disguised as Indians, they baffled by forcible means every attempt on the part of the sheriffs to levy digress for rent, and compelled the local authorities to appeal to the State Government for assistance. Silas Wright, who was then Governor of the State, immediately issued a proclamation and sent troops into the disturbed districts. Sixty of the ringleaders were arrested and tried, the sentence on those who were convicted for murder being commuted to imprisonment for life. The " anti-rent war " having been thus brought to an end, Governor Wright, in his next message to the State Legislature, acknowledged the grievances of the tenants, and succeeded in getting a measure passed by which distress for rent was abolished.—Pall Mall Budget.

The New Zealand Times has the following :—Just before the Te Anau started for South yesterday, tbe portly figure of a well-known comedian was seen hurrying down the wharf laden with a collection of bright new " fcinakans," decorated with ribbons, and each bearing the mystio initials G.R. Curiosity was on the gui vim to know what this strange burden might portend, and the joke was fully appreciated when the jolly son of Momus, mounting the vessel's side, and approaching a group of well-known bookmakers and sporting men—his hotel companions for some days past—gravely presented each with, one of the deoorated vessels, requesting acceptance of a " Wellington Cup," as a souvenir of their visit to the Empire City and of the Summer Race Meeting. As one horsey individual remarked, it was " touching 'em on the raw rather," seeing that the Wellington Cup had been to the metallicians anything but a cup of fortune; but they took the joke in. good part. An adjournment was maae to the saloon, the Shin Fane tinakans filled to the brim with fiz, and reciprocal good wishes pledged, and " better luck next time." As the vessel cast off moorings and steamed away, the customary waving of hats and flutter of handkerchiefs was diversified by the glitter of the bright tin-cups, which the recipients wore slung around their necks, and waved in parting adieux like happy schoolboys bent on picnic excursion.

" I dare say," remarks the Wellington conespondent of a Nelson paper, "most of your readers are familiar with the story of the young clerk who once asked his employer for a day's leave in order that he might attend his father's funeral. ' Very well, Mr Smith,' said his employer, who was somewhat absent-minded, ' you may go this time, but pray don't let it occur again.' Since the recent reductions in the Government BuildingH the clerks there have found the work accumulate to such an extent that holidays are generally regarded as being out of the question this year, and if a young man, say in the Public Works office, was called upen to assist at his father's funeral, ifc is doubtful whether he would be spared a whole day for the purpose. The other day a clerk in one of the offices asked his chiefif he might be absent from the office for half-an-hour. Permission was given, and the young Civil servant was observed to rush excitedly down the street as if running for his very life. Presently he ran into the arms of a charming looking young lady, who seemed in a state of great trepidation, a hurried conference took place, the youna: man looked at his watch, and then retraced his steps to the Government Buildings, wearing an anxious expression on his face. Again he presented himself before his chief, and asked if his leave might be extended to two hours, as he found 'ho couldn't get it done in balf-an-hour.' ' Get what done P' asked the chief. 'If you please," replied his subordinate with many blushes, ' I propose to get married this morning.' I wish I could add that the head of the department thereupon gave him his blessing, and a fortnight in which to spend the honeymoon. But he did not. The young fellow got this two hours and then returned conscientiously to his desk, albeit radiant in the joy of being «. Imppybridegrdom. May he and the young lady continue to enjoy all the happiness and prosperity which tbey deserve, say I.

The London correspondent of the Argus writos:- " Endymirvn/' has at last appeared to the great Mi D _ 11R t 0 f all the novelists. Where is the money tv > „ from with which the libraries are to buy other folks' novels when of my Lord Beaconsfield's fiction Mr Mudie takes 3000, and Messrs W. H. Smith and Son 1700 copies. Even the Grosvenor Library, whose efforts at rivalry are by no means so gigantic as they promised to be, is said to have made an effort in the of case "Endymion," and taken seventy-five copies. All sorts of rumours, however, are in circulation respecting this amazing work, the one most generally believed being that 10,000 copies have been already be-

Spoken, and that the noble author has received £10,000 for it. Ten thousand is a nice number for the memory to have to deal with, and rolls trippingly from the tip of the tongue ; but fact is, if 5000 copies have been disposed of among the great libraries, there will not be a thousand got rid of elsewhere, though some very rich people 'will doubtless have the fancy for giving 31s 6d for the privilege of possessing the work. Moreover, even if 10,000 copies were sold, and no more, the publisher would be " sold " too, who gave the sum in question for the book. Like everything else, in sh Tfc, in connection with Lord Beaconsfield, the state of the market as respects "Ehdymion" is vague, mysterious, and immense. The faofc that the Queen has corrected the proof-sheets does not give it a fancy price in my eyes, though the circumstance is undoubtedly interesting as proving how far, when "statesmen" are not engaged with " sovereigns " in governing the universe, they can prosecute the art of flummery. Special arrangements have been made with Baron Tauchnitz, by which his Continental edition of this work will be published contemporaneously, so that it is probable there will be a good deal of importation by that excellent and fashionable class of persons who hold smuggling to be improper, but think nothing of breaking the law to cheapen their books. The New York World, of December 17th, London despatch, says:—"lt was stated in town last night that there was a painful scene between the Queen and Mr Gladstone at Windsor over the Irish question. Her Majesty urged the Premier very decidedly to resort at once to force and crush the disorder in Ireland. The Liberals, who circulate the story, ascribe the Queen's interference to the personal influence of Lord Beaconsfield, in whom she has undoubted confidence, and who recently made her a visit.

The Wairarapa Standard says :—A story is told us concerning the Property Tax whioh may not be after all singular. It has taken place in this district. The person Of whom it is related is a good, ohurch going man. The manner in which lhe imposition of the Tax has depreciated his property should be widely known. It will afford a good argument next session to abolish the "Mystery of Iniquity." Previous to the Property Tax levy he estimated his land to be worth twenty ponndsjper aore. When oalled upon to value it for assessment he stated it to be worth only Twenty Shillings. No person imagined property could have in this manner to such a large extent gone down. I see, says the sporting correspondent of the Mark Lane Express, that the good horse, Chandoa, has arrived out at Australia. They have certainly now got some good horses afc the antipodes, and I would not be surprised to see them teach us a lesson at what we call our own sport, as they have done at cricket and rowing, by winning some of our more important races. They certainly possess some splendid jumping cattle, and I think, would win a good many our hurdle races. Their horses, there oan be no doubt, would run better than those from America, where galloping is made subservient to trotting. In Australia raoing means galloping, as it does here, and they thoroughly understand the business.

The Lyttelton Times Special telegraphing from Wellington last Wednesday says: " The principal telegraphist at Wakapuaka' the New Zealand terminus of the Australian cable has been suspended on grounds whioh the authorities are endeavouring to keep quiet. I can, however, state on absolutely correofc information, that the operator referred to has been suspended at the instance of the firm of Messrs Proudfoot, Dunedin, in consequence of an allegation on their part that a telegraphic tender, involving a sum of £100,000 had been delayed in transmission and the acceptance of the tender possibly lost. In consequence, the matter has been referred to the Hon. John Hall. The Ministerial Press has, ifc is said, received a hint to keep quiet on the eubjeot."

Particulars have been received of the death of Lieutenant Heyland, of the Minotaur, who was drowned in saving tho life of a sailor. It appears that during a gale on the 25th ult., while the sea was running tremendously high, the ships rolling thirty degrees eacb way, and it was almost impossible to lower a boat, a man fell overboard. The engines were stopped, and Lieutenant Heyland jumped overboard with a line and swam to the man's assistance. He succeeded in reaching him, in making the line fast to him, and the man was hauled on board and saved, but Lieutenant Heyland, exhausted by his efforts, sank close to the ship within a foot or two of a ladder which had been lowered over the side. Mr Heyland was in his twenty-ninth year, and entered the service as a naval cadet in 1864.

Now tbat the flat-racing season is over, says the English sporting correspondent of the " Melbourne Leader," it is interesting to learn that in the matter of " winning mounts " Fred Archer, for the seventh year in succession, heads the list of professional jockeys, and since he rode his first winner, ten years ago, he has ridden no less than 1428 times successfully. During the season just now closed he has won 121 times—and bear in mind he was out of the saddle some weeks owing to an accident—lost 243, making his total in mounts 364. Eordham, the " Veteran George" and the " Demon " as he is now and again familiarly termed, stands next on the list, with 105 wins for the season, and 260 lost, reaching a total of 365 mounts. During his now lengthy career 2369 wins have been placed to his credit, and it is noteworthy that although he experienced a break of several years through ill-health, at the present moment he rides as well as ever, his brilliant and artistic finishes being now, as a dozen years ago, the theme of admiration.

Meeting of the Grand Lodge of the World, 1.0. G.T., to-night afc 8. Messrs Kennedy ancf Gillman will sell tomorrow oats, at ll a.m.

Messrs Price and Innes have opened out samples of hats, millinery, &c, for the coming season, in all the new shapes, amongst which will be found some striking novelties. They invite a visit of inspection. To-morrow is the last clay of Messrs Newton, Irvine and Co.'s great compulsory sale.

Tenders are invited for deepening several miles of drains_afc Flaxmere.

Mr W. Routledge will sell at Hastings on the 16fch Goodwin's Hall and the section.

Mr J. B. Vernon has filed a declaration of insolvency.

A dramatic entertainment will be given afc Waipukurau on tho 15th. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.