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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3010, 17 February 1881, Page 2

Mass will be celebrated by ttie Rev. E. -Reijynier next Sunday at Eavelock at 11 a.m

The entertainment to be given by the Hawke's Bay Dramatic Club in honor of tho / ii-*Tftlian cricketers takes place this evenimr at the Theatre Royal. The programme is a taking one, and from the number of well-known amateurs whose names appear upon it we should say the performance will be well worth seeing.

Mr ȴilliam Rowe, who was on Wednesday sentenced by the Resident Magistrate at Wellington to forty-eight hours imprisonment for stealing from the till of the Theatre Koyal Hotel, was nine years ago held in high esteem. He was manager of the Caledonian gold mine at the lhames, when that claim was turning out over 20,000 ounces of gold a week. Ho afterwards was elected member for the Thames in the House of Representatives.

A meeting of the Hastings Town Hall Committee was held on Tuesday evening, when it was found tho shares were being taken up more freely than was at first anticipated. It is intended to call a meeting of the shareholders in about a fortnight, when a building committee will be appointed, and the erection of a town hall proceeded with. We are requested to state that shares may be obtained on application to the sacretnry, vir Beilby, of Hastings.

The want of a provision market is much felt in Napier, a recognised place for the disposal of fresh fruit, vegetables, fish, legs of mutton, and poultry. As it. is now, producers dispose of their goods to middlemen, who have to hawk them about in carts or wheblbarrowe exposed to the scorching sun. It would be far more convenient to householders and to everyone else if there were a market to which they could go for what now they have to take the' chance as to wnether the hawker will pay them a visit.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Henry Hudson was charged, on the information of Sergeant O'Malley with being a vagrant, and without any visible lawful means of support. It appeared from the evidence of the Sergeant that the prisoner had been found begging ab bouses. He claims to have a right to some money in the hands of Mr Wilson, solicitor. He had been in gaol a, number of times for the same offence. His Worship sentenced him to three months imprisonment with hard labour.

The following deeds have been submitted to the Trust Commissioner at Napier during the past week for investigation: — Paora Tarotoro and others to Her Majesty the Queen, part of Kotopounatna Block No. I,conveyance dated January 11, 1881 ; solicitor, A. J. Cotterill. Renata Pukututu to G. J. Merritt, undivided share of vendor in the Oero block No. 18 n., conveyance dated February 2, 1881; solicitors, Messrs. Wilson and Cotterill. Hataiora Tupaea and Aribi te Nahu to Grorge Prior Donnelly, portion of Heretaunga Block 28 n.. conveyance dated 9th February, 1881; solicitor, Mr G. E. Sainsbury. Te Para Hineaka and her husband Kehopoama to T. K. Newton, undivided share as tenant in common in the Tuto-o-te-kohu Block No 3, memorandum of transfer dated 28th October, 1880 ; solicitors, Cornfurd and Dewes.

It is stated by Mr R. H. Hill, superintendent of the operative department of the Royal Mint, that the purchase of dirt adhering to srold cost no less than £311 per 1.000,000 sovereigns, and £334 per 2,000,000 half-sovereigns. The deliVe calculation, it is said, was made by washing coin, which proved that the loss of weight on 1,000 sovereigns was 0-08 oz., and 0-043 oz. on 1,000 half-sovereigns.—City Press.

The Manx House of Keys recently passed a measure extending the franchise to female owners and occupiers of property of the annual rental of £4. The Council or upper branch of the Legislature agreed to the conferring of a vote on women who were property-owners, but refused to extend the franchise to women occupiers. Rather than sacrifice the measure, the House of Keys has accepted the Council's amendment, and with this change the Bill has passed.

*A great amount of interest is being taken in the Mount Arthur reefs, arid on every side we (Nelson Colonist) hear the opinion expressed that ere long an extensive auriferous country will be opened up. Mr Guinness, the Warden for the district, has visited the locality of the reefs for the purpose of reporting - to the Government and be says that the reef as now exposed, and which has driven on for 25ft, presents all the appearance of being well defined and highly payable.

The hop crop of this year bids fair to be a magnificent one, although rain is beglningtobe much wanted. Outsiders have very little idea of the importance of this industry, but we (Colonist) may state that we have learnt on reliable authority that the value of the crop in the immediate neighborhood of Nelson is estinf ated to be of the value of between £30,000 and£3s,ooO. The expenditure upon the picking of thin crop alone, without the expenses of cultivation, &c, is set down at from £1400 to £1600. As Nelson hops have now been recognised as being the best produced, (here is no reasm why t' is industry should not advance much further than at present, for as both at Sydney and Melbourne they have gained the highest places in competition open to the world, the demand for them is sure to increase very greatly.

The celebrated German traveller, I red' Christian Schafer, who has been in nearly every country, has come to grief at Sydney. He was found hatless and bootless, shrieking and foaming at the mouth in a fit. A. short time since his friends there among the Masonic brethren paid his expenses home to Germany, and sent him to Melbourne, but he found his way back. Me is now considered deranged, and was locked up for his own protection. The Bench considered it a pitiable case, is totally uuable to earn a living, being deformed. Two doctors certified that, he was of unsound mind, and he was sent to the Calleu Park Asylum. It will be remembered (saye the Southland Nsws) that Schafer some years ago came to Invercargill on his way through the colony, and that he signalised" his visit to the North Island by marrying a Maori gin.

The Auckland market is now literally glutted with fruit of all descriptions. Time was (says the Star) when we got the greater portion of our fruit from Sydney and the Islands, but a slight alteration has been made in the source lately, and we now have such a large quantity sent in from country districts that the quantity sent from Sydney and the Islands has greatly diminished. Whangarei seems to be a splendid fruitgrowing district. On her last trip from that port the s.s. Argyle brought no less than '250 cases of assorted fruits, and like shipments are arriving every week. It is a great pity that some of our industrious farmers cannot see their way clear to turn their fruits into jams, etc., and in such a way prevent stocking the market and rendering the importation of Hobartcwn preserves quite unnecessary. 'I he immense quantity now in the market and the low prices realised will give evidence of the necessity of some such step.

Another week lias passed, writes the Dublin correspondent of the Times, and Ireland is drifting nearer to the rock, while nothing , is done to save her. The wave of agitation sweeps with greater force through the provinces, and although it has met with a check in Ulster no one can tell how long tho barriers which the loyal feeling and honesty of Ulster now present will be able to withstand its repeated shocks. In the central and southern countries no attempt is any longer made to refuse the demands of the ] and League. Ihe people whose political convictions and moral principles are roost slrongly opposed to it feel theraselvee powerless to resist it, and they surrender

their wills to its dictation, and lament the hard necessity which eotibcrains them. Having: waiLcci in vain for the intervention of a strong and resolute Government to doiiver thorn, they see that they have no ohoico but to enrol their n".mes and give thoir money to the recruiting sergeant and the tax-collector ot trie ruling , power. *»™ The Washington correspondent of the Daily News β-jates that Mr King, member for Louisiana, is abont to propose the following resolution :—" Whereas the United States has observed the unhappy condition of Ireland; and whereas her Britannic Majesty's Government seems unable to fulfil its normal governing duties of affording protection to life and property in Ireland : therefore it is resolved that the Secretary of State should be instructed to inform her Britannic Majesty's Government that it is highly expedient reforms should be introduced immediately tending , the permanent pacification of Ireland and be prosecuted in a kindly, considerate, and pacificatory spirit." Mr King, adds the corresponded , is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, whose approbation of the resolution guarantees its adoption by Congress. According to the New York Times, a widespread movement is now on foot in America o enter a protect from the pulpits of the land against the anti-Jewish agitation in Germany. On Sunday morning three distinguished preachers of the Episcopalian and Presbyterian denominations touched on the subject in their sermons. The Rev Heber Newton said that public sentiment in the furthest pait of Christen- >■ dom should make her voice heard across C the Atlantic to condemn it, and in the name of liberty protest against it. The "<" Rev. Catton Smiih spoke of the revival of medieval fanaticism against a race who in. literature, art, and religion had conferred priceless blessings on mankind. Dr. Bevan \ characterised the agitation as a treason against the Christian Church, and expressed surprise that a people so highly civilised as the Germans should tolbrate among , them a return to barbarous een timer ts. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the Rev. Robert Collyer have announced their intention of speaking on the subject. Two systems of electric lighting have been tested in New York. Broadway was illuminated for three-quarters of a mile by a series of Brush lamps, fifteen in number. The circuit contained ten thousand feet of wire. Each light was estimated at two thousand candle-power, supposing the full force to be concentrated on one point. The lights burned all night, and the exhibition will continue for one month, to enable the company to determine the question of ex* pense and to familiarize the public with the light. Mr Edison gave a similar exhibition of his system at Menlo Park, for the benefit of the Mayor and Common Cooncil.of New York. More than three hundred lamps gave a steady mellow light, tinged with enough yellow to relieve the 6yes from the intense brightness of the electric light. Mr Edison is to be allowed to operate in the district between Wall-street and Printing, house-square, east of NassaU'Btreflt. He purposes lighting this district and furnishing the power by electricity as a substitute for steam power. Two Electric Light Nj Companies are being formed in Brooklyn. ■ Mdlle. de Montgolfi&r whose death is announoed a3 having taken place on the 16th December, at the age of ninety-one years, was the daughter of Etienne de Montgolfier, the inventor of the balloon, and who was ennobled by Louie XVI. for his ecientifio inventions, of which the balloon was but one. In 1870 Mdlle. de Montgolfier resisted all persuasion to quit Paris on the approaoh of the Prussians. She lived on the south side of the city—the side exposed to the Prussian batteries ; and she remained with her maid and a youth in her service, the only tenants of a large old house of many flats whence every other had fled. Old as ehe was, even (hen she went incessantly to visit the wounded in the ambulances, and was found at the end of the siege to have given away all her house linen and every article useful for the sick. Mdlle. de Montgolfier lived in the summer at La Celle St. Cloud. Id her house is a fine medallion, by Houdin, of her father and her uncle, Joseph de Montgolfier. The medallion was unbroken during the occupation of the house by the Germans, but the names of the two famous Frenchmen were oarefully obliterated. Mdlle. de Montgolfier was the patroness of Beranger, published a volume of songs, and leaves a fine collection of autographs including letters written by Silvio Pellico with hie blood. If we may judge from the " scenes " at an anti-Semitic meeting in Berlin'one evening lately, ' c agitation against the Jews is liKely l-o become more serious than has been generally believed hitherto. The meeting ■was attended by about 3,000 persons, and the spirit displayed both by the speakers and their audience was that of thoroughgoing persecutors. The principal orator read extracts from the Talmud for the purpose of proving thao Jews regard it as a meritorious action to rob" Christians; and he excited " frantic applause " by insisting that they ought once more to be subjected to the disabilities which were'removed by a less prudent generation. In the course of the proceedings Jews were from time to time discovered among thr audience. Many \< of them were severely beaten, and all were insulted and turned out. Several'time* a free fight took place, and on one occasion the uproar became so violent that the chairman abandoned for some minutes the attempt to restore order. If anything of this kind occcurred in an ordinary political meeting, the police would immediately intervene ; but the enemies of the Jews are permitted to express their hatred as outrageously as they please. The Government can hardly be surprised if they are suspected of an intention to make the movement an excuse for anti-Jewish legislation. — St. James' Gazette. The St. James' Gazette says:—" Boycotting" proceeds apace. Four shopkeepers at Kil'leen who bad paid their rents without getting 25 per cent, reduction have been put under the law. The Macgillicudy of the Reeks sent some potatoes to Killarney market on Saturday and had to take them home again, their sale being prohibited. Mr Jieidy, a grocer at Ennis, vice-president of Clare Farmers' Club before its amalgamation with the Land League, and who is now a prominent member of the body, having become obnoxious because the police took his car last week to convey a prisoner for trial, has been " Boycotted," and hardly any one enters his premises. Mr Swift M'Neill, barrister, who conducted the prosecution of Martixi Walsh, a tenant who was evicted _, but reinstated, has been " Boycotted by the Ennistymon Land League, all branches being enjoined to have no professional dealings with him. A man named Michael Kelly, of Kavanagh, has been "Boycotted" for paying his rent, all the shopkeepers of the place being warned not to sell him anything or to buy from him. The police of Milltown were isolated on Monday, and are unable to get any provisions ; and because his father paid rent, the same ban has been pronounced upon a publican named Ryan, at Patrickswell. A young man named M'Morrov? arrived at Glenfarn from England on Sunday on a visit to his friends; but, not being a member of the land League, was " Boycotted " and forcod to return to England. The Bantry Land League have given orders to "Boycott" Mr J. G. Barrett, agent to Lord Kenmare; Godfrey, his bailiff; Manning, the farmer who prosecuted Messrs Healy and Walsh at the Cork A seizes; and three other farmers, who are accused of being land-grabbers , . Mr Barrett's servants have been required to leave, and the local tradesmen enjoined not to work for him. Several traders in Bantry refused to sell him goods on Tuesday. Dramatic performance in honor of visit of Australian cricketersjjat the Theatre to-night at 8 o'clock. Tenders for forming road required by Meanee Bond Board. Messrs Hoadley and Lyon hold a sale of pure Lincoln rams at Hastings to-morrow at 1.30 sharp.

Mr Lyndon will dispose of the remainder Of the drapery stock of Mr Grant, on the premises, Emerson-street, to-morrow, nfc 11 a.m.

Messrs H. Monfceith and Co. insert particulars of the drapery sale -which they hold on Saturday.

Mr Kinsey has a Spanish mahogany camera for Bale.