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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3012, 19 February 1881, Page 2

We learn that 700 shares have been taken up in the Hastings Town Hall Company. Not more than 1000 persons went by train to Hastings during the three day's play, Australians versus Hawke's Bay cricketers. The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Courts for the districts of Napier, Petane, and Ngarurora, will be held in the Court House, Napier, on Tuesday the Ist of March. A private letter from Auckland states that Sir George Grey intends at the next elections to stand for Christchurch, and that the Thames seat will be contested by Mr Brodie and Captain Frazer. The stock-in-trade of Mr L. Harris, jeweller, Hastings-street, was on view today at the stores of Messrs Banner and Liddle, preparatory to its sale on Tuesday. All tbe goods, which are of first-class quality, will be sold without reserve. Mr Seymour George, M.H.R., has been saved the trouble of addressing his constituents. As soon as he announced his intention of meeting the electors at the German settlement of Puhoi, he was informed that, as they were all satisfied with him, they did not wish to hear him speak. His Worship's suggestion in the Council last night, that the unsold reclaimed sections should be cut in half by a road to be made through them parallel with Munro-street, is a good ono. It is evident buyers are not to be found for these huge sections, whereas quarter-acre allotments might meet with a ready sale. Last evening a young whale, nineteen feet long, stranded itself on tho sand bank opposite Messrs Kinross and Co.'s store, and was secured by means of a harpoon and some rope by two of the sailors belonging to the s.s. Kiwi. It was taken over to the Western Spit this morning, where it is to be tryed down. We have received a copy of a lecture lately delivered at the Wellington Working Men's Club by Dr. A. K. Newman. The lecture was on " the development of some of the resources of New Zealand, and the attendant results." We hope to give Dr. Newman's lecture a more lengthened notice on a future occasion.

The new public library building promised to Waipawa some time sinco is likely to become a realised fact very shortly. All preliminaries are now finally arranged ; the institution has been formally incorporated and registered; and last, though not least, tenders are to be called for the new building as soon as the site gratuitously presented some months ago by W. Rathbone, Esq., has been properly conveyed.

We beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums collected by Mrs Barry, of Taradale, in aid of Mrs Caldwoll, whose hubhand was killed at Clive recently :—G. P. Donnelly £1 Is, H. L. Donnelly £1 Is, Philip Dolbel £1, Jas. Jeff ares 12s 6d, Mrs Kerr 10s, J. A. Napier 10s, Gilberd and Anderson ss, Robt. Guppy ss, O. McCutcheon ss, Pat. McCormick ss, W. J. Brown 6e, W, Mcßobbie ss; total, £6 4a 6d.

Madame Lottie Wilmot lectures tomorrow evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Theatre Royal. The subject upon which she will discourse is entitled "Forbidden Fruit." Madame Wilmot, we believe, is of the free- , thought school.

A sad accident occurred on Thursday at Kopua, by which a bushman had a narrow escape from losing a limb. It appears that the unfortunate fellow was squaring a log, when the broad axe which he was handling slipped off the timber, wounding him so severely as almost to sever his leg in two pieces. Information having been sent to Waipukurau, Dr Reed was quickly in attendance, and subsequently had the injured man removed, to the County Hospital, where he at present remains under treatment.

An unfortunate accident occurred yesterday afternoon to a horse an express belonging to Mr John H. Franklin. They were left by the owner standing near to Messrs Large and Townley's workshops, in charge of a boy, and becoming frightened by the rattling of a passing soda-water van, the horse dashed off into the fence opposite. The horse was seriously cut about the ribs, and the vehicle generally smashed up. It will cost something like £20 to repair the damage. The owner io a respectable hardworking man, with a large family, and as the horse and express are his livelihood the lops will be a very serious one to him.

Some months ago we reported that gold had been discovered somewhere near Makatoko in the streams running from the Puketoi ranges. Specimens of the gold were sent to town, and a little excitement was created amongst the settlers in the Seventy-mile Bush in consequence. Subsequently, when fine weather set in, a gentleman sent n reliable person along with the reputed discoverers to the auriferous country, and this man watched the Drospectors to such purpose as to find out that the whole thing was a hoax. A scuffling match ensued on the deteotion of the " salting" process, and tbare was at once an end of a goldfield. We fear that for the future all reports of finding gold in Hawke's Bay must be accepted cum grano salts.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Thomas Keefe and Dennis O'Connor were charged with unlawful disobedience to orders on board the barque Anazi. Both prisoners pleaded guilty. Keefe said they had been two days on pea soup and salt junk, and they didn't think it proper food when they were moving ballast. They asked for fresh food, and refused io work without it. O'Connor said his complaint was the same. Captain Hill said the two men came up at nine o'clock on Thursday morning and refused to turn to. They had corned meat one or two days while the vessel was at the ballast ground, and they were| to have salt junk on the day they refused to work. It took two hours to go from the ship to the shore for fresh supplies. He told them that they would get fresh meat when they got to the mooring ground. He had the same meat himself. He had nothing to say against Keefe ; O'Connor had refused work when they were in Cook's Straits. His Worship said the prisoners had no excuse for disobeying orders. If they had any complaint to make they could have asked lo go ashore, and could have made their complaint to a magistrate or the Commissioner of Customs. The captain was obliged to allow them to go ashore under a penalty of £10. If they had made their complaint in a proper manner there would have been an examination of stores. Discipline must be maintained on hoard ship. He would give them a light sentence. Keefe would be imprisoned for seven days with hard labor, ond O'Connor for fourteen days, and they would have to pay half the costs of the prosecution between them.

The London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing on the 17th December, says :—" Sir Hercules Robinson made a numbpr of purchases at tho -sale of the Middle park stud a few days ago. The list of animals he bought, and which are to be sent to his property in New Zealand, comprised—Rosette (foaled 1876), by Lord Lyon—Rouge Rose (BendOrr's aam), price 350 guineas; Bergere (foaled 1873), dam of Beauchamp 11., etc., by Saunterer—Lass o' Gowrie, 300 guineas; Mersey (foaled in 1874), by Knowsley — Clemence, 150 guineas; Clytemnestra (foaled 1867), by Blair Athol, her dam by Birdcatcher, 135 guineas; Madcap (foaled 1873), by Trumpeter, dam by Young Melbourne, 65 guineas. It is understood here that when Sir Hercules retires from the Governorship of the Cape, which will probably, under present circumstances, prove a more difficult post than any he has yet held, he intends settling either in New Zealand or New South Wales, but which of the two he has not yet decided.

At an election for a place which shall be nameless, a candidate, whose party seemed to be going to the wall, was in frequent communication with his agent on the spot where the fight was to be fought out. At length he intimated (says JEgles in the Australasian) that he would go down, address the electors, and make a personal canvass. When he reached the railway station he was agreeably surprised at his reception- The electors were in enthusiastic crowds, and cheered him to the echo. His spirits rose, but his astonishment being undiminished. As he was being triumphantly escorted to his hotol, he paid aside to his agent, " I can't understand this Jones ; how have you managed it ? " "Oh," said his agent, " I claim no credit—your telegram did it. " " What telegram P,l demanded the candidate surprised in turn. " Why, this-here it is—genuine, I suppose: — 'Down to-night, 5 p.m.'—meaning, of course, £o per man. I took care to put the news about. "

An Italian professor has recently found, says a writer in Cassell's Magazine, that fine vegetable perfumes exercise a positively beneficial influence on the atmosphere, by converting the oxygen of the air into that powerful oxidizing and therefore purifying agent, ozone. The essences found by him to produce the most ozone are precisely those which usage has selected as the most invigorating, such as cherry, laural, cloves, lavender, mint, juniper, lemon, fennel and bergamot, several of which aro ingredients in the refreshing eau de Cologne. Anise, nutmeg, thyme, narcissus and hyacinth flowers, mignonette, heliotrope and lilies of the valley also develope ozone; in fact, all flowei-s possessing a perfume appear to do so, whereas those having none do not. It was long ago asserted by an eminent English botanist, that growing flowers, contrary to the common belief, are beneficial in sleeping rooms, if the rooms, are thoroughly ventilated. A constant supply of fresh air renders them not only innoxious, but positively health-promoting.

Speaking at the frozen meat banquet on board the Orient recently, Sir Julius Vogel said that while he recognised that it would be of immense advantage to the colonies for them to be able to find a market for their meat in this country, he was one of those who hoped that the trade would greatly fall off, for he would rather that men and women went over to Aurtralia to eat the meat than it should be sent over bere for consumption. He was a firm believer in emigration, and ho felt that due advantage was not given to that question in the colonies. Emigration, in fact, was the life and blood of the oolonies. But they did not merely want labor. They required also capital and enterprise, education and ability. Now, he did not know any agency which had contributed more to that result than the establishment of the Orient line. The enterprise of the Company had completely revolutionised the whole steam communication with the Australian colonies. There was no limit to the improvement which might be attained, and he hoped they would excuse him if he threw out half-a-dozen words on the subject. There were times when that vessel was plodding its way through the Ked Sea when the heat was most unbearable. Was it not possible, if they could give such comfortable quarters to tho meat, that they could make tho passage through the tropics one long period of unmjngled enjoyment ?

Employment has at last been found for the Great Eastern steamship, which, it is said, has been chartered for ten years to carry dead meat to the United Kingdom from the American seaboard or River Plate. It is estimated that the leviathan steamer will carry from 3000 to 4000 tons of dead meat each voyage. This new enterprise will possess a special interest for tho people of Liverpool, looking at the great traffic in fresh meat now eoing on between America and English seaports.

One of the wealthiest and most eccentrio noblemen in Europe, Prince J. Sulkowski, Duke of Beilitz, arrived at Copenhagen a few days ago, on his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in bear> hunting. Ho was accompanied by a numerous suite consisting of a highlysalaried laly companion, a maitre de chapelle, a reader, a secretary, a bodysurgeon, a valet de chambre, two running foot-men, an enormous mastiff, a huge our> ang-outang, two valuable parrots, and several cages of singing birds. One favorite member of his household, a Bengal tiger, he had been compelled to leave behind at Hamburg, as the steam boat authorities respectively but positively refused to convey that princely retainer across the seas. Prince Sulkowski's personal habits, as described in a letter from Copenhagen, are pomewhat out of the common. He rises at 1 p.m. breakfasts an hour later, and listens to musical selections, performed by the members of his household, until seven. From seven to eight he takes a nap, which is followed by more chamber music until 1 a.m. his regular dinner hour. Having dined sumptuously he sallies out on foot accompanied by his secretary, and walks about the town until five, when he returns to his hotel and goes to bed.

A remarkable case of a father attempting to murder bis son, a boy ten years old, was tried at the Manchester assizes, before Sir John Mellor. An operative named Oldham, living at Rochdale, had been on uncomfortable terms with his wife, who eventually left him and went to the house of her mother in Liverpool. The woman, it is said, bad conceived a dislike to the boy, who was the offspring of a previous marriage contracted by the prisoner, and the prisoner's motive in getting rid of hia son was that his wife might be induced to return. The way by which he sought to get the boy out of the way was to take him to the river in a secluded part of the town and drown him. Having satisfied himself that the boy would be no more seen alive, he proceeded to the police station in tho character of a heart-broken father to inquire about hie lost son. The tidings on the following morning were a surprise to him. The lad was found in a house of a neighbor whither he had gone for shelter aftergspending the night out of doors in his wet clothes. His escape it appeared had been almost miraculous. After rising to the surface he clung to some grass on tho opposite side of the river, and thus saved himself. The jury, without more than a moment's consideration, found the prisoner guilty, and the Judge sentenced him to 25 years' penal servitude.

A Derby sweep on the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club Handicap has been opened in Napier. Mr H. C. Wilson, dentist, will return from Gisborne on the 27th instant. The tenders for the works on the Havelock road are advertised. It will be seen from advertisement that the goodwill of the lease of Mr Harris' shop, Hastings-street, has been sold privately, and is therefore withdrawn from Messrs Banner and Liddle's sale. New advertisements Will he found in our "Wanted" column. DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW. Divine services will be conducted as follows : —By the Right Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu, at St. Peter's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m., Kaikora school-house, at 3 p.m., and the church, Te Aute, at 7 p.m. By the Rev- R. Eraser, at Waipukurau at 11 a.m., and Takapau at 3.30 p.m. By Mr W. O. Robb at Hampden at 11 a.m., Onga Onga at 3 p.m., and Waipawa at 7 p.m. By the Rev. E. Barnett, at the Methodist Church, Waipawa, at 7 p.m. The usual service will be held in the Presbyterian Church, Kaikora, at 3 p.m. By the Rev. W. Nichol, at Havelock at 11 a.m., Maraekakaho at 3 p.m., and at Hastings at 7 p.m. By the Rev. J. J. Mather, morning service at Hastings, evening service at Clive. By the Rev. J. Spear, at Taradale at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and at Pukatapu at 3 p.m. Anniversary sermons in connection with the United Methodist Free Church, Shakespeare road, will be preached at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. by the Rev. P. H. Cornford.