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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3016, 24 February 1881, Page 2

The outward English mail closes at the Chief Post Office, Napier, at 5.30. o'clock to-morrow moraine. The letters and papers will be forwarded overland to Wellington. This alteration has been rendered necessary through the detention of the Albion at Auckland, that steamer not being expected at Wellington till Monday.

A circular has been issued from the Education Department stating that the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Sumner, Christchurch, has been re-opened. The pystem pursued at this institution is what is called " The Articulation System," and where, succesful must be a great boon to those so sadly afflicted. The chargd for board and education ia £40 per annum, and persons unable to pay that amount are invited to communicate with the Minister of Education.

At about 3 o'clock this morning the captain of the barque Mercia, now lying in the harbour, was awoke by a noise on deck, and on getting up to ascertain the cause found that he was fastened up in his cabin. It appears that the man on watch and two other seamen belonging to the ship had lashed the companion, battened down the skylights, and, locking and bolting up the cabin, had taken a boat off the davits and gone on a cruise on their own account. The police are anxiously looking for their whereabouts.

The establishment of a beet-roofc sugar manufactury in Hawke's Bay is an idea that is not to be allowed to drop. We hear that Mr H. S. Tiffen, who intends going to England towards the close of the year, will take that apportunity of visiting the continent, and obtaining every information connected with the manufacture of sugar from beet. He will also secure the services of some skilled workmen, and send them out here. In the meatime Mr Tanner intends growing a few acres of the several varieties of the pugar-beet, with a view to the discovery of the one best adapted to the soil and climate.

Captain Russell and Mr Sutton M.H.R.'s, will address the electors this evening at the Theatre Royal.

The sittings of the District Court at Gisborne have been fixed for the third Monday in April, July, October, and January in each year.

There was a meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr J. B. "Vernon at the Supreme Court Hoiise tb.ia afternoon, but the proceedings had not terminated in time for our issue. Those permanent levels again. At the Union Bank corner the pathway is being raised above the level of the curbing. Except for the purpose of frittering away the ratepayers' money it is impossible to cay why this needless work is being done. We should like to know whether this expenditure comes out of loan or general revenue. How much longer are the ratepayers going to submit to the wicked waste of public money that has been going on for so long a peiiod ?

Justice, as administered in New Zealand, may be exemplified in the case of a man at Wellington who for stealing from a till, received forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and in the case of three little boys who, at Dunedin, for stealing a few apples, were sentenced to imprisonment, a flogging, and several years incarceration in the Reformatory. One of these ooya was earning his living as a boiler cleaner. The colony will now have to keep him during the years it will take him to learn the enormity of the crime of robbing an apple tree.

A man of the name of Henry Inca was lately committed at Gisborne for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court to be held at Napier. He was brought to the Napier gaol ihe other day, and there he will have to remain till July—five months —before he can be tried. The crime with which he is charged is larceny; it is alleged that he stole a purse containing £2 from a Maori. His trial will involve the conveyance to and from Gisborne and maintenance of goodness knows how many native witnessess. The whole case could have been disposed of summarily by the committing magistrate had he so chosen. If magistrates were paddled with the expenses of their mistakes, which the colony has now to bear, there would be far less carelessness on the bench, and possibly better justice to be obtained in our law court*. Something should certainly be done to prevent the comparatively enormous expense to which this trial will put the country.

There is a fantastic derivation given for the sweetmeat marmalade, which certainly shows what ingenuity <?ill do when etymology is puzzled. Mary Queen of Scots, pining for France, found little comfort in Scotch cookery. The rind af an orange boiled in sugar and served in its own pulp was the dish she most effected, and was always brought to her when sne was too ill to care for anything else. Thus it came to be called " Mariemalade." This derivation muat, perhaps, be classed with the orgin given by another etymologist of the word girl. He courageously derived it from " garula, , ' because he said, young females are so fond ofchattering<—Globe.

Recently a fruiterer, living in the Rue de Rooher, died, or was supposed to die. His funeral, according to the French law, took place within twenty-four hours. The ceremony was performed in. the St. Augustin Church, and as the body was being , carried to the churchyard a mute thought he heard a noise come from the coffin, and he shouted " Hold! the oorpFe speaks !" The man was rebuked for his conduct and told that he must either be mad or drunk. When, how* e"ver, they were iowering the coffin into the grave, a voice was distinctly heard crying. " Help! help !" For a moment the company was speechless. They drew the coffin up again, and on opening it they found the poor man alive. He was taken home, and ie now on the way to recovery.—Exchange.

Ingereoll and his infidel lectures have become nauseous to the coramofi-sense people of America who are beginning to think that it is a fraud. A.n American paper says: The Tom Paine fever has been followed by a reaction ; the eloquence and intellectual brilliancy of Ingersoll cannot redeem him from the obloquy of his assaults on religion, and he has marred his usefulness for ever as a public man ; the best he cdn say in &ny cause can barely compensate for the harm inflicted by his support. An appeal has been made to the nation and the great public sentiment of the people has declared that it is religious, and only the more religious because it has discovered that unbelief and infidelity have been quite as illiberal and intolerant as any sectarianism could be, and the infidels have only themselves to thank if their unworthy crusade against religion reacts upon themselves as it undoubtedly has done, and as it inevitably must do.

Dumb declarations are in vogue, among the Boers of South' Africa. Mr Anthony Trollope tells us that when a young Boer goes in quest of a wife he puts on his best clothes, sticks a feather in his cap, provides himself with a bottle of eugar-plums, and a candle—a wax one if possible—mounts his horse, rides to the house holding the young woman he would honour, the reins on the gate, dismounts, and enters. His smarb gear, his feather, and his candle bespeak his errand. To make the point quite clear, however, he offers the candle to the daughter of the houee. If she takes it, it ie lighted ; the mother sticks a pin in the candle to show how long the young people may remain together without interruption, and. she and everybody else retire. Mr Trollope says a little salt is sometimes put in by somebody, to make the wick burn slowly ; but when the flame reashes the pin, mamma comes in, the"freying" is over; and a day or two afterwards the cair are made one.

A southern contemporary nas the following from a speech delivered in New York by one of the special correspondents of the New York Tiibune :—James Redpath, who recently returned from Ireland, appeared at a meeting of the Newark Irish Land League, and gave at considerable length a description of the Bad condition of Ireland. In the course of his remarks he paid : " All this year there have been only five oases of accidental death that anyone can attribute to the tenants. One of the men killed was Lord Leitrim. If he had not been shot it would have been an eternal disgrace. Hβ ruined thirty pure girls, and the brother of one of them went to Ireland from Chicago and shot him down like the dog that he was. (Applause) I profoundly honor him for it, and if I meet him in Chicago I will congratulate him on being a good shot. I hope he will "disclose his name, that we may give him a testimonial. Mr Froude has condemned that shooting, and I charge him with defaulting debauchery. It is time to speak out about this thing. The Land Leage has given the people new courage. Last year they were crushed, but now they act like free men. By socially ostracising everyone whj takes a farm from which a tenant has been evicted, the people keep puch farms vacant." Jn reference to the handicapping for the Jockey Club race meeting, the sporting contributor to Christchurch "Weekly Press says : —" I have taken every opportunity sinc3 last week to con over Mr Eveifc's handicaps for the Hawke's Bay Meeting, and have come to the conclusion that my first impressions were correct, and that Mr Evett, whoever he may be, has produced a most creditable handicap. A handicapper for a race like the Napier Handicap has a lot to contend with. The running at this meeting naturally depends a great deal on that of Dunedin. Were he in a position to apportion the weights after the Southern fixture his handicaps would in all probability be very different. Another difficulty in the way of making a good handicap in a place like Hawke's Bay is that a resident naturally forms perhaps higher conclusions as to the merits of the local animals, while being an absentee from the biff Southern meetings he has only the Southern papers to go by when he strives to arrive at a fair estimate of the merits of animals who he only knows by hearsay. Hawke's Bay and Wanganui under existing circumstances are the most difficult handicaps in New Zealand to make."

The elephant hunters of Ceylon and India corroborate Sinbad's story that elephants, when they feel the approach of deatbj retire to a solitary and inaccessible valley, and there die in peace. The superintendent of elephants to the government of India states that no living man has come across the corpse of a wild elephant that has died a natural death.

In the writings of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, occurs the following passage : "As we use a glass to examine the form of things, so must we study antiquity in order to understand the present." This sentence points unmistakably to the use of magnifying-glaesoe L,ng before the time of the writer, who died 478 years B.C.

In answer to some very uncalled for remarks by the Dunedin [Herald on the Canterbury cricketers, the Times publishes a stinging rejoinder. Says the Times :— " The truth is that this cricketing tour has let loose a low class of beings—moneymaking Cockneys of the flippant order, or bawbee-loving Scotchmen of the baser sort —who give themselves airs throughout New Zealand, hectoring, swaggering, and using coarse language; behaving like blatant, ill-mannered, offensive boors, offering rudeness to the people of every town, which they enter; conducting themselves, in short, in every way like the backers of the rowing man Trickett, whose behaviour in London has rendered the name of Australians perfectly hideous to all respectable Englishmen." This is understood to refer to the behaviour of a Dunedin man. connected with the Australian team on the Christohuroh cricket ground, where he made himself conspicuously offensive by his language and demeanor. I may say with regard to the bad taste shown! by the Dunedin cricketers and a section of their Press in this matter, that the Australians themselves remarked and commented upon. it as evincing a great want of patriotism.

Madame Lotti Wilmot's class for investigation of spiritualism this evening at 8. Mr W. Routledge will sell to-morrow, at the Spit, beer, stout, spirits, &c. Mr F. Tuxford has a large quantity of new goods landing ex Mercia. The sittings of the Assessment Courts for Hawke's Bay and Waipawa counties are advertised. A grand art union is advertised by the London Photographic Company. Mr Fuzard announces that he has opened a general furnishing establishment in Hast-ings-street, opposite Holt's timber yard, A gold ear-ring is lost. A gold locket has been found. A number of new advertisements will he found in our " wanted " column.