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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3032, 15 March 1881, Page 2

There was a clean sheet at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

Both consignors and consignees will be glad to notice that the railway authorities have completed the erection of a ten-ton crane at the Napier station. This will prove of great service in the lifting of logs.

A pigeon match will take place at Taradale to-morrow, commencing at 10.30 a.m. There are three events and thirty-four entries, so that good sport may be anticipated. The whole arrangements are under the charge of Mr A. McCartney, and, judging from i.ast events of the same kind, we may assume that everything possible will be done to assure a pleasant and successful meeting.

The Mary Wadley is now discharging a cargo of Westport coal for the use of the railway. The coal from Westport has never been tried here before, and we shall be rather curious to learn the result of the experiment. Although both Newcastle and Greymouth coal could have been had, we believe, afc a'cheaper rate, the Westport tender was accepted. Ifc is well enough to encourage local industries, but the whole colony need not suffer for the sake of the Dunedin shareholders in a West Coast coal mine.

The mission services which are now being held at the Catholic Church are numerously attended. Last night Father Le Mennanfc discoursed upon " Confession." The rev. gentleman quoted largely from Scripture in support of the Sacrament of Penance, and showed that confession was practised in the old dispensation as well as in the new, and that it was of apostolic and Divine origin. We may state that Father Le Mennant, although a Frenchman, speaks the English tongue very fluently, that his choice of languageand delivery are faultless, and that at times he is really eloquent. He preaches again this evening at 7.30. During the services some very pretty hymus are rendered by the Sisters of Mercy and the school children.

, A largely attended meeting of shareholders of the Napier Grammar School was held in tho Council Chamber this afternoon.

At the meeting of the Public Works Committee of the Municipal Council last evening the following recommendations were agreed to: —1. That tho price if closet pans he 7s 6d each, and that they be issued to applicants at that pAce. 2. That the municipal solicitor be instructed to write to the Government requesting a definite answer to the Corporation's application re a new street to Wellesley-road. 3. That water be laid on to Spencer-road in terms of clause No. 2 of the engineer's report/a two-inch pipe being used for the purpose. 4. That the upset prices of the sections in the swamp proposed for sale be reduced 10 per cent. ; that the sale be advertised for the 29th instant in the Council Chamber; that the terms he a quarter cash and the balance in three annual instalments bearing 7 per cent, interest; and that the portion of section No. 3*5 numbered 23 on the plan be reserved from sale. 5. r l hat Mr Saeffer's application for water to be laid cannot be granted until arrears of water rate due be paid. 6. That under the present financial position of the borough the committee cannot recommend the payment of a grant to the Charitable Aid Committee. 7. That Mr Waterworch's application re tar be granted.

The Nationalist journals in Dublin are engrossed with the State trials and debates on the Address in the British Parliament. The Flag of Ireland gives a new reading of tho now famous '' three F's." The " three F's," it says, " will be as little effectual in reducing the Irish people to contentment t?ith British rule as if they represented Fee Fo Fum." To satisfy the Flag, the Engliahry must clear out of Ireland, bag and baggage, and leave Irishmen to their own devices. One of the journals hints that it may be necessary to " Boycott the whole island of Great Britain, and points out that " severe punishment" might he dealt out to Manchester and Liverpool and other cities if the Irish people were to refuse to trade with them.

The speech of the Marquis of Hartington the other night on the necessity for coercion in Ireland was admitted to. be one of the finefct which the noble lord has ever delivered in the House of Commons. The theme suited Lord Hartington. His passions as a landlord and lover of order were thoroughly aroused, and that hesitancy which is usually a blemish upon his public totally disappeared under the warmth and fervour of the denunciation of the " little band of miscreants " at whose door lies all the present misery of Ireland. It was amusing to watch the effect of this speech upon some of the Irish members—the majority sat in deep silence, their heads drooping upon their breasts and their arms folded. It is seldom that one hears a Liberal Minister cheered so heaifcily from the Conservative benches as was the case when Lord Hartington sat down.

Medical men have long known of a mysterious disorder called the woolsorter's disease, but only of late years have they been able to trace it to its cause. It attacks those employed in sorting wools, and the symptoms are identical with those of anthrax. The work of the woolsorter was commonly considered extremely healthy, ifc inoreased the appetite, and men throve on it. But this was only so long as ihey were engaged with home or colonial wools. The mischief did not not begin to show itself until certain materials were introduced f rota Persia and Asia Minor. These wools, composed of alpaca, camel's hair, mohair, and goat's hair, were all dirty and dangerous, and more or less associated with the woolsorter's disease. But there was a worse kind still. This was the mohair imported through Constantinople from the district about Lake Van in Asia Minor. The mohair was obtained from fleeces belonging to the Kurds, a nomadic people not noted for their probity, who were given to watering their wools and rubbing them in sand and dirt in order to increase their weight. The consequence was that the fleeces had a putrid smell and contained many materials inimical to life. These need not be described, but tbe effect upon the workmen at Constantinople even was marked, and the result was a painful eruption with constitutional depression. The same effects were observed in those who sorted wool in this country, and occasionally fatal results ensued. No wonder that the workmen have dreaded handling these noxious stuffs, and eagerly select colonial grown wool.

Some recent marriages of members of the English aristocracy to American heiresses seem to have roused the ire of the New York Herald, which, in an article headed " Americans for Americans, comments thus: " There are few spectacles abroad more mortifying to the better sort of Americans than to be compelled to witness a daughter of the commonwealth angling for a foreign nobleman, or, indeed, a foreigner of any kind. If they travel much, or sojourn long in Europe, they can scarcely miss such spectacles altogether, and their consolation must be that the anglers are not representatives of the nation. They are types of a class; but the class is not a type of the country. Many nobles, says our contemporary, " are as much so in nature as in name ; are as far above the common level by character as by social position. But the specimens of nobility who consent to be the husbands of American girls are not, as a rule, those that confer credit on their rank. They are very apt to be men of bad habits, broken fortunes, selfish instincts, willing to accept the fair Republicans in consideration of their handsome dowry. They feel that what their brides want is title; having given them that, they frequently give them nothing else. Love, esteem, loyalty, chivalry, courtesy, are not included ; these do not form part of the agreement. The number of our women who have been married to Continental titles, and repented it bitterly, is larger than has been suspected. American women are proud as well as faithful, and having made a mistake are prone to abide by their act uncomplainingly, in spite of anguish and heartache. Whatever their faults and weaknesses, Americans are in the main the kindest, most considerate, most indulgent, most love-like husbands in civilisation, and American women who seek alliances abroad are in danger of having all their romantic dreams rudely dispelled."

An American paper thus amusingly sums up Laycock : —" Laycock, the tall Australian winner, is a man among ten thousand, and has earned the unqualified approbation of every decent man in Christendom. We have had scullers who planned, scullers who plotted, scul'ers who talked, scullers who lied, and sci "lers who stole, bufc here is a sculler pure and simple; that rare aquatic jewel a sculler who sculls. The infallible riverside critics all said he did not know how to row, and sympathised with his stupidity when he made a match for 1000 dollars agninst a third-class Englishman, who could of course row right away from this awkward Colonial. Finding that this untutored savage had money and would back himself, Hosmer next jumped at him, and was speedily accommodated with a similar match. Then Hawdon wanted a slice of the cake, and was speedily helped; lastly Hanlon and his backers picked out Riley as a sure thing, and made a fourth match against the industrious simpleton from far-off shores. As soon as the match-making was over rowing commenced. Laycock paddled away from Blackman, and everybody taid Blackman was stale. He leisurely finished far ahead of Hosmer, and it was found out Hosmer was over-trained. He mado a laughing stock of Riley, and it was found Riley had not been in the country long enough ; and his fourth victim, Hawdon, who had been in the country quite long enough, was keen enough to forfeit his match, and thus save half his money. Then comes the regatta, and Laycock finishes an easy winner, beating Ross, Hosmer, Smith, Trickett, Riley, and all the smaller fish. If a certain American sculler hadLaycock's heart in his vest, the Champion of the World would have lived in New York since 1876."

The ladies are talking about Miss Mleri Terry' 8 dresses in The Cup. There is certainly no actress, even in age of excessive stage dressiness, who appears in finer or more costly costumes, or who wears these costumes with better grace, than Miss Ellen Terry. lolanthe and her Portia were both remarkable in this respect. Iv The Cup she surpasses herself. The two principal dresses she wears are of some costly Indian fabric. The first looks like the most exquisite gossamer, so airy and brilliant is its effect—one critic not inaptly describing it as " woven out of the wings of of a dragon fly;" the second is of a yellowish Bilk, set off with which, gives it a most Buperb and rich appearance.

Says the Sporting and Dramatic News : —One by one the " Northern Lights " of raciog renown seem to be paling their fires before the grim tyrant, and the latest extinction reported is that of Mr Anthony Niohol, whose blue and red jacket vsas once as well known and eagerly looked for as the different combination of identical colors which Count Lagrange has made famous in later times. The sporting ohemist of Newcastle was one of the rare and oldfashioned school of sportsmen who were content to witness an occasional race in. which their representatives took part without that insane desire to mix up their names with sport in all its various phases whi<3h seems to characterise the racing man par excellence, of the present day. Newminster, Warlock, and The Wizard were horses of that stamp which anyone might have been proud in calling their own; and it is impossible to over-estimate the calamity to breeders which would have resulted had anything happened to stand in the way of Newminster's victory in the St. Leger. To him and his sons we may well apply the Horatian ejaculation, " Quid debeas. oh Roma, Neronibus ? " —and his conspicuous success at the stud amply atones for the comparatively obscure figutes cut in that department by Warlock and The Wizard. Mr Nichol seemed to possess tha happy knack of perpetually stumbling over those racing l nuggets which so many moro powerful and wealthy rivals have striven to discover in. vain; and his reputation was first made with Nunnykirk, a son of tbat famous old Beeswing the canny Northumbrians still mention with tbe reverence due to so distinguished a performer, and who may bo said to have " crowned the edifice " of her renown by the production of Newminster. Mr Nichol had lately quite slipped out of memory, and his decease diminishes almost to vanishing point the number of those " Knights of the Round Table " who rallied round John Scott in the " golden prime " of old Whitehall days.

The Simonsen Company at the Theatre Royal give " Sonnambula " to-night.

Mr W. Routledge will sell afc the Criterion Hotel to-morrow sections and building afc Hastings at 11 a.m.

Messrs Monteith and Co. will sell at the Waipukurau Sale Yards heifers, draught horses, &c, afc noon.

Messrs Miller and Potts will sell at the Criterion Hotel to-morrow sections afc West; Clive, Havelock, and Waipawa.

Mr B. C. Ware has been appointed agent in Hawke's Bay for the Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company.

The meeting of the Gaiety Club has been postponed till Friday next. The Holiday Association notify that Thursday next will be observed as a holiday, and Friday as a half-holiday.

Tenders are invited for purchase in an interest in a section in the Victoria block, Seventy-mile Bush.

All the banks will be closed on Thursday next.

Tenders aro required for ploughing afc Omaranui.

Messrs. Price and Innes have new striped racing scarfs for sale. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.