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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3037, 21 March 1881, Page 2

The Native Lands Court sitting, which was to have been held at Taupo to-day, has been postponed till the 30th instant. A monster potato was left in our office to-day by the growr-T Mr T. O'Brien, of Havelock. This sample o' a splendid crop is a Hobart Town red, and weighs 2ilbs. Mr Allan McDonald, M.H.R., has purchased from Mr Curtis that gentleman's valuable estato at Waerenga-a-hika, Pover y Bay, and intends *o establish a stud farm for the breeding of horses. A cricket match between eleven of tbe Simonsen Opera company and a team of the Herald Club was played at Petane on Satuiday last, and resulted in an easy victory for the Press men. Herald, 91; Opera Company, 29 and 28. The Wairarapa Standard appears to contain some sanguinary telegrams if we are to judge from the following paragraph cut from that paper:—"lt will be seen that the Emperor of Russia came to an untimely end on Sunday last by the telegrams in another place. Mr Sturm picked up on the old river-bed of the Ngaruroro, the other day, a trout measuring fifteen and a half inches in length. The Acclimatisation Society turned out their first batch of trout in the stream which now represents the old Ngaruroro, and Mr Sturm thinks that the fish he found had been killed by a shag. News reached town to-day of the destruction by fire of Messrs Hallett Bros.' woolshed at Puketitiri on Saturday night. The origin of tbe fire is unknown. The building were insured for £150 in the New Zealand office. Destroyed with the shed was some bales of wool, which were insured in the North British Mercantile Insurance Company. Concerning the Napier Handicap of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's meeting we may state that the time in which it was run was the fastest on record in New Zealand. The distance was one and a-half miles, and the time was 3 minutes and 9f- seconds. The Victorian St. Ledger, only 132 yards longer course, weight for age race, was run in 3 minutes 6 seconds, the fastest time on record in Australia. Some different arrangement appears to be necessary in regard to the unloading of the steam launch from the Union steamers arriving here on Saturdays. It constantly happens that the launch returns to the wharf at an hour too late for it to be unloaded, and passenger's luggage consequently remains under the hatches till Monday. This occurred last Saturday, through which one of Signor Paladini's boxes was detained. The box contained the music of " O italutaris," which he was announoed to sing at the sacred concert last night, but which had to be omitted from ■the programme in consequence,

Subscribers to Mr S. Hooper's Derby sweep on tbe Napier Handicap are informed in another column that drawers of horses can obtain .settlement on presentation of their tickets.

From the Wairoa Gfuardian we learn that tbe hup crop in Mr Piper's garden has not been so good aa that of last yeai. During last week Mr Piper employed fifty natives in hop picking—Wairoa is now in a position to supply itself -with locally burnc lime — Rope making is another industry recently started there, half a ton of rope manufactured from native flax havincr been exported to the order of Mr GL B. Flint.

The equinoctial gales that have beerblowing lately have bad an effect oil the Shnd hills between Mr Sutton's and Mr Sturm's residences near Clive. In some places the sand has been blown clean away, eyp. ■■'•■g the coffins of deceased Maoris that had been buried there, presumably on account of the easy digging. Anent the native ctemetery ac that locality We shall have a. tale to ti-ll shortly which will illustrate native life in old Ahuriri.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before 11. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Alexander Taylor was brought up on remand charged with lunacy, and discharged. In tho following civil case* judgment was given for the plaintiffs with costs : —Jacobs v. Manaena, claim £6; same v. Henare Tomoana, claim £4 2s Gd; Merntt, v. Panapa, claim £7; Scarfe and Co. v. Iloff, claim £4 3s Sd ; same v. Buckingham, claim £L l£s 7d; Knowles v. Bedingfield, claim £20 ss. '] bo oases Barron v. Ihaia Hutana, and Leonard v. Urupeni Phuara, a judgment summons, were adjourned for a week.

Lord Beaconsfield makes will and women the two gieat levers of political life. !t is a fact that in 1874 Disraeli would not have succeeded in forming his Cabinet as it was then formed but for the influence of three great ladies. For fortyeight hours in February of that year the centre of political interest was at Brethby. It depended entirely on the result of the macinations of a femalo cabal whether Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon woull be induced to renew their connection*

According to the Saturday Review tbe hatred in which the Jewish race is now held in Germany is far too practicable to be appeased by any such trifle as a change of religion. If the German Jews became Christians to-morrow they would be equally unpopular because they would be equally powerful. If they were rather stupid, and not good at making money, and altogether given to lag behind their Christian neighbors, they might be of any religion they liked. Their offence is that in these respects they are better than the Christians. They work harder, they earn more, and they are quicker to see and seize opportunities.

The Pall MVI Gazette, in a leading article, says :—" The Dutoh element, unobtrusive as it is, is still the strongest European element in South A frica. A large part of the European population of Natal is Dutch. The Orange F.-ee State is at least three-quartorßDutch,notwithstanding tbe existence of an Anglican bishop in its capital. The whole of the western province of the Cape Colony is Dutch. To exasperate the Dutch element is therefore to render useless one of the most potent influences for governing the South African colonies in tbe future. More than a year bank tbe people's committee in the Transvaal offered to meet the Imperial authorities on a most liberal and conciliatory basis if only their independence was restored. Is it still too late to come to terms ?" The question has sii'ce been answered.

By his various successes on the turf it is comnuted that Mr Wm. I'Anson, whose death near Milton is just announced, won upwards of £100,000. He purchased an estate which alone cost over £10,000, and he bad " irons" in the fire in every direction. He commenced life low down in a racing stable, but his native shrewdness quickly brought him under notice of the late Lord Glasgow, from which moment he never looked back. The animal which made his foitune was the brood mare Queen Mary. He only gave £100 for her, and she bred him the Derby and Oaks winner, Blink Bonny. Later on the mare slipped that " horse of a century," Blair Athol, whose achievements will for ever live in the equine memory. Two other descendants of " The Queen," respectively Breadalbano and Broomielaw, sold for £11,000.

To illustrate the grand scale on which some of the English estates are laid out, I may mention shat the Chabsworth estate of the Duke of Devonshire contains 2,000 acres, which he retains for bis private park and flower garden, besides thousands more that are rented for farming-. His park is bounded on all sides by bills, which cut it off from the rest of the world, and no other house than his own can be seen from the windows of his grand mansion. His flower garden alone comprises 102 acres, wherein 60 labourers are constantly employed to keep it in order. The remainder of the 2,000 acres is_ all in grass and woodland and stocked with deer. A has charge of the estate, and the understanding with him is that he shall have at his disposal all the produce from the deer—venison, pelts horns, &c.— one ondition that he shall keep at least 2000 head constantly in the herd.—London Letter.

A writer in a recent number of the Westminister Beview writes as follows in reference to the present and future of this colony: —"The colonists have for the present, indeed, to use every effort to pay the interest on this debt; but they know it is not a debt of expense previously incurred by their ancestors, but rather a payment made by the present generation, in order that their descendants, if not themselves, may reap all the benefits of easy intercommunication. Tne colony is thus, at the present, in the position of a man hard at work, and pinching himself at every turn, todevelope'a large business. Roads and railways are being laid down, land purchased and brought under cultivation labor imported, and capital invested; but the 'business' will soon commence to pay, and for him and for his children good days of reward are in store. Signs of these good days are, indeed, already apparent. Wool and wheat are being exported in increasing quantities. Coal and minerals are taking their place regularly in a market which hnew them not before. Property of all kinds is rising in price, and money is becoming cheaper. T. 3 latter is a sure sign that tbe young community is becoming more peopled-up, and arriving at that more mature stage of development at which the money invested will bejnn to yield proper returns. 'I he Maori difficulties are quietly subsiding, and with the confidence of his developing strength, the white man will be enabled to deal justly, and even generously, by the Maori, and thus stave off all disputes and troubles till the Maori quietly passes away to his Happy Islands, improved off the face of the earth."

Tbe Simonsen Opera Company at the Theatre Royal to-night in " Imcrezia Borgia." ... ~ , Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell, tomorrow, Canterbury bacon, cheese, itc, at Mr*' T. E. Kewfcon will sell to-morrow blankets, clothing, &c, at 11 a.m. Mr G. GriUies will open his industrial exhibition at the Protestant Hall on Monday next The character of this exhibition has already been referred to. Particulars will appear in a future advertisement. Volunteer orders are issued. Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell tomorrow, at their rooms, Hobart apples, &c. Settling on the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's races to-morrow at 2.30 p.m., at the Criterion Hotel.

Found a cheque. Mr E. Lyndon will sell on Thursday next furniture, &c. . _~ -. . , Meeting of the Napier Fire Brigade tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. A number of new advertisements will bo fpund in our " Ranted" column.