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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3038, 22 March 1881, Page 2

The season for shooting native game in Hawko'e Bay provincial district will commence on May Ist. Native game includes pigeons and ducks.

Rates to the amount of £140 were paid yesterday to the Corporation. There remain the names of twenty-one ratepayers on the list to be summoned on April 4th.

Wβ remind the burgesses of this borough that rates due on December 31st last, remaining unpaid at the end of this month, will subject defaulters to be posted in the Defaulter's List.

The deputy Commissioners for the property tax are now preparing returns showing the classes and yalues of properties in town and country, the areas of landed estates, and the" amount of mortgages secured in each class.

We hear that the Jockey Club intend to erect a stand outside the paddock for the convenience of thot=e who oannot afford to pay the charge for the grand stand. The price of admission to the outside etand it is proposed shall be half-a-crown.

The examination of candidates for admission to practice in the Supreme Court of New Zealand has been going on before Mr P. A. F. Birch, Registrar, since yesterday morning. We understand there are seven candidates, three for final examination, and four in general knowledge.

At the evening service at St. Mary's Church, yesterday, the Rev. Father Le Mennant delivered an eloquent and masterly discourse on the Divine institution of tbe Eucharist or Blessed Sacrament. The mission will close to-night, when Father Le Mennant will preach a farewell sermon. He leavee by the first train to-morrow morning.

To-day the second moiety of the property tax was payable, but up to noon the Deputy Commissioner's office had not been rushed by taxpayers. Peremptory instructions have been received by Mr S. Y. Collins from the Government to issu9 notices under clause 77 of the Act to all defaulters. Fourteen days after these notices are posted ten per cent, will be added to the amount of the tax due, and defaulters will be sued for the amount.

The settling over the late races took place this afternoon at the Criterion Hotel, but several of the largest Tvinners received their cheques on Saturday, as they were anxious to leave by the steamers. The following are the amounts won by the different owners:—R. H. Vallance, £425; C. C. Murray, £235 ; Hon. W. Robinson, £225 ; B. Wheeler, £145; W. Walters, £S5; M. Farley, £50 ; R. Mclvor, £50 ; A. J. Keith, £30 ; W. Douglas, £25 ; Maori, £20 ; total, £1290. After paying all stakes the club have over £400 at their credit, which will more than suffice to pay expenses and management.

The Rev. W. 0. Oliver, who has been pastor of the Wesleyan Church in Clive Square for the last three years, leaves Napier early next month. During the time Mr Oliver has resided in Napier his quiet gentlemanly demeanour has gained him the esteem and respect of all with whom he has come in contact, and hia pulpit ministrations will be missed by many who have regarded him as a wise counsellor. The Wesleyans aro an influential body" in Napier, and during the pastorship of the Revs. Mr Berry and Mr Oliver they have occupied their proper position among the religious institutions of the town. We trust that, under the charge of the Eev. Mr Bunn, who suoeede Mr Oliver, this position will be maintained. Mr Oliver goes to Auckland, where he is to be stationed for the next three years, about the 7th of next month, and it is the intention ot Ms congregation to hold a farewell tea meeting on the sth proximo.

Respecting rabbits, the Olutha Leader states that on at least one run in the Tapanui distnot the proprietor charges £1 a-week per man for the privilege of killing rabbits on hie property; and that at Finnegand forty rabbits were killed in one afternoon by those engaged cutting a patch of Iwheafc with ft reaper,

The Lyttelton Timea saye:—" The action of some of the banks in maintaining the high rate of discount so long current has occasioned much comment during the past few days. With interest rates at 2, 3, and i per cent, on fixed deposits for 3, 6, and 12 months respectively, it is most unreasonable that best of paper cannot be discounted under 7 per cent., -whilst interest on overdrafts is charged at 9, and in exceptional cases at 8 per cent. "This serious disparity in borrowing and lending rates, it has been said, ' has the appearance of milking the public in order to maintain fat dividends. , "

The London Agricultural Gazette has discovered the " coming sheep." The Cotswold (it says) i.s going out, the Southdown ceases to be' a rival for popularity with largerand more profitable, if less shapely breeds, the Shropshire have had their day, and the Oxford Downs, although their rise has been rapid, have an unfortunate predisposition to foot-lameness. The " coming sheep" are Hampshire, which, although they have not been pushed or taken up by the great (whoever they may be), have a brilliant future before them. 'J here is no race in England, or in the world, cays our comteaiporary, which can vie with them in the production of large-aized lambs of from 6to 8 months old. At this age it is not uncommon for them to realise as mush as sixty or even sixty-five shillings per head. Their enthusiastic chronicler is confident that if instead of selling lambs at the Autumn fairs, breeders keep them till ten or thirteen months old, they would make prices which no of cheep would touch.

The Pall Mall Gazette announces an exceedingly interesting experiment in home colonisation as now being tried m Cheshire. Mr Binney, a Manchester soliotor, with a firm faith in the saving virtues of a peasant proprietary, was impelled a year ago by a suggestion of Lord Derby to put his theories to the test of practice. He bought an estate of 150 acres at Whitley, in Cheshire, and resold it in small lots of 1, 2, or more acres each to men who were willing to settle on the land. About half the estate has been resold, and twenty habitations have already been run up for the accommodation of the small landowners. Each settler owns the fee simple of his plot, and as the colony is within easy distance by rail from the great industrial centres of South Lancashire they can command a neverfailing market for their produce. If this colony of market -gardeners or peasant proprietors should prove a " trade success" a practical step of the first importance will have been taken to solve one of the most difficult problems of our time.

A writer in the London- Quarterly Review, for October, gives a somewhat startling account of the condition of Preebyterianism :—"The works whose titles we have placed at the heart of this paper," he pays, " are among the ' Signs of Times.' They add to the many palpable and abounding evidences that in Scotland the retreat from Calvinism has become a stampede. The defeotion began long ago, end uttered its voice in many a moan of ' Moderatism ;' but during the last half-century the spread of science, the advance of wealth and culture, the disruption of churches, the agenoy of Methodism, and the contact of Scotchmen with men in every part of the earth, have combined to weaken the theological system which once seemed so firm. Now its collapse seems so imminent that men literally over-run each other in their flight to other places of shelter." The remedy suggested by the writer is as follows: They do not recognise the fact that Methodism is escaping the shock of modern Rationalism to a very large extent, because it separated from Calvinism a century since. They have not permitted themselves to be sufficiently unprejudiced to learn from Wesley and his followers that ''good works" are an essential part of the Gospel as well as " faith," and to vindicate the one they repudiate the other.

The Hon. Colonel Brett, in responding io the toast of •'The Army" at the Christchurch banquet on Saturday, made one of his eccentric and characteristic speeches. He said: —" It was true that the British arms had recently met with three serioue disasters, but the cause of these was the rotten system existing in Great Britain and Ireland. The Parliament elected civilians to rule the army and navy. It would be ridiculous to appoint to the Bench a lawyer who had never had a brief; to make a bishop of a man who had never preached a sermon; or to employ a doctor who had no diploma, permitting him to physic you to death. (Laughter.) The cause of the disasters was to be traced to the appointment of officers who had never commanded a regiment. (Applause.) A Mr Smith, a bookseller of trashy railway novels, had been made High Admiral of England and Ireland. (Laughter.) Look at that vile play ' Pinafore.' (Laughter.) In the Horse Guards, interesb alone led to preferment, and merit was nowhere. The blame of the disasters should not be cast upon the officers and men, but upon the commanders who had disgraced the British flag- which had waved a thousand years." Colonel Brett evidently regards " H.M.S. Pinafore " as a strictly accurate representation of the present condition of the Eoyal navy.

The New Zealand Times says:—By the last mail we received the following , from the editor of The Fireman: —Protection Against Fire. —Sir, — My attention having been directed to the recent fires in your district, I venture to ask you to allow me to trespass a little on your space while I inform y<.ur readers of a portable and inexpensive little engine, which I have seen in frequent use by the gallant army commanded by Capt. Soaw, C.B. It is technically known as the " London Brigade hand pump," and though it is very light it can be carried about and worked by a lad or female, yet so powerful a jet is discharged that no fire, if attacked at its inception, can live under it. Only water is required to supply it; dirty water will do passed from the nearest vessel on an emergency. This will keep it going until further help can arrive, when, in all probability, no further help will be needed. From Captain Shaw's report I glean tbat out of 4199 London fires during 1878 no fewer than 2540 were extinguished by the London Brigade hand pump. Although so copiously adopted by the London Tire Brigade, the London Brigade hand pump forms part of the farniture of most of our hospitals, and public and private establishments. The cost of the machine is, I believe, only three or four pounds, and the wonder is that so ec nomical and efficient a means of protection is not more generally adopted.—Yours faithfully, Leonaed Miller.

At the Victorian Racing Club meeting only two came forth to do battle for the St. Legc-r, Grand Flaneur and Progress. The condition of the " cracks" was minutely scanned, both giving general satisfaction. Yeomana was tubstituted for the lad St. Albans to ride Progress, it being thought advisable to try what experience and strength might do. And although Yeomans did all that mortal could do, it was in vain he tried to turn the tables on the New South Wales " crack." From the way the race was run it was easy to see that the instructions were to try the stamina of the favorite, who went out at 3 to 1 on him. Flaneur drew the inside place, and away they went at a great pace, Yeomans endeavoring to obtain the lead and the inside running. This Hales would not permit, and stride for stride was the race run, scarcely a head at any time dividing the pair. Inside the distance Flaneur drew out a neck in front, when it became evident that Progress could no longer keep with him, and, gradually increasing his advantage without any perceptible difficulty, the favorite came home first by two lengths. Time, 3min 16£ sec. The time of this race, and the ease with which it was run, makes it one of the most brilliant victories ever obtained over this distance of ground, although, if the English "Turf Register" is to be relied upon—as there is no cause to doubt—it has been beaten ; for therein we find that Keveller ran it in 3min 15sec in 1818, Sir Tatton Sykes in 3rnin 16sec in 1846, Caller Ou in 3min 14sec in 1861, and Apology in 3mm lGsec in. 1874.—Age,

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

American ingenuity (observes the London Daily Telegraph) has put forth an amas&ing project for connecting Great Britain with the United States by a transatlantic railway. Rejecting the notion of driving a tunnel under the ocean as too tedious "end expensive, the devisers of this scheme propose to sink upon the Atlantic bed an iron tub some 3000 miles long and 26ft. in diameter, through which two trains might travel simultaneously with perfeofc oonvenience and safety. As, however, this tube would be subjected to exterior water pressure equal to that of about 120 atmospheres, its casting will have to be at least Bin. thick. The tube is to consist of sections, each 160 ft. in length, and is to be laid down in the following manner:—Five such sections are to be welded together upon firmly anchored pontoons, both ends of the length thus prepared for sinking being hermetically closed, but in such sort that they can be opened from within. Then the entire compartmeut,'Booft. long is to bo lowered into the sea by steel chains, so that it shall reach the bottom in immediate proximity to the section it is intended to join. The junction will, of course, be effected by pubmarine workmen ; and these processes will be carried on with undeviating regularity, starting from the American coast, until the shores of Ireland shall be attained by the mighty tube. Meanwhile the laying of rails, telegraph wires, lighting and ventilation apparatus, and so forth, will go on insido the tube as it grows longer and longer. Mr Edison believes that he can perfeot an electric looomotive to draw the trains along through the tube in fifty hours from shore to shore, and the cosi of the whole Jine, rolling- stock included, is not to exceed 160 millions sterling.

The Simonsen Company in " II Trovatoro" this evening at the Theatre Royal:

Monthly inspection of Napier Artillery Volunteers this evening at 7.30.

Meeting of the Fire Brigade this evening at 7.30.

Mr Edward Lyndon will sell to-morrow sections on the Arlington run at 2 p.m., also Napier and Hastings sections, Messrs Stevens and Gorton will Bell afe Oakbourne, to-morrow, Cotswold ewes, cows, bulls, horses, &c, at noon.

Lost, stolen, or strayed, a bay horse. Messrs H. Monteith and Co. will sell on Eriday next Canterbury oats, wheat, &c. Stolen or strayed a dark brown mare. All claims against the Silver Cloud to be sent in by noon to-morrow. A lodge of instruction at the Masonio Hall. Munroe-street, to-night at 8. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman have fop sale cocksfoot from Akaroa.

Tenders are invited for the ereotionofanative school-house at Wairoa.

Tenders are invited for filling in a section in Dickens-street.

ISTotice is given that the shooting season for all game has been fixed to commence on the 2nd May.

A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.