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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3040, 24 March 1881, Page 2

Mass will be celebrated by the Rev. E. Reignier next Sunday at Havelock, at 11 a.m.

The usual monthly practice of the Napier Volunteer Fire Brigade takea place this evening at 7.30 sharp. A good muster is requested, in order to secure a good practice for the competition next month.

It will be Been by our cablegram from London that hostilities have ceased in the Transvaal, the Boers having accepted the conditions of peace by which they regain their independence, but acknowledge the suzerainty of the Queen.

"Wβ regret to hear that Mrs MeLees, of East Clive, sustained a very serious loss in the destruction of two stacks by fire yesterday. The stacks, one of which was hay, and the other of unthieshed oats,were valued at £250, and were uninsured.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, Thomas Perry was charged with stealing a diamond ring of the value of £11, the property of Miss Simonsen. In the absence of important evidence, the case was adjourned until Wednesday next.

The Rev. Joseph Berry, formerly Wesleyan minister in this town, but who has latterly been employed by the Government as immigration agent, has returned to the colony, and will take up his abode at Nelson, where he has been stationed by the Wesleyan Conference.

The smell from the lagoon has been almost unbearable during the last few nights, but, we fear, this cannot be overcome. There is one stench-pool, however, somewhere at the back of Mr Bolt's timber yard that can be done away with, and the proprietor should be compelled to abate the nuisance with the least possible delay.

It is, perhaps, not generally known that Messrs J. Bycroff. and Co., of Auckland, was the only firm in New Zealand that obtained an aw-u'd at the Melbourne Exhibition for The goods manufacUred by this fkiu are now in very_ great demand, and as representing a flourishing colonial industry should affect foreign importations.

We hear that Captain W. R. Russell, M.H.R., intends to become a patron of the turf. At the sale of Mr R. Farmer's thoroughbreds on Saturday, Captain Russell bought the two-year-old fillies Nellie and Sydney, the latter engaged for the Hawke's Bay Guineas and Auckland Derby. Sydney is by Jav'lin out of the mother of Paramina and Rewi. Nellie is by Mute. Captain Russell also bought at the same sale the two-year-old gelding King-craig, engaged for the Hawke's Bay Guineas and the Auckland and Canterbury Derbys. Kingcraig is a Jav'lin colt out of Hannah, a Traducer mare.

The enquiry into the stranding ot the Silver Cloud was concluded by the Marine Board yesterday afternoon, when the findings were as follow:—1. That the etranding of the Silver Cloud was caused by her striking on the bank at the eastern 6ide of the breastwork. 2. That her so striking was the result of accident, which could not have been foreseen or guarded against. 4. That the accident was due to the heavy rush of the tide round the western pier. 4. That the pilot exercised all due discretion. 5. That Pilot Kraeft and Captain Balledid all they could to prevent the misfortune.

Mr Simonsen's season of ten nights closes to-night, and so well is he satisfied with the success of the company so far that a further season of seven nights is advertised. The second season will be of a more varied character than the first, and will include operas which will task the full strength of the company. Der Freischutz, Un Balla in Maschera, Faust, and H.M.S. Pinafore, are to be given, and the seaaon is to close with a benefit to Madame Simonsen, ror which occasion Donizetti's magnificent work " Lucia di Lammermoor" is to be produced, in addition to a vocal and instrumental concert. If thorough care is taken in placing , these operas upon thi; stage (the musical portion of the performances is quite fiafe in the bands of such artists) a series of operatic treats may be expeoted vUoh gfcoiiia <$iw J»f c houses.

The repairs to the Silver Cloud aro rapidly approaching completion, and it is expected that sho will be ready for sea by rTondfw next.

The Hotel, Hastings-treet, has changed Lands, that popular host, Mr H. Fletcher, having bought out Mr J. Ashton for:, we hear, £700.

There was a good muster at the monthly inspection of the Rifle corps last night. The band, which has tieen considerably strengthened lately, was present, and played a number of tunes.

The Post h. the following :—" Aprivate letter has her a received by a gentleman in this town frot.i one of the principle iron merchants in Leeds, conveying the rather ominous intelligence that Messrs Greenwood and Batley, of Leeds, have received a secret order from the Italian Government for war material to the value of £600,000. The order will take fully three years to execute."

A Cape Town newspaper has the following , advertisement: —" War ! War! War! R. Broadway, Manager of the Western Tanning Company, 95 l.onyrtnarket-street, is prepared to r-upply a limited number of boots for those proceeding to the front; and he guarantees that, owing to the breadth of the sole, any volunteer shot will still keep his poßition, and thus be a bource of terror to the Basutos,"

An interesting story concerning Mr Justin M'Carthy's recently published hißtory is told by Mr Edward King , . He had contracted with a London publishing house to bring out his book, when the Land League agitation in Ireland began to claim his sympathy. His views were so emphatic as to frighten his conservative publishers, and they asked to break the contract. Mr M'Carthy consented, the forfeit being £200 or £300. Then he took the book to another firm, and made a much more advantageous contract than the first one.

Since Cetewayo has been in prison he has learned to write, and now proudly signs bis own name in printed characters, which he regards as an artist does a work of his highest .science. Bishop Colenso has sent home some of these autographs to the Aborigines Protection Society. The writing is firm, open, bold, and clear. It shows that the august prisoner has hardly yet got beyond the stage of straight lines, and that, like a child, he desires his print to be big and plain. But it is really good writing for one who has been learning for so shore a time. The dethroned king, by the way, spells his name Cet-y-wayo. The first electric railway in Europe built for ordinary traffic has now beer, nearly completed. It is situated in the city and suburbs or Berlin. It runs from the central cadet establishment in Leichterfelde. It is the first actual experiment with the system in ordinary traffic. It may be remembered that in the summer of 1879 Dr. Siemens achieved great success with the electric railway, which was constructed as a scientific exoerirnent in the grounds of the Berlin Exhibition of that year. The line will, it ie expected, be opened for traffic before the close of the present month. The contractors who are constructing the railway are Messrs Siemens and Halske, of Berlin.

All Armenians have the same strong heavy build, the same thick beetle eyebrows, the same full acquiline nose, springing directly, and without the intervention of any appreciable depression, from under the forehead, the same dark lustreless eyes, the same mass of clothes on, clothes all dingy and baggy, the game large brown hands, and written in each curved finger tip, in. every line of the capacious paltn, the same " It is more blessed to receive than to give." They are a race more retentive than the Jews of their nationality, more retentive of their money too, and more acquisitive. " Shut up all the Jews and all the Armenians of the world together in one exchange," Rothschild is reported to have said, " and within half an hour the total wealth of the former will have pas3ed into the hands of the latter."

In consequence of the recklers and extravagant felling of timber that has prevailed throughout western Russia during the greater part of the present century, several of the streams feeding the Dnieper have become dried up, while others contribute so li !e water to the great river that its i has already suffered serious prejudice, fti.d is, in some portions of its course, threatened with absolute interruption. Rocks and sandy inlands in great number, forming sections of its bed, may now be seen, where a few years ago from twelve to fifteen feet of water had hid them from view. As the Dnieper traverses and largely contributes to the prosperity of no fewer than nine Russian provinces or " governments," this falling off in its dimensions and capacities is in. reality little short of a national calamity. In Paris, during the performance of " Le Pied de Mouton," a table is brought on to the stage, and afterwards a candlestick carrying two lighted candles. One of the characters in the play blows out the candles, but as soon as he moves away one of them unaccountably becomes re-lighted. The actor again blows out this light, when the other one becomes kindled ; and, becoming enraged, the man takes up the candlestick and blows furiously without being able (o extinguish the light permanently. This effect, which gives rise to some amusement and astonishment, is produced by means of an induction spark, which inflames the vapour from a mixture of ether and spirits of turpentine contained within the vessels which represent the wax tapers. A cable of four fine conductors the latter, and the points between which the spark passes, with the table, and through it with the induction coil below the stage.

The London Examiner tells of the insanity of Mr Cross, George Eliot's second husband, of which no previous public mention has been made. It says :" It seems little more than a year since we lost George Henry Lewis, her first and most trusted counsellor and companion, and hardly a twelvemonth since the world learned with, perhaps, some degree of surprise, that she had married a gentleman of the Stock Exchange named Cross. While they were on their wedding trip—it is no use to conceal the fad facts—he lost control over himself at Venice, and threw himself from the balcony of their residence. Happily the sea and not the ground received him, and he survived, but only to be placed in a maison tie sanle. Bravely Mrs Cross set herself to face her now doubly lonely life, but the struggle, not surpassed in intensity by that of any of her heroine?, did not lai-t long, and she has now gone, at the ago of 60, to the rest that must have come to her as a relief."

The Simonsen Opera Company in " Norma" at the Theatre Boyal this evening.

Messrs 11. Monteitk and Co. will sell to morrow Canterbury oats, wheat, &c.

Messrs Neal and Close advertise new ship monts for the winter season, 1881.

Messrs Watt and Greenaway have dissolved partnership, and the business will be carried on by Mr D. B. Watt. Tenders are invited for repairs bo Hydera-bad-road.

Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell on the 26th apples, &c, Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on the 26th 200 empty cases. Messrs Blytlie and Co., advertise Manilla kitts at low prices. Mr E. Lyndon will sell on the 30th instant, at Pukahu hay, cows, horses, &c A number of new advertisements will be found in our "Wanted " column.