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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3048, 2 April 1881, Page 2

" Humanity" calls attention to the manner in which a quarry in the neighborhood of Chaucer road is being worked. If there be any real danger we advise " Humanity" to represent the matter to the authorities

Mr Pope, Inspector of Native Schools, arrived from the North to-day.

The first half-yearly meeting' of the menders of tho Napier Club will be held on Friday next, at 8 p.m., at the Clubhouse, Tennyson-street.

On the fourth page will he found a full and interesting account of the battle with the Boers, near Langesnek, in which General Colley was killed.

In our report of the Waipawa Resident Magistrate's Court proceedings the name of Mr Shanly was printed in error in the case of Mirbach v. Stanley.

The Auckland Observer has done the most unkind thing possible to Madame Lotti Wilraot. It has put her portrait in its columns ; and such a portrait! Mr Rathbone had better look out.

A fine fat specimen of the wild rabbit, that is gradually but surely becoming such a plague, has been forwarded to us to-day by Mr Goddard, of the Havelock nursery, who shot the little beast this morning.

Amongst the passengers expected from the South to-morrow by the steamer Tararua is Dr. Carey, who proposes taking up his residence in this district, and will probably have his head-quarters at Hastings.

A London cablegram published at Melbourne states that the Pacific mail steamer City of New York, which left Auckland on March Ist had not arrived at San Francisco, up till to-day and, being a week overdue, a steamer had been despatched in search of her.

Mr Gillies' exhibition was well patronised all day yesterday and this morning. The Christian Brothers, with their school children, visited the exhibition, and all appeared highly delighted with what they saw. We understand that Mr Gillies intends visiting other towns in this colony with his exhibition, and we wish him every success. Mr Gillies has been a hard working tradesman in Napier for a number of years, and, in addition to his ordinary business, he has found time to construct a number of ingenious articles, which are not only very creditable to his industry, but highly amusing and instructive.

There are no less than 167 names on the Defaulters' List now lying on the table of the Town Clerk's office. The list will repay inspection by every ratepayer in the borough. A clergyman once stated from the pulpit that one of the surprises in store for us in Heaven will be that many we expected to meet there will be absent, and the many we did not expect to find in such beatitude will bo there to weloome our arrival. So it is with the Defaulters List ; names are there which no one would suspect of being in default, and other names are absent which it would have surprised no one to have seen posted. Unless the defaulters on this list pay up before the 15th instant their names will be struck off the Burgess Roll.

We regret to hear that Mr J. Cunningham, of Meanee, experienced a heavy loss last night in the total destruction of a large stack of unthreshed grain and two stacks of hay by fire. The stacks were uninsured. The origin of the fire is un - known. The fire broke out about midnight, and burnt for several hours, and was distinctly visible from the hills in Napier, where spectators feared that the Catholic mission station was in course of destruction. Mr Cunningham did not discover the fire until aroused from bed by his neighbors between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, when all prospect of saving any portion of the property was gone. Mr Cunningham's loss is estimated at over £150.

A lady from the country, who, unfortunately for herself, missed the train yesterday afternoon, concluded to make the best of a bad job, and treat herself to a visit to the opera. A certain place is said to be paved with good intentions, and the French adage " Vhomme propose et Dieu dispose," although not strictly applicable in this case, received a verification. Several visits to Napier hostelries had somewhat interfered with her sense of what was right and proper, and by the time the curtain rose to the first act of Lucia di Lammermoor her programme was quite full, and she left the theatre accompanied by a gentleman in blue for a house of temporary detention on the Marine Parade. A fine and costs, amounting to 7s, and a presumed headache, expiated the " trouble " this morning.

A correspondent of the Hawera Star, writing of the last meeting at Parihaka, says :—" Immediately after Te Whiti's speech a number of waiatas and poas were sung by the prisoners who have been released, in conjunction with those whj were not taken, but who were appointed by Te Whiti to go, and therefore are considered prisoners. These marched on to the meet-ing-place together, and occupied a place in the centre of the ' marae.' The greatest hilarity prevailed among the young people, and the elders were cheerful; but the real leaders of Parihaka—the councillors of Te Whiti—kept close to their houses, and only appeared abroad to hear the speeches. These latter were listened to by all with more than even usual attention. Dancing and the usual sports occupied the evenings of the juniors, and the meeting closed with satisfaction to all."

This is how the Prairie Farmer, an American journal, reviews " Vndymion," the last work of Earl Beaconsfield : — "To people who enjoy a good story the so-called novels of Lord Beaconsfield are a mystery. What there is in ' Lothair ' or ' Endymion' to pay for the reading, to say nothing of the printing of them, must always remain an unanswered riddle. One factitious advantage is that the characters are said to be disguises of living persons. To guess the identity of these characters furnishes harmless amusement to society people in Europe, and newspaper men in this country. But it is a question whether even Beaconsfield himself could unmask them with intelligence and consistency. The only reason why ' Endymion' is read or reviewed is that its author is the Earl of Beaconsfield, once Benjamin Disraeli. As Johnson said of dancing dogs, ' The wonder is not that they do it well, but that they do it at all,' so it may be said of the noble lord as a story writer, the wonder is not that he does it so poorly, but that fo keen a man in other respects can have the patience to inditd such dreary twaddle, enlivened here and there, it is true, with a flash of cynical worldly wisdom. ' Endymion ' is duller than ' Lothair.' "

American Anglo-Saxon sociability produces some singular results. People by scores and hundreds ride to and fro from their places of business in the city to their homes in the suburbs or surrounding country year after year. The faces are well known and remembered to each ocher. Not a word, not a nod even, ever passes between them. They sit apparently as sensible to each other as so many wooden statues. With women this social taboo is even stronger emphasized. Miss A. may be longing for some congenial association among her own. sex during the trip. By her sits Miss G., who has made three trips morning and evening with Miss A., and knows her face as well as that of her father. But never a word do they ever speak to each other. Both might prove for the other intoresting acquaintances. But this frozen taboo of non-intercourse is upon them. It | is an unwritten law seldom disobeyed. Both possibly fear making overtures for fear of a repulse. Or Miss A. may discern in Miss (r. something which seems to indicate the measure of the tenth of a degree below her social grade. So the embargo is never raised, and the two remain strangers for ever. Between the sexes this social taboo is still more strongly enforced, it is so rigidly carried out that a gentleman sometimes fears performing a civility to an unknown lady, lest it bo taken as one method of officious or presuming overture. For either to open a conversation is generally deemed an rction so unconventional as almost to border on impropriety. So, in our midst, thousands of people in transit flit and stare and mope away minutes and hours of utter tediousnoss, J

The Simonsen Opera Company to-night afc the Theatre Royal in "Un Ballo in Maschera."

Mr Gillies' exhibition at the Protestant Hall to-night until 10 p.m. Tenders for repairs to the Hyderabad road close on Monday at noon.

Tenders for 50,000 bricks will close on Monday.

A first and final dividend in the estate of Charles Butiei-, juur., will be paid on application to Mr Lyndon. Messrs Blythe and Co. advertise cheap specialities on their table to-night. Impoundtngs at Taradale are notified. All claims against the Loch Fleet are to be sent to the agent by noon on Monday next.

All debts due to Mr T. Foreman are to bo paid to Mr R. Or. Graham or to Mr H. Bargrove.

The partnership hitherto existing between F. Swindley and others at Whakatane has been dissolved.

Mr F. L. B. Clements challenges anyone in Havvke's Bay to run specified distances. Mr G. J. Smith, of Hastings, will not be responsible for the debts contracted by his wife.

Persons are cautioned against cashing a cheque drawn on the Union Bank. The twentieth list of Hospital subscriptions is advertised. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.