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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3058, 14 April 1881, Page 2

To-morrow being Good Friday thero will be no issue of this paper. The banks in Napier will be closed from this evening until Tuesday morning. A parcel of land containing one acre, in the township of Clyde, is gazettad as a site for a hospital. The public offices will be closed to-morrow and Monday. At the Telegraph-office Sunday hours will be kept. We understand that the officers of the Fire Police intend entertaining the members of the corps at supper next Thursday evening. We hear that Mr Bandman has engaged the Theatre Eoyal for seven nights of Shakespearian plays, to commence on the 7th of May. This being the Jewish feast of the Passover, all tbe establishments belonging to members of that body have been closed during the day. The fourth competition for the Artillery Volunteer silver challenge cup will take place at the rifle range on Monday morning next at 7.30 o'clock. The land in the Norsewood survey district recommended to be set apart for sale on deferred payments at the last meeting of the Land Board is gazetted. The Boojum will leave the Spit to-morrow morning at 10.30 for a fishing excursion, and on Monday will proceed to Bare Island, carrying excursionists at 5s per head. The members of the Gymnasium Club held a meeting last evening, and resolved upon renting the Protestant Hall for the coming season. The meeting was then adjourned until Wednesday next. The enquiry into the charges against the hospital authorities, which was fixed for to-morrow, will not take place, owing to the refusal of the woman principally concerned to appear before the Committee and give evidence. Mr Darwin will be delighted to find the misßing link for which he has been so long searching. A boy is now being exhibited at Cambodia who has a long hirsute tail hanging from the end of his back. The boy will be brought to Europe shortly.

In the Government Gazette dated the 4th instant there is a list of the successful candidates in the examination, for teachers held at the end of January last. Amjng them are the following from Hawke's Bay : Henry Bull, Albert James Morton, C. A. Bruford, and Louisa Gosnell.

Amongst the bills of last session which are gazetted as having received Her Majesty's approval the bill for legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister is conspicious by its absence. The bill was made retrospective, and this may account for its not receiving the Royal assent.

After the Artillery Volunteer parade last evening a meeting was held, at which arrangements were made for honoring Her Majesty's birthday. The usual feu de joie will be fired in town, the company will be entertained at luncheon, and the firing for the Government prizes will then take place.

In the window of the shop lately occupied by Mr Garrett there are a number of articles of crockery ware manufactured by the Milton Pottery Company, Otago. They are admirable specimens of workmanship, and of such a nature as to command a ready sale in the colony. Mr F. Pell is agent for the company in Napier.

At a meeting of the Fire Police held last evening the resignation of Mr Howard, the secretary, was received. It appears that Mr Howard is about to leave the colony, and there was a general expression of regret that the force was about to lose his services. Mr H. Selig was elected secretary. It was resolved that the days fix*d for inspection should be the first Wednesdays in February, May, August, and November. A new member was elected, and the meeting adjourned.

At the District Court this morning, before Judge Kenny, Mr Lee applied to have tho defendant's costs fixed in the case of Moore v. James ; costs to the amount of £12 16s were allowed. On the application of Mr Lee probate was granted in the will of B. Lorrigan deceased. In the adjourned case of Mohui Tarapuhui and others v. W. L. Rees, the defendant had failed to file pleas as required; witnesses for the plaintiffs were examined by Mr Lascelles, and judgement was given for plaintiffs for full amount, with costs and counsel's fee. The Court then adjourned.

A meeting of the committee of the Jockey Club was held this morning at the Criterion Hotel. Present: Messrs C. A. Fitzßoy (in the chair), J. McVay, C. B. Winter, W. U. Burke, J. Lyon, and A. T. Danvers. It was resolved that the sum of £2-5 be voted to Mr Evett for handicapping for the last race meeting, and that the committee desire to express their satisfaction with his services. Mr Shrimpton waited upon the committee and called their attention to an artiole in the Wanganui Chroniole reflecting upon his decision in the Tradesman's Handicap, and asked to have an expression of the views of the committee upon it. The following resolution was passed:—"That the committee unanimously sympathize with Mr Shrimpton on aocount of the article in question, and direct the secretary to write to the proprietors of the paper and give the statements an absolute and unqualified denial." Accounts amounting to £171 lis were passed for payment. It was resolved tbat the annual meeting of the club be held on Thursday, the 28th instant.

A sacred concert was given at Clive on Tuesday evening last by the Trinity Church ohoir, assisted by several leading amateurs, the occasion being the farewell of the Rev. J. J. Mather, prior to his leaving for Auckland. There was a good attendance. The concert opened with the chorus, " Arise, shine, for thy light is come," followed at intervals by other choruses, all most admirably rendered, as the hearty applause of the audience fully testified. Mrs Prime's solo, " The Lost Chord," was most effectively rendered. The solos by Messrs Foster, Edwards, Gilpin, Lindsay, and H. Martin, were given in excellent style, all being in good voice. The quartette by Mrs Prime, Miss Martin, and Messrs J. and H. Martin, as also one by Messrs Gilpin, Prime, Edwards, and Martin, were given with much success. The proceedings were varied by a short address from the chairman, Mr W. Price, a very pleasant and humorous one from the Rev. R. S. Bunn, and a farewell speech from the Rev. J. J. Mather. A hearty vote of thanks to the singers and assisting friends, followed by the " Kyrie and Gloria '' in splendid style and time, brought a most enjoyable evening to a close. The choir was under the leadership of Mr Prime, and the pieces were accompanied by Mrs Prime and Mr Newbould.

The Ashburton Guardian remarks that the following item will possibly prove interesting when the number of deputations ■which interviewed the Premier on tho matter of work for the " unemployed" is considered :—Mr Steele, manager for the Hororata Threshing Company, in looking up hands for the machine a day or two ago, found on the station of the Hon. J. Hall eight swaggers ostensibly in search of employment. He was, however, only able to induce two of these to go to work at 12s 6d per thousand, which means to a good man about 10s or 12s 6d per day. One of these after feeding the machine for about an hsur put on his coat and shouldered his swag, saving the work was too hard for him.

Every few weeks some new additions are being made to the literature of prehistoric Mexico and Central America. At the present rate we will have considerable definite information concerning the lives, customs, and even the character of these forgotten tribes. Col. St. Stephenson, of the United States Geological Survey, has discovered near Santa Clara, in New Mexico, an antiquated city in tbe face of a series of cliffs. Some of the cliffs contain two, some three, and others as many as five lines of antiquated dwellings rising line above line, and, back towards the mountain, tier beyond tier. Yet above each cliff and upper line there are ruins of rectangular houses built of blocks of stone of the form of brick and adobes, but larger in size. An interesting fact in connection with lodges discovered in the ledges of rock was that before each line of dwellings there appears to have been pavements, sometimes four or five feet in width, or the broadest of which -were two trails or footpaths. In some places there was only room for one path. Into the rock of these paths trails were worn to depth of five to twenty inches. In some of them the imprints of feet may be seen, and on the face of the rock in places may be found pictures and hieroglypics.—Toronto Giobe.

" The Bongo women " (says Scheinfurth) "delight in distinguishing themselves by an adornment which to our notion is nothing less than a hideous mutilation. As soon as a woman is married the operation commences of extending her lower lip. This, at first only slightly bored, is widened by inserting into the orifice plugs of wood, gradually increasing in size until at length the entire feature is enlarged to five or six times its original proportions. The plugs are cylindrical in form, not less than an inch thick, and are exactly like the pegs of bone or wood worn by the women of Musgoo. By this means the lower lip is extended horizontally till it projects far above the upper, which is also bored and fitted with a copper plate or nail, and now and then by a little ring, and sometimes by a bit of straw, about as thick as a lucifer match. Nor do they leave the nose intact; similar bits of straw are inserted into the edges of the nostrils, and I have seen as many as three of these on each side. A favorite ornament for the cartilage between the nostrils is a copper ring, just like those that are placed in the nose of buffaloes and other beasts of burden for the purpose of rendering them tractable. The greatest coquettes among the ladies wear a clasp or cramp at the corners of the mouth, as though they wanted to contract the orifice, and literally to put a curb upon its capabilities. These subsidiary ornaments are not, however, found at all unversally among the women, and it is rare to see them all at once upon a single individual; the plug in the lower lip of the married women is alone a sine qua non, serving as it does for an artificial distinction of race."—Popular Science Monthly.

A judicious wife is always nipping of. from her husband's moral nature little twigs tbat are growing in wrong directions. She keeps him in shape by continual pruning. If you say anything silly she will affectionately tell you so. If you declare that you will do some absurd thing, she will find some means of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all the common sense there is in this world belongs unquestionably to women. The wisest things a man oommonly does are those which his wife counsels him to do. A wife is a grand wielderof tho moral pruning knife. If Johnson's wife had lived there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, no touching all the posts in walking along the streets, no eating and drinking with a disgusting voracity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been married, he never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about, oddly dressed, or talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that he is not a married man, for the corners are rounded off—the shoots pared away—in married men. Wives have generally much more sense than their husbands, even though they may be clever men. The wife's advice is is like the ballast that keeps the ship steady.

At ihe masked ball lately given by Frances Countess Waldegrave, a lady of distinguished appearance, dressed in black and wearing a domino, observed two gentlemen who were conversing unmasked in an alley of the beautiful gardens of Strawberry Hill. She approached them with easy grace, and opened conversation in a light and bantering tone. The elder of her male interlocutors was assured, by what ' the Antiquary' would have called ' his fair enemy,' that she knew all about him, and could , an' she would, tell many queer Stories about himself. Well able to defend himself in tongue encounters, the gentleman, whose -wit and persiflage was once the delight of the House of Commons, in whioh he is now a much-missed absentee, replied that if she knew a tithe of the mischief that he had done in life she would compel him to borrow her domino. Carrying the war into the enemy's country,*he proceeded jestingly to impugn her assertion tbat Bhe was a married woman, and accused her of having escaped from a boardingschool to take part in the Strawberry Hill gaieties. His younger male companion, being scarcely inferior in badinage, asked permission to touch her marriage ring; and accepting the gloved hand which she promptly extended, remarked, after satisfying himself as to the correctness of her claim, that so fair a gauge was worthy of more respectful salutation, and was permitted to raise her black glove to his lips. After a diversified conversation, whioh lasted about a quarter of an hour, the lady glided gracefully, leaving her companions in puzzled mystery as to her identity. Their guesses were more ingenious than correct; but the sentiments of the elder gentleman may be more easily imagined than described when an hour later he was laughingly informed by tha lady of the most exalted rank in the assembly (the Princess of Wales), that she herself was the escaped boarding-sohool miss, and that the domino whioh she had removed from her face was at his servioe— to hide his blushes.

Messrs Monteith and Co.'s weekly sale of horses at 1.30, and produce at noon, on Saturday, Wesleyan tea meeting in Goodwin's Hall at Hastings to-night. Rifle Volunteers parade to-night at 7.30. Creditors in the estate of H. Highley's estate must prove their claims by the 17th instant. Convocation of the Victoria Chapter of Royal Arch Masons to-morrow at 7.30. A dioroma of the American war will open at the Theatre Royal on the 18th instant. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman have money to lend. Messrs Neal and Close advertise novelties. A dance will be held after the pigeon match at Clive on Easter Monday. The Commissioner of, Crown Lands notifies that sections in the Norsewood survey district will be open for selection.on the 19th May. Special meeting of the Te Mata Road Board on Wednesday, 20th instant. A number of new advertisements will ho found in our " Wanted " column.