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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3067, 26 April 1881, Page 2

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

Judge Kenny left Napier for Gisborne on Saturday last and opened a sitting of the District Court there yesterday.

The death is announced, in the cablegrams of the Melbourne Age, of the wellknown authoress " Ouida," Mdlle. (?) De La Ramie.

Lieut. Herman informs us that he has severed hiß connection with the Diorama Company, and proceeds to Dunedin to fulfil an-engagemerit.

A general meeting "of the members of the Napier Club will be held this evening at the Club House, Tennyson-street. A full attendance is requested.

Yesterday morning a man named Moules, an old 68th man, who has been for some time employed on Captain Russell's station, was found dead. It appears he was about to kill a wether, and it is supposed that he died from heart disease, and that his death was accelerated by his struggles with the sheep. A man named Guppy, also in the employ of Captain Russell, saw him standing, and apparently well, near the spot where half an hour afterwards he found the body. A jury will be empannelled, and an inquest held this morning.

The entertainment at the Theatre Royal last night did not take place exactly as advertised. There appears to have been some disagreement "between the proprietor and Lieut. Herman, who has _ hitherto acted as lecturer and ventriloquist. The diorama was exhibited as usual, and tha lecture was read by Mr Sampson, who did remarkably well on such a short notice. The ventriloquial entertainment was replaced by a performance of automatons on a slack-rope, whioh was highly amusing. The distribution of gifts took place, and Mrs Redstone was the fortunate winner of the suite of furniture. To-night the diorama and automaton performance will be repeated, and a further distribution of handsome gifts takes place.

On and after Monday next an alteration of the railway time-table with regard to the up-train from Makatoko will, come into 'opeiation. The train that now leaves Makatoko at 2.10 p.m. will then leave half an hour earlier,—that is to say, at twenty minutes to two o'clock—and arriving at Kopua thirty-five minutes earlier than it does now, will allow of twenty, minutes being expended by passengers in refreshment. The train will then leave Kopua ten minutes sooner than the present time-table, and reach Napier at 6.30 p.m. This alteration will be a very great improvement on the existing arrangements, as it will add immensly to the comfort of through passengers from Wellington and Wanganui. Mr Stevens, the proprietor of the hotel at Kopua, keeps a good table, and travellers oan always rely upon, receiving the utmost civility and attention at his hands. I

The New Zealand Times says:—Miss Lizzie Morgan, a very creat favorite in Wellington as both an actress and vocalist, has been very seriously ill on the West Coast. Referring to her illness the Inangahua Times says:—"The Comedy and Dramatic Company appeared again in Dawson's Hall on Monday evening last to a good house. The piece announced for the night was the comedy of " Our Girls," but at twenty minutes past 8 o'clock the manager came before the curtain and explained to the somewhat impatient audience that a very painful difficulty had arisen. All the characters were dressed for the piece, and had been waiting twenty minutes for Miss Morgan, who was staying at the Exchange Hotel, and as she did not appear ho (the speaker) proceeded to her hotel, only to find that after dressing for the part she was taken suddenly ill, so seriously' that the doctor and tho priest, wore then in attendance upon her, and she was not expected to live* A. strong mumur of sympathy arose front «tne audience, for Miss Morgan is a most pKajsing and accompplished actress, and &r gteat public favorite. Under these circumstances ~, l -oar Girls could not be produced; and- <Struok Oil' was B ubstituted." : '. "\' '

1 * Guardian tells the following 1 yarn of a ""man in that township who took 1 , h.j watch to be repaired, it having refused 1 duty:—"After a few days the watch was ' returned by the man of springs and wheels, wbenthe following colloquy took place:— " She's going all right now, I suppose.' Watchmaker: ' oh! yes.' Resident: ' How much"-?.'"- Watchmaker: ' Half-a-orown.' Resident: Very reasonable charge indeed. * What was wrong with her ?' (handing over the utu). Watchmaker (pocketing the twoand six): Oh! she only wanted winding .up,'," .-.- x«,-., ..."-.-•-- •-■ -^ Ah Ashbufton census paper enumerates the three members of a certain household, and supplies information on all points required by the Government, " head of the family," say the Otago Times, filled up the form, and after giving his own occupation—past and present —proceeded to give that of his wife. He designates his good lady's past profession as " bossing yours truly," and her present as" still bossing." The " head of the has been, like Eugene .Aram, " a melancholy man" even since the " boss" beoama acquainted with what the document ooa» tamed. The Otago Witness says:—Persons , wishing to bring actions in the Resident Magistrate's Court in future will hare to fill ""up a form requesting the issue of a summons, for it is provided by tbenew rules of practice and procedure that" the clerk shall require every plaintiff to deliver to him a plaint in the form B in the schedule hereto, such plaint to be signed by the plaintiff or his solicitor, or some person duly authorised by him in that behalf ; and no entry shall be made in the plaint book until-the above, i mentioned plaint has been delivered to the Vj clerk." The practice previously wasfor the ' plaintiffs to simply hand in their aocount or particulars of claim in duplicate,,, with the necessary fees, and the summons was issued without further delay. As far; as we oau see, the new form is totally unnecessary, and v must be looked on as an additional piece of red-tapeism. A good deal of dissatisfaotion _is expressed amongst importers of fruit from Australia at the amount of pilfering which occurs on board the steamers. It is no unfrequent occurrence, says the New Zealand Times, to find cases denuded of half their contents, and the paoking so carefully rearranged that it is only when' delivery has been taken that the theft is revealed. Presumably there is no means of v effelotually checking this on board theateamersV for the bills of lading for fruit consignments, in addition to the usual printed reservations and exceptions in regard to liabilities of the shipowner, generally bear written across the face tho words " Not accountable for pillage or deoay." How far this will hold good in law as regards pillage is likely, we hear, to be soon tehted by action" for recovery of value of a case of oranges from which nearly, all the ; contents were abstracted during,, the voyage from; Sydney. Within reasonable limits no doubt fruit im« porters would put up with an oooasional filching from the f rtiit sent them, has iii several instances during the' present season gone beyond all reasonable' levy of toll. ! The, Ofcago Daily; Times fit Saturday refers to the announcement that the health ' of the member for the Thames has again given away; in tho folio wing terms i*The news telegraphed from Auckland that Sir George Grey"bas suffered a, relapse wiU not probably giverise to any serious apprehensions for the venerable politician's /.health. Sis George: Grey' always isiusliftblsc to relapses about this time of year. For some ' reasons beat known to himself he invariably ;- preludes his annual speechifying tour Ay a series of false alarms about his bad leg, and ; hia general state of prostration and debility. '- He always reminds us of the -old lady; one ; meets at evening parties vffio is ! dying to sing; some of. her.'= antiquated i songs, but, finding that' no : ond asksi her, !. ,has to fall back on coughing and : fainting, ', and protesting that she will never be -j able ito sing unless she gets better. Ofoourse ," everybody at onoe avows a deep anxiety ,in her speedy recovery, and the dear Old soul,' >* is perfectly well as soon as ; she i seea her '•■ chance to gratify her harmless; vanity at the expense of her heaters' 'ears 1 and patience. Sir George has .been. ...trying allsorts of little innocent dodges to attract attention lately, but as nobody has taken the slightest notice of him, or afforded 0 him a shadow of an excuse for emerging from his retirement, he has had,* as:usual, to suffer a relapse and to make a fuss "ttbout his leg.. The Timaru Herald is responsible for ■ the following:—" An jextraqrdirijify and ' daring attempt at robbery took place on board the steamer Te Anau on her trip from Lyttelton to Port Chalmers on the evening ;, of the 29th March. ; Captain Carey, reports having received on board ;his vesspl at Lyttelton five boxes of silver coin, valued at £1,700, which he placefd-in;the safe situated in the passage between and the ladies' cabin. Previous toYsailing, the safe was observed to be perfectly r s6fcure, but at eight o clock in the evehihg£;;when the veßsel was some considerable distance on her voyage, Mr Birch, the pursery. drew the attention of the captain to the r state _ of the safe, which bore evidence of having been effectively tampered withs-.,-- On examination, it was discovered that tfci two brass rivets which fastenedj^hd to the hinges had actually ■ been-'punbhed throughinto the safe,, so .that tbereiv-yvere only two remaining rivets whioh "heldt, the door on to the look, and which, had.Jtj not been for the timely detection of the."purser, would no doubt have also been driven in' and the door of the safe lifted out bodilyV",. The boxes' of silver then might easily have, beenremoved, No noise seems to ihave|been heard either by the passengers ;6r up to the present no clue has been obtained that is likely to result in the arrest; of the perpetrator. It is strange the coin was not placed in the first instanoe in - the strongroom, if there is such a plaoe in the vessel. Taking this case into consideration with the robbery some time back of a box ofjgold from toe same company's steamer Tararua, it is apparent there are people who travel about in these boats in search of boxes of the precious metal. That being solt "would be well to have the safes so would not be easy of access." It is singular that both the Dunedin papers and the Press Association have been silent on the subject. The Evening Post says:--Taken in oonnection with our articles on the Wellington Gaol, the following remarks by Michael Davitt, tho Irish agitator, on his experiences in English prisons will be read with interest:—" The food in Dartmoor prison," he says, " I found be the very worst in quality and the filthiest in cooking of any of the other places I had been in. The quantity of daily rations was the same as in Millbank, with the difference of -four ounceß of bread more each day and one of meat less in the week. , The as I have already remarked, is inferior to any other prison, but from about November to May is simply execrable, the potatoes being often unfit to eat, and rotten cow carrots occasionally substituted for other food,. To find black beetles in soup, 'skilly,' bread, and tea, was quite a common occurrence ; and some idea can be formed of how hunger will reconcile a man to look without disgust upon the most filthy objects in nature, when I state as a fact that I have often discovered beetles in my food and have eaten it after throwing them aside, without experiencing much revulsion of feeling at the sight of such loathsome animals in my victuals. Still I have often come in from work weak with fatigue and hunger, and found ie impossible to,eat the putrid meat or stinking soup supplied me for dinner, and had to return to labor again after 'dining* on six ounces of bad bread. It was quite a common occurrence in Dartmoor for men to be reported and punished for eating candles, boot oil, and.pther repul« sive articles; and, notwithstanding-tiat a highly offensive smell is purposely given to prison candles to prevent their beinginstead of burned, men are driven by* a system of half-starvation into an aQUnallike voraoity, and anything that a dog' would eat is nowise repugnant to their