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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3068, 27 April 1881, Page 2

On Monday next the business of the Bank of Nbw South Wales will be conducted in the late offices of the New Zealand Insurance Company.

The business of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has now been removed to the handsome new offices adjoining the Bank of New Zealand. J At the adjourned general meeting'of the /Napier Club last night, a resolution was Siarried, after a lengthy discussion, to dissolve the Club. This morning therefore, the Club-house was closed to members.

One hundred and six names of ratepayers still remain on the Municipal Defaulter's List, and the Corporation is about to take immediate steps to recover the amounts owing to the "Borough. The names of these people will not appear in the Burgess Roll for the year 1881-82.

It is announced in the Gazette that the Colonial Secretary is prepared to receive applications for duly-qualified medical practitioners for the office of Resident Medical Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Wellington. The salary attached to the office will be £400 per annum with residence.

The diorama and automaton performers did not attract a very large attendance last night. The entertainment was gone through in the ordinary way, and at the close the distribution of gifts took place, Mrs Hansen receiving the suite of furniture. To-night will be the last night of the exhibition, and some special gifts will be presented. The innocent lay figures used as the principals in the ventriloquial entertainment at the Theatre Royal until recently formed the subject of a little misunderstanding between Lieut. Herman and his former employers last night. The was an application of physical force, which must have been anything but gratifying to one of the parties engaged. The matter will be explained before the R.M. on Friday next. A public meeting in connection with the celebration of the anniversary of the United Methodist Free Church Sunday School was held last evening in the church in Shakespeare-road, Mr Ramsden, the superintendent, in the chair. The meeting having been opened in the usual form, by singing and prayer, a short address was delivered by the chairman. The balancesheet, which was read, showed that during the year a debt amounting to £8 had been cleared off, and that there was now a small balanco to the credit of the school account. The Revs. Sidey, Cornford, and Worboys delivered very interesting addresses, and a selection of hymns, given by the and Sunday scholars, under the leadership of Mr Rees Watkins, diversified the proceedings. Great credit is due to the leader for the admirable way in which the children who took part in the vocal had been trained. A very pleasant evening's entertainment was closed by the customary votes of thanks and the benediction,

_Mr S. Y. Collins, the Deputy Commissioner under the Property Tax Act, received instructions yesterday to summons all defaulters under that Act. We understand that there are only about £500 outstanding. In the Hawke's Bay district, out of the estimated receipts of the tax, there have been reaheed in round figures £15,400. It may be invidious to draw comparisons, but we may be excused for mentioning that in the Auckland district, out of £40,000 estimated receipts, the whole amount has been gathered in with the exception of £400.

The ordinary meeting of : the Napier School Committee was held last evening-. Present: Messrs Dobson (in the chair), Craig, Williams, M'Dougall, and Fielder. Correspondence was read from Mary E. Bayllss asking to be allowed to attend the district school as a visitor, with a view to making herself acquainted with the working of thas institution; permission was granted, providing the attendance would be convenient to the head master. From the head master, reporting favorably.on the state of the school; stating that the girls' playground required alteration ; asking, for school requisites; and forwarding a chequej the amount of the quarterly payments by the pupils for stationery. From the Education Board, forwarding summonses for use in enforcing the oompulsory clauses, and expressing a hope that the Committee would bring the clauses into force without delay. Resolved that Miss Bedingfield'fl letter be returned with a request that it be forwarded through the head master, also that Miss Mann be requested to explain the reason , she bent the letter other than through the head master. Mr Dobson gave notice 1 hat at the next meeting hewould move " That the new infant school, when occupied, shall be under the control of the head master of the district school, as in the past." The committee then adjourned.

The records show that 30,000 human lives and £4,000,000 worth of property have been sacrificed in the Uuited States within ten years from accidents resulting from the use of an inferior artiole of coal oil.

The Nelson Mail understands that Capt. Marshall, who for some time was adjutant of the volunteers in Nelson, in wbioh capacity he was exceedingly popular, has been appointed governor of the Dunedin gaol in the place of Mr Caldwell, who has occupied that position for a long series of years, but resigned on a pension; -; -;

The Hawera Star Bays:—"The settlers on the Plains are increasing in numbers daily, and many of them are very busy harrowing their land previous to sowing it down in English grasses. Considering the short time wbioh has elapsed since the land was first ocoupied, a good deal has been done. Grass seed is now nearly twice as dear as it was three or four months ago, and those who bought early' are' thanking their stars that they did so.''

Professor Blackie in a : contemporary :—" The Sabbath, as the Christian Lord's Day, is not infringed by any amount of rational reoreation, so long ,4s sufficient time is reserved for those religions services and exercises, both public- and private, for the practice of which the day was specially set apart by the early Church. The supposed inconsistency between religious exercises in the morning and innocent recreation in the afternoon of Sunday is a purely Scottish fancy, altogether "unsupported either by the tradition of tfie Christian churohes or by the conditions .fof a well-constituted human nature,"and" iis resulted practically in the artificial creation of an awful sort of piety, which, by "erasing a sombre wall of "partition' devout feeling and, natural "gaiety, hair a tendency to make religion odious "to "the young and Christianity ridiouloua to iho wise." . : ; -~ V..'.;'.' 'i '

The fresh English fish brought out in" s a frozen state by the s.s. Lusitania was exposed for sale in Melbourne, on April a shop in Swanston-street. The unwoiifc&d sight attracted a considerable orowd, and the. purchases were bo numerous that all the salmon were sold before midday, and ' i|ae whole consignment was cleared out before the shop was closed in the evening.; :, English fish were to be had during the day. the principal hotels and cafes, in Melbourne. The soles were spoken of on every hand as being of excellent flavour. The salmon was also highly praised, while opinions aS;*to the quality of the turbot ■ varied greatly. By many the haddock was considered to retain more of its flavor than any other f|sh in the shipment. The experiment has answered so well, says the Argus, may fairly expect to have frequent shipments of English fish to the Australian Colonies. <?.•?

When the Russian Emperor's* yacht Livadia stopped short at Perrol, on her way to Odessa (remark? a contemporary), the explanation offered was that the yachting season in the Black Sea was over. • The fact is that the ship was hardly seaworthy, and the most recent announcement is that a crew has been sent from Russia to assist at: tho extensive repairs which are now found' td be requisite. It is to be feared that,the faults are organic, and will not yield to palliatives. A Russian shipbuilder, Verchovskij'has given his opinion that the vessel will'never bo seaworthy. The idea that she struck some floating wreckage in the Bay of Biscay is no longer held, and it is regarded as certain that the damage was caused by-the wind and waves alone. There can be ■no reason to suppose that the materials and workmanship were other than the best;, and the conclusion that the fault must be in'j.tho principle can no longer be resisted; : J ,;:;

The Rangitikei Advocate says :■*—[' The 'Liberals' have been keeping up a .Continuous howl about the sale of the Patetere block to a company at what they assert to be an enormous sacrifice in the matter of price. Sir Q-. G-rey is about to stump the country, and it is said that one of his trump cards will be the Patetere ' swindle.' With a view to silencing the slandera of their political opponents when the session comes on the Government a short time since sent a thoroughly competent officer to examine tbe Patetere block and prepare a full report as to its value. This gentlemen's report is now ready, and the production at the proper time will rather startle the Knight of Kawaa and his followers. We cannot now give details, but suffice it to say that tbe report in question convincingly proves that in selling the Patetere block at the price obtained, the Government made one of the very best bargains ever secured in New Zealand."

At the Warrnambool (Va) Police Court on March 25, John Kerr was charged with. an aggravated assault upon his wife, Eliza Kerr. The prosecutrix stated that on Sunday, March 20, the defendant asked her to push a waggonette. She did not please him in doing it. He abused her very much, and ordered her inside the house. On her way he kicked her several times, bruising her thighs. When she was inside the house defendant locked the door. He then told ! her she must prepare for death, and that she was to say all she had to say in a short time. He got a rope (produced, £ inch in diameter), made a noose, and fastened it round her neck. She made an effort to take it off her neck, but ho threatened to breakj her arms if she attempted to remove it. He threw the other end of the rope over the quartering of the roof, the dwelling not being ceiled, and hauled on to it. It would not slip on the beam, so he mounted a chair and succeeded in pulling her up. She remained hanging, but she could not remember for how long a time, as she became insensible. The next thing she remembered was her being on the floor, with the rope still round her neck, and the defendant threatening to hang her up again. She implored him not to do bo, and he desisted, after telling her tp get up, and using further threats. He was not drunk. It was customary, when she came home, for him to abuse her in thiamanner. They lived in an isolated part of Purnim, there being no house nearer than a quarter of a mile to them. In reply to Mr Higgins, who appeared for the accused, prosecutrix said she believed the cause of all this illtreatment from her husband was jealously. The Bench sentenced the defendant to three months' imprisonment in Portland gaol, with bard labour. r * '

Ifamtmmmmmmmm—mm/mm——mmmm^m—mi—m The last exhibition of tho panorama and automaton slack-rope dancers at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. Annual meeting of the H.B. Jockey Club to-morrow at 11 a.m. Meeting of the Taradale Ploughing Match Committee at the Greenmeadows Hotel tomorrow. Messrs Miller, and Potts will sell to-mor-row, at Waipawa,"cattle, &c.,at 11 a.m. Mr E. Lyndon will sell to-morrow a quantity of useful furniture, at 11 a.m. Half-yearly meeting of the H.B. Racing Club on May 3rd. The. business of the New Zealand Insurance Company will, in future, be earned on at- the offices of. Messrs Brooking and Dobson. Thebusihess of the Bank of New South Wales.will be carried .on in the offices lately occupied by tho New Zealand Insurance Company, after the Ist May. A special meeting of the Napier Rowing Club on the 4th May. Tenders are invited for the erection of a flour mill, up to noon on the 7th May. Mr H. P. Cohen advertises all kinds of furniture at the " Little, Dust Pan " warehouse, Any. ; person -trespassing on the To, Mahanga estate will be prosecuted. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.