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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3074, 4 May 1881, Page 2

Mr G. Wiltshire, formerly of Napier, and well known in this town and district, we learn by private telegram, was not the G. Wiltshire amongst the unfortunate passengers on board the Tararua.

The following deed wae submitted to the Trust O'ouimissioner during the past week for investigation:—Hori Hori to G. T. Merritt, dated 2nd May, 1881. Conveyance of the undivided share of vendor in the Oero block, 18 N; solicitors, Messrs Wilson and Cotterill.

Our Ormondville correspondent reports heavy and most welcome rain in the bush settlement, thua relieving , the women and children from the laborious task of carrying water loner distances from the river.. Mr Firth has bought a thirty-horse power stationary engine for his steam saw mills. The timber trade is satisfactory, and the winter prospects of the settlers are brighter than they were last winter.

At a special meeting of the Spit Fire Brigade, held last evening, it was resolved to hold the annual competition among the members of the brigade on the 24th instant. It was also suggested that the ladder event, which was omitted from the united competition on Faster Monday, should be run off on the 24th. A ooramittee was appointed to meet the committee of the town brigade and make arrangements for the annual dinner.

The death"is announced, at the age of sixty, of the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, M.A., L.L.1)., vicar of Little Linford, Newport Pagnell, Bucks, one of the best Hebrew Scholard of the present century, and a reviser of the English version of the Old Testament. The deceased gentleman, we learn from " Men of the Time," was of Jewish extraction, but having become a convert to Christianity he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and took Holy Orders in 1844. He was the author of several works bearing more or less directly on the religious prospeots of his race. The Rev. M. Margoliouth was the father of Mrs William Parker, and'of Mr O. L. Margoliouth, of this town.

Many of pur readers being under the impression that Horr Bandmann is an old man, we may state that he was born at Oassel, Germany, on ; November 1, 1839. He ia thus in his forty-second year, and in the prime of hia life. Mr Bandmann learnt English at New York, whithor he had proceeded for the benefit of his health, having already made a grand reputation on the Continent- of Europe. His< career in America was a most triumphant one, but hie great ambition wae to play in London. Accordingly in 1868 he appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in " Narcisse," bis Buccess being so great that the late Lord I ytton, who witnessed the performance, said he was the only actor he had seen since the days of Macready who inspired him to work again for the stage.

We understand that Mr J. Lauronson, ; who for the last three years haa been acting! as night-watchman in Hastings-street from : Holt's timber yard to Mr Mayo'B Empire 1 Hotel, has'resolved to relinquish, his duties, owing to the little support he receives from, the storekeepers whose premises he watches.; Out of sixty-four tradesmen along the line of his beat only thirty subscribe him his. salary in sums ranging from 6d to Is 6d per weetc. This is not sufficient renum'eration, and Mr Laurenson intends throwing over; the duty of watchman. Considering the reductions recently made in the police force a night-watchman is absolutely needed, and we think it very short-sighted policy on the part of storekeepers to refuse the small subscription demanded to retain Mr Laurerison's services.

Babbit killing in the Wairarapa is at the same time sport and profit. The Grey town correspondent of the New Zealand Times states that two men, with between thirty and forty dogs, have been rabbiting in the locality east of the Ruamahunga, and destroy weekly nearly 2000. They .get station rations, with powder, shot and caps served out weekly, and in addition are allowed 2d per skin. It may be fairly premised that the " game " supply the pack of dogs with food, and the expenses with the above supplies may be fairly set down at nil. The 4000 pence therefore represents no less a sum than between £16 and £17—not a bad division for two men. It is not probable that this is a usual yield, but even taking the income at one-half, rabbiting must certainly on the whole be a very profitable pursuit.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning , , before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq. R.M., Joseph Carter was charged with' being drunk, and fined 5s and costs or 48 hours'. Robert Purvis and Thomas Smith were brought tid on two charges of stealing coats, and one of breaking into a house at Papakura, and stealing therefrom a number of blankets. On the application of the police the prisoners were remanded until Wednesday next. Alexander M'Leod, James Franklin, and Charles Goddard, three boys about the ages of six, seven, and eight, were charged by the police with throwing mud on the wall of the Masonic Hall in Munroe-street. The boys admitted the offence, and His Worship said they ought to be very much ashamed of themselves. He trusted their parents would give them a good, sound flogging, and no doubt they would, as they would have to pay the fines imposed. If they had been bigger boys he would have dealt with them severely. Their names would be taken down and this would be remembered against them. The police were quite right in bringing these boys up, as it would be a warning to others. They would be fined 2e each, and the costs divided amongst them.

No public speaker ever excelled Mr Spurgeon in prof useness of anecdotal illustration in " discourses." Hie sermons and addresses teem with anecdotes, which are usually very much to the point. To Lis students last year he told a good story to show the need of preachers being attractive. " When I was in Arran quite recently," said he, " I heard of a minister who preached in a certain church, and at the close of the service was strongly urged by the ruling elder to promise a future supply of similar discourses, the collection after his sermon having been unsually large. ' Dear me,' said the minister, with becoming pride, ' what might your ordinary collection amount to ?' ' Last Sunday it was two pence half-penny.' ' What is it to-day, then? , asked the minister, expecting to hear a large sum named. 'Eight pence half-penny,' was the reply. 'Woe is me, , moaned the minister within himself,' for 1 gave the sixpence myself."—Chambers' Journal.

If; is finally settled that Herr Bandmann and his company will open at the Theatre Eoyal on Saturday evening in Hamlet. We have already given the opinion of the press upon Herr Bandmann's Hamlet. Of his Othello the New Zealand Times says:—" It displays deep etudy and careful histrionic and elocutionary elaboration. In the more tender passages it is full of manly love and dignity, but it startles at times in its demonstrativeness. He makes the most of the scenes wherein gathering doubts and jealousies buret the bonds of ill-disciplined repression and permits the' torrent, tempest, and whirlwind of passion' to have full sway.

It is a powerful impersonation, in every sense of the word." .Of Miss Beaudet's Desdomona the same critic says :—" She won the passing sympathies of all beholders. JFor one so young in years and in stage training her impersonation showed a most intelligent appreciation of a part in which long-ex-perienced actresses have been fain to be content with even a moderate measure of success." Of Mr Oathcart as lago little need be said; his reputation as a Shakesperian actor is world wide. On Tuesday last he performed the part in Wellington, and" the paper quoted above Pays:—" Of Mr J. F. Cathcart's lago much might be said if space pernuttnd, in warmest praiee. It was kept well subservient to that of hiu general, arid yet by itself out in meritorious prominence. ■ It conveyed the idea of a villain, who had told lice until he himself believed them. The applause" at frequent intervals was very genuine,' irid, the recalls Mr Cattcart received were welldeserved compliments." Of this company's performance at Wellington last night ."we j learn by private telegram that the Governor was again present, and there was a grand house. During next week the company will probably play Romeo and Juliet, , Richelieu, Much Ado about Notning, and we trust Naroisse.

The City of Ohio, which has just been destroyed by an earthquake, with such an appalling loss of life, is the capital of the small island upon which Homer is said 'to have been born although, as an anonymous poet has reminded us, ; ~-. w .-.'.

*' Seven wealthy towns contend fo* Homer, dead,Through which the living Homer begged for breads The island, which is not more than 28 miles long, and from eight to ten miles ' brdadj derives its name from the Greek X, which it resembles in shape, and the Venetians corrupted cis xion into Soio. It has - been the scene of a succession of calamities. In 1788 14.000 of the inhabitants were swept away by the'plague, and 5000 succumbed to the same malady in 1824. Eight-years later it was besieged and sacked by the Turks, _who put to death 40,000 men, women, and children, and reduced the 'survivors to slavery. The capital itself is situated on the sea shore, and is composed of a number of narrow streets, from which esoape would be almost impossible on the outbreak of an earthquake. It is divided into ..three quarters, inhabited by Moslems, Greek Christians and Jews respectively. There are usually 500 persons' at' work in>. the tanneries to the north of the citadel^-end a good many inmates in the public hospital, owing to the prevalence of tuberculous leprosy in the island, so that if the'first shock suddenly, and' in the daytime, its effects would be very deadly in the two localities named. Just outside of the city is the suburb of Campo, which contained 650 houses three years ago, and nine villagee lie in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis. The total population/of "the island was estimated at 70,000; and Ohio has been a port of call for some years past for the Austrian Lloyd's line of steamers, and for an Italian and Russian line.- Many small English steamers engaged in the Levantine trade are also in , the . habit of putting in there. . [}--./ : "