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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3086, 18 May 1881, Page 2

We refer our readers to our fourth page for the continuation of the enquiry into the cause of the loss of the Tararua. In the same page will also be found the business announcements of Mr T. E. Newton.

The grain and root show in connection with the Agricultural and Pastoral Society has been postponed from May 24 to June 3.

The great Rangipo case, that has been so long before the Native Lands Court now sitting at Taupo, is expected to be concluded to-day. Mr H. A. Cornford, one ot the counsel engaged, will return to Napier on Saturday. The secretary of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society notifies in another column that, in consequence of the continued dry weather, the annual ploughing match that was to have been held on the Queen's Birthday has been postponed until further notice.

We have received a copy of the Bye-laws of the Borough of Napier, carefully indexed, and bound up in a handy book form. This little volume will be of much use to Ceuncillors and others who, previously, would have had to have searched through a number of small pamphlets .for information that can now be obtained without any trouble. Summonses have been issued against Messrs J. H. Vautier, H. A. Cornford, G. F. Gillman, R. Price, R. Brooking, and R. E. McKay, the commitiee of the Napier Club, at the suit of Mr G. Scarfe, for the recovery of the sum of £16 5s Id. being the amount of groceries, fowl feed, &c, alleged to have been supplied to the committee on behalf of the club. The case is set down for hearing on Monday next.

"Is it not cool,'' asks the Herald, "when a morning paper having refused to spend £5 on a telegram for an evening paper's benefit, the latter turns round and abuses the former for want of enterprise?" The Herald then asks its readers to supply an answer. As newspaper readers are not generally acquainted with journalistic business, we will undertake to answer the question ourselves, premising that the Herald was 100 mean to pay for a telegraphic report of Sir George Grey's speech. The message would have been put in at the Auckland telegraph-office before midnight and the wire charge would be 8d per 100 words. The report would be about 4000 words, and, therefore, the total cost from which the Herald so congratulated itself on being - saved, would be £1 6d Sd. The Herald says it would have cost £5, and that the expenditure would have benefited the evening paper. It would have done nothing of the sort. We confess that we should have liked, in common with all the Herald's readers, to have perused a full report of Mr George Grey's speech, but it would not have benefited this paper one atom. Now, the Herald talks about what it spends in telegrams; the fact is the morning paper does not expend so much as the evening journal. Sir George Grey's speech would have cost us if sent by day rates, what we have always to pay, one halfpenny a word, or £8 6s Bd, less 1000 words allowed at the rate of 6d per 100, £6 10s. The advantage the morning papers get over those of the evening is shown in the above difference between £l 6s 8d and £6 10s. "Under the circumstances the Herald fully deserved all the censure ifc received for its want of enterprise in refusing- to take a report of a speech that would have cost less than SOs.

Thanks, it may be presumed, to the influence of Sir Hercules Robinson, the Zulu ex-King is to be released from his close confinement in Cape Town Castle, and allowed to live on a farm in the neighborhood of the city. He will thus in all probability, says the Pall Mall Gazette, become a neighbor of the Natal chief Langalibalele, who has for some years been provided with a similar residence. So far as health and beauty of surroundings are concerned, Cetewayo will have nothing to complain of. His dwelling will be in the midst of a clay, breeze-swept, heath-covered flat, with a magnificent view, of Table Mountain constantly before his eyes. It is not stated who will be charged with the cost of his establishment. The Natal Government pay £500 a year for the maintenance of Langalibalele, and year by yeer there is a proposal made by indignant colonists to cut off his supply of bottled beer. The beer, however, has hitherto successfuUy resisted colonial encroachments.

Mr Gladstone spoke for two hours on the night of April 4. The Times says:—" The speech was delivered without any abatement of his characteristic energy. We hope it is not necessary to take him at his word, that this may be his last budget, but if it be so, the necessity will not arise from any defect of power. The Auckland Star declares that in the stomach of a heifer recently killed in that* — city were the following articles :— Seven*" chain links (about one inch long), seven stones of various sizes, 15 thick screws (sorre two inches in length), 21 large nails (some of them three-inch), 84 iron and tin tacks, two bolts and washers, and several pieces of sharp-pointed tin.

Mr Archibald Forbes the famous war correspondent was expected to be a passenger to New Zealand by the City of New York, but he did not turn up. He will however come through next month by the Zealandia.. Mr R. S. Smythe has undertaken to pilot him through the Colonies and is sure to make a hit. Mr Forbes could not have a better agent.

Ifc is now announced that the cricketing team for Australia will include Alfred Shaw, Arthur Shrewsbury, and James Lilly-white. They will play five or six matches in America, about as many in NewZealand, and then sail for Melbourne, where they expect to arrive next Boxing Day, and will play as much cricket in Australia and Tasmania as they can, to get home agais by May Day, 1882. A gentleman twelve months ago (says the Adelaide Observer) sent to England a case of colonial wine, with instructions to an agent there not to open any of the bottles, but to repack them in a case with the Maderia brand, and send them back to South Australia. This was done, and on its return the owner said he had just received consignment of the best Madeira, and invited his friends, including some connoisseurs, to sample it. Their commendaticns were eloquently expressed, and just before the company broke up the chief of the connoisseurs remarked, " Superb wine. Never be able to come within cooey of it in these colonies." Then the host explained. " Let me have another taste," said the somewhat confubed connoisseur, and then with a deprecating gesture. " H'm, there is a colonial twang about ifc after all." Sir William Harcourfc, on March 23rd was the object of an offensive, if not alarming practical joke. A package, which afterwards turned out to be a card-board haberdasher's box, about a foot square and a couple of inches deep, tied up securely in brown paper, and addressed to " the Right Hon. Sir William Harcourt.M.P., House of Commons," had been delivered at the Parliamentary Post office, and was forwarded to the Home Secretary's residence, when Sir William Harcourt, noticing that the parcel was heavy, resolved to have it opened by the police." When the string was cut, and the box opened, it was found to contain a rusty percussion pistol, apparently loaded, but uncapped, with a broken lock, and accompanying a sheet of paper bearing the words, "The first instalment of the Arms Act. — From an Admirer of your Policy." An amusing story comes from Newcastle, N.S.W. A policeman stationed outride St. Thomas' Church, for the purpose of keeping the adjoining pavement free from obstruction, was told by a wag that his professional services were required inside. The " active and intelligent" officer promptly entered the building, and stood, helmet in hand, awaiting instructions. A churchwarden, who superintended the seating of the congregation, seeing him, and thinking him an intending worshipper, pointed him out a pew in which was a respectable, and, as it turned out, an unfortunate |working man. The policeman, imagining this poor fellow the delinquent he had been called in to arrest, requested him to step out, took him into custody, and hauled him off to the nearest police-station. This able officer then returned to the church, and asked the churchwarden in question what had against the prisoner. "An explanation ensued, followed by the release of the innocent, and a great many humble apologies. The wag who invited the policeman in has not yet been discovered.

There can be no more satisfactory illustration of tbe increasing wealth of America, now that the long period of depression has given place to an exceptional prosperity, than the returns of the New York saviugs banks for the past year. These show in every case a truly surprising increase. In one instance a bank has positively doubled its surplus during the twelvemonth, the total in 1880 being more than a million sterling in excess of that in 1879. This process will now continue for the next few years, and accompanied as it is by: the return of American bonds from Europe, accounts for the comparatively low rate of interest for money in New York, while th|_ development of the West is being on at such a furious rate. It is to be that the managers of savings banks have learned wisdom by their experience of the last crisis. Then it was found that money which was held at call or on short terms had been lent on mortgage to Western farmers, who when the pinch came were wholly unable to pay either principal or interest. It is not in the last years of a rising industrial cycle only that prudence is necessary but at the commencement of the so-called " boom " aa well.—Pall Mall Budget. Josh Billings thus explains the difference between the words "mistake" and "blunder:" If a man puts down a poor umbrella and picks up a good one, it is a mistake ; if he puts down a good umbrella and picks up a poor one, it is a blunder.

Mr W. Routledge will sell to-morrow furniture, stock-in-trade, &c, at Commercial Hotel, Spit, at 11 a.m. Messrs Brooking and Dobson have _ for sale the lease and goodwill of a boarding, house in town.

The Napier Rifle Volunteers will hold company drill at the Protestant Hall on Thursday evening. Rymer's big coach will convey passengers to the pigeon match at Taradale on the 24th instant.

The H.B.A. and P. Society's ploughing match, advertised for the 24th instant, is postponed until further notice. A meeting of the Queen's Birthday Sports Committee will be held this evening at 7.30. Mr J. Pcholes has taken the railway timber yard at Hastings, and has all kinds of timber for sale. Parades of the Artillery Volunteers are notified. „ Messrs. Blyfche and Co. offer for sale black alpacas. The Clothing Factory' issue a handbill with this issue, to which we direct the attention of our readers.

A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted" column.