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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3090, 23 May 1881, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph will not be published to-morrow evening.

The banks and public offices will be closed to-morrow, the Queen's Birthday.

The George Ellis who was fined 5s by the Resident Magistrate this morning, we need hardly say, is not the well-known respected town councillor of that name.

To-morrow (Tuesday), the 24th May, being the Queen's birthday, is a Post Office holiday, and the local mails usually dispatched on a Tuesday will be closed this day, at 8 p.m.

There was a very sharp frost in town this morning, and we notice in the meteorological register that, in Napier, the thermometer stood at 49deg. three degrees lower than at Invercargill, and six lower than at Wellington.

Tho first of a series of winter entertainments at the Working Men's Club will take place on Wednesday evening. Mr G. E. Lee has kindly promised to give a reading or readings, and variety will be given to the entertainment by songs, Ac, by the members.

The electors of Monganui and Bay of Islands are taking time by the forelock. They are signing a petition to Mr R. Hobbs requesting him to stand as a candidate for their electorate at the next general election. Mr J. Lundon will be out in the cold if he does not work for the retention of his seat.

A destructive fire occurred on Saturday night at Timaru, resulting in the almost total destruction of Bruce's Waitangi flour mills, erected about three years ago at a cost of £12,000. At the time of the fire there was a large stock of grain and flour on the premises, and the total is estimated at about £17,000. The insurances amounted to £14,000.

Lieut. Hermann gave a puoesaful performance in Hastings on Saturday evening, and will -give another entertainment, with, prizes, at Havelock on Wednesday next.

Wangamii can boast of an exhibition of art, science, and industry, at which there are exhibited an original Rubeus and an original Turner, the former being tbe " Martyrdom of St. Polycarp." "<* We learn from the Poverty Bay Standard that after the case had been fully argued in all its hearings at Wellington, the Chief Justice granted the in.i unction applied for by Mr W. L. Re9s, to restrain Mr Barker from selling the Whataupoko lands pending the civil action brought by and against the said parties to absolutely restrain the latter from selling at all. As the suit will not coma off in the Supreme Court for some time, it is understood that Mr Barker will be allowed to replace his sheep on the land, in the interval.

To-morrow will be observed as a general holiday. In the morning the volunteers will parade in Clive Square at nine o'clock, troop colours, and fire a royal salute and/c« dejoie. Throughout the day sports of various kinds, of which the programme will be seen in another column, will be held in Clive Square. The attraction in the after-noon-and certainly one of the best treats ever offered to the youngsters of Napier— will be the matinee performance of the Juvenile Pinafore Company. In the country there are pigeon matohes at Taradale, and horse racing on the course at Hastings.

Tho Wellington police have discovered that the two men Fredrick Beympurand James Grant, who, some little time hack, committed several highway robberies in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, were formerly the third officer and a seaman on board the barque Fernglen, that was in Wellington in 1879. It will be remembered that Grant was arrested, but Seymour shot himself before he was captured. It being supposed in Scotland that the two robbers were bushrangers from New Zealand, photographs of the men were sent to the Wellington police for identification, with the result as stated above.

The Artillery Volunteers, immediately after firing the royal salute to-morrow, will proceed to the beach and fire for ,'the Government prize money allowed for Armstrong gun praotice, at the conclusion of which the battery will go through their annual coarse of shot and shell praotice, and the highest Bcorer will receive a silver badge of cross cannons. The battery will then take luncheon at the Caledonian Hotel. During the practice the Artillery Band will play the following selections of music:—Quickstep, Souvenir de Rubens A" lancers, La Filledu Tambour Major ;waldfi Erinnerung an Peterhof ; selection, Lucia di Lammermoor ; polka, Prince Blue Cap; waltz (by request) True Love; lancers, Le Voltigeurs de la 32 erne ; schottisohe, Right Round About; waltz, Venezia.; contest quick step (diabolique) The Jolly Demons.

The Juvenile Pinafore Company had another good house at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, and the performance was given even with more efficiency than-~ on the opening night. To these youthful performers the opera does" not appear to pall by repetition; they enter into the fun with all the zest of . a first performance. Master Ormond as Dick Deadeye again attracted the most attention by the utter absurdity of his appearance and his capital acting. The First Lord, Captain Corcoran, and Josephine, allwere in for a share of the applause which was liberally bestowed. The black cook was again to the fore, and his dancing was excellent. There has been no entertainment in Napier for a long time so calculated to make the audience enjoy a hearty laugh, and at the same time to hear good music well sung.

The worst pieoe of engineering to be seen in Napier is from the Occidental Hotel, Shakespeare road, to Mrs Kemp's milliner's shop, Hastings-street. Along that distance the crown of the road is fully two feet above the pavement opposite Messrs Price and Innes', and the Bides of roadway are so steep from the Post Office corner to the Government lawn gate that little more than half the street is available for traffic. The engineering is so bad that, though the Post Office has been buried on. one side, and the old wooden shanties on - " the other have had to he raised, it has been impossible to fix a permanent level. • The Clarendon Hotel is required to he rebuilt, but the architect can obtain no level from the Corporation. The fact is Shakespeare road should be cut down fully two feet six inches, instead of which it has been raised, and raised in such a wiy as to give pretty constant employment to laborers to keep the channelling clear of the metal that must perforce be worked down the steep sides' of the crown of the road.

Some sensation was caused recently, says the Auckland paper, by the odd and unaccustomed appearance of an Arab in flowing white turban and robe, who was leisurely perambulating Queenstreet, and whose strange " rig out" caused equal amazement and admiration to a crowd of about fifty young Aucklanders, whaN constituted themselves into a suite and guard of honor to the distinguished foreigner. The stranger's history, we understand, is as follows:—"Towards the end of the Franco-German war the Arabs, encouraged by Algeria being nearly denuded of troops through the exigency of French home affairs, rebelled, but were eventually subdued by overwhelming reinforcements from France. The Arab who so astonished the youth of Auckland on Saturday, was one of the leaders of the insurrection, was taken prisoner and deported to New Caledonia. His time having expired, he took passage for Auckland in the schooner Policeman, arriving here on Saturday afternoon. He arrived in a pailor's jumper, and, except by his remarkably fine manly appearance, did not attract special attention until, after a hearty meal in a Vistoria-street restaurant, he once more assumed the garments of freedom and of his race. He is here en route to Algeria."

The London Telegraph of March 25th says :—" Another instance of the growing competition with which one branch of English trade after another is threatened under the influence of the bounties and Buch like stimulants to commerce now in fashion abroad, has just been brought to notice in connection with the import of colonial wool into London. Hitherto the whole of the wool shipped from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, has come to the Thames, and been sold at the well- A known quarterly sales, which have been largely attended, not only by the Yorkshire manufacturers and other provincial buyers, j but also by agents from the French and German centres of the woollen industry.

The French element, in particular, has for many years been a most important one. It is, however, understood that, encouraged by the newly-established system of bounties, which apply not only to over-sea voyages to or from French ports, but also to voyages of French owned vessels between foreign ports, the manufacturers across the Channel contemplate establishing a line of steamer I*between1*between Marseilles and Australia, for the special pnrpose of obtaining their supply of wool direct. By this means the French manufacturer, even if ihe ocean freight is somewhat higher, calculates upon an important saving in the expenses of transhipment, warehousing, and miner items, besides avoiding the necessity of periodical visits to London to make the purchase.

It is related that Prince Bismarck wag once asked by Count Enzenburg, (formerly Hessian Envoy to Paris) to write something in his album. The page on which he had to write contained the autographs of those, eminent statesmen, G-uizot and Thiers. The former had written —" I have learnt in my long life two rules of prudence. The first is to forgive much; the second is never to forget." Under this Thiers had said— " A little forgetting would not detract from: the sincerity of the forgiveness." Prinoe. Bismarck added—" As for me,T have learnt' to forget much, and to ask to be forgiven, much."

At the French bazaar in the Albert-hall a lady was dispensing tea. A solemn gent leman approached and asked the price of a cup. " One shilling," replied the lady, and he put down a shilling. Before handing him the cup the lady" raised it to her lips and observed that the price was now a sovereign. The solemn gentleman gravely replaced his shilling with a sovereign, and said, "Be good enough to give me a clean cup." A good story comes from Wellington. A young gentleman of the " remittance man " type was for ever boring one of the Ministew, to whom he had obtained an introduction, for a billet in the Government offices. The hon. Mr , a distinguished member of the Grey Cabinet, at last lost all patience, and one day broke out with " There is no vacancy, sir, and won't be while this Ministry are in office." Nothing discouraged, the applicant, with a look which was " childlike and bland," replied " Thank you, never mind; I can wait a few months."