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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3094, 28 May 1881, Page 2

The departure of the Union Company's steamship Te Anau for Northern ports has been postponed till 4 p.m. to-morrow (Sunday). I his delay has been caused by the large quantity of cargo to be shipped.

We learn that the owner of the Sir Donald has decided to have a new boiler made for her, which will be larger and more powerful than the former one. The cost of repairing the old one -will be considerable, but it is far from being past service. The public-house trade does not seem to be so flourishing as formerly; or is it that proprietors have made their fortunes and wish to retire from business ? The following hotels are advertised to let:—The Caledonian, the Ferry, the Napier, the London, the Commercial, and the Waipawa. The Government contemplate removing a large number of the A.C. Force from the Waimate Plains and dispensing with their services, partly on the grounds of retrenchment, and as considered warrantable by having good roads through the Maori country, and the present peaceful aspect of the natives.

- Invorcargill has lost £600 on it« gasworks for the year, with only 1 per cent allowed for depreciation of plant.

The Bank of New Zealand has made arrangements to open a branch office at Suva, the new capital of Fiji, under the acting management of Mr Severn.

A New Zealand Gazette of date May 19, conlains a proclamation revoking the Order-in-Council proclaiming Auckland a diseased district under the Diseased Cattle Acts.

We are requested to state that exhibits for the annual grain and root show must be forwarded to Messrs Hoadley and Lyon'a wool stores Napier, by Thursday next, 2nd June.

In order not to desecrate the Sunday steamers are not allowed to "whistle" when leaving Wellington on that day. Some people have lost their passage in consequence.

Mr J. R. Davies returned to town by the Albion this morning, and is, we understand, about to have a full investigation made into the charges made in reference to his quarry in the Chaucer road.

The section of land on the Shakespeare road, on which are situated Messrs Wilson and Ootterill's late offices, and Mr T. R. Cooper's office, was boupht yesterday by Mr T. R. Cooper for the sam ot £450..*

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Rawhina (a native) was charged with stealing a gold watch-case of the value of £9, and remanded until Wednesday.

The Melbourne papers stat9 that sixteen Life Assurance policies, amounting to £5600, are payable by the Australian M utual Provident Society to surviving l friends of those so apsured, who lost their lives in the s.s. Tararua. Another institution will have to pay £1500, that being the sum assured on one life.

The Timaru Herald concludes a leading article contrasting Sir George Grey and Mr Hall, thus :—A perfect puhlio man, if there could be such a thin??, would be a combination of Mr Hall's honesty, industry, and practical ability, with Sir George Grey's eloquence, intrepidity, and irre« pressible pertinacity.

Some very peculiar~census returns have been received. At Auckland, for instance, a man described himself as a " tailor, draper, and prose author," but indicated by an explanatory note that his prose was still unpublished. Registrar-General Brown, when compiling his volume, should devote a chapter to " Curiosities of the Census." It would be rather amusing reading.

As way be seen by advertisement the Gaiety Club will produce the Rose of Castillo on Tuesday next. This will he the first effort of Napier amateurs in opera. The members of the Club have been working very hard during the last two months in rehearsing the parts under Mr Hodgson and Mr Garry. If we may judge from the last rehearsal a very excellent performance will be given, and as the proceeds are to be in aid of the Artillery Band funds we trust to see a bumper house.

The Pinafore Juveniles had another big house last night, as it was thought to be

their last appearance,

At the dropping of

the ourtain, however, Mr Reynolds stepped in front, and, after thanking the public for the extraordinary patronage accorded the company, said that as the Te Anau did not leave for Auokland till Sunday, a final performance would be given this (Saturday) night, when children under fourteen years would be admitted to all parts of the theatre for sixpence. This evening an entirely new cast of characters will be made, showing as nothing else can how wonderfully versatile are the talents of this excellent company of little ones.

A passenger by the steamer for the South this morning complained to us about the annoyance to which he was subjected in connection with wharf charges. He had a few brace of ducks with him, and certain wharf dues were demanded. These he had no objection to pay, but he was required to go round to the wharfinger's office and pay them there. This necessitated his either leaving his luggage on the wharf, or having the cab with his luggage driven round to the wharfinger's office. Considering that there is no receipt given for the sum paid it was unreasonable to put a passenger to such trouble. If we mistake not we Lave seen the wharfinger reoeive money without requiring the payer to go to his office.

The prospectus of a proposed company styled the " Land Mortgage and Agency of Fiji, Limited," has been issued in London; capital £500,000, in 50,000 shares of £10 each. It is proposed that the first issue shall be £250,000 ; 2s 6d being payable on application, 2s 6d on allotment, 15s per share in three months from allotment, and further calls if necessary, at intervals of not less than three months. The intention is- to issue debentures secured upon the uncalled capital and the properties mortgaged to the company, so that probably not more than 30s or 40s per share will be called up. The Home directors are Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., Dr. Kobert Farquharson, M.P., Norman Trouson, Esq., James P. Rickman, Esq., Nathan Alfred Nathan, Esq., and Siginond Hoffnung, Esq. The proposed colonial directors are the Hon. J. C. Smith, William Hennings, Esq., and Dr. Brower, while the London management is vested in Herbert Stonehewer ( ooper, Esq. The object of the company is to make advances on real and other property in the colony of Fiji, and subject to the sanction of a general meeting of the shareholders, in the islands adjacent thereto; also to transact agency business connected with the colony. The prospectus sets forth the resources and capabilities of the colony, and dwells upon the legitimate nature of the business to be transacted.

A correspondent of an American poultry journal says:—' There is no doubt but that the chief cause of the mortality among young turkeys is their exposure to wet before they are fully feathered. The ordinary turkey-raiser trusts a good deal to the instinct of the mother-turkey, and the mother turkey, if left to herself, squats down just where the night happens to overtake her; gets up early in the morning and wanders around in the wet grass in search of food, and, as a natural consequence, more than half of her brood die of chills ard cramps before they are a month old, and more than likely the other half is gobbled up by some four-footed prowler. Dew is about as fatal as poison to the young turkeys before they are fully feathered, and if you expect to raise your turkeys, and make the rearing of them profitable, you must keep them out of the grass when it is wet with dew, until they are about five months old. I have a large, well-lightpd, gravel-floored shed, where I can confine my young turkeys in the morning until the sun has dried the dew off the grass, and on many rainy days they are kept in the house all day. The mother hens are confined in the slat coops placed along the rear of the shed. Where one raises the turkeys in large numbers, I think some such arrangement would pay.'

The crown of the Czar of Russia is in shape as much a mitre as a crown ; it thua suggests the double function—at once head of the Church and head of the State—which. the Russian Emperor is supposed to exercise. It is surmounted by a cross formed of five beautiful diamonds, and supported by an immense uncut but polished ruby. The ruby rests upon eleven large diamonds, which in their turn surmount rows of pearls. More magnificent even, than the crown of the Emperor is the coronet of the Empress, which is supposed to present the most beautiful mass of diamonds ever brought together into a single ornament. In this constellation of glittering stones, four large diamonds of the purest water are especially remarkable; the other diamonds, some sixteen or eighteen in. number, are of secondary attractiveness, and there are besides seventy or eighty diamonds which would have to be placed in a third category.

Captain Boy ton, the pioneer of Channel Swimming, is known to have been killed in the Chili-Peruvian war.

H. M. S. Pinafore at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. Messrs. H. Monteith and Co. will.sell on ,' June the Bth the Exchange Hotel, Have- * lock, they have also a farm for sale. Mr James K. Newton has purchased the Railway Store, Kaikora, and has a large stock of groceries, drapery, and a miscellaneous assortment of goods. Messrs Price and Innos have just opened a lot of new goods. Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on Monday apples and poars from Hobart, at 2 o'clock. The annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association will be held on Tuesday next. District orders to the Volunteers are issued. The Gaiety Dramatic Club will give a Serforrnance on Tuesday next in aid of the Tapier Artillery Band. The Commissioners of Crown Lands notifies a number of sections in the Norsewood, Tuatua, and Makeretu districts to be open for sale. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted" column.