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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3102, 7 June 1881, Page 2

The Customs officers and Detective Grace searched the schooner Silver ©loud this morning, and found 431bs of smuggled tobacco ou board.

The Juvenile Pinafore] Company opened last night at Auckland. The theatre was crowded to excess, and the performance is reported to have been a grand success.

We understand that a movement is on foot to establish a Working Men's Club on the Spit for the benefit of sailors and the residents of the port, and that a meeting is to be held in a few days to arrange preliminaries.

There was a large attendance of buyers at the sale of Messrs .Benjamin and Co.'s stock-in-trade to-day. Mr Monteith officiated for Mr Liddle, who was suffering from a severe cold. The bidding was spirited, bus it was not found possible to fiinish the sale, and it will be continued tomorrow at 11 a.m.

We understand that a grand pigeon, match -will take place at Petane about the 24th instant. Mr Villera has secured a large supply of pigeons, and the arrangements will bo such as to secure a thoroughly enjoyable day's ihooting. The entries aie not yet completed, but a large number of sportsmen have expressed their intention of taking part in the match.

Mr M.H.R. for Mount Ida, addressed. Lia constituents last night. In. the course of his speech he said it was not on Sir George Grey nor on Mr Macandrew that the safety of the people depended, but on the gradual development of liberal thought in the people themselves. It was an error to connect the liberal opinion of the colony with the advanced utterances of Sir George Grey and Mr Macandrew. Mr De Lautour received a vote of thanks and confidence.

After we went to press yesterday the following cases were disposed of at the Resident Magistrate's Court:—Ruddock and Fryer v. linden and Hills ; judgment for the plaintiffs for a portion of the claims. Kenouf v. Lindsay and Ebden; this case was adjourned until Friday next. James Grimley, of Waipawa, was charged with wife desertion; Mr Lascelles appeared for defendant; after some evidence had been taken His Worship said that the conduct of defendant had been very bad indeed, but the desertion could not be proved, and he must dismiss the case. It was afterwards arranged that a deed of separation should be executed, defendant allowing his wife £1 per weeis.

Attention is directed to the following clause of the Public Health Act:—" Every parent or person having the custody of any child, who shall neglect to take such child or cause it to be taken to be vaccinated, or after vaccination to be inspected, according to the provisions in this Act respectively contained, or who shall refuse to permit the public vaccinator to remove or retain a reasonable quantity of vaccine lymph from the arm of such child according to the provisions of this part of this Act, and shall not in any of the said cases render a reasonable excuse for such neglect, shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable on conviction to a penalty not exsecding forty shillings." Dr Oaro is the public vacoinator, and is in attendance at his residence every Friday at 11 a.m. It is stated thatja Chicago house seriously contemplates establishing a branch in Australia, with a view of extensively exporting meat, the object being to ship the more valuable portions of the carcases of beef in a frozen state, and to tin the coarse parts under the compressed Bystem.

The Taranaki Herald learns that it ia likely that informations will be laid against Miss Retford for a breach of the Lotteries Act, and also against the Yen. Arohdeacon Gouett, Eev. P. Walsh, and several ladies and gentlemen for like offences in connection with the recent Church of England bazaar.

Mr C. H. Mills, of Havelock, formerly a resident of Wellington, states in a letter to a local paper that his brother, Mr T. H. Mills, has found kerosene a complete antidote for tutu poisoning in cattle. On one occasion he found one of his most valuable cows nearly dead from the effect of eating the poisonous ehrub, and, after trying various remedies without success, as a last resource he gave her nearly a pint of kerosene as an experiment, and in about twenty minutes he was delighted to see she had completely recovered. Since then he has had fifteen cases through his hands and never lost a beast.

At the annual meeting of the Christchurch and Sydenham Building Society a report was presented shewing the Charters defalcations, which amounted to £2698 6b. In the course of the meeting the auditors plainly told the society it was hopeless for it to attempt to go on. Their shares were only worth 8s 9d in the pound, and of course new shareholders are scarcely likely to enter a society under these circumstances. The ordinary shareholders only number. 40 and the permanent 13, so that they were not likely to take up the deficiency. It appears that the directors expect to recover £700 of forged cheques, and hold a £500 policy in the Guarantee Association. They also have a receipt from a firm of solicitors in town for £300 ; all of whioh, though very douhtf ul, they regard as assets to wipe off part of the deficiency. By this receipt there hangs a tale which shows how Charters worked his swindle. While the auditors were looking over the accounts they could find no receipt for £300 from a man named Baxter. Charterd being , asked for it, immediately said, " Oh, it is all right ; I will get "it by the time you want it again." The auditors proceeded, Charters stepped out to the firm mentioned, and said to one of the clerks, "Oh, on the 14th of last month, we paid you a cheque for £300. Just give me a receipt for it, there's a good fellow. I have it ready drawn up. I'm in a hurry. Just eign it." The unsuspecting clerk complied, and Charters, who had takan the precaution to leave the name blank, filled in Baxter's and presented an apparently genuine receipt to the auditors. It is said that he actually got three receipts from the clerks in this office for the same cheque; Another method was to get directors to sign cheques on various pretences at odd moments, at the bar of an hotel, for instance, and of course he was able to do pretty well as he pleased, for it was impossible for them to remember what cheques they signed. In fact, the whole method of conducting th 6 business of the society is one of the most extraordinary loose kind. The meeting was undecided what to do, and eventually adjourned without coming to a decision. The directors want to go on, and made offers of various kinds to induce agreement.

At Berlin, recently (says the London Daily News), Colonel Methuem, the British military attache at that court was walking through the Thiergarten towards Charlottenburg, when, arriving at the bridge which crosses the Spree Canal, he saw a crowd of people watching the struggles of a drowning man in the water beneath. Colonel Methuem immediately sprang over the bridge, and succeeded with difficulty in. saving the man's life. This act was especially brave, not only on account of the height of the bridge, but also because of the floating masses of ice and the muddy banks of the artificial branch of the Spree.

An exciting scene occurred during Mass on a recent Sunday in the Parsonstown Roman Catholic chapel. The officiating priest was referring to the Land League and some local occurrences when an officer in command of the troops from Birr garrison stood up, and in loud- tones ordered his men to withdraw. Indescribable confusion followed. Some women fainted, and a general rush was made for the doors. The soldiers obeyed their commander, and were marched off to the barracks, followed by an. immense crowd, hooting and groaning. Fortunately, no personal violenoe resulted, but the excitement was intense throughout the district.

Mr Gladstone was one of the first persons in the^ metropolis made acquainted with the assassination of the Emperor of Russia on the arrival of the news. It happened an. hour or two after the receipt of the news the right hon gentleman walked down from Downing street to the University Club, where a number of members were reading the Sunday papers anJ lounging about. The Premier remained in the readmg-rcom for some time examining maps of Greece and Turkey, and then took his departure without addressing anyone. Just as he was stepping into the street he informed the hall porter that the Emperor of Russia had been assassinated! The man told his fellow servants, and (he intelligence soon spread all over the club. " But how do you know that it is true ? " exclaimed the members in. an excited manner; to which the hall porter replied, " 1 had it from Mr Gladstone just has he was stepping into the street." The Premier had never informed any of his friends at the club, but reserved a piece of information —the importance of which has convulsed the world—for the private ear of a hall-porter I—Home Newe.

The ides of March were no more fatal to Ceesar than to the house of Romanoff, the Czar Paul having been assassinated in March 1801; the Nicholas probably dying by his own hand in March, 1855 ; and Alexander 11. meeting his death in March, 1881.

; « There is a story current," says the London Cuckoo, " that the late Mr Carlyle was a terrible domestic tyrant. At breakfast time he would come down grumbling, and w glancing at the wellspread board, declare the food 1o be unfit for a dog. Mrs Carlyle thereupon would order the girl to take the despised viands back to the kitchen. Presently, when the philosopher was beginning to get desperately hungry, his spouse would order the same dishes to be brought back, Which her husband immediately proceeded to devour with inflnate relish and without any more ado. No wonder the sage considered his wife a greater woman than either George Sand or George Eliot." As showing the astuteness of the Nihilis' ■. remarks a London paper, it may 7 mentioned that the Austrian polica receu y informed the Russian Government tint a considerable quantity of dynamite Lad been landed at Fiume, and forwarded to Russia. The Russian authorities, in reply, requested that the dynamite should be allowed to pass as far as the frontier. On its arrival there it was received by persons in the uniform of Russian police officials, but subsequently another body of officials came to sequestrate the packages, and it was then discover;d that the first comers were Nihilists disguised as polioo, and that they bad succeeded in smuggling the dynamite into the interior. Under the heading " A Radical C are f< Drunkenness," a Hungai'an paper tells the following Russian story :—" A workman brought a complaint against four of lri fellows that they had given him twentyfive blows with a stick. The accused on being for their defence produced an agreement in writing, one clause of which expressly stipulated that if one of their number drank to such an extent as not to be able to attend to hia work, the others were to meature out to him twenty-five blows, and that they had merely carried out the agreement. Upon this the magistrate discharged them, remarking that they were not deserving of blame for what they had done, but rather of praise." Everybody has been reading Carlyle's extraordinary and even terrible account of the thirteen years of fierce wrestling which went to the production of his " History of Frederick the Great." It is sad to fi that this tremendous struggle has all beer thrown away and wasted. So at lea.;' declares the Edinburgh Review. "We arc not of those," says a writer in the new number of that periodical, " who believe P* that he 7 ever attained the rank of a historian, or that his later works have an,, historical value." This is tolerably straightforward, but in a footnote there is a still more fateful word of doom : " In an article on the first volumes of his * History of Frederick/ we examined with care his merits as an historian. Our opinion of that work is unohanged, and toe tooJc no further notice of it" ! Po there is an end of that— Carlyle, Frederick, and thirteen years of furious industry from the most original literary genius of his time. We commend to these high Sapiencies and Pompositi"3, when they are talking of Carlyle, a saying of Cardinal Newman's about writing of a oertain kind: " All such wilting is always open to criticism, and it is always above it."—Pall Mall Gazette.