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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3127, 6 July 1881, Page 2

There was no business in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

The Financial Statement will be delivered and telegraphed, throughout the colony to-night.

The Artillery Volunteers will parada for gun drill without uniform at the gun Bhed at 7.30 o'clock this evening.

Mr J. L. Chalinerp, late of Blenheim, has been appointed Inspector of Permanent Way on the Napier railway, and entered upon his duties to-day.

We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt from the agents, of Bradshaw's Guide to New Zealand for July. This publication continues to increase in interest and value.

To-nigbt the Rev. W. Sheriffs will be inducted into the charge of the Presbyterian Church at Waipukurau as successor to the Rev. R. Fraser. A number of ministers in the Presbytery will take part in the induelion service.

r ..-Members of the Working Men's Club are yteminded that Mr Cornf ord has kindly consented to erive a reading to-night in the club hall. '1 here is every probability of an enjoyable evening, and members and their friends are invited to attend.

We learn with regret that a son of Mr John White, of Porangahau, has had bis leg broken by being thrown from a horse. It appears that the accident occurred while the boy was assisting to drive home a horse; he attempted to jump the horse he was riding over a fence, and got unseated.

Tho complimentary benefit to Lieut. Herman takes place in the Theatre RoyaL this evening. Lieut. Herman will give hig own portion of the entertainment, whioh is] alwayß W6ll worth seeing, and Mr Long] will give a gymnastic performance, ifij distribution of valuable gifts will be made at the close of the entertainment.

The tender of Messrs J. G. Thompson and Brankin, for Nos. 1 and 2 contracts for the river embankment on the Clive Grange estate, have been accepted. The prices are respectively £319 and £449. In view of the public meeting to be held at West Olive this evening in connection with river oon-1 servation the above information may be of interest.

A largely attended meeting of Good Templars was held a Taradale last evening for the purpose of forming a new lodge to be called the " Try Again." The meeting was a most pleasant one, and the following officers were appointed :—W.O.T., Bro. H. J. Gilherd; W.V.T., Bro. Napier; W. Chaplain, Bro. the Rev. J. Spear; W. Secretary, Sister A. Guppy.

The stench from the storm-water drain to-day at the Post Office has been beyond description. The rooms in the Poet Office building had to be sprinkled with chloride of lime to counteract the fearful smell, but even then the atmosphere was almost un« bearable. We fear that the town is only just beginning to get a foretaste of the effects of the miserable folly that is courteously termed our drainage scheme.

The annual dinner of the Associated Insurance Companies was held last night at the (Criterion Hotel. Mr R. Dobson, occupied the chair. There were about eighteen representatives of different offices present, and a most thoroughly enjoyable and harmonious gathering was the result. The dinner was, of course, a success, and the number of toasts and consequent speeches waß sufficient to satisfy the moat fastidious.

The Makatoku Hotel, which has been recently erected and furnished about threequarters of a mile from the present terminus of the railway in the Seventy-mile Bush, was opened last Friday with a free Bupper, to which a large number of .guests responded to the invitation of Mr and Mrs Smith, the host and hostess. When full justice had been done to the liberal repast danoing commenced, and was kept up with the utmost spirit till the early hours, when the company dispersed, giving three cheers for Mr and Mrs Smith. The utmost good order and harmony prevailed amongst the guests, who enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

It would be as well if it were generally known that the trains from Napier are now run according to New Zealand mean time, or as near to it as the eccentric clock at the station will allow. By that clock the 11.30 train was started punctually to-day, which wa3 exactly three minutes in advance of the Town clock, and the clocks in the Post and Telegraph offices. Formerly, the Btation. rule was to keep the clock three minutes behind the time accepted as correct in town,' and then it was the fault of intending travellers if theylost the trains. Slovenly as that arrangement, no doubt was, it was infinitely better than running trains two or three minutes in advance of mean time as certainly was the case to-day.

An ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee was held yesterday afternoon, His Worship the Mayor in the chair. A communication relative to a complaint about the neglect of a Maori patient at the hospital was considered along with a statement from Dr. Menzies to the effect that the case had been dealt with in a strictly professional manner. In reference to some misunderstanding which appears to have existed between the committee and Dr. Menzies, about the charging of fees, it was resolved that Dr. Menzies be informed that no fees should be charged in future for consultiug" cases at the hospital. A letter from Father Forest was read, asking permission to erect a small library of hooks specially intended for Roman Catholic patients, such books to be under the charge of the priest stationed in the district. -It was resolved that Father Forest be informed that the books would be received with pleasure, but that they must he under the control of the committee. It was resolved, on the requisition of Miss that the visitors day should be altered from Thursday to Wednesday. A letter from Messrs stokes Brothers' solicitors, asking for Some information relative to the hospital, was read. Mr Winter was then elected treasurer. Mr M. R. Miller made some remarks as to the breaking out of typhoid fever at Hastings, and the meeting adjourned.

A " policy-holdor" in the Government life insurance, writing to a southern paper, wants to know what has become of the promised bonus. He says that, when he was induced to insure some years ago, he was told by the agent that he would see surprising results at the end of the first ! quinquennial period. That period arrived H .on June 30, 1880, just a year ago, and H Jb,een heard of the-4iyidend. H H^ia^^)^« l >has a ■ ■ not forthcoming for a yeaV : Bsj§i|fP|yter it was due ? Perhaps the difference in working a public office and a private institution is to be found in the difference between redtape and business. " Policy-holder " asks whether the time has not arrived when Government insurance should be managed by a board of directors, elected by the policyholders. Such a board would ap- «| point a general manager—not a political nominee-and the officers would be appointed whose qualification would be something higher than being sons of Civil Servants. As this office has now in hand and invested upwards of half a million bterling policyholders should speak their minds on these important questions.

George H. Boker tells this story about Edgar A. Poe:—" One day I was sitting at a bookseller's, who also published a serial, when Poe oame in. If shabby, he was generally genteel, and had the inherent look of a man of the world, out of place and ostraoised, yet with a compensating pride in his sense of finer intellect. After some little whiie he said to the publisher.' Lend me ten dollars.' 'I can't do it.' (He was already in debt to his friend a hundred or two.) 4 Lend me five, then,' said Poe. ' I can't do itfPoe. I have made up my mind not to lend any more.' ' Well,' said Poe, ' will you give me ten dollars for a poem ?' ' Yes, I will be glad to do that.' Poe sat down, and almost without hesitation wrote a sonnet, exquisite in its wording, tender in its feeling. He handed it over to the publisher, who paid the money.

John Stuart Blaokie, in a recent letter to the London Times, contrasts the freedom of professed in Scottish Universities with the hampered condition of their confreres in English institutions. In Scotland the professor is, according to Mr Blackie—who speaks from 40 years' experience in two universities—commander-in-chief, not only unrestrained in his own movements, hut in a position to control those of all other worker? in his own department. The maxim is 'to let any professor have his swing so long as he does not travel out of his own subject on any subject having a natural cognation therewith.' From Professor Blackie's letter it appears that he has availed himself to the full of the liberty thu3 accorded him. As teacher of Greek in Edinburgh University during the past 80 years he has, "besides reading every variety of author from Homer down to the Romaic ballads," delivered regular courses of lectures on ' Greek mythology, on preSocratio philosophy, on the philosophy of language, on Egyptology, and on Greek literature generally, without receiving a word of either direction or blame from any aoademioal authority."

Lieut. Herman at the Theatre Royal at 8 p.m. A meeting for the purpose of appointing a committee to receive subscriptions for the Sutherland family will be held at Hastings this evening at 7. Messrs Monteith and Co. will sell tomorrow, at the Shamrock Yards, horses, etc. Notice is given that Walter Adair, a debtor, will apply for his discharge on the 21st instant.

It is notified that Mr H. Lascelles has been appointed trustee in tho estate of Mr E. Bourgeois, a debtor. ! Mr Thomas Bowes announces his retiroxnent from business, and that the business will in future be carried on by Mr William Oliver.

The prospectus of the Kaikora Town Hall Company will be found in another column. Messrs Blythe and Co. advertise men's overcoats at various prices. Tenders are invited for alterations and additions to the Puketapu school. A bay mare has been impounded at Napier. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.