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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3134, 14 July 1881, Page 2

The local agent informs us that no through passages to Melbourne can be booked for the Union Company's steamer Penguin on Saturday next.

Intending exhibitors at the Canterbury Poultry Pigeon, and Canary Society's exhibition on the 20 th and 21st instant will be glad to learn that the Union Steamship Company, with their usual liberality, have expressed their _ intention of taking all exhibits from their different ports of call free of cost. Exhibits from Hawke's Bay will require to be forwarded by the steamer leaving Napier next Saturday.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Robert Stewart was charged with the larceny of a cross-cut saw of the value of 20s, and was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labor. Johanna Cropp was charged with an. assault upon Mrs Porter. Mr Lascelles appeared for complainant. Fined 20s and coßts, with solicitor's fee, or 14 days imprisonment with hard labor.

A little flutter amongst chess players was created _ yesterday by the report that Mr Benjamin, a well-known commercial traveller from Dunedin, had challenged Mr Lessong, of the Napier Chess Club. Mr Benjamin was to give Mr Lessong a knight and a pawn, and the latter was to lay £10 to£o that he would beat his opponent. The stakes having been lodged, Mr Benjamin and a friend proceeded to get a chess-board, leaving Mr Lessong and his friend at the Criterion Hotel, where the match was to bo played. Mr Lessong waited till after midnight forhis opponent's return, and then learned that Mr Benjamin had long ago retired to rest. It is needless to add that Mr Lessong claims the stakes, which on receipt he intends to hand over to the Hospital funds.

. The bazaar in connection with St* Joseph's Convent opened this afternoon at two o'clock. The main portion of the Theatre is divided into eight stalls, two immediately in front of the stage, and three on each side. These stalls are tastefully decorated, and laden with a supply of articles both ornamental and useful. Among the multitude of articles for sale are several pictures in wool," worked by the Maori children attending the Convent school; most admirable specimens of this kind of work they are, and they possess a special interest as showing whai careful training will do for native children. The bazaar contains an ample supply of the articles usually found at such eihibitionsj and many things that are new. At one Btall we noticed the principal portion of the crew o? H.M.S. Pinafore, decked out in a most elaborate and becoming* manner. The whole arrangements reflect the greatest credit upon the zeal and taste of the ladies who have had the management of the affair. The bazaar opens again at 7 this evening, when the Rifle Band will be in attendance and perform.

The committee of the Napier Football Club met yesterday afternoon for the purpose of selecting* as near possible the team to play against the Waipawa Club on the 23rd instant. The final selection will take place after the match next Saturday. The following are the names chosen by the committee:—Messrs J. Begg, F. Duncan, J. Dove, T. Edwards, H. Gibbons, C. Kennedy, H. St. Hill, H. Thompson, G. Whitcombe, R. Mowbray, W. Beamish, J. Barclay, Price, R. Waterhouse, J. A. Gracie, T. Levison, and G. Pram. The football is out every morning and evening now, and players whose names appear above are requested tc have all the practice they can. The match for Saturday will be the above list of players against all comers. It ought to be a good hard game, when it is considered that the all comers will comprise Messrs Westenra, Humphries, Ormond, Hanna, Gillies, Tilley, Clarke, Parker, Monryniehan, Miller, Bogle, Smith, Hovell, Weber, Ingrpen, and about twenty other players. Play will commence at 3 o'clock on Saturday. Players are requested to be punctual. We trust to see a large muster.

While Charles Miller was eating breakfast in Detroit, his wife embraced him affectionately, and cut his throat. She explained that she was the Queen of England, and he was the Emperor of Germany, and that the cause of peace demanded his death.

" The fame of Taranald has reached even the Salt Lake." So they 6ay at New Plymouth, but the statement must be taken cum grano. The political sins must have reached even'f urther than Salt Lake, if tbey are regarded in the proper place.—Auckland Herald.

Here is an extract from a verdict recently returned by a Victorian jury:—" That some insurance companies are responsible for a large per centage of the incendiarism which takes place, by accepting risks for above the value insured, thereby offering a premium to dishonest people, to the disadvantage of those who insure to protect themsel**eß against total loss in case of accidental fire."

The Wairarapa Daily is responsible tor the following story:—On Monday last a good woman went to the police station at Masterton to lodge a complaint. She said that some wicked person had been trying in the night to throw her husband's house off the piles. The sergeant replied, " Why, you foolish woman, it was the earthquake !" " What earthquake ?" said she. " You are making fun of me." The complainant utterly refused to accept the explanation offered, and turned away expressing an opinion that the police were no good.

Parliamentary forms can sometimes be varied with advantage. The other day a Bill was brought into the Colorado Legislature, offering a premium of £10 for the scalps of skunks and Indians. "I move," said an indignant legislator, " that the Bill be chucked under the table." The Speaker's face glowed with satisfaction as he put the motion in exactly the same words in which it had been offered : " The motion to ' chuck the Bill under the table is carried," said the Speaker: "chuck it under the table. " And the Clerk literally obeyed the order of the House. A little of this promptitude would not be a bad thing in our own Parliament.

The Wanganui Herald says :—An amusing l letter (no doubt intended as a grim practical joke), appears this morning in our contemporary, and urges English gentlemen " in straightened circumstances, with from £20,000 to £30,000," to settle in Wanganui, on the ground that it is " an orderly and civilised place," and that a pack of hounds lives and flourishes here. By all means let those unfortunate persons who cannot make a living out of £30,000 come to Wanganui—and bring the cash with them ; but let us be honest, and not tempt them too much by tbe pack of hounds. These miserable, half-starved, scent-hating beagles are a by-word and a mockery amongst those who know what is meant by a Home-country pack. The latest Nihilist capture, a person who witnessed the execution of his accomplices from the platform erected near the scaffold for the officials and members of the press, proves to be M. Sakhanoff, a naval lieutenant attached to the Torpedo School. This explains the technical skill displayed in the construction of the mine in Sadova-street, and the source whence the Nihilists obtained explosives. Sakhanoff was one of the volunteers in the Servian campaign, and also served under General Tchernaieff. The Cologne Gazette states that on Monday evening an ensign found amine filled with thirtyseven rounds of gunpowder under the stone bridge at the landing-place for steamers, in the street which leads to the Tsarskoe Selo railway station. Six more naval officers have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the Revolutionary party.

Smallpox in London is making steady progress, and the authorities are in a dilemma about providing hospitals for the patients. The Times says it is well established, and never more conclusively than by the recent experience of the Household troops, the police and the post-office officials, tbat vaccination, and re-vaccination, if they do not render it absolutely impossible to contract smallpox, produce this effect in all but a few exceptional cases; and that these precautions are at least sufficient to render the disease one which would soarcely ever occur, and which would never kill. It follows that no one need have smallpox unless he or she pleases ; and any one who does please, and who gratifies the desire, might be fairly enough looked upon as a dangerous criminal. One thing at least is certain, that the prevalence of smallpox among those susceptible of its contagion need never occasion the smallest alarm to intelligent people. It need only be a question of little trouble incidental to having the household re-vaccinated, at least in the case of all persons who have not been subjected to the operation for some years, and then anxiety might be at an end.

At a London theatre the other night the audience wore electrified for the moment by the appearance of a well-known leader of fashion in her box, apparently robed in her nightgown. It was soon discovered, however, that,-folio wing the popular desire to be considered outre, the lady had enveloped herself in a white satin ulster With cuffs and collar of white velvet. Doubtless white satin ulsters will now be quite the rage at our theatres.

Under the heading "A New Religious Craze," the Huntly correspondent of the Waikato Times describes the progress of the Christadelphians in the settlement. He says :—" The leading and attractive tenet is that there is no hell. The form of baptism is immersion in tbe Waikato River. The captain of the Lillie was the first convert operated upon ; he has since been suffering from a cold, but this is counterbalanced by the spiritual heat generated by the conversion. Last Sunday his wife and another lady were received into the fold, after wading through the river at Taupiri. Several others have joined, but have deferred their baptism until the weather gets warmer,"

The Governor of Cyprus has sent home, for the Museum of Artillery at Woolwich, a heavy gun, believed to be one of the oldest pieces of ordnance in existence. It is of cast iron, and weighs 25 cwt. The manufacture is probably Venetian, and the ancient weapon is well shaped, in the form of a cup or goblet, the mouth being wide and deep to hold a large stone shot, while the narrower pedestal is hollowed to receive the powder charge. A round stone, weighing about 6 cwt, has been sent with the gun, and itis suggested that this is the kind of missile fired from it, as proved to have been the case with similar guns in England. The curiosity was brought home in Mr Donald Ourrie's yacht Courland.

The London correspondent of the N.Y. World, in telling the story of the gunpowder find beneath the Mansion House, London, hints that it was " a job " of the London police. He says:— The story, as told by the police authorities, is doubtless true as far as it goes, but the impression among those who know something of the inner working of the force, is that the police themselves "put up the job.'' The public is nervous, and those frequent discoveries of mysterious powder packages lead to a demand for extra detectives, who are drafted out of the regular force. It is much pleasanter to walk about in plain clothes with extra pay than to trudge in uniform on a monotonous beat. Moreover, the finds of these " infernal machines " are always handsomely rewarded out of the gratuity fund, and marked for early promotion.

The Christchurch Press says ■—"It will be fresh in the recollection of our readers that the Akaroa Farmers' Association forwarded an extensive shipment of cheese to London by the New Zealand Shipping Company's vessel Orari, in which a special chamber was fitted up for its reception. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have just been advised that the venture has not resulted successfully, the entire shipment having arrived in an unmarketable condition. It is explained that this is due to original defects in the manufacture of the cheese, by the character of the packing cases, and mainly to the Btorage arrangements. This result is very much to be iegretted, but it is to be hoped that the venture will at least show what is actually necessary for the development of the trade, and we shall await with some curiosity detailed reports bearing on this point."

The Home News says:—A rumor is current in St. Petersberg that the revolutionist&lately appointed one of their number to wait upon the Emperor Alexander and explain to him in bluff and unambiguousjwords what they really wanted. One day, so runs the story, a young man presented himself to the City Captain Baranoff, and requested him to procure him an audience of the Emperor, as he had a most important communication to make to his majesty. Deaf to all questions, he would speak his message to the Czar alone, and on his Majesty expressing his readiness to receive the mysterious stranger, the latter, after being carefully examined, was led into the presence of his Sovereign. Commanded to speak, the young man said he had been commissioned _y the executive committee of the Nihilist party to make oral declaration to the Czar of their proposals for the restoration of peace, as it was feared his Majesty had been kept in ignorance of the demands contained in their recent manifesto to him, which was being printed in large numbers and distributed among the people. After delivering his message the bold revolutionary legate was promptly placed in durance in the fortress of SS. Peter and Paul, but the police have hitherto been unable to find the slightest clue to his identity.

St. Joseph's convent bazaar at the Theatre Royal from 7 to 10 this evening. Tenders for alterations to the race-course, Hastings, must be sent in by to-morrow. Impoundings at Taradale are notified. Messrs Monteith and Co. will sell on Saturday horses, buggies, produce, &c. Mr E. Lyndon will sell on Monday next a billiard table, {furniture, &c.

Mrs C. T. Williams has commenced business as a milliner and straw-worker in the Shakespeare road.

Lost a gold locket. At the first meeting of creditors in the estate of Creamer and Gribble, Mr James Irvine was appointed trustee.

Mr Thomas Parker notifies that he has taken the Commercial Hotel at the Spit, and bespeaks a shai*e of public support. Messrs Brooking and Dobson have to let a six-roomed and an eighfc-rromed house.

The opening of Mr Clark's singing class

is postponed until Thursday, the 28th instant.

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