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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3160, 15 August 1881, Page 2

The overdraft of the Hawke's Bay County Council is at present £2895 8s 10d, but the rates now falling due amount te £4500. The funeral of the late Mrs Wellwood, ■wife of Mr Robert Wellwood, and daughter of Mr John Heslop, one of the old settlers of Hawke's Bay, took place yesterday afternoon, and was attended by the largest concourse of people that has been teen for a long time. On leaving her late residence, Maxwell Lea, there were numerous friends in carriages and on horseback, and the procession was added to at the several crossroads on the line of travel; it was further largely increased on arriving at the town boundary, where many joined in vehicles and on foot. On reaching the cemetery, where many persona were gathered waiting, the burial service of the ('hurch of England was read by the Rev. Mr Granger, assisted by the Rev.- Mr Welsh. The danger of keeping savage dogfl loose was once more exemplified yesterday. Dr. Hitchings was about to visit a patient at a house up the White road, and finding the garden gate locked, proceeded up a lane in order to enter a side door. It was here that a dog , bfilonging to the patient attacked the doctor, who, having nothing with which to defend himself, was BSverely bitten in the back of the leg, and also had his hand badly torn. It is rather too much of a good joke to send for a doctor, and keep a savage dog to attack him on arrival. Tbe Hawke's Bay County Council some time ago offered the native chiefs half the dog tax by way of commission on the collection of the tax from the native owners of dogs. It will be seen by our report of tbs Council proceedings that three chief s,B,enata, Puhara, and Hapuku have declined to collect, or have anything to do with the tax, and the other chiefs who were communicated with have sent no reply. The Council has now decided to invoke the aid of the police, and enforce the law in. all the native villages at all hazards. The Rev. D. Sidey met with an accident yesterday which fortunately, however, was nothing more severe than a ducking in ditoh water. The reverend gentleman had ridden out to Taradale to visit a sick person, and in crossing a ditch to reach the premises, his horse floundered in the mud and fell. Mr Sidey was thrown, and of course into the dirtiest of the water. The Taradale Lodge 1.0.G-.T., working under E.W. Grand Lodge of the World, was re-opened by Bro. Stevens, Special Deputy, Sister Troy, Grand Worthy Vice Templar, and a number of members from the Napier Lodge assisting. The Lodge will meet in the Oddfellows' Hall, Taradale, every Wednesday evening, and it is fervently hoped that the good cause will meet with earnest workers who will help in spreading the true principles of Templary:— Faith, Hope and Charity. — [Communicated.] The railway returns of receipts and expenditure for the four-weekly period ended 24th June, are published. The total receipts during the twelve weeks amounted to £221,232, or at the rate of very nearly £960,000 per annum. The working expenses absorb 53 per cent., or £119,387, leaving a net profit at the rate of over £440,000 per annum. This must be regarded as on the whole very favorable. The receipts for the corresponding period of last year were £8000 less, and the working expenses £14,000 greater. The Jockey Club's course at Hastings presents a busy scene every morning. Captain Russell's team under the tuition of Mr Grant:—Sydney, Kincraig, Nellie, and a Terenga filly; and Mr Percy Martin's Mischief, and filly by Maroro out of Wainui, are out training every morning. To-day Mr Proffit brought on the course Mr McDonald's horses Foul Play, Badsworrh, and the S.quire. Acceptances for the Spring, Flying and and Hurdle Handicaps for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's Spring meeting on October 11, close to-morrow evening at the Criterion Hotel, at 8 o'clock. Mr Washington Moon, the well-known grammatical critic, professes to be lost in astonishment at the bad English of the Revised Version of the New Testament. Following is a specimen of his criticisms : —ln Hebrew iv. 4, we read :—" Wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant," &c. These things was in it! Once more : In James iii., 10,1 read as follows :— " Out of the same mouth comeih forth blessing and cursing. ,. To which I say, Doth they P And why have the Revisionists inserted the word "forth," which, is not in the Authorised Version, and is not needed, as the word " out " embodies it ? With what unbecoming haste people rush to doctors on the slightest ailment! A doctor having met with an accident the other day was aeked by a brother medico if he had prescribed for himself. "No " said the first doctor, "it may take its chance." " Ah, you are a wise man," said the other. But whether the reply was a covert dig at a rival, or was an observation founded upon many years practice, we do not pretend to say. The number of employes on the New Zealand railways for the year 1880-1 was 3205, as against 3525 in the previous year, a decrease of 320, notwithstanding that the length of railway open had increased by 106 miles. Major Atkinson's injudicious speech at the conclusion of the no-confidence debate has been omitted from Hansard. Talking of the young Princes an Australian paper says :-- On tbe journey of the Princes from South Australia to "Tamilton the coach stopped for a few minutes to change horses at a politary stable between Penola and Caaterton. The morning was chilly, and tbe yomig gertlemen availed themselves of the opportunity of promoting circulation by a run round. Presently the younger of the two descried the groom's wheelbarrow, in which he induced hia elder brother to enthrone himself, and wheeled him around the stable at a merry pace. Suddenly landing him at the groom's feet he said, " There now, I suppose you'll have that barrow carefully preserved in a glass case." The young gentleman was not unobservant of hero-worship, and I shouldn't wonder if Bomeone gilds the wheel of that barrow.