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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3262, 17 August 1881, Page 2

Dr. Spencer will leoture to-night at the Working Men's Club on " Bespiration." A slight shock of earthquake was'felt this afternoon at 4 minutes past 2 o'olook, the direction of the wave being apparently from wgit to f(ut, v

The power of advertising , has received [ an illustration from a well-bred terrier. Dr de Lisle missed his dog, and advertised its loss in the Daily T.-i/egkaph ; in less than an hour after the publication of the paper, the animal walked home. There can bo no doubt but what up to the moment of the dog seeing , the paper it had no idea of its absence causing uneaaiuoss to the doctor. It will be 8P 3 hfrom 'he list of acceptances for the Jockey Club's spring , meeting, that 17 have accepted for the spring handicap ; 19 for the fivirg handicap, and 5 for the hurdled. This number of acceptances is hiarhly satisfactory, and the result should be a capital day's racing. A correspondent writes. In your contemporary's synopsis of advertisements yesterday morning the first notice runs " A plucky terrier which knows hmv to hunt is required; , ' The literary gentleman who compiled the synopsis must ' foal iuiby ilio following ancient but beautiful lines— —'• Ah mp.! I know a lady which Her name was Harris who ha<l sich A bleast-d pair of babbie" the— Scotch complaint , " At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning , , before H. Eyre Kenny Esq., Peter Harerraves and Peter Martin were charged with drunkenness and each fined 5s and oonts or 48 hours. James Smith charged with the Fame offence, did not put in an appearance and his bail Was estreated. Tn addressing , a Napier meeting , in 1879, Captain "Russell said that with reference 'o Triennial Parliaments he was personally indifferent, and if they were desired by his constituents—as they appeared, to be— he would support the measure in favour of them. A referense to Hansard will show that he voted for the introduction of M" Murray's " Duration of Parliaments Bill' on July the 26th. How he voted on the introduction of that measure we have not yet been informed. We are informed that several cases of petty larceny have recently occurred in various country districts. The don-stables being almost wholly occupied with matters connected with the registration of electors, have no time for work that properly devolves upon them. A c the result of a meeting last night of the local provincial directors of the East Ooast Native Land and Settlement Company, a publio meeting , is called for tomorrow night at the Theatre Royal, for the purpose of explaining the objects of the scheme that owes its origin to Mr W. L. Rees. We believe we are correct in saying that it is not intended to confine the operations of the company to the Poverty Bay districti It is hoped to enlist the , sympathies and support of the Hawke's Bay natives in the general soheme for the settlement of their lands, and for the opening up, and for the development of the resources of the country. Should the support of the natives of this district be obtained, should they throw their lands into the hands of the company to be dealt with in the interests of the shareholders, then it is obvious that the progress of the company's operations will be of peculiar interest to us in Hawke's Bay. The Mayor will take the chair at tomorrow's meeting. At the meeting of the Napier Harbor Board held yesterday afternoon leave of absence was granted to Messrs Ormond and Wilson. A communication from the Harbor-master was read stating that the bar had been very shallow during the past month, and that ten feet of water was required to bring in a vessel; also enquiring if he was to supply gangways and lights to enable passengers from the steamers to cross the decks of vessels m safety when the launch could not come alongside the wharf. To this question the secretary was instructed to reply in the affirmative. Mr Saunders reported that the contractors had got fairly started with the dredging punt, and had made some progress with the others. A communication from the Town Clerk was read asking if the Bard would lease a portion of the ' Whare-o-Maranui block on which the niyht-soil and rubbish of the town could be deposited. After considerable discussion it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Smith, seconded by Mr Lyndon, ' That permission be given to the Municipal Corporation to use that portion of swamp on the western side of the new Taradale-road (according to description on plan marked A) for the purpose of emptying night-soil or town refuse ; the Corporation to undertake to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom." It was stated that the secretary had received papers relating to the dredge now on board the Rakaia at Auckland. The balance at the bank to the credit of the Board was stated to be £1836 7s 10d, and £10,000 on desposit. Accounts were passed for payment and the Board adjourned. Mr Henry Tomoana was very severe on Mr Sutton in the debate on the Crown and Native Lands Rating Bill. Tomoana accused Mr Sutton of giving his support to the Government through fear. "He is afraid that if he went against the Government they would take his land away, and give it to the natives. What I say to him is this: that when the next election comes round he will not be returned. He will never be sent back here by the people who voted for him at the last election. It was we who put him into the House." Captain Russell paired against the second reading of the Representation Bill, Messrs Ormond and Sutton voting on the other side. Captain Russell objected to the bill on the ground that it proposed to exclude natives from the population basis. As he hlso is of opinion that the special representation of Maoris should be done away with, is he in favor of giving the natives equal electoral rights with those of the Europeans P If this is what ho would like to see, it may show gratitude for the Maori votes he received at the last elections, but his views will not be shared by his fellow Bettlers in Hawke's Bay. At a meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce a resolution was carried in favor of £5000 being put on the estimates for an extended steam service to the South Sea Islands. In connection with this subject, we hear that, ,on the arrival of the Union Company's new steamer from England, it is probable that the Penguin will be put on the Fiji line. A telegram has been received from Gisborne to say that the Poverty Bay team of fooLballers, weather permitting, will play the Napier men on Saturday. Arrangements are consequently being made for a special train on that day. In the evening the visitors will be entertained at a dinner to be given at the Masonic Hotel, and at 10 o'clock the Oreti steamer will convey them back to Gisborne. Some of the incidents of the recent election in the Ararat district, where the late Minister of lands, Mr Gaunson was defeated by Mr Wilson, are too amusing , to permit them to go by unrecorded. Mr Gaunson may not have been actively, but there is no doubt he was passively the means by which a good deal of embittered feeling was stirred up in the breasts of many residents of this district. Creed was set against creed, the country districts against Barkly-street, and individual against individual, between whom there had been no previous estrangement. This feeling was %hown even by the children, and whilst on Tuesday evening one family of little people were standing on the garden fence cheering lustily in acknowledgment of Mr Wilson's success, another family close to signified their dissent by groans. Many of the school boys amused themselves by chalking on the footpaths a request to vote for their particular candidate, either Gaunson or Wilson, whilst others scratched across the name and added "thus." A little girl, in the morning, armed with a piece of chalk, decorated the garden fence with the legend "Vote for Wilson," for which she was corrected by a passer-by who remarked that she should have written " Gaunson." " I would pooner out my hand off," retorted the little maid, and espying on the pavement " Vote for the Native," at once added the word " Cat," and retired triumphantly,-—Ararat Adver•Use*, ■ .-...;- ■■;, „:■.-:.

[ The Chmtchurch Press or the 9th inetant, : contains some very sensible correspondence on the email birds question. One writer, ifter alluding to the absurdity of the fttsa made at public meetings, resolutions recommending the abolition of AccHmatisatiott Societies, etc., makes the following sensible suggestion: "If the farmers in any district / will rnako up their minds and pursefj * and apply to Mr Bills and arrange to pay him so much per 1000 linnets and sparrows dead or alive delivered to them, I feel no doubt that the number of birds t,h"? determine to capture will be forthcoming. . . . Before the annihilation of the Acclimatisation Society, get it to co-operate in this, and ensure the protection of other small birds." Another writer on the satno subject says that, although. his experience «.s a practical working gari ds-ner iri England and New Zealand has enabled him to observe the mischievousneea of those birds, he is at the same time sure that they do a great deal of good". Hβ goes onto say: "When we consider the myriads of insects that have increased in New Zealand during the last twenty years, which do mischief unnoticed by many to our fruit crops and flowers, we are drawn to the conclusion that it is better to tolerate a good many visible foes than myriads of unnoticed or hidden pests which defeat the cultivation in many ways." It Iβ a pity that the sound good sense contained in the latter sentence cannot be driven into the heads of those misguided agriculturistfl who would rush headlong to their own destruction in consequence of studying , only one aide of the question. The Inman steamer City of Rome, 8826 tons, the largest steamer in the world save the Great Eastern, was launched in June from the yard of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, in the presence of from fifty to nixty thousand people. Lady Constance Stanley named the vessel. Ad acoident occurred which completely marred the proceedings. A boiler on the deck of the steamer exploded just before she was launched, killing three men and injuring ten others, some being very seriously hurt. One of the latter has since died. Mr Elliot Stock, who recently issued the English New Testament for a penny, ia , about to publish an illustrated New Testament in the French language at tho same ' price, for distribution on the Continent. Nearly a quarter of a million oopies of the English edition have been circulated. What appeared to he very sharp practice , on the part of a constable occurred to-day. A man who had not been out of confine* \ ment for drunkenness more than twenty minutes, and who during that time had had ' his boots cleaned at the stand opposite the ■ < Criterion Hotel, was arrested and marched off to the lock-up. The man, to all ap- ! pearanoe, was perfeotly sober, and it waa * with the utmost surprise to many that he J was interfered with by the policeman. Oα being arrested he went off quietly enough until near Mr Craig's shop, when he shook J himself free. Thereupon a scuffle ensued, ' and the man went down, where he wae ' held till the constable obtained assistance. ' It will be very cowardly if those who saw under what circumstances the man was arrested do not attend Court and give I evidence in his favor. If the Inspector of f Police will call at this office we will give I- him the names of some of those who were i present at th 6 time of the arrest. ; It will he remembered that in the Inj spector-General , s report on pupil teaohers' . examinations he gave an illustration of tbe [ historical knowledge of some of the candi- . dates respecting " The South Sea Bubble," t which was described as " a kind of waterj spout!" The following (vouched for by 5 the Auckland Herald), is equally good in j its way, by a girl in the fourth standard in t a public school. Being requested to give i the plural of the following nouns:—Goose, 5 mouse, monkey, ruby, end tooth — the . problem was solved in this fashion: Goose, , plural — gander; mouse, plural — rat; s monkey, plural—nun ; ruby, plural—pearl; > and tooth, plural — double-tooth. Why , monkeys should suggest nuns ie as difficult t of solution as the connection between the " South Sea Bubble" and waterapout, ! unless perhaps monkeys and monks were , mixed up mentally. 1 There is "no love lost" between the ' West Coast Times and Mr Richard Seddon. [ Referring to that gentleman, the Timea ; ' says:—"The public have long ago eeen through the veil which scarcely hides the ? ' own correspondent' of the Kumara Times, r . of the Hokitika evening paper, and the , antonishing print which does duty for a newspaper at Ross. Such messages as the following speak for themselves: ■' Your 1 jnnior member knows what he ie about; , ' Your junior member made the best speech of the debate ;' • The sound arguments of 1 Mr Seddon. convinced the Ministry that I they were wrong;' ' A burst of cheering, ■ repeated again and again, greeted Mr Sed- » don at the conclusion of his Deruosthenio ' speech on the Kumara Sludge Channel;' • • Whenever Mr Seddon rises to speak, the ».. L House is crowded as if by magic; , andeo-Jf, 1 on ad nauseam.' ' ™. i ■ •■■'..,■•; 1 We have always been' (says the Wel- » lington Post) an advocate of authors, i artints, and composers having the fruits of their industry protected, and we gave the [ Fine Arts Copyright Act our support when - jit was introduced. If the provisions are to . be enforced so vexatiously, however, as aoL cording to the Hawera Star, was rej cently the case in that township, there will j soon "be a strong agitation for the repeal of the Act. It appears that there was a concert given by the local Choral Society, and I two young ladies, in blissful ignorance of ~" the Act and ' its penal provisions, played > some selections from Pinafore. . To their L surprise and disgust they learned coon . afterwards that they had rendered the ', Society liable to a fee of £2 2s for having played Pinaforo in public, for which amount a demand was received from the Wellington agents of the composer. Tbig 1 certainly strikes us as carrying the pro- \ ' visions of the Act too far. i The Kaikoura correspondent of the Press i writes:—The weather on the ranges must be bitterly cold. A shepherd was out i mustering, and got some distance, and waa not able to return. Night coming on com- " , pelled him to stay where he was, and he ! found that he wae on the edge of a precipice. , Had he attempted to move he most likely would have been dashed to pieces. One t dog managed to crawl up to him, and . helped to warm him by lying on hie lap. ; The other in attempting to get to him was killed by falling over the chasm. Early , next morning searchers were out for him, but he managed to get home before diecovery in a pitiable condition from exposnre.

j .. .. ; : . * A quadrille assembly at Mr Williams , ' Hall, Emerson-street to-night. "' , : * Meeting of the Olive Bowing. Club to* ; night at the West Clire Hotel, at 7.30 J MrT. K. Newton will sell"" to-morrow \ Horbarb apples, cheese, bacon &c, at 11 : a.m. 1 Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell to- ' morrow at the City Dining Rooms, furniture &c, at 11 a.m. Mesers Monteith and Co. will hold their usual monthly sale at the Shamrock Yards ! on Wednesday, the 24th inst. ! Messrs Brooking and Dobson hare several sections for sale at Hastings. Mr Tuxford has received a large consign- - , ment of vegetable and flower seeds. • Promenade dance, to-night, at 8 o'clock in the Protestant Hall. r Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on i Saturday next, feed oats, etc. ! [ Members of . the different Friendly , Societies are requested to attend a .meeting '. ) in the Oddfellows' Lodge-room on Monday, L 1 • 29th instant. , _' i Public meeting at the Theatre Boyal to- r L morrow at 8 p.m., in connection with, the • East Coast Hative Land Settlement Comj Messrs Blythe and Co.. advertise girli , ' and maids'long clotli jackets. «s ■ . A nutnber of new advertieementi will b« fonoiinqw Wwtti-Qolwat-:-...., i,i,.. 4 . *-~ r