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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3169, 25 August 1881, Page 2

There was no business in the District Court this morning. The Lyons' Tourist and Pleasure Party will open at the Theatre Royal on Saturday next. This company has been well-received throughout their journey in the colony, and we quite anticipate that they will he successful in Napier. : It is reported that the Resident Magistrate, H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., is to be appointed the Returning Officer for the proviucial district of Hawke's Bay, and that J. T. Tylee, Esq., is to have added to his othor duties those of Registration Officer. Mr David Levi has opened a subscription list for the relief of the persecuted Jews in Russia. All Englishmen should contribute towards a fund to secure to others a liberty they themselves so highly prize. The. smallest donations will be thankfully received and faithfully applied. A Dunedin correspondent to the Auckland Observer writes ac follows :—-" Private letters to hand give particulars of John Smith's marriage with Fanny Simonsen at Hobart on July 16th. She failed to appear as Lisa in Lusia di Lammermoor, causing no end of excitement and no performance. It subsequently transpired she had eloped with and married Smith. The contractors for No. 6 drainage contract are losing no time with their work. The first length from the Fire Brigade station to Hastings-street was finished n two days; and they are now making good progress in Tennyson-street. Messrs Taifc and Mills always get th<j services of

first-class men, to watch whoso labors is a treat to those who have seen the " Government stroke." The present phase of the dispute between Mr John Harding, J.P., of Mount Vernon, Waipukurau, and the Maoris residing in the pa near Waipawa, appears to be that Mr Harding - , junior, in the presence of Mr John Harding. J.P., Mount Vernon, Wsipuknrau.has shot a Maori pig. It ia reported that Mr Harding , , when in Wellington, informed the Native Minister that he was going to destroy native stock ; " and he's done it, and it is'nt to his credit." A correspondent sends up the followiug clipping from the Bendigo Advertiser. Mr Catherall was educated at tile Napier Grammar School under the Rev. Mr Marshal:—"Mr E. J. Catherall, an employe in the local post office, who has developed a great taste for oil painting, has just completed a picture, which is certainly a most creditable work of art The subject is taken from an oleograph of a scene in Ihe German Alps, and is perhaps almost too difficult for so young an artisfc as Mr Catherall to attempt, but nevertheless he has made an excellent picture. The artist has never received any lessons in painting, and beyond elementary instruction in drawing received at school is ?elf taught in all the departments of the art." Says " Atlas" in the World of June Bth —" Bishop Selwyn left his mark sufficiently on hia age to need no college to perpetuate his memory; but Cambridge has paid a practical testimony which silences captious criticism on his personal qualities and his beneficent work, whether that work was among the dusky races of New Zealand or the grimy sons and daughters of toil in M idlauds. No one could be long in the company of the late Bishop of Lichfield without appreciating his great powers and striking characteristics. He was unselfishness itself; and after selecting the living of a collegiate church for his son, was induced by a disinterested friend to give it to the present archdeacon of that see, then an absolutely unknown quantity in the ecclesiastical world. That son, when sent to restore to harmony a parish embroiled in Ritualistic dissensions, showed his birth by doing in secret such good deeds as the chopping up of wood for a decrepit woman, who, though almost beyond the labour, retained too independent a spirit to receive parochial aid. Bishop Selwyn was, I believe, almost, if not quite, the first prelate who, to encourage sobriety among laymen, abstained, by way of an example, from alcoholic drinks though he enjoyed a glass of choice wine. The sacrifice to principle was at the time not followed by one of his cousins, who, the clever son of a distinguished father, after enforcing abstinence as much as possible from meats during Lent, if only for the sake of more largely exercising the virtue of charity, used to Bit down to a hot supper, from ■which the champagne-cup was not absent.