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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3173, 30 August 1881, Page 2

In consequence of the gale there was no teWraphio ooßonmnioation with Wellington from last nitfbt till noon to-day, the wires bavinjr been d#wn somowhero south of Porangahau. The following: cases are set down for hearing in the District Court on Thursday next:--J. Atherton v. J. R. Davis, and J. Turley v. The Taradale Board of River Conservators. On the application of the Council the " Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868," has been brought into operation in the county of Wairoa.

Tho appointment of J. T. Tylee, Esq , as Registrar of Electors for the Napier and Clive districts has been gazetted. Mr Walter Hallett, assistant survyor, of Napier, has been appointed " to take and lay down r mds" over certain native lands in the Waihua survey district. An exploring survey is now being conducted by .VI r -Tamo:) Stewr.rt for a line of railway fro:ri To Awamutu, tlio present terminus of tho Waikato line, to Kotorua, hot-lake* Letter* of naturalisation have been issued by His Excellency the Governor in favor of Peter Cnristiansen and Mads Steffensen, both of Waipukurau; and to Ole Olsen and Carl Christian Hansen, of Makaretu. Mr Henare Totnoana has given notice to ask tho Government if they will bring in a bill to give effect to the decision of the Native Affairs Committee in the case of tho petition of tho Waipawa natives respecting land on Mr Harding's run. Mr James Stewart, C.E., to whom was referred Mr R. Lamb's proposals with respect to the extension of the water swpplyj has forwarded his report upon the Scheme to the Municipal Engineer, and it will come before the Borough Council at its next meeting. Mr Te Wheoro has given notice to ask the Government if, iii view of the alarming spread of puiallpox in the Australian colonies, they are prepared to send circulars to the various "native tribes pointing out the Use of vaccination; also, if they will grant special facilities to any of the native race who wish to be vaccinated. The annual general meetinar of the Napier Rowing ' lub takes place this evening at the Criterion Hotel. Rowing matters received some impetus last season from the inter-provincial regatta that was held on the Ngarurnro river, and it is to be hoped that by equally vigorous management the olub will continue to promote the art of rowing during tho ensuing aquatic season. The Napier correspondent of the Wairoa Guardian says :—" I hear that Cr. Ellis is about to resign his seat in the Council and go North. " George," as he is familiarly oalled by everybody, is not a " bad sort," and is a good man of business ; but he can well be spared from the Council. He has never been a brilliant success there. His happiest efforts have always been his silent ones ; for, although he cannot utter " words of wisdom," he can look as profound as Minerva's bird of night." The performance of the Lyons' Tourist or Pleasure Party last evening again attracted a considerable attendance. The programme was a repetition of that of Saturday evening, and was gone through with all the vigor and ease for which the members of this oompany are remarkable. To-night there ia to Vo ?n r-.tire change of programme, and the performance will include a slight comedy called the " Village Lanzer ; " a musical burlecta called " Hash ; " also new songs and dances by Miss Amy Horton and the rest of the company. At Mr E. Lyndon's land sale to-day the following lots were disposed of as follows : —Sub-division of sections 560, 561, and 562, Hastings-street, Napier, 2 at £15 5s each to Mr Ramsden, 2 at £8 15a to Mr Ramsden, 2 at £7 10s to Mr Willis, and 2 at £21 5s each to Mr W. Smith. Town sections, Wairoa, 549 and 550, at £5 to Mr W. Smith. Part saburban sections, Napier, Enfield road, £15. Part section 165, Tennysonstreet, 33 feet frontage, £220, to Mr W. Miller. Eighty acres in County Marsden, Auckland, were sold to Mr W. Orr at 10s per aore. In reference to the Post Office robberies Mr McKew writes to say that last February his wife went to the Post Office with letters addressed to England. She bought three sixpenny stamps, and put them on the envelopes. The clerk, however, said that if she wanted the letters to go by that mail she would have to put an extra twopenny stamp upon each. This she did, but Mr McKew assarts that only one out of the three letters reached England, and he thinks the torn stamped envelopes in the hands of the polico having a Bixpenny and two one-penny stamps on them may be the remains of his correspondence. An inquest was held yesterday at Clive upon the body of tho man Thomas Cloud, who committed suicide on Saturday last. It appeared from the evidence of the wife of deceased that he had been out of work for some time, and somewhat despondent. Ou the morning of Saturday he complained much of his head, and shortly afterwards she found him banging from the rafters in an cuthouse. She at once cut him down, and sent for Constable Pickering, who did what was possible to restore deceased, but without avail. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that the deceased hanged himself while labouring under temporary insanity. A return of uncertificated teachers employed by the Education Department was presented to Parliament last week. The total number is 508, oxclusive of pupil teachers, namely, 303 head or sole masters or mistresses, and 205 assistants. Auckland has 195, Taranaki 22. Wanganui 34, Wellington 31, Hawke's Bay 18, Marlhorough 15, Nelson 33, North Canterbury 40, South Canterbury 17, Westland 17, Otago 46, Southland 27. Of these, 167 failed in examination, and 58 were only partly successful, 24 failed to attend examination, and five refused the classification offered. In 210 cases the qualifications are not officially known to the department.

" A Working Man " writes thus to the Post under date August 23rd :—" The item you publish to-night that the session will probably extend to the end of next month, may be very disagreeable to some honorable members whose only object appears to be to earn their handsome honorarium as easily and quickly as possible, that they may return to their pleasant country residences, friondß, and occupations, aud getaway from Wellington and its disagreeables; but it will carry joy into the bosom of many a working man's family, whose prinoipal dependence through the year is unfortunately the money earned during the session. A short or a long session is of great importance to hundreds, perhaps thousands, in Wellington." A large meeting of the members of the different Friendly Societies in the district was held at the Oddfellows' lodge room yesterday evening, at which it was resolved that the aunual f.fee in connection with the Societies should be held on the 9th of November, and that any surplus funds accruing from the fete should be divided amongst the societies in proportion to the number of members on the books of each on the 30th of September next; any loss incurred to be provided for in the same way. It was resolved that the societies be requested to elect committeemen at the rate of one for every 50 members to carry out the provisions of the former resolutions. Mr C. T* Williams was elected secretary, and Mr J. M. St. Clair treasurer, and the meeting terminated with the usual votes of thanks. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., James Baldwin was charged with drunkenness, and was fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours' imprisonment, with hard labor. The following civil cases were dealt with : Leonard v. Harris; this case was adjourned from last Tuesday to enable His Worship to consider a plea of " coverture " put in by Mr Lascelles on behalf of defendant; his Worship said he could not see how he could refuse the plea of " coverture " ; it would be a case of hardship on which ever side a decision was given, but as the amount was a small one the hardship would be less upon the plaintiff than upon a poor unprotected woman; he would therefore give judgment for defendant without costs. Conroy v. G. J. Smith, claim £9 3s 2d; judgment for plaintiff with costs. Higgins v. Ferguson, on a judgment summons ; adjourned for a week. Mr Lascelles, as solioitor to the trustees in the estate of John Kelly, deceased, v. J. Whelan, claim for £31 15s for rent; the summons was also for termination of tenancy under the Resident Magistrate's Act; Mr Lee appeared

for defendant; after hearing counsel on both sides, and some evidence, His Worship reserved judgment until next Oourt day. Monaghan v. Whelan, claim £Vl 10s for labor done; judgment for plaintiff for £10 8s 6u, with costs and ecu_:-;__'s fee. Kniffht Brothers v. J. Evans, du m £15 ___ lid; adjourned for a. week. The Court then adjourned. Mr Pollard and his Liliputian Opera Company will re-appear in Napier on Saturday next. Gince their last visit to Napier they have been located in Auckland, and, judging from the papers, must have been doing an immense business. They opened there in "Pinafore," which was as successful as in Napier, drawing crowded houses nightly. They then produced the opera comique " Les Cloches de Corneville," which they had had in preparation for a considerable time, and it created quite a sensation. During the whole of their continuance in Auckland the little folks were welcomed nightly by crowded houses. J'hey are at present playing in Gisborne, and will arrive in Napier by the Northern boat oh Saturday. The majority of our little friends who appeared in Pinafore will be hero again, but the company has been, strengthened by the addition of several new names, including that of Mi?s A. Brooks, who was so successful as the Admiral at Auckland. Mr Pollard has seoiiredentirely new scenery and dresses for this new venture, and we may rest assured that tho opera will be put upon the Napier stage in such a manner as to command success, A " Working Man," in a lengthy letter, writing from Norsewood, oomplains that when the Ministry reduced the salaries of Civil Servants ten per cent., the employes on the railway works were docked in their wages somewhere about 15 per cent. Platelayers, for instance, who were getting seven shillings a day, or about £109 a year, had their pay reduced to six shillings a day, or £93 8s per annum. Our correspondent contends that in cases, wbioh are numerous, in whioh a man and wife and seven, children have to be supported on such a sum—eisrhtpence a day for each member of the family—such pay amounts to neither more nor less than starvation wages. In the General Assembly there is but one opinion, namely, that the employes in tha Telegraph Department are under paid and overworked, but, our correspondent asks, " what about the men in the Railway Department?" There is a good deal of truth in what " Working Man" says, that the men on the railway are worked hard and paid badly ; that most of them are in debt to the local storekeepers; that large families and low wages will result in the creation of a pauper class, and the establishment of workhouses, the maintenance of which will be felt much more severely than a shilling a day added on to the present scale of wages. Because the streets were not ankle-deep in mud ; because it was not pouring with rain; beoause hundreds of pounds' worth of property was being destroyed by dust, there was no water-oart out to-day. Indig* nant—and justly indignant—tradesmen one after the other called at the Town Olerk'a Office to know where the water-oart was to be found. Messengers were despatched to find the road overseer, and the bellman was actually sent out to cry the loss of the cart. But all to no avail. At noon it transpired that the overseer had instructed the deputy-sub-overseer to send orders to the contractor, but the deputy-sub had gone to the Spit, and the necessary forma required by red-tape and stupidity having been complied with nothing more could be done. It had nothing to do with the Town Clerk's department; it belonged to that of the engineer, so it was quite too utterly impossible for the Town Clerk to send the messenger to Hayden, the contractor, and order the cart out at once. And so the messenger was left to the enjoyment of sucking his penholder, and ratepayers' property continued to be destroyed. The whole thing it seems to us would be the better for turning head over heels. The cart belongs to the Corporation; Hayden has the contract to find horse and driv.r; the engineer has the ordering of the street, to be watered fso between the lot nothing is done. " Inquirer" asks the Ashburton Guardian —" What alteration has been made in the revised edition of the New Testament of that portion which contains our finest moral maxim, often called the ' golden rule,' viz., ' As ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so unto them P' The alteration which I hear the revisers of the New Testament have made in the above maxim, at the instance of many well regulated journals and eminent politicians, will now read—' As ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so unto them (except they be Chinamen.')" The Editor attaches the following footnote :— We believe that the passage referred to stands the same in the revised New Testament as in the authorised version. Those who neglect to apply it to Chinamen perhaps do so on the ground that it is a heathen maxim. It is so, and may be found in the writings of tbe Greek rhetorician Isoorates, more than 300 years before the Christian era. For all we do not see why it should not apply to Chinamen as well as to other people."

Quite a seusation appears to have been caused throughout Great Britain by tha rumour that Prince George of Wales had been drowned at Melbourne. The papers give large headings of the affair. One of them states : —" At eight o'clock this evening no information had been received at Marlborough House as to the alleged drowning of Prince George of Wales. As soon as the rumour was afloat telegraphio despatches were forwarded to the Earl of Clanwilliam, commander of the Flying; Squadron on board the flagship Bacchante, with a view of obtaining authentic information. The squadron being now at Melbourne the reply to the Board of Admiralty may be expected to-morrow. Lord Northbrook has been making earnest efforts to discover the coireotness or otherwise of the report. The Prince and Princess of Wales have also telegraphed to the Earl of Clanwilliam for prompt and definite information. Numerous calls were made at Marlborough House as soon as the rumour of the accident had spred." Concerning the recent Fenian outrage in Liverpool, from circumstances which are gradually becoming known to the public, it seems that it was the merest chance that the destructive influences of the M'GrathM'Kevitt " infernal machine " were not directed against a Government building, instead of a municipal one. It is now said that on the very same morning as the explosion occurred at the Town Hall, two men with a " sailor's bag" were seen near the Custom house. A policeman made them " move on." They went away, and the constable did not trouble himself any further about them ; but he mentioned the circumstance to a brother officer who relieved him for early morning duty. Theincident, which seemed commonplace enough, was also mentioned, apparently by way of gossip, to one of the inxpeotors of the dock police. But no regular report was made. Meanwhile the men with the bag appear to have carried their burden up to the Town Hall and placed it on the steps leading to the west door, where one of them lighted the fuse, under oircumstances already detailed. The constable who compelled the men to " move on " has identified M'Kevitt and M'Grath as the men with whom he interfered.—English Paper. After a recent pigeon match at Hurlingham the shooting members were taken by storm by the production of a four-barrelled breechloading hammerless gun, recently manufactured and patented by 6harlea Lancaster, of New Bond-street. The mechanism was all that cculd be desired, and the balance and general haudiness met with great praise from all. No doubt, as several sportsmen observed, it is the gun of the future for grouse driving and battue shooting. The same mechanical contrivance can be used in rifles, which will prove a great boon both at home, for deerstalking, and also abroad in the jungle, where tbe four barrels could be used with * deadly effect at big game. .

While the Detached Squadron was in Sydney the police secured 78 absentees or deserters, some of whom they placed on board their vessels immediately before they sailed. Official returns show that 36 other men are still on shore, having escaped into the country, or having got into the hands of - v crimps who are hiding them. None of these belonged to the Bacchante. The Daily News' correspondent at Rome s' says:— " The anti-clerical ferment con- * tinues. No night passes without a demonstration, which is instantly suppressed by the police. A committee has been formed to confer gold medal* on the six men convicted of rioting during the removal of the body of Pope Pius IX." The Lega della Democrazia expresses regret that the " carcass of Pius IX. was not flung into the Tiber," and says that anti-clerical clubs are forming to promote the perpetual expulsion of Papacy froui Rome. Judge Donohue has given judgment in the action for divorce brought by Mrs Agnes Robertson Boucicault against her husband, Mr Dion Bouoioault, in New York. The judge said, ia regard to the question of alimony, that, as the defendant did not deny the adultery with which he had been oharged, and before the commencement of the suit he had signified his willingness to give Mrs Boucicault £600 a-year, he should fix that as the amount of her allowance. Mr Tennyson is accustomed to get good priceß for hi? work; sometimes, readers of the Nineteenth Century have thought he gets more than they are worth. But nothing he has ever written has brought him in such a large sum as " The Cup. " Of course it will take its place among his published works, of which he will enjoy the copyright. He was deeply hurt at first by finding that many lines were cut out. "Well," said Mr Irving, when he remonstrated with him, " you know we have to cut down Sha»espeare. " Mr Tennyson was not sure that this settled the question. But he said no more.—-Home News. The largest of our great estate's in this oountry becomes insignificant when compared with the property which has just come into the hands of Mr Hamilton Desson, a Philadelphia manufacturer. This gentleman has just concluded a contract by which he secures four milions of acres from the Board of Internal Improvement of the Stale of Florida. He has thus made the largest purchase of land ever effected by one person. His intention is to work out a great emigration scheme, which will have agencies in England, Germany, andFranoe. America "Will now be able to boast that among her oitizens is not only the richest man, but also largest land owner in the world. The excessive dumping of wool has beoome a warm subject at Sydney. A correspondence has taken place in the Herald, and from this the Mail writes and extracts as follows: —" Mr Chard, who has considerable experience as a broker in this market, says the wool, in the case of many dips, suffers seriously through being excessively dumped, or extra pressed, for shipment. Speaking of the London market, he says—' Beautiful washed fleece wools and scoured skin wools, which left Sydney bright, elastic, soft, and sound, are ■hown for sale oaked in a block Ike wood —dead, yellow, and dull in color, and impossible for buyers to examine. Indeed, in dull times like the present, these wools are not much looked at; and many of the heavy losses this year on these descriptions ■will be due to over-dumping.' " An electromagnet of enormns dimensions has lately been made by Herren yon Feilitzsoh and Holtz for the University of Greifswald. The case is formed of twentyeight iron plates bent into horseshoe shape, connected by iron rings so as to form a cylinder 195 mm. in diameter. The height is 125 otm. ; the total weight 628 kilogr. The magnetising helix consists of insulated copper plates and wires having a total Weight of 275 kilogr, (For further details Bee Lea Mondea of June 23.) With fifty small Grove elements the magnet will fuse in two minutes 40 grammes of Wood's metal in the Foucault experiment. The plane of polarisation is rotated in flint glass after a single passage, &c. The core of the largest magnet hitherto known, that of Plucker, weighed 84 kilogr. and the wire 35 kilogr. The London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing of Dean Stanley, thus, refers to his sermon on ' Dickens ': — 4 The same sympathetic feeling ran through the Dean's funeral sermon on Dickens, in which, after quoting from the deceased novelist's will, his profession of religious' belief, the preacher went on to say : " In that simple but sufficient faith he lived and died. In that simple but sufficient faith he .bids you live and die. If any of you have itarnt from his works the value, the eternal value, of generosity, of purity, of kindness, of unselfishness, and have learnt to show these in your own hearts and lives, then remember that those are the best monuments, memorials, and testimonials of the friend whom you have loved, and who loved with a marvellous and exceeding love his children, his country, and bis fellow men. These are monuments which he would not refuse, and which the humblest, and poorest, and youngest here have in their power to raise to his memory." ' It seems likely that a new and profitable industry will be developed in Tasmania. At a place which has been christened Little Oyster Cove a bed, according to Land, has been prepared for the breeding of oysters, and so far the experiment has been a conspicuous success. The expectation was that the molluscs would spawn in the month the temperature of which corresponds to that of our July, which is the breeding season of the European oyster, but it was not till the middle of February that symptoms of a " fall of spat" were observed. 7 An examination was made in March, when it was found that the fascines were thickly covered with minute oysters, the number of which has been variously estimated from 1,500,000,000 to 40,000,000,000. Where calculations differ so widely no reliance can be placed upon them. The fact remains, however, that there is an immense number of the«e young oysters, and should only one in a hundred come to maturity, four years hence the experiment will yield a rich harvest of profit. At home the difficulty is to get the oysters to breed, and to preserve the young brood until they altain a marketable size ; but so far as can be seen at present, this obstacle will not have to be encountered in Tasmania.