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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3183, 10 September 1881, Page 2

On and after to-morrow (Sunday) the telegraph office at Waipawa will be closed on Sundays. Mr H. Hill returned to town last m>ht from an inspection, tour of the Hampden, On#a Onga,Blackburn, Ashley-Clinton, and Waipawa district schools. We understand that arrangements have been made by Mr Binnie to have the remains of the late Robert Smart conveyed to his family at Oamaru. The Hon. J. N. Wilson and Mr Ormond return to the seat of government by the Rotomahana to-morrow. Mr Sheehan left by the 3 p.m. train this afternoon, and proceeds overland via Wanganui. The hoarding has been removed from the front of the premises formerly occupied as offices by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and a handsome shop has been made of the building, which, we understand, has been let to Mr Wood, who will shortly establish himself aa a chemist and druggist. It is doubtful whether the annual Boxing Day race meeting at Havelock will be kept up next Christmas, but it is settled that if tho.<o popular races are nob to come off tho Racing Club will have a meeting at Pakowhai on Boxing Day, so as not to deprive the public of their customary country outing. Among the many recent improvements and additions which Mr Oarnell has made to his photographic apparatus is one of Oadett's patent instantaneous view shutters. This is a most ingenious instrument for adjusting the time of exposures; it is composed of a revolving ebonite disc, worked by a coiled spring, and set in motion by a pneumatic tube attached. The instrument can be adjusted to give exposures from the hundredth part of a second up to any lonsrer period required, and is particularly useful in taking street views, or in taking the portraits of young childron. It is evident that Mr Carnell is determined to keep himself thoroughly abreast of all the advances made in photography. Notwithstanding the amount of dramatic entertainment that has recently been provided for the playgoing public, our local amateurs are again to the fore. The next performance announced by them will take place on Friday next, 16th instant, when Dion Boucicault's sensational drama, " The Octoroon," will be produced in aid of the widow and orphans of the late Thomas Parr, of Shakespeare road, who died very suddenly a few days ago, leaving , a large family entirely unprovided for. It is to bo hoped that such a piece coupled with the object, will secure a good house. Since the formation of the Gaiety Dramatic Club they have ever been ready to oome forward I and assist the distressed,

At the Resident Mag>'fitrate'n Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Henrr McKinby was charged with being illegally on the premises of Mr E. J. Turpin. The prisoner pleaded guilty. His Worship said it was something disgraceful that so many men should bo brought before tha Court pretending that they could not get employment, when there was plenty of work to bo had if men would be content to take reasonable wages. It was appalling the number who were brought up charged with having no lawful visible means of support. He would sentence the prisoner to one month's imprisonment with hard labor, and trusted that when he came out of prison he would turn over a new leaf, seek some employment, and become a decent member of society. In reference to the Ebbett case, we did the Waipawa Justices an unintentional injustice in stating that their decision was that the case was proven. Such a decision might possibly be thought to indicate some hesitancy, which clearly did not exist in the minds of tha worthy Justices. When they returned into Court after their long and careful consideration, they stated that their decision was that the accused was guilty. On the counsel for the accused pointing out that all the Court oould do was to commit him, or discharge him, this sapient bench expressed their •ietermination to commit him, evidently without an idea as to where they were going to commit him to. If after stating it to be their decision that the accused was guilty, the presiding Justice had just said •' and may God have mercy on his soul," the height of absurdity would have been reached. We wonder who is olerk to the bench at Waipawa. The Meanee reserve continues at once to be an eye-sore and a silent witness to the imbecility of ihe Public Domains Act, that allows 92 acres of splendid soil to lie idle anduntilled. We have on previous occasions expressed our opinion of the constitution of the Meanee Domain Board, nor have we hesitated to say that it was constituted in such a way as to render it impossible for the reserve to be converted into a public recreation ground. The posiiion of the reserve is a disgrace to the district, and a disgrace to the Board. Further, it is shameful that Hawke's Bay has not a representative in either the Legislative Council or the House of Eepresentatives to bring the matter before Parliament. As our Hawke's Bay members are, apparently, leagued to compel the people of Napier to spend their holidays at Hastings, it may not be too much to ask Mr Sheehan, tbd honorable member for the Thames, to espouse our cause. Nothing can better show how thoroughly unrepresented Napier has been by Mr Sutton and Captain Russell than the fact that it is necessary to appeal to the kind offices of other members of the House if anything is wanted to be done for the benefit of the people. The Theatre Royal was crowded to excess last night by an audienoe eager to take— • what was expeoted to be—the last opportunity of seeing Mr Pollard's juveniles in " Pinafore." Every available space was occupied, and the interest of the large crowd appeared to bo sustained throughout the performance. The principle ohange in the cast was the appearance of Miss Amy Brooks as the Admiral, and well she sustained the reputation she has achieved in this character. Her pompous " Ruler of the Queen's Navee" is a perfect marvel of acting and vocalization for one so young. Miss Wallen took Cousin Hebe, and Miss Lena Robinson Little Buttercup, and both characteis were well sustained. The double hornpipe by Miss Brooks and the big Aunt delighted the audience, and a repetition waa loudly demanded. All the other performers did their duty with vigor and precision. There will be a matinee this afternoon at 2 o'clock, and this evening " Pinafore " will be repeated, and there will be a thorough change of cast, several of the performers changing about and taking double parts. This will probably be the last time we shall have the opportunity of seeinsr this marvellous little company, and no doubt they will again have a full house.

The Patea Mail says :—A Maori member proposed the other night to sing a native song, to illustrate a weighty argument he had just elaborated. Thia was during the " stonewall" deadlock, when any diversion wf\s welcome to keep sleepy members awake. The Chairman solemnly ruled that the Standing Orders did not prohibit tinging. One or two other members hailed this ruling with delight, as it opened up a "new line" in Parliamentary eloquence, and enabled a disappointed S3Ction to get up a sort of Stonewall Concert, each member illustrating his argument with snatches of song , , or selections from hymns ancient and modern. Although the advantages and charms of political music must have been present to the minds of many members, and although the material was at hand for converting the Rouse into a Stone Wall Free and Easy, yet strange to say the Maori member did not sing his native ditty, and the Nelson Nine did not begin a Moody and Sankey campaign. Here was a great opportunity lost.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean comments thus on stage kisses :—Janauschek's kisses are but rare, and they are very matronly. The come with words that are poured forth from a deeply-imbedded diaphragm, and are roere touches—not like what Soldene's used to be in the days of old, when she gave her stage lovers the full benefit of the mammoth cave that yawns across her face. There is more kiss to the square foot of Soldene's mouth than that of any other woman on the stage. Alice Oates did some very pretty kissing, She could kiss high tragedy or low comedy, and between the two extremes ring in every known variety, from Modjeska's stately iciness to Pauline Mavkham's smaok. On one occasion an actor feeling full of inspiration or of beer, seized her on the stage, gave her a hug that must have broken her ribs meet, and bestowed a paroxysmal kiss upon her. Next night her husband appeared in the wings with a big revolver, ready to blow the top of the actor's head off should he try it again, saying he could supply all the paroxysm wanted in that family himself.

gome sailors belonging to a vessel anchored near Colombo, while ashore tried to capture a monkey. As soon as they put hands on him he gave a series of yells, when, as by magic, every tree swarmed with indignant monkeys." An order to make for the boat was promptly obeyed. When the monkeyp saw their enemy on a full retreat they formed into a solid body and followed hurriedly in their wake. Sticks, stones, and every available missile were hurled furiously at the heads of the flying sailors. In vain did they drop their prize, hoping that it might pacify their enraged pursuers. Ifc was not so ; only one dropped out of the ratifis to gather in its hairy embrace the unoffending object of the fray, while the others rushed on more frantically than ever. Reaching the boat they had no time to jump in, but shoved her off from the shore, clinging to the gunwales and crawling in only when some distance had been placed between them and the implaoable foe. When they had arrived at a safe distance to lie to, they rested on their oars and curiously scanned the infuriated army on the beach. There appeared to be thousands of them running up and down in wild confusion, and hurling stones far out into the water in the direction of the boat. The mechanical capabilities of the gentler sex have just been reported upon by Mr Denny, the shipbuilder of Dumbarton, who has employed young girls in his chip drawing office for copying tracings now for some time past. The experiment, he says, has been successful in every way. Not only has he got his tracings made more cheaply than heretofore, but executed with more care. Indeed, he found, strange to say, that the bent of the female mind was such as to lead to more exact copies being made, and he no longer had to complain of the copyist;, in seeking to improve on the original, failing i wholly in the purpose of his task. By-and-by, however, be tested the imaginative and inventive powers of his employes, and found that they were as skilful in designing ag , they wm in copying, and with tb|a farther

good quality, that when asked to design" thoy no more fried to copy than they sought to itn|-.;:ovo upon n copy when told to imitate it. Stili pursuing his interesting , investigations, Mr Denny found that his young ladies could make calculations, and make them correctly too. Altogether the inquiry into the mechanical capabilities of the female mind hus proved a financial suo cess to Mr Denny, and a psychological surprise to the young men they superseded.

The Auckland Observer has the following; —There was quite a scene at the Wesleyan Bethel at Parnell the other Sunday, at the doss of the Rev. W. C. Oliver's sermon on the immortality of the soul. The inherent immortality theory had been established to the entire satisfaction of the preacher and his orthodox hearers, when, just as the plates were being handed round for the customary offerings, a " conditional immortality" arose and said, " May I say a few words while the collection is being made ?" "No sir!" was the emphatio response of the officiating cleric, " this ie neither the time nor the place for disoussion." The would-be disputant was ready with a Roland for the parson's Oliver, and asserted that from the Bible which he held in his hand he would, if permitted, prove that the sermon just concluded had contained unsoriptural dootrine and " damnable heresy." The assembly were horror-struok, the paison was dumb, while one of the stewards, who was gathering in the maney, trembled so violently that the three-penny bits in hie plates jumped about like parohed peas in a frying-pan ; and turning fiercely to the disturber, he said : " If what you say is true, Christ wae a liar sir!" The man collapsed, and the service closed without further disturbance. As the faithful departed, however, the conditionalist thrust tracks into their hands to counteract the " damnable heresy" of the sermon.

The Pollard Juvenile Company to-nighfc, last performance, at 8. Mr C. Coombs gives notice of fencing certain sections at Kaikora. Messrs Murray, Eoherts and Co. have just received 450 sacks of seed oate. Impoundinge at Taradale are notified. All accounts against the eetate of Karaitiana Takamoana are to be sent in to Messrs Wilson and Cotterill. Messrs R. G-oldsborough. and Co. advertises liberal advances on the ensuing wool clip, also rates for the carriage of wool. Mr M. R. Miller is their Napier agent. Mr Bennett, of Omaranui, has seed potatoes for sale. The next rink takes place on Tuesday evening. The Gaiety Amateur Dramatic Club per* form " The Octoroon " on Friday next in aid of the widow and orphans of the late Thomas Parr. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted" column.