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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3186, 14 September 1881, Page 2

Some more changes have taken place_ in the proprietorship of our local hostelries. Mr Stevens, late of the Mohaka Hotel, has taken over the Pacific at Hastings, and Mr Snelling, late of the Pacific, has entered into possession of the Victoria, Napier.

The law examinations commence before Mr P. A. F. Birch, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, on Monday next, and continue over the three following days. We understand there are three applicants for examination, one in law, and two in general knowledge.

Dr. Caro, as public vaccinator, has received instructions from the Government to proceed to the pahs within this district and vaccinate the Maoris. He commences operations to-day with the Waiohiki pah, and expects to complete the oirouit in a month or six weeks.

A correspondent writes : —" Lost, the voico of the bell belonging to the public clock over the Post Office. Recommended that the authorities Bhould tiy the effect of a box of Keatina-'s cough lozenges, failing which, then as a last resource let Mr Garry, of the Vulcan foundry have a go at it, and if he does not succeed, smash it up."

The New Zealand Shipping Company have made arrangements for chartering a vessel of about 700 tons to be here early in October to load wool for London, the object being to get the first shipment away with despatch. This vessel will be followed by the fine passenger ship Waikato, commanded by our old friend, Captain Worster.

It will interest the multitude of members of Friendly Societies in this colony to know that three officers are employed by the Government to take supervision of their affairf, namely, the Registrar (who, performing other functions, attends to this particular duty without payment), Actuary andclerk_t£4oo, and Revising Barrister at £100 a year.

The Harbor Board oannot be very highly complimented upon its forethought, considering that, although the dredge from England is now on the Spit, the punts necessary for its working, and to be made on the spot, are not nearly ready for the commencement of operations. All the time

that the dredge is lying idle it is not earning the interest upon its cost, and no one knows better than the Harbor Board that that sort of management does not pay.

A return presented to Parliament shows the number of persons drowned in New Zealand rivers since the last return of such casualties laid before the House; also, a summary of previous returns. The total number drowned from Ist July, 1877, to 30th June, 1881 (four years), has been 240. Previous returns were an follow:—1st July, 1875, to 30th June, 1877, 179; Ist July, 1870, to 30th June, 1875, 375 ; from 1840 to 1870, 1115. The total number of persons drowned in New Zealand during 40 years is therefore 1909.

Mr Cornford, acting on behalf of Mr R. G. Graham, has lodged in the Resident Magistrate's Court a declaration and petition, signed by Mr Graham and two burgesses, in reference to the recent election of a borough councillor. The deckratiDn sets forth that those signing it verily believe that the election of J. T. Renouf was and is void, upon the grounds that the said J. T. Renouf was not capable of being elected to or of holding the office to which he was eleoted. The petitioners pray that an enquiry may be made into the said election under the provisions of the Eegulation of Local Elections Aot, 1876, and that the said election may be declared to be void.

The return football match Napier v. Waipawa will be played at Waipawa on Saturday next. The following will be the competing teams:—Napier: Messrs Begg, Gibbons, Barclay, Dove, Murray, Mowbray, Sewel. Price, Tilly, Hanna, Pott, Thomson, St. Hill, E. Kennedy, LeQuesne, and Edwards. Waipawa: Messrs Bostock (captain), H. Bremner, Bogle, Rich, Ord, T. Bostock, Smith, Williams, Harwood, Waddington, Goldsmith, Duncan, Rhodes, and Ewen. The Napier representatives »?ill leave town by the early train, and lunch with their antagonists at about noon. The game will commence at 1.30 p.m. Our looal team had a good praotice yesterday afternoon, and a number of them appeared in good form. There will be another full practice on Olive Square to-morrow afternoon, at which it is desirable that every member of the team Bhould be present.

At the ordinary meeting of the Napier School Committee, held last evening, the burden of the business appears to have been to express dissatisfaction at the unfurnished oondition of a room in the district echool formerly occupied by the infants. The condition of this room has been a thorn in the side of tho committee for a considerable time, aud representations on the matter have gone up to the Education Board time after time. At the meeting of the Board on the 16th of August it was resolved that money be granted to do the necessary furnishing, and there the matter appears to have ended. We suppose it is the old story, "no funds available." We have a magnificent educational system, costing the oolony about a quarter of a million sterling annually, but when a few pounds are wanted to make a room in the principal school in the district habitable, to keep the rain from coming through the roof of a oountry school house, or to build a chimney, so that the children's studies may be carried on with some degree of oomfort during the oold weather, there are no funds available.

The natives in the Manawatu District are said to be in great glee on account of the receipt of a letter from King Tawbiao, in which he expresses his intention of visiting them about the end of next month. According to the Feilding Guardian they are at present occupied in the ereotion of a special meeting-house at Awahuri. The building will measure 99ft by 28ft. Some twenty Maori drays recently passed through Feilding to get timber, and the occurrence gave rise to a rumor that they were on their way to join Te Whiti.

The proprietors of all the inns in Leamington having the Lion as a sign have received the following letter :—" Sir.—-You are hereby instructed, in common with all landlords having a lion for a sign, no matter what color that the Government can no longer permit their tails to be displayed in the contumacious manner hitherto but too common with British lions. You are at once to cause the tail to be gently but firmly drawn between the legs, and there seourely fastened, during the remaining brief tenure of office by Gladstone, Bright, Chamberlain, and Co." They are right merry wags in Leamington.

A most extraordinary petition was recently presented to the House of Representarives by Mr Fraser, formerly Resident Magistrate at the Thames. Mr Fraser asserts therein that in Jur.e 1870, he was accused of cheating at cards in the Auckland Club ; that he resigned his membership of the Club, hoping that an inquiry would be made by the committee, and pending the action of that body he also resigned the various Government appointments which he held. No inquiry, he states, has been made by the club, nor, although he has requested an investigation into the matter by the department of which he was an officer, has such an investigation been conceded. He asks the House therefore to grant him an inquiry.

The settlers in the Wairarapa have evidently decided upon availing themselves of the well-known fruit-growing capabilities of the district. Mr F. H. Wood, the wellknown auctioneer of Greytown, informs us (N.Z. Times) that he has disposed of no less than £500 worth of fruit trees during the current season to Greytown and Carterton residents alone, large quantities having also been supplied to farmers in other parts of the valley. As supplies have also been drawn from other sources, it will readily be seen that a very large number of trees have been planted. It may reasonably be expected that when these are in lull bearing, their owners will be in a position not only to meet the requirements of the local market, but to send large supplies elsewhere.

The Weekly', Argus says:—Verily the ways of " that heathen Chinee " are not more peculiar than the ways of our adminstrators. In the General Government Gazette of the 25 th ult. appears an advertisment calling for lenders for " supply and delivery of ten, million telegraph forms." And the information is added that the tenders must be in by noon on the Ist September, 1881—that is, assuming the Government Gazette to be published according to the date it bears, which is never the case, six days are allowed for the Gazette to find its way all over the colony and come under the notice of master printers to give them an opportunity of tendering for work. One of two things is clear: either Dr. Lemon did not intend any printers outside of Wellington to have an opportunity of tendering, or else he was a little neglectful in inserting it so late (the advertisement is dated 20th July). The real reason, no doubt, is that the order can be executed in London at a price far below anything that any colonial printer would care to do the work for. The quality of the paper is also so low that no colonial printer with any respect for himself would condescend to use it. Why the worthy doctor goes through the faree —for it is a farce—of advertising at all, it is hard to say, unless it is to enable the new Post-master-General to get up in his place in the House and say that the Government always invite tenders for the printing of telegraph forms so as to give printers in the Colony a chance.

Says the " Man at the Corner" in the Taranaki News -.—The story of Jersey girls who are so lazy that yeast has to be given them to make them rise from their beds is surpassed by one I heard lately of a New Plymouth settler. His family are so incorrigibly lazy that ha has to burn them out of their beds—or threaten to do so.

"ißgles," in the Australasian, says :—lt was only a Royal personage who could have dared to say, " We kings are rum fellows " ; and. in the same spirit, I suppose, a broker the other day declared that Dr. Johnson had attached to the substantive " broker " this definition :—" One who acts between two persons, and robs them both!"

Au interesting account is given in Soribner's Monthly Magazine of tbe 'Solarium* of the New York Hospital, whnre those patients who can leave their beds are treatei to a 'sun batb.' The roof is mansard, and a large part of it is taken up by a skylight. A fountain, plants, easy chairs, and pillows, are placed there, and the good effect upon those able to sit there, even for a short time, is said to be wonderful.

The courage and pluck displayed by the fair ladies who undertook the arduous task of holding the Fancy Fayre were the admiration of all the visitors to the Albert Hall. But we understand that some of the aristocratic vendors have suffered severely from fatigue and heat of the three days' labor. We ourselves (writes an English paper) overheard one of the most popular of the stall-keepers actually groaning with pain as she leaned, overcome with weariness, upon the counter. ' Why don't you sit down, dear ?' whispered her companion. ' Ah, I wish I could,' was the reply. ' But my limbs are so stiffened, my ankles are so swollen with standing so long, that were I once to sit down I should not be able to rise again. I must wait for rest until I can get to bed.' This fair, brave martyr in the cause of charity has not yet been able to leave h6r room, and her absence at Ascot was much regretted.

A good btory was told apropos of a noble lord who was recently returning from the races. In the adjoining compartment wera eight bookmakers, who, " cleaned out" by successive failures, wera travelling without tickets, hoping by a turn of good luck to escape payment. At last one of them, during a stopage, hit upon a brilliant idea Pulling his cap down over his eyes, and buttoning his coat, he went to tbe carriage of the noble lord and his friends, and, assuming an official air collected all their tickets These he distributed among his own friends, and on the train reaching London, the noble lord had a narrow escape of seeing himself and his friends taken into oustody for attempting to defraud the railway corn* pany, for despite their assurances the officials declined to believe that anyone had been audacious enough to colieot these passengers' tickets. The thing was too absurd. It was only by paying their fare a second time that the noble lord and his friends escaped from the clutches of the railway servants:

The rumour in Paris has become confirmatory concerning the decision entered into by the French Government of disposing of the jewels belonging to the Crown of France. This decision has long been talked of; but the new element in the report excites our ouriosity in a degree. The jewels are to be brought to London for sale! Many reasons, both public and political, have led to this determination. So many strange stories have been set afloat to'account for tbe delay in bringing tbe jewels to the hammer in Paris—so many suspicions have been expressed concerning their very existenoe—that it is deemed more prudent to sell them abroad. Who is to be the happy auctioneer ohosen to submit the regalia of France to public competition in London t Debenham and Htorr, who had the sale of the Duke of Brunswick's jewels, will most likely have the accomplishment of the delicate task. They say that the sale of the ' Regent* will be the motive of the greatest interest of all, the two wealthiest ladies in the world having manifested their determination to become possessed of the jewel—Mrs Maokay, of the Bonanza Mine, having vowed to bestow it on the Pope—Mme. Blano, of Monaoo, having promised to bestow it upon her daughter, the Prinoess Roland Bonaparte.

Says Vanity Fair:—A young man bearing one of the foremost titles and one of tho most historic names in England, who is not yet one-and-twenty, and who has been religiously and devoutly brought up by an excellent mother, has suddenly departed from England for the Continent, accompanied by a married lady who has been for eight years the wife a well-known oountry gentleman, and who is besides known as one of the very pretty women who have most attraoted attention in London. As all the names and all the details are now matters of notoriety and in everybody's mouth, there can be uo reason for affecting to conceal them. The scandal then is shortly this :— Lord Shrewsbury—the Premier Earl of England, and Hereditary Great Seneschal of Ireland, who is a little over twenty years of age—has been eloped with by Mrs Miller Mundy, the wife of Mr Miller Mundy, of Shipley, Derbyshire, and the sister of Mr Palmer Morewood, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Mrs Mundy has been married nearly eight years, and has a very pretty little daughter, which makes the matter all the more heartless and disgraceful. The pair fled at the end of last week to Strasburg, the lady leaving behind her two letters, one for her husband and the other for a friend. They were shortly afterwards followed by the lady's relatives, one of whom is said to have administered a very thorough and extremely well-deserved thrashing to the Premier Earl, who is reported to be beaten black and blue.

Presbyterian bazaar opens to-morrow at 1 p.m. A lecture will be given in the United Methodist Free Church, Shakespeare road, to-morrow evening, by Mr A. Hamilton, entitled " A Sea Side Ramble," illustrated by diagrams, at 8 o'clock. A meeting of those interested in obtaining a recreation ground for Napier will be held in the Masonic Hotel this evening at 8. Messrs Hoadley and Lyon will sell on the 3rd October a lease of section No. 2, Meanee South, formerly known as the Papakura block. Messrs H. Monteith and Co. will sell on Saturday next horses and produce. Mr E. Lyndon will sell on Saturday next new season's teas, cheese, butter, &c. Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell tomorrow household furniture, clothing, groceries, &c. The Key. J. Spear wul conduct evangelistic service at Trinity Church, Clive Square, this evening. Tenders are invited for the erection of a residence at Mohaka.

Debts due for the removal of night soil must not be paid without the signature of John Whelan. The ship Hermione will be on the berth in a few days for London. She has superior passenger accommodation. Special meeting of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club to-morrow at 11 a.m. Quarterly meeting of St. John's Branch, H.A.C.8.5., this evening at 7.30.

Grand dramatic season, commencing on Saturday, by Mr Marshall, the talented comedian, and the Australian speciality company. The dissolution of the partnership hitherto subsisting between Messrs W. and G. Heslop, sbeepfarmers, is notified. A number of new advertisements will bi found in our " Wanted" column.