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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3195, 24 September 1881, Page 2

The adjourned meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday evening , at; 8 o'clock. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Thomas Mansfield was charged with drunkenness, and fined 5s and costs or 48 hours. Mr Sydney Johnston, in our advertising columns, announces himself a candidate at the forthcoming elections for the representation of Waipawa. Private advices from Wellington state that the Native Affairs Committee have reported unfavorably to Mr Sutton in the matter of the Omaranui block. Intimations have been sent to the police authorities that from the Ist proximo the pay for non-commissioners officers and constables will be 6d per day less than at present. All the officers at the gaol, and all the prisoners, numbering about sixty, were vaccinated yesterday by Dc Hatchings in accordance with instructions from the Government. Mr W. H. Leake commences a season of six nights at the Theatre Royal to-night, with an American domestic drama entitled " My Partner." He will be supported by the same company that has performed with Mr Marshall during the past week, and the prices of admission will be reduced to the figures usually charged in Napier. We are glad to hear that the Government has consented to defray half the cost of-a block survey of the town, provided that the work is carried out under the supervision of the Chief Surveyor for Hawke's Bay. A survey of this kind will fix the boundaries of all the streets, and of each block, so that existing errors willjbo confined to the blocks withiu which they occur. The cost of the survey is estimated at £500. It is reported that the Catholic Church authorities at Napier have received orders from Wellington to issue a command to all Catholic electors in the Waipawa district to vote for Mr Sydney Johnston, notwithstanding pledges given to Mr Ormond. We hope this report is not true, but what gives color to it is that, at the last elections, orders in the same way came from Wellington commanding the Catholios to vote for Messrs Sutton and Russell. Some few Catholics resented this ecclesiastical interference with politics, and gave a pronounced support to Mr Buchanan. Messrs Glendinning and Griffin are the lowest tenderers for No. 7 drainage conbact, their tender being £4452, or about £500 lower than any other. This contract is the final one of the drainage works, in-

volves five miles of pipe laying, and will occupy seven months from the date of signing tbe contract. It includes the Beach road, Munro- street, Shakespeare road to Clyde road, and all the bye-streets leading into them. Ifc is reckoned that Messrs Glendiuning and Griffin's competition for these borough contracts has saved the Corporation fully £5000. It is understood that tenders will be called in a few days for the construction of about one mile and a half of railway, including the erection of a bridge, some five chains in length, on the line from Makatoku to Matamau. The formation works of the road have been already completed for about a mile and a half beyond Makatoku by the labor of the " unemployed," and the contract that is to be let is in the centre of the section between Makatoku and Matamau. Beyond the contract section there will remain another mile and a quarter, which will be constructed by day labor. The bridge in the contract will be rather a work ; it is to cross a gulch at a height of seventy feet above the stream, and is to be approached by concrete embankments. The performance of " Our Boys " at the Theatre Royal last night brought Mr Marshall's short season to a close. His " Butterman" was undoubtedly the best we have yet seen in Napier; it smacked of butter and the Borough throughout. The peculiarities of the retired tradesman, whose aspirates were somewhat astray, and his manners slightly vulgar maybe, but whose heart was in the right place, were delineated with an ease aiid truthfulness which were admirable. Miss Knight as Belinda, the lodging house "slavey," who had succeeded in attaching to herself a full share of the smudges knocking about, but who had a warm corner in her heart for the distressed " third floorers," was remarkably good, and received a fair share of the applause bestowed. Mr O'Brien as Charles Middlework did good service. Miss Watt Tanner and Miss Adelle were all that could be desired in their respective parts. This is not so very bad: A young lady in Boston had gathered a Sunday-school class from among the newsboys of that city. One Sunday she was striving to impress upon their minds some good advice in regard to the future* when it occurred to her that the word was beyond the comprehension of the class. Putting the question to the boya,' Do you know what the future means ?' There was a dead silence for a moment, which was broken by,,, a bright little fellow, who quietly suggested it might mean ' further particulars in the next edition.' Madame 3?atti opened her mouth so wide that she frightened all the managers on the other side of the Atlantic. She has however, set her heart on the American caropagn, and will be her own manager— rather she will direct and Nicolini manage. She has taken passages for herself and company ~by the Cunard liner Servia, to leave Liverpool on October 22nd. The company will comprise Nicolini; a baritone not yet chosen; Misa Hohenschild, contralto \ and Mdlle Oastellano, violinist. The seats for the New York concerts are to be auctioned, and are expected by the diva to average 20 dole. She gives 40 concerts in the States, returns to England in May for a few concerts at Covent Garden, takes her farewell of the Continent, and her farewell of the Royal Italian Opera in London follows. Ninety-nine yeara ago a whimsical gentleman who had amassed a considerable fortune at St. Ives with the profits of privateering, erected on one of the hills at the back of that little seaport the granite mausoleum which excites the curiosity of the tourist in Cornwall. His intention, was to be buried in the central chamber of the mausoleum ; but, as the bishop could not be induced to consesrate the structure, the remains of the " pious founder " lie in the churchyard of a London parish. The money which was given by him for the payment of ten maidens to dance round the mausoleum once in every five years, and for providing the inevitable dinner afterwards, is still religiously applied to those purposes. The first representation of this edifying ceremony took place in 1801; the last three.days ago, and unless the Charity Commissioners shall otherwise decree it will be repeated quinquennially until further notice.—Pall Mall Gazette. The Home correspondent of a contemporary writes that the life of the Eussian Imperial family amidst the constant succession of hesitation, anxieties, and danger is described by eye-witnesses as ntterly miserable. The Czarina's health has given way under the pressure of grief and terror, as the programme of the party which has undertaken by such extreme measures to procure the political emancipation of the country is known to threaten the life of every Czar, from father to son, and from each Imperial heir to the next in succession, .until the demand for reform is granted. She knows, therefore, that the assassination of her husband, should it take place, will be followed by that of her eldest son, and of all her other sons, one after another, unless a change of government is inaugurated. And she foresees that this change, involving a renunciation of the autocracy of the Czar, which the party in power regards as the corner-stone of Russia's greatness, will probably not be brought about until every member of her immediate family shall have been sacrificed to the obstinate blindness of the advisers of the Czar. The Launceston (Tasmania) Examiner of August 26th says : —The criminal sessions of tbe Supreme Court at Launceston, which opened yesterday, have been marked by a tragic incident unprecedented in the history of the Colony, and one which will long be remembered from the peculiar circumstances connected with it. A farmer named Pattrick Linnane, who resides at Table Cape, where he has a wife and family, was yesterday, after a long and weary trial and a lengthened deliberation on the part of the jury, found guilty of perjury, but recommended to mercy on account of his unfortunate wife and family, and shortly before the Court rose, at nearly 7 p.m., he was sentenced ty his Honour Mr Justice Dob«on to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. It new transpires that during the whole of thab long and weary trial, and while the prisoner was receiving his sentence, ho stood facing the judge and jury with a loaded revolver concealed on his person, with which he deliberately blew his brains out a few minutes after leaving the precincts of the Courthouse. Linnane was being taken to the gaol in a car, handcuffed by one hand to another prisoner, when. he fired the shot. Death was instantaneous. He put the revolver into his mouth. A deputation of about twenty members of Parliament and a number of Irishmen waited upon Mr Forster to urge the necessity of some steps being taken to ameliorate the condition of Irish laborers. During the interview Mr Bnright, a farm laborer, said "he was compelled to go three miles to his work each day in all weathers, and after he reached there, he was employed digging drains, he had frequently to stand in water all day. His earnings, take the average all the year round, was 9d or 14d a day, and out of that he had to pay 18s a year rent. He lived, with his wife and five children, in one apartment, and they had only one bed, as he had never been able to afford a second bed. His eldest child was a girl of 13, and he had two boys-one 7 and one 5 years old. He seldom had more than two meals a day repaired it at his own cosfc. Even if he had. a second bed there was no room in his cottage for it. He was 33 years of age. Laborers who have had their passages, paid to the colony, and who grumble at the \ present or prospective rate of wages, should sometimes think of the condition of their old mates in the Home country, and of the hardships from which they (the colonists) have been extricated. Mr W. H. Leake in " My Partner" at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8.

Annual meeting H.B. Cricket Club at Hastings to-night at 7.30. . Church pai-ade of Artillery Volunteers tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. Mv Sydney Johnston's address to the electors of Waipawa will be found in another column. Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on the 28th instant a consignment of glassware, also tea, &c, Mr A. Campbell, draper, inserts a notice to the electors and inhabitants of Napier and the surrounding districts. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted" column.