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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3213, 17 October 1881, Page 2

Shearing is in active operation on the coast runs, and wool in large quantities will soon be arriving in town for shipment.

Along the West Coast, especially at Hawera, we learn that measles are very prevalent, the disease attacking both adults and children.

During the last season Mr Ormond has been a large employer of labor, having kept twenty-one ploughs going on his Wallingford estate throughout the ■winter.

Mr J. P. Hamlin has received instructions from Judge Heale to open the Native Lands Court at Napier on the 25th instant, and to adjourn the sitting of the same to January 10, 1882.

The following deed was submitted to the Trust Commissioner for examination during the past week : —Kopa to H. R. Russell, the Whataarakai block, 461 acres, lease for 6even years from 13th July, 1881; solicitor for the applicant, Mr H. M. White.

Why were the gas lamps in Tennysonstreet not lighted till a quarter past seven o'clock last night f Cousidering the cruelly rough state of the street, and the numbers making use of it in going to church, the lampe should have been lighted before it was dark.

We learn privately from the West Coast that itia a common report that the natives have resolved to destroy the life of Te Whiti in the event of his falling into the handfi of the Government by arrest. Te Whiti's body is iapu, and it is held by his Maori disciples that it would be better that he should be killed by the faithful than that he should suffer sacrilege at the hands of the infidel pakeha.

A horae attached to a spring cart, beloneiner to Mr Miles when being driven down Milton road this afternoon, bolted. The driver, a map of the name of Aplin, while pulling on the reins, broke the horse's bit, and the strain being suddenly removed he was thrown out of the cart. He was kicked on the loins by the horse, nnd received several injuries on the head. Dr. Caro was quickly in attendance, and had the sufferer removed to the hospital.

Wβ oall the attention of those interested in the result of the race for the Blue Ribbon of the Australasian turf that Mr Hooper's oonsuUation upon that event will be drawn on the last day of this month. To that end all applications must be sent in by 10 p.m. on the 29th instant. The large number of horses entered for the Cup afford chances to speculators that have seldom been offered before, and to seoure a ticket in Mr Hooper's sweep early application will be neoessary.

Mr E. Peters made two special coach trips from Waipukurau to Porangahau last week, and hopes to run the mail coaoh regularly in about ten days. The roads are still in a very bad state, and reflect no credit on County management that allows repairs to

be delayed until fascines have to be used, instead of metal. It is a curious sight to ccc several yards of road thickly fascined within a few steps of a quarry, but this ia a common enough sight on a Waipawa County road.

The Corporation of Napier might do worne than obtain the plans of the new Town Hal! at Wan«anni. The architect of that buildintr was limited to £750, the contract price beinsr £767. The building contains a large Council Chamber and five offices, with fire-proof srronir room. The timber for this Town Hal), was placed on the ground at 6a 6d per 100 feet. In view of being turned out of their present office? the Napier Corporation should look about for diiitable designs.

Dr. Caro, acting under instructions from the 'rovernment, commenced this morning with an inspection of the children at the public schools with a view to the vaccination of those who have not already undergone that operation. If there are any of the parents who would prefer to be present with their children during vaccination Dr Paro has obligingly agreed to afford them the opportunity at hie private residence, on every morning of the week, except Fridays, between the hours of 9 and 10.

Sheepfarmers on the coast are strongly protesting against an arrangement said to have been entered into between the Napier and Wellington merchants, or agents, to allow no more than 1h 6d per bale for damping ; hitherto the allowance has been 2s 6d, and inland settlers whose wool has been dumped by the agents have been charged half-a-crown per bale. Tho reduction is regarded a« an effort to increase the cost of shipping at the expense of the wool grower, and to the profit of the mere shipping agent, and it is not unlikely to lead to important alterations in the relations subsisting , between the producer aad his port agent.

The Rev. J. Berry, who, when the incumbent of Trinity Wesleyan Church here, was so universally esteemed, returned to Napier on Saturday on a short visit, and is the guest of Mr M. Hutchinson. Mr Berry preached to a crowded congregation yesterday in Trinity Church, delivering an able and eloquent sermon from Matt. 18 c, 10 v. The reverend gentleman will give a lecture this evening on " What I saw in America, in 1880. " This lecture will give a graphic account of the journey from San Francisco to New York made by Mr Berry last year, and embodying as it will do the reflections of a keen and thoughtful observer cannot but be most interesting.

We are glad to learn that Dr. Hamilton, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.A.C., who is well-known in Hawke's Bay as having been in the service of the New Zealand Immigration Department, is about to settle in Napier and practice his profession. Dr. Hamilton has high qualifications to recommend him, and having had thirty years' experience of private practice in England, both in London and the country, his professional knowledge and ability cannot be doubted. Owing to ill-health Dr. Hamilton was compelled to seek a more congenial climate, and accordingly made no less than five voyages to this colony in oharge of emigrants. He has now resolved to settle here, and we are certain that he will be welcomed as an acquisition to our medical and scientific oiroles. We may mention that Dr. Hamilton is the father of Mr A. Hamilton, head master of the Petane school.

Itißtobe hoped that Porangahau does not offer a fair example of the manner in which our colonial educational system ia appreciated in country districts. '1 here are thirty, two children of sohool age in Porangahau village, but the attendance at the school is disgraceful, and owing to the state of the roads the attendance during winter is almost nil. Any and every excuse is made by parents for keeping their ohildren away, the funniest being that " Johnny wouldn't go to school because his mother would not allow him to have a kidney for his breakfast." This is not a bad sample of the sort of home training many colonial children receive at the hands of foolish parents. If " Johnny" had been given a sound flogging for playing truant it would have done him more good than many kidneys for his breakfast; but, out here, if teachers flog their pupils, they stand a good chance of either being assaulted by the the parents, or of being summoned for absaulting the poor dear child.

"Xesterday afternoon, just at the time when the crowds of children were leaving the Sunday Schools, two larrikins on horseback took it into their heads to have some fun (?) They started their horses somewhere about Clive Square, one going up Emerson-street, and the other up Tennyson street, at full gallop. The one who preferred Tennyson-street found the street too narrow for him, and traversed a oonsiderable length of the footpath to the great danger of the children wending their way homewards. At Newton's corner he turned without slackening speed, and went along Hastinga-street at a breakneck pace. The policemen's lot in Napier on a Sunday afternoon appears to fee a particularly happy one ; there ie rarely any occurrence to call for any excitement on his part on the Sunday, but the public have at least a right to expect that such a race as the one referred to, extending , over something like lalf a mile in the centre of the town, should not be indulged in without there being at least one guardian of the peace within sight.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Michael Lapham was charged with being drunk, and fined 5s and costs or 48 hours. John Boyle, charged with the same offence, having been in prison for two days, was discharged. Elizabeth Eddie, charged with the same offense, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s and costs or 48 hours. Elizabeth was further chai'ged with using obscene language in a public place, and fined 5s or 48 hours, the terms of imprisonment to be cumulative. John Fitzsimmons, Joseph Williams, and Albert Warren, were charged with wilful injury to the property of Mr Simpson, hotel-keeper, of Havelock, on the Ist October. Mr Lascelles appeared for the accused. Evidence was given that the accused were in company with a dozen or more other men on the night of the Ist instant, at the Havelock Hotel; that some larking occurred, and that a table, window, and some chairs were injured. His Worship said there was no evidence to convict the accused, and they would be discharged. Richard Hogan was added to the trio, and the four were charged with threatening behaviour in a public place whereby a breach of tha peace might have been occasioned. The same result followed this charge. His Worship held that there was no evidence against the accused, and they were discharged.

The Onry Opera Company in " The Pirates of Penzance " at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. Meeting of the Court Sir Charles Napier at the usual time and place to-night.

The Key. J. Berry will lecture on "My Trip through America" at the Protestant Hall to-night at 8.

The thoroughbred sire Blair Athol, which gained first prize at the H.B. A. and P. Society's show, 1881, will stand at Taradale. Entries for the trial fours of the Napier Rowing CI ul) will be received at the Criterion Hotel up to 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday evening next. Shareholders in the South British Insurance Company will receive dividend warrants on application to MrE. Lyndon. The entire horse Tarenga will run with mares this season at Havelock. Tenders for filling in a section in Tenny-son-street are invited.

Mr A. B. Thomson's evening classes will re-coTimence to-morrow evening at the

usual hour

The sire Lord Clyde will travel the Taradale, Meanee, Puketapu, and Bissington districts this season.

The date of Messrs Banner and Liddle's timber sale has been altered from to-morrow to Friday next. A lady's gem ring has been found. Hooper's sweep on the Melbourne Cup ■will be drawn on the 31st instant.

Vessrs Banner and Liddie will sell tomorrow, at 11 a.m., apples. Messrs Monteith and Co. hold an important sale of timber at Chappell's yard on the 27Mi instant.

Mr will sell Messrs Wardrop and Co.'s premises at the Spit on Monday next.

The cancellation and re-appointment .-£. returning officers for the Hawke's I Wβ County is notified.

A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.