TOWN EDITION. The Daily Telegraph. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29,1881.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3224, 29 October 1881, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. The Daily Telegraph. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29,1881.

Me Alfbed Dillon's address to the ratepayers of the Patangata Riding, with a view to re-election to the Waipawa County Council, is deserving of some notice as showing the views that have animated the administration of public affairs in that district. Mr Dillon dwelt upon the principle adopted by tbe Council of the rates being expended in the district in which they were collected, a principle that obtained his hearty approval, although he acknowledged the difficulty of apportioning to each subdivision the exact sum to which it might be entitled under such a system. He mentioned the Oero district as affording an example of that difficulty, where only a very small amount had been spent, whereas a very large expenditure had been required for the Home wood bridge. Mr Dillon, however, defended that expenditure on the ground that the bridge was a connecting link between two portions of the Riding, and that it was a work of general advantage and accommodation. On the other hand he declined to regard the road through the Seventy-mile Bush and its bridges in any other light than that of a General Government affair. He even went so far as to say that the Bush road was of comparatively little value to the Waipawa County, as it was merely a connecting link between Makatoku and other parts of the colony. He studiously ignored the fact that it is the connecting link between the northern and southern portions of the County. In the expression of his views Mr Dillon merely echoed the sentiments of the Waipawa Council, a body tbat has done more to show tbe inadequacy of the county system of local government than, perhaps, any other in the colony. The cool manner in which the requirements of tbe Bush settlements in the Woodville, Ormondville, and Norsewood districts have been neglected, and the efforts that have been made to shunt the responsibility of tbe maintenance of the principal county road on to the General Government, exhibit in a striking degree the incapacity of the Council to deal liberally with the administration of the affairs trusted to it. Prom the day of its establishment tbe Waipawa Council showed the petty jealousy that animated the representatives of the several Ridings ia the puerile quarrel over tbe place of meeting. The same jealous feeling was then showed in the allocation of tbe County fu_ds, till at length it was decided tbat each Riding should be credited with the amount of the rates collected in it. Had this remarkably wise arrangement not been agreed to it is just possible that a dead-lock would have arisen, aud no money would have been spent at all. This arrangement is still in force, and the councillors take very good care that a Riding not in credit shall have no money spent within it. The consequence is that, wbile the sparsely inhabited districts—composed of a few sheep runs —requiring no public works have abundance of money, the •struggling Bush settlements cannot get inytbiog like what tbey want. If this miserable principle for the allocation of oublic money had been followed by the Hawke's Bay Council it would have been impossible for tbat body to have carried out the large and important works which have reflected so much credit upon its administration; the Patea country would have found an outlet for its increasing produce on the West Coast, and all the outlying districts would have been -llowed to perish. 'Looking to what has been done in the county of Waipawa towards opening up new roads and kpeping in repair the old thoroughfares, it is difficult to discover anything that has justified the existence of the Council. With the fussiness peculiar to incapacity that body showed the greatest anxiety to abolish the Road Boards, and, apparently, acted as though those useful and energetic institutions stood in tbe way of active administration. It would have been a bad day for the county if the Road Boards had allowed themselves to have been wiped out, and to their continued existence it is possible in places for wheel traffic aloug the roads in winter. It is only necessary to see tbe scandalous state of the county road from Waipukurau to Porangahau, and to note the absence of any sort of road from there to Wainui, to form an opinion upon the manner in which the Waipawa Council has performed its duty to tke ratepayers,

A corhespondknt of the Wanganui Herald, under tbo signature of "AatiParibaka," after giving; the subject much consideration, bas arrived at tbe conclusion " that the natives will not accept in any way .the terms offered to thera, reasonable and just as they seem to be. It is, perhaps, necessary, according to our civilized customs, to propose something like terms ere stringent mensures are oat into practice. But, from a Maori's point of yiew, this is weakuesp, and therefore it ia that he will not come to terms. The only argument understood by a savage is a knock-down blow." " Anti-Parihaka" goes on to say that in the event of Te Whiti making no sign, and of the Government fulfilling their"threat respecting the land, "the natives will regard this as a second confiscation of their property ; but the fencing will not cease. Then should it be decided to arrest Te Whiti, Tohu, and their followers, in order to secure the peace of tbe district, it is to be hoped tbat the effort will be crowned with success—which it certainly will be if tbe parties to be arrested are agreeable to be so taken. But lam rather curious to know whether Te Whiti will to he taken ; and if he does go into captivity, will his followers agree to that also ? Depend upon it, Sir, ere a force march into Parihaka, by day or night, the natives will have decided as to which course they intend to take—whether they will consent to be carried away, or resist. We have not-sufficient trained men to insure success, unless strategy is resorted to, and it may be expected that tho result of an undecided passage of arms will lead to a kind of warfare being practised by the Maori, which is second nature to him, and which has in the past cost our colonists so dear. The situation is a very difficult one, and fraught with danger. If the land to have been returned to these men is to be kept from them, presuming Te Whiti and others remain silent after the time given for them to decide in (14 days), why not make an armed settlement of it ? 25,000 acres to be held by a body of trained yeomen, under certain military rules, the land to belong to the men after a certain number of years—so many acres to each man. I am confident p number of men—sons of settlers—used to the bush, good men and true, would gladly accept Buch service for the reward attached to it, and who would form as it were, a bulwark against a dozen Te Whiti's."

The electorate of Napier is indebted to Mr Justin M'Sweeney for the prevention of a walk-over for Mr Buchanan at the forthcoming elections. Mr M'Sweeney's candidature is, however, in the nature of a surprise. It was strange that, while the electors were puzzling over the difficulty of finding a local man, no one thought of Mr M'Sweeney, and that his name should never have once suggested itself to any one as that of a man in every way fitted to represent this constituency. By what happy inspiration Mr M'Sweeney has come forward, just at the moment when the electors had resigned themselves to the idea of abandonment to Mr Buchanan, it is impossible to say. May be, we have all been in a state of political and mental blindness. May be tbat, while everything pointed straight to Mr M'Sweeney, no one discerned the finger of fate. It is said that in all critical stages in the world's history humanity has never failed to produce THE Man for the emergency. In this present emergency Mr M'Sweeney appears to be tbe man, or fancies himself to be, which is much about the same thing, for a thorough belief in oneself is the main secret, of success. If we were asked whether we thought that Mr.M'Sweeney will be successful we should unhesitatingly answer " no." But, at all events, he has as much right to come forward as any one else, and if we cannot admire his political views, very few will withhold their admiration of his pluck and supreme assurance. Judge Kenny will return from Gisborne by the Ringarooma to-morrow. We hear that several Maoris have signified their intention of subscribing to the funds of the Napier Hospital, so that it appears probable that between the Chinese and Maoris the hospital will bo kept open for the benefit of the European population. There will be a transit of Mercury on November Bth. The planet will traverse the centre of the sun's diso from right to left, commencing at 9.46 a.m. and ending at 3.7 p.m. A sharp eye will detect the planet in clear weather, and any telescope will show ifc very plainly. Afc the Resident Magistrate's Court thia morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., Charlotte Butwell was charged with drunkenness. His worship said the convictions recorded against the accused were very numerous, and he would fine her 10s and costs, or 48 hours with hard labor. The result of the drawing of the Convent art union, which took place on Thursday evening last, will be found in our advertising columns. Messrs Sfc. Clair and Thompson acted as recorders at the drawing, and Messrs A. P. Sheath and W. Harker undertook the duty of scrutineers. The privileges for the forthcoming Friendly Societies F_te, which is to be held at Hastings on the 9th of November, were submitted to public competition by Mr Routledge to-day at the Masonic Hotel, and realised as follows:—Grand stand booth, £23, Mr Beecroffc; luncheon booth, £6, Mr Gilletfc; fruit stall, £8 15s, Mr Gillett; fancy bazaar, £3, Mr Miles ; cards, £5, Mr Gillett. A feature of the Waipawa Mail has been ! for some time past the of contradictions. This is, perhaps, the result of one man taking upon himself the attribute of übiquity. A person in Napier writing as though from half a dozen places at once, is apt to mistake public opinion in those places, and hence the contradictions. It is a very shallow electioneering dodge, bufc it sometimes deceives the unwary. A very nasty accident happened at Hastings the other day to a little boy, aged six years, the son of Mr Blackburn. The child was leading a horse with a short piece of rope, bufc having allowed the animal to get in front of him he received a kick in the face severely cutting him above and below the right eye. Luckily the horse was not shod, and the child was too close to receive the full force of the blow, or his skull would have been smashed. Dr. Cary was sent for and upon examination found that the bone was not broken, but whether the eye is permanently injured cannot yet be ascertained. * At the Theatre Royal last evening the Mammoth Gift Company commenced a season of three nights. The attendance was good, and the entertainment fPP B*™*8*™* to give tliorough satisfaction to those preJnt. Mr Manning is the best yentnloJuisfc we have had in Napier, and hi. manpulation of the lay figures.is very mirth provoking. His impersonations were _amira P bly donefand elicited loudawjanae. The performance was varied by a «""»*>« of clever tricks of legerdemain by Mr Move, and some specimens of clairvoyance by Miss Swanborough. At the close of the entertainment a large number of prizes were given away. The drawing and distribution were thoroughly well arranged and appeared to give perfect satisfaction. To-night there will be a change in the programme, and tomorrow evening Mr Manning will deliver one of Colonel IngersoU'a foe, thought Jeoturss,

„'-■ .''...'-*' '"' - ' ""' ■"- '!& ■ k We have had the pleasure of seeing ltt ,f r Hooper's establishment two oil paintings by a gentleman who has recently been living in Napier. Herr Lindauer is a member of the Kaiser Academy of Vienna, and has had large experience in his profession in the way of painting altar pieoes in many of the leading European churches. The two pictures referred to are portraits, one of our well-known townsman Mr S. Carnell, and the other of a Maori woman and her child belonging to Orakei. The pictures are not, as has been stated, painted photographs, but oil paintings, and most successful ones too. The portrait of Mr Carnell is remarkably life like, and the head of the Maori woman is a study. Ifc is to be hoped that Herr Lindauer will find sufficient inducement to settle in the distriofc. In pursuance of a circular invitation a meeting was held last night at the offices of Messrs Banner and Liddle for the purpose of considering the question of harbor improvement. There were present His Worship the Mayor (in the chair), Messrs Neal, Knowles, Close, McVay, Buchanan, Bryson,P. Dinwiddie, J. Dinwiddie, Blythe, Liddle, H. Monteith, Leonard, Large, Jacobs, Walker, Swan, and J. A. Smith. Mr Leonard, as the oonvener of the meeting, said his object in bringing a few of the prominent townspeople together was to discuss the best means for obtaining for tbiß port a harbor equal to its requirements. His Worship said that he. had always advocated the constrnction of an artificial harbor, and had strongly opposed the expenditure of the loan upon the present harbor works. He stated that he believed as much money as would be wanted to make a proper harbor oould be got at 4jper cent. He said the first thing neoessary was to obtain a thorough survey of the roadstead, and plans and estimates based npon that survey, and he suggested the employment of the engineer who designed, and is now oarrving out satisfactorily, the Timaru breakwater. These suggestions met with the approval of the meeting, and on the motion of Mr McVay His Worship the Mayor was authorised to communicate with that engineer with a view to obtain the cost of his services. After some further general discussion, the meeting was adjourned till after a reply should have been received from Timaru. A recent visitor to Parihaka, writing in the Wanganui Ohroniole, Bays : "The only useful wooden buildinar in the village is a three-roomed oottage, neatly painted, with muslin curtains hanging at the windows. This is the residence of ihe great prophet. It is situated on an eminence, and attracts the attention of the visitor immediately he enters Parihaka. Evidently some of the natives have an idea of architecture, for seveml miniature model churches, eto., meet the eye. These models are painted colors well chosen, and I noticed that the fast colors often seen in a pa do not offend the eye at Parihaka. It is certain, should war break out, the Maoris would not fight at Parihaka, for nothing would be easier than to fire the whole village. The r passages between the huts are not more than four feet wide. The village-is neatly laid out, but shows a want of survey knowledge. A few hundred feet below the pa is the laundry, canopied by the heavens.f Numbers of women were washing their clothing, while children of all ages were swimming - and paddling about in the stream. Cleanliness seemed to be the order of the day." What may be termed a * orioket ourioßity' occurred at a match between Basford Institute and West Hallam, in Derbyshire, when the former eleven in the first innings were all disposed of for a single run, and this either a wide, bye, or no ball—whioh of them the score does not show. At Lillywhite's benefit, held at Brighton, prior to the departure of the English eleven under his captaincy, the match, which was Gentlemen v. Players, had a moßt extraordinary result. In the first innings each side soored 204 runs, and in the seoond innings of the Players they scored 112. This was deemed an easy task for the Gentlemen; but so good was the generalship of Shaw, the captain of the professionals, and so well baoked up was he by them, that the Gentlemen were all out for 111 runs: thus the match was won by one run only, a result perhaps without precedent in a first'olass match. .■■.:• Considerable amusement was oreated during the hearing of a oase in the Palmerston Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday. Mr Ward, when assessing the costs, held the following dialogue with a witness. Magistrate—" What Fs your business ?" . Witness —" A laborer, your Worship." Magistrate —" What loss have you sustained by your presence at the Court this day—how muoh do you earn a day ?" Witness (quite-cava-lierly)—"Oh, sometimes a pound and sometimes two f" " What, as a laborer ?" Witness—"Yes, your Worship!" "Then I will allow you five shillings for this day." Mr Ward is the very essence of courteousness, and the manner in whioh he told the witness by implication "You're another" was highly relished by all the Court. ; In one of his recent speeches Dr. Eraser, the Bishop of Manchester, said he sometimes felt as if he were losing patience and hope at the continuance of idle controversy about matters of ceremonial. It engendered strife and bitterness, and wasted energies which in bis-judgment might be far better employed. It was not theories about ornaments and the like that were needed. The people needed in England more than anything else downright earnest preaching and teaching. While they were fighting and disputing about vestments and ornaments, and chalices and incense, the infidels and athiests at their doors were trying to destroy the people's faith. Was it not something worse than folly to be distracting and tearing the church in pieces at such a time. The United Irishman announcer that it has changed hands. It is now edited and published by Rossa, for the Association of Advanced Nationalists. This announcement is not the only evidence of the change, for tbe paper overflows with "dynamite talk" wilder than ever. Rossa and. Crowe both repeat the Chicago warning against travelling in British ships. The only positively new idea iB the suggestion that vitriol can be spurted over the members of the Houses of Lords and Commons by any one standing in the doorway, and that two hand grenades properly used would scatter both Assemblies. The same writer suggests emigration from Ireland en masse, after poisoning the water and the soil so that the crops could not grow nor man nor beaßt could live there. A grim and significant commentary upon the cost of the craze of Imperialism is afforded by the parliamentary return which has just been issued on the motion of Mr Jesse Ceilings. It is the butchers bill of Jingoism. The Afghan war cost us the lives of 99 officers and 1524 men, besides 111 officers and 1252 wounded. Our various South African wars cost the lives of 172 officers and 3028 men; 162 officers and 2016 men were wounded. This is the killed at least on our own side only. As we killed at least two men for each soldier we lost, the little wars of the late Administration have involved an utterly ÜBeless slaughter of nearly fifteen thousand men. Yet Conservatives still profess themselves utterly unable to understand what Mr Gladstone meant when he spoke of " bloodguiltiness." — Pall Mall Gazette. The Newcastle Ohroniole says :—A ball upon a farm at Whitley had been chained to a post in a field when it broke loose on Saturday nigK. The farmer had told his men not to meddle with it, as he knew the beast and it knew him he said he would bring it himself in the morning. One of the young men of the farm went to the field, and in attempting to lead the bull back to the post from which it had broken, he was attacked by it. Shortly after six . o'clock on Sunday morning fearful _houts -4, and screams were heard coming from the field, and upon looking out the people 0_ the farm saw that the man was -being gored to death. The bull had attacked him on one side and a heifer on the other, and ultimately the bull took the unfortunate man on his horns and threw him into a garden. The poor lellow cjied. *1)ont t&\\ q/qlqqJs ift t&e. foreftQ^

The Sultan of Turkey has' ._01d1,006,00'0 acres of land in the district; of Gilead and Moab, for a Jewish colony. Ifc was bought by come wealthy Jewish capitalists. A horrible affair occurred in Washington township, Erie County, the other day. ljf£- Hotchkiss reconfcly purchased a large _ -^Wfull- blooded bulldog. Having occasion to visit the barn he was horrified to find his 'little niece in the jaws of the ferocious brute. Its fangs were gory with the blood of the child, which ifc had by the throat shaking like a rat. The dog was brained with a blow from an axe, and the ohild resoued fearfully disfigured. A London telegram to an American paper Bays:—A great sensation has been caused at Bristol by the discovery of a cargo of 800 tons of human bones, being discharged there to the order of a local firm engaged in manufacturing manure. The bones were shipped from Rodesto, at Constantinople, and are supDOsed to be principally the remains of the defenders of Plevna. There are complete limbs among the horrible eargc, and in some cases hair still adheres to the skulls. Mr Robertson Smith late Professor, whose unorthodox writings greatly exercised the fathers of the Free Kirk of Scotland, and who was deposed, is now domiciled in Edinburgh, working as a literary haok on the Encyclopaedia Britannica and as a reviewer for divers papers. I have seen it stated (says the Edinburgh correspondent of a contemporary) in a provincial paper that he purposes reading for the Sootah Bar, and if this be true it shows he has sense as well as talent, whioh is more than can be said of every " genius." Last year, when the Baroness BurdetfcOoutts arranged for a cheap excursion for the poor in the East. End of London, some 8000 availed themselves of the opportunity of getting a day at the seaside. This year, however, a few days after the Baroness had made known her intentian to repeat tbe experiment, so many applications for tickets Were made that it was found expedienfcto make two excursions, the first of which started on Monday morning from the Slower Mission, Olerkenwell Close, for Southend, and numbered upwards of 10,000, a great proportion being ohildren. Cetewayo costs the British nation £90 a month, or more than a thousand a year, for his board alone. Already he has cost us on this head nearly £1700. The South Afrioan colonists, who made the war upon him ought to pay for him, and have been asked to do their duty ; but no arrangement oan be made ahoufc the money, and Parliament X will have to pay the oaptive ohief's heavy _ bills. Nor is ifc mere maintenance that is asked for. The farm upon whioh he has been placed, the house in whioh he resides, the stook by which himself and his wives and followers are supplied, will have to be paid lor from British pockets, making a total of nearly £4500. The silly season in Paris has commenced rather earlier than usual, for the papers are full of a story about a lady who was driving a phaeton and pair of horses up Champs Elysees, when a large mastiff, whioh was , being led by a servant up one of the sidewalks, pulled himself away and sprang up into the carriage. Under the circumstances , the lady was so startled that she let the ( reihß fall, and the horses ran away, and up- ( set the carriage. The lady had her .arm , broken, and the coaohman was seriously . injured, while the dog, whioh had been the cause of the aocident, was killed on the ' ■pot. Curiously enough, when the lady came to her senses, she found that the dog was one which had been stolen from her a twelvemonth before, and which had recognised her as she was driving along the Champs Elysees.—Live Stock Journal.

The Mammoth Gift Show at the Theatre ; Royal to-night at 8. Mr W. H. Manning will deliver one of '' *~~ Colonel Ingersoll's lectures in the Theatre ' Royal to-morrow evening at 8.15. ! Messrs Banner aad Liddle will sell on Monday, ot Farndon yards, fat bullocks, kc, ' at 1 p.m. . ' ! Tenders for removing and repairing a ' cottage in Dickens-street must be sent in by Monday at 4.30 p.m. . Tenders for moving and altering a building in Carlyle-street must be sent in by Monday at noon. Mr E. Lyndon will sell on November Ist furniture, &c. Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. have for sale Osborne's reapers, binders, and mowers. A. special general meeting of the Acclimatisation Society will be held on ( November 4th. The business to be < transacted is notified. i The prize list of the convent art union is j published. ] Shearing will commence at Korokipo on j Monday. j The programme of the Kaikora Racing Club's annual meeting, to be held on 2nd « January, 1881, is published. Mr Tylee, the Registrar, notifies that the Napier, Hawke's Bay, and Waipawa electoral rolls are now open for inspection at his office on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10 a.m. « to 2 p.m. J A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column. { ( DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW At St. John's Church:—B a.m., Holy Communion ; 11 a.m., morning prayer and sermon (preacher, Rev. De Berdt Hovell) j 3 p.m., baptisms and churchings ; 7 p.m. ( evening prayer and sermon (preacher, Rev. . . Lawrence Tuke.) i Church of England services will be held to-morrow in the Lutheran Church, "Vt hiteroad, at 11 a.m. by tbe Rev. Lawrence Tuke, ( and at 7 p.m. by the Rev. De Berdt Hovell. Mass will be celebrated at Clive by the Rev. E. Reignier at 11 a.m. By the Rev. C. Penney, at the Free ' Methodist Church, Sbakespearo-road, at 11, a.m. and 7 p.m. By the Rev. R. S. Bunn, at Trinity Church, Clive Square, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. By the Rev. J. M. Allan, at Havelock at i 11 a.m., at Clive at 3.30 p.m., and at i Hastings at 7 p.m. , By the Rev. J. Spear, at Taradale at 11 | a.m. and 7 p.m., and at Puketapu afc 3 p.m. By the Eev. E. H. Granger, at Hastings at 11 a.m., at Clive at 3.30 p.m., and at Havelock at 7 p.m. By Rev. J. 0. Eccles, at Sfc. Peter's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m., and at Te Aute it 7 p.m. ] By Rev. H. Sfc. Hill (of Havelock), at St. i Mary's, Waipukurau, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. ' By Rev. W. Shirriffs, at Waipukurau at 11 a.m., and afc Takapau at 3 p.m. By Rev. W. O. Robb, afc Hampden, afc 11 a.m., Onga Onga at 3 p.m., and Waipawa at 7 p.m. By Rev. E. Barnetfc, afc Mr Ford's, Tarawera, afc 2 p.m., and afc tho Methodist Church, Waipawa, afc 7 p.m. ■