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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3227, 2 November 1881, Page 2

The case set down for hearing at the next sitting of the District Court, National Bank v. S. ft. Dran*field, is to be settled by arbitration. The Gaibty Dramatic Club intend giving a performance on the 9th instant in aid of tbe Napier Fire Brigade. _ The first rehearsal will take place to-night at the Theatre Royal. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Thomas M'Man us and Michael Lftppan were charged with drunkenness, and each fined 5a and costs, or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labor. The result of the Melbourne Cup was made known in town last night at 7.30 o'clock, the first news of the event being brought by an " urgent" message to the Daily Iblbchujph. There had been scarcely any betting on the race in Napier, but a very large number of persona had invested in " consultations" so that the result ww looked, for with the UreUttt interest,

• Mr Sydney _"_bn_tft_Clnvites the eleoto.ato meet him at the Oddfellows' Hall, Waipawa, on Monday evening next. We may take it for granted, therefore, that the writs for tbe elections will be issued this week. The present appears to be an excellent season for flowers, the gardens in town presenting a blaze of glory. Mr Hesebeck'a garden in the Milton road is a picture of beauty, where tha choicest flowering shrubs and plants are to be seen in perfection. His show of roses is espeoinlly good. We understand that four of the subscribers to Cameron's sweep on the Melbourne Cup, through Mr Roulston of the Terminus Hotel, have drawn prizes. Ticket 4.573 drew Tattoo, ticket 1568 Lady Disdain, ticket 1570 Atlantic, and ticket 4088 Coriolanus. Thore were 5260 tickets sold. Major Rontledge has received a telegram from Colonel Reader, Under-Secretary of the Defence Department, conveying the thanks of the Government to the officers and men of th 6 Napier Artillery Volunteers lor tbe offer of their services, and to state that at present no more men are required for the West Coast. Onthe approaching eve of his departure from Napier the members of the Freemasons' Ord**r have resolved to give Mr J. M. Batham a complimentary farewell supper in the Victoria lodge-room to-morrow night. The Craft in thiß district under the English Constitution owes very much to Mr Batham','and his name in connection with the erection of the Victoria Hall, in Napier, and the establishment of the Heretaunga and Abercorn Lodges, will never be fbrgdtten. The farewell supper will be the occasion of a large gathering of the brethren of the order. Tho members of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club will be interested to know that recently the Committee invited prices from the two principal printing ofßceß in town for the advertising and printing of the programme for the Club's autumn meeting. The Herald'B tender Was £2 10s above that of the Da__t Teleg baph, and while no reason was given for the rejection of the lowest tender we observe that the Hbrald is doing the work at we presume the highest rate., The members of the Jockey Club have tbe right to ask why they should not derive the same benefit from competition as all public bodies obtain. We have no wish to impute motives, but the committee would Beem to invite questions that otherwise would never be put. Further experiments are being made in road-making. In Tennyson street we see that the roadway iB havihar placed upon it another layer of rubble, ahd We learn this is to be covered with quarry sand. When thin Composition is worked down it is to bo covered with gaa tar and made similar to the footpaths in Hastings-street. Great inventions arise out of aooidents, and wiare told that this grand experiment is the outcome of the capsizing of a barrel of tar at the gas works where a fine patch of roadway is now on show. But we would point out that there is avast difference between painting the road as the Corporation do it, and pouring a barrel load on a few ieet; of ground, as was done at the gas works. The following oflicers of the Bond of Unity Lodge, t.0.G.T., for the ensuing quarter were installed last night, by tbf Special Deputy: — W.0.T., Bro. B. V Harding; W.V.T., Sister A. Robinson; W. 8., Bro. W. Robinson; W.F.S., Sister Troy; W.T., Sister Lingard ; W. 0., Sister McKnight; W.1.G., Bro. Robinson, jun.; W.0.G., Bro. Storkey, jun.; M.M., Bro. Miller; W.D.M., Sister Harding, jun. This lodge is working steadily and well, and though the members do not increase rapidly very few instances of violation of the pledge are reoorded. Tbe profits accruing- from the late soiree were voted hy the lodge to be handed over to the superintendent of the Juvenile Templars toward* defraying the expenses of a pionio for the children on Boxing Day. A very sudden death occurred this morning at the Napier Terminus Hotel. It appears that Edward Stubley, the acting station-master at Te Aute, had been ailing for some time, and came to town yesterday for the purpose of getting medical advice. He consulted Dr. de Lisle, and returned to the hotel during the evening. About midnight he got up and complained to Mr Roulston of feeling very unwell. An application of hot salt and several other remedies were applied, and he again retired to rest. Between 8 and 9 this morning Mr Roulston sent up to hiß room to see how he was, and he was found to be rapidly sinking. A medical man was at once sent for, but he died about 9 o'olock, before any assistance arrived. We understand that tbe deceased leaves a widow and large family. Many will rememher him as a most industrious and obliging porter at the Spit railway station. Complaints have reached us of the taps being removed from some of the standpipes supplied from the low pressure water Bupply. When the Council passed a resolution at their last meeting in reference to tbe standpipes it was surely done with a view to economise the water in the reservoir, and not with the absurd idea of forcing all householders to lay the water on to their premises, and so increase the revenue. Several of tbe standpipes supplied from tbe low pressure, notably the one at the beach end of Tennyßon-street, have been a great convenience to Maoris and others during the hot weather for drinking purposes. The conduct of the Council in reference to the water supply has been in strict accordance with their general dealings with Borough affairs. A large amount of the ratepayer-" money is spent on an experiment; it is soon found not to answer, and it is gradually modified out of existance. George Darrell, " the Australian actor," has been engaged as leading man for Fanny Davenport's American Company. Tbe new Royal Courts of Justice in London contain upwards of 700 rooms and 21 courts. There are 32 staircases and 23 entrances, and the corridors extend over two miles. In chronicling the death of M. Dufaure, M. Rochefort suavely remarked " M. Dufaure has died at eiarhty-three. Buffon never said that crocodiles were wont to live so long." The Hokitika night - watchman came across a young lady wandering about in a somnambulistic state. She was not attired in evening costume. The night-watchman had some difficulty in awakening her. Woman's aspirations are the cause of her oppression. Sarah Winnemucca, tbe educated Princess of the Piutes, has been sent tc gaol at Winnemucca, Nev., for challenging the editor of the Silver State to figbt a duel. We have more than once heard and read of the favour in which New Zealand oats are held at Home. The principal livery stable-keepers in London esteem them far above American oats, which are wanting in substance in comparison with the grain from this colony. Miss Edmonia Lewis, tbe sculptress, is the daughter of an Amerioan Indian by a negre&s. In her native land, she was constantly insulted on account of her colour. In Rome,' Pius IX. blessed her ; Lord Bute purchased a Madonna, carved by her, for £600, and now Bhe has abundance of orders at high prices. Mr James O'Brien, so well known to habitues of tbe Theatre Royal, Auckland, as a pains taking actor, was presented with a locket and farewell address on Saturday evening, on the occasion of his departure for Melbourne to fulfil an engagement with Mr F. Marshall's company at Melbourne. He left by the b.s. City of Sydney on Monday morning. Mr Percy Smith, Chief Surveyor, has gone to Waikato to lay out on the best line for tbe road which is to connect Alexadra with tbe King oountry. Tawhiao is anxioiiß to have a bridge erected at a place which would give easy communication between hia settlements of Kopua ar_d Hikurangi, and his new place where he is cultivating near Alexandra, ■

Duringf'the reoent voyago of the im« migrant ship Nineveh from London to Sydney a practical joke was perpetrated which has led Bince to unhappy consequences. One of the young female immigrants dressed herself in a sheet, pretending 1 to be a ghost. At dead of night she stalked among the sleeping girls, whom she aroused. In one instance the shook was bo severe that a girl loßfc her reason and became hopelessly insane. She was examined on the arrival of the ship by medioal men, on whose certificate she has been §ent to the asylum. The matter will be investigated by the Immigration Board of Sydney. It is not generally known that Cardinal Newman early in life had some thoughts of devoting himself to a journalistic career. When he was a young man at Oxford, in anything but affluent circumstances, he made such an impression upon the directors of the Times by some letters on education which he contributed to that journal under the norn de plume of " Catholious'" that he was offered an engagement on their staff at a very handsome salary. £ 1800 per annum is the figure that report says was mentioned. " Shall I be free," asked the young.man, to whom this tempting offer was made," to say what I think-P" The reply maybe imagined, and Newman declined the pro* pOSal. . ;.'-3-.,.. <f A Christohurch resident has: reoelved a letter, dated Ratobu (five,miles from r Parihaka), Ootober 16, fronThip brother," who if a member of the Armed' Constabulary. The writer does not think much of the land the Maoris are disputing about, it being very rough and full of torub and fern. He believes that the Maoris are not anxious to fight, but intend to do whatever the Pakehas do. If the Kuropeans take any Maori prisoners, then the Maoris would like to follow suit and take some European prisoners. The Maoris he estimates as numbering 1000 in Parihaka, of who_* 500 are supposed'to be supplied with' arms. They keep aentry and: have -sentry-boxes, but do not display any arms. «.•«, ■. •: ~t . A steam catamaran has recently made its appearance in New York waters as a .new form of passenger boat, with an enormous carrying capacity far the Bine of the, halls. A. catamaran, in the Amerioan sense, is a boat with two hulls, separated by some considerable distanoe. The new ,boat, wbich.in the invention of J, Evertsen, of Troy, New Yorki has a very light draught, i* only 10ft long, with a beam of 6ft- for each hull, and has a carrying oapaoity pqual to 400 persons.' The propeller is hung been the bulls, and there are the usual two decks, which form the most: prominent feature of American river ateamers. The upper deok is bro*d and open, with only the pilot house and oaptain's cabin to interfere with the view, ' : The Sooiety of Friends is the N only Ohuroh organisation that looks upon deeds as the all needful in.. this world. It has -no bishops, no rulers, no' ministers, and it spends its', time .in. doing good; To show what is:understood by araotioal benevolence,' let' me mention one incident. When the news of the Shetland disaster reached England, a distriot meeting of the Quakers was being* held in York. The>me_tititf .at jonce voted £200 to relieve the necessities pf&the bere•ived, and two gentlemen and one lady vol unreered to go at once to the scene of the disaster te relieve the necessitous, and ~ they went. There are no Quakers in the. Shetland Iwles. It was not, therefore, giving help to co-religionists. No other Church hody voted any help or sent anyone to help. But the Quakers are dissenters, discontents, and were onoe persecuted for heresy'.—Dunedin Echo. ' Tho proposition to stimulate the growth. of plant* at night by means of ..the eleotrie light and thus insure their early maturity, was quite a surprise to the average agriculturist. And how M. Claude, a Frenchman, surprises the dyers by .inventing and patenting- an application of the same light to the bleaching of textiles and other substances. This he proposes to do by placing tbe light in a rectangular box, provided with a reflector, before which the yarn of oloth il moved slowly by means of rollers. He -is indifferent as to whether the light is produced between points as in the Brush system, or by the incandescence of a thin band,' as in that of Edison, but he seems to be unwilling to rely on it altogether. For he proposes to impregnate the fabric and the atmosphere of his bleaching chamber with the vapour of oil of turpentine, and, be suggests the employment of the peroxide of hydrogen in order to complete the decolourizing, an effect it would produce without the light. In a graphio description of the celebrated Artemns Ward, recently publ'Bhed, occurs the following :—"His manner of composing and writing, as described by Mr George Hoy t and other of his associates ...- in .the ' Plain Dealer' office, was peculiar ai liny, thing else about the man. He searched* everywhere for funny.things, and when he found them or originated them, he seemed himself to enjoy them more than any,, one else. He had for his desk a ricketty .old table, and being an inveterate whittle., it was notched and gashed until it looked as though the lightning, had gone through it. His chair was a fit companion thereto. > -,* A wabbling-, unsteady affair, sometimes with four and sometimes with three legs.' When writing, one hung over the arm of the choir like a great hook, and when a funny idea came to him, he would laugh 'with a ?uffaw which seemed to Bhake him from hii heels upwards.' Sometimes' he would ' pound the table with his fists, slap the long thin leg that hung over the arm of the chair, and explode with laughter.' Upon .these occasions he would also call his associates, and read to them what he had written. He lauged nearly all the time he was writing." In his original researches on the microphone Professor D. K. Hughes observed that tbe resistance of the microphone contact increased with the inteni-ity of the sound transmitted by it. The air vibrations caused an undulating resistance-—that is to say, alternate increments and decrements of reactance, which gave rise to corresponding undulations in the electric current traversing- the joint; but the increments preponderated more and more over the decrements as tbe intensity of the sounds were augmented. The result was that the mean resistance of the joint grew greater as the sounds were intensified. _his fact has recently been made the basis of a new sonometer by Herr Overbeok. The details of his experiments and apparatus are given in the July number of Pbggendorff's Annalen. The microphone employed by him is of the bammer-and-anvil form, and it is placed in one of the Bides of a Wheatstone resistance balance. Herr Cverbeck has calculated the forruular, giving the relation between the intensity of a sound and the resistance which it produces in the microphonic contact. By measuring this resistance on the the Wheatstone balance, while under- tbe influence of the sound which is to be measured, he can, therefore, tell the intensity of the sound.-—Engineer, ing. A scene occurred at a reoent Church of England Synod sitting. Mr Shepherd Smith, a representative on one of the Churches at Sydney, speaking to a motion having reference to certain services of the Church, referred to a portion of tbe psalms which he considered to be anti-Christian in its character, such as should not be made a compulsory portion of the services of the Church. He remarked that the use ot such portions of the Scripture almost justified the position taken up by tbe Freethinkers. The Dean of Melbourne, in calling Mr Shepherd Smith to order, characterised the language that he had used as " horrible and intolerable in a meeting of Christian gentlemen" The President said that the language used was irreverent and unfit to be used in the Synod. Mr Shepherd Smith refused to sit in the Synod under such a censure. The Bishop of Melbourne offered, if Mr Smith would give him an opportunity of arguing the question with him, to show him that the language he had used, was too strong, and that the difficulties in reference to the passage in the Soripture might be explained. MrSmitb, being still dissatisfied! rettred from the meeting.