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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3241, 19 November 1881, Page 2

We are requested to state that Messrs Kennedy and Gillman's sale of boots and furniture, advertised to take place on Monday, will be held afc 11 o'clock instead of at noon as previously announced. Mr Jobn M'Dougall announces himself as a candidate for fche representation of Napier. His candidature is in direct opposition to Mr Buchanan. We understand that there is a complete split in the camp of the Liberal Association. Cr. Wall has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Borough Council, " That the resolution recommending Clive Square as a site for the erection of municipal offices be rescinded, and that a committee be elected to select a site and report at the next meetiDg of the Public Works Committee." The sittings of the Supreme Court in Napier will commence on December 12. The criminal cases for hearing up to the present time are as follows :—Rendle, five charges; Ebbett, indecent assault; Peddle, cattle stealing; Itaikia Moto, cattle stealing, and another Maori from Poverty Bay for larceny as a bailee. We hear that the civil ligt for this sitting is likely to be a heavy jßne. As a small cask of Swan's beer was being at the Working Men's Club yesterday, Mr Pram, of the Customs, happened to be passing, and noticed that there was no duty stamp on the barrel. The delivering carter had plenty of stamps in his pocket-book. Mr Pram, as an officer of the Customs, had only one course to pursue, and the beer was of courae seized. The lowest penalty for a breach of the Act is £20.

Mr Vautier received a telegram this morning to the effect that Mr Goodall would leave Lyttelton by the Alhambra this evening for Napier. Mr W. G. Garrard, tho Auckland labor agitator, has found the panacea for all the ills to which poverty is heir. In his address to the electors the other night he said that, when a poor man could not pay his rent, or the interest on a loan, the State should take over the debt. This is a splendid idea, and at once solves the difficulty lying at the bottom of the principle " the land for the people and the people for the land." The only thing that prevents that principle from being universally acted upon is money. But Mr Garrard's plan overcomes that drawback by making the State responsible for rents and the payment of mortgages, so that wanfc of capital would be no hindrance to the acquisition of landed property. The alterations at the Napier district school are now completed. The old infant room has been completely altered; a large gallery, capable of sitting from 150 to 200 children, occupies the whole of one end, and will be most useful for assembling large classes for singing lessons. The rest of the floor has been, made uniform, and twelve new deskß> each capable of sitting six children, have been fitted. Altogether the alterations will have the effect of increasing the existing accommodation, and will be a great assistance to the teaching staff in carrying on the work of the school. The contract has been carried out by Messrs Lucas and Humphries, under the supervision of the Board's architect, Mr Dugleby. Some of the friends of Mr John Hislopj and a few of the old customers of the Masonic Hotel, met in the commercial room of that establishment last night to take a farewell glass with him, and drink to his health and future prosperity. In a very neatly worded speech Mr Swan proposed the toast of the evening, at the conclusion of which he presented Mr Heslop with a gold ring and some watch-chain trinkets as a token of regard, and which he trusted would be worn in rememberance of those he (Mr Heslop) left behind him in Napier. Other toasts and some songs enlivened the evening, and the party separated at about 10.30 o'clock. Mr Hislop proceeds to Gisborne on Tuesday to take charge of Mr Page's business. The following story is given currency by a southern contemporary :—" Amongst the volunteers who recently left Ashburton for ParihaKa was a resident of Treverton, who had arranged that during his absence his wife should draw half his pay. On arriving at Wellington, however, he telegraphed to his wife that she should see Sergant Felton, and ask him to have a warrant issued for his arrest for deserting his wife ! The application was duly made, the wife acknowledging to the Bench that she knew her husband had been privately drilling for several weeks, so as to insure his being accepted as a volunteer for the front. The Magistrate declined to make the order. The wife then asked if her husband would be shot. On this point the Magistrate gave her no definit assurance, beyond his opinion that there was not an immediate risk of bloodshed." Mr O. De Latour, writing to the Lyttelton Times on the native difficulty, says :— " The refusal of one of the parties to recognise and accept the decision of a tribunal of Appeal created by the other, when that tribunal is forbidden so much as to lift the veil which hangs over the orignal confiscation, is no sufficient cause of war. Every Maori or European shot, and every European woman and child subsequently massacred, in revenge for such shooting, in consequence of the injudicious and unreasonable ultimatum of Oct. 19, if indeed it be carried out, will be a human soul murdered for no better reason than this: That successive Ministries have been as fruitful to promise as they have been Blow to perform their promises. Nothing except V6ry clearly necessitated self-defence will justify the outrage upon Parihaka we are led by Ministerial supporters immediately to expect. God help those, whether European or Maori, who in this matter, as in all others, do right." TheWairoa correspondent of the New Zealand Times says :—Mr Rees, Wi Pere, and the Land Company attended at the Mahia the other day, and succeeded in purchasing (?) the greater portion of the Native shares in Mr George "Walker's (Watt and Walker) Mahia run. The Natives after signing, were very wroth that the deed was submitted to the Frauds Commissioner in Gisborne without they themselves being present, and I anticipate a lawsuit over this affair. Mr Rees and the Land Company are not very popular in this neighborhood. Not many years ago I can remember that the same gentleman paid us a flying visit on a somewhat similar errand, viz., to induce the Natives to sign their landed interests over to him. After hearing the eloquent orator very patiently, one leading , chief got up and gravely said, " You have told us what ive are to derive from this new arrangement, now tell us what you will get also." "Oh ! nothing—nothing." said Rees, "It won't do," said the old chief; "we cannot credit that." In other words, he told the legal gentleman " To tell that to the marines!" Referring to the change in the Resident Magistracy ofDunedin, the Morning Herald contains some very severe strictures on the management of the Court business in the past. " There are Courts," says our contemporary, " where irregularity is regular, where several people are allowed to speak together, where the presiding officer bandies words with lawyers, witnesses, and accused, where wretched jests are made when liberty and even life is at stake, and where the elements of order are unknown. Between the two extremes there are infinite gradations. It is needless to classify the Court referred to in this respect. Its reputation is well-known, and the frequently reported scenes there are nauseating. Some of those engaged in the Court seem to be unacquainted with the civilised custom, honored even by Maoris, of letting one speaker end before another begins, but adhere to the schoolboy and Billingsgate practice of testing who has the strongest lungs. When a magistrate is obliged to tell two lawyers, in effect, they ought to be ashamed of themselves, people who have seen justice dispensed elsewhere marvel; and when two legal men, a magistrate, and a witness contest together which has the loudest voice, the mind reverta l<j tub alliterative traditions of Bedlam and tne bear-garden, and recalls the Baconian aphorism that a much-talking judge is no well-tuned cymbal; and those with sensitive ears are then apt to wish Justice was portrayed mute as well as blind. The Era says that Fijian tobacco seems to be causing some little stir in Wellington just now, and Mr Edmonds, who arrived here by the Albatross, is endeavouring to float a company for the purpose of manufacturing it in that city. Mr Edmonds has already interviewed several of the importers of tobacco in that city, and without exception they acknowledge the advantage to be α-ainedby the manufacture of Fijian tobacco here, as it will considerably lessen the price, and in every respect be equal to the imported article. The sample left for inspection at this office is acknowledged by an old Virginian planter to be equal to any tobacco grown in America. Persons interested would do well to interview Mr E. Edwards and learn his views, as it would undoubtedly be a great boon to the colony generally to have tobacco manufactured here, and would place us on a par with our sister colonies — and, moreover, be the means of giving Wellington direct cominunieation with the Fijis. Enthusiasm seems to have got the better of logic in a presumably Irish advocate of total abstinence at one of the recent meetings of the British Association. A gentleman named Hirst was telling the meeting that he was eighty-one years of age, and had never been an abstainer, when he was greeted by the exclamation (which brought down the house), "You would have'been a hundred by this time if you had."

The tenure of the Postmaetership by Mr Fawcett ia likely to become histrionic. Not only is he completing arrangements for a trial of the return postcard eystem (aa followed in Switzerland), but he is said further to have under consideration a project of much vaster scope. It is an open secret that extensive employers of labour have endeavored to minimise their liabilities under the Employers' Act by insuring the live 3o£ their employes against accident in 1 certain companies, who have framed an ex- / ceptionally low rate of premium for stlch transactions. Mr Fawcett's idea is to enable the country to reap what benefit can be obtained for this class of business, and to establish an Accidental Assurance Fund under the control of the postal authorities! His suggestion is that the premium should be at the rate of 2s 6d per £100, £300 being the limit of the insurance in the case of persons receiving weekly wages, and £1000 the maximum sum for all nofc included under this head; insurances to be available for persons following any kind of occupation.—Home News. . " Atlas," in the World, makes the following well-timed hit at the craving for pretty and unusual names, from which the junior members of the theatrical world are suffering :—" Young ladies who, before adopting the profession of the stage, are desirous of changing their nimes, cannot be too careful. A debutante thought it a clever fching to call herself Mdlle. Lena. She fancied, in her artless Cockney way, that there was a neat significance in it, for it was her especial pride to excel the immensely-advertised Sarah in the matter of excessive slimness. I think it washer friend young Mr Fast-, pace, of Trinity College, Oxford, who first disgusted her with her fancy by calling her attention to what the Latin dictionary had to say about ifc. Now I read in the New Zealand papers that a young actress has been starring in Nelson under the name of Miss Louise Baiidet. Perhaps if she had known that this is equivalent to Miss Louise Donkey she would have preferred to have remained plain Jones or Smith, as the case may have been. Mr Nelson, who has just died in London was one of the oldest members of the English Press. For nearly fifty years he was on the staff of the London Times, for which journal he wrote the account of the Queen's coronation. He reported the first speech which Mr Disraeli ever uttered at a public banquet, and thereafter for forty years was special reporter of the great man's addresses. The last official census of the population of the Republic of Venezuela returns no less than 32,222 generals. Some of them are stated to be on active service, others in the reserve. The present President, General Guzman Blanco, has created 8,000 of them. The army itself is not so numerous as are its generals. " Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it;" and if all the world's Macbeths would act in thia regard, as cried out the " Thane of Cawdor," they would " live" like " prosperous gentlemen." Medicine makes often as much sickness as it cures. But what Thomas Fuller, who lived and wrote two centuries ago, called " cordial to the soul," is as much that which exhilarates the body, tones the system, lulls the nerves, and vitalizes the organism with gentle quickenings, like Udolpho Wolfb's Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps, as that which touches our emotional or more sentient nature. — [Advt.] The Pomeroy Company in " Macbeth." at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell on Monday boots, furniture. &c, at 11 a.m. Tenders for additions to the Lake Hotel, Taupo, will be received until Monday next. Captain Russell invites the electors of Hawke's Bay to meet him at Hastings on Tuesday evening next; aud at Taradale on Wednesday evening next. Subscriptions or books are requested for the Christmas prize fund of the Meaneo < College. Mr J. W. M'Dougall informs the electors of Napier that he intends seeking their suffrages at the coming election. Mr W. Routledge will sell on Wednesday next, oats, wtumt, &c. ' Mr E. Lyndon will sell on Wednesday next, furniture, buggy, harness, &c. Mr A. Campbell announces a second shipment of new summer goods direct from London. It is notified that rural sections in the Cook and Wairoa Counties will be offered for sale at the survey office, Gisborne on Wednesday, the 14th December. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column. DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW. At St. John's Church :—ll a.m., morning prayer, sermon (preacher Archdeacon Williams), and celebration - of Holy Communion ; 3 p.m., baptisms and churchings j 7 p.m., evening prayer and sermon. By the Rev. B. H. Granger, at the Lutheran Church, Napier, at 11 a.m. ond 7 p.m. By the Rev. E. Reignier (Mass), at Hastings at 11 a.m. By the Rev. J. Spear, at Taradale at 11 a.m., at Puketapu at 3 p.m., and at Meanee (Holy Communion) at 7 p.m. At the Free Methodist Church, Shakespeare road, as follows : —ln the morning at II o'clock }Mr Laws will preach, and the Rev. C. Penney in the evening at 7 o'clock. By the Eev. J. M. Allen, at Havelock, at 11 a.m., and at Maraekakaho at 3 p.m. By the Rev. J. C. Eccles, at St. Peter's Waipawa, afc 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. By the Rev. L. Tuke (of Napier), at St. Mary's Waipukurau, at 11 a.m., and at Onga Onga at 3 p.m. By the Rev. W. Shirriffs, afc Waipukurau afc 11 a.m., and 7 p.m., and Tamumu at 3 p.m. By the Rev. W. O. Robb, afc Patangata afc 11 am., Kaikora, afc 3 p.m., and Waipawa, afc 7 p.m. By the Rev. E. Barnetfc, at Mr Moore's, Kaikora, at 11 a.m., and at the Mefchodisb Church, Waipawa, afc 7 p.m.