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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3262, 15 December 1881, Page 2

The Rev. J. Spear will (D.V.) preach on Sunday next, the 18th instant, at Mangawhare at 3 p.m., and at Glenross at 7 p.m. The suburbs the north of the city of Christchurch have been formed into a borough under the name of St. Albans. After months of delay Messrs Blackett and Wilson are about to proceed to select a site for a lighthouse near the scene of the wreck of the Tararua. Mr Oswald Curtis, formerly Superintendent of Nelson, has been appointed Resident Magistrate and Warden afc Collingwood, vice Mr Frank Guinness, resigned. Mr M. R. Miller has received the following cablegram from Messrs Goldsbrough, of Melbourne under this day's date :—Have sold 7000 bales during the fortnight. Large attendance of buyers, and good competition. Prices a shade lower for inferior wools. Greasy, Is; fleece, Is lOd; scoured, Is Bd. The Hawke's Bay portion of the European mail via San Francisco will probably arrive here on Saturday by the Arawata, which left Auckland to-day. The Southern portion of the mail was forwa T ded via Manukau and the West Coast, leaving New Plymouth at 4 a.m. to-day for Nelson in the Hawea. During the examination of Mr Kennedy, surveyor, in the cattle stealing case last evening at the Supreme Court, it was rather amusing to hear Mr McLean, one cf Peddles' counsel, continually referring to the Manukau. We presume he meant manuka, a native shrub, and not the northern port of Manukau. Mr G. A. Preece, the Returning Officer, declared the poll taken on the Bth instant, for the Eastern Maori electoral district today. The numbers are as follows:—llenare Tomoana, 900; Rodgers, 737; Wi Peri, 630 ; Ngatu, 488. The number of informal votes accorded for Tomoana was 23, for Rodgers 81, and for Ngatu o. The secretary of the Bible in Schools Association has posted circulars to 355 parents having children in attendance afc the district schools. The last batch of 135 was posted to-day. He would feel obliged if the parents would favor him with early replies in the stamped and addressed envelopes enclosed for the purpose. The official declaration of the poll taken at Napier was made to-day by tbe Returning Officer in the old Council Chamber, in the presence of about fifty persons. Tho numbers polled by each candidate were as previously announced. Mr Buchanan and Mr McSweeney briefly, and in most appropriate terms, thanked ihe electors, and the proceedings, which lasted little more than five minutes, closed with cheers for Mr Buchanan. There seems to have been some bungling somewhere in the scrutiny of the poll taken in the Wallace electorate. Wo first heard that Mr Daniells was elected by a majority of 10 ; then, af tor a scrutiny, that Mr Hirst headed the poll by a majority of 1, and now, after several scrutinies, that Mr Daniells is found to have been elected by a majority of 1. A telegram from Invercargill states that it is probable Mr Hirst will take the matter into the Electora l Court. At the commencement of the indecent assault case at the Supremo Court this morning, when Mrs Clarke was giving her evidence, His Honor remarked that ho saw some persons in the body of the Court conducting themselves in an unseemly manner. He wished to tell those persons that this was not a farce, but a very serious charge, and he would teach anyone whom he might observe indulging in unseemly mirth that it ivas so by ordering all such individuals out of Court. His Honor's caution had a good •Sect throughout the day. This is how the Native Lands Comt at Wairoa closed its proceedings. When the list of names for insertion in the memorial of ownership was handed in to the Court and read out to the assembled natives a great commotion arose, many of the natives being in an excited stale. One woman made a rush to snatch tho list out of th clerk's hand, and actually succeeded in getting hold of the paper, but tho clerk gave her a rap across the knuckles which compelled her to relinquish them. In consequence of this disorderly conduct the Judge immediately adjourned the Court sine die.

Afc the declaration of the poll at Gisborne on Monday the numbers were as follow : — McDonald, 441 ; Locke, 422 ; Porter, ISO ; Gannon, 141. A telegram to the Wairoa Guardian states that three cheers were given for Mr McDonald, who was hoisted into a cart, and dragged up the Gladstone road by a do2en supporters; who did their own cheeriug as well as pulling; they went to the Masonic, and " shouted" champagne, and attended a " free and easy" in the evening at Ormond. , The Standard to-day explains fully that McDonald's victory ia a defeat, as he does not represent the majority of tho wealth, intelligence, or numbers of the electors. No petition is yefa filed, hut McDonald's election will probably be questioned.

At the Magistrates' Court this morning, befors H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., E.M., Frederick George Smith was charged, on the information of his wife, Mary Ann Smith, with having, on the 14th instant, assaulted and beaten the informant, also with threatening her in the words following :—" If you summons me you shall not live a Week.'' The prisoner, against whom five previous convictions are recorded, pleaded guilty, and was fined 40s and costs, or in default 14 days' imprisonment, and was also ordered to and sureties, himself in £60, and t we sureties in the sum of £30 each, to keep the peace for six months. A second charge against the prisoner for having made use of obscene language in Coote road was with* drawn by the police.

Mr McSweeney, at the declaration of the poll, in returning thanks to the gentlemen who had accorded to him their support, stated that, when he entered into a contest with Mr Buchanan, he had a fair prospect of success, but the appearance of a third candidate altered matters. His supporters became alarmed lest the third candidate should be successful. They had conceived an erroneous idea of his strength, and they decided on giving their support to Mr Buchanan, a 8 they then believed that it was the only way to prevent the third candidate from being returned. His supporters had requested him to retire in order to secure the result for which they were then determined to strive, and he had decided on doing so, but others of his supporters requested him to continue the contest, and in accordance with their wishes he had done so. He was not glad at his own defeat, as had been reported, but he did not envy the successful candidate.

It is hardly necessary to remind boating men of the trial-four matches next Saturday afternoon, but we mention the fact in the hope of drawing a good attendance to witness the races. To the ladies of Napier rowing owes a great deal, and we trust the interest shown by them in the past in trials of skill and endurance on the water will not be lessened in the future. We acknowledge, however, the difficulty there is in investing a regatta with incidents to amuse general spectators, but on this occasion the committee have gone to some little trouble to make the proceedings as lively as possible. The Napier Rowing Club will &end out four senior Crews to compete with each other, and two junior crews, and the Union Club has also some crews in training. There will also be ships' boat races, and no doubt the Sailing Club's yachts and the spare boats of the Rowing Clubs will offer to the lady friends of the owners and members the opportunity of a pleasant outing on the water.

Mrs W. R. Russell and Mrs H. Hill acted as judges yesterday for the award of Captain Russell's prizes for sewing offered to the girls attending the district schools. The workmanship shown in the seating of trousers was simply astonishing, being quite equal to what could possibly be turned out of a tailor's shop. There was considerable difficulty in awarding the prize, a sewing machine, but it was eventually decided iv favor of a girl attending the Napier school. The cutting out and making of nightshirts showed singular merit, the needlework being perfection of neatness. The first prize was awarded to Miss Emily Schultz, of Gisborne, and the second to Miss Martha Smith, of Ormondville. Miss Elizabeth Hall, of Gisborne, gained the prize, a lady's companion, for darning. The value of Captain Russell's prizes in stimulating competition has been shown in the astounding progress that has been made in needlework within the last two years by the school girls, and the encouragement of the only form of technical education known to the school system in this colony. In map drawing there were only four competitors, none of whom came up to the workmanship shown last year.

With an inconsiderateness that amounted to the supremacy of folly tho Municipal Council blundered its head into the " pan " system, and, with tho obstinacy that characterises a certain animal, it has resolved to carry it out in defiance of decency, of cleanliness, and of every sanitary law recognised by common sense and science. Householders have been put to annoyance and expense in the alteration of closets; they have to pay so much a month for a weekly sickening visitation of a diseasebreeding cart, and they are liable to penalties if they do not submit to the provisions of a bye-law, the apparent outcome of ignorance and stupidity. It has been laid down by the best authorities that unless the pan system is efficiently carried out any attempt to adopt it is worse than the evil it is designed to obviate. Yet what do we find in this borough? A half-and-half scheme, neither one thing nor the other; and to make matters more abominably bad, the cart makes its visits so irregularly that one householder has actually had to empty the pans out himself into old kerosene tins, for the rubbish cart to carry away in the full blaze of day. When the Corporation has so clearly shown its incapacity to administer a little thing_ of this kind, in what light of charming simplicity the ratepayers must show themselves to the sister boroughs of this colony.

A meeting of Clive settlers was held last evening at the West Olive Hotel in honor of the marriage of Miss Sutton and Mr J T. Can-. There were about seventy settler.-) present. Mr J. B. Hollis was voted to the chair. The chairman, in his opening remarks, Eaid that, now the elections were over, it was a happy and fitting termination to the excitement for the electors, or in fact anyone, to meet together and have a little enjoyment on the occasion of the marriage of their worthy member's daughter. Ho hoped that tho good things set before tho company would have full justice done to them. The following toasts were then proposed and drunk with enthusiasm :—" The Queen and Royal family," proposed by the chairman ; " The Biido and Bridegroom," by the same (received with musical honors), " The Parliament of New Zealand," coupled with the name of Mr Sutton, proposed by Mr Pritchard. The chairman, in responding to the latter toast, said that, during his (the chairman's) five years of nervice on the Clive Road Board he had always found Mr Sutton one of its very best members, and having also watched Mr Sutton's actions in the County Council he could say tho same of hia administration as chairman of the county. He thought, therefore, that a gentleman who had been so successful in local affairs ought fairly to be entrusted with the higher and more onerous duties attaching to a member of the House of Representatives. After several other toasts, and a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting terminated.

An invention in mechanism is not more important than a discovery in physics. It ia possible that tho latter i.s a more marked event, for the benefactor of mankind is not only entitled to the highest niche in the Temple of Fame, but is enrolled among the noblest names in the scroll of immortality. The originator of Uholpho Wolfe's Fchiedam A eomatic Schnapps will live aa long as his splendid preparation continues to perform its marvellous cure*, and i.s recognized as a standard remedy for the ailments it undertakes to treat—[Advt.l

Professor Eraser lectures on " How to succeed in life " at the Protestant Hall to-

night. Service of song, "Moses," in Mcaneo Presbyterian Church to-night at 7.30.

Rymer's bus leaves Newton's corner afc 6.30. Distribution of prizes at Napier 1 district school to-morrow at 2.30 p.m., and at Meanee College to-morrow at 1 p.m. A certificated teacher is wanted for the district school at Makatoku. Applications must he sent in not later than January 7, 1882. Nominations for certain events of the March meeting of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club must be sent in to the secretary by Tuesday, 20th in<stant, at 8 p'.rri.. The town hall, Hastings, will be opened with a public bail on the night of Boxing Day. The balance of Leonard and Co.'s drapery stock will be open for sale for two weeki onger. Regatta on Saturday afternoon in the inner harbor. The office of the Receiver of Rates will be closed to-morrow. Mr Lyndon sells 50 shares in the N.Z. Native Land Settlement Company at noon on Saturday* General meeting committee Napier Cricket Club afc Empire Hotel at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow. Pat Barry has ceased driving Mrs Grant's express. Mr Routledge will sell tho privileges of the Petane race meeting at the Criterion Hotel on Friday, 23rd instant. Blythe ftnd Co. have opened ladies and gentlemen's lawn tennis shoes. John Better gives notice that he intends applying for a slaughtering license. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.