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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3265, 19 December 1881, Page 2

Reresentative institutions appear to have broken down in Ireland, and Mr Gladstone's Ministry has as utterly failed in constitutionally governing that unhappy country as have all previous administrations. The present condition of Ireland is exemplified in the fact that six members of Parliament are in prison ; public meetings are not allowed to be held, and, according to our cablegram published on Saturday, the liberty of the press is abolished. The conciliation ot the Irish is as far off as ever ; the exercise of force has failed to promote friendship; and peace is only to be procured by acts that Mr Gladstone and Mr Bright would have been the first to condemn if a Tory Government bad attempted them. One of the first acts of the present Ministry was the refusal to renew tbe Peace Preservation Act of Lord Beacousfield, and its last measure has been to "-eize the whole of the week's issue of the United Ireland, and to arrest j the editorial staff. However much we may deplore the necessity, no truly loyal subject will condemn tbe Government for these acts of coercion ; but the Conservatives may well smile at the bombast and vanity that would have had tbe world to believe that Mr Gladstone and his party were wiser than their predecessors. Coercion, says tbe Statist, ny Mr Gladstone, it must never be forgotten, is much more serious than coercion by Lord Beaconsfield. The Tories are looked upon as the traditional enemies of Ireland, from whom evil was naturally to be expected. But Mr Gladstone has all his life been eminent as the champion of the oppressed and the struggling nationalities. From the prisons of Naples to the Bulgarian atrocities he has always been ready with tongue and pen to advocate the cause of the weaker side. Mr Bright, again, has throughout his career condemned the Government of Ireland. If, then, Mr Gladstone and Mr Brcght are not able to govern Ireland for even one short year, without having recourse to coercion, and before two years of power have practically suppressed freedom of Bpeech and of meeting, have declared peaceful agitation illegal, have put in prison the leaders of the people, and night after night are obliged to mass troops in the streets of the capital, what hope is there that any English Ministers ever can constitutionally rule that country ? What answer are foreigner? likely to give to this question ? And above all, what answer will Irishmen give to it ? Here is the real mischief of the policy adopted under Mr Forster'e unhappy inspiration. It discourages Irishmen, who would reconcile national feeling with loyalty to the Union ; and it adds a thousandfold to the force of the Home Rule argument.

Nominations for the three handicaps of the H.B. Jockey Club's autumn meeting, to be held at Hastings in March next, close at the Criterion Hotel at 8 p.m. to-morrow. The entertainment which was to have taken place at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening under the auspices of the Napier Rifle Volunteers Band has been unavoidably postponed. Nominations and acceptances for certain of the events of the H.B. Racing Club meeting, to be held at Pakowahi on the 27th instant, will close on Tuesday, 20th instant, at 9 p.m. Professor Eraser lectured last evening, after church hours, at the Protestant Hall, on " The Religion of Phrenology." There was a fair attendance, and the lecture was listened to throughout with considerable attention. Mr Robert Farmer, who recently sold out of the Longlands estate, has purcha-ed an estate in Fifeshire, and so we may consider that he has said good-bye to New Zealand. Mr Charles Nairn has leased a beautiful residence on the banks of tho Thames. We would draw the attention of owners of sporting horses to the fact that Thursday, 22nd instant, is the last day for acceptances for the Petane race handicaps, also for entries for tbe Maiden Plate and Settlers' Race. Loch Lomond has been scratched for the Publican's Purse Handicap.

Still another boat has been added to our list of yachts, tbis time one got in Sydney by Captain L. K. Lindforw, of the Mary Wadley, and brought over by tbafc vessel. Ifc is for Mr James Vautier, and is a very pretty little model, and should give a good account of herself in our forthcoming regatta.

We are informed that Mr Macandrew's election expenses amounted only to 3s 6d! This amount was paid for the hire of a cab wherein Mr Macandrew was driven to the poll at the formal declaration to return thanks to tbe elector?. All we can add is thai tbe member for Port Chalmers ib a lucky man.

Mr Henry Williams, Miss Williams, and Mr H. A. Banner, returned to Napier on Sunday by the Rotomahana, after a rapid passage from England, via Melbourne, by the Orient line. They were passengers by the s.s. Orient, that forwarding her New Zealand mails by the Rotomahana, delivered them at Dunedin in 38 days from London.

The proceedings in the Hawke's Bay County Council were very erratic this morning. Correspondence, tenders,report?, petitions, and motions, seemed to be all mixed up together. Under Mr Sutton's chairmanship the business nsed to be properly formulated, and the proceedings were conducted without either loss of time or confusion.

We are informed that a boy about four years of ajge, a. son of Mr Gordon Orr, was drowned in tbe Arapawanui river on Saturday last, It appears that be had wandered away from the homestead of Mr McKinnon, where he was staying, and must have accidentally fallen into the river. It is supposed that the body had been in the water about an hour when ifc was discovered.

A cricket match between elevens of the Petane and Waipawa County Clubs will be played at Waipukurau on Thursday, the 29th instant. Tbe following will represent Petane:—Messrs Hamilton, Hill, Ingpen, C. Tanner, P. Dinwiddie, SainsLury, F. Smith, Davis, Begg, McKinnon, and J. Dinwiddie. The team will leave Napier by the early train on tbe morning of the 29th.

As a horse and aray, belonging to Mr Hyland were coming across the Spit bridge this morning, the horse took fright at a load of hay in Mr Marshall's cart that was approaching ; the horse made a clean jump over the hand-rail, taking the dray with him so far that ifc only hung by one wheel on the rail. A crowd of people were soon on the spot, and by their united exertions horse and dray were bodily dragged up and replaced on the road.

Mr W. Murray, second master of the Napier district school, met with a severe accident on Friday night. He was making some chemical experiments, requiring the use of a powerful five-burner spirit lamp, when he discovered that the spirit in the well was on. fire. Mr Murray afc once proceeded to carry the lamp out of the room, when it exploded, severely burning his hands. From'the back of one hand all the skin has come away, and he is of course deprived of tbe use of it.

Yesterday afternoon, prior to tho Boojum taking 1 the outward passengers to the Rotomahana, the decks of the launch became so crowded with people that it was deemed unsafe to proceed with sc great a load, and Captain Maloney gave orders for all persons not passengers by the Rotomahana to go ashore. This order, however, was only very partially obeyed, and it was not until the perplexed skipper announced his intention of charging all excepting through passengers ten shillings per head for the return trip that the living carso was sufficiently lightened to admit of the launch proceeding from the wharf with anything like safety.

Messrs Ramsey Syme and W. U. Burke were absolved from sitting as jurors in the case, Bank of New Zealand v. Te Pekakerekere, at the Supreme durfc this morning under rather peculiar circumstances. Mr Rees, on behalf of the defendant, objected to Mr Syme on the ground that that gentleman being agent for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company was more or less associated with the Bank of New Zealand. Mr Travers, counsel for the plaintiffs, said he would not afc all mind Mr Svnie being ordered by His Honor to " stand down," provided Mr Burke, to whom his clients had an objection, was also asked to withdraw from the box. Mr Kiiiioss was also absolved from sitting on account of his services being required at the County Council meetinir.

Mr Yeuell's restaurant in Hastings-street, opposite the Caledonian Hotel, that was opoued on Saturday, is hu establishment that was very much wanted. Mr Yeuell has thrown the whole of the front portion of the building into one large room, which he has subdivided by curtains into compartments. .Each compartment is furnished with a table laid for six persons, tho linen, silver, and glass being of unexceptional quality. Specialconipaitmentsare reserved for ladies. The walls are bung with pictures, and the whole plase is airy iv appearance, and scrupulously neat and cleitn ; the bill of fare is equal to that of any hotel in town, and the pn'ce of all men's is but one shilling. Yeuell's restaurant can be thoroughly recommended to visitors to Napier, arid to residents who do not care to have meals at the table d'hote of an hotel.

Imbecility or zeal, it is not known which, distinguished tho Customs authorities at Port Ahuriri on Saturday. There were sundry empty casks lying on the whart ready for shipment per Arawita for Invercargill. An official examined these casks, and found that on some of them the duty stamps had not been broken through by the insertion of the taps—in fact, that it bad not suited tbe cellars of the consumers that the taps should be put in the casks where the Act says the siamp must be placed. The duty, however, had been paid, the beer had been imported properly stamped from Invercargill, the liquor had been drunk, and there were the casks going back, and the stamps not broken. Common sense would have suggested to a zealous revenue officer that a scratch of bis finger nail, or the point of a knife would have effectually prevented the stamps being used again. Rut, no common sense came to the aid of the official; a constable was communicated with, a cart engaged, and those offending casks were impounded ! This seems to be carrying absurdity to a height not previously attained by the New Zealand Customs, and that is saying a good deal.

Titokowaru's tribe (says a contemporary) are trying to procure bail for liberating the chief frona gaol, wheie he must remain twelve months for using threatening language to settlers, unless bail be procured. The bail was fixed at £250 for each of two sureties. Old Manaia and others have been trying to induce two settlers to offer the bail, but the settlers are not willing. A later account says:—"The £500 bail required for Titokowaru will be forthcoming, five chiefs, Manaia, Ngatai, Tv Whakaruru, Ngahine, and another having agreed to give the required security. It is somewhat doubtful whether this errand may not be in vain, as it is believed by some that if Titokowaru were bailed out now be would be at onco re-arrested, charged with some other of his former crimes or misdemeanors, and recommitted afc once, it being considered unsafe to allow him to remain at large just at present."

What the pure, concentrated extract is to the diluted essences of the shop is Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Akomat c Schnapps to the adulterated compounds of gin vended as the genuine article. The law should deal severely with those who essay to palm off on the public spurious and sickly imitations of a superior proprietary preparation, militatintr, as it does, against every principle of mortis and of right. — [Adv..]

Albert S. Manders and Co. insert an advertisement on our fourth page having reference to the approaching International Exhibition afc Christehurch. The sale of privileges of the Hawke's Bay Racing Club meeting will take .place on the 21sfc instant at the Masonic Hotel. Tenders are invited for certain road works

at Hastings by the Heretaunga Road Board. Professor Eraser, phrenologist and shorthand teacher, may be consulted at Mr F. E. Hamlin's Hospital Hill, from 19th to 24th instant inclusive,

R. Vaughah, Heretaunga Bakery, Eastings, advertises cheap bread. The office of the Receiver of Rates will 1 he closed on Tuesday, 2oth instant.

The Rifle Volunteer Band concert has been indefinitely postponed.

Major Routledge inserts district orders j to 22nd instant of the Hawke's Bay Volun- V*X teers.

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