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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3275, 31 December 1881, Page 2

The Daily Teleoeaph will not be piiblished ou Monday next. With this issue we present our readers with our Almanac for 1882. The County Council and Education offices will be closed on Monday and Tuesday 2nd and 3rd inst. The vital statistics registered at Napier for the month of December show births, 34 ; marriages, 9 ; and deaths 13. Tbe usual annual social gathering of the members of the Working Men's Club will be held this evening in the club hall. We understand that several informations under the Corrupt Practices Act have been laid at Waipawa, and will be heard shortly. First-class Constable Villers proceeds to Waipawa by the afternoon train to-day to take charge of the Constabulary station afc that township, vice Sergeant Kidd transferred. The offertory collections in the several Anglican churches within tho diocese of Waiapu to-morrow will be applied to the fund for extending religious ordinances to poor and thinly populated districts. A railway accident occurred on the Otago line yesterday, by which the engine and seven waggons of a goods train ran off the line. The stoker was killed, but the driver and another escaped with slight injuries. To suit visitors to the Kaikora races on Monday an extra train will leave Napier at five minutes to ten o'clock, calling at all intermediate stations. An extra train will also leave Waipukurau at 6.5 p.m., arriving at Napier at 8.30. An united gathering of the children and teachers belonging to the various Sunday Schools in Napier will be held afc the Theatre Royal at 3 p.m. to-morrow, when addresses will be delivered by several ministers and laymen. The old chief Renata Kawepo has been presented with a trout by the curator of

tbe Acclimatisation Society's ponds, and he pronounces the fish to be Icapai, and he hopes the rivers of New Zealand will soon be stocked with salmon, and trout.

This being the last day of the year " Watch-night" services will be held in the following ohurches:—St. John's Church, with oelebration of the Holy Communion, at 11.30 p.m.; Trinity Church, Clive Square, at 10.45 p.m.; Taradale Anglican Church at 11 p.m.

A runaway horse and trap, the property of Mr Newton, caused some excitement in the neighborhood of Herschell-street yesterday. At the corner of Mr Miller's premises, Browning-street, the refractory animal was suddenly pulled up owing to the trap, which fortunately was empty at the time, sustaining a capsize. The damago done was but trifling.

The Artillery Band, according to usual custom, will enliven the last evening of the year by playing t.ie following selections opposite the Eire Brigade station tonight:—Quick step, "Arise ye sons of Enuland;" quadrille, " Shamrock leaves;" waltz, " Water Lily •" polka, " Turtle Doves;" Highland schottische, "Bonnie Lassie;" galop, "The Scout;" finale, " God save the Queen."

Afc the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Thomas Long (against whom 27 previous convictions were recorded) and William Jackson were each fined 5s and costs for drunkenness at Hastings on the 30th instant. John Abbott pleaded guilty to a charge of disobedience of orders on board the ship Waikato, and was sentenced to pay all costs of the action, and to forfeit a day's wages.

In reply to Mr J. H. Coleman's question as to whether the advertising account for the current year paid by the Hospital Committee did not amount to £90, or thereabouts, we have authority to mention that the total advertising and printing charges against the Hospital for the last nine months were, Daily Telegraph, £14 9s ; H.B. Herali%>£9 14s 3d ; total, £24 3s 3d. During the three months in which the present secretary has held office the total advertising charges have been under £5, and the secretary's charges against" petty cash" nil.

Cary's juvenile " Pirates " were poorly patronised last night, but, notwithstanding, the performance was gone through with aa much spirit and accuracy as though the house had been packed. It is to be hoped that the attendance to-nighfc, when the "Pirates" will be produced for the last time, may be such as will amply compensate for the thin audience of the past few evenings. The children are really worth seeing, and we strongly advise all those' who have not yet witnessed their performance of the " Firates" to visit the Theatre to-night. On Monday night the youngsters open in Herve's comic opera " Chilperic," which they recently performed so successfully at Wellington.

A curious case was heard before the R.M. at Auckland yesterday. Robert Scholefield was charged with riding in a railway carriage set apart for ladies. The magistrate, Mr Macdonald, ruled that anyone on the platform of a carriage could not be said to be in a carriage, and dismissed the case. Now Clause V. of the New Zealand railway bye-laws sets forth that any person travelling in any carriage •'without a ticket with the object of evading the fare shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. But if standing on the platform is not being in the carriage, the byelaw does not hold good, and no offence is committed in the evasion or attempted evasion of the fare.

The Municipal Engineer, whose office is above the editorial rooms of the Daily Telegraph, has more than once recommended the Borough Council to take certain steps to prevent the waste of water. On entering our rooms this morning we found them flooded, and the books and papers on the tables saturated with water. Our office boy, with ready wit, burglariously entered Messrs Kennedy and Gillman's yard, and, raising a ladder, mounted to the Engineer's office window. He "burgled" the room, and turned off the water-tap, and the flood ceased. The sub-editor, with doleful countenance, reported the loss of copy as immence through the writing having been washed out. He said " the theatre" is lost, the "divine services" have gone to , and the " Corporation " is in a beastly mess. So if things don't come out straight our readers will please blame the Engineer for wasting public water. Now, if the Engineer possessed a ball-cock all this mischief would not have happened.

The Dunedin Evening Star remarks :— " The constitution of the new House is of such a character that evidently there must be a new departure in the matter of parties. The old lines are completely swept away, and no one at present can even surmise what may be the combinations of next session."

Another old settler, Mr William H. Jones, has just passed away at the ripe age of 86. He arrived in the Colony in the William Alford, in 1848, as Barrack Sergeant, having served 29 years in the British Army under George 111., George IV., and William IV. He died in Wellington on December 14th.

A Remuera girl went out fishing, caught five freckles, and has remained in her room ever since. A Parnell girl would have sand-papered them off, and gcu*e out again next day. And a would have welcomed them as old friendd, whom neither dim religious light, nor cosmetics, nor sand-paper, could drive away.—Observer. In the course of next session, (says an Auckland paper) Sir George Grey will move that a Parliamentary investigation take place into tho books of the Bank of New Zealand (as holders of the Government account). This course it appears was once taken with the Bank of England at home, a fact which will be quoted as a precedent. Tho New Zealand matches of the English team are set out as follows: —Jan. 12, 13, and 14, Otago; 16 and 17, Oamaru or Timaru; 20, 21, and 23, Canterbury; 26, 27, and 28, Wellington ; Feb. 2, 3, and 4, Auckland. Canterbury is set down to play with fifteen, the others with tweuty-two. The Canterbury players, however, intend to play with eighteen. A most extraordinary thing (says the Observer) has occurred in connection with the publication oi Mr Sherrin's pamphlet on the Bank of New Zealand. Five thousand copies have disappeared it is not known when or where. The publisher received the cash for them but they can't be _ traced, and the only possible inference is that interested persons destroyed them. At a banquet recently given by His Worship the Mayor of New Plymouth, considerable merriment was caused among the guests (says the Budget) when the toast of " His Excellency the Covernor " was proposed, on account of the band striking up " The King of the Cannibal Islands." The air was considered very appropriate to the toast. When " The Press " was proposed Mr Francis played "Wo won't go _ home till Morning," which was rather significant as to the time the "gentlemen of the Press " usually retire to their roost.

The Thames Advertiser again brings up the question of the existence of gold in the King country, and states :—" Our informant is an old Tarauaki resident, who recently arrived here overland from Stony River, and having experience of golden quartz in the palmy days of the Caledonian and other rich mines on this field, as well as Victorian knowledge, he is not likely to have been mistaken. He travelled through the King country on a permit, and having heard of the existence of gold in the Tuhua ranges he persuaded the natives to show him some. He was taken to a spot in the hills, where he saw a quantity of quartz stacked, and on examining it was.astonished to find it was thickly studded with rich gold."

A gentleman who has just returned from Waitotara informs us (New Zealand Times) that the graves of the soldiers of the 57th and 18th Regiments between Waverley and

Wanganui, who fell in skirmishes with natives during the return, of General Cameron from Taranaki, are in a most disgraceful condition. The fences around the graves have either been torn off, or, owing to the ravages of time, have rotted away from the joists: whilst the mounds over the bodies have been turned over by the hordes of wild pigs which infest the locality. As a matter of decency the Government should take measures to keep this little "God's acre" in the forest in some degree of repair, if only out of respect to the memory of these poor fellows who, in discharge of their duty, left their bones in a foreign land.

A pretty piece of roguery was revealed at the R.M. Court, Tauranga, the other day (says the correspondent of a northern contemporary.) A member of tho A.C. Force, by dint of praiseworthy economy, had scraped together £40. This money he wished to invest in cattle, not liking his name to appear in the transaction, he commissioned a laboring man to buy some cows, etc., for him. The man was to have tha use of the cows months, and their real owner was to board with him. This man accordingly received the money and purchased the cattle in his own name. Instead, however, of paying for them with the money he had received for the purpose, he gave p.n.'s for the amount. He then pocketed the cash. Shortly after he obtained money and goods to the amount of £40, from a storekeeper in town, aetd gave a bill of sale over the cattle as security. The unfortunate A.C. man knew nothing of this, until one tine morning he found the cattle seized under the bill of sale, and their quondam caretaker non est.

The Tablet says:—"Sir George Grey, speaking at the declaration of the poll for City East, Auckland, is reported to have declared the Education Act to have been the first result of Liberalism and the glory of New Zealand. Nevertheless it was not a Liberal Gfovernment that introduced the Education Bill, and it may, perhaps, be questioned whether a system pretending to be the glory of a country, but, at the same time, inflicting a cruel wrong on a considerable section of that country's inhabitants, can be admitted to make a just claim. Strange to say, it is also reported that in some instances the Catholics of Auckland made their vote a block vote in favour of Greyite candidates. If they did so, it is clear that although we can hardly call their policy suicidal, it was at least that of men who pick their own pockets for their neighbours' use. Sir George Grey, moreover, appears in his present contest to acted energetically up to the role to which of late years he has descended—that of exreme demagogue, but in which he is certainly not sincere."

Mr Joseph Hatton, in an article in one of the magazines entitled Journalistic London, states that Bradbury and Evans paid Mark Lemon £1500 a year for editing Punch; that the Field yields an annual income of £25,000 to its proprietor; that the Queen yields at least £10,000 a year; and that in one week the circulation of the Daily News —thanks to its seventeen war correspondents, of whom Mr Archibald Forbes was the chief—rose from 50,000 to 150,000.

"Exegi monumentum £ere perennius," he might have truly said, who, by his sagacity and judgment saw in the composition of his great elixir an adjuvant that would materially aid in the dissipation of certain symptoms of disease, a tonic that would strengthen the organs, a diuretic that would act efficaciously upon the kidneys, and a stimulant that would sharpen the appetite, and assist directly the gastric functions, such as is embodied, in Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.— [A dvt.]

Great excitement has been caused in Perth (Western Australia), by the trial of John O'Grady, captain of the schooner Clarence Packet, for the murder of a Chinaman, whom he forced to work at the tumps when sick. The Chinaman broke down, whereupon O'Grady pulled him about the deck by nis pigtail, kicking him severely. A kick in the groin finally disabled the Chinaman, who lay on the deck struggling for a few minutes and then died. O'Grady then took him up and pitched him overboard. The jury were occupied all night and till two o'clock in the morning considering their verdict, which was given as one of manslaughter, with a strong recommendation to mercy. The judge imposed a sentence of twenty years' penal servitude, evidently having very little sympathy with the jury's recommendations. The following singular case is reported by the London Times:—"A gentleman named White, residing afc Princegate, proceeded against a jeweller in Oxford street, to compel him to take back a diamond tiara and bracelet, which were bought for £4700, on the understanding that they would, if the plaintiff desired, be repurchased for £200 less than that amount afc any time within two years. Mrs White gave evidence as to the' persuasion she brought to bear on her husband to buy the jewels Finding, however, they were too heavy for her, the lady requested the jeweller to take them back. It was stated that the value of the jewels had depreciated. The jury found for the plaintiff, and the defendant was ordered to pay £4500 on restoration of the jewels, or £1800 damages if the plaintiff should have to keep the jewels." A story is to be found in old jest-books of an Irish artist who painted " The Passage of the Red Sea " by covering his"_ canvas with red paint, and he explained his interpretation of the scene by saying that the Egyptian? were supposed to be drowned, while the Israelites had escaped. According to the Moniteur dcs Arts, no less an artist than M. De Neuville has produced a corresponding whimsicality. A canvas, which measures 4m by 2m, and represents nothing but a vast expanse of sand, with a single ostrich's agg in the centre, has been entitled by the painter " The Capture of Bou Amena by the French." When M. de Neuville was asked by a puzzled visitor to the studio to point out where Bou A mena was, the painter gravely replied that t ie chief had fled, and, as regards the French troop's, they had not arrived at the time the scene was depicted! The picture is, of course, a sarcasm, and will no doubt be appreciated in Paris.

Half-crown dolls foi one shilling at Neal and Close's tables. Quarterly general meeting of members Hawke's Bay Club on Friday, January 6, at 8 p.m. Villers' coaches will run at intervals from 9 a.m. on Monday between Napier and Patane. To lend £300. Apply Frank Bee, secretaiy Loyal Napier Lodge Oddfellows. Healed tenders are invited by Hawke's Bay County Council for the supply of dog collars. Mr John Collinge is appointed valuator for the outlying districts of Hawke's Bay County. Mr M. R. Miller sells rural lands at Woodville on January 26 at the Criterion Hotel. Mr E. Lyndon includes in his land sale of January 3 town sections at Hastings. Arthur McCartney keeps the booth at the Taradale sports on Monday. Mr Blythe has lo3fc a brown mare from his paddock. The Hawke's Bay Council offices will be closed on Monday and Tuesday. Recruits of the N.R.V. can be provided with uniforms on presenting themselves with arms and accoutrements, and can then proceed to Poukawa to take part in the field operations on Monday. Owing to the holiday on Monday the remanent Building Society will receive subscriptions on Tuesday evening. Sunday School union in Theatre to-mor-row at 3 p.m. A number of new advertisements appear in our " Wanted " column. DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW. By Rev. E. Reigner (Mass) at Clive at 11 a.m. At St. John's Church : —Morning prayer, sermon, and celebration of Holy Communion,

at 11 a.m.; evening prayer and sermon, at 7 p.m. By Rev. de Berdt Hovell, in the Lutheran church, White road, at 11 a.m. (Holy Communion),

By the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Waiapu, in the Lutheran Church, White road, at 7 p.m.

By Eev. J. Spear, at Taradale at llii.m. (Holy Communion), and afc Puketapu (Holy Communion) at 3 p.m.

By Rev. R. S. Bunn, at Trinity Wesleyan Church, Clive Square, afc 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Scandinavian services in the Good Templar Hall afc 11 a.ih. and 7 p.m.

By Rev. W. Nichol, afc Havelock at 11 a.m., and afc Marac-kakaho afc 3 p.m.

By Eev. J. C. Eccles, afc St. Peter's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. By Rev. F. H. Long, afc St. Mary's, Waipukurau, at 11 a.m., and at Onga Onga at 3 p.m. By Rev. W. Shirriffs, afc Waipukurau at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and Tamumu at 3 p.m.

By Eev. W. O. Robb, at Patangata at 11 a.m., Kaikora afc 3 p.m., and Waipawa afc 7 p.m.