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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3482, 4 September 1882, Page 2

A sum of over £300 was received by the Immigration Officer for Hawke's Bay last month on account of assisted passages for nominated immigrants. Mr M. R. Miller requests us to note in this column that, having sold to Mr E. D. Collison the leasehold property, 6,500 acres, that block of country is now withdrawn from his list of properties for sale. The first wool ship of the ensuing season from Napier will be the New Zealand Shipping Company's barque Norman McLeod, 700 tons, Captain Scouller. This vessel is now at Wellington, and will be in our roadstead early in October. To the Editor : Sir, —Can you, through your columns, inform me, whether there is an inspector of gas meters for Napier, and, if so ; where he resides ? The services of such a functionary would be very valuable to all gas consumers, and particularly to A Citizan. f In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., Annie Neal was charged on remand, on the information of Constable Forster, with having made use of obscene language in Dickens-street on the niffht of July 31st. The accused, who failed to appear owing to illness, was fined £1 and costs, or in default seven days' imprisonment. Our Waipawa correspondent telegraphs that late on Saturday night the premises used by Dr Mirbach as a storeroom for harness, &c, were found to be on fire, and incendiarism is strongly suspected. The damage done it appears, is fortunately trifling, the fire having been discovered in good time. The Waipawa police have a clue to the identity of the incendiary, and it is hoped they will be able to secure a conviction. Further particulars will be found in another column. The annual general meeting of the Petane Jockey Club was held in Mr Villers' hotel on Saturday evening last, when the following officers for the ensuing year were elected:—Stewards: Major Richardson, Messrs Haultain, L. de Pelichet, H. J. Twigg, and C. Viliers. Handicapper, starter, and clerk of the scales, Colonel White. Hon. secretary, Mr John Steven. A very satisfactory balance - sheet for the past season was submitted and adopted, and it was agreed to hold the usual races on New Years' Day, the programme for which will be published shortly. The course has been considerably improved since the last meeting by Mr Villers, whose intention it is to still further minister to the comforts of patrons of the turf in his district, a committee having been appointed to superintend the proposed works. The nomination of candidates for the three vacant seats in the Municipal Council took place to-day, and, as usual, created little or no interest. In the earlier part of the morning every effort was made to induce Mr Henry Williams to consent to his nomination for the South Ward, but without effect, and Mr Lee, who desired to represent the middle Ward, was then nominated. Mr Cotton's nomination for the North Ward was regarded as so satisfactory that no attempt was made to bring forward any opposing candidate. Up till three minutes to noon it appeared that no one would be nominated for the Middle Ward in the room of Dr. de Lisle, whose refusal to sit again was generally regretted. At the stroke of the hour Mr R. Price's nomination paper was delivered to the Town Clerk, and, therefore, as there can be r.o contested election, there will be but that one alteration iD the personnel of the Council. We are glad to hear that the New Zealand Shipping Company has made arrangements for a vessel fitted with freezing apparatus to load here with frozen meat at tie end ot the wool season. The cargo of the ship Dunedin demonstrated the fact that, with good management and perfect machinery, it iB possible to sell frozen New Zealand grown mutton in London at a price that will return something like 2i|d per lb. to the shipper, or about 18s a-headfor sheep Buitablo to the market, without reckoning tallow and skins. The ship that will load at this port will carry 5000 carcases, and this quantity could havo been guaranteed by two Bheepfermers, but their offer had to be refused, as so many were desirous of forwarding shipments by this opportunity. The established success of the frozen meat trade would be calculated to increase the value of land throughout the district if the port possessed such facilities for shipping produce as to lessen the cost of shipment. Napier is heavily handicapped in this respect, but it is to be hoped that both town and country will give a strong pull and a pull all together to overcome this obstacle in the path of their joint prosperity.

The fright of British Ministers about their own precious lives is taking 1 quite a ludicrous aspect. Eaoh one of them, says Vanity Pair, has a detective who trots about after him in the most persevering manner, sits upon his doorstep with the utmost patience, and meets other detectives in pleasant conversation in the Lobby of the House of Commons. In fact the Lobby is rilled with this new body-guard. lam told that the detectives call each other by the names of their charges, and • that this kind of thing is often heard:—" I say, Childers, Gladstone and I are going round the corner to have a drink, and Harcourt is going to join us. Just look after our old men while we are away." The New Zealand Land Corporation (Limited), which was formed in London in 1880 for the purpose of acquiring land in New Zealand, is now in Chancery. It will be remembered that an agreement was entered into for the acquisition of a large tract of land, but upon one of the directors going out to inspect it he discovered that it consisted to a very large extent of swamp and impenetrable bush, and was totally useless for tbe purpose of colonisation. A petition was presented by a shareholder to have the company wound up. After the presentation of the petition a resolution was passed for the voluntary winding-up of the company. Mr C. EC. Palmer, for the petitioner, having asked that the voluntary windingup might be continued under the supervision of the court, Mr Justice Kay has made the usual order, appointing Mr P. D. Daniels, of Good, Daniels and Co., as official liquidator. A correspondent of a Home paper writes for the purpose of removing the widespread impression that if the Suez Canal were destroyed, it would imperil the safety of our Indian Empire. He appends a list of 20 steamers, belonging to four Atlantic lines, any of which, he says, could reach Bombay under 32 days, and Calcutta under 34 days, with an average of 1500 troops on board. The writer ventures on the assertion that " if naval architecture continues to develop as it has done for the last three or four years, we could safely consent to the neutralisation of the Suez Canal and its use solely for commercial purposes, as we could send our troops round the Cape in vessels of deep draught as quickly as a lighter-draught vessel could go through the Canal. We are already within four or six days of this." This is a matter which it is well not to lose sight of just now, when the British Lion is expected to tremble whenever a Bedouin Arab approaches the banks of the Canal. Some Maori ovens, or rather cookingplaces of the old moa-hunting race who inhabited New Zealand before the advent of Maoris, have been found near Timaru, and in them are some interesting relics. The Timaru Herald says:—"There are small flakes of flint, such as were made by the cutlers and armourers of the distant period to which these ovens belong. The flint ia of a kind that one never sees in the district —where did the moa-hunters get it from ? —is light grey in colour, and slightly translucent. One flake iound appears to have been itself chipped, as if someone had started to make an arrow-head or some other useful implement out of it. It has suffered nothing by its long burial, and its edge is Btill quite sharp. Perhaps the most interesting object yet found is a piece of the split wing-bone of a bird. Eaoh end of the splinter, which is about two inches long, has been cut to a point like a pen, and the split edges have been scraped smooth. What was this meant for ? It looks more like a toothpick than anything else. How old this little article is it is impossible to say, but we believe that if one would hazard any likely guess, he must start at least a thousand years back." A brutal scene took place behind the Corporation gas works, Middlesborough, England. Two women quarrelled as to which was the best pugilist, and they agreed to fight for the supremacy. There was a large attendance of men and women who formed a ring. The conditions of the fight were that there was to be no pulling of hair, kicking, or scratching. The women stripped to the waist, divested themselves of their ear-rings, hairpins, and finger-rings, and after shaking hands in regular pugilistic fashion, the encounter commenced. At the first round both women buried their hands in each other's hair, and at the oonluiion of the ninth round—the various rounds being timed by a man—both had succeeded in blacking each other's eyes, and their faces were covered with bruises. At the conclusion of the fight the victorious fstnale went up to the other woman and asked her to acknowledge that Bhe was the best woman. This was readily done, and the fight terminated. There were no police present, and the victorious party moved off home amid a crowd of her admirers.. A second fight between women occurred in Albert road shortly after noon, and in this instance one woman caused blood to flow pretty freely from her antagonist's nos«. At the nomination for the Northumberland electorate (»ays the Sydney Evening News) Mr Hungerford and Mr Grisdale were duly proposed. The former is a squatter, and well-known as an old member of Parliament. His opponent is new to politics, and is a pawnbroker, auctioneer, etc. During the speech of the latter—Mr William Grisdale—a good deal of fun was caused by some of his remarks, and it is just worth while quoting two passages from his oration. Being a money-lender, the livening effect of the following parry may be understood :—He (Mr Grisdale) was in favor of railways going the wholo length of the Colony.—A Voice : " What for ; to fetch the ragj down f—He did not think he would be able to lend much on the rags of the last speaker. Further on an elector asked : " Would you be in favor of an absentee or a property tax?" —Mr Grisdale: " I would tax them both."—(Laughter.)— But the climax was reached when the orator was about finishing, when an elector asked : " Would you Tote for taxing cereals coming into the country f" —Mr Grisdale : "I am in favor of putting a tax upon Chinamen, and always was."—(Roars of laughter.)— The elector: " I didn't say Chinese ; I said cereals."—Mr Grisdale: " Who are they F" —(Renewed laughter and general confusions—The question being explained Mr Grisdale said he would let flour come in as free as possible. A story is told of one of the Japanese officers recently in Auckland and an Auckland lady of fashion, which is worthy of being preserved. Everybody knows that the Chinese and Japanese are not to each other " dearly beloved brethren," in fact, that they hate each other with infinite cordiality. An Auckland lady at a recent party took one of the best looking of the officers under her " amiable wings," and was singularly persistent about Japanese customs, particularly those relating to the ladies of that country. "But," said the lady after an exhaustive concatenation of queries, " how very shocking it is that you tie up their poor feet to keep them as small as when tbey were babies." " Madame !" remonstrated the officer. "No, no, no. That is Chinese, and they are barbarians, Our ladies let their feet grow fine and big." " Indeed," said the lady, "do they grow large ?" At this moment tbe lady's foot was shown from under her brocaded dress. " Well my lady," returned the officer, " you have a beautiful big foot, but they don't grow so large as that." The lady turned crimson, and chaperoned her friend no more. The story spread through the room, and occasioned a good deal of merriment. In Crowther's drag on tbe way to town an English companion inquired as to the correctness of the version he heard. The officer supplemented his account of the transaction by the following addition:- >" Oh yes, Japanese ladies have very fine feet, but that foot I saw to- night was a ' whopper 1' " The prevalence of kidney complaints.— A large number of cases of this troublesome affection arises from cold. Colds superinduce a complication of disorders. Now, so to fortify the system as to prevent its too great susceptibility to cold, should be the chief aim of medical science. Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatic Schnapps will prove a worthy coadjutor.-— [Advt.]