The Daily Telegraph FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1882.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3509, 6 October 1882, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1882.

A report of the proceedings of the Municipal Council on Wednesday evening, our Wairoa correspondents letter, and some sporting intelligence, will be found on the fourth page of this issue. Mr Gillies' industrial exhibition, including the model of the Great Eastern, was well attended on the show ground yesterday, the visitors one and all expressing themselves highly pleased with the instructive entertainment afforded by our enterprising townsman. The new school-room recently erected in Carlyle-street, adjoining 1 the infant school buildings, for the Methodist Free Churcb, will be opened on Tuesday evening next by a soiree, to be followed by a public meeting, at which addresses will be delivered by clergymen and others. The Hon. Mr Bryce proceeded to Waipawa this morning, accompanied by Mr Henare Tomoana, M.H.R., to enquire further into the dispute between Mr J. Harding and the natives in respect to the position of the native village on the banks of the Waipawa river. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before E. Lyndon, Esq., J.P., Leonard Catz, on remand charged with having obtainad money under false pretences, was remanded to Wellington, where tbe alleged offence was committed. There was no other business. The Weekly Mercury, published this morning, contains a full report of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show, and all other local and general news, prepared specially for the outward mail for America and Europe. The mail closes for newspapers at the chief post office, Napier, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow. The Hawke's Bay Good Templars are looking with interest towards the official visit of a dignitary of tbe order—Mr J. T. Smith, G.W.C.T., from Christchurch—who is expected by the Union steamer on Saturday. The object of Mr Smith's visit is to further stimulate the order, which has lately made much progress in this district. If possible he will personally visit the lodges in the Seventy-mile Bush. We are requested to acknowledge receipt of the following sums towards the Jack relief fund:—Mr H. J. Little, £1 Is ; Mr Peter Glenn, £1 Is; Mr W. Castle, £1 Is ; Mr E. Chegwidden, 10a ; Mr F. Wells, 10s ; Mr W. Ward, 10s; Mr W. S. Trebilcack, 10a; MrH. Mogridge, 10s; Mr T. Exeter, 10s ; J. F. A., 10s; two painters each 2s 6d, ss; Mr J. B. Brathwaite, £2 2s; Rev. H. St. Hill, £1 ; Mr James Heron, 10s. Now that we have two Ministers at Napior ifc would be as well to call their attention to the need of opening up inland communication with Wairoa. The bar of the

Wairoa river is now closed—a common occurrence—and ifc may be weeks before a vessel oan enter there. Considering the acreage of Crown lands lying between Napier and Wairoa, that is now valueless owing to the absence of communication with that poit, it is surprising that nothing has ever been done to open up the country for profitable settlement. Boucicault's drama, "The Willow Copse," was repeated at the Theatre Royal, for the benefit of the Hostpital library fund, on Wednesday evening, and drew a fair audience. With the exception of the characters of Luke Fielding, by Mr W. Hodgson, Augustus de Rosherville by Mr F. W. Collins, aud Mr M. T. W. Bear's Stagger?., the performance was exceedingly tame, it being only too throughout that (with the exceptions above-mentioned) the play was one altogether beyond the scope of tho amateurs engaged in its production. Some new scenery from the brush of Mr J. Briggs was employed for the first time, and was greatly admired. Among the local bodies which have taken advantage of the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, recently passed, we notice the Wairoa County Council. At a meeting held on Wednesday last the chairman gave notice to move on the 11th of October a resolution affirming the desirability of borrowing £7000 to be expended on public *rorks during the next two years. There is hope for Wairoa if this spirited step be fully carried out, and we hope the Council will give effect to the resolution. Of course some modification may have to be made in the details of expenditure as regards the diflerent localities, but, notwithstanding this, the proposal is a step in the right direction. Mr G. H. Swan's exhibits of ales and porter were disqualified at the show yesterday owing to the manager .of the White Swan Brewery adhering to the provisions of the Beer Duty Act, 1880. The consequence was that the prizes in that class were all awarded to the Waipawa Brewery, that did not exhibit the same punctiliousness. Mr Piper's Wairoa hops were also disqualified on account of the canvas covering bearing the name of the exhibitor. As Mr Piper is the only grower of hops in thia North Lland it is rather bard that such an important industry should be ignored at our local show on account of a supposed breach of the society's regulations. 'I here is not a woid in the regulations to support the decision of the judge. We are glad to notice that the Wairoa County Council has at last recognized that the Dog Registration Act was never meant to be a source of revenue. At the last meeting of the Council it was decided to offer the county registrars sixpence per head extra for every native owned dog that is registered and in order to secure the registration of as many Maori curs as possible, the fee was reduced this year from ten shillings to five shillings. Out of this the Council pays for the collection of the tax and substantial dog collars so that practically there will be little or nothing made out of the tax, but an incalculable benefit will have been conferred on the sheepfarmers generally by the reduction in the number of unregistered dogs. The encouragement given to the registrars leads to more zeal on their part, and a corresponding thinning in the ranks of the sheep-worriers that are such a plague to flock owners in the back country. At the inquest held on Wednesday afternoon into the cause of death of Frederick Durrant, saddler, who fell off the 5.20 train from Hastings, near Awatoto, on Tuesday evening last, a verdict of accidental death was returned, with the following rider appended:—"The jury are unanimous in blaming the railway authorities for not having sufficient carriage accommodation and sufficient supervision on the day deceased was killed." The evidence taken wpnt to show that the passenger accommodation by the several trains coming from the racecourse on the day of tbe accident was insufficient, and that some ten or twelve persons were crowded upon the platform of the carriage from which the deceased fell. One witness deposed that Durrant was the worse for liquor, and had been refused a seat in a previous train. Deceased, who was about 45 years of age, was unmarried, and only arrived in this district recently from Wairarapa, prior to which he had been working at Richmond, near Nelson, where his friends and relatives are believed to reside. There was a good deal of budding rowdyism apparent on the show ground yesterday, and the gross conduct of a few grown-up larrikins in various stages of inebriety kept the police in active employment. Adisgraceful_/raca.r, in which one or two persons were injured, took place while the constabulary were endeavoring to clear the course for the trotting 1 match. Sergeant Burtenshaw was in the act of removing a troublesome fellow to his proper place behind the fence, when a cowardly rascal standing by, who was in no way being interfered with himself, instantly raised his fist and dealt the sergeant several severe blows on the head, felling him to the ground. Constable Cargill was convenient, and attempted to arrest the offender, who, however, offered violent resistance, in which he was encouraged by a mob of companions, and a general souffle took place, resulting in the originator of the quarrel receiving a wound on the forehead, probably inflicted by his own violence or that of his confreres, as well as sundry slight damages to the clothes and persons of the police. We understand that it is intended to take out summonses against the offenders, when we hope such a wholesome lesson will be administered to them as will deter others in future from following their reprehensible example. At the Waipawa R.M. Court, on Wednesday, before Captain Preece, R.M., the following civil and criminal cases were heard : — Mullinder v. Wilson, claim of £1 2s for goods supplied. Mr Guy for defendant. Adjourned till next Court day, plaintiff to pay costs.—Taylor v. Martin, claim of £2 10s 6d, adjourned as above at plaintiff's request. Order for costs of defendant made. —Hori, a native, was charged by the police with having committed a nuisance in a railway carriage on September ]2th. Guard Watkins, and a passenger ■ named Everest, deposed to the committal of the offence, and defendant was fined £1 and 18s costs.—James Glass, a youth of about 16 years of age, was charged by the police with cruelty to animals, he having out off the hair from the tail of a steer, with part of the tail also. It appeared from the evidence of two lads, who were with Glass when he cut the tail, that the act was done in a mischievous frolic, and was not intended to inflict any pain on the animal injured. The Bench took this view of the case, and after strongly reprimanding Glaes inflicted the comparatively light fine of 5s and costs. James Finn was then charged with the larceny of a ham, on the 28th of September, the property of Mr J. Pettit, of the Settler's Hotel, Waipawa. Mr Pettit deposed to the loss of the ham, and to the prisoner having been loitering about the hotel back premises, where the ham was kept, on the evening ifc was taken away. Sergeant O'Malley aleo swore to seeing the prisoner about Mr Pettit's back yard at ten o'clock on the night referred to. Mrs Anne Oliver deposed to a conversation in which the prisoner, a woman named Mary Dubois, and the witness herself took part, in which it was proposed that Finn should by means of a ladder take from the chimney of a man named Peter Dubois one of two hams that were hung in the chimney to smoke. The witness further said that Finn was under the influence of liquor on the night in question, and that she considered the discussion about stealing the ham in the light of a joke. Before this case was disposed of, the woman Dubois, referred to by the witness Oliver, was charged with receiving the stolen ham with a guilty knowledge. Mrs O'Malley, wife of the sergeant 'of police, said she went to the house of the prisoner Dubois at 12 o'clock on tho morning after the ham was stolen to engage her services as washerwoman. While there Mrs O'Malley told prisoner there wa« a reward of £5 advertised in the

Waipawa Mail for the conviction of the person who had stolen a ham from Mr Pettit's. The prisoner then -aid some enemy had put a ham in her potato box, and she supposed it muss have been put there as a trap overnight. This conversation led to the ham being identified as the one stolen. Mr J. Ritchie, greengrocer, deposed to selling the prisoner some vegetables at ten o'clock on the day spoken to by Mra O'Malley, and that he put the vegetables so bought into a box containing potatoes. There waa no ham in the box then. Mrs Oliver, witness in the case against Finn, was called by the prisoner for the defence, but her statement was immaterial. In the caße '■ of Finn, the Bench said the evidence was circumstantial, revealed an apparent in- I tention to fiteal a ham on the nigh, referred j to by the witness Oliver, and was sufficient to justify a conviction. Finn would therefore be imprisoned for one month. In the case of the woman Dubois there was very strong suspicion, but she would be dismissed with a caution. Prisoner, who had conducted herself in a violent manner during 1 the hearing, and had openly threatened Ritciie while giving his evidence, was no sooner discharged than she ran quickly out of the Court, and struck Ritchie a severe blow in the mouth. A summons for the assault was applied for and heard, aud Mary Dubois was fined £2 and costs, or in default 14 days imprisonment. During the spring and summer months serious sickness as well as all those distressing symptons of lassitude and depression that in warm weather afflict persons residing in southern latitudes may in a very great measure be prevented by occasionally taking a dose of some Effervescing aperient such as Eno's Fruit Salts, Maltine, or Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, which correct and invigorate the entire system. To be had of T. F. Moore, chemist, &c, Waipawa, at prices within the reach of all.—[_Advt.] Miracles are rather 'worked by patient persistency than by precipitate operation. The streams that are drawn from the fissured rocks flow only after continuous drilling. The prophets, with their magic wandß, live only in sacred history. To test the true virtue of a thing we must subject it to a faiv trial. Medicines that cure in single doses are nostrums. The relief afforded in the ailments which it is calculated to treat comes of using perseveringly Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.—[Advt.]