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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3511, 9 October 1882, Page 2

A sitting of the District Court for the disposal of business under the Debtors and Creditors Act will be held to-morrow in the Supreme Court House at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. There are at present twenty-nine civil cases on the cause list for hearing in the RM. Court to-morrow. Of these twentyone are summonses that have been issued for the recovery of overdue borough rates. It is stated in a special cablegram to the Melbourne Age that the daggers ÜBed in the Phoenix Park tragedy have been discovered in Dublin. The police believe that ten persons were concerned in the murders, and that they are still concealed in Ireland. It is expected that the delegates of all the New Zealand fire brigades will meet at Napier some time next January, when a grand peries of competition matches will afford the Spit brigade the coveted opportunity of trying conclusions with the Napier men. Cr. Ellison has given notice to more the following resolution at the next meeting of the Borough Council :— u That this Council discharge the Finance Committee, and direct I the Public Works Committee to submit to the Council all necessary reports on financial matters." The Wanganni Chronicle expresses the opinion that every man among the Thames volunteers who took part in the recent burning of the efHgy of the Defence Minister ought to be expelled from the volunteer force with ignominy, as having shown themselves unworthy to wear the uniform of New Zealand's oitizen soldiers. The Zulu War exhibition, together with views of the bombardment of Alexandria and other incidents in the late Egyptian war, will open here for a short season in the shop adjoining the Caledonian Hotel on Thursday evening next. Gold and silver watches and other valuable gifts will be given away every night, each visitor receiving a present of some kind. Sir William Fox considers his work on the . West Coast progresses satisfactorily, and to the evident gratification of the Natives, whose long uncertain titles are at last being definitely determined, and their land distinctly marked out. " He believes it will" take most of the coming summer to finish the work, but when it is done so also is the native difficulty in that part of the island. Captain Preece, as Trust Commissioner, gave notice in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning that tbe following deeds submitted to him for examination during the pant week would be certified to if no objections were lodged within the next five days : —Lease, Henare Matua and Hoera Rautu to John Roberts, Tautane block 36n, area 1052 acres; conveyance, Paora Rohiha to Her Majesty the Queen, portion of Ohu block Manawatu No. 3; conveyance, Enoha and others to R. D. Maney, Aranui block, Wairoa district, area 450 acres. The rumor (says the N.Z. Times) that Mr E. G. Wright, M.H.R. for Ashburton, has been offered the vacant Ministerial portfolio is correct, but he has delayed in intimating his acceptance. The reason assigned for this is that he desires the post of Minister of Public Works in preference to that of Postmaster-General offered him. Against this change public opinion would demur in most parts of the colony, and none more so than in the Wellington district. The portfolio of Public Works is at present in very trustworthy keeping* ia the bands of Mr Walter Johnston. We understand that Mr W. Parker has consented to occupy the effice of Receiver of Rates till the end of the year, by which time, it ia to be hoped, the ill-considered amendments passed at the special meeting of the Council will be rescinded. The original motion was to the effect that all salaries be reduced to the scale at which they stood before the loan was raised; the amendment, which was carried, fixed the salaries and apportioned the offices with the happiest indifference as to the possibility or otherwise of the work of the Corporation being performed under the proposed arrangements. We are requested to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums towards the Jack relief fund :—Messrs Nelson Bros, and Williams, £2; Mr W. Nelson, £2; Mr R. E. Warren, 10s; Mr C. W. Greenwood, 10s ;Mr W. Nuttall, 10s; Mr D. Nnttall, 10s; Mr T. A. Walter, ss; Mr C. O'Neill, 5s ;Mr John Allen, 2s 6d; Mr Pat. McCarthy, ss; Mr E. T. Baker, ss; Mr Peter Nelson, 5a ; Mr F. Farmer, 2s 6d ; Mr JReidy, os; Mr A. Blackman, ss; Mr Peacock, ss; Mr W. Carroll, 3s; Mr C. Hansen, ss; Mr T. H. Rainbow, ss; 'Mr J. Connor, ss; Mr Nauman, ss; Mr H. Hunter, 10s; 5.8., £1; Mr A. C. Webber, ss; Mr F. C. Sturm, 10s; Mr A. Weir, 10s; Messrs Watson and Co., £1 Is. Nothing can be done by the Corporation towards making a permanent approach to the Port Ahuriri bridge until, the Harbor Board meets ,and gives its content to the road being taken through.. one. of the Board's reserves. In the meantime the limbs and lives of travellers by coach are daily risked. Wo think if. a cart and a Corporation laborer were sent up to the bridge to remove' obstructing rocks the trifling expense would be amply covered by the convenience afforded, the .public. It does not want an overseer of roads, a ganger, three carta, and half a dozen men with long-handled shovels, to .do the work ; one active man in a day without a cart could do misch to render the road safe.; Mr Georga EJlis' newly erected brewery at Hastings is the most pompact establishment of its kind in Hawke's Bay, and contains all the latest improvements. Iri connection with tho brewery "Mr_ Ellis also manufactures eerated waters, ginger ales, &c., and has secured the services of the late foreman of Mr Dixon's celebrated waterworks at Wellington. Mr Ellis is in a position to introduce various novelties in tbe way of temperance drinks, while the ale that we have tasted at his is beyond all prais.6. We venture to think that Ellis'soda-water will be a household word in the district, and if he continues brewing a pure beer from malt and hops such as the sample we have had there will be no necessity to go to Dunedin andlnver-cai-gill for Ijght ales. Mr Ellis attributes the excellence of his beer—apart from anything else—to the purity of;the water at Hastings. The Auckland Observer gives a welldeserved rebuke to the many addle-headed young men who forward correspondence to that journal. '. Our lively. contemporary says :—" One of the country correspondents begins his letter with, 'Sam says he will punch your correspondent's, head if he catches "him.' We wish to. heaven Sam would. A little pounding judiciously applied to the head of the correspondent in question might have the effect of squeezing several quarts of water out of his brain, like knocking the juice out of a boiled pumpkin. A lot of idiots are continually telling us that somebody suspects them of writing to the Observer, and has threatened to remonstrate with a horsewhip. * * * If some of these people flattered themselves that they will be horsewhipped on account of forcible writing we can tell them that, they are perfectly safe." We think the above mußt apply to the Napier correspond; dent, a specimen of whose rubbish we impale below :—" Bob does not look so well ia grey....T_e young ladie. Bay that Mr G.

I has such dear, wicked, killing eyes, and f Such a love of a moustache....Since the Observer has been publishing Napier correspondence, some of the wiseacres here have pitohed upon two or threo innocent parties, and are frequently to be heard holding forth on their supposed merits to the real offenders, much to the amusement of the latter, who indulge in the laugh known as the one in the sleeve. Like Sir Joseph Porter, they are all on the wrong tack; they mean well, but they don't know....The inhabitants of a certain quiet suburb of Napier are disturbed two mornings a week by the sonorous kiss of a youthful amorous pair....Mr B. looks quite distingue in the helmet, wind and weather proof, Mr H's straw hat....The ladies say Tom S. is the best natured fellow in Napier." The scientific correspondent of the Melbourne Telegraph writes :—" At the present moment astronomers are much puzzled at a red spot on the disc of Jupiter. It remains fixed since the three years that it has been observed. The spot is four times longer than the length of the earth, i« of a pale brick red, upon a luminous white ground, terminating in a point east and west. Jupiter possesses a very extensive atmosphere, for the spots, very varied, that are perceived on his disc disappear a long time before arriving at the border where the revolution of tho planet carries them. Spectrum analyses also confirm the presence of an atmosphere. The pressure is as great on the surface of Jupiter j as if the earth's atmosphere were liquefied. Perhaps when the red spot in question goes away it may reveal a little of ,/' the real aspect of Jupiter." The name of Mr Van Resselburghe, of the Royal Observatory of Brussels, may yet rank with that of Edison. He has discovered that the ordinary telegraph wire can be used for telephonic transmission, and experiments have justified the acsuracy of that discovery. In like manner the inventor of " Susrar Worm Cakes for Children " has proved himself a benefactor of the whole human race, as thousands upon thousands of parents everywhere can testify. All orders should be addressed to Professor Moore, Medi3al Hall, Waipawa.—[a_"_] " It is superb, but it is not war," said the Frenchman when the gallant Six Hundred rode into the jaws of death " at Balaklava, and po there are many preparations that are pleasant to the taste, exhilarating in their effects, and with pretentious curative properties, that have not a remedial or active element about them. Not so with Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam: Aromatic Schnapps. It is palatable, stimulative, operative, and produces marked results.-.>[A_t.] 11l I II 1 ______ | |