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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3514, 12 October 1882, Page 2

There was a clean charge sheet presented in the Eesident Magistrate's Court this morning, the only business being the formal hearing of evidence in a Gisborne civil case. Mr W. Gr. Motley has been, appointed local broker for the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand, and Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R., has consented to act as one of the local directors. We learn from Waipawa that Mr Alexander Mackay, Laving requested permission to withdraw bis resignation, wap, at a meeting of the Waipawa Council held this day, re-appointid county road overseer. There were some thirty applications for the position sent in. The proceeds of the fancy dress ball that will be available in aid of the funds for the erection of a children's ward at the Hospital will amount to about £130. Very great oredit is due to the members of the committee, who, by their personal exertion?, kept down the expenses, and made the ball one of the most successful affairs of its kind in Napier. The Zulu War exhibition opene this evening in the shop adjoining the Caledonian Hotel, Hastings-steet, when a liberal distribution of gifts will take place. For tonight the leading prizes will be gold and silver keyleas watches, an electro tea and coffee service, accordian, &c. A quantity of jewellery, clocks, vases, and other goods will also be " given away." We hear that the Tauraurau road is now finiphed, and from the nature of the country through which it passes the contractors have been enabled to hand it over to the County Council metalled for more than half its length. Timber is now being prepared for the construction of necessary culverts, and ac the only bridge on the line is finished the inland Patea settlers may confidently expect to get their wool drayed into town this season. At a meeting of the committee of management of the forthcoming Wesleyan Fancy Fayre and Bazaar, held last evening, a deputation was appointed to wait on His Worship the Mayor to ask him to assist in the opening ceremony. It was decided, in view of a rule of the Methodist Society brought under the notice of the meeting, which forbids all forms of gambling, that the proposed lottery in connection with the Fayre should be abandoned. The only remaining business was the appointment of door-keepers, ticket-takers, &c, and the meeting adjourned until Monday evening. The Dunedin Morning Herald is responsible for the following:—"lt is said that since the prorogation of Parliament, the odious system of imposing fines for trivial offences on the employes of the Railway Department has been resumed. Whilst Parliament was sitting it was discontinued. Perhaps this thing is not properly understood either by the public or by the Ministerial head of the department. As explained to us it operates, not as a temporary, but as a continuous and permanent punishment. Thus, if a man is getting, say 9s per day, and for some offence, real or imaginary, he is fined 6d per day, that reduction will follow him so long as he remains in the service. If by merit, or seniority, his pay is nominally raised to 10s per day be will only received 9s 6d; and if after long years of servitude he is advanced to a position to which 1 Is per day is nominally attached, he will get no more than 10s 6d. It is a lifelong penalty in fact. What becomes of these fines is more than we can tell, but no doubt they are taken care of and can be accounted for somehow. But leaving this aside, it is quite time that a proper inquiry was made into the working of the Railway Department than which nothing could well be more unsatisfactory." An article on the comet in a Melbourne paper says that it is undoubtedly the largest comet seen since 1861, and, it is thought, exceeds even that in brightness. The elements of the approximate orbit show its perihelion distance to have been one of the smallest on record, and must have brought the comet at its nearest approach to the sun almost to grazing its surface; for, taking the calculation as correct, it passed within 453,000 miles of the sun's centre, and as the radius of the apparent surface is 430,000 it must have been within about 23,000 miles of it—a somewhat alarming proximity, and certainly within range of the enormous volcanic jets of incandescent hydrogen ejected from the sun in the vicinity of sun spots, which often extend 100,000 miles from its surface.' The elements generally show a remarkable similarity to the great comet of 1843, and if not the same, it will probably be found to be a comet belonging to the same system, moving in nearly the same orbit. It is also stated that Mr Todd, of Adelaide, has identified the comet with that of 1843. The temperance people, writes the Washington correspondent oi the Sydney Morning Herald, are becoming more and more an appreciable element in our politics. There are now four prohibitory States —lowa, Kansas, Maine, and yermont—in spite of the fact that Maine, the original prohibitory State, makes a much poorer 6howing<pf prpgress during the past generation thatv. «Ie States, like New York and New Jersey where a license law prevails. But what can statistics avail against the bitter, fanatical hatred against drunkenness which seems to have taken the place of the old agitation against slavery P Like slavery, liquor is an evil which gives its assailants the excitements of righteous wrath and benevolent pity. The poor drunkard takes the place of the poor slave ; and the rutn-sellers are hated very much as were the slave-dealera and slave-catchers in the old days of aboli? tionism. Probably, two native Amerjcang out of three in the North are in favor of absolute temperance ; and in many churches all the membrrs abstain alike from rum and tobacco. The strength of the foreign vote, however, which is cast almo-t solid against so-called " sumptuary laws," and the activity of the rum-sellers in practical politics prevent the American sentiment from getting the ascendency. It seems, however, to be merely a matter of time. In Ohio the Republicans have had to choose between alienating the Germans and losing the temperance vote, and they have preferred to let tho Germans go.

\ A eohool in the north of England once i made the following announcement : 9 " Larnin' taught here three pence a week— / and them as lams manners two pence more." Mr Samuel Morley M.P., speaking at the Stockwell Orphanage the other day, related this anecdote, and added that he sincerely wished a score of members of the House of Commons could be sent to that Bohool. The name of Mr Van Resselburghe, of the Royal Observatory of Brussels, may yet rank with thab of Edison. He has discovered that the ordinary telegraph wire can be used for telephonic transmission, and experiments have justified the accuracy of that discovery. In like manner the inventor of " Suerar "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.—[at>vt.] " The overwrought brain," like the poisoned fountain-head that impregnates its own and every other stream that mingles with its currents, is the main, superinducting cause of many a bodily ailment. The overtaxed organism breaks under the weight of the severe drains on it, just as the overloaded base crumbles under a superincumbent pressure. Strengthen the cerebral functions, and it can stand continuous burdens, and nothing will so fortify them as Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Akomatic Schnapps.- -[Advt.]