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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3526, 26 October 1882, Page 2

An important meeting of the Waste Lands Board will be held to-morrow, as the work of classifying the Crown Lands, as required by the new Act, will be taken in hand. The adjourned conference of the local Fire Brigades will be held this evening at the Napier brigade station, at 8 o'clock, in order to .arrange for the reception of the Fire Brigade delegates from the various parts of the colony, also to consider the advisability or otherwise of holding a corapetion when the delegates arrive. The audit of the Borough half-yearly accounts was finished yesterday by the auditors, Messrs Banner and [Girdlestone. The accounts are made up to September 30, and show receipts £6302, and balance of loan transferred to general account £13,549, making a total of £20,351; expenditure £20,727, this sum being inclusive of overdraft repaid amounting to £5977, and £6693 expended on the water extension. The bank overdraft on October Ist stood at £375. In the above figures we have omitted shillings and pence. On the conclusion of the inspection of the volunteer corps last night, the major commanding the district desired to call the attention of the members of the two companies to the new regulatious to be enforced on and after January Ist next. The officers informed Major Routledge that the question was too large a one for discussion in the open air, and that they proposed calling a meeting of the volunteers to consider the whole matter involved. The companies then marched to Clive Square, where they went through some battalion movements very creditably. We are requested to acknowledge receipt of the following sums towards the Jack relief fund : —Collected by Mr Cropp, postmaster at Porangahau—Mr M. Cropp, 5s ; J. Connolly, 5s ;A. J. Saunders, 10a; W. Tileman, 10s ; John White £1 Is ; Alfred Wells, 10s ; W. O. Neill, 10s ; H. D. Pye, 10s ;J. S. Bissett, 5s ; Gγ. Tronson, ss; John Kinfr, 5s ; Mrs Cropp 5s ; Mrs Bissetb, 5s ; MrE. Ruston, 5s ; J. Bumblebee, 5s ; H. Lambert, 5s ; Miss E. Murphy, ss; Mr C. ilalse, 5s ;R. Hall, ss; B. Dennsby, 5s ; T. Slattery, 5s ; C. Davies, 5s ; J. Driscoll, 5s ; V. D., 3s ; a stranger, 2s 6d ; R. J., 2s 6d ; a friend, 2s 6d ; C. Or. Brown, 2s 6d ; M. MacCallum, 2s 6d ; J. Dempsey, 2s 6d ; C. Folton, 2s 6d ; H. MacMullen, 2s 6d ; J. 5.8., 2s 6d ; a friend, 2s.

It their canvassing for donations for the Old English Fair the ladies committee, having received a side-saddle, forwarded a letter to Mr Allan McLean requesting that gentleman in his generosity to make them a gift of a horse. In due course a letter purporting to come from Mr McLean was received by the committee stating that he would be glad to accede to their " modest request," and that a horse would be sent up to Mr Palmer's stable to await their acceptance. The next day a horse was given in charge of Mr Palmer and placed in a loose box. To all enquiries Mr Palmer stated that the horse was there right enough, but he declined to value it, as he was requested to do. This morning some members of the committee waited at the stable to take delivery, when we may leave our readers to judge of their surprise and indignation, somewhat mingled with merriment, on discovering in the loose box a little wooden horse of the value of 12s. It is ye olde Englyshe joke. The weather last evening proving , favorable there was another very large attendance at the fancy fair, the takings fci the afternoon and evening amounting to over £114. Confidence in the safety of the " merrie-go-round" was restored, and hundreds of persons, both adults and juveniles, availed themselves of the opportunity of having a " spin." Mr Newbould, who since the opening of the Fayre has been indefatigable in his exertions to cater to the musical tastes of the public, was present throughout the entire evening with his excellent little string band, which contributed a number of operatic pieces in a pleasing manner. The Punch and Judy show, under the management of Messrs Dodyraede and Diddims, was opened for the first time, it is almost needless to say, caueed much amusement and gave every satisfaction, the room in which it was exhibited being crowded at each representation. To-night there will be a Christy entertainment, and the Artillery Band will play several quiet selections. One of the most successful concerts ever held in Waipawa took place last evening in that town in aid of the instrument fund of the Waipawa brass band. At 7.15 the band paraded through the streets, playing stirring tunes, which had the effect on the townspeople usually caused by bands, when discoursing martial music, and at 8 o'clock the Oddfellows' Hall was packed. The performance commenced by the band playing a lively galop. Mr W. Jones then feelingly rendered the popular song, " Sailors' Grave." This was folio wed. by "Spring" by Miss English. This lady is always popular with a Waipawa audience. A vocal duet by Miss Hatton and Mr Shanly was tastefully sung, and deserved an encore. Miss Boyle, for her rendering of " In the Gloaming," was recalled, and favored the audience with the last verse. Mr Ben Cosgrove _ created considerable amusement by his acting and singing the Irish song " Dublin Carman,' and had to return to the stage and give the audience another taste of his ability. A beautifully-rendered song was "Silver Moonlight Winds are Blowing" by Mrs Mason, for which that lady received an encore. Mrs Fletcher hit the feeling of the audience by her singing of an Irish song, "I've just had a letter." The first part concluded by Mr J. Naylor singing the comic song,"" Johnny Morgan" with bombardon and bass drum accompaniment. This was quite a novelty on the Waipawa stage, and of course it had to be repeated. After the interval the baud played the " Come Back to Erin" valees. A comic reading was given by Mr Naylor, also later on a comic song, both of which created a a great deal of amusement. Songs were also given by Mrs Fletcher, Mrs Mason, Miss Boyle, and Miss Hatton, and Mr Lome, all of which received great applause from the audience, as also did the song, with cornet and drum accompaniment, "Hark! the Drum "by Mr Shanly. " God Save the Queen," by the band, concluded the performance. The limonnt mised at this entertainment will be of great assistance to the band, and will enable them to pay off all liabilities due on several of the instruments which they are now using, and which have been kindly lent for some months past by several residents of Napier. The accompaniments to the various songs during the evening were played by Mrs Shanly and Mr Harding with their acsustomed ability.

A report has been spread tbat the horrible disease known as the plica polonicah&a made its appearance in London, brought over by the traders in false hair from Poland. The disease is one of the most horrible kind, incurable, and rendering its victim an object as hideous to behold as the leper of the East. The hair, instead of dividing into fine and silky threads, conglomerates into thick matter, with only one thick root, which bleeds on being cut, so that no relief can bo obtained, save by cauterisation of the whole mass. The report has caused a great scare.

Dr. J. T. Mills, of Stockton, California, i says:—" Hace loz. cream of tartar in 16ozs. \ water, take a table-spoonful three times a day, and you may sleep with a small-pox patient with perfect impunity. Let each citizen do the same thing, and in fifteen days it may be the end of small-pox in this or any other oity." A parliamentary paper just issued shows that the net amount of the English National Debt on March 31st last was £729,056,102 17e 9d; the total funded debt was £709,598,547 10s 6d; and the gross amount of the debt £762,832,684 I7e 9d. During the year ending at the same date the total reduction of debt was £7,448,445 9s 10d. The Rev. Mr Tread well evidently holds a very poor opinion of evangelists. At a church soiree given at Patea last week to welcome the newly appointed Presbyterian ministerjthere he " urged upon the people to stick to their pastor, and not allow themselves to be led away by any travellers who, under the guise of evangelists, sought to sow discord amongst the congregration, merely as a means of promoting their selfish ends." The Evening Post days:—"A shipment of twelve dozen lamps, for use oh the Wellington and Wauganui railways, has just been received by the local department from the glassworks of Messrs Cook and Sons, who have lately started in business in Auckland. The lamps appear to be of first-class quality and workmanship, and it is to be hoped that they will be found to compare favourably with the imported article." Speaking at the Magistrate's Court, . Oamaru, recently, in reference to the Justices of the Peace Act, Mr O'Meagher - alluded to the fact that a number of laws were brought into force without the people having any means of knowing their provisions. This, he said, was most extraordinary legislation; and it was a monstrous thing and most unconstitutional that laws should be rushed through and brought into force, and the people had to obey them, before it was possible for them to know what they had to obey. It reminded him of the days of Caligula, who used to have his edicta written up at the top of the highest pillars of the temple, where no one could read them. The people were consequently always breaking them, and Caligula rubbed his hands joyfully and punished them. At a London meeting to raise money to complete the excavations at Ephesus, Mr Wood, the explorer, told how he discovered the famous temple. No writings existed to afford him the slightest clue to the whereabouts of this wonder of the ancient world. But he hit upon an inscription from the wall of that theatre to which St. Paul would have entered, but " the disciples suffered him not." This descibed a procession in which certain images were carried from the temple through the city gates. After mush searching he found the gates, and then at length hit upon the pared way, worn into grooves by the wheels of chariots. Little by little he made progress at the city of EphesuSj until he reached the temple of the great goddess Diana. The fragments of friezes and column drums give a glimmering idea of what the whole must have been. They are now in the BritTs&Y Museum.

Justices of the Peace, says an exchange, have their work out out. The new Act for their guidance ■which Parliament was good enough to pass last session weighs abcut halt a pound. It forms a volume of 100 printed pages, contains 327 clauses, and has annexed to it between 20 and 30 pages of schedules. Of course every J.P. will be obliged to have the law he has to administer at his finger enda, otherwise he may commit himself instead of those who appear before him. We do not envy the [gentlemen who form the army of the " great unpaid " the labor they have before them of making themselves acquainted with all the details of this bulky statute. Should any of them find their brain reel under the operation, they may derive consolation from an occasional study of the Lunatics Act, which contains 346 clauses, and a heap of schedules. At the battle of Groveton, Stonewall Jackson tried an experiment which nearly frightened a Federal division out of their boots. Bars of railroad iron were cut up into foot lengths and fired from some of his heaviest guns, and the noise these missiles made as they went sailing through the air was a sort of cross between the ehriek of a woman and the bray of a mule. The Federals listened in wonder at the first few which banged through the tree tops, and presently one ef the pieces fell in front of a Pennsylvania regiment. A captain stepped forward to inspect it, and after turning it over he rushed to his colonel with the news. " Colonel, them infernal rebels are firing railroad iron at us." " No." " They are. for a fact." " Captain, advance your com-7 pany to that ridge and deploy, and the minute you find Jackson getting ready to fire freight cars at us send me word. I don't propose to have my regiment mashed into the ground when it can just as well be decently exterminated in the regular way."

The London correspondent of the New Zealand Times says :—" A morbid individual in the undertaking line has been giving a grand banquet in Philadelphia, the invitations being printed on paper ornamented with skull and crossbones, &c. The dining-room was hung with black drapery, and lighted with wax candles. The white porcelain service had a black border, and even the very dishes themeelres savored of the same gloomy taste. Thus a potato pie was brought up in the shape of a burial mound; and salad was dressed with white of an egg and bltck truffles ; the ices were in the form of coffins, death's head, hearses, memorial stones, &c. 1 can scarcely conceive anything more hideous and disgusting ; such indecent taste could hardly have been expected amongst heathens. The grand Christian doctrine of the soul's immortality and the honor in which the body is, as St. Paul teaches, to be held as the temple of the incorruptible, roust have been utterly cast to the winds in the interest of the almighty but degrading dollar."

Women who wear high-heeled boots do . bo not only literally, but legally at their, peril, according to a recent decision at>--home. This point was solemnly decided by Mr Justice Denman and a jury in the case of Mra Bland, of Woolwich, who, while embarking at Brighton. on a steamboat, tripped up on the gangway over a concealed obstruction in the shape of a roll of tarpaulin carelessly left there, and injured herself. Mrs Bland brought suit > for compensatory and exemplary damages. During the examination of Dr. Butler, the medical witness, Mr Justice Denman asked him if he had noticed the heels of Mrs Bland's boots when he examined her, to which the witness answered that, to the best of his belief, they were reasonable. Mr Justice Denman then said he asked the question because the absurdly high-heeled boots which were worn by ladies now seemed to be built on purpose to cause accidents. In. the end the jury found that whatever the negligence of the steamboat officials might have been, Mra Bland, by her high-heeled boots, had wantonly and wilfully contributed to causo the injury of which she complained, and therefore absolved the proprietors. On the same principle a lady who may be thrown down and injured through the overweening length of her train must take the consequences without redress. One of the most pleasant and gentle of aperients is that formed by mixing with a glass of water a teaspoonful of citrate of magnesia, so called from its having been originally found in Magnesia, a city of Lydia. The medicinal qualities of magnesia, like good wine, " need no busL," -y and when taken in moderate doses it acts like ■ a charm, tbe effects produced being gateful and invigorating. For young children fluid magnesia is highly recommended. Both compounds may be had in ary quantity of Protessor Moore, Medical Hall, Waipawa.—[Advt.] What is called mal-aseimilation of food proceeds from the failure of the organs to

perform their proper functions. It ifl thia condition of the system that is such a fertile source of indigestion and dyspepsia, the twin maladies that are daily marshalling thousands to their graves. In their incipient stages it is ea&y to cure them, and even when they have become chronic, potent remedies will remove them. Of these, TJdoupho Wolfe's Schiedam AboMATio Sohnaeps has been found to prove most beneficial, because it acts directly npon the alimentary canal, purging it of its impurities, ridding it of its obstructions, paving the way for the proper absorption of the food.—[Advt.]