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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3581, 3 January 1883, Page 2

Mr Broughtoif s raeehouso Argyle, that received injuries through colliding with Mr Heslop's Tidal Wave at the Woodthorpe races on Boxing Day, had subsequently to be shot, there being no hope of its recovery. We are requested by the Registrar of the Supreme Court to state that the spring examinations, both in General Knowledge and Law, will be held on the first Monday in August, 188.'i, instead of in September. The ordinary March examination"will, however, be held as hitherto. We remind our readers that, the sale of family tickets to admit to the pyrotechnic display at the recreation ground to-morrow night closes at 8 o'clock this evening, after which hour no more will be issued. _ Those wishing to obtain such will therefore require to apply for them at once either to Mr Morley, Mr Sturm, or Mr Prebble. The folly of tethering a horse near an embankment was exemplified the other day by the death of the animal through strangulation. The horse had been tethered on a piece of ground above the new road running through '"the Fitzgerald estate, and during the night the poor beast went over the cutting and was found in the morning hanging by his neck. A. telegram from Gisborne states that the Pacific Petroleum CWpany have got down ten feet further than the depth stated in our report of yesterday. The boring has now reached a depth of 1.31 feet. This is remarkably smart work, and shows the wisdom of the directory in not commencing to bore until everything was on the ground, with an energetic and competent .manager at the head of affairs. At last the wishes of the settlers of Poverty Bay have been gratified in the matter of the sittings of the Supreme Court. The enormous expense to which the country aa well au litigants have been put through

bringing down prisoners, witnesses, and counsel from Gisborne to Napier will for the future bo saved. This town will, of course, lose the benefits that may have hitherto been derived by the influx of visitors from Poverty Bay during the Supreme Court sessions, but the "foreign capital" that was necessarily left behind here was a trifle compared to the annoyance suffered by scores of jurors who were compelled to leave their own affairs in order to settle the quarrels of people living a hundred miles away. ! Wilhelm Krause, baker, White road, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. He was driving his horse and cart, when the animal took fright and bolted. Mr Kr-iuso was thrown out of the cart, and, his head striking the ground, he received concussion of the brain, and was conveyed home insensible, in which condition he remained for some time. Dr. de Lisle was sent for and attended to the patient, who, we hear, is progressing as favorably as can be expected. The removal of a dead horse that liad been washed up on the beach caused no little interest yesterday. The carcase was in an advanced stage of decomposition, and the only way of getting rid of the nuisance was to'tow it out to sea. The Inspector of Nuisances got a boat manned from the Spit and pulled round, but as there wa.s a heavy swell it had to be kept a good distance off shore. The difficulty was then to get the rope, the end of which was attached to the carcase, to the boat, Clark, it Corporation laborer who was in the boat, stripped, swam ashore, and so did the work. The rope, however, broke, and a new one had to be procured, and the performance to be repeated, when at length the remains of the animal were consigned to the deep. We regret to report that the employees of Messrs Large and Townley are out on strike. It appears that some time ago the employees asked for a half-holiday on Saturdays, and received for an answer that if the business would allow of such a concession by tho beginning of the year it would be* granted: in the meantime Mr Large said that if any of his hands wanted a half-holiday to attend a cricket match or otherwise he could take it. Yesterday, we believe, the application was renewed, but the business of the firm not permitting of such an arrangement the request was refused, with, what we consider, the above unfortunate result. (Messrs Large and Townley have always been most considerate to their employees, v.nd would certainly have granted any concession in reason with the state of the times. There are, we hear, plenty of men in the trade out of employment'at Wellington and Christchurch, and we fail to see what advantage a strike can do at Napier. The staff of the Daily Telegraph was entertained at a supper last night by Mr E. W. Knowles, the proprietor of the paper. The supper was given at the Clarendon Club Hotel, covers being placed for twenty-four. The table was loaded with all the delicaeicof the season, and was laid out with artistic elegance. After the viands and sweets had been disposed of, Mr R. Price proposed the toast of ••Success to the Daily Telegraph, coupled with the name of its proprietor." In doing so he regretted that, owing tc temporary indisposition, Mr Knowles was unable to be present, and he referred to the cordial relations that at all times had subsisted between the proprietor and the start. Tbe toast was drunk with enthusiasm. The other toasts were, the "Editor," the "Manager," the "Sub-Editor," the "Foreman," the "Machinist," the "Jot Printer," the " Compositors," and " Oui Host." All these were cordially proposed and heartily responded to, the interval between each being filled by songs auc music, Mr G. Garry presiding at the piane with his usual ability. Altera pleasant reunion the party broke up at 11 p.m. Of " Billee Taylor" played by M'Callums "Tambour-Major" Company, the Nelson Mail says:—-"One of the mosl welcome sights that has greeted our eye for a long time w;is the green curiam as ii fell at half past ten last night em the closing scene of this most puerile production Utterly meaningless, drearily devoid of either' humour or pathos, the satire it i; supposed to contain, if it exists at all, se . thickly overlaid "with rubbish as to be tindiscoverable, relieved at very rare interval! by decent music, the long suffering audience who were tormented with it last night miisi have been at a loss to imagine how an\ man or men could have given their mind; to the composition of such abenninable stuff, or, having composed if, could have had the hardihood to make it public. That am company possessed of respectable abilitie; should voluntarily set to work to learn, oi have the heart to act it is simply inconceivable. Last eight wo saw this "opera.'' for the first time, and we earnestly praj that we may never again bo condemned te ■ spend two such hours of unutterable weari- • ness. This is all we Unvc to s;iy about "Billee Taylor." i The London correspondent of a contemporary writes : —" It is a singular fact thai the English arc being literally stamped out of Lonelon. Take, for instance, Regentstreet. Every third or fourth shop is kepi ; by an Italian, German, or Frenchman Why is this r Simply because the foreignei i is more thrifty, and is, if I may use the term, more of an artist, and has more "go '' i in him than the average Englishman. The i Englishman must have his meat and hi.- ---■ little luxuries, while the German grows fat s on bis oatmeal water.and cabbage with hcri ring. This question of foreign labour it . facing us with staring countenance in the metropolis, and it is raising its head in all tho large provincial towns, and especially iin seaport places. The majority of men i who work our mercantile marine are not Englishmen, they are foreigners. "If I can get a Dutchman' (meaning by a Duchman any foreigner), said a sea captain to me, " I infinitely prefer him to a country- ' man. Tho erne is sober, tho other is the ; reverse." The career open to the common ; sailor is not tempting enough cither to the I offspring of the British School Board. The question of the employment of foreign ! labour in England has a dangerous enough outlook alreaely, v> ithout adding the Chinese i difficulty to it. Professor Moore, of Waipawa, lias just ' opened in connection with his present busi- ' ness a Fancy Repository, ami is now showing all the latest novelties in New Year kv„, carets, concertinas, accordians, musical albums and boxes, violins, ladies gold and sivler watches, clocks, fancy and other stationery, inkstands, Chinese lanterns, talking dolls, and every description of toys. Every person purchasing- .CI worth of gooels receives a beautifully illustrated almanac ; ! /ratis.~-{Ai>\r.']