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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3582, 4 January 1883, Page 2

Mr IT. B. Scaly, formerly Resident Magistrate and Commissioner of Lands at Napier, contemplates returning to the colony some time during this year. Mr A. C. Dewes, Life of the firm of Messrs Cornford and Dewes, solicitors, has taken those offices formerly occupied by Mr White, and in the building that is occupied in part by Mr Roopc Brooking, opposite the Post Office. It will he seen by our Sydney telegrams that the Ministry of Sir Henry Pn.rkes ha* resigned, and that Mr Alexander Smart has been summoned by the Governor to form an Administration. It may not be generally known that Mr Stuart is the brother of the Bishop of Waiapu. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the fireworks disjday, that, was to have taken place in the recreation ground, Carlyle-street, to-night, has had to be postponed until Tuesday next, f)th instant. Fillilily tickets may now be obtained up to Monday evening. In the Eesident Magistrate's Court this morning, before J. 0. Kinross, Esij[., J.P., Thomas M'Manus, an old offender, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was sentenced to -IS hours' imprisonment, in default of payment of a tine of 5s and costs. There was no other business. It was officially notified in our issue of last night that Mr Black, the municipal road overseer and clerk of works, has been further appointed to the offices of inspector of nuisances, inspector of hackney carriages, fire inspector for buildings, and building surveyor. These last four offices were liold by 'Mr Williams, who, being deprived of them, is now only valuer and clerical assistant in the Town Clerk's office. We do not know where the economy comes in by the above arrangement. A " Road Board Ratepayer " asks us the following question:—"The county rate is 9d in the €, and the Road Board rate 3d. By abolishing the Road Board the threepenny rate would be done away with. How will the deficiency in the local revenue be made good? ,. If si sum of money represented by the rate of threepence is absolutely required to be expended on purely local objects, the County Council has the power to'impose a special rate upon the particular district benefiting from the expenditure. We live glad to report that the difference that iuWo between Messrs Large and Townley and tJieh- employees has been happily settled, and that the latter returned to their work this morning. Wo undei-srand that this settlement has been brought about by a compromise. Owing to the lateness of the season the employees do not care to push their point it the present time, and Messrs Large and Towidcy will accede to the halfholiday demand in November next. In stating the case yesterday we failed to make it clear that, in asking for the half-holiday on Saturdays, fhe employees did not intend that their employe!'* sljould suffer by any curtailment of the houo-s o* Wfirk. the rule of the trade being adhered to, lljut the half-holiday should ba made up during tic week. At the Waipawa Magistrate's Court yesterday, before H. Wilding, Esq., J. P., Mary Victor was charged, on the information of R. Yon Mirbaeh, with having used insulting and abusive language to informant on the 2'Jtli of December last. Mr Guy appeared for defendant, ;ind took exception to the information as hot, enclosing a ground of complaint, the Act under which it was laid providing that abufcivo language

was an offence only when likely to cause a breach of the peace, and the information set out nothing beyond the bare statement that bad language was used on a certain date. The Bench decided to hear the evidence, und after talcing the statements of R. Yon Mirhaoh, Fred Smith, Mary Victor, and Paul Victor, decided that an offence had been committed, and fined the defendant £2 and costs. Mr Guv asked that the fine might bo made £•">, so" that he might appeal, but the Bench refused to alter its decision. There are five candidates in the field for the four vacant scats at the Hospital Committee. Messrs M. X, Miller and H. Williams, -who retire by efiluxion of their terms of office, will stand for re-election, and with them Messrs E. W. Knowles, S. Carnell, and Dr. de Lisle. Mr Winter has deliuitely decided not to stand for reelection." Any subscriber of £1 and upwards to the Hospital funds has the right to a vote, and can nominate himself or any other subscriber or subscribers (up to the requisite number) by writing the names on a slip of paper, duly signed, and handing it in to the Town Clerk" not later than noon of Tuesday next. Nomination forms may be obtained of Mr Harker. In a paper read by Mr Frank Stuart recently before a meeting of delegates of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, he said that he believed that if they imported 10.000 immigrants next year they would not he able to keep the half of them. In the decenniad between IS7I and 1881, they sent by sea to New South Wales, Queensland, and South and West Australia, 19,000 more people than they received from them, and these were nearly all young and enterprising men, many of them with considerable capital. A ship which lias just arrived at Port Adelaide from the Baltic was the scene of a must astounding crime. On September 2 3th the hands" were engaged furling the sails, and a sailor named Bums asked the second officer (Henry Scton) why the chief officer did not take in the lower stunsails. The mate replied that ho wanted none of tht man's insolence, and Burns at once stabbed him in the neck with a. sheath knife, serving the carotid artery. The victim staggered and fell dead in less than five minutes. Burns, who is a repulsivcloolcing fellow, had been engaged in the Peruvian war, and had been at Port Adelaide before. An original sect is reported to exist in Finland, 'the fundamental principle of which is the sovereign authority of woman in the family. The disciples of the sect, whether married or living in concubinage, take an oath to submit themselves entirely to their wife or mistress, and to confess to her once a week. On their side women chose oiio of tlioir number as soveroig-ii, whose duty it is to sec that men remain faithful to their oath, and to punish them if they transgress. There are some villages entirely devoted to this new religion. The only analogy to this sect is to be found in Siberia, where the Purifiers recognise equally the authority of women. The Pope, in an encyclical letter, says that the greater part of men to-day are seeking to revel in luxury, and, being extravagant with their own goods, aregrecdy after those of theirneighbors. They extol the name of " Fraternity of Mankind," lint talk more fraternally than they act. The votaries of rationalism encourage violence and sedition among the people, provoke agrarian disturbances, flatter the appetites of the lower classes, and by these means and others serve to weaken the foundations of domestic life and public orderinsi:ead of strengthening them by lives of probity. The letter recommends that Franciscan institutions be more widely spread among the laity, as a partial remedy against the spread of Socialism and Communism. The Observer remarks:—" Mr Leybourne, who was lately cast in damages to the amount of £88 in an for breach of promise, writes to us expressing his deep gratitude for our remarks on the case. He ' s .,y S : —> Undoubtedly it is at all times exceedingly pleasant to know that you have a friend here and there who is not carried away by harsh and unfeeling judgment. It is pretty well known that I could have ([iiashed the case had I told all I knew, but I would rather pay than hurt her character. I have got off for the sum of .€BB altogether, at .£2 per month. This will not hurt me, and no doubt in after years I shall be glad as you say. These payments monthly will compel her to wait o0 months before the costs are paid, and before she will get anything for showing herself up to the public so ridiculously. , " The Rev. Charles Strong, of Melbourne! has again been uttering some trumpotstirring sentiments. At a recent soiree of members of his church, in the Assembly Hall, lie and two other reverend persons unpacked their hearts to an extent wliich is sure to make the orthodox members of their church shudder. One of Mr Strong's friends went so far as to say that the poets of the time preached a, better religion than the preachers who spoke from pulpits, and that the English literature of this century was the true Bible ; and ho filled up the measure of his heresy by expressing a regret that he could not choose the texts of his sermons from Tennyson, Fronde, Emerson, and the like. In John Knox's time (observes the Melbourne correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald") this gentleman would have been burnt without much trial. The .spirited impre.sxarin who had engaged Mrs Langtry's services is not disheartened by the burning - of his theatre, and he has announced that his star will appear at another of his theatres—the Grand Opera House. Happy the manager who lias two theatres to his bow. The most extraordinary part of this untoward event has still to be told. The story goes that it was predicted by an actor well known on the London stage, who is credited with the strange faculty of second sight. He told Mrs Langiry plainly and distinctly before she started that sonic g:,at misfortune would soon happen to her. Either the ocean steamer in which she had taken passage would be wrecked, or the theatre in wliich she made her first appearance would bo burnt down. If there be any truth in this curious story the hero of it had better leave the stage and set up as a fortune-teller. The Timaru Herald has the following :—• The oddities of advertisers' compositions are endless. We clip the following from the columns of the Times: "Russian sable roquelaure, probably matchless, a particularly exceptional one, for a lady lined with 10.") superlatively fine skins, perfectly matched, covered with stout satin de Lyons ; forms a complete rutoude. To be sold for a fourth or fifth of its value. Quite unworn. Nothing finer in Europe. Address Miss (Euliard, Tcddington, Middlesex." We should rather like to meet a lady lined with 10") superlatively fine skins. Ladies arc generally so thin-skinned that even their husband's have to be careful how they touch them with anything heavier than a broomstick ; b\it a lady thus internally protected would surely be proof against the harshest treatment. " The advertisement mentions, by-tlie-bye, that this well-lined lady is "'perfectly matched." We wonder what the gentleman is lined with. According to news lately received from Sweden, it appears that at Gottenburg and elsewhere a new explosive has been discovered and practically applied, possessing important and distinct merits over nitroglycerine and dynamite. The now chemical compound is technically known as sebastino, and, for one thing, it is virtually safe to manipulate. It is well understood that, in the case of dynamite, the paper containing the charge is, in hot water, frequently permeated by the explosive, and the introduction, of such a cartridge into a borehole often results in fatal consequences, as the friouon in entering induces a premature blast. This cannot, it is alleged, happen in the case of scbasthic, and on official authory it is declared that no accident has occurred since its introduction to the Swedish mines. I'he Government experts, indeed, hesitate not to declare ilm-fc the new explosive is superior in effect to ordinary guncotton, and practically perfectly safe. The Pall Mall Gazette says that, if strong language is ever justified, it is so in the case of the "inveterate libeller of the British army hailing from Cologne." A Swedish war'correspondent was vouched by the said libeller as a witness to the truth of the charge af slaughtering wounded Egyptians. ."'ileiT Junswii '' yvpuronow told, "marched on with the vanguard after the capture of Arab'i's lines, and testifies that hr then beheld no act of cruelty whatever on tlio pare of the English troops ; but that, on the contrary, they behaved magnanimously to the fugitives, letting many of them even escape who had not laid down their weapons." So it is to bo hoped that we have heard.the lust of this. The correspondent of the Tunes at Berlin wiudo up in re-

f erence to the '' unscrupulous and malignant gentleman " of the Cologne Gazette, with an energy that is characteristic of most controversy in the city from which he writes. " The only thing-," he says, " that seems to W. have been wilfully massacred during the flfe" war is the reputation of the German correspondeut in question, and he himself has been the systematic murderer of his own professional repute." Cumbrous, perhaps, but true. Whether the fashion of selling one's wife was introduced from Smithfield to China or from China to Smithfield is (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette) not known with certainty. In a China paper wo read that a husband sold his wife for 130 dollars. It was a sale of affection. The man loved the wife, and she loved the man. The husband stipulated, however, for payment by instalments ; and on the deed of transfer being presented, to him he naturally refused to sign it till he had received all the money. There was an awkward legal hitch ; the wife belonged to him till ho signed the deed. Acting on legal advice, the buyer and wife saw only one way out of it. There is no action for specific performance in China. They drugged the husband, and inking Ins hands and feet, .stamped the document. The happy pair had scarcely sat down to their wedding , breakfast when the mother-in-law, accompanied by a mandarin, arrived, and they were both hurried off to separate dungeons. As in England, 'these sad cases bring their own bitter ends.— The wiio-took opium and died, while the buyer committed suicide, and the husband is a widower and ■ has lost liis 130 dollars. After these mis- ~ fortunes he will probably do the same. It is gratifying (says the Argus) that all the survivors of the CresAvick mine disaster continue to progress rapidly towards perfect recovery. Their vitality is surprising-, but had not their endurance been far above that of the common lot they would never have lived to tell the tale. In 24 hours not a man of the five who were lifted out of the fatal shaft in the last stage of exhaustion remained prostrate, wliile three of the five revived sufficiently within an hour to recount their experiences in a rational and graphic manner. It was only a splendid physique and stamina, superior even to that of the average miner, that enabled them to survive the terrible confinement and the foid air; and once released from the living grave, the resources of young and elastic manhood came to their aid with quickryrctumiug vigour. To one who has listened to their narration, the chief wonder is that they were so strong of nerve that reason held her throne through the agonies of that period when clutched fast in the shoot, the water rose inch by inch, threatening almost certain death. Yet it would appear that all of them kept their reason until the crisis i\-as passed, the 'pumps -n-ero g-ot to work, and the receding flood gave them hope of life. During the examination of witnesses by f the Tariff Commissioners witli reference to the jewellery trade (says the Age) and the manufacture of colonial gold jewellery, it was elicited by Mr Tucker and Mr Bosisto that a widespread system exists of manufacturing '' colonial gold '' articles of a very inferior quality to that which the public generally arc supposed to obtain. "Colonial gold" jewellery, well known by its rich colour, is often a delusion and a snare. Unscrupulous makers palm off instead of 18-carat a mixture of metal in which the real quality is perhaps not over 8 or 10----carat. and Mr Schafcr, a manufacturer, stated that the public only find it out when endeavoring to realise on selling their purchases. Mr Aronson, of the firm of Rosenthal and Aronson, manufacturing/ jewellers, agreed with Mr Schafcr that a 4 ' hall mark '' should be at once established, similar to that used in England, so as to protect the public and the honest makers. Under that system a mark would be placed by the Mint upon all articles of silver and gold jewellery up to the standard quality, and the absence of such a mark would place the purchaser at once upon his guard. This reform has frequently been promised by various Treasurers, and it is a piece of practical legislation that has been too longdelayed. ~^ In a recent lecture to liis congregation, the Rev. C. Strong, thereputedPresbyterian minister of Melbourne, dealt with the Sunday question in the following terms, and a Melbourne journal observes that it is a significant fact when a minister '' of the strictest sect in this particular matter in the world " should have thus boldly protested against their manner of observing , Sunday. The Rev. Mr Strong says:—"To ground the observance of the Lord's Day on the Jewish law is, urged Mr Strong, to put ' new wine into old skins.' While Sunday should be taken as a day of rest to the body, a day of refreshment to the mind, and a day consecrated by the highest thoughts of God and by sociai worship, we at the same time feel that it is no day for gloom or sadness, for sloth or weariness, for unnatural restrictions and legalistic bondage, such as it has too often been made. So far from making it such a day, we shall feel constrained to make its hours the brightest and best, the most refreshing and imjiroving-—a real Sunday— for our children, our neighbours, and ourselves. So far from the throwing open of ' public libraries and museums ' and such places of improvement and refreshment \£ being a breach of the Divine law, it is rather a breach of that law to keep them closed, and that it is the duty of Christian men not to oppose a movement in this direction, but cordially to spport it, and wisely to guide it," The Field docs not believe in the importation of stoats into the colonies. A correspondent, signing himself "Colonist," recently wrote to the following effect:— '' Will any of your readers oblige me with i information as to the means of procuring —■" stoats, polecats, or weasels, and with suggestions for their care in transport to New Zealand 'i They are designed to combat a threatened plague of rabbits in a part of that colony in wliich I am interested. The astonishing increase of rabbits, and tho ruin brought by them on sheep runs in some parts of tlie Middle Island of New Zealand is pretty generally known, and an account would perhaps, be superfluous. When once established there is no remedy but poisoning in a large way —a method to wliich there arc objections. My object is now to meet them with their natural enemies, and thus prevent their attaining to unmanageable numbers. i might moutiou that ferrets, have been used out there, but ai - e found to be too delicate." To this the Field answers : —" If the plague of rabbits in Nc\y Zealand could be overcome by some other means than by tho introduction of stoats and polecats, it would be well; for these, if introduced, will assuredly not continue their attention to rabbits, but will destroy many native species of birds, which, from terrestrial babbits and inability to save themselves by flight, will sooner or later become extirpated. Under the plea of 'acclimatisation,' an immense amount of mischief has already been done (witness the results of introducing the sparrow in tho United States and the rabbit in New Zealand); and more will follow in a different direction if wellintentioned gentlemen do not consider more carefully what are likely to be tho real results of their proposed experiments." According to an official report recently issued the total number of Indians in the United States, exclusive of Alaska-, is 262,360. The Commissioner comments in severe terms upon the iniquity of the liquor traffic among the Indians, and quotes many instances of troubles arising from it. He recommends greater stringency in the laws on the subject, and says those sections of the statutes which allow army officers to introduce liquor into the Indian country should be repealed. The report declares that there is urgent necessity for additional JT legislation to prevent intrusion upon Indian lands. Exclusive of the five civilised tribes, the whole number of Indian pupils attending school during the past year was S-lOS, of these -108 were in attendance at Carlisle, Hampton, and Forest Grove trainingschools : of the remainder, 4-310 attended the Reservation boarding schools, and 3998 the Reservation day schools. The average attendance for the year was .V 21!). The industrial training for boys is carried on at the Agency boarding schools, and is receiving more and more attention each year. In connection with fifty-two schools, 1428 acres of land are under cultivation. Blacksmithing, tailoring, and harness-making-arc taught in four schools ; seven teach shoemaking, ten carpentering, and fifteen the raising and the care of stock. The training in these branches is greatly stimulated by, the success of experupents at Carlisle, ifJinptunhand Foros#Grov<\ An I appropriation of not less than .jO,OOOclol. should be made by Congress at the_ next session to properly equip the existing Agency schools for industrial work. The whole number of schools in operation is 101, five less than latt year.

The Lancet has the follcnving: "The Daily Telegraph incidentally refers to the views upon tobacco expressed by the late Dr. Anatie. ' The effect of tobacco-smok-ing in moderation,' Dr. Anstie writes 'on the majority of persons who are skilled in the use. &f the pipe is a marked increase of stimulation, the pulse being slightly increased in frequency and notably in force, and the sense of fatigue in body or mind being greatly relieved. This stimulation most assuredly is not followed by depression. On the contrary, the smoker seems lighter and more cheerful, and the pulse maintains its firmness, in many cases for an hour, and even then yields to no morbid depression. "Where depression is produced, it is produced early, and is a sure sign that even the small dose is too much for the smoker's constitution, and that he had better not smoke at all. It is refreshing to come upon this sensible language in "these days. We live in times in which the custom is to denoiuice as deleterious everytliing which hnpfiens to be pleasant. Man could probably live without tobacco, as he certainly used to live without clothes; but the fact that both these luxuries are in the nature of comforts should not necessarily spur us into antagonism against either of them. And so it is with the question of alcohol. If Anstie's little book ' On the Uses of "Wines in Health and Disease,' published by Macmillan, were generally read, a great deal of the prejudice existing upon this subject would give place to views -\vhic.h_i£pH34 not be tliejess sensible because t7i£y represented unprejudiced examintition of the question from a physiological standpoint, freed from the bias which - moral considerations dependent on the weakness of human nature must necessarily itroduce." The Times concludes a long article on the subject of "The French as Colonists" as follows:—The failure of the colony of New Caledonia has been due to causes altogether different from those which militate against the other dependencies. Here there would have been an opportunity of fomiding a truly rich colony if the National Assembly had not, with mistaken kindness, decreed, in 1872, that the transported Communists should not be compelled to work. The consequence of this was that, although the colony at one contained more than 10,000 poetical among whom were many very intelligent men. most of them lived in idleness, and tried to shame others out of working. Their object was to make themselves as disagreeable as possible, in order that, the colony, becoming- a costly nuisance to France, they might get amnestied and sent home. M. Henri • Rochefort, on Lmdiiig , at Noumea, complained bitterly that he was served with uncooked rations, just as if the soldiers of the garrison ought to have been employed in cooking for the convicts. The rattening practised by the idle ihportvs upon the few who tried to lie industrious was pushed to Mich lengths that Assi, the famous organiset? of strikes at the Crouzot and the quondam advocate of French trade unions., was obliged at length to invoke the protection of the military against some of his old friends. He had set up a foundry, which was flourishing, and, finding himself in the fair way of becoming a capitalist, his views about strikes and rattening had, of course, undergone a change. Since most of the political rhportes have returned home, the work of colonising in Now Caledonia lias been carried on principally by ordinary convicts liberated on ticket-of - leave, but forced to reside in the colony. It is too early yet to predict how they will thrive. The last thing heard of them was that they were endeavoring to "boycott" the Marist missionaries, who had established a flourishing agricultural settlement near Noumea and were doing good among the natives. An interesting note on the transmission of power by an ordinary telegraph line has been communicated to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Deprez, the well-kno"u a electrician. The experiment described by him took place at the Electric Exhibition of Munich, and consisted in transmitting power from Meisbach to Munich over a _ telegraph line thirty-five miles long, put at . his disposal by the German Telegraph Administration. The conductor was of galvanised iron 0.1 Gin in diameter (forty-live millimetres), and a return wire of the same kind was used instead of the earth to com plfcre the circuit. The total length of wire traversed was, therefore, seventy miles, and its resistance amounted to 9.30 ohms. The insulation of the line was good, but did not differ from that of ordinary telegraph lines. Two Gramme dynamos of the patterns known as ti/pu d'atelier were employed, one being stationed at Meisbach and the other at Munich. The resistance of each was 470 ohms. The total resistance of the working circuit was therefore 1900 ohms. In the first experiment a power was obtained at Munich of half a horse power; the dynamo revolving at a speed of 1500 turns per minute. The corresponding speed of the generator at Meisbach was 2200 turns per minute. Both machines being alike in all respects, the ratio of the work done at Munich to that expended at Meisbach, leaving out that spent on passing distances, jwas 1500-2000, or over 00 per cent., and this whilst a heavy rain fell. The receiving machine served by means of a centrifugal pump to supply a cascade of water falling about 10ft and about 3ft wide. The collectors of the two machines silo-wed hardly any sparking - , and the heating was hardly noticeable after two hours' operation. Professor Moore, of Waipawa, has just opened in connection with his present business a Fancy Repository, and is now showing all the latest novelties in New Year <tc., cards, concertinas, accordians, musical albums and boxes, violins, ladies gold and A- sivler watches, clocks, fancy and other stationery, inkstands, Chinese lanterns, talking , dolls, and every description of toys. Every person purchasing £1 worth of goods receives a beautifully illustrated almanac y rut in.-- [Advt.]