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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3605, 31 January 1883, Page 2

There was a clean charge sheet in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. We are glad to hear that Napier is not to lose its military band. The members of the Artillery band are to be sworn in to-day us a garrison band under the new regulations. The vital statistics for the month of Jannary show births 28, marriages 12, and deaths 20. Of these latter no less than 16 were infants of the age of twelve months and under. The Rev. W. Dinwiddic, M.A., has been appointed by the Christchurch Presbytery to the charge of the North Belt Church, Christ-church, and his induction is fixed to take place to-morrow. An ordinary meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was hold at -1 o'clock this afternoon, too late for us to report the proceedings. Amongst other business for transaction was the selection of one of the applicants for the appointment of secretary. Says the Wangamu Chronicle of the 25th instant: —Lieutenant Spurdle, Avho has been away in Napier representing the Wanganui Fire Brigade at the annual meeting of the United Association, hasrc turned home again, after an enjoyable trip. He worthily represented his brigade and district at the conference, and speaks highly of the genial hospitality of the Napier firemen.

The marriage of Mr Harry Langley Donnelly, of the Willows, Papakura, with Miss Mary Taylor Couper, third daughter of the late Mr "~\Y. Couper, Kaurinaku, was celebrated this afternoon at the residence of Mr W. Couper, Willow Park, Havelock. The Rev. A. Shepherd performed the ceremony, and Mr F. Whamclift' Sewell, of Ohcrikura, partner of the bridegroom, acted as best man.

Mr Duncan Macallum, the otterprentur of the Tambour-Major Opera Company, filed his schedule last week at Cliristchurcli. His liabilities arc understood to amount to about £1,000, consisting for the most part of salaries and royalties for "TambourMajor," "Patience," and "Billco Taylor." Evidently his New Zealand tour has not turned out a financial success. Signor Tramuglia, the musical director, and Miss Novarro, seceded from the company at Wellington, and the place of the latter is now filled by Miss Blanche Lewis, who wo notice is playing Lady Jane in " Patience " with great success.

In the last Gazette is published the list of officiating ministers registered under the Marriage Act. From this we learn that there are fifteen religious denominations in this colony. The Church of England has 232 ministers, the Wcsleyan Methodists 96, Roman Catholic 83, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 79, Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland 00, Baptists 12, Congregational Independents 11, Primitive Methodist Connection 17, United Methodist Free Church 11, Lutheran Church 9, Hebrew Congregation (J, Church of Christ 2, Bible Christians 2, Frco Church of St. Andrew's Cliristchurcli (Rev. C. JFrascr), 1, St. Andrew's Church New Plymouth 1, Independent Wcsleyan 1; total GlB.

"Pinafore'" was repeated for the third time at the Theatre Royal last night by the Juvenile Opera Bouft'c and Pantonine Company to a fairly well filled house. From first to last the performance was a decided improvement over that of the proceeding evening", and gave every satisfaction, the applause being frequent and hearty. Sir Joseph Porter, Ralph Rackstraw, Josephine, and Buttercup, were again highly successful, both in their singing and acting, while Dick Deadeyo and the Boatswain left nothing to bo desired so far as a supply of the comic element was concerned. Captain Corcoran still seems to be suffering from a cold. To-night Planquette's comic opera, " Lcs Cloches de Cornville " Avill bo produced, and as this is a piece in which the juveniles are said to excel, and moreover a favorite with the pkygoing public here, we may expect to see a crowded house. The cast of the principal characters will be as follows :—Henri, Marquis de Cornville, Miss Amy Chi Ids : Christophe, Miss Flo Childs ; the Baillie, Master C. Favarger; Gaspard (the miser), Master Willie Driscoll; Grcnichcux, Master E. Osmond; Gobo, Miss Dolly Inman ; Sorpoletto (a foundling), Miss Flora Graupner ; Gormaine, Miss Amelia Hodge. .

Sonic additional rules under the Supreme Court Act, 1532, are gazetted. The following table of allowances to witnesses has been adopted :—Professional men, when their evidence as experts is required, per diem, £1 Is to £2 2s ; professional men, bankers, merchants, auctioneers, land agents, and other gentlemen not specially mentioned, per diem, los to £1 Is"; masters of ships, officers of police of superior grade, fanners, clerics, shopkeepers and .storekeepers, per diem, 12s; shopmen, journeymen, mechanics, petty officers of ships, and officers of police of inferior grade, per diem, 10s; laborers, seamen, and police constables, per dium, 6s. To an interpreter, if engaged for any time not exceeding one hour, 10s Gd; for every additional hour or fraction of an hour he may bo actually employed beyond that time, 5s ; but not exceeding one day, £2 2s. Eemale witnesses at the rate of two-thirds the allowance of male witnesses of corresponding rank. For witnesses residing beyond three miles from the Court there will be allowed their coach, railway, or steamboat fares. By railway or steamer second-class fares will be allowed for laborers, journeymen and mechanics; and first-class fares for other witnesses. Where there is no public conveyance there will be allowed for such witnesses a mileage rate not exceeding ninepence per mile one way. There will also be allowed 3s in addition for each night such witnesses are necessarily detained from their own houses, except when travelling by sea.

A capital '' Chinaman story came to me the other day from the South. On a certain station was a Chinese cook, a clean, handy, skilful fellow, civil, and obliging. The station hands, however, were '' advanced though tists," and they deputatiouised the manager one day to protest against Chinese labor on the station. As it happened the cook had applied for a holiday, and was about to take it, so the manager apparently gave way, the cook departed, and was succeeded by a "big , lump of an Irishman." "Under Ms regime tliing-s took a turn with a vengeance; atrocious cooking, combined with unlimited dirt, was in the ascendant. Remembering their deputation, the men grinned and bore it and did not complain to the manager, and the only, result of their complaints to the cook (?) was the administration by him of a sound thrashing to the spokesman. Half starved, and driven at last beyond themselves, they went to the manager and like Topsey "'feased.' As it happened the Chinaman's holiday was about up. He returned knowing not what had occurred; the Irishman left, and "John" was again installed. His horror at the state of filth and disorder in the kitchen was summed up in a pithy sentence, "Dirty Englishman been here." His position at the station was thoroughly Ji.ssurcd afterwards.—" Asmodeus " in the N.Z. Mail.

It is noticeable that expert*, writing about the sinking of the Austral, arc unanimous that the sliip was too heavy, and that when the ballast was out of her she merely assumed her natural position. An interesting article in the Army and Navy Gazette says :—"Naval architecture has. suddenly degenerated. We once had ships ;we now have floating coffins." The writer goes on to criticise the construction of the Austral in severe terms.

The following is si copy of an advertisement appearing in the Auckland papers:— "Wanted, troupe, or family of Maoris, of four to six—the most uncivilised or wild that can be had; must be well tattooed, and able to give the native dances. Will engage them for one year for our American Travelling Show. Will pay their fares and a liberal salary and board them ; also, bind myself to return them to their homes if required.—P. T. Banium and Co., sole owners of the greatest show on Earth."

The Kumara people went in for a novelty at their Christmas sports. There was a one hundred yards race for barmaids, of whom five or six toed the scratch, and a Miss Jacobs proved the winner, being made happy with a trimmed hat; the second prize was also a hat, and the third a pair of stays. Another was for publicans (male and female), the'prize being a cask of beer. Six Bonifaces and two widows entered, but the ladies did not start, probably deterred by the small start allowed them of twenty-five yards in three hundred. Naturally, the events created a deal of fun.

Aii old man named Patrick White, who has reached the extraordinary age of 104 years, is at present an inmate of the Kyneton hospital, suffering from a broken arm. Some months ago he was released from the Bendigo hospital, and on leaving , that institution he started for .Eiddell's Creek with a swag on his back. When nearing his destination the old fellow, who is blind in one eye, fell over an embankment and broke his arm. The Kyneton Guardian reports that he is progressing favorably, and it seems probable that he will live some time longer.

To catch an albatross over eight miles inland is an unusual occurrence, but a fine living specimen was brought to the Bruce Herald office, which was caught b} r Mr John Martin's son, in a paddock of his father's at Fairfax. The bird apparently alighted on the ground on Sunday evening, and not knowing what else to do with himself, chased the cows and calves about the paddock, to their dismay and disgust. Seeing consternation amongst the livestock, Mr Martin's son went out and beheld the albatross, which somewhat frightened him at first. After a time he captured it, and tied up the formidable beak with one of his shoe-laces. It was evidently a young bird, and measured 9ft 1h inches from tip to tip of the wings.

"iEg-lcs," in the Astralasian, tells the following good story:—Messrs Patrick Murphy and Timothy Doherty are two of the latest distinguished additions to the Commission of the Peace. A country journal has the following narrative of a courtday incident: —Mr Tim Doherty presided as chairman of the Bench. He appeared to be unfavorably disposed towards the prisoner in spite of the earnest, and, indeed, impassioned appeals of counsel for the defence. In sheer despair the learned gentleman (remembering O'Connell and the Dublin fishwife) determined to make a desperate effort by giving the Bench a classical poser. "May it please your worships," he said, "I am sure that in your long and v-iried experience, and in the numerous cases that have come before you, you have ever held that nemo debit bhpuniri pro una et vadcin cotoia. ,. The chairman hurriedly consulted with his colleagues, and dismissed the case.

Commenting on the alteration reported to have been effected in the status of the civil service of the United States, the Sydney Evening News observes: —"Here in Sydney our own civil service is certainly far superior in reputation to that of the American States, yet even with us there has always been much that called for repi'chension. For years past, and notoriously under the Parkes administration, it has been the custom to promote friends of the Ministry over the heads of others, who were both more ■worthy than and long senior to themselves. To such an extent, indeed, had this become the case that it was indeed hopeless for any man, however good his work might be, or however long he had been in the service, to look for promotion unless he could bring , to bear some political support in favor of his claims. Wire-pulling and political jobbery were in fact the order of the day. The newly appointed Stuart Ministry has therefore taken a wise 'and honest, though somewhat a bold,

Htoj>, in issuing , an Executive minute to each of the departments of the civil .service, declaring that for the future all promotions shall be regulated by seniority of service, and that, therefore, all officers newly appointed will Ikivc to begin at the bottom of the ladder."

A very successful career of swindling was (ways the Melbourne Age of the 14th instant) brought to an abrupt termination by I the arrest of a young man, named Thomas ! Dynon, who is also known by a number of aliases, which was accomplished by Detectives Ward and Dowden at Hotham, yesterday morning. The modus opcrandi adopted by the prisoner, which is very ingenious, is novel in this country, though it has been successfully practised in England. As far as can be ascertained, the course he invariably pursued during his predatory career was to forward letters to various hotelkeepers in different parts of the colony, purporting to be signed by Messrs G-ains-borough, stock and station agents of Melbourne and Sydney, announcing that their agent would take up his quarters there in a few days time, and requesting that a cheque which was enclosed should be delivered to him on his arrival. In pursuance of his usual custom, Messrs Gainsborough's representative always regulated Ids movements so as to reach his destination after bank hours, and by means of a gentlemanly exterior find plausible address ho invariably succeeded in inducing his confiding host to oblige liim by cashing the cheque which had been sent in advance of him by his pseudo-employers. By these means ho managed to defraud Mr H. Grimbley, of Grimbley's Hotel, Brighton, of £5 55., under the aliax of James Price; Mr Paul Madden, hotelkceper, of Sandhurst, of £G 10.; Mr James H. Spearing of the Commercial Club Hotel, Echuca, of £10 155.; MiThomas Chadwick, hotelkeeper, of Flemington, of £2 55., all by means of valueless cheques, under the aliases of Payton, Brown and Henderson. The matter had been placed in the hands of the detective police for investigation, and the apprehension of the swindler was eventually accomplished by reason of an attempt which lie made to impose upon Mr Cavanagh, of the Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Hotham, to whom, he addressed a letter in pursuance of his ordinary course, but which subsequently found its way to the detective office.

Mr Gladstone made a brief statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday, November 28th, on ■ the subject of the cost of the Egyptian expedition. The original estimates were £2,300,000. The additional expenses since October Ist, when the warcharge, properly so called, came to an end— in other words, the expenses of the force of occupation maintained in Egypt—amount altogether to £1,060,000. The cost of the Indian contingent originally estimated at £1,880,000, is only £1,140,000. The total expenditure which the operations of the war have involved is four millions and a half. The extra charge incurred since October Ist will eventually be borne altogether, or almost nltogether, by the Egyptian revenues. Mr Gladstone did not say whether anything would be chai'ged to the Indian Exchequer, the matter, he intimated, is still under the consideration of the Government, and a definite announcement upon it will shortly be made. There is, it may be said, a strong feeling in India against holding India liable for any portion of the expenditure.

The widow of the last Elector of Hesse has just died, Gertrude yon Hanau by mime. A ludy without fortune, but of remarkable beauty, she married fifty-eight yours ago, while still in her teens, a paymaster (Lehmaim) in the Prussian army She soon afterwards attracted the notice of of the young heir to the Electoral Crown of Hesse, who induced Cajitain Lehinaun to divorce his wife on receipt of a lump sum of £l"), 000. ..The Prince thereupon conferred on the lady the title of Countess yon Schaumburg, and married her the following year. *She was created Princess of Hanau in 18')0 by the Emperor of Austria, inherited the whole of her husband's enormous fortune at his death in 1870, and lias now left it to the children born of this morganatic marriage. • ;

The funeral of a newspaper has just taken place in Japan. The Hochi Shimbiui, one of the ablest native papers, was suppressed owing to its Eadical tendencies, and the editor at once sent out invitations to the subscribers to attend the obsequies of the defunct paper. Some thousands collected

at the office of Hochi Shimbun at the given hour, when the editorial start' porting a bier, on which the suppressed number was laid. The funeral cortege proceeded outside the town, where a grave had been dug, and where the paper was laid to rest with all the honors that usually attend the interment of a liigh functionary of State.

Says Labouchere, of London Truth, '' Pub - liclicmses, as all practical men very well know, are a public necessity. It should be Arranged that they be properly conducted, r "Out it is nonsensical to inveigh against the use of drink. Hard-Avorking country laborers could not get through their occupations -without their beer or which they do not usually drink to excess." Mrs Stow, a San Francisco dress reformer, informed the police that on January Ist she would begin to wear trousers in public, and she demands protection in case street crowds insult her. But the chief of the police seems to think it will be liis duty to arrest her, on the groiuid that her conduct would be disorderly. As to the form of the proposed garment, Mrs Stow says: "My trousers are made with a plait, and descend to the calf of the leg just below where the dresses of young girls come; and if young girls Avear their dresses there, why should not old girls adopt the same fashion ?" She is advised by a lawyer that California has no law under which she can be prevented from dressing in that fashion.

A man who lias attended his own execution, and survives to relate the details, is worthy of a short paragraph. According to the London Echo his name is Colonel Marteras, and in 18G9 he was on the point of being proclaimed President of Uruguay when he was arrested and condemned to death. On Monday, June 30, of that year (to be precise), lie "-was taken by a platoon of soldiers out of the city to a meadow in the heart of a forest, and bound to a chair. At the word "Fire!" a "spasmodic shock" threw him to the ground; he did not hear the volley; the soldiers marched away without giving him the customary coup do grace ; and Marteras, by the kindly aid of a neighbouring labourer, got away, was healed of his wounds, and to-day serves society more humbly but yet more safely as waiter in a Paris cafe. An eye-witness (says the World) who was present'attheßanelagh Club, to test the advantages of theliigowskyfrying claypigreous, and who witnessed some shooting at them, ways they are, no doubt, a marvellous invention, and likely to try the very best shots very highly. The pigeon is made of thin baked clay, iu°shapc like a deep saucer. It is fixed into a "■V-kind of catapult or trap, which can be regulated to send the pigeon in any direction ; so that out of five_ traps no two are adjusted to send the bird in the same line. The traps are pulled in the same way pigeon-traps were pulled in old days, and great skill is required to hit the mark, pigeon or clay dish (call it as you like). If hit, the pigeon breaks to pieces, so there can be no doubt as to a hit or a miss. This invention will go a long way to supersede the live bird, as it is 100 per cent, cheaper in all ways, and can be available at any moment for the amusement of a country-house party or club, and affords just as good sport as the live bird.

The milk-dealers of London have hit upon an ingenious mode of confounding the analysts. They get a cow which gives milk of very poor quality, salt its hay, and give it plenty of water to drink. The consequence is the milk it yields is actually poorer than that which has had 30 per cent, of water added. The analyst certifies that the milk sold by Mr So-an-so is adulterated. "That cannot be," is the answer, "it is the natural milk of the cow ; as can he proved." The analyst is invited to visit the dairy, or to send a competent assistant to see the cow milked. The lactometer shows that the milk sold is rather better than that drawn from the cow. The analyst cannot understand it at all, and although he suspects that he is jockeyed he thinks it prudent to abandon the prosecution. Even if the trick were discovered, it is hard to say that it involves any illegality, unless it be crnelty to animals. Milk from the cow varies very much in quality, and there is no law to compel the cows to work up to the analyst's standard.

A new war correspondent of excellence has been discovered in the person of Mr Burlcigh, -who, during- the Egyptian trouble, supplied news to the Central New Telegraphic Agency. The Pall Mall Gazette says: This gentleman, Mr Burleigh, who is now discovered to be an Englishman with a long training on the American Press, was entertained at a banquet at Willis , Rooms, when many pleasant and well deserved compliments were paid to him. Even Sir Garnet Wolseley overcame his notorious horror of special correspondents so far as to praise Mr Burleigh, '• who did his work so plucldly and so well in Egypt. He was always in front, and his messages home were clear and full of information." Mr Burleigh's career has been full of incident. An ex-Confederate soldier and an old Garibaldian, he has seen much of war as an actor as well as a spectator, and this, no doubt, stood him in good stead. He was first in the trenches at Tcl-el-Kebir, and the first correspondent to enter Cairo. So far as telegrams arc concerned, Mr Burleigh may fairly claim to have taken in this campaign the position which used to be held by Mr Forbes.

Quinine is an alkaloid found in the bark of trees belonging to the Cinchona or Peruvian bark family, and is one of the most valuable febrifuges and antipcriodies known to medical science; while incorporated with iron tincture it has no equal as a tonic. Pin-c quinine and iron may bo obtained put up in bottles of any size to suit customers at Professor Moore's Medical Hall, Waipawa. —[Advt].

Analysis has demonstrated the spirituous clement of Wolfe's SenxArrs to be absolutely pure, and the highest medical authority sanctions its use in preference to any other preparation where a is required.—[Advt.]