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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3609, 5 February 1883, Page 2

J There are at present twenty ciA-il cases on the cause list for hearing in the R.AI. Com-t to-morroAV. Our AVairoa correspondent informs us by telegraph that Alessrs IT. J. AVilliams. J. • T. Large, and G. B. Flint were nominated to-day at Clyde to fill the vacancies on the AVairoa Harbor Board. The poll Avill take place on the 12th instant, ) The Christcliurch shareholders in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company have selected the folloAving gentlemen to act as the future directors of the company, and ' whose names have been approved of by the Napier shareholders: — Alessrs AY. D. Moa.es, G. Hart, AY. 11. Spackman, J. P. Jameson, F. AY. Williams, J. T. Rouso, ' and J. Rhodes. As more than half the • shares are held in Christcliurch and Napier the election of the aboA'e directory is certain. The general meeting of the company is fixed for the 14th instant at Gisborne. The fourth and final representation of " Les Cloches de CorueA-ille " Avas given by the Juvenile Opera Boutfo and Pantomime Company at the Theatre Royal ou Saturday uiglit to* a fair house. The performance AA-as again highly successful, and was received AA'ith hca.-ty tokens of approbation. To- ' night the pantomime of " Jack the Giant Killer, or The Knights of the Round Table," AA-hich enjoyed a successful run of over six AVeeks in Auckland, aa.ll be produced, and should proA'o a big attraction, the children having the reputation of being exceedingly clever in burlesque and pantomime business. 1 A poll has been taken of the occupiers of offices, shops, and d .veilings along the portions of .treet.s ivatercel by the Corpoitition to ascertain AA.iether they Averc Avilling to I pay towards keeping tho dust doAAii. Out I of'one hundred and t.vcnty persons aa-lio Avere asked the question only three gave an } unqualified reply in the affirmative, a fcAv Avould lie AA-illiug to pay if a Avater-cart tax 3 Avas made general, but the rest Avould not listen to any such proposal. Upon one point everyone seemed agreed, that it AA-as the duty of the Corporation to do the work, and that the Avork has been done most inefficiently. A funny misprint occurred in one of our issues last Aveek. It AA-as printed as I'olloavs : --"Lady Blessington was called the most r extravagant Avoman of her time. Two years she Avrote as a galley slave tugs al his » ./.>-," kc It should have been, of course, ;as a galley slave tugs at his oar. Hoav- > ever, some of our contemporaries Avhose exchanges came by the Saturday and Sunday steamers, have reproduced the error, one of them going so far as to say that ■ Lady Blessington -wrote "for years as a galley slave tugs his ear." A good many galley slaves had no ear to tug, as it AA-as not uncommon to slice them off before being called upon to tug at an oar. In Alessrs Goldsbrough's report, dated Alclbourne, January 12, the folloAving passage occurs : —" On comparing the exports avc find that 209,203 bales haA-e been shipped _• from this colony from Ist October to date, as against 242,662 bales shipped for the corresponding period last year, thus leaving 134,D0S bales to make np iast year's clip of . 314,203 bales. The exports from New South AVales also show a decrease, the res turn, being 113,346 bales, as against 122,298 s bales for the same period last year ; and al- . though Queensland Avill doubtless shoAV a ". comparatively large increase, avc think that j AA-hen the returns for the Avhole of Australia . arc made up on the 30th September next, _, the effects of the late disastrous drought. _ A\-ill bo apparent in a greater deficiency than _ is generally anticipated." In reply to the letter tho secretary to tho Napier Hospital AA-rote to tho Colonial Under-Secretary, in AA'hich the Hon. Air Dick AA-as reminded of the conversation held Avith him by Dr. Spencer, Dr. Menzies, and ' Mr Harker, the Colonial Under- Secretary > states that "Air Dick desires mc to say you make statements iv reference to AA-hat Avas said on that occasion of Avhich he is utterly ignorant." A very coiiA-cnient reply indeed. Mr Dick first of all loses the notes 1 he took of the various questions brought to his notice during his visit here, and iioav is utterly ignorant of Avhat Avas said concerning the maintenance of the hospital. AVliy Avas not Air Dick sent doAA*n South, and Air Rollcston sent up North r The Alining As- ' sociation ivould then not have had a promise of ..I for £1 subsidy, to adA-ancc a private speculation, but it is just possible the Napier Hospital would have received fair play. Another fatal case of drowning occurred A-esterday in the Mangatarata creek, between Afr D. Gollan's and Air IT. R. Russell's estates, near AVaipukurau. It appears that ' deceased, a young man of the name of LaAvrence Mouat, and another, undressed, and, mounting their horses, rode them into a deep hole in the creek. Alouat had a spur

on, and commenced urging the horse till he reared and fell backwards in the AA-ater. The animal fell on top of deceased, aa-lio was seen to rise once and then to sink. A Air McDonald and throe others were standing on the bank of the creek looking on. Mr AlcDonald immediately stripped and dived in, but could not recoA-er the body. About an hour aftei-AA-ards a man named John Stor;ih dived and brought tho body to shore. , Avhen it Avas taken to Nicholson's Hotel, AVaijiawa. Deceased Avas a natiA-e of Shetland, aud his jiarents reside at AVaipaAva. An inquest was held to-day, before Dr. Todd, coroner, and a jury, at AA'hich a verdict of accidental death Avas returned. Professor Allen, aa-lio has gained for himself a Avide and favorable notoriety as the inventor of the electro-galvanic pad and pile for the cure of neiwous and chronic diseases, rheumatic affections, neuralgia, kc, is at ju-esent on a A'isit to Napier, and announces clsoaa-here that he may be consulted at his rooms at the Clarendon Club Hotel. In order to gain as Avide publicity as jiossible to the mission Professor Allen is engaged in he has arranged to jmblicly oxj.lain the nature of his cures from a carriage that A\-illbeclraAA'iiup in Tcnnysonstrcet |jthis evening at 7.30 opjiositc the Alasonic Hotel, the idea in adoj.ting this means being to direct that attention to his invention that could not otherwise be secured during a limited stay. AYe may state that Professor Allen holds testimonials from physicians all OA'er the Avorld. He graduated at Dublin UniA-ersity, AA-hero he studied the use of medicines, and holds a physician's first-class diploma from the office of the County Court of St. Louis, County of Alissouri, dated April 10,1575. The Professor has lately been practicing Avith much success in Gisborne, and it is his intention to return there in a feAV Aveeks time, Avhence he AA'ill proceed to Auckland, aftenvards paying - periodical visits to each of the three places mentioned. i The Avife of a fisherman named Mansfield 1 met Avith a Aery painful accident at the Spit ] yesterday morning. It aj.pears she Avas I engaged boiling some tar for her husband's i nets, Avhen, by sonic mischance, the pot capsized, spilling the tar into the fire, a 1 portion of the boiling contents also falling < over Airs Mansfield, scalding her, and set- 1 ting her clothes alight. A neighbor, seeing 1 the danger, seized a blanket and promptly _ enveloped Airs Mansfield in it, thereby * preventing further damage to her pcrsou*. . As it AA-as, however, the poor Avoman AA-as 1 dreadfully burnt aud scalded about the r legs. She avus as quickly as convenient li removed to the hospital, AA-hero her injiuies b are receiving treatment. Dr Caro, avlio tl was sent for, attended AA-ith all despatch, but h Mrs Mansfield had been remoA'cd before his d arriA-al at the scene of tlie accident. The burn- d ing tar that escaped to the floor of the house set lire to onooftbc-ide-.valls,buttheflamcs c< Avere quickly extinguished by the Spit Fire it Brigade, which was promptly in attendance d on th 9 alarm being given. I d.

Late statistics put us in the possession of the fact that the duty paid on beer during the last financial year amounted £SS, 591, being threepence per gallon on 4,650,077 gallons. According to this, each man, woman and child in the Colony, not including the Maoris and the Chinese, would consume on an a\*erage rather more than 9f gallons each in the course of the year, anacontribute about 2s od to the revenue. But of course, hi hard and fast reality, it is the hotelkeopers and the brewers upon Avhom the exaction falls, and perhaps in some cases it is deducted from the quality of tho beer. At all events the fact remains that this yearly £58,000 touches but one section of the community. Replying to a deputation AA-hich AA-aited on him at Tuapeka (says the Daily Times) to represent the case of Mr John McKenzie, Avho AVished to relinquish his deferred payment section at Tuapeka AVest and receive value for improvements, the Hon. Mr Rolleston said he would take the opportunity of making a few remarks about the working of the derferred payment sj-stem. He had been round a number of districts and had found that the system was working remarkably well; that notAvithstaiidin«- the great clamor and complaints that had been made about hardships being endured, he found iv many cases parties making as high as £8 per acre. He found that the system Avasn't sufficiently understood by half the members in the House. He intended to support it in CA'ory way possible for the future. Last AA-eek in the Dunediii R.M.s Court, Arthur Tirlman Avas charged AA'ith attempting to steal from the till of the billiardroom of the York Hotel, George street. Patrick Carroll, licensee of the hotel, said that he had caught the accused in the act of going to the till in his billiarclroom. Next to this till AA-as a dra.ver iv which billiardballs Avere kept. He did not wish any punishment inflicted, but the accused had used very abusive language.—Accused said he AA-as looking for the billiard-balls to play a game of billiards.—The case AA-as dismissed, and the police brought on a fresh charge of behaving in a maimer calculated to provoke a breach of the peace.—Mr Alacgregor, avlio was in Court, took up the case, and submitted that the billiardroom was not a public place Avithin the meaning of the Act.—The Bench upheld this view and dismissed this case also. 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 antiperiodies knoAA-n to medical science; Avhile incorporated AA-ith iron tincture it has no equal as a tonic. Pure quinine aud iron may be obtained put up iv bottles of any size to suit customers at Professor Moore's Aledical Hall, AA r aipawa. —[Ad at"). Analysis cannot lie, neither can the uniform experience of a quarter of a century be gainsaid. On these two vouchers rest the claims of Wolfe's Schxapps to outrank all other stimulants as regards purity and efficiency.—[Adat.]