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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3621, 19 February 1883, Page 2

Letters of naturalisation have boon granted to Mr E. Bourgeois, of Napier. The usual monthly meeting of the Education Board will be held to-morrow morning-. Captain Preccc, R.M., proceeded to Gisbornc per Arawata on Saturday for the purpose of holding an investigation into the alleged murder case that occurred near Awanui on Tuesday last. Mr J. P. Maxwell, General Manager of New Zealand Railway a, is now in Napier, but leaves by the Taiaroa early to-morrowfor Wellington." He proceeded up the railway line to-day, but His "Worship the Mayor and a deputation might be able to catch him to-morrow morning and obtain his opinion touching the Napier railway station. Two common jurors applied to be excused from sen-ice in the District Court this morning, one on the ground that he was a Volunteer Fire Brigade man, and the other because ho was secretary and engineer to a certain local body. Exemp tion wn s granted in the former case, but, as might be expected, application number two met with a prompt yet courteous refusal. The weather at "Waipukurau last week was exceptionally hot. A thermometer hanging in the shade under the verandah of tho Tavistook Hotel registered on the 14th inst. 100 degrees, loth, 101 degrees, and on the lGth \)6 degrees. Some persons left Napier last week for "Waipukurau to get into cool weather, and found themselves in a hotter place than that which they had left. The number of nominations for assisted passages received by the Immigration Officer at Napier during the month, and to be forwarded by the outgoing mail, is 43, equal to 39-V adults. Tho nominations include 5 married families, 2 married women, 17 single women, and 7 single men. The nationalities are English 11, Irish 18, Scotch 13, and foreign 1. The cash received amounted to £113 17s (kl. Mr F. Sutton, chairman of the Hawke's Bay Council, has received a letter in reference to the grant of £3234 under the Roads Construction Act from the Assistant Secretary for Public Works, in which the following occurs:—"l am directed by the Minister of Public Works to state that he will be glad to confer with the County Council with a view to providing for the completion of some portion of the works for which tho money was applied, in order to ensure that the expenditure shall be beneficial." A telegram informs us that '"'lung" Tawhiao" left Te Ore Ore en route for Napier this morning. According to present arrangements/rawhiao Avill stay a few days at Tahoraite, where great preparations have been made to receive and entertain him. An immense v:hnn: ri'.nantja has been built on the purest lines of Maori architecture, and a buggy and horse purchased for his "majesty's" use. If all be true that is reported "of the royal progress Tawhiao has made a good thing of his trip, but we fear ho has left Ins hosts poor indeed. The mortal remains of the late Mrs J. W. Tarleton were yesterday interred in the Havelock cemetery, Rev. Hubert McLean reading , the beautiful service of the Church of England in a most impressive manner. Tho cortcijc, 'which consisted of upwards of twenty carriages, was composed of all the leading residents of Hastings and surrounding districts. Very great sympathy is expressed towards Mr Tarleton in his sad bereavement. Previous to the coffin beinglowered into the grave, many of his intimate friends placed wreaths of flowers on it, A rather amusing incident occurred in the District Court this morning on the common jury being , cmpanneled in the case of the Queen on the prosecution of J. B. Brathwaite v. Lagor. The clerk having requested the jury to choose their foreman, one juror arose in his place and with all due solemnity delivered himself as follows, "I propose Mr Pell as foreman." Scarcely had ho finished his words when another innocent one finished tho good joke by also rising- to his feet with the much-hackneyed, '* I begto second that."' The effect was electrical, but those two '' good men and true '' of Her Majesty's subjects evidently failed to see where the laugh came in. Mr F. Maccabe, the wonderful character delineator, vocalist, and ventriloquist, will make his first bow to a Napier audience on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal. The following extract from the London Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, September 4th,'lSG9, speaks for itself :—" In the completeness with which he changes his identity, and the brevity of the interval which suffices for the successive personal transformations, this exceedingly expert imitator has never been surpassed, and it may bo specially noted as a distinctive merit that each assumption is a thoroughly finished portraiture. Sir Frederic Maccabe is essentially an actor who renders full dramatic 'justice to each character he presents, and with an unusual stock of attainments lie is enabled single-handed to provide all the qualifications of a full company. An adept in the art of vocal illusion, Mr Maccabe completely deceives the cars even when lie lias frankly explained the principle on which the deception is carried out, and as the introduced songs are all written and composed by the vocalist who so efficiently render? them, it must be conceded that few have over appeared before the public possessed of such a multiplicity of accomplishments," The completion of tho harvest operations at tho Flaxmere station wore celebrated by a dinner and ball given by Captain Russell to the employes aucl their friends. Ihe dinner was replete with every delicacy, and reflected credit on the caterer, Mr R.

Vaughan. After dinner had been discussed, Captain Russell addressed the men and their assembled friends in a pleasant and appropriate speech, saying that, among- many of the institutions -which we had brought from the old country, there was none that tended to cement the good feeling- that should exist between master and man more than the " Harvest Home. " In a place life New Zealand, where work was the lot of all, ho considered that a little relaxation was necessary. What he meant by relaxation was not having work and spending the hard earned cheque at some neighboring town, but some innocent amusement like the present, at which he was happy to see so many of the fair sex. He always considered their presence as a good omen, for he noticed that when a man was accompanied by one of them he gradually became more careful of himself, and in their way became a better settler in every respect. The health of Captain and Mrs Russell and family having been drank in bumpers, with musical honors, the room was cleared, and dancing commenced, the ball being led off by Captain Russell and Mrs Miller. After a lengthy programme the party separated "when daylight was appealing" after a very enjoyable night's amusement. The Alexandra correspondent of the Auckland Herald says:—Tawhiao and his party appear to be doing well on their journey. I have just seen a letter from him. At Wangaehu he received a present of £'200, 20 mats, 33 blankets, a quantity of tobacco and waipiro, and a large quantity of food; at Tumkina, £70, 20 blankets, 5 mitts, food, etc. ; at Rangatikei, 2 tons of flour and other food ; atKakariki, £15 10s., blankets, 3 horses, 3 casks of beer, and food ; at Awahuri, £l'2o, 4 tons of flour, of sugar and food; at Awapuni, 95 blankets, 1(5 shawls, 3 tons of flour, and other food. The following is taken from a letter from the Timaru Herald's Melbourne correspondent, —A discussion at times quito as acrimonious as any parliamentary debate has taken place at the Wesley an Conference, now in session, respecting the introduction of the Bible into State schools. A motion tabled by the Kcv. W. F. Ktelictt, affirming the desirability of Scripture reading forming a portion of every day's scholastic routine, was carried by 1-40 votes to 7. When the fact is borne in mind that the Wesloyan denomination has always been most strenuous in upholding the secularity of the Education Act, the decision they have all but unanimously arrived at through their representatives at the Conference appears somewhat anomalous. "Anew comot" is announced by the Lyttelton Times in a recent issue. It seems that one evening lately, just after dark, several little knots of Ashburton citizens were here and there observable fixedly gazing skyward. Away up in the sky was to be seen a luminous body which a section of the citizens stoutly asseverated was a comet. It had no tail, and it exhibited a characteristic no comot ever showed before, for it swung from side to side with a gentle oscillatory motion, and could not be kept steadily in focus by the telescope. It displayed itself for half-au-hour. When Johnny Smith's father ordered the boy home he took the comet with him. It was a Chinese lantern at the tail of the boys kite. Once more a child's ingenuity has been too much for his elders' perceptive faculties. Says the Auckland Star of the 14th instant:—"A remark that fell from Mr Barstow at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday, to the effect that he would sooner turn out ten well-grown trout than 10,000 newly-hatched members of that family, raises this question—Have all our past endeavours in the matter of acclimatising fish been misdirected. The results attained, so far, by the method of turning out the juvenile fish to take pot luck amongst the voracious eels of colonial streams have certainly not been very encouraging, and we arc glad to notice that the Acclimatisation Society have decided upon trying a new plan. A large fish pond will be constructed in the Domain, and hero the important trout will be kept until they have reached the adult state." The Wairarapa Standard thus describes a levee held by " the King-" at Masterton: — '' This sight is one that is seldom witnessed in this part of the colony, situate, as we are, so far from Royalty. Seated between two ladies (who occasionally wipe theperspiration from his brow with a towel) he receives the homage of .his loyal subjects in kingly style ; nods majestically to those presented to him; and occasionally engages in conversation with them; and also takes a friendly glass of the Avaipero, of which there is plenty. The Royal Chamber was filled to overflowing during His Majesty's stay; every door, window, and aperture, being crowded with anxious faces to get a glimpse of him. This, evidently, was not so pleasing to him as'was expected, for about ten o'clock the order was given to his aide-de-camp to have his carriage in readiness, and in a, quarter of an hour after the royal party drove away to Te Ore Ore." The New Zealand Agricultural Company (says the Mataura Ensign) has now finished shearing at both their sheds, having shorn 106,000 sheep altogether (50,000 at Wantwood and 56,000 at Longridge), and having pressed 1300 bales of wool. The clip this year was well grown, sound, and very clean and light in grease. Probably tho very wet weather experienced last winter accounts for the last fact. The wool should sell well at home, as it will lose very little weight in the progress of scouring, and is very free from seeds, &<;. The company has marked 23,000 lambs this season, or about GO per cent on the number of ewes put to the rain, last year. The per centago of lambs among the paddock ewes was very much higher, but the total per centage is brought down by tho inferior lambs among the merino ewes on the run, and which were unfortunate enough to catch all the bad weather last October. Mr S. A. Levy, who was one of the witnesses of the historical atrocities of the cannibal Maori chief Kereopa, is now one of the principal residents of Temora. In 1864 Sammy was located at Opotiki, when Kereopa headed a party of Hau Hans from Taranaki and came to Opotiki for tho express purpose of killing the Rev. Mr Yolkner. This missionary was caught and hanged. The cannibal wretches next decapitated the corpse, and, gouging out its eyes, Kereopa swallowing them before his people. Mr Levy, the Rev. Mr Grace, and other Europeans were next taken prisoners, bound hand and foot, and threatened with execution. After a big meeting of cliiefs, it Avas agreed simply to hold a hostage until the Government in Auckland could be communicated with. Mr S. A. Levy heroically consented to remain as hostage, and the other Europeans were allowed to leave by a schooner. Sammy managed afterwards to .secure a oauoi-, which lie paddled successfully to 11.M.5. Eclipse. Mr Levy had, three days after tnc Volkner outrage, purchased from the Hau Haus the missionary's headless trunk. This he buried, and 'he fenced in the grave. He and his brother, Captain Levy, lost about £2000 by the vagaries of Kereopa and his followers, and was rewarded by the New Zealand Government with some paltry land scrip. Sammy received no recognition whatever of his services in the Yolkner affair. —Sydney Bulletin. A country schoolmaster, who found it rather difficult to make hit; pupils observe the difference in reading between a comma and a full point, adopted a plan of his own, which he flattered himself would make them proficients in the art of punctuation.; thus, in reading, when they came to a comma, they were to say tick, and read on; to a colon or semi-colon, tick, tick ; and when a full point, tick, tick, tick. Now it so happened that the worthy dominie received notice that the parish minister was to pay a visit of examination to his school, and as he was desirous that the pupils should show to the best advantage, he gave them an extra drill the day before the examination. " Now," said he, addressing his pupils, "when you read before the minister tomorrow you leave out the ticks, though you must think of them as you y;o along, for the sake of elocution." So far so good. Next day came, and with it the minister, ushered into the schoolroom by the dominie, who, with smiles and bows, hoped that tho training of the scholars would meet his approval. Now it so happened that the first boy called up by the minister had been absent "on the proceeding day, and in the hurry the master had forgotten to give him his instructions how to act. The minister asked the boy to read a chapter in the Old Testament which he pointed out. The boy complied, and in his best accent began to read—"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying tick, .speak unto the children of Israel saying tick, tick, and thus shalt thou say unto them tick, tick, tick." This unfortunate sally, in his own style, acted like a showerbath on the poor dominie, whilst tho minister and his friends almost died oi laughter.

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