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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3661, 9 April 1883, Page 2

It is noc'ned that a post o__3c has been oiiened at Matamau, Seventy-mi'e Bush.

The sittings of the Distilct Corvt of Hawke's Bay have been abolished by His Excellency the Governor as from March 31st last.

Letters of naturalisation have been granted to the following settlers in the Danevirk settlement : —L. Ilermanseii, C. Larsen, R. E. Rasmusen, M. C. Jensen, and C. C. Neilsen.

Constable J. Motley has been appointed clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court, AVoodville, and clerk of the Licensing Con'mi.ttee for the district of AVoodvT'e, vice Sergeant O'Malley.

An Order in Council has been gazetted under which the time has been extended to the 30th April for the Property-Tax Commissioner to make out and forward a valuation roll to the clerk of each local body in the colony.

The Gazette of the sth instant contains a proclamation setting forth a list of lands with then- boundaries in the provincial district of Hawke's Bay that have been taken for the AVel'-ngtion-Napier ra'lway. The list occupies nine columns of the Gazette.

The lolloping gentleman have been appointed tho Licensing Committee for the district of Porangahau : —Messrs T. Crosse, G. Hiritcr, J. Mackersey, A. H. Price, and the Rev. F. E. T. Simcox. For the district of AVaipawa Messrs E. Bibby, R. Harding, J. L. Herriek, J. Lawrence, and AY. AVhite have been appointed.

At the hour of going to press an enquiry was proceeding at the Couvt House, before Captain Preece, R.M., and Captains Gleadow aud Dunn, nautical assessors, into the er.-cir.nstances connected with the strand-'-ig of the three-masted schooner Johanu Adolph, which grounded on a bank in the tideway when go~ig out of the harbor on Friday. Tho enquiry will probably occupy some houvs.

AYe havotocongratu'ateMr A. B. Thomson, head master of the Napier district school, iv successfully complef _g the training of three of b"s pupil teacher j, the names of Misses Corb'n, R "ed, and Monteith appealing iv the successful list of candidates at the lute Januaiy ccam'nation for New Zealand certificates. These young lac"es have been ruder Mr Thomson's tra ; - "ng for the past four years.

Our reports of the cases before the Board of Reviewers at AVaipawa require some amend'ig, namely, AY. Coleuso's first case was £1000 by the valuer reduced to £700. In our country issue on Friday the Borough reserve was made to have been reduced from £GOOO to £200, which should have been from £6000 to £2000. Three sections of Messrs Knowles and Pidford, valued by the assessor at £1825, were reduced to £730, and Carlyon's Kopanga run shor'd have cad E. S. Curing's Kopanga rim.

The annual meeting of the congregation of Trinity AVesleyan Church will be hold to-morrow evening, when, iv addition to addresses by the Yen. Archdeacon Maunsell, the Rev. T. F. Jones, and others, a number of sacred pieces w'U be sung by the church cho : v. A charge of one s_.i 1 7hijr will be made for admission, but we would point out to the Trinity Church comnr'tteo that before they can turn tht'v place of worship into a place of amusement they must take out a license from the Town Clerk.

In the Resident Magistrate's Com i this mon.'lug, before CaptaH Preece, R.M., two persons were charged w itli breaches of the railway bye-laws, one for having travelled from Napier to Fa.-idoii without a ticket and without means to pay for same, mid the other for ha\ .'rig refused to pay a fare and f-ie of Is to the guard when requested to do so. In the f -st case a trie of 5s and costs was impose d, and : n the second case the defendant, hav'ig evidently eired through ifeAorancc of a new regrhition with respect to bool'.ng at flag stations, -a norruial penalty of Is and costs, together with the fare, kc, Is 4d, was inflicted. There was no other business.

Complaints reach us from rjsidents on the hi 1 Is that it is becoming a common practice for paddock g„tes to be opened on Saturday nights, by which horses stray J-ito tho public roads and then get driven into tho pound. AA r e have heard of one we'lauthenticated case that occurred last Saturday. Three horses were put into a paddock and the gate clcsed. On Sunday morning the horses were missing, and were for-id in tho pound. Horses have of course _ been known to get out of paddocks by accident, but the practice of wilfu'y opening gates at night is becoming so common that we should ad\ise a trap to be laid for the discovery of the miscreant. In another column will be found a correspondent's letter signed "Traveller," in which attention is directed to the trouble and annoyance that are caused consequent on the nnoertainty that prevails as to th« t:"ne the Union Company's steamers are idespatched from this port. AYe can quite endorse "Traveller's" remarks on the subject. It must be exceedingly annoying as well as expensive to intending passengers who come from country districts to have to wait about town from Saturday to Monday evening for the purpose of catching a steamer, which, according to the company's timor table, should have been despatched on Saturday.

The Mauawai.i Times says public &p'-._ appears to havo died out in Foxton, but ad' mits the growth of a pumpkin weighing 120lbs on Mr Hector Macdonald's property at Horowhenua.

The Fielding Star has it that one of the interested pa\tics in the Pannerston still is reported to them to have stated that,_ had it not been discovered, a profit of £15,000 per annum was assured to the "promotors !"

The Waitara Press records the following: —A practical joke was perpetrated on some of ovv enthusiastic hoodlums the other evening. A resident, ncwly-rolurn d from a brief honeymoon, was threatened w.'th " tin-kettUng " unless he "shouted," and on the interest'ng occasion invited bis we'Twishers in doors, where they wero entertained with bvis and beer, tbe latter commodity bc"ig judiciously strengthened with Epsom salts. The happy pa-.- drank «.>ld tea.

An Opnnake correspondent of the Ha wera Star wiites that he scarcely knew To AVm' i ou his return. He says: —'' Two and a-half years ago I paid my first visit to Parihaka, and was introduced, J Ice most Eu opeans, to Te AVhiti. He had then an arx-ous look, and was thin in frame. That was the time -»-hen. TV_r Brvco _rst wanted to marcli on Parihaka to demand Hiroki; but Ins timorous colleagues thought him too rash, and lie had to abandon his puipose, although he remained in the Ministiy some time afterwards. Now Tc AVh'ti is quite fat aud comfortable- l oolc-ig, the anxiety having given place, apparently, to a more set.led and contentxl frame of mind."

It is necessary we (AVanganui Herald) should wai.i the pub'-'c against spv.ious coin in the shape of half-crowns wh : ch have got into circulation. AYe have seen one of these, and it is qv'to impos.iblo to distinguish it by the eye from tho genu-' le con —the m-'lling on the edge being pcuect, and in every oilier respect equal in aitisti:: finish. 'The old well-1 lown test of rapping it on the counter discovers the fraud at once, so that if a coni looks particularly new, it would be Ay to take precautious. It is possible that the substance wi'l not wearand that the co.'v can only be ci -ciliated when it is new. A gentleman the other day, into whose hands one of these ha l f - crownsbad fidlen, made a small wager he world pass it, and he had no difficulty in chr'ng so, of co.yse the explanation being at once fortheem'ug.

AVi Itr'ng on the " mairiage w Ith a decea«"6. w'fe's si>ter que ;i ion," a corespondent of the Evening Mini says : —" Be'ng a strict lover of flic Jaw and one who abhors coercion, Iveutjvoto advise a ll those who wish to enter the bonds of w ""ock with their deceased v. ife's sister to have the 1 lot lied ii the office of the Dist.let Registrar, who is legacy appoiuted for that dv./. By so doing "they w l '! not wound the conscience of the priost'and wi" be altogether indepondent of the chrvch. The ceremony w' "be pei-formed at a cheaper rate, and the transaction will be equally as b' uPvg and legal, the extravagant and ab. rrd display of bridal trapping w.''l be avoided, and the on'y person who wi' 1 be the loser by such a procecd'-ig w ''1 be thepriest, andhew "lhavc this one great s: ti reaction by way of compensation, viz., :'f he loses Ir's fee ho spares l:"s conscience, and : 1 th-s age of progess it :s high t'*ne ye cast off some of the old mummeile'3 of the chr-ch, with its auriquatcd forms and ceremonies."

One of the th" lgs which v ; "ljous Acts o" Parliaments have feed to aacomp i; .sh is t> keep tippleis cobev on Sundays. Exphr' 1 it how you wl 1 !, the fact is d : sag rceubly pla'u (remarks the N.Z. T : 'iie ■), that persons can aud do get drunk i 1 We J'nig ou on Struhys,'" r spifj of a lately enact 2d Sabbat:.--.'an st-I.e) " ; 1 that ca,c made and providrl." AVhen a pub i: can is asked a point:d question of that so\t iv a o"urt of law, is he boirid to c- *m'-iat2 h'mr.o"* ? One publican gave evidence ft tho Sup-erne Cdi ton the 3rd iisKnt vi a case whcie thr" 1 sr'V." had got w ;i dly di.mk on a Sunday evening, aud had got into so 'ous trouble with the po'-'ec. Those savVs, or at least one of them, had been ' l tbe witness' hotel :'1 af-er eleven o'clock on a Simd'iy r'ght. At twelve o'clock they were" certa' dy vei/ drv-k; therefore, where d"d they get chunk r Ine pubHe.iu was i e those si'lors were servd with i; quor :'i his hoi-el. He dcd'ned to say, v id the Judge 1. "od thai the \v!tj;ejs wa - not bound to crinr'iiate lrr - sdf, as an ar-iwe-r to the gui scion n'ght entail a heavy penal.'/.

Theteim drunkenness, says thoAshburton Guardian, is of course a relative one, but it must be confessed that they a' c rather liberal :'i the": "views on this matter up Methven way. At an :-iquc?t thc.e the other day, Sergeant Fclion was an: : oi sto leai'n from one of the witnesses whether the nui_ who had b'en was drr-nk at the time of the accident. Tho a\ Ii urss:' i que ;- tion declared that when in his company the deceased was ceita : ily sober, although he had pol-shed oft' four: pints : i rapid suecojsiou. Pressed fi-thcr by the w-'y sergeant, the witness adir-ittel that Cxlbb could not walk straight, in fact staggered about incontinently ; but sii ll , it was asseri;d hewa; not drunk, although this was somewhat qualified by the addition oc the words "at least for Methven." Tl's led to a clef ii. 'on as to what intoxication rea"y mcaut "i that district, and it was elicited that a man was not considered c" 'link unt"' he was aboolutdy incapable of speech and movement. Methven apparently offers a fine field for an enthusiastic temperance reformer.

Arevereud gentleman, now in the colonies, lately gave mc ("_Egles" iv the Australasian) an experience of l-s own when ' lcumbent of a London parish chi- -eh. His churclvwnirdens were a pious lawyer and a rich flow merchant. They took £180 of the incumbent's pew rents to beautify the church, and, in spit? of reinonslrance aud tho parson's threat of ecclesiastical displeasure, they stuck +o the money. The latter bethought 1 "inse 1 * of the aid of a neighboring rector of high chavactrr, remarkable for I's pevoiiasivc power. A conference was arranged, aud the friendhparson was put 'v the cha'v, upon which followed ha 1 ' an hoi r- of con esy, logic, usage, and ecelrsiasj'c law. But notl 'lg could shake the florv-deider and the law/er, who resolutely dec-ned tj pa: o w"th those pew-rents. At par fig the revorened cha'---man beamed upon them aud sa ; d in l"'s sweetest manner: " I must say, gentlemen, that the si ffeilng3 of yoi • incumbent resemble those of St. Paif, who ' fought after the manner of men, w'th beasts at Ephesus,' Some leaned commentators consider that h's combat must have been with churchwardens of the period!"

AA r e tako the from the European Mail:—"Where will science not lead us? Recently it was discovered that dead cats could be convex rrd into butter, and now or c of the worst household pests, the cockroach, is said to form a most valuable mcdicSc. In Russia, .•dready, it is almost iv ,: versa! as a, dhrciic : 1 ceriain diseases, whilst iv European med'eal practice it is frequently ILSC d—wo will fain believe unknown to the individuals—as a cv-c for Blight's d'V.ea. c. The Profer.or of Ma.-.a Medica iv Jefferson's College advocates the Or Inking of cockrorch tea, and says that cockroaches are not entirely mil. .iowii : i the medical practice in Philadelpl'., ' though physicians 4o not care to have it known.' AVnen prescribed it is in the shape of a pill made with the powder of the dried insect. Be sides the pill form, a solution of cockroaches is sometimes employed, It is prepared by soaking fat female specimens in wh'skey. Physicians are not waning who afrre-i that it is only a mailer of Pne for cockroaches to become of common use in this country. The news, howevtx-, w '11 scarcely be welcome to any but great sufferers." A somewhat curio .is light (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette) is thrown upon the way is now conducted, by the o'.ficial piii iiculnrs of the failrrc of Messrs C -v' 11 and M"Kean, who became barkupt the other day with liabilL'cs of nearly £300,000. So wide was the ramification of this firm's business as merchants and si 'powners, that it not only trrded in London, but rx Liverpool and in Ncwry, Irelrud, as well as abroad under other styles. Mr Patrick G. Cavil 1 ., one of the partners :':i the firm, avo arc further told, also can led on buriiess iv partnership with Joseph Coi ior; iuß'-u 'ngham and London, as Connor and Co. ; with R. Nai.-i, at Bristol, as R. and P. Nail.i; with J. Gilbertson, iv Loudon, as Gilbertson Brothers ; with J. Crawley, at Rostrevor, Ireland, as the Forest Brook Linen Company; with Archibald Liudogreeu, iv Loudon, as A. Lmdegrecn aud Co. ; with

R. AAnikeham, at Liverpool, as R. AValceham and Co. ; and with AY. Peacop, as AY. Peacop and Co. The debtors were also tieScribed as of Sydney, San Francisco, anil other places abroad, trading in partuersbii with variouspersons and undervariousnames This is a case of '' many irons in the fire' with a veDgeauce.

An experiment is now being tried by the Education deparlnvent in Ireland which deserves the attention of English school boa: Is. A grant is made to a school near Cork for training sons and daughters of farmers to the practical business of their calling. The young men have lessons in almost every branch of agricultural knowledge; the young women get lessons in da'ry management, also in plain cookery and the economical management of food.

An extremely instructive thing has isays Vanity Fa-:) become pretty generally known. A clerk in a Government office wrote an anonymous letter to the Standard, making certain complaints. A high official from the office caTod on the editor of the Standard, and gently required to know the writer of the fetter. The editor sent down for two fu l !- --grown compositors, and the high official was conveyed from the premises in a most in-dign-'fied manner. This is the most useful political prececdnig for wlrch wo have lately had to thank the Standard.

A telegram to the Da :i y News of Feb.ua\y 21 is horribly suggestive. It runs as follows :—" Minute investigation has shown that it is not necessary "to blow up the wreck of tho Cimbria. The report of the diver states that tie removal of the masts will socuvo .sufficient depth for the passage, the deck being GO feet below the level of the sea. Moreover, the v\ _eok contains such an cro'mous number of dead bodies that it is considered best to leave them undisturbed. The '"nsi'-ancc companies -wi'l send out ano'her diver to try and save part of the cargo."

A significant result of the temperance agitation iv London is the reduction on a 1! sides of the value of public-house property. City- tavcias and suburban host : lries are falling in price as rapiPy as they rose 10 years ago, and the auctioneers who make a specialty- of tho sale of that class of proper tv are troubled not a. little to find customers for the : ■ goods. Recently a publichouse : -i a street eft' the Strand changed owners for two-thirds of the pi ice it fetched not long since, while the highest bid for a long established restaurant in Fleet street did not amount to ha I : tho sum fixed as the reserve.

The nearest of the fixed stars is tweu'r triHions of m ; les distant from us. The ne in distance is four times iv lb or removed. If we attempt to fix an average distance fo:----the smT.)tinc i; i g group of lived stars nearest our system, we couhl not safely give it a rad-'u.s of less than fe -r huud-ed trill ions of m ;l es. Yet what does tip's ; nvolve!' Light, which reaches us from the sen : n eight and a haH ir''Miles, woe'd take seventy- years ; i i.'s journey across ties vast domain of space. If the volume of <paec -'neluded wJ"'■'n oreso 1 .-! i- .-yslcm we'-o occupied with one huge sphere of s,ooM.ooo,ooon''les d'amete l- , even such a mighty-mass word be but as a floating feather : n the spread ol empty space su _ '•cuud-'ug. This spacj woe'd conti-i-i twenty-seven hund'-ed ti :1 - lious of such spheres, and would conf;"'n the mate- 'al contents cf ou ■ solar system a number of t'mes : 'dicated by the figure 5 with twenty-two ciphers annexed.

Counhy residents requiring patent_ proprietary medicines, toilet requisite fancy goods of any description, statioae y. «See,"will best consult their own interests by calling at Professor Moore's establishinei.' AVaipawa, where there is a huge and we I ', assorted stock to choose from. On hand Coutts' acetic acid, the noted cure for heematism, neuralgia, and all nervous complaints ;an unfailing remedy requiring outward application only.—[AovT.]

AVhen AVoife's Sen TArro was fi 'it -' • troduced here, the hi J.cle wa> analysed b*' competent chemists audpronornced pi -eand wholesome; it is now and ha < been f'>_> many ye.irs a sHndardprofc ;/.omi! rem'dy. —[Advt.]