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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3745, 17 July 1883, Page 2

The tender of Mr W. E. Woods, chemist, Hastings street, has been accepted for tho supply of drugs to the Napier Hospital.

supply of drugs to the Napier Hospital. It may interest OAvners of insurable property to know that there is no longer any fixed tariff in this town or district, and tho competition of tho several offices has done much to reduce current rates.

A special meeting , of the Napier District School Committee is appointed to be held on Friday evening next, to consider tho resignation of the head mistress, and the appointment of her successor.

It -will be seen by advertisement that a meeting of those interested in the formation of a Gun Club is called for to-morrow week. The promoters of the movement are desirous of forming a olub of sportsmen, which shall bo not a mere association to which everyone can belung by the payment of a subscription.

At the Waipawa Magistrate's Court yesterday, beforo Mr A. St. C. Inglis, J.P., John White was charged with being drunk on Saturday evening, and was fined 6s and costs. For being drunk on Sunday Charles Johnson was arrested, and afterwards allowed out on bail. Prisoner did not appear .when his name was called yesterday, and therefore forfeited his bail of £1.

The following significant notice is clipped from the advertising columns of tho Grey River Argus, and evidently relates to a person pretty well known in Napier, first as a draper, then as billiard marker, and afterwards as agent for a conjurer:— "If my husband, Walter M'lntosh, better known" as W. A. Price, Theatrical Agent, does not return or correspond, I intend to get married. (Signed) Elizabeth M'lntosh. —Wellington and Blenheim papers please copy.

From Wellington wo learn that the "local government party," by whiehSepurationists and Provincialists are now to bo known, are jubilant at the late division on Mr Montgomery's resolutions. The defeat of tho motions by tun votes only is regarded as a happy augury, and gives a hope that " local government" will be the cry for tho next elections. The ten votes majority obtained by the Ministry are put down to the ten Wellington members, who, of course, believo in past-iron centralism.

A little boy, three years of age, tho son of Mr Pierce", of Carlylo street, when playing in tho road, -sva.s run over yesterday l>y Mr Griffith's forage waggon. The child sustained severe injuries, and was conveyed to the hospital, wlioro it was discovered that his right arm was broken, and his chest crushed. Thoro are small hopes of his recovery. No blame is attached to the driver of the waggon, for as tho child ran from behind another cart right under the horses, it was impossible to see him in time to pull up.

A roport reaches us that the recent letter of Mr Carr to the Waipawa County Council, on the subject of the Government grant for works on the Waipukurau-Wallingford road, is likely to form a subject for litigation. We understand that, immediately Mr W. C. Smith, M.H.R., received a copy of Mr Carr's letter, he placed the matter in tho hands of Mr Holmes, M.H.R., tho well-known Cliristchurch solicitor, and that a writ is shortly to be served on Mr Can* for alleged libel. Mr Smith has also applied to the Government for an enquiry, and it is said that an investigation is promised.

Judging from tho Now Zealand " War Cry" the Salvation Army are doing great things in the way of "conversions." Under the heading Duncdin we find the following : —"Moro Salvation! Holiness and Hard Work ! Troubling the Devil at seven in the morning. On Tuesday we had a glorious time. Our soldiers wero all alive; at the word of command they fired some hot shots into the Devil's Kingdom. Wednesday.—Another desperate attack on the Devil's Half-acre. * * * Soldiers all alive ; Devil raging. War not ended yet. Hallelujah!" We hardly think that Napier is big enough for this sort of thing.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Precce, R.M., Thomas Murray was fined os and costs for drunkenness. Neils Ludwig Brittenthal (a Dane) was remanded for three days on a charge of suspected lunacy. William McWlia, alias Robert McKay, alias " Colonial Bob," on remand charged with larceny, was convicted and sentenced to threo months' imprisonment with hard labor. In the following civil cases judgment was given for the plaintiffs with costs:—W. E. Woods v. Alfred Lewis, claim £2 4s ; Vaughan v. G. Presling, jun., claim 17/-; Thayerv. Stanley, claim £10 11s 6d and solicitor's feo £1 Is. A largo number of other civil cases were oithor settled or withdrawn.

Tho members of the Harbor Board met in committee yesterday, and discussed in a conversational manner the best course to pursue with rogard to the decision given by the judges in the matter of harbor improvement. For an expenditure of a quarter of million of money it was thought by some of the members that a better harbor should be obtained than one of only 20 feet deop. Other members were inclined to think that the adoption of Mr Culcheth's plans would involve not more than half tho amount put down for their cost. Some of them suggested that the London judges should be sent a cable message before the several designs had left England, stating that tho Board expected to obtain a first-class harbor, and requesting a further decision. The Board will hold its regular monthly meeting this afternoon, when the question will be further discussed.

The annual meeting of parishioners of fct. Mary's Church, Waipukurau, was hold in tho church school-room at Waipukurau on Tliursday evening. There was a good attendance. Owing , to the death on that morning of his wife the Rev. Mr Granger was unable to attend the meeting, andtho chair was therefore taken by Mr Wilding, churchwarden. A vote of condolence with Mr Granger was carriod by the meeting. A /statement of accounts was read and adopted, which showed that the debt on tho building had been reduced during the year from £235 to £87. Tho following were appointed church officers for tho ensuing year :—Minister's Warden, Mr 11. Gaisford; People's Warden, Mr IV W. Butler; Vcstiy, Messrs Bogle, Bliss, Bull, Sharpin, anil Wilding; Auditor, Mr Robinson. Votes/of thanks to the retiring officers, Sunday school teachers, choir, and chairman, were passed, after which the meeting closed.

What do our School Committeos think of this ? The city of Toronto (Canada) has introduced an exercise in its public schools which ought to bo adopted in all cities and large towns. It consists in the practice of a fire drill, tho children being required, when an alarm is given, to leave their seats in order, divide into two lines (one at each sido of tho room), and, meeting attho exit, march out two abreast. It requires but a few minutes, once awcok or so, to soon train the children so that in case of actual fire, or other disaster of any sort, a capable teacher could empty the building without any danger of a panic, with its inevitable horrors. Drilling of this sort is given by some teachers in Now York and other places, but it ought to bo inado compulsory in all cases where large numbers of children are confined iv a single building.

Jfe land nationalisation, a correspondent of the Now York Freeman's Journal points out that in China the Emperor is tho universal and exclusive proprietor of tho soil. He is not only the landlord ; ho is tho first ploughman of tho population of four hundred millions. Instoad of paying rent to private individuals tho occupants of farms pay a land tax to the Emperor. It consists partly of produco and partly of money, and amounts to ono-tenth of the produce or profit after deducting , the expenses of cultivation. Lands are cnrofully registered by the Government and thoir fertilities estimated. Great precautions are used that neither the occupant bo over-chargod nor tho Government defrauded, and when districts suffer from drought or inundation, the Emperor generally remits the rent, in a word (says the New Zealand Tablet) tho Chinoso havo anticipated Henry George l>y at least threo thousand years l»£y proclaimed without limitation that the land Of natural, right is tho common property of the wholofpoople." But the condition of tho Chinoso labouring dassos and tradesmen is ■miserable, and wo are told that the poverty there exceeds that of the most beggarly nation in Europe.

Nellie Palmer, a strong-minded female, has been lecturing in the States on " Hell and its Tortures." She addresses her lectures to unmarried men. No doubt sho thinks married men know all about it already.

A phenomenon known as a parhelion or mock sun was recently seen at Dorchester, England. Some alarm was felt among tho country people, and two women foil on thcii knees in prayer in tho streot, thinking tho world was coming to an end. The meteor was also distinctly seen at Weymouth.

Tho whipping post for wife beaters is to be set up in Illinois, America. The law not only provides that any husband who assaults his wife shall be whipped upon tho bare bask, but that he shall pay all costs of prosecution. Wo look forward to tho day when whipping posts for wife beaters shall adorn the land as the indices of an advanced oivilization.

The shipping , manifest of the schooner Sandfly, which recently left Auckland far Tongatabu, comprises items which are not usually conspicuous in the cargo of an island trader. The first is "7 oases of Bibles," then "10 tons of soap"—proving the old. adage that "cleanliness is next to Godliness." " Twenty cases of biscuits, and 40 crates of flour" show that the Tongann, notwithstanding the seven cases of Biblei, do not mean to live by faith alone. A largo quantity of building materials shipped, indicates that civilization and Christianity are twin sisters in Tonga.

Sir George Grey, when speaking on tho motion against Central Government, referring to a part of Major Atkinson's speech, said, "The Treasurer had said, with the extreme unction, that they had a community of interest. Tho Treasurer and his relatives in many departments of the Government had a community of interest, which increased day by da) r , anil made it more difficult to displace them." Why doesn't the gallant Knight of Kawau move for a return of all relatives of the Colonial Treasurer, directly or indirectly, connected with the Civil Service of the colony ?

An Invercargill clergyman adopted a somewhat unusual method of impressing , the closing , part of his discourse on the mind* of tho congregation on a recent Sunday. On reaching a certain point he placed n human skull beside him on the pulpit, and apostrophised it after the manner of Hamlet in a natural and at the same time most effective style. When it had served its purpose, the emblem of mortality was quietly removed from view, to the relief no doubt of thoso who prefer less realistic illustrations. So far as dramatic effect was concerned, says an Invercargill paper, the expedient under notice was a decided success.

Tho most flattering tribute to tho merits of Wolfe's Schnapps ia to be found in the fact that although repeatedly pirated and often imitated, nothing has over been produced that even similate« this machleas preparation.—[Advt.] , ■ ■ . '