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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3751, 24 July 1883, Page 2

A telegram has been received by the Chamber of Commerce from Sir gutton in reference to the absence of accommodation at tho Napier railway station. Mr Sutton states that it is quite correct that tho Government only intend to patch up the station, but that he is doing- all ho can to get additional accommodation. It is currently reported that when tho character of the plans of the Hastings station became generally known, and it was discovered that there was to be no verandah over the platfor, the wife of one of our leading settlers let the Minister for Public Works distinctly understand that tho plans met with her disapproval. The lady's wishes on the subject were ascertained, and sho obtained for Hastings the only station worthy of tho name to be found on the Hawke's Bay railway line. Now, if our Chamber of Commerce included the wives and daughters of tho present members of that institution, representations to the Government might have much moro weight. A man is none the less human bacause he is in tho Cabinet, and few Ministers are proof against tho doinauds of ladies. The scene presented on the arrival of tho evening train at Napier, dark, bitterly cold, and pouring with rain, is simply a public disgrace. Unprotected ladies cannot holp getting wet through in getting their luggage from tho van, and, so fino are tilings cut, they are lucky if they have not got to carry their boxes and parcels out as best they can to the cab stand. If the Hastings lady would exert her influence on behalf of Napier, as sho was so successful jn doing for tae etetion at tb.o " City of the

Plains," wo do not know to what position of eminence her husband might not rise m the estimation of the general public.

The Taiaroa will not arrive here until to-raorrow afternoon, and her time of departure for Wellington has, in consequence, been postponed until 9 o'clock the same evening.

Although thero was a great fuss made to get a water supply on the hills, we learn that there has been no rush made to secure the desired boon now that it can easily be procured.

It has been decided to call a special meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce for Monday afternoon to consider the question of the proposed new railway station for Napier.

It is whispered around the passages of the building in which the Corporation has itH oflices that, unless the Napier District School Committee does not pay tho water rates —twelve months now owing—the water will be cut off.

Somewhere about two hundred men are now employed in the Seventy-mile Bush on the several railway formation and bridge contracts. The Public Works Office is to be shifted from Kopua to Tahoraite, and an assistant engineer is to reside at Woodville.

Wo learn from private sources that the " authorities " approve of the course taken by Mr J. T. Carr, Resident-Engineer, in connection with the suspension of his certificate for works done in the Waipukurau Road Board district under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act.

A burst in the new water main in Spencer road took placo to-day. The spectators say that the water spurted to a height of about one hundred feet. The supply was very soon afterwards abut off, but not before Carlyle-strect presented an undoubted appearance of having suffered an inundation.

The annual tea meeting of tho Bond of Unity Lodge, 1.0. G.T., will be hold in Trinity Church school-room this evening. Tea will be served at 6.30, after which there will be an entertainment. The meeting gives promise of being a very enjoyable one, and especially coming at a time when there is a dearth of amusements should be largely patronised.

'' Mrs Hampson,'' says a Melbourne con - temporary, "is not endowed with the gift of eloquence, she displaj'B uo particular intellectual force, and she is not able to impart to her discourses any special grace derivod from culture. Her matter is as homely as her style." This agrees pretty closely with the remarks made in the Daily Teleorahi respecting the abilities of Mrs Hampson when that lady was in Napier some time ago.

We have much pleasure in announcing that tho Napier and Clive Square Mutual Improvement Associations have decided to amalgamate for the purpose of holding" a debate on Phrenology versus Physiognomy. Mr R. Rush will deliver a lecture on the former subject, and Mr Hugo will reply to the lecturer's remarks, after which the meeting will be thrown open to the members of the two societies for debato. The meeting will be held in St. Paul's schoolroom on Thursday evening at 7.15 sharp. We hopo to see a crowded attendance of the general public.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs E. Patten and E. Lyndon, J.P.s, the following civil cases wore disposed of :—MoGlashan v. E. Peters, claim £8 5s 4d ; judgment by default for plaintiff, with costs, Robinson v. J. King, claim £2 4s 6d ; judgment by default for plaintiff, with costs. Tho following cases were adjourned for a week:—Ruddock and Fryer v. Pohuka Hapuka, claim .£32 3s 10d; J. Leonard and Co. (Mr Cornford for plaintiff) v. Pohuka Hapuka, judgment summons, £69 Cs; same v. Manaena Tini, judgment summons £73 Is Id. A number of other cases were sottled out of Court.

An accident happened on Saturday last near Makatoku, which resulted in a broken leg to a man named Stokes. The man, who was working for Mr Mackenzie on tho railway contract at Makatoku, was engaged loading earth into trucks. Somo of tho clods of earth, being too large to lift, were broken in smaller pieces, and thrown into the truck. One of these pieces fell back Tipou Stokes, and although only falling about two feet, struck him with, force enough to inflict a compound fracture of the leg. He was taken to tho County Hospital early yesterday morning, and is doing as well as can be expected.

At tho salo to-day by Mr T. J. Ryan, of lcasos, for thirty years, of harbor reserves, seventeen sections of town and suburban lands were offered, but only for two of the sections was thero any bidding - . These ■were lots 7 and 8, situated on either sido of the road at the West Quay, near the Potime bridge approach, and which were purchased by Messrs 11. Monteith and F. TV". Garner, and Mr W. Nelson, respectively. The rental given for lot 7 was £30, and for lot 8 the upset price £25, the lessees in each case to reclaim tho land within twelve months. Had more extended publicity been given to tho sale thero can beuo doubt that, not only would more of the sections have been disposed of, but bettor prices would have been obtained.

The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Mathew's Church, Hastings, -was held last evening, the luoumbcnt, the Rev. li. W. St. Hill, in the chair. The churchwarden's report was read and adopted. The balance-sheet showed an increase of £29 in receipts for pew rents, and of £21 in offertoi'ies, butthodebitbalimcc kadincreascd from £33 to .£53. This was accounted for by the extra stipend which was paid for the services of tho curate, the liev. H. Maclean, and that the Vestry had handed over the sum of £'lo received from the Ha wife's Bay Trust to tho Church of St. Mark, Clive. The following , gentlemen were elected officebearers for the ensuing year:—Minister's Churchwarden, Mr J. N. Williams; Parishioners' Churchwarden, Mr W. Beilby ; Vestrymen, Messrs R. Well wood, C. A. Fitzßoy, Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Faulkner, Captain Russell, Messrs W. J. Birch, TV. Rainbow, F. J. Knight, and li. O. Johnson ; Auditors, Messrs T. A. Hayes and John Macdonald. Mr Beilby was roelected Treasurer. After the customary votes of thanks to the retiring- Vestry, the Treasurer, and tho Chairman, the meeting dissolved.

Tho Theatre Royal will bo occupied on the evening of Thursday, 2nd proximo, by Professor Sample, the celebrated American horseman, who will deliver a free lecture on the "scientific management of horses." Professor Sample has achieved wonderful ■success in his particular department—horse taming—in the various parts of New Zealand that he has already visited. Tho Auckland Herald of May loth writes of him thus: —" After tho usual lecture on tho method of ascertaining the age of a horse, an old horse brought by a, member of tho class was led in for the purpose of giving the class an opportunity of examining his teeth to ascertain his age. The owner said he had been informed the horse was sixteen years old, but a careful scrutiny showed ho was only between thirteen and fourteen year,*. The next operation was a highly interostiujy one. A colt between three and four yours old was brought in \>j Major Shepherd, of Mangnre, as a test. The colt had never been handled, had been running looso in a large paddock with other horses, was considered vicious and wild, and altogether a bad subject. Ho showed his propensity when first led in by breaking his halter when hitched up. Mr Sample took him in hand, and in an hour and a quarter had that wild colt bitted, broken to harness, and so quiet that the flapping of an umbrella in his face, the dangling of kerosene tins at his tail, or any other unusual sound or touch likely to startle him, had not the slightest effect on him. Considering that a good deal of time was occupied before the halter could be got on the colt, the time in which he was subdued was almost miraculous, and this in tho face of tho fact that the colt showed the most stubborn disposition. At a meeting of the Joiut Coinmitteo of the two Houses of Parliament on the Channel tunnel scheme, Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., tho chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company, stated the estimated cost of the tunnel was £7,500,000, and that the company would hare to earn a gross revenue of £078,000 in order to pay a dividend of o per cent. Tho working expenses, he anticipated, would not be more thau-IS per cent., bocause they would have a long line of 30 miles with only two stations. In order to raise tho revenue of £G75,000 it would be necessary to carry 2000 passengers each way daily, atGsGd each, or 1,500,000 passengers every year, ai>d 548 £ons of goods per day at 10s per ton. Sir John Ha-wksha-w, one of the engineers to the company, said the tunnel which they proposed to make would occupy eight years In construction,

Madame Lotti Wilmot is still in New Zealand. Tho other week she was lecturing , to empty seats at Ashburton.

A great many flourishing business enterprises exist upon the mistakes or wastefulness of others. Here, says n contemporary, is an instance:—" A cotton mill in Georgia, uses for its raw material the waste that is gathered from other mills, and from this waste is turned out a product in threads and twines that is fully equal to those made by mills using cotton as it comes from tho gin." One of tho most notable features of modern industrial progress is the utilisation of what has always been considered waste material. This is usually done by devising and constructing special machinery to meet the end in view. Sometimes costly experiments are necessary, but in this progressive ago those who gain the prizes offered by successful business are the men who are willing to make ventures involving largo risks.

It is improbable that the tax of one cent which it is proposed to levy upon every pound of oleomargarine manufactured in the United States will seriously effect tho consumption of that commodity in this country. The demand for a cheap substitute for butter has created a great supply of compounds of tallow and oil, some of which arc execrable, while others are indistinguishable from the genuine article. At a great northern seaport we are credibly informed that the largest customers of the butterino importers are the fanners of the surrounding country. They take it home with them in casks, work it up into "rolls" or "shapes," and retail it in the market as the genuine product of tho British dairy. As the difference between the pure butterine and fresh butter is from sixpence to a shilling a pound, the profits are large.

The last American census shows how remarkably women have entered into tho domains of labor other than the domestic, which so many contend is the only- sphere they are meant for. Nearly one-third of tho professional artists in tho United States are women, their precise number being •2061. Of 1100 authors, 320 are women. There are 7o female lawyers, and 165 women have climed into the pulpit. Female physicians number 2132; barbers, 2902; and printers, &c, 3456. Of 30,000 professional musicians, 13,000 are women. There aro 52,000 female tailors, against 81,000 males ; and 154,375 female teachers, against 73,335 males. Thero are a few dentists and a few commercial travellers of the female persuasion. Of 12,308 journalists, 28S aro women; and as correspondents and roporters female scribes have advanced in certain lines to the front rank.

In these dull times when there is "nothing , in tho papers" it is refreshing to come across a pleasant little paragraph like the following, which is published by a London contemporary:—"You must he careful in your use of nitric acid," said a professor of chemistry to his class, "for, when benzoylnaphtylamid is treated with acid, two isomeric monifcrobenzoylnaphfcylamido are formed, one yielding inonononainidobenzonoaphtylamide, theother akydrobenzodiamidonaphalene, and an explosion is pretty sure to follow." Doubtless, like a famous production by tho lato Artemus "Ward, this is " writ sarkastik," but recent contributions to the literature of explosives have given us a number of works very closely resembling these polysyllabic periods. The average newspaper reader is expected to know, and, as a fact, does know a great deal, but it is unfair to heave such typographical tapoworms :it him without a moment's warning.

Tho Germans arc becoming alive to th» advantages to bo derived from photographing tho scene of a railway accident. It ia necessary, of course, to put tho line in order as quickly as possible after a break-down, but still, if tho "break-down gang ,, that is sent to repair damages iucluded among them a jjliotographcr with his apparatus, evidence might be collected on the spot without delay. The state of affairs immediately after an accident teaches much, both as to its " cause " and " effect," and we feel sure the day is not far distant when our Home Office will make it a stringent rule that a photograph be secured of the debris before any step is taken to set matters straight. The Germans adopted this plan on the occasion of the serious accident at Hugstetten, and the position of the locomotives and of the wrecked trains has materially helped to demonstrate how tho catastrophe was brought about.—Photographic News.

The Home News of May 17 says :—Lastweek was married, at the Pro-Cathedral, in Milan, Miss Monica Chisholm to Mr Arthur Lloyd Gruggan. Miss Chisholin, now Mvh Grrug-gan, is the daughter of the celebrated Caroline Cliisholm, known as "the Emigrant's Friend," one of the greatest female illustrations of this century, to whom Michelet in his work "La Feinme" has consecrated the most glorious chapter of all, and to whom reference has been more than onco made in our own Parliament as the real founder of our Australian Colony. It was by the system of female emigration inTented and applied by her to Australia that the country has risen with swh. extraordinary rapidity to the wealth and prosperity it has attained. Mrs Gruggan's sister is the wife of Mr Edmund Gray, M.P. It will be remembered that the words '' Advance, Australia," which have been adopted as the motto of the colony, -were suggested by Mrs Ohisholm, and eagerly adopted as appropriate to the Australian flag by Lord Palmerston, to whom they were presented.

At tho show rooms of Messrs F. and C. Osier, Oxford street, London, there was to be seen, previous to its despatch to Spain, a Miito of glass bedroom furniture, manufactured by the firm at Birmingham in accordance with the instructions of a Spanish nobleman. It consists of a bedstead of tho ordinary shapo and size, two arm-chairs, a couch, two tables, and a cabinet —the framework of each being of the clearest glass, cut and polished, and most artistically designed. Tho mattress of tho bedstead is covered with rod velvet, and the couch is in blue. Each article can be taken to pieces for packing , , and is easily fitted together. The effect of the whole can only be compared to that of a palace scene in tho Arabian Nights. Messrs Osier have on previous occasions bceu commissioned to make couches, chairs, and cabinets entirely of glass for Oriental potentates, and their superb cabinet, exhibited by the firm nt the last Paris Exhibition, is still remembered ; but this is, wo understand, the first time they have furnished a bedroom entirely with glass.—B. T. Journal.

Referring to the articles published in The Age from the pen of Mr George Ernest Morrison iv connection with the Queensland labor traffic, the Gccloug Times writes :— " Tho story told by Mr Ernest Morrison ■was such as made the blood tingle with shamo and indignation that a white man's greed of gain could so brutaliso him beneath the instincts of the savage. Mr Morrison had been a working sailor on a Queensland labor vessel, and he had therefore a personal acquaintance! with tho facts he narrated. The stirring picture, as was very natural, created a stir amongst the implicated planters of Queensland, and one of them, a Mr Macrae, wrote recently to The Age denying the accuracy of Mr Morrison's allegations. He declared them to bo overdrawn and sensational, lacking , truth, and simply preposterous and impossible in vicmof the Christian character of tho major portion of the planters, who would bo socially ostracised if .such atrocities existed as alleged. So far, this looked as if one story was good until another was told; but tic facts are that Mr Macrae stands alone in his mere denial, while Mr Morrison is corroborated by almost a host of independent witnesses, who testify that he understated rather than overstated his case."

Sir "W. P. Andrew sends to the London Times the following extract from a letter written by " a distinguished and most rpliablo traveller" who has recently passpd through the .Sue/ cana}: —''The canal in fast becoming a homo for diseaso and mischief, and something should be dona without delay to change it. The frequent stations now contain a good many people, and are growing in size ; they liavo been constructed for facility's sake to drain into the canal, and the consequence is that tho canal is rapidly becoming a. mere sewer. If you anchor at a small station for tho night tho .stench is pretty bad; at a largo ono it is horrible and most mischievous. Thero is a .standing juke among tho ship doctors of persuading the passengers it arises from an unfortunate camel Avho had just diedateack station; but the unhappy fact is that diarrhoea,and sickness at night are common on board tho ships, and the evil is daily increasing. It is not possible to flush tho canal and curry off so many miles of sewage into the sea. But the sewage, properly attended to, and very easily too, would bo of incalculable benefit to the land around if it was laid out upon it, and the manured land might brhig a handsome profit to toe company." *