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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3769, 14 August 1883, Page 2

To-morrow, being a holiday of obligation, Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick's Church, AVaipaAva, at 9 a.m.

Tbe date of the auction sale of horses at Hastings by Messrs M. R. Miller and Potts has been finally fixed for Tuesday 28th instant, at noon.

Rainer's panorama was faA*ored Avith a a good bouse at Hastings last night, and the exhibition, kc, passed off A*ory successfully. To-night the company appear at AVaipaAva.

Tho Clive Square Mutual Improvement Association meets this eA-ening* at 7.30 o'clock, when an essay on Tennyson will be read, and illustrations of the poet's Avorks Avill be given.

Mr M. R. Miller reports that Mr J. Giblin has sold his Omatu property, consisting of 5510 acres freehold (being part of the Apley estate), with 8000 long avool sheep, to Mr AVilliam Nelson for £28,400 sterling.

Sad neAvs comes from Nelson, our telegram reporting the loss of the pilot's crew Avhen returning this morning from the steamer AVanaka. In days gone by the Nelson pilot's crew was composed of Maoris, and they were considered the smartest boatmen at any port in the colony.

The noAv and poAverful engine for the South Pacific Petroleum Company's works arrived at Gisborne last Saturday, so that boring operations may be expected to be resumed in the course of a fortnight. The engine was imported from America, and was brought over by the mail steamer Zealandia.

Prior to taking her leave of tho district school, Mrs Doar was presented by the head master, Mr A. B. Thomson, on behalf of the teachers and pupils, with a handsome electro-plated cruet stand, as a small token of esteem. Mrs Doar takes with her to Hampden the good Avishes of the Avhole school.

The Municipal Council, apparently, fights shy of dealing with Mr Stewart's report upon the Avaterworks plant. For the adjourned meeting last night of the Council in committee Cr. Margoliouth was the only one present for half-an-hour, and then, thero being no quorum, there Avas necessarily a further adjournment.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Napier District School Committee will be held this evening, when the question of granting the use of the school for religious instruction avill be discussed. As a good deal of public interest has been evinced in the subject, the decision of the committee will be eagerly looked forward to.

Atmospheric disturbances havo seriously interfered Avith telegraphic communications to-day. There was an obstruction near Takapau; only urgent messages could be forwarded south of AVellington ; and there was a break between Hokitika and Ross. Communication, on the other hand, has been restored between Napier and Gisborne.

The Corporation barometer, the watercart, was out at work to-day, which betokened approaching rain. During the dusty weather of the past week there was no water-cart to be seen. By-the-by, when Mr Tuxford Avas in the Council Tennysonstreet used to be watered as far as bis residence. We notice it stops short of that distance now. It is a wonderfully discriminating piece of machinery is that water-cart.

A somewhat serious accident occurred at Tikokino on Friday to a little girl named O'Hagan. AVhile her mother Avas engaged in household duties, the child began playing Avith the kitchen fire, and ignited her clothes. Her screams brought assistance, when it was found that the left side of the body was much burned. Appropriate remedies were quickly applied by the child's parents, and she is now considered out of danger.

AYe are requested to mention that Mr Rymer will run a special coach in connection with the concert at Taradale, in aid of the Meanee school funds, on Thursday evening. The coach will leave Newton's corner at 7 p.m. sharp, returning after the entertainment, and will convey passengers at the reduced charge of 2s a head return. A coach will also run from the Shamrock via Meanee, carrying thero and back at Is 6d a head.

Accidents caused by young people riding unsaddled horses continue to be too common, as our columns frequently testify. The latest instance occurred at Kaikora on Saturday last, when a youth named Pilcher was thrown violently by a horse he was riding. The youth sustained severe injuries by the fall, his hip being wrenched, and his head much cut and bruised. He was insensible for a long time after being picked up, and is now recovering but sloAvly.

A fire was discovered at about 5 o'clock this morning in the engine room of the Tomoana meat preserving works, which fortunately, owing partly to the strong gale of wind blowing the flames from_ the main buildings, and partly to the exertions of the large staff of hands, was confined to that one building. It is impossible to accurately estimate the loss, but it is supposed to be not above £700. The whole of the Avorks are insured in fourteen different offices for £7400.

We are a sympathetic people in New Zealand. A country paper publishes a list of subscriptions in aid" aid of a man " who has lately been bereft of his wife, and left with a family of seven children, most of whom are of tender age' and totally unprovided for." The only inference avc can draw from the above is that the mother supported the children when alive, but OAA'ing to some cause Or other, failed to make such' provision for them at death as Avould relieve the father of any responsibility concerning their future' maintenance. What next?

Amongst other recommendations of the Public Avorks Committee passed last night Avas that Mr Black, as a temporary arrangement, be appointed to inspect plans for neAV buildings. This makes the seventh appointment under the Corporation that Mr Black holds. He is road overseer, clerk of works, inspector, of cabs, inspector of nuisances, fire inspector, inspector under Public Health Act, and inspector of building plans. It is fair to stato that Mr Black performs all these duties - efficiently an„ C'Uietljr nor does he complain at being overworked.

On the vote of £3000 for coroners' inquests being moyed in the House, Mr Sheehan °»-

jected to inquests being held on deaths in public institutions, the expense being unnecessary in both cases. Mr Hutchison said if Crown coroners were specially appointed they might hold inquiries into causes of railway accidents and other serious cases AvereliA'es wherelost, instead of coroners inquiring into deaths where the cause Avas perfectly obvious. Mr Feldwick, Mr Joyce, Mr Swanson, and other members objected to medical men being coroners. All inquests should be open to tbe Press. The Minister of Justice said no complaints had reached him of malpractices by medical coroners. Mr Duncan asked Avhat necessity there was for* an inquest on a man who Avas hanged in gaol. If the hangman Avere up to his Avork, there should be no doubt about his hanging* a culprit properly. The vote was passed.

" The electric light in the House," says the NeAV Zealand Times, "has become a torment to those Avho Avere supposed to enjoy it. In a moment of infatuation our penurious representatives, Avho are generally so cheeseparing, A-oted £3000 for lighting their chamber by electricity. The new toy has been tried, and at first looked pretty; yet, noAv that members are familiarised with its brilliancy, and have ceased to feel aAvfully enlightened, they begin to grumble, and even to condemn. The new light has certainly boon eccentric in its behaA_our, and refuses to adhere to steady habits. It is beautifully brilliant at one time, and depressingly dull at another—tbe A-ari-ationsbetAveen these extremes being frequent and severe. It has gone clean out on two occasions, and nearly out many times." The result is that gas has been returned to until inquiry can be made as to tlio source of trouble in connection with the electric light.

AVriting upon the Nelson tragedy, the Timaru Herald says that the crime at the Lyell for AA T hich Davidson was condemned was "one of the Avorst cases of manslaughter that ever came before a court, and Davidson was proved to be a ruffian of the most dangerous type. Yet, in the face of all these facts, he was treated in the gaol as if he were a harmless creature who had had the misfortune to get into a scrape. He was emjdoyed as cook, entrusted with knives and a tomahawk, and actually let loose to perambulate tbe gaol premises unguarded. It would liaA'e been a matter for astonishment if he had not taken the first convenient opportunity for perpetrating some deed of bloodshed. There are, *ye presume, regulations in force in prisons for the proper custody of convicts undergoing penal servitude for A-iolent crimes—regulations, we mean, of so strict and imperative a character that they cannot be suspended, at the will of the gaoler or warders, in favour of any prisoner Avho happens to bo quiet and docile in his demeanour. If so, the authorities of the Nelson gaol must be held directly responsible for this horrid catastrophe, tho only alleA-iating circumstance of Avhich is the good behaviour of the gaoler and his wife Avhen brought face to face with the murderer. Had they shown less courage or self-possession their own lives in all probability Avould have been sacrificed, the gaol would literally have been left under the control of a desperate convict, and there is no saying what the consequences might have been."

Bella has just started out with her swain for v, walk, Avhen her little brother called to her, "I say, Bella, don't you bring that fellow back here to tea Avith you. Mamma says there ain't more'n enough biscuits to go round as it is."

If people would only exercise more judgment than credulity, they Avould take nothing into the system but what like Wolfe's Schnapps A-indicates its value by its effects.—[Advt.]