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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3775, 21 August 1883, Page 2

-As the steamer Taiaroa did not loaA'o Auckland for Gisborne till S o'clock last night, it is not .likely that wo shall got our English mail before Thursday morning. His Worship the Mayor -will deliver a lecture to-morrow night at the hall of tho Working Men's Club, the subject of which will be the " Geology of Scinde Island." Tho system adopted this year by the Hawkc's Bay County Council, by which the rates are paid into the office instead of being collected seems to have answered expectations. Something over £3660 has been paid in, and tho balance owing by ratepayers will bo sued for after the 28th instant. There has been quite a small rush after shares in the newly floated Mikonui Gold Mining and Water Race Company, of which Mr R. Brooking is the local broker. Although it is said that money is tight there appears to be sufficient spare cash for investment in any enterprise that offers fair prospects of returning a dividend. Our country readers will be glad to learn that Mr A. McHardy's thoroughbred cow Duchess of Chambourg gave birth yesterday to a bull calf. As this youngster is by Riby Knight it may well bo considered the most valuable animal of any in New Zealand, and no strain could be better, if selected from the whole of tho herds in the British Empire. As far as can bo at present ascertained the Theatre Royal will not be occupied by any professional company until the second week in October, when Ilcgarty's Court Minstrels (male and female) and Hibcrnicon will open for a short season. In tho meantime, however, it is probable we shall have an entertainment by the Napier Amateur Dramatic Club, and possibly a concert by 'the Musical Society. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, bofoi'e Captain Prcecc, R.M., Edward Hewitt, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s and costs. Andrew Brown, charged with tho larceny of 17s 6d in money from one Colin McTnggart, was convicted, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor. A number of unimportant civil cases were also disposed of. Messrs Hoadlcy, Lyon and Co.'s sale of Hastings town sections commenced at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, and attracted a largo number of buyers. The following are tho sections disposed of, with the buyer, and the amount paid in each case:—No. 305, Mr Johnson, £370; 306, Mr P. Ramsay, £370 ; 337, Mr Stuart Miller, £350; 338, Mr Aldridgo, £270 ; 339, Mr H. Baker, £230. The sale was still going on "when, wo went to press. The Napier Football Club's first match of the Hcason against visitors is advertised in another column for Saturday next, and will commence at 2.30 p.m. on the recreation ground. The country team is composed chiefly of residents on the stations between Rissington and Petanc, who have challenged the Napier Club on this occasion. The Napier players will bo Bcgg, Anderson, Cotterill, Gibbons, Harrap, McVay, Parker, Robinson, Simpson, St. "" Hill, Stubbs, Thompson, Wake, and Williams. The action of the Ilawke's Bay County Council yesterday in agreeing to the petition of tho Petano Road Board in the' matter of closing the only public road leading to Major Richardson's property recalls to mind clause 92 of the Public Works Act, which is as follows:—"No road shall bo stoppod unless and until a way to tho lands adjacent as convenient as that theretofore by the said road is loft or provided, unless tho owner of such lands gives consent in writing to such stoppage." Not only did Major Richardson not give his consent in writing to what has been done, but he formally protested against tho action of the Petanc Road Board. We shall have something more to say on this subject on, a future occasion. The annual sheep returns were presented to the Home of Representatives last week. Tho total number of sheep in the colony on the 31st May, 1883, was 12,408,106— an increase over the previous year of 217,891. In the the Napier, Wellington, and Canterbury districts the numbers have increased most. A decrease has occured in Otago, although tho breadth of improved laud is greater. This is entirely due to tho rabbit pest and the consequent abandonment of several runs. Of longwools there are 985,870 ; crossbreds, 4,098,7315; merinos, 7,320,482. During the year 20,000 were exported, and 177 imported. There were boiled down 40,090, and used at the preserving works 103,154. Tho frozen-meat trade, it is added, will create an outlet for / surplus stock, as it will cause a demand for, and give an impetus to, tho production of half or crossbred sheep, these having been found most suitable for the Homo market. The Christchurch reporter of the Otago Witness says:—"l have inspected somo paraffin butter from the Poverty Bay district. It is from the Southern Cross Company's ground ;as also some kerosene extracted from tho butter. The company are down about 500 ft, and progress with their boring operations at the rate of 40ft per week', tho oil increasing in quantity as they are going down. Several kegs of tho on have been sent down to Christchurch, where it is to be tested. Two experts from Pennsylvania have been purposely brought from America, and arc now on the ground, and pronounce the indications quite equal to anything fpvuid in their native q4 regions. A large number of the shares are held by Christchurch men, who also have taken an interest in the adjoining company, the South Pacific. Machinery on an extensive scale for tho extraction and distillation of the oil has been ordered, and will shortly be in operation. Papers relating to the industrial schools and orphanages were presented to Parliament the other day. There are ten such institutions, each of which receives £1 from Government for every £1 of voluntary contributions, and a capitation payment of £10 for each child sent by Government authority. lii Nelson the Government pay one shilling per day for each child committed, and as there is no school at Wellington for the committal of children there has been a great increase in the number. The Lyttelton Orphanage is for non : committed children only, and is under the direct management of the' Charitable Aid Bonrd. The sites and buildings at Howe street, Auckland, and at Caversham ur « now very ill-adapted to this purpose. Ino number of committed children increased durin-v the year from OSS to 827—™mcly, •188 boys and 339 girls. Tho non-com-mitted children at the end of the year oni> amounted to 213, of whom OOyravohop and 123 girls. Forty-two per children are between the ten -uid -\n P"' cent over 10 years ot age, ] per ent being children under five years nf w Tho total cost to Government st«'r iho deduction of recoveries was S 5 7.37 10s Id. The lowest average cost was in the Burnham School, os 2{d per Sue,Uonal Department. Bymite oqnt tributed towards the support of then chil-j-ii in ll* 4d The return in referenco lonliv schoSstas also presented. There Se 61 village schools and eight boardingscLolJonly one of which is under the SSSS'of tho Government. Three-four hs of the schools arc said to be up to tho maik, and the others aro in a more or losp unsatisfactory condition. There are 5g

masters and six mistresses as lioad teachers ; 19 second teachers, and 37 sewing- mistresses. The average attendance is IG4S, -with 2021 names on the rolls. The building's arc nearly all in good order and properly furnished. More than half the children aro between the ages of five and 10. The total expenditure incurred for the year was £19,132.

It isunderstood (says the Wellington Tost) that an aquatic event of considerable importance is on the tapis. Arrangements are in course of progress with a view of bringing about a sculling contest between Hearn and Laycock of .£'3oo a-side and the championship of Australasia, conditionally on the match being rowed at Wellington, Laycock to be allowed £ oO expenses for coming over from Sydney.

In South Australia, when the Salvation Army found funds running short, they augmented them by an original game called "Shooting the Devil," which is thus explained : —"This game, which Avas much enjoyed by the officers, was played by placing a large drum in the centre of a largo ring, and all present amused themselves by tossing pieces of coin into the head of the drum. If a person failed to throw his piece of money into the drum he forfeited it, and if he succeeded in tossing it in the result was the same," Avhicb is a very enjoyable game indeed.

I3y the last mail from Noumea avo (Argus) learn that the New Hebrides Company is continuing its acquisition of land in the islands. Besides previous purchases in Sandwich Island, or Vat l<, the Company recently purchased a largo tract at Ha vannah Harbour; in Mallicolo, 73,934 hectares; at Santo, 74,737 ; in Aurora, GOOO ; in Api, 00,000, including the entire islands of Tocaro and To tan go, near Mallicolo, and Dionno and Mallemette, near Sanco. The hectare is about three acres. 'Trench interests' will, therefore, shortly predominate over the group, and then there will be another cry for the protection of the French flag.

The death of Dr. Muff at (at the ripe age of 8S years), the well-known missionary, was announced by cable last week. Dr. MofTat was nearly as famous for bis labors in South Africa, as his son-in-law, Dr. Livingstone. He was sent out by the London Missionary Society in ISIG, and returned to England in 1870, so that he spent over half a century preaching the Gospel to the heathen —indeed, as ho said himself during a lecture on African Missions in Westminster Abbey, liohad been accustomed to speak in the Beehuana tongue i'or over that period of time. In 1873 his friends in Britain presented him with a sum of ,£"j800 in recognition of his missionary services. .Dr. Moffat was a native of Inverkeithing, in Fife.

The marsupials in Queensland arc nearly as great a plague as the rabbits in New Zealand. During eight months of last year in one district, that of Bauhinea, there were G4,ijG.'J kangaroos and wallaroos destroyed, and in another, that of Beylando South, 163,650 wallabies. Tho total number of animals exterminated during the eight months was 121,051 kangaroos and wallaroos, and 551,276 wallabies, or nearly a million of all kinds. And yet the burden of the Inspector of Stock's report is a complaint of tho apathy with which the work of destruction is carried on, and a recommendation to make the task compulsory over the whole colony, instead of leaving it to local irresponsible boards.

Bishop Moorhouse (says tho Age) has taken the occasion of the anniversary meeting of the Victorian Bible Society to record a protest against the unfortunate Bibliolatry that regards the Bible as an encyclopaedia of all knowledge, as a kind of iHidu iiicciim of the arcluoologist, the chronologist, the historian, and the physicist, bound to be accurate down to tho last fact, figure, and letter." As the Bishop very truly observed, it is this illiterate fanaticism which furnishes the Ingcrsolls and the Bradlaughs with their materials for a cheap triumph over morality and faith ; and ignorant people assume that the Bible has been discredited, when in reality it is only the Bibliolator who has been routed.

Tho Melbourne Argus says:—" An offer has been mado by Mr Bosisto to place a hundred-weight of eucalyptus oil in the hands of tho Government for transmission to Egypt, with a view to its being used in the treatment of the cholera patients. _ In the Lancet of June '2nd particulars are given of the experiments mado by a medical committee at Lyons as to tho possibility of treating the bacterial poison of zymotic diseases. Tho committee iind, it seems, that 'thymol and oil of eucalyptus are capable of attenuating the virus in -IS hours,' and the Lancet remarks that this discovery is of importance, as it has hitherto been supposed that the power of destroying bacteria by attenuation or annihilation ■was ' beyond our ken.' Mr Bosisto was anxious that the oil should bo tried on a largo scale in connection with tho cholera virus. Mr Service accepted the offer, but on communicating with the Peninsular and Oriental Company he was informed that under present circumstances cargo cannot be landed in Egypt." As shines a good deed in a naughty world, stands out amidst the mass of trashy specifies and deleterous concoctions, the pure, unadulterated, palatable preparations knoAvn as "Wolfe's Schnaits.—[Advt.]