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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3799, 18 September 1883, Page 2

With other articles in our back page will be found a description of the electric lighting in Mr Swan's house at Bromley. We need hardly inform our readers that the celebrated inventor is tho brother of Sir G. 11. Swan, of this town. A private telegram received in Napier states that Messrs Redmond and Walsh will arrive on Thursday next in Napier by tho steamer Taiaroa, which left Auckland last night. We learn from Wairoa that the sea was breaking right across tho entrance of the river when the .steamer Maori took the bar at 4 p.m. yesterday, but, notwithstanding, she went over like a duck, without shipping much water. A Christchnrch telegram to Mr W. G. Motley states that the works at the Southern Cross Petroleum Company's bore has been stopped pending the arrival of five-inch tubing from America, which is expected by the next 'Frisco steamer. Mr F. Button, M.IT.R., chairman of _ the Hawke's Bay County Council, has received a telegram from the Colonial Treasurer statins/that tho sum oi £900 will be at onco placed" to tho credit of the county fund under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, in accordance with tho requisition of the Council. Wo have received a copy of a pamphlet, the author of which is the Rev. James MacGregor, of Oainarii, entitled " The Land Question, with special reference to New Zealand and Old Scotland." Wo have not had time to read it, but will take an early opportunity of doing go. Copies are to be obtained from Messrs Dinwiddic, Walker and Co. Wo omitted to mention, in connection with the subject of the improvements and additions to the Napier Hospital in our last issue, that the funds for same are being locally raised, the Government observing tho same rule here as elsewhere, and strictly limiting their grant to maintenance of patients. Subscriptions to complete the building, for furnishing, and for re-painting the whole exterior, arc now invited, and wo hope the next published list of .subscribers will show a very substantial addition to the fund. Our sporting correspondent "Hippo," we regret to say, reports the death of that well-known stud horse Jav'lin, owned by Mr W. Douglas, but imported by Mr A. McLean. " Hippo " says :—" Last Sunday night or early on Monday morning Jav'lin dislocated his hock, and it was found necessary to destroy him. Ho was by Yattomlon-Lilla, and was foaled in 1808, so would have been fifteen years old this foaling. He was a grand looking horse, and a first-class performer on tho turf. As a sire he has not proved himself a success, as none of bis stock have yet done anything worth mc-ntioniiiK-" Mr McLean paid 000 "•niiicas for him in Sydney, and, after some time, sold him to Mr Gilliiran for 800 guineas. Falling again into Mr McLean's bands be was bought by Mr W. Douglas for -100 guineas. A concert and ball, which appear to have attained more than tho ordinary degree of success, took place at Charleston tho other night, and this is the manner in which the local paper concludes a notice of tho event: " Our staff, as usual on such festive occasions (editor included), shw the varied programme through J7i the usual style, and consequently our nervous system requires a little bracing before wo can give a detailed account of the proceedings." The Czar of Russia, they say, has become a partial convert to the faith, of spiritualists. It came nbout in this way. When the Czar was in some perplexity respecting the measures to bo taken for the safe conduct of the coronation ceremonies, it was suggested to him that he should '' ask counsel of the spirits'' at tho handa of a lady medium who had been practising for some years in London. Tho lady (who is an American) was accordingly Rent for to St. Petersburg, and gave a "sitting" to tho Czar. The result of tho seance was so satisfactory that the preparations for the coronation were hurried forward with greater energy than before, hasteheingrecomniGndcd with" much emphasis. Everything having passed off extremely well in Moscow, tho Czar has come to think that "there may bo something in spiritualism after all;" and tho lady,'on her part, is said to bo extremely well satisfied with the results of her visit to the Russian Autocrat. Mr Hawkins, a member of tho Colchester Board of Guardians, had a grievance against tho reporters because he was not fully reported, mid accordingly gave notice of motion in the following words :—" Whether tho reporters should take down what the members of this Board have got to say, then to put down just after they have taken it all down to fish' it out, and then to pull it to pieces, to put down part and leave out part." The cruel reporters (says the London Echo) revenged themselves by giving the speech subsequently made vcrhcdlm et literatim, thus : "Mr Charles HawkinsWell gentlemcnt, this 'ere notice which which I shall bring before you to-day is a very simple question. There is a statement in his paper 'ere, part of which I had to say arose out of the biler question, and I say that it's only fairness to every member of the Board as has got anything to say, if they mean to report, let us have it reported," &c, &c. The reporter adds that the speech was listened fo with suppressed emotion. When next Mr Hawkins speaks on tho biler question, ho will bo thankful to the reporters if they will take the trouble to dross him up and cut him down. At a banquet given to Lord Wolseley in Dublin recently, tho " only general of his time " made some remarks which have boon severely criticised by a portion of tho English Press Ho said thoro was m> greater folly firm to imagine that the strict discipline which was necessary U,v an army could he maintained amongst Irishmen by tho cold, unsympathetic rule of Englishmen. He had

a great respect for Englishmen. Ho knew their good points, and no ono could moro admire English soldiers than ho did. But his own experience of Irish soldiers was r that, if you want to have them in a stato of • discipline, and to get as much out of Jthem as possible, they must be commanded by their own countrymen. Irish soldiers, ho thought, were very much like the Irish people generally—they required to be ruled firmly, hut justly. The administration that suited other races did not .suit the Irish army any more than it suited the Irish 2>eople. The verdict entered against General Booth for not keeping the covenants which ho entered into with the lessors of the Grecian Theatre, means, the papers say, a loss of £'20,000 to the Army. An English correspondent says that when in the witness box, Sir Booth* quibbled and equivocated in a most astonishing manner, bringing , down upon himself at last a stern reprimand from the judge who expressed extreme surprise that a Christian minister in the defendant's position should have felt it right to deliber> ately evade responsibilities voluntarily entered into. " The sophistries put forward by Mr Booth to justify his strange conduct were" (the learned judge wont on) "if any thing, rather an aggravation of tho breach of contract. Entering into an agreement with a man holding tho defendant's peculiar position, the plaintiffs had a right to expect fair and honest treatment. This, ho much regretted to say, they did not seem to have experienced," The cool way, says an exchange, in which National Land Leaguers assume that they represent the people of Ireland is, in its way, amusing. Mr A. Loftus Tottenham, member for Leitrim, has exploded the fallacy conclusively. His demonstration of figures is that 38_ Irish members support Mr Parncll, their constituencies having a population of 1,710,090, of whom 68,-182 are electors. Of Irish members not supporting him there arc Go, representing constituencies with a population of 3,702,000, of whom 108,038 arc electors. So that tho rarncllites do not exceed 27 per cent, of tho members, ;S1 per cent, of population, and 27 per cent, of tho electors. Who stealsmy purse steals trash, 'tissomeIhing, nothing. But lie who filches from me my good name, kc. Who brands some impure compound as Wolfe's Scjinaits " iilehes, " from it its good name.—fAovT. \