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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3806, 26 September 1883, Page 2

The French have been defeated by the despised Hovas. AYe cannot say that we feel any poignant grief at the news conveyed in our cablegram. The victory gained by the Hovas somehow seems to dovetail so happily into a situation that called forth tho following bumptious order issued by Admiral Pierre after the occupation of Tamatave:-—" Officers, sailors, and soldiers, —An arrogant enemy has dared to defy our arms by refusing to Franco the most legitimate satisfaction. In the period of a month you have taken and destroyed all tho Hovas' establishments on the two coasts of Madagascar. You occupy Tamatave and Majunga, the principal sources of tho commercial and financial prosperity of the enemy, and you will hold thorn against all atttacks. These results aro due to the _, activity of the naval division. AVo have ~ yet to drivp the enemy out of some refuges which it has found in tho interior, and that you will do. In the name of France I thank you all."

Wo aro requested to state that the Union Company's s.s. Suva, that is advertised to steam ft-oni Napier for Auckland at 4 p.m. on Friday, will not call in at Gisborne.

The Synod of the Diocese of AVaiapu met again yesterday afternoon in St. John s school-room, but beyond a few notices of motion there was no actual business transacted.

The Holiday Association committee met yesterday, and decided to close half a day for tho Agricultural and Pastoral Society n show, and a whole day for the races, next ensuing.

Or. Robjohns has given notico to move the two following resolutions at the next meetin" of the Municipal Council:—(l.) That a°footpath bo made from the Old Bank, top of Shakespeare road, to tho corner of Chapel street and Shakespeare road. {>.) That the abrupt bank, or precipice in the AVcllesley road from section 319 to Sale street, be sloped off so as to prevent danger to vehicles and the public generally.

The privileges for tho Jockey Club's race meeting next month were sold by auction yesterday as follows:—Grand stand bars, £42, AY. Y. Dennett; second stand bar, £57, A. M'Cartnoy; second stand luncheon room, 10s, J. Vaughan ; fancy goods stall and games, 15s, G. Fuszard ; confectionery stall,°£s, J. Vaughan; fruit stall, 10s, J. Clarcburt; cards, £10, T. Gilpin; making a total of £121 15s, or £14 15s over tho prices for the spring meeting last year.

Tho new uniforms for the Napier 1 ire Brigade, to replace those lost by the wreck of the ship AVaitara, have arrived at Auckland by tho steamer Doric, and are expected here by the s.s. Southern Cross, due to-morrow evening. The long service medals, twelve in number, have already arrived from London, and are in the possession of Superintendent Waterworth. They aro of silver, very neatly got up, and each bears the namo of the recipient and the term of service.

The Clive Square Mutual Improvement Association held their weekly meeting- last night, when there was an excellent attendance of members and visitors to hear the debate on the annexation question. Mr Diddams, after describing New Guinea, both geographically and otherwise, spoke of the necessity for its annexation, and his arguments wore ably combated by Mr C. H. Laws in a well-prepared speech. After considerable discussion the voting resulted in favor of annexation by a small majority.

Amongst the correspondence read at the fortnightly meeting of tho Napier District School committee last evening was an application from the Musical Society (1) to use the school organ, and (2) for an abatement in the charge made for gas. It was decided to grant the use of the organ subject to certain condition; the application re gas was refused. Mr C. H. Laws applied for permission to use a class room for holding a night school; consideration deferred. Tho Committee passed a hearty vote of thanks to the subscribers to tho gymnasium fund.

Messrs Saunders and Gilberd, whose names have for many years been known in connection with the Auckland soap and candle industry, are about to establish a manufactory of those articles near the slaughter house at Awatoto. They have purchased the premises and small works already there from Mr Hannay, and will take possession on the Ist of next month. In the meantime Messrs Saunders and Gilberd are having made for them at Auckland a very extensive plant, and they will commenco building suitable premises in tho course of a few weeks.

An application was made to the Registrar of the Supremo Court in Chambers this morning, by tho trustee in the estate of Edward Gillct, for an order directing the Chief Postmaster to redirect all letters addressed to the bankrupt to the trustee. Mr Logan appeared for the trustee; the bankrupt in person. The order was granted for ono month. An application was then made by tho bankrupt for an order on the trustee to pay out of the estate an allowance for maintenance for himself and wife._ Mr Logan opposed tho application. Evidence was taken, and the order was refused.

A district school committee, not a hundred miles from the Napier Post Office, is hard up for money. Its numerous applications to the Education Board have usually been answered with the stereotyped reply "no available funds," and things are beginning to look gloomy. So, fit the last meeting- of the committee, one of tho members, having ascertained that thero was still in hand a small credit balance, proposed that £5 should bo voted for the purchase of as many chances iv "Ada Mantua's" consultation, in order to show that no stone had been loft unturned to increase the means at their disposal. The motion fell through for want of a seconder, but it was not a bad idea.

The Receiver of Rates and a witness were in attendance at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday from 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. to recover a rate demand. The defendant lives at Hastings, and of course was put to tho samo inconvenience as the plaintiff. The case would not havo occupied the attention of the Court more than five minutes, but the business of tho day being taken in rotation time did not allow it to come on, and it was adjourned till October 23. It almost seems that one day in the week is not sufficient to dispose of small debt cases, and as on many days there is no business at all before tho Court we do not see why Tuesdays should be overcrowded with work, and through the rest of tho week little or nothing to be done.

The following from the Bendigo Advertiser, is one of many notices we havo before us of Mrs J. R. Davies (nee Miss Ada Hart), who will appear in tho dramatic performance at tho Theatre Royal on Friday, and should be a sufticient guarantee that a treat awaits Napier theatre goers: — Miss Ada Hart as Ixion won all hearts by her graceful acting, incidental songs—commencing with "Sweet Spirit, hear my prayer"—and still more by her Sailor's hornpipe and other dances, Asa graceful, hearty, vigorous, joyous dancer it would be difficult to find one more attractive. She never condescends to dance a jig incidental to a piecebutshecreatesa/"»r(n-(.-inthc house, no matter how listless the audience may have been previously. The success of Ixion was chiefly owing to tho acting of Miss Ada Hart.

In the case Kinross v. Wood and Ford, which was proceeding when our reporter left the R.M. Court yesterday, His Worship, after hearing the witnesses for the defence, gave judgment for the amount claimed, with solicitors' fees, costs, and expenses amounting to £5 Bs. The following cases were also disposed of after we went to press:—W. Robinson v. Hayes and Steven, claim of £5 for excessive poundage; judgment was given for the defendant, with costs. —Hawker v. Murnane, action to recover £6 9s 6d, value of goods detained by tho defendant; it was shown that the greater part of the goods had been returned since tho summons was issued, and judgment was given for 13s and costs. —Tho case of Gilbert v. Alexander M'Donald, claim £83 14s 2d for money lent, was adjourned to the 4th October; andAV. Parker V. Scott, claim £2 4s for rates, was adjourned to the 23rd October.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before T. K. Newton, Esq., J.P., Thomas Long, an old offender, was charged under the Vagrancy Act with being an habitual drunkard. Tho prisoner said ho supposed he was guilty. Sergeant BurtenBhaw asked that a heavy punishment might bo inflicted. The prisoner was a perfect nuisance in every place he visited. As soon as ho got out of gaol he contrived to get drunk, and his conduct when in that state was very violent and disgraceful. On tho 7th of last month he promised to leave Napior and return to work if he were let off on a charge of drunkenness. He was set at liberty, and his railway fare to AVaipawa paid out of tho Charitable Aid fund, but the following day he was arrested there and sentenced to one month's imprisonment for violent behaviour. Mr Newton said it seemed the prisoner was becoming a notorious character and a public nuisance, and had evidently not benefited much by frequent warnings he had already received. A heavier punishment would now be inflicted, and perhaps that might do him some good. Ho would bo imprisoned for three months with hard labor. Prisoner: May I speak a word to your AVorship i Mr Nowton: No, it is too late to speak to me now The prisoner at this flew in a passion, and in a threatening manner exclaimed as he was being led out of Court, "Then, so help me God, I'll tell you what it is— There's no mistake about it.

A Wellington correspondent of the Rangitikei Advocate writes;-" There has been a serious disagreement between Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan. The latter gentleman having stated that Sir George s hands wero not clean in tho matter ot

native lauds, Sir George met linn outside the House, and used some excessively pointed language expressive o_t his indignation. In vain Mr Shcchan tried to pour oil on the troubled waters, andoffered to apologise in tho House, but Sir George woulcl not be pacified, and so the matter stands at present."

The London correspondent of our contemporary the Dunedin Evening Star writes as follows :—Mr G. AY. Rusden is at present staying at a country house in the South, hard at work on a revised and cheaper edition of the "History of New Zealand. Ho "pooh-poohs" the idea of Mr Jiiyco or any other of your politicians hauling him over the coals'for libel, and glories m having exposed to the Wish-roading public "the infamies of Panhaka. bu Arthur Gordon, I understand cordially endorses Air Rusden's views re the treatment of tho Maoris by Europeans, and recommends the "History" everywhere as a standard work on the colony.

A. minor of twelve years' experience of such diggings thus describes the NinetyMile Beach, in the Lytteltou Times:— -tie says the ground is very patchy, and only men witli great experience in the use ot several chemicals, which arc absolutely necessary, can make a living. With regard to men with only a little money, he strongly advises them not to go near it; at any rate, not just at present. For this there are several reasons, notably camping and living food being dear, and because the wind alternately- blows from tho north-west and south-west, both of which prevent operations being carried on till sometimes there are not more than ono or two working days in the week. Consequently, tho cost of food is frequently above the amount of gold obtained. Furthermore, the banks, of which there are two at Southbridge, havo not as yet made any provision for purchasing gold, so that a man who is compelled to soil frequently, does so at a disadmintage to one or other of his fellow-diggers.

The Japanese Press regulations recently issued are of so stringent a character that thoy will probably make Bismarck and the Czar envious. Thus, the proprietor, editor, printer, writer, and translator of a newspaper are all to be considered equally culpable in respect to any offence committed by the paper. Again, if ono of several papers published by the same company or individual bo suppressed or suspended, all the others ipso facto aro also suppressed. All persons connected in a responsible position with a prohibited journal arc debarred for two years from having anything to do witli the public press. Editors are compelled, under heavy fines, to keep original manuscripts for three weeks for the inspection of the police, and are required to state the source from which an item of news is obtained. The Minister of War, the Navy, and Foreign Affairs may, at their discretion, issue a general order directing editors to abstain from discussing under any circumstances the affairs of their respective departments. Subsidising journals and other insidious methods of tampering with the press having failed, this drastic measure has been devised to stamp out the free expressions of public opinion.

A great deal has been said as to the inventor of the art of printing, the period when the invention itself first saw the light, and the locality where it was born. Two out of three of these points need not, however, says the Echo, excite discussion. It is a good while since the remark "that there is nothing- new under the sun" was made, but anterior to that remote period— namely, some four thousand years ago— the first printing machine existed in B„bylon : If proof bo recjuired of this startling assertion, it may bo easily found, for it exists no farther off than Trinity College, Cambridge. In that place there is preserved a solid cylindrical figure about seven inches in length, and three inches in diameter at each end. On the surface of the cask like cylinder, minute and finelywrought characters are engraved, and these are arranged in vertical lines. It is, fore a striking example of the ingenuity of the ancients, and only shows their method of preserving and multiplying national or family records. It is quite evident from the indented letter of the Babylonian printing machine—for such it really is—that some means of applying pressure to it was in use among the Ninevite types. This_ being so, the primitive appliances at Cambridge must be said to embody the identical principle of the newspaper machines of the present day. The salary of the Dean of AVindsor is £2000 a year, with fees from the Garter and other sources, and £200 for every funeral attended, besides £500 allowed him for the entertaining of ecclesiastical dignitaries not invited to tho Castle. He has a delightful house provided for him, and a beautiful garden in the Queen's private grounds, and has eight assistants. The holder of this delightful appointment must find it hard to die—even although nominally certain of his ultimate fate.

To-day, as from tho time of its introduction, AVolfe's Schnapps takes the lead of every other stimulant and tonic in the estimation of the public and of scientific men. —fADVT. |