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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3886, 3 January 1884, Page 2

Blank sheet at- the R.M. Court this morning.

There will bo an ordination service- at Hastings on Sunday, when the Bishop of Wuiapu, in St. Matthew's Church, will ordain the Huv. 11. McLean as a priest, and Mr P. Penty as a deacon.

Tho inspector of slaughter-houses, we hear, is going to make his rounds tomorrow, and should he find that business is being carried on with licences that expired on December 31 there will probably be Romo trouble.

Tho Hospital roturns for December last show that there were 19 male and 7 female patients in the institution on the first of that month, and that there have been admitted sinco then 21 males and 5 females. There have been discharged 1 n males and 5 females, and 3 have died, leaving on January 1, males 22 and females 7.

Thpre is said to have been an amusing mistake in the draft bill for constituting a federal council that has been sent home for the inspection and criticism of tho Crown law officers. Tho preamble, it is reported, states that the bill is to bo passed by tho Queen "with tho advice of the Lords, spiritual and temporal," and all mention of tho House of Commons has been omitted. And yet there were seven lawyers members of the Federation Convention !

A man of tho name of Donkin was discovered yostorday hung , and dead. We have no particulars beyond that tho locality was Kaitoke, near Tahoraite. Whether he was found hanging from a tree, or from the raftera of hie icliare; whether ho hung himself, or was lynohed, it is impossible to Bay. Probably it is another caeo added to tho long list of suicides while in a state _of temporary insanity brought on by excessive indulgence in alcoholic ]i<jugr.

Final rehearsal of Trial by Jury this evening , .

At the annual meeting last evening of St. John's Branch No. 93, H.A.C.8.5., the following , oflice-hcarers were elected for the ensuing term :—President, Bro. T. Ready ; Vice-President, Bro. J. Sullivan; Treasurer, Bru. J as. ; Secretary, Bro. J. M. St. Clair; Guardian, Bro M. Ejran; Warden, Bro. Jos. Hatwcll; Sick Visitors, Bros. T. Kavanagh. and Fitzgerald ; Auditors, Bros. W. A. Shanly and J. A. Rearden. Medical attendant, Dr. F. I. de Lisle (re-elected).

' News has been received of the destruction by fire of the Wanstcad Hotel yesterday at noon. It appears that tho proprietor, Mr D. Moroney, find his wife, were absent at Waipawa, and that thero wore prosent in the houso at tho time Mr P. Moroney and young McGreevy, tho son of the owner of the property. It was thelatterwhodiscoverd the fire, the roof near the chimney being in flames. McGreevy at once got on the roof and endeavored to extinguish the fire, nor did he relax his efforts until he had to desist to preserve his life. Tho only thing saved was a piano. The stock and furniture were insured for .£250, and the building for £500, in tho South British office, but half the latter amount had been reinsured in the National office.

The Lyttolton Times gives the following extract from a private letter received by last mail from Kn<rland: — " I saw some mutton ](i>t Saturday in Leadenhall market ticketed "New Zealand mutton," and was told on inquiry that it was ex Catalonia. lam perfectly sure it was not Ni w Zealand mutton at all, nn it was very small, very poor looking, and very dark in appearance. It was so bad altogether, that I am sure you, for instance, would not have had it on your table at all. or an} r one else who could afford better. What yon want is shops under the management of the Freezing Company, to retail the real Now Zealand article. It must do the trade an immense amount of harm for any butcher to havo the power to ticket anything ho likes as New Zealand mutton ; and this will always bo the case until reliablo men are provided to sell nothing elsy but tho real thing. Surely some such arrangement could easily bo mado."

At the South IVI'-lbourno Police Court on the 10th, Samuel Nathan, furniture dealer, of Bourke-street, again appoared on a charge of aiding and abetting certain disorderly person:? by letting a furnished house to them. Evidence was given to provo that the house was frequented by immoral characters, to the annoyance and disgust of the neighbourhood. The Chairman of the Bench said the magistrates were unanimous in considering the case fully proved. They considered the offence a very serious one, which must be put a stop to. The community was being demoralised, and young men were being rendered unfit to pottle down in their own homos. The Bench, thoreforo, ordered the defendant to bo imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months. Tho decision was received with cheers, which were suppressed. Notice of appeal was immediately given on behalf of Nathan, who is the owner of a large timopayment furniture warehouse, doing an extensive business. Tho case against Walter Finaway, Nathan's clerk, wan withdrawn.

"Tell it not in Gath," writes tho Melbournes correspondent of the Southland News, -' but the fair sex hero are no longer satisfied: with wagering the time-honored Lrloves ; they now go in for downright betting. The gontlemen of tho party aro a>ked to ' lay a pound or two ' for the dames they chaperon. If they select the winner, the gains of course aro taken by the ladies ; if unfortunate, they pay the penalty of their want of judgment by being allowed to ' settle ' with tho bookmakers. One of the best known among tho fraternity was heard to say after tho Derby that ho had won over Gl.dOO nf 'ladies'money , owing to the defeat of Archie."

in the Supreme Court at Laune°ston Charles Edward Rolston was charged with having assaulted Mr Arkenhead, one of the proprietors of the Examiner, with intent to do him bodly harm. The assault appeared, writes a Tasmania,!! contemporary, to have been committed in conso'juence of a paragraph which was published in the prosecutor's journal, stating - that the prisoner had been assaulted by the father of ayounglady with whom theprisonerbad run away. The jury fouud the prisoner guilty of common assault, and the Judge fined him £50, an order which created a considerable amount of surprise. Ah Rolston's friends are known to be wealth}', the fine was at once paid.

They have gone so far with the Jordan Valley canal project as to estimate its cost at £2-22,700,000 at. the very least., and Great Britain has been asked for eiirht millions as a start. The Sultan of Turkey is said to favor tho Jordan canal (says an English paper), under certain conditions and restrictions. He wishes to secure his hold on Palestine better than he did on Egypt by making concessions in tho Suez Canal business. But the cost of a Jordan canal is so stupendous that it is not likely Europe will face it, especially as the capital invested would be sunk out of sight for a century or more, and no one living could hope to realise anything from such an investment.

A New York contemporary gives Mr Abbey's salary list, which it is stated, amounts to about .£20,000 per month. Madame Christino Nilsson will receive £1,000 per month for singing ten times monthly; Madame Sembrich will receive about £3,000 per month ; Madame Soalchi, £1.000 ; Madame Trobelli, £1,200 ; Madamo Alwina Valleria, £800.

Nino members of a family named Wolscll, residing at Lcnnard's-hill, Bajlesford, Victoria, havo died from typhoid fever during , the last year. Twelve months ago, there wore seventeen children and both parents living , . First tho mother died, and thon in succession sons and daughters to the numhor of oight, tho di.seaso in each cam being , the sumo—typhoid fever.

Tho "World says thnt one. of che possibilities of tho early futtiro is an olfensivo and dofensivo alliance between England and Germany; and the adventurous policy of Franco in various quarters of tho globe, with the aggressive spirit shown by Russia in tho East, may largely contribute to nn Anglo-Germ>m understanding, which could not fail to be advantageous to the world.

A new lnolo-dramatic comic opera, entitled "Captain KirM, or tho Bold Buccaneer," music by Mr F. Solomon, mid tho libretto by Mr G. H. Abbott, has been played for the first time at the lYinco of Willis's Theatre, Liverpool. Both music and libretto are said to have failed to make any impression upon the audience. Since its production, however, the piece is said to have undergone considerable alteration.

A correspondent of the London Telegraph asserts tJi.it the "golden apple" of the Old Testament is undoubtedly tlio apricot of Cyprus. The references in the Old Testament apply, in all re.spncts, to this fruittree alone. It has been abundantly cultivated in Palestine from early timos ; its foliage forms a " delightful shade," and is blight and pale liko " pictures of silver," while it bears " upples of gold " of " fragrant smell" and "svveet to the taste."

Opera by telephone, seems to be coming popular at Homo. At a recent dinner party at Manchester, Mr Carl Rosa being amongst tho guests, the wires Averc laid on from the si ago of the Princess's Theatre to the din-ing-room, two miles away. Tho experiment was a thorough success, the guests hearinsr 'ill that -went on at the theatre, from the preliminary tuning up of the orchestra to tho iinal rounds of applause ; and Mr Rosa was ablo in some measure to control tho proceedings, as in thu course of the first act lie suggested to the conductor at the theatre that one or two of the airs had been taken rather quickly. ~

A good story is told of a French general well known in society. He observed that his shirts wcro usually a fortnight at tho wash. Puzzled, if not embarrassed, by this phenomenon, he demanded of his bodyservant the reason. " Pardon me, Goneral," replied tho worthy, "your shirts are always so clean -when you take them off, that, thinking it a siu to wear them out by ■washing, I use them myself for a Aveok." Collapse of General. Shire councillors, as a rule, are a forbearing class, but their indignation Avas somewhat aroused at the Mount Franklin shire meeting on Monday, -when tho secretary laid upon tho table a printed shoot containing particulars of a Melbourne sweep. Tho council ordered tho document to bo laid under the table. Mr. Wallace Mackay, of tho Sporting and Dramatic Newe, accompanies Irving in bis American, tour, Mr Mackay acts not only as critic, but is ono of tho artists of tho pnpor. Dr. Johnson's centenary uoxt year.

Mr Gladstone has written 200 works. George Coppin bound for New Zealand. John Bright has been a teetotaller for ten rears.

English steam yachts to-day are valued at £2,200,000.

St. Matthew's church, London, in now lighted by electricity. Tho Jews of London, numbering, 100,000, own three newspapers.

Clara Stophenson, the actress, running a ' pub at Ilockhampton.

Michael Davitt writing "The Gaol Journey." Poor Bunyan.

Wallaco Eoss and Fred Plaisted, tho scullers, now run a liquor saloon.

Oho Waterloo veteran having died, another has been discovered at Onehunga.

A New Guinea mountain is said to bo 31,000 feet high, with good gold near the base.

A niece of Robert Burns died at Ayr lately, agod 83. She in survived by a younger sister.

For fourteen years tho firo losses of insurance companies in Canada havo averaged 82 per cent of tho premiums received.

There are no fewer than seven vast new hotele now in course of completion in London, four of them with about 1,000 bedrooms each.

Sample, the horse-tamer, is making lots of money in Victoria. Ho has been testimonialised. Hard lines for a clevor man to bo so afflicted.

Knowing its absolute purity, its powerfully invigorative and corrective action, and its value as an anti-dyspeptic and diuretic, it is no wonder that physicians so frequently prescribo Wolfk's Schnapps.— [Advt.]