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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3905, 25 January 1884, Page 2

Captain Preece is expooted back from his holiday to-morrow evening - . Dr. Caro was last night appointed medical attendant to Lodge Alpha, Loyal United Friends. The Post asserts that Mr Richardson is likely to be induced to reconsider hie decision not to contest Selwyn. At the R.M. Court, before Messrs Kennedy and Lyndon, J.P.s, this morning, Heora to Umu, on remnnd charged with lunacy, was again remanded till Monday next. Quail are becoming so numerous in some of the country districts that they arc regarded quite as a nuisance. They are found to bo very destructive in fruit and vegetable gardens. We are requested to state that Madame Summerhayes and her daughter, Miss Anderson, will arrive in Napier to-morrow, for the purpose of at once commencing musical teaching , . Mr and Mrs J. Giblin and family are passengers to England by the ship Pleiades, now ready to sail. Their many friends will wish them a pleasant voyage, and all the benefits hoped for by such a change to Mrs Giblin. Wo have received from Mr Frank Pell, local secretary of the Now Zealand Rifle Association, a copy of the programme and regulations of the forthcoming sixth prize meeting to be held at Auckland at tho end of February. We regret to hear that Mr J. B. Fielder is confined to his bed by a severe attack of sciatica. For some days past he has been unable to leave his home, and, to one of his active habits, the enforced confinement must greatly add to the suffering from his complaint. Our Wairoa correspondent telegraphs that he has still another fatal accident by drowning to report. On Satin-day evening a native named Hata was drowned while attempting to cross the VVaikaretahekc river, on the road to Lake Onepoto. The body has not yet been recovered. Tho additions to tho Napier railway station, tenders for which are now invited, consist of two extra rooms, a vestibule with double entrance—one for first-class, and the other for second-class passengei's —and a verandah over the platform. When these alterations are effected Napier will have a railway station. Probably the reason for the suspension of the Queensland Agent-General may be found in the fact that the amount voted for immigration in that colony last year has been exceeded, as stated by the present Premier at the opening of Parliament, by £238,000, and the Government were unablo to say where the funds came from. The suggests the advisability of tho Woodville settlers protesting against the construction of a railway to connect their settlement with Palmerston. Wβ fancy the Woodville settlers know too much to follow the advice of our juvenile contemporary, who puts us in mind of the man who sawed off the branch of the tree on which he was sitting , . We are glad to hear that Mr E. Bower, youngest son of Captain Bower, and who entered the New Zealand Shipping Company's service some four yeara ago, has successfully comploted his term of apprenticeship, and lias been appointed third officer of the ship Piako, now in this roadstead.- Mr Bower arrived at Wellington the other day in the Waitangi. One of tho passengers by the recently arrived steamer Aorangi at Wellington amongst other complaints he had to make of the treatment ho received on the voyage was that the passengers were supplied with condensed water, although there was plenty of ordinary water in the forehold. This poor fellow, thinks the New Zealand Times, would sicken at the daiuties of a palace. .The morning Herald consols itself for having had its many inaccuracies corrected, and its mis-statements exposed, by saying that " a successful journal must expect to bo attacked by unsuccessful riviils," and it means to conduct (lie paper "respectably." This is the first time we ever know that it was respectable to place on record misstatements as truths, or to " tell a Ho and stick,to it." We beg to remind our readers of the entertainment to be given this evening in the Theatre Royal by Mr F. W. Millis, whose efforts to please on Monday and Tuesday nights were ho greatly appreciated by large audiences. As the programme is to bo an entirely new one, the prices popular, and coaches in connection with the entertainment will run from Taradale, Petane, and Havelock, there is sure to be a-good attendance. A sailing race will be sailed in tho inner harbor to-morrow afternoon amongst the boats of the Hawko's Bay Sailing , Club. The course and conditions will bo the same as in the last race, and the positions -will be as follows: —Revenge, No. 1 ; Wave Queen, No. 2 ; Kelpie, No. 3 ; Osprey, No. 4 ; Fairy, No. 5; Resolute, No. 6 ; Comet, No. 7. As there is every appearance of its being a five day we hope to sec all tho boats come up' to scratch. As showing what can be done with Hawke's Bay hills, we may mention that, ou Mr McHardy's estate near Blackhead, 22,000 acres of land are carrying 60,000 sheep, and 3000 head of cattle, beside horses. The whole estate in ftplendidly grassed, and is of excellent soil, but there is very little flat land, and was originally 1 classed as " unagricultural," and passed from the possession of the Crown at 5s an aero, and, in those days, it was dear atthc price. A contemporary gives its readers a skotch map of tho seat of war at present throa ten - ing between France and China, and in presenting it to its readers states that it "is compiled from the results of the most modern typographical research, and can therefore be looked upon as trustworthy." If the map is a specimen of. typographical research it does not say much for the geographical knowledge of compositors and lithographers. Hong Kong, wo notice, is placjri on tlie m.aink»d, and w is Maow.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court gave judgment this morning in tho matter of the bankruptcy of F. W. Holline. Mr Dewes for debtor, Mr Lascelles for Messrs Nelson Bros. The Registrar's judgment was in effect that, taking everything into consideration, the debtor's position is attributable to want of business capacity, sickness, and misfortune. His conduct was culpable in continuing to obtain credit and to carry on business under these circumstances, but there was nothing in his actions to indicate fraud, or intention to deceive. Order of discharge granted.

News was , received here recently that the coast road between Hawke's Bay and Wellington had been closed against travelling sheep owing to the presence of scab in some of the country through which the road passes. The consequence of this order was that some 5000 sheep bought in this district by the Gear Company were prevented from proceeding on their journey. "We now learn that the Wellington Sheep Inspector has relaxed the restriction after a further inspection of the country, and that tho company has been enabled to complete their requirements for their Lady Jocelyn und Bombay shipments. We believe that numerous representations have been made to the Government respecting the danger arising from the want of a yard leading to tho Napier railway station. Left open as it is now traffic cannot be regulated, and, as we have pointed out scores of times, on dark nights it is positively dangerous for persons to leave the station on foot. There is no pathway, andpassen* gers from the train have to dodge between cabs and under horses' heads to get clear of the place, with tho risk of being run over in tho attempt. We hear that another representation on this subject has been made to the Government. Swan's brewery had a narrow escape from destruction by fire during the dinner hour to-day, when all hands were away. Mrs Swan and the servant girl, outside for the purpose of shaking a blanket, noticed that the roof was on firo, and with great promptness the blanket was thrown over the burning mass, and the fire was quencher!, though not before young Swan had his hands burned, fortunately not seriously, his pants being also burnt on him. The damage was confined to the roof, and but for the coolness and quickness of Mrs Swan there can bo little doubt but a serious conflagration would have occurred. Fred Marshall is once more en route for Australia. Ouida denies that she in converted to the Catholic Church. Creswick is writing a book, entitled "Fifty Years Experience of the Stage." Jenny Lee did not draw in Adelaide, though a burnt cork crowd filled their house nightly when running in Opposition. A Philadelphia organist has boon discharged for playing, though very slowly und solemnly, a march from an opera bouffe. Seventeen deacons recognized it at once. Mr W. W. Rawson, Arlington, Mass., cultivates eighty acres in market-garden, has more than £12,000 invested, employs thirty men, and gets over droughty seasons by tho help of two windmills and as many steam pumps for raising water. ; Mr Charles Sugden, hero of that divbrco suit iv which the Earl and Countess of Desart figured, has returned to tho stage. He is playing with great success at tho Court Theatre in "The Millionaire," an adaptation of Edmund Ya tea' novel "Broken to Harness." ... German doctors propose to discard the teaspoon and tablespoon in measuring medicine, and adopt the metrical system in their prescription of liquids. Gauged glasses marked in tho scale of one, five, ten grammes, &c. are to be used, which will render the administration of medicine more accurate. Even criminals must have their amusements. At Noumea, the capital of the penal colony of New Caledonia, the population has been provided with a shanty theatre, where vaudevilles are presented. The soldiers are the actors. The stage manager is Abadie, the once youthful chief of a notorious band of cut-throats. , An exchange says that tho equipment of the Pullman Car Company consists of 10,000 sheets, 46,000 pillow slips, 13,000 blankets and 22,000 towels. The report,, however, neglects to mention that the company rune 876,000 big fleas and 5,000 hard mattresses. When a newspaper goes in for statistics, it should be thoroughly complete and accurate. A crisis in the Clyde shipbuilding trade is feared. This is scarcely to be wondered at, a local paper, the N.B. Daily Mail, pointing out that the workmen's wages in three years have advanced fifty per cent, the greatest increase being in unskilled labor, and it quotes figures to show that rivetters working five days per week earn from three to six pounds per :week. ; It is much easier to be r polite and neighborly than to fly into a passion when things do not suit you. Take this note, for instance, addressed by a lady to her neighbor next door—"Dear Madame,—Your children, who are numerous, and appear to bo disorderly, no doubt deserve tho frequent floggings you give them ; but, as my nerves are weak, I write this to ask if you can't do something to deaden tho sound." A lady in Oakland, Maine, died recently from tho effect of eating cloves, which her physician stated had entirely destroyed tho coating of her stomach. It will occur totho thoughtful mind that the average American frequently chews on tho luscious clove, but that this innocent and alcohol-disguising spice is. rarely supposed to injure the, duodenum or the pylorus. It ia usually the spiritus fermenti which precedes the Jesuitical clove which does the business. At a station on the Dawson Biver, in Northern Queensland, where native dogs are very troublesome, a few days ago a young lady went out to bring in the calves, and as she did not return search was made. It appears two dingoes made for the cattle, and she attempted to drive them away. The dogs bailed ber up and tore the skirt of her dress. Fortunately a tree was at hand, into which she climbed, and remained until _ assistance came and the dingoes were driven off. Two brothers were once staying in a New England town, when one of them became seriously insane. A physician's statement of tho case was reduced to writing, and the sane brother started for tho asylum in charge of the maniac. Ho fell asleep on the journey, and the demented one, with marvellous slyness, robbed him of his papors, assumed the attitude of his keeper, assured everyone that his brother was insane, ■ and succeeded iv having him plaaod in the asylum. According to the. Gospel in all Lands, there aro in Lucknow and Cawnporo fortyfive publishing houses engaged in printing and circulating infidel' and pagan books. Orio publisher received from a rich Mohammedan -lOOOdols. to : assist in printing Mohammedan works. A million Hindoo tracts wero issued at the expense of one Hindoo prince. One hundred and three newspapers, mostly •weekly,' advocate and support paganism and Hindooism and aseail Christianity in India. A posthumous work by Flotow is to bo produced before the close of the year at Cologne. Its title is Le Chevalier Mcgrin, and the deceased musician is said to have written it about the same time that Verdi composed his Ernani, and Meyerbeer the Huguenots. The libretto is attributed to a. Tjishop—heaven bless the mark !—a wellknown French Bishop, who was one of FJotow's intimato friends. The subject i« taken from the drama by the Eldor Dumas, Henri 111. et sa cour. A correspondent telegraphed to the Argus the following fatal accident: —" A shocking accident occurred of the Tarwin sonic time last night, by which a young man namtd Murphy met with his death. Murphy, who was working for a selector named -.Frank Gcach, and was at tho time by himself, is supposed to luivo been sitting in front of tho fire in a hut, when a treo fell on the hut, knocking him into the fire. When lie was found early this morning his head was badly burnt, and one of his legs was broken." Leon Villi, a young gentleman'who came to Australio with Cagli's last Italian Opom Company, and who has lately been dovoting "his talents to singing Tyrolean ballads with tho Federal Minstrels, was arrosted" on Friday ut Seymour for forging a cheque in the name of Mr F. E. Hiscocks, tho proprietor of the minstrels. 'Twero' better Leon had remained in the plaster-iniagp line. Some of the Bame opera troupe ar/s now following the honest and lucrative pro; fession. of celling ice" creams iu-gaudily painted waggons. It pays botter than opera out h9r>, ,-,

Descendants of Martin Luther's youngest daughter, Margaretha, have been discovered in Denmark. It was long supposed that tho reformer's family had becomo extinct.

Tho London Lancet very properly denounces tho impudence of the undertakers who send circulars to doctors offering them handsome commissions if they will recommend them to the friends of patients who die under their treatment. Here such a thing is common, and what, with the doctors, chemists, and undertakers who go shares in the spoils, tho mourning relatives of deceased persons have to cash up pretty lively. Although there may be no actual dishonesty in such an arrangement, still it is in most shocking taste and is bound to lead to suspicions which, in too many cases, have a strong foundation of truth. If our doctors would only insuro their patients' lives, and hold tho policy themselves, the thing would be perfect in its barefaccdness.

Ono of tho Greymouth papers asserts that tho following picture of tho commercial depression in Christchurch is drawn by an M.H.R. for that provincial district: — " Christchurch is full of dead beats —bankruptcies every day, and the ' publics ' ompty. Everybody is chasing everybody for money, and it is generally a stern chase in more senses than ono. Those who have yet tho means, and no tics, are leaving. Cabdriving even does not give a bare living ; one of my friendly cabdrivors sold his horse and cab last week for £60, and a bachelor at that. He says ho cannot make a living at it, yet he is a steady man. Some of tho auctioneers are almost starving There are about one hundred offices to let in the town, and houses to let or for sale in all directions."

Tho World says:—With a fresh batch by every mail, American athletic records arc bocoming somewhat of a drug, Tho most recent additions to the list are, however, remarkable enough to be worthy of all notice. Tho amateur recordfor walking ono mile was held by an American, E. E. Merrill, 6inins. 32 2-sthsecs. On the 27th ultimo another American, A. P. Murray, walked a milo at Williamsburgh in the •wonderful time of Gmins. 29 3-sth sees., and now holds tho record. On the Gth instant he supplemented this feat by walking three miles in 21mins. 9 l-sth sees., which supersedes the previous best, 'ilinins. 28sccs., of H. Webster, England. Murray walkH with scrupulous ■ fairness, and has made his records in the presence of able judges of walking.

Dr. Sinclair, the eminent dentist, will arrive shortly. See advertisement. —[Ajdvt.[