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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3907, 28 January 1884, Page 2

Once more peace and quietness in the household. Tho district schools re-opened this morning.

Wβ remind householders of the elections for district school committees this evening. Mr T. Sidcy desires us to say that ho is a candidate for the Napier committee.

Mr M. W. Green, M.H.R., has accepted the position of canvasser fox - the Ausfralian Mutual Provident Society. Ho ought to quote low rates, seeing he has no railway fare to pay.

At the R.M. Court, Waipawa, on Saturday, before Mr St. Clair Inglis, J. P., Martin Walker was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and was fined 10s and costs. The fine was paid.

The nominations for assisted immigrants' passages to be forwarded by the outgoing mail from Napier include twenty-six souls, consisting of 14 English, 8 Irish, and 4 Scotch. The Irish are five single men and three single women ; the English and Scotch are married people with families.

The attendance at the Napier district school was to-day the largest since the opening of the school five years ago. Six hundred and fifty were present, including one hundred new scholars who attended for tho first time this morning. They filled gaps in all classes, from the infant department upwards to tho sixth standard.

Mr M. R. Miller has been appointed local agent for the sale of Lincoln rams from the celebrated flocks of the Hon. M. Holmes, Oamaru, and ho is now prepared to execute orders for either stud or flock purposes. Mr Holmes' sheep have a wide reputation for producing 'a dense fleece of fine, long, lustrous wool, and the representatives of his flocks havo taken the highest honors in tho Middle Island.

An intercolonial exhibition of "wine, fruit, grain, and all other products of the noil of Australasia, with machinery, plant, and tools, &c, employed," will be .held in the Exhibition buildings, Melbourne, in March, and will bo kept open two weeks. The exhibition, it is announced, will be under tlie patronage of the Marquis of Normanby, Bishop Moorhouse, and the loading men of Victoria. .

The local business manager of the South Pacific Petroleum Company has telegraphed to shareholders in Napier as follows: —

" January 28th, Gisbornc. I have just returned from the springs. The depth of the bore on Saturday night was 382 feet, and the pipes were down 367 feet. The bore is now in much improved stratum, and it is possible to drill a long way ahead of the , pipes. Oil was seen at the last shift. Everything is working most smoothly, and the prospects are very encouraging."

Wo have received a copy of the Crown Lands Guide, No. VI., which brings down all information concerning the public estate to January of this year. The present edition gives the alterations that have been made with respect to the agricultural! and pastoral deferred payment systems, and quotes the new clauses of the Act respecting tho system of perpetual leasing of Crown lands. At the end of. the volume there aro threo excollent maps, and somo useful goneral information respecting the colony.

"Wo are glad to notice by our telegram from Wellington that both the Premier and Minister for Public Works havo recognised the immediate importance of connecting Woodville with Palmerston by a railway through the Gorge. A sum of money is promised to be placed on the estimates for next session. If the Government would abandon the foolish scheme for running a railway through the North Island, and devote attention to , the completion of the unfinished lines, there might be some chance of the railways paying.

Wo would advise tho Mosgiel -Woollen Manufacturing Company to procure a copy of the report on Australian woollens furnished to ttie Klbpouf Chamber of Commerce by M. Henri Courmeaux, who was specially sent to the Melbourne Exhibition for the purpose. His praise of the Mosgiel woollens is absolutely unqualified. He declares that " every article manufactured by that company is superior to any other Australian woollen goods I saw at tho exhibition," and ho thinks that '' the Mosgiel factory will take first rank in the Australian mai-kets over nil European importations." Praise from such an impartial and competent source is praise indeed, and wo heartily congratulate tho company.—Otago Times, January 23rd.

A family in Napier recently shifted into another house. In their old home they had been accustomed to a gas stove. In their now residence there was a small Victoria stove, which was to bo removed for a gas one, and so it was undesirable to light afire in it. " How is the kettle to bo boiled for breakfast ?" asked the anxious wife. " Oh," replied the husband, "we must be content with milk, and by dinner time the gas stove will bo flxod up." So tho husband told his friends how he had had a cold breakfast. "Arc there no fireplaces in the house P" asked one. "By Jove! wo never thought of them," replied the householder, and he immediately sent a cab up to tho house with a.message to his wife to tell her of her extraordinary absent-mindedness.

The forthcoming ram fair has attracted several of the leading ram breeders to Napier from all parts of the colony. The. assemblage qf so many authorities on wool has produced a proposition that an <*X' hibition of rams from the principal flocks of both Islands should be held at Wellington about October next for a sweepstakes of £1000. Tho.proposal haf) met with genoral favor. Tho conditions likely to be fixed are that no artificially fed, housed, or clothed sheep shall be ologiblo for competition, hay or root feeding allowed; the loading Pastoral Associations of the colony each-to appoint a judge. If carried, out we beli.ove this. will be. a most invaluable test ot' tho real. merits ot tiiu "" ur i°U9 flocks, and likely to lead to a metropolitan exhibmou Cf ? thcr thorough■bred stqck,; , ■ . ,

.., Gi> afternoon a race was saiM in the inner harbor am on get the boats of the Hawko's Bay Sailing Club. Five boats camo up to scratch, and, although the wind was light and baffling, a good flying start was effected at about 3 o'clook. Onacoounfc of there bejng , Buch a scarcity of wfad, the

boats only went once round the course, the Resolute coming in first about twenty minutes ahead of the Wave Queen, and thirty ahead of tho Revenge, the Osprey and Comet coming in together a few minutes later. Since last raced with the Resolute has been laid up, her sides considerably heightened, redecked, and fitted with water-tight tanks, which has greatly increased hor stability and safety, and does not appear to have in any way diminished her speed.

"We havo been shown to-day an ingenious instrument, or rathor pair of instruments, namely patent barbing tools, invented and patented for the New Zealand and Australian colonies by Messrs Woodcock and West, barb wire manufacturers, Oamaru. Tho instruments are intended for barbing wiro fences already erected, and consist of a pair of strong pincere, which clasps the wire, into which two barbs are inserted, and a gripper which catches them, when, by giving two turns, a sharp four pointed barb is put firmly on, and we understand any active man or boy can barb from twenty to twenty-five chains per day. These instruments, we believe, were shown for the first time at the Ne-w Zealand Industrial Exhibition, now being held in Christchurch, where they attracted much attention, being looked upon as a great boon to runholders and farmers, who can now convert their plain -wire fences into barbed ones at a trifling expense. We believe one of tho firm intends to at once place them in tho local market, and every pair of instruments will be accompanied with printed instructions for use. Messrs Woodcock and West are also manufacturers of single strand and dark steel twisted galvanised barbed wires on an extensive scale, samples of which wo have seen, they give employment to some > twenty men and boys, and have turned out during the last twelve months over 200 tons of their manufactures, and from the prices at which these are quoted we should say tho imported barb wires will very soon be a thing of the past in this colony. Welcome Jack is to be taken to Syducy shortly. In New Zealand there are published 164 newspapers, journals, and magazines. The prohibition of all but safety matchce in Victoria is being once more advocated. Ivo Bligh is now en route to Australia, not to play cricket this time, but to turn Benedict. A mixed amateur and professional team of English cricketers will visit the colonies next year. • More drunken people are arrested in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Sundays than on any other day in tho week. ■ Eryingpan won the Victorian Club Cup of 500 soys. on January 12, carrying Bst 91b, covering the mile and a half in 2 mine. 38 sees., and the same day won the Purse, carrying lOst lib, and doing tho mile in 1 mm. 42-|- sees. One of the chief features of interest at a recent county exhibition in England was aa — X iron watch, which had been turned out by a Kidderminister firm for tho ■ purpose of showing tho extraordinary malleability of that hietal. The • watch is said to be perfect. . ; . .. Many wise men have married widows, and found them the best of wives. Pot , instance, Washington, Jefferson, and Frtuiklyri each married a widow, the names being severalty Mrs Curtis, Mrs Skelton, and Mrs Read. Dr. Johnson and the philanthropist Howard each married widows who were many years ttioir senior, but they lived very happy, and Johnson never ceased to mourn for his departed ' Tetty.' The first Napoleon married a widow, r and as long as he continuod faithful to her his progress was brilliant and successful. A very curious instance of this is found in the history of Sir William Hershel. He reached the age of GO as a bachelor, but then married a widow (Mrs Mary), with whom he lived in a happy condition for a third of a century. They had one son, Sir John Herschell, who.became also an astronomer, and won high distinction. Mohammed is also oil the same list, for at twenty-five he married the widow Kadijah, who was forty, and whose wealth and, influence, were an assistance to a needy adventurer. .'.•■■'•: Dr. Sinclair, the eminent dentist, will,, arrive shortly.. See advertisement.—[Advt.[