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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3911, 1 February 1884, Page 2

The Rev A. Shepherd will preach in St. Andrew's Church,Waipukurau, on Sunday next at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Mr E. Patten, J. P., Peter Hargreaves was dismissed with a caution for drunkenness at Clive yesterday. •

The following School Committee has been elected for Waipukurau :—Messrs Smith, M.H.R., Jones, Taylor, Wilding, Palmer, Robinson, and Sharpin.

The Customs.revenue collected at the port of Napier during the month of January last was £2934 Os 10d. The duty on beer amounted to .£229 3s 9d.

On and after the 7th instant, and until further notice,. the Homowood bridge, on the Kaikora-Patangata road, will be closed for traffic while undergoing repairs.

. The Hampden householders have elected the following School Committee:— J. McMillin, J, J. Buchanan, S. W. Hardy, J. Mathews, 11. Moore, J. Craven, and J. Glass. Mr Buchanan was afterwards elected chairman, and Mr McMillin secretary. :

Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. report that they have sold this season, in conjunction with Mr Thomas Bishop, ]56 Lincoln rams from Mr E. Menlove's flock, at an average price of £0 each. They have still for sale, including two stud rams, 45 rams from the same flock.

We hear that the Hon. J. Johnston has at last consented to comply witli the order of tho Corporation to fill in his section in; Dalton-street. The section is over an acre in extent, and will probably cost over £300 to fill in, but when it is reclaimed a most shocking nuisance will have been abated.

Mi\W. 0, Smith, M.H.R., stated at the meeting at Woodvillp the other day that in his opinion the county oystfim had been, a failure so far as Waipawa was concerned. No one will di.iugec with that opinion. But how far has the failure been due to Mr Smith's actions iv and out of the County Council ? . •

A report reaches iis from Porangahau to the effect that the natives there have turned back Mr Ross, the surveyor engaged to lay off a road from Porangahau to Wainui. The l'epprt states that the road was to be taken through the wharc runanga at the Porangahau pa, and if so public sympathy will be with tho Maoris.

A meeting of the Rabbit Prevention Committee was held at Hastings on Wednesday, at which tho Porangahau subeommittce was authorised to call for tenders for clearing auotlier line of three miles of bush for a rabbit-proof fence. Tho contract for the first three miles is almost completed, and no time will be lost in proceeding with the erection of the fence. ■

The election of five members for the Hastings Town Board took place yesterday. The following is the result of the voting:—T. Tanner, 106 ;W. R. Russell, 98 ;C. Doney, 78; F. D. Luckie, Go; T. Foreman, 49; W. H. Smith, 48; G-: Ellis, 36; S. T. Tong, 29; F. J. Knight, 28; H..C. Chapman, 26; W. A. Beecroft, 13. The first five were declared duly elected, and returned thanks for their election. ;

■" Australian Men of tho Time " must be a.valuable book. 'Many of our contemporaries extracted 'some reforenops to the late Mr J. G- Francis from that book; and quoted the railways authorised by : his administration, of Avliich the book says, "and the rest are in course of construction." Valuable information, seeing not a, single railway of the list has been "in course of construction" for the last half a dozen years, all haying been completed many years ago. .

At a committee.meeting , of H.B. Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held at the offices this morning, a letter was received from Mr Hay ward, requesting that a ne\v sheep dip made by the firm he represents might be tried undei' the auspices of the society. It was resolved unanimously that the society could not accede to his request. The following notice of motion was given by Captain Russell for the next meeting , : —" That the arrangement of the pons at the lato ram fair was extremely inconvenient to /purchasers, and that some system by which all. sheep should be sold in a central yard should be arrange 4 before next ram fair." ' • .

Tho Roads Oonstvuetiqn Aot has fairly broken, down, like everything - olse that has been started, to assist Centralism and take tho place of provincial administrationl The Hawko's Bay Council applied last May for £17,000 under tho Roads and Bridges Act, but, the amount had to bo reduced to J66000 to meet the provisions of .the

amended Act of last session, because it was found the Treasury could not fulfil its engagements under tho original measure. The Hawke's Bay County Council has now received notice that all it will got for its application is £900 for bridge work, and £570 for roads. Mr Sutton, the chairman, lms written strongly on the subject to the Government, pointing out the inconvenience suffered by the Council through entering into engagements on the strength of tho good faith of the Government. Themiserablo reflection has long been forced upon the colony that the Government of Now Zealand cannot be trusted. - ■•■-.*

The Marquis of Nbrmanby goes home by the 'Frisco mail steamer Australia on tho 21th April. . .... .. ... , ■~.-.,—4 :;. .

A shocking , tragedy was perpetrated at Prahran, Victoria, on Saturday, 19th January. Charles Rice, a tailor, beat his wife to death with a billet of wood and severely iujured his daughter.

Four men — O'Malley, UM'Mann, M'Coskor, and G-alvin—who were charged with sticking up Scott's Hotel,* Black Mountain, have been brought up for trial at Sydney. O'Malley received ton' years' hard labour, and the others •were discharged. At Portsmouth' lately the kits of several marines were searched iov a stolen watch, and the , collar of the great-coat of a seii'try was found to be .lined, with . sovereigns. How long they had been there, or td'wbom they belonged, was unknown to him, and he had never suspected the existence o£'tho treasure. ...■•■- .-• .;;, • j ; -

A fall of earth occurred- at a mine at Home Bush on Friday,] by which thirteen men were buried alive. Two of the number, seeing the indications of danger,:,ran to warn their comrades, and so cut ofi' their own escape. They fortunately discovered a small aperture, through which they emerged with great difficulty," but the affair threatened to become, a repetition of the Creswick disaster, as the debris took a long time to clear away. ■-~.:■ ■■:■ =■ - :

At the recent Thames races only two horses, Rewi and : Kcnilworth, ran in one event. The race was declared a dead heat, .and as the owners agreed to ; divide tho stakes, the totalisator paid back the money to. the investors, less ten percent. Sorao have refused to take the money tendered less the commission, and one gentleman says ho has entered an action at law to test the matter. Ho contends that.'\as*.there was no race won, the tbtalisator.did. no business. ■ ■/•- ■■ v;,: , ■ ; >

Jna leading- article on the proposed Civil Service 'reform, tho Eginont Courier makes the following sensible remarks/: —''''Wβ be-> lieve thersas a larger number in, the Civil Service who would have done infinitely better had they applied their energies in some other direction,' and although , it may be convenient to cull out for retrenchment, arid although it may bo urgently required just now, still the workers ought not to be allowed to suffer for the sins of the drones. Tho latter are to the Civil Service whit Friday was to Robinson Crusoe: it. was time they were effectually shaken off, and it is to bo hoped they will never be permitted to return." . '. ..'' :: : ' •■

. Here is a hint for amateur, starters giveu by a great oarsman who was once asked by some horsey friends to officiate as starter in a private steeplechase) sweepstake.' When the horses ranged up this functionary riiade his appeai"uiee ; with solemn purpose deHueatod.in every feature, and when.a walking stick with a handkerchief attached .-wan handed to him he irefully inquired, "What that bully thing was for."- On v an explanation being made, ho .absolutely' declined to have anything to do with such a risky method, and gave it as his opinion that tho only unimpeachable method of. starting horsts would be to " back the horses up to an iron fence ; have each firmly : grasped by tho tail by a strong man the. other side of the railing; let each man lot go simultaneously when I give the word, and that'll be fair and square. But wave the flag as if I was a blessed odd-fellows' procession, or an eight hours' anniversary ! Not mm !""■

In a spirited article headed "Hands' off the Pacific ! " the Pall Mall Gazette says:— It.is hands off all round*—with the exception, of course, of the hands of Englishmen. To Frenchmen, Germans, Americana, and all other " foreigners," the whole" of the Pacific south of the Equator is to bo forbidden ground. We do not understand our Australian fellow-subjects to demand, annexation, except in the case of New Guinea, but they do demand that while we shall be free to annex when, where, and how wo please, all other nations must be warned off as trespassers. Tho South Pacific, in fact, is to be an English preserve. The French have, indeed—themore's the pity—got ftpenalset- :- tlemcntatNow Caledonia. Therefore the Australians invite Her Majesty's Government to make serious representations'to France with a view to the abolition of all penal settlements in the Pacific. There is an understanding with Franco—the moro's the pity again—that neither Power shall annex New Hebrides. Thereforo it is "extremely ■desirable " that Her Majesty's Government should seek to tie France's hands tighter in these regions, and at the same time to , free itself from so inconvenient an obligation. As for tho proposal to transport the scum of French brutality "and crime to tho near neighborhood of Australia, therp to be turned loose to prey at will on the rest of. the woi'ld, let that bo resisted by every means in the power of the English Government. That and not less than that is the startling summons that rings across the Southern eeas to tho Mother Country from her children in the Antipodes. •

Dr. Sinclair, the eminent dentist," will arrive shortly. See advertisement.—[Advt.]