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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3914, 5 February 1884, Page 2

A writer in the Ncav Zealand Herald says Mr Sheehan " expects to havo a walk over for Napier." ■■■-.;. Our Wairoa correspondent informs us by telegraph that a shock of earthquake was felt there yesterday at 4.10 p.m., and two shocks last night at 9.20 and 9.30. -. Wool is now coining down in large quantities from the up-country districts. Wo hear that twenty teams are kept constantly at work on the Inland Patea road. We understand that an organisation to be called thellawke's Bay Teachers' Association, is in course of formation. The success of similar associations elsowhcrohas spurred tho teachers of tho district to take the initiatory stops in tho matter. When.going up a steep road off Clyde road to-day, the horse in one of MrHollis's meat carts bolted down the hill, and was brought up by one of tho wheels collapsing and coming in contact with a fence. Tho cause, we believe, was some of the harness giving way, which startled tho horse. Verdicts are sometimes given in civil cases for ve r y small amounts, but the " capper " was surely reached to-day whon a verdict was given in our local Court for twopence. The smallnoss of the amount was duo to the fact that the defendant had settled the amount of the claim, less thp twoponco and tho costs:

The meeting called last evening at the Provincial Hotel for the purpose of making

arrangements for the appearance of Donald Dinuio in Napier proved a failuro, tho renowned athlete apparently having no enthusiastic.friends in this neighbourhood. Subsequently one or two gentlemen made

arrangements by which Donald will be invited tp Napier next month to take part in Caledonian games. ......

The mortal remains of the late wife of Dr. Forrester Matthews wero consigned to their last resting place to-day, and were followed to the cemetery by a largo number of sympathising friends. Dr. Matthews' removal to New Zealand was due to Mrs Matthews' health, and it was hoped the voyage and the climate of this colony would reinstate her. This hope has been disappoined, and her death, although not unexpected, has caused the-deepest regret.

An interesting Maori case which should have come on this morning at the civil sittings of the R.M. Court was postponed by consent for a fortnight. The case, in brief, is simply this: One Maori sues another for £100 damages for tho "seduction of the-wife of tho former by the latter. The case is exciting considerable interest among the Maoris, and as there'are upwards of twenty witnesses to be called lovers of the scandalous are anticipating " spicy " disclosures.

Now that Hastings has become a town under the Act, the Heretaunga licensing district, which includes Inland Patea and Maraekakaho, contains but ono publichouse, namely, Mr Macdonald's Kuripapanga Hotel. A comparison between the enormous machinery of the Licensing Act, polling of ratepayers, election of commissioners, and tho one little travellers' rest on the Patea road, reminds one of, tho well-known simile of crushing a butterfly on tho wheel.

• : A bicycle race has been arranged by the Wanderers' Club, acceptances for which close next Saturday. The course is to bo from Stock's Albion Hotel to the Spit by the Shakespeare road, and back again to the starting point by Hyderabad road. Mistook offers £i, £2, and £1 for first, second, and third prizes. The following handicap has been made-—J. Waterworth, scratch ; J, Morrison, 350 yds ; L. Edsor, 460 yds ; A. Morrison, 470: E. Starkey, 470 ; E. Smith and W. Tuckwell, 500 ; T. Morrison, 550 ; ; G. Morrison, J. Mills, and P. C. Jones, 600 yds. < •

The native chief Henaro Matua met the natives at Waipawa'yesterday, "•when it was unanimously agreed to resist any attempt that may be made to pass the Porangabau country through tho Native Land's Court. An - application that has been sent iv to put the laud through the Court was stigmatised as a forgery, and a proposition was made to prosecute the individual who signed other people's names to the document. The natives were unanimous in the expression of tho opinion that to pass'their lauds through the Court was tho thin'end/of ihe 'wedge of dispossession. We congratulate' the natives upon the determination they have arrived at. V

"Western Spit" writes as follows: — An accident happened yesterday on the Port Ahuriri "bridge, which very nearly

proved fatnl. The particulars are these: A lot of children coming from school were playing on the bridge, when one of them was pushed by another. The wire ou the bridge being broken, the poor littlo fellow fell through into the water, but was very pluckily rescued by Mr J. Franklin. Now, Sir, I think it is quite timo the proper authorities did something in the matter. What is required is a 6xl board in tho place of_ tho wire. The sooner this matter is seen into the better, for there are from twenty to twenty-five children attending the school daily."

- - The death of jtwo well-known public men is announced in our cablegrams to-day, Wendell Phillips : and. Eugene Router. Wendell Phillips was born at Boston in 1811, and - after a college education entered the legal profession.. In 1837 ho identified himself with the'anti-slavery movement, and advocated woman's rights and temperance, and made himself the most popular orator in America. The French statesman Mr Router was born in 1814, and was appointed Minister of Justice by Louis Napoleon in 1849, then President of the French Republic, and throughout tho period of the Empire he held office.; After the fall of the Empiro Mr Router followed his Imperial master to England, and to; tho timo of his exerted himself : for the restoration of the Napoleonic dynasty. ;

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., Ambrose Brown, for drunkenness, was fined ss. Judgments were given for tho plaintiffs in the followii g civil cases:—Ruddick and v.-"'■<_, 0. Thompson (Mr Dewes for the plaintiffs), damages Is, costs 19s, solicitor's"fee'_! Is; Porter and Son v. Michaelson (Mr'Dewcs for the plaintiffs), 2d, costs 19s, solicitor's fee £1 Is; Jackson v. Banner and' Liddlc (Mr Logan for defendants); the plaintiff sued for the recovery of a medicine chest, or its value £!). The defence was that a bill of sale held by the defendants covered the medicine chest. The plaintiff, it -was alleged, left the chest as security for a debt ho owed to one Brewer, wliose' estate \vt\n assigned to the defendants/ "Judgment for the plaintiff, the goods to be returned, or in default payment of £5, costs 19s.

The dedication of the new hall for the Bedford Lodge of' Freemasons, 464, 10., Waipukurau, took place last, night.. ,There was a largo gathering of the brethren to take part in tho ceremony, all the lodges in the. provincial district being represented. The Lodgo was opened by Bro: Wilding, W. M;, and after, th c routine business Bro. Beilby, P.M., as the delegate of the Pro. G.M., was introduced, together with his Wardens, P.'Ml's. Kennedy and Bickerton. The ceremony of. dc'dicalioh was cbnduqted in an able and' impWssiv'e manner' by P.M. Beilby, who. afterwards initiated a candidate to the mysteries of the order. • On the Lodge being closed the brethren retired ,to the refreshment room, where, an excellent repast had been laid—a presentation"from the ladies of Waipukurau. ,The usual loyal and Masonic toasts having been duly honored, P.M. Kennedy proposed the health of the Hon. H. Russell, who had so generously given the site for' thY new Lodge. The : toast Avas dr unit with enthusiasm.

A correspondent from the bush sends us tho following which >vo- thinks with; our correspondent is a greiat'.hardship.:—"The neglect of the Railway* Department in not supplying sufficient trucks for the transporting of logs militates considerably against the bush contractors, who cannot get the quantity ; of. timber away there is •; demand for. Money is only wasted in telegraphing to consignees to press the Manager of Railways to send trucks. ■• At the present (timo at least seven trucks per day,are required at one siding only, to Iceep logs clear, ; and any number short is a loss to tbe Department as well as to those who, wish to take advantage of the line weather to make up for tho bad weather that has been experienced during the past; nine months. -Only nine trucks were sent for three days, in lieu of twentyone wanted. At the .Papatu siding there aro now 20,000 feet of logs,- but, not a truck to put them on. Men, plant, and horses have been idle for half the time during the past week for the want of trucks, * and ho amount of application or writing appears of any use to obtain redress to this glaring injustice. The noxt thing-, -n-c expect, is that, the town mills will be stopped on account of the now arrangement re the measurements of logs by the Railway Department." Jenny Nyo is playing in pantoniimo' at Melbourne, being tho prima donna of the pieco. One of tho Marquis Tboug's despatches to tho Chinese Government is said to have cost 25,000 dollars. Susiui, the well-known basso, was accidentally killed by being run over by a London cab last November. It is stated that John McCullooh, tho great American Virginius, may be induced to pay Australia a visit next summer. Melbourne in one day lately consumed twenty-two and a half million gallons of wator. Blue ribbonism with a vengeance or heat. An aboriginul named Brandy has been sentenced to bo hanged at Perth,. Wosfc Australia, for wrenching oil tho head of a half-caste girl. The Adelaide Military Club have commenced negotiations with tho othor colonies so as to send a team of fifteen riflemen to Wimbledon next year. Despatches from Turin report that Kossuth is dying. The Hungarian patriot has passed his S Ist year, and has,been breaking down physically for some time. i.-'V

Tho proposal of the Queensland Government to prohibit colored labor in the manufacture of sugar, has caused quite a panic at Mackay, the head-quarters of the sugar industry. ' : ; '•

A short time ago a London clerk slipped on a piece of orange peel, broke his leg, was taken to the hospital, became delirious/and died within twenty-four hours, presumably from shock to the system.

■ The family of Mr E. C. Brewer, of. the Bank of New South Waless,, residing at Bondi, wero considerably startled ,on the 16th January, when the infant son, aged 15 months,,-toddled into the house with a young whipsnakc, 16 inches long and alive, in his hands. The little fellow had hold of the. snake in the middle, and was shaking it abfiufc tp his groat onjoyment, but to tho horror of tho father,, who at once seized the reptile and killed it.

A 'French railway company, the Paris Lyons, Mediterranean, has, it is stated, decided to introduce an innovation. On tho line in question,; bo it is said, there will be shortly : station mistresses, in lieu of masters appointed at all the small stations. Tho female officials, or clicfeases, as they are called, will wear a uniform consisting of a dark colored dross-.of ; Q,uaker-liko simplicity and masculiuo cut,. ou tho sleeve of which thero will be a, badge with the letters "P.L.M." The toilet of the station mistress is to bo completed by a close fitting hat with silver braiding about it, A serious railway. accident happened lately at Rookwood, Now South Walps. A goods train ran into a hearse-carriage and cut it into, pieoes. There were two bodies in the carriage v Waiting removal, oho to tho Church of England cemetery and the other to the Catholic ground. Tho shock knocked the carriage off its hind .wheels,:shattered the buffers, and splintered the sides. The two corpses were thrown heavily off tho shelves. One ; coffin wan • smashed aud the corpse rolled out.' This corpse of Morgan, who was drowned fit Granville, was burst open, and the body exposed. A great commotion was caused by the ghastly occurrence. Luckily no passengers were on the spot at the time.

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