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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3932, 26 February 1884, Page 2

The Salvation Arm y will shortly open "fire " in Napier. "Captain " Bedingfield and his wife, lately stationed in Dunedin, will lead tho campaign here. KTot-svithstaTjcliTic- the accident to tlie Wairarapa, she will be in the bay on Saturday as usual, as we havo received a private telegram from the Bluff to that effect. A bridge over the Matahuia near Woodvillo partially collapsed last Thursday. Tho necessary repairs are being proceeded with under the superintendence of the county engineer. A judgment summons was ordered to take effect to-day in the R.M. Court from the 9th of March, which happens to be a Sunday. Apparently the fact that this year February contains twenty-nine days has been overlooked. A billiard tournament, for which there are sixteen entries, commenced in the room of the Criterion Hotel last night, and attracted a large attendance. There were no big breaks made, but during the evening there was some very pretty play, and the games were watched with much interest. The Fielding Star says:—" There is some talk in cricketing circles of a Rangitikei, Manawatu, and Orona team being got together to visit Hawko's Bay. Thorp ought net to be any difficulty in getting a fairly good eleven together, as the trip woulxlbe a very pleasant and by no means expensive one.". We beg to remind our readers that the concert in aid of tho prize , fund of St. Mary's College, Meaneo, will take place tonight in tho Taradale Public Hall. A capital programme has been issued, concluding with a farce by Napior amateurs. One of frymer's coaches will leave town at 7 o'clock. We referred yesterday to a report that a man had been found dead at To Auto on Sunday. The deceased's name was Joseph Shirley, a shearer. He was found dead in a paddock, and an inq\iest was held before Dr. Tpd.l, coroner, yesterday. The evidence showed that Shirley had been on "the spree '' for some time. Mr W. Young, the manager of Mv Scrimgeour's farm Patangata, met with a nasty accident the other day. He was driving a pair of horses attached to a grassseed cutting machine, when, on approaching a bunch of thistles, he put his foot out to push them on one side. In doing this the knives of the machine caught his foot and cut off three of his toes. A Kanaka who goes by the name of Wahu has been missing from his home for about a fortnight. He had been living in the neighborhood of To Aute, and is supposed to have perished in tho bush. Years ago his tongue was cut out by the Maoris, and the other day his dog, with that faithfulness for which the canines are proverbial, returned witli his head in his (the dog's) mouth. A taiirjl was as usual held over the remains—tho head. The body is supposed to havo been devoured by wild pigs. A capital programme has been issued by Mr Aplin for his concert this evening in St. John's school-room, where we hope to see a largo attendance, All our leading vocalists have proffered their services, and in addition we find the names of Madame Summcrhayes and Miss Anderson, as well as Messrs Spackman, Humphries, and Withers, who are all such through masters of their various instalments. No finer programme has been placed before tho music public of Napier for some considerable time past. Mr J. Goddard, of the Havelock nurseries, has forwarded some samples of the Siberian cherry-apple, from that tree in his garden which is always so much admired -when laden with its thick clusters of scarlet fruit. The cherry-apple is only the size of a large cherry, and lias a tart flavor, which is very agreeable. It would make an excellent jam. Mr Goddard informs us that the frosts experienced in the early part of the season almost entirely destroyed his peach crop, from which he expected six tons of fruit, whereas he has hardly as many hundred-weights. Tho statutory meeting , of the Harbor Board was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock, for the election of a chairman. Mr J. D. Ormond was unanimously re-elected the chairman for the ensuing year on the nomination of Mr W. C. Smith, seconded by Mr J. H. Vautier. A committee of the Harbor Board met this morning, and was closely confined to business till J p.m. The proceedings were not open to the Press. We understand that the preliminaries for the introduction of a Bill to Parliament have been arranged, and that plans for the breakwater have been forwarded to the Governor. There is no truth whatever in the report circulated by a morning paper that, the sand-bag dam across the Ngaruroro has subsided. Ever since the works commenced there has been a certain amount of subsidence, inasmuch as the wall has been built upon soft mud. _ Yesterday . morning it would have been quite ' to have walked across the river on top • of the wall, and the same could be done to- ' day. The wall is doing as much as was ! expected from it, and it is thought that in tho absence of heavy easterly weather the ] river will be running out through the new jhannel in a few days. ..-.'■ At the R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., judgments were rfven for the plaintiffs in the' following f :ases:—G. McDonald v/E.-Walker, £12 [ s 9d, costs 19s, and plaintiff's expenses 4s; / •Teal and Close v. G. Ridings, £5, costs Bs'; •rillespie v. Collins (judgment summons for >10 os), an order was made for £1 per week ommencing from the 9th March; R. beagle v. Mosen (judgment summons for ? ]8 3s 7d), defendant ordered to pay 7s per i< reek, or in default ten days' imprisonment. r ?he decision in the cross cases of Gamer v. "v )rr and Orr v. Mackenzie and Axford will a >c given on Thursday next.' . f' The Woodvillo Examiner asserts that "it $ 3 a well known fact that when the loan ohedule was passed the Gorge line proposal ras. fought out. with the result that not a n: enny. appears on the schedule for its con- si tructiou." If our contemporary would U aye referred to the schedule of the Act he tc 'ould have found tho following item:— : cl Wellington-New PlymouthviaWoodville, in from Masterton, £200,000." ai iverybody knows that £200,000 will not go b; 3ry*far towards, ithe extension of the rail- cv

•ay from Masterton, so Woodville may njoy its wish for many years to come to be ie terminus of the Napier line. An accident that might have been at- "y sndccl by much more serious consequences ecurred yesterday on the road to Moteo. Ir John Anderson, sen., was returning in ho afternoon to his station from Napier in is pah'-horso buggy, there being three there in the carriage. After crossing the 'uketapu hill a waggon was met with, and ndeavoring to pass it Mr Anderson drove o the side of the road, but getting a little 00 much off it the buggy capsized. iccupants were very much shaken'and >ruised, Mr. Anderson being the most hurt. ,Ye regret to hear that his little finger is jroken, and that he suffers.a good deal of >am in his shoulder. A large and influential gathering of mtive chiefs was held last week at Inland Patea to which Mr and Mrs Donnelly were specially invited. On the subject of Hirika's and Topia's proposed; visit to England, in company with King Tawhiao, Mr and Mrs Donnelly expressed the opinion thatif they mixed thcmselvesup with schemes such as those advocated by, Sydney ;Taiwhanga, or even if Sydney formed one of the party, the object of .the visit to England would be defeated, and they did not think the chiefs would be satisfied at the loss of dignity that must accrue. Topia and Hirika said they had not; quite made up their minds to go to England; they certainly did not want to be on a footing Avith Sydney Taiwhanga. Hirika announced that if he did go to England he should leave his people to the care of Mr and Mrs Donnelly. .. .■..,..- ■ The closing , of the Tarewa flag station -, (Hoarding's gate) has been determined on ) by the authorities, and the travelling public will be glad to be saved the detention. Now that there is a foot bridge over the river at Waipukurau there is no longer any necessity for a stopping place so close to the station. It is said that Tarowa was only of convenience to a few individuals who, when they wished to go in the Makatoku direction, would walk to Waipukurau. to save the twopence extra, and when they wished to come to Napier would got in the train at Tarewa, and so save twopence that Way. The whole takings of Tarewa have not amounted to a profit of 2s a week. As our morning contemporary says Tarewa is the most profitable'nag station on the'line the sooner all the flag stations 1 are closed the better. But the statement does not happen to be true. ' ; r ;' - ■ : ; There was but a poor attendance at St. John's school-room last evening in response to the invitation issued by Mr R. 0. Harding calling a meeting to discuss the licensing question. When proceedings should havo commenced there Tvero Exactly 1G male adults, 2 ladies, and 2 small boj's present, and at no time during the evening did'the attendance exceed CO. This was probably duo to the fact that the meeting was understood to have been called in the interests of the teetotallers, and not with ~T any intention of eliciting public opinion. There was an entire absence of any definite or pre-arranged programme, and the result was that the meeting partook a deal of a farcical nature. The burden of the speeches wore calls to the non-teetotallers to a prejudiced audience, in the thoroughgoing "tread on the tail of my coat" stylo; attacks on the views, of the Daily Telegraph ; many references which were in questionable taste to the Ormondville tragedy, and challenges thrown out pro-misuuous-like for a present commissioner to come forward and state his views. The Rev. J. Parkinson was voted to the chair. The Chairman said he would not detain them with a speech " seeing I know nothing of it." Mr R.. C. Harding said h3 had called the meeting as representing certain temperance parties, and then stated .that if they had five temperance men as'commissioners they " should expect - them to refuse every license in Napier." Mr J. Harding proceeded to address the meeting, and at once called on Mr Price to place his views as a candidate before the meeting. Mr Price declined to enter into any, controversy, as he was credited with belonging to the intemperate side, and had come mere to listen to those who held tho view that the Act should be administerdd in a partial manner. From his past conduct they could infer how ho would act if elected. Mr*; Harding then continued his address in that vigorous style of which.he is such a master. Now and again his views wore dissented from by the audience. Mr "R. C. Harding moved the following resolutions, which were duly seconded and carried by good majorities, though half at least of those present abstained from voting, " That this meeting considers that it is in the interests of the public that all houses licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the borough should be closed at 10 o'clock p.m." " That it will be for the public welfare that tho present facilities for the sale of liquors should be curtailed, and the number of licensed houses reduced." The usual vote of thanks to the chairman brought tho proceedings to a close A German primer has reached its 1000 th edition, Fatal cases of sunstroke have occurred at Auckland. In 1885 there will be a Hungarian exhibition at Pesth. Three million sovereigns wore coined in Melbourne last year. The Bourke thermometer recently gave a record of 172 in the sun. j A son of Tom Sayers has been playing inf a minstrel troupe in Sydney. The Hobart Cup, run on 13th February, was won by King of the Vale. For Dexter, the celebrated American trotter and sire, £7000 were given... Mr Darbyshire, one of the proprietors of the Juvenile Opera Bouffe, is dead. The black list of San Francisco gives 22 homicides and 70 suicides during 1883. It is said that £240,000 is the price being asked from the German Government for the purchase of the famous Ossuna Library. Mr Day, the coroner for Hemcl Hempstoad, has died suddenly while on his honeymoon in Franco, five days after his wedding. Eleanor Carey—at one time tho star artiste of the Melbourne stage—has been presented with a medal for saving a man's life in Boston harbor. . Deane and Co. claim to be tho first to commence iron shipbuilding in Australasia. Bosh ! An iron steamer was launched from Wellington, N.Z., last year. The Hon. Horatio Nelson—tho son Lord Nelson —who had been plucked in the examination for a commission in the army, thereupon enlisted as a private soldier. A steamer plying to the Thames ran out of coal a few days ago, while a long way from the wharf, and kept the boilers going with kauri gum, of which thoro was a large supply on board. At a conference of State school inspectors, hold iii Melbourne, it was decided to recommend the adoption of an' unsectariau work, with notes and lessons on moral subjects, as the text book in schools. Three shipments of whiskey forwarded Melbourne arc of such deleterious manufacture that the Customs authorities of that colony up to date havo refused to allow them to be taken out of bond. : : ,; Extraordinary finds of gold' havo been made at Bingera, New South Wales; 2000 Dunces having been' obtained from Bros.' claim in three daysJv : Four other claims obtained 700 ounces,"amongst which (vere nuggets Weighing from three to four rounds, with a largo proportion of gold. Speaking of tho New Zealand laws, To CVhiti, according to the Hawera Star, says : —'' The laws of Moses were written on itoue, the laws of Great Britain: are engraved in steel, but the laws of New Zoaand are impressed on india-rubber,- so that hey may be stretched in whatever way tho jrovernment please." There are a number f dittos to that sentiment. . ■ ■ This is the picture of tho Mahdi drawn by he Austrian missionary, Father Dichtl. ?ho conqueror of Kordofan, says this priest, 1 about 40 years old, tall, and of copperyed complexion. An emissary nont to interiew him some time ago found tho Mahdi t Abba surrounded by about 500 or 000 jllowers, all of them naked with iron chain elts round their waists and with broad rawn swords in their hands. .■■■••< , ■■.- A young . English cyclist proposes to take a trip round the Ayorld on his bjcyclo, art from San Francisco,., and cross' tho "nited States, by steamer from, New York j i Liverpool, ride, to. Dover, cross the lannol to Franco, ride through Europe ito Asiatic Turkey, thenco through Persia, id Turkestan into China, loaving Shanghai t steamer and reaching 'Frisco after con* Lmipg a.year on the journey.

It cost Mrs Langtry £20 for her baths going over to New York recently. When Mr L. heard that, he cried "Thunder! just one month's allowance, and this morning the slave refused a quart!"

Lord Bacon's signs of short life are quick growth; fair, soft skin ; soft, fine hair; early corpulence; large head, short neG 'k; small mouth, fat ear, brittle separated teeth. Some of his signs of long life are slow growth, hard coarse hair, rough, freckled skin ; deep furrows in the forehead, firm flesh, with veins lying high ; wide nostrils ; large mouth; hard, gristly ear; strong contiguous teeth. He adds that early grey hair is not significant, some of the longest livers have turned grey in early life.

The Postmaster-General objects to, nay prohibits, anyone in the service of the Post Office taking out patents except his consent has been obtained. A few years ago aPost Office clerk invented the simple but useful method of perforating with holes the paper round the penny postage stamp, so that it could be torn off. On its being shown to the authorities they approved, and proposed to adopt it, granting the clever fellow five shillings a-week extra pay. He declined, and made £20,000 by his patent.

: The Chicago Inter-Ocean has taken a new-departure in journalism. It is printing a nominal list of eligible bachelors, with a minute description of their appearance, personal habits, income and family connections, to assist young ladies to choose husbands this leap year. Bachelors are gravoly invited to send in particulars, so that the list may be a complete and reliable matrimonial guide. . This request is being oomplied with. Americans love newspaper mention above everything else in life, barring the possession of money.

Some interesting relics of Napoleon I. ■were lately sold by auction at Hastings. They consisted of three views of St. Helena, an occasional table made from a willow tree ' which grew over the grave of the Emperor, and a mahogany chair bearing the following incription in brass:—" This chair, which was the last. Napoleon Bonaparte sat in, was at his bedside when he died, and was brought over to "England by Governor Charles Dallas." The arcicles, which belonged to the late Mr W. S. Alexander, were sold for £1G 35., the chair realising £11. .

' Let all those who vote for the Members of the Licensing Committeo vote only for free and untrammelled and unprejudiced men. Fair play and honest dealing are all Licensed Victuallers want. They seek to bo free from the control of frantics. Let men of known integrity only be elected. Grave interests should not bo relegated to the control of one-sided men.—[Advt.]