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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3934, 28 February 1884, Page 2

Tlie members of, the Fire 'Brigade-meet this evening for practice.

The Rev. J. Parkinson has been gazetted as an officiating minister under the Marriage Act. ".: .• ' :::■■' ; ;, f

It is reported that Mr Brathwaite has resigned his seat in the Wairoa County for the -Moh nit a riding. , ?

The Rev. D. Sidoy. and Mr Rcchab Harding have been nominated to the Education Board by the Wairoa District School Committee.

Mr Spackmun was last night elected conductor of tho Napier Musical Society.; Wo heartily congratulate the society on its choice.

It will be seen-from our Post Office notice that the outward English mail via San Francisco will close on Saturday at 8 p.m. The Wairarapa will reach Auckland on Tuesday morning. :••"'■ r ;

A committed meeting of the H.B. Sailing Club is to take place at Mr Boll's- Crown Hotel to-night, when it is hoped there will be a full attendance, as some important business is to be transacted. -

■ There was no fire at Mr Holt's saw mill yesterday. The chimney on fire at his private residence created the confusion of~r ideas which promptod the paragraph that appeared in last night's issue, ; ,

A chimney in the house occupied by Mr R. Aplin, near the police station, Port Almriri, caught fire at 9.15: o'clock this monr'ng, but was quickly extinguished by the efforts of Constable Harvey and some volunteers without any damage haying been done. ' '•■'"■' - i:.

Sir, —Kindly allow me to rectify an omission which occurred in my communication of last evening. The sentence" should have road, " Übserver " and two others engaged in the above trade to represent the one side, and three of the leading abstainers of Napier the other." —I am, &c, A Recent Arrival in Napier.

Mr John Buchanan, M.H.R., was present at the opening of tho Working Men's Club last night. Wo are under the impression that this is his first public appearance sinco his election for Napier in 1881;; Mr Buchanan took tho opportunity of disclaiming any desire to make political capital out of his visit to the club ; ho came there, he said, as one of the honorary members of the institution, and he asked to be placed on the list of life membership.

The advantage of paying , rates punctually was made clear onough to a party of gentlemen ushered into one of the polling booths to-day'by'Mr. Harding. On asking , ior'* ballot papers, and stating their "names; they were one after the other informed that they were.not on tho roll. To those who deeiro to reform the morals of the human;race .we commend the study' of the obligations of the people to the governing bodies.' "First take the beam out of thine own oye, and then," &c, &-o. , ' ' ■,'""

The polling for tho eleotion of LioensingCommittees for the three wards commenced this morning, but- the ; result will, not be known till' between 7 and 8 o'clock this evening. The temperance party urged its supporters to strike out from the seven candidates tho names of Dr. Spencor and Mr Price, while the of Moderation and Fair Play advised the erasure of the names of Messrs Laws and Townshend. It is quite impossible to say which way the election will go. The Temperance party must certainly be congratulated on its organisation, and, probably, from that cause its candidates will obtain a place in one or other if not in all three districts.

Tho new premises of the . Working Men's Club were formally opened lasfeniyht, and in honor of the occasion the facndo of the building was illumined by Chinese lanterns, and the Garrison Band outside. At 8 p.m. the President of the Club, accompanied by the officers of the institution and His Worship the Mayor, entered the hall, and took their Beats on the dais, and the room .was speedily filled by the members and invited . guestri. Mr Hodgson, the secretary, read the report of tho building committee, whioh : showed that the erection of the premises cost £555 16s 10d. The key was then handed by Mr Murray, as chairman of the committee, to the President, who in turn presented- it to the Mayor, with a few appropriate remarks. The Mayor and tho officers of tho club then led the way to tho new part, of the building, and, jjrocceding upstairs, , an hour or so was agrecbly spent in'the reading room, where a few speeches wore made having referenoo to the additional accommodation provided. Votes of thanks were passed to the building committee, to..Mr R, Holt, to MrH. C. Wundram, J;he architect,"and to the contractors, all of which were suitably acknowledged. The President then proposed a vote of thanks to tho Mayor, who replied in a humorous speech. An" adjournment was afterwards made , to , the hall, where vocal and. instrumental musici pleasantly concluded the evening.

At the R.M. Court this morning, Captain Preeco, R M., gavo his decision in the cross cases of Garner v. OrrandOrr v. Mackenzie and Axford. .lathe first pnse the decision was for the plaintiff, for £17 4s 7d, with 23s costs, solicitors fee £1 Is. In the second case His Worship said he had gone, carefully over the evidence,' and also: pVer tho accounts, which appeared to be very.'badly kept. Entries in the grist book did not agree with the entries "in tho day book, in one case ,25 bags being loft out, altogether. He was of opinion that the 1(3 bags were short delivered ; the recoipf to Spear ~* was evidently the receipt for, the bags from Pakowhai, but very probably, in taking it ** from the chalk board to the ,bpok, they were put down to Hastings, Judgment for the plaintiff, for £19 Is. Bd, costs £3 6s, solicitor's fee £1 Is, and witnesses' expenses !£3 6s. Mr Logan ssiid he would ask leave v to appeal, on the grounds that it was nover proved that on the 20th April 16 sacks of wheat were delivered. His Worship : You cannot appeal on a question'of faot. Mr Logan then said he would state tfye grounds during the day. Mr Cotterill 'asked His Worship to restrain the execution in tho other case till the second was decided, to which His Worship assented. , It is understood that Mr Logan will ask for a rehearing. Tho decision excited some surprise, as when tho ca&o was first brought on, His Worship said costs would bo costs in the cases. G. A. Sala is writing his autobiography, Tho added money given to horso racing in England tho last four years has oxcooded £1,000,000. ' • Square dinner plates have been introduced-. Square meals have' boon popular for sora-' time. In Great Britain 74,000' porspne are employed in preventing, ' detecting, ancj. punishing orimo. '->" • '• The triibtecs of the Birmingham Children's Hospitalliavo elected Dr. Aimio "Clark as acting physician, , , * Tho Philadelphia Synagogue now allowe women to voto ou all church inattors."' Tlifct is a great advance for tb'e Jffwe.

A ladies club lias been started in Melbourne. All the fashion papers are taken in

A rival to Renter is in the field The London Central News Agency is_ extending its business to India and Australia.

Miss Mary Anderson, the American actress, on Christmas Eve made a presentation to each member of the company.

The workingmen of Derby presented Mr Gladstone on tho 22nd December last. ™ a specially-manufactured dessert service in Derby china

Sims Reeves is on a "farewell tour. No one but Reeves can foretell when it will ond, and no one now living can recollect "when it began. Zadkiel is aa usual full of prophecies. The 12th of July will bo a remarkable day for proposals of marriage. The ladies probably wish it may.

Sir Joshua Reynolds' works, to the number of nearly 200, arc to be collooted and Bhown this winter at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. It will be the only colection of the kind sinoo 1815.

The health returns of England show prisoners in gaol as the healthiest class, and fitly enough the cases of insanity among them, in. proportion to numbers, are higher than any other class.

Henry Thurston, who owns a cattle ranch in Texas, is said to be the tallest man in America, being seven feet seven and a half inches tall, and increasing his apparent stature by a stove-pipe hat.

Tho losses by fire in the United States and Canada during tho year 1883 are estimated to amount to 105,000,000d015., the insurance upon the property destroyed amounting to 54,000,000d015.

Mr Vanderbilt has £9,410,000 in United States Four per cent Bonds, yeilding him an income, paid quarterly, of £376,100. His sons had fortunes—one a very large fortune—from their grandfather.

Jules Verne is fifty, getting fat, and growing grey. He was originally destined for the bar. He was thirty when "Rorind the World in Eighty Days" was published. He always passes his summers on the soa.

Cividale, TJppor Italy, Ristori's birthplace, very creditably resolved to erect a monument to tho great tragedienne ; but, finding their means were short, the Council naively applied to the Marchioness herself. She laughed, but sent a cheque.

• Two'books formed with sheet-iron leaves have been sent to the Amsterdam Exhibition by an English firm, as an illustration of the perfection to which the process of rolling sheets of iron has been brought. The leaves are said to be no thicker than " goodtoned paper."

An elderly schoolmistress is mentioned, in the recent report of a Church of England school inspector who, when ho proposed to her thtit the children should sing, shook hor curio in tho faces'of the young folks, and said, " Now you little wretches, sing, "God is Merciful," will you ?"

Through the manufacture of "faggot" votes by the Duke of Bucclouch, Gladstone's Beat for Midlothian has been jeopardised. Mr Gladstone will, therefore, at the next election, be a candidate for tho City of Edinburgh—ono of its present representatives happening to be a Conservative.

On the voyago of the barque Sussex to Melbourne, at half-past 7 p.m. on December 5, in'latitude ldog. 35min. N., and longitude 27deg. oOmin. W., a volcanic chock of upheaval was experienced, which caused the ship to tremblo all over, and was distinctly felt by every one on board.

The African traveller, Siguor Massari, lectured at Brussels recently before the Geographical Society of that city. He declared that the insurrection of tho Mahdi ■was provoked chiofly by the untoward interference of the Egyptian Government in religious matters, and by their oppression of the peaple.

The latest addition to tho Victorian " Zoo " is likely to prove a paying speculation, for, writes a Melbourne journal, it was mentioned at h meeting of the Council yesterday that the elephant had carried 700 children in ono day duiing tho recent holidays, and had during last month earned no less a sum than £GO.

Two little Italian bootblacks, condemned lately by an austere New York police magistrate to bo washed, cried most piteously. The unknown is notoriously wonderful, and the wonderful is of ton terrible ; and baths are quite unknown to the Italians of New York, who herd together in fouler quarters than those oven of Turin and Naples.

In Sydney an Australian Democratic Alliance has beeu formed, with a programme including the election of colonial Governors, nationalisation of the land, the federation of the colonies, representation of labor in tho Upper House, tho imposition of ad valorem duties, electoral reform, payment of members, and encouragement to native industries. ~

We may possibly think that as a community wo aro tolerably active, but it remains for Honolulu to produce atone time a Notary Public combined with a grocery and provision dealer, ship and general blacksmith, druggist and .tobacconist. All that man wants now to Hocure a fortune is to sink artesian wells and run a crockery store by telephone.

' When the Queen, then Princess Victoria, was staying at Ramsgate with her mother in 1834, they : were much annoyed in their walks, and tried to liiro a private garden for their strolls, when Sir Moses Montefiore offered his grounds at East Cliff Lodge, and eenfc the Princess a golden pass-key. It was tho beginning of "her Majesty's kindly feeling to all Hebrews.

It has been ascertained that in those schools in France in which revaccination has hcen insisted upon there has not been a case of smallpox for several years, while ihe disease has been prevalent in many schools in which revaccination has not been practioed. Consequently, M. Jules Ferry has ordered the revaccination of all scholars in Frencli publio schools.

An ingenious English manufacturer has, by a simple and workable invention' of coiled springs, succeeded in dispensing with the need of driving sewing machines by hand or foot. A few turns of a handle winds up sufficient power to keep a machine going at full speed over an hour. It is completely under control as to the rate of stitohing and stopping, and can bo applied tv any existing machine at moderate cost.

A bird fancier at Stawell recently trapped some birds which have all the characteristics of/mules , '—that is, a cross between tho canary and the linnet. The. birds lpok shapely' and well for song. It is surmised that these bifds aro the progeny of canaries ■which have been liberated and some of the native birds. The strangers have been caged, with a view to discover whether the vrarblings that are supposed to-be latent ■will become developed.

Tho County Limerick police are inquiring into the case of a lad named Linehan, whose dead body has been found in a bog •under extraordinary circumstances. The deceased had been missing for some time, until one night this week his father, according to the litter's statement, dreamt that tho lad's body was lying in a particular bogy -On rising next morning he procured bloodhounds,, and i n *H e identical place he bad dreamt of the body was found.

Sampson Fox, a great English inventor, whose improvements in steamship-boiler fluen has mado him wealthy, intends, it is said, to open an iron ship-yard on the Delaware, audbi-ing over 1,000 men. He says tho oocean steamship of the future will carry nothing but passengers and engines, and make the trip in four days. They will remain in. port but a few hours, and thus can mako double or treble the number, qf trips of steamships carrying freight.

Mr Wilson Barrett tells an interesting story in : tho-Theatre annual about Lion, Mis* Eastlako's dog, which figured in ". The Romany Rye.'.' l When the play was withdrawn, tho dog, deprived of his night's amusement, and no.,longerable to satisfy his love of dramatic art, sickened and died.He" was absorbed in his profession, and s6mewhat conceited," as t have heard other actors occasionally are. When tho audience did not'applaud him,- ho snarled and showed his teeth. The whole'story, which is told with: much freshness and humor, may be commended to people in search of new anecdotes about dogs. ~ ' ;.

Theaiith.br of that exceedingly successful pamphlet, "Tlie "Bitter Cif of Outcast Londbii," is a Scotsman. He is the Rev. Andrew Mearns, and was trained for the ministry in the Hall of the United Presbyterian Church. Becoming an Independent, he bffioiated.for several years,as the pastor of the church in Markham Square, Chelsea. Latterly hie' bas boea tbo secretary-of tbo

London Board of Congregational Ministers ; and it was his work in this connection that led him to draw up the telling statement which has been the means of raising so much discussion. He contributed a second paper on the same subject to tho December number of the Contemporary Ileview.

An interesting form of entertainment has been for some time in vogue in Paris— diners en- tetc. At these dinners—and the rule has been sometimes extended to dances —all tho guests are bound to appear with their heads attired in some fancy costume. Au old gentleman goes as a Dogo of Venice, or a Pope, a young lady as Marie Antoinette or an Ineroyable. The choice of both ladies and gentlemen is unlimited, and as the dis-g-uise is of theliead alone the gro it expense of a complete fancy dross is avoided, while at the same time the opportunity tor accurate imitation of antique types is increased through the much greater facility oftered by prints and paintings winch so _ often give only the head and bust. In Pans the function is notified to the guests by the addition of tho words "en teto to the card of invitation.

It is astonishing, says the Troy Times, what large farmsin the United States are owned by titled Englishmen. Of individual owners there are Sir George Reed, 2,000,000 acres; Earl of Dunmore, 100,000 acres; Earl ofDunraven, 00,000 acres; Duke of Sutherland, 400,000 ; the next largest farms are owned by Phillips, Marshall and Co., 1,300,000 acres ; heirs of Colonel Murphy, 4,100,000 acres; H. Diston, 12,000,000 acres; Standard Oil Compay, 1,000,000 acres, and scores of others. Nine men own a territory equal to that of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. Then there are great railroad corporations, Avhose free gifts of land from profligate Congresses amount to 200,000,000 acres. Eleven of theso corporations have 120,000,000 acres. The Northern Pacific road has received tho biggestsliee, 47,000,000 and the grants have ranged all the way from 1,000,000 acres upwards.

Professor Leoni Leyi sends to the Times the result of his researches into the financial position of the working classes. Iv 18GG the annual wages of operatives, domestic servants, and others, estimated by Mr Gladstone at £250,000,000 were found to amount to over £100,000,000; and; tho present year they may bo estimated at £448,000,000. Comparing the numbers and income of the working classes with those of others, Professor Levi shows by figures that in thirty years an average family of the lower niiddle class has improved its financial position by 37 per cent., while one of the working class has improved by 59 per cent. So far as he can judge, tho economic condition of the working classes has immensely improved of late years. What they mostly need is a greater force of moral purpose, a greater culture of the intellect, a greater refinement of manner and taste, and an increasing capacity to repel what is depressing and to attract what is ennobling in their intercourse of life. In 1882 the eldest son of Prince Frederick of Palm, the young Count Alfred, then studying at the Bonn University, ran away from home because his family would not allow him to marry a young girl, well brought up, and whose parents wore comfortably off, but of comparatively low birth. For a whole year the Prince of Palm remained ignorant of his son's whereabouts, and was only informed last September that ho was working as a navvy on the Illinois Railway, a few miles from Chicago. He had been recognised by another navvy of the name of Schneider, who had served in Germany in the same regiment of Hussars as the young Prince. Schneider wrote to tho Prince to inform him that the Count and himself occupied the same lodging at Chicago. The Prince immediately sent the manager of his estate to bring back the prodigal son, who refused to return unless he was allowed to marry the lady for whoso sake ho had left homo and country. The Prince's consent to the match has been granted.

Terrible to relate, Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, the celebrated temperance doctor, is, if we may credit a contemporary, showing symptoms of blacksliding. Writing in the North American Review on the causes of felicity he says:—"lam a total abstainer, but I am an honest observer also j and I confirm from direct observation the old saying that ' wine maketh glad the heart of man. . What is wanted now is that the united soionce of the age should apply itself to the problem of giving the world a drink that shall make glad the hearts of teetotallers without carrying with it iiny of the insidious and demoralising efforts of the demon alcohol—a good, honest, cheerful drink, which on a cold night might be diluted with hot water, sweetened with a little sugar, and, perhaps, flavoured with the squeeze of a lemon, and which, under these conditions should have the effect of, for a fleeting moment, lightening the burden of existence, and loosing the chain with which we are darkly bound." The doctor must mean pure whiskey.

The Pall Mall Gazette says: —"A very curious career was cut short by a decision of the Paris Correctional Court a few clays ago. Ever since 1806 a certain Zouave, named Jacob, has been busy with the profession of Spiritualism, and his form of supernatural power took, it must be confessed, a moi'o useful turn than that of reading numbers in other mon'a minds. Tho Zouave's spirits were spirits of healing; and just as there are men in England who really believe that Mr Irving Bishop has reiid the number of bank notes by supernatural powers, so there have been people of all classes in France who believe themselves to have seen M. Jacob heal the niiumed and tho halt with the mere glance of tho eye. Tho other day, however, ' the matter of simple inspection ' seems to have failed, and the result of more violent measures was that Jacob broke his patient's arm. The patient was ungrateful enough to jH'osecute, and Jacob has been condemned to pay lOOfr fine and .iOOfr damages, as well as to undergo six . days imprisonment ' for the illegal practice of medicine.' It will be an iuterestiug study in human credulity to see whether these proceedings at all interfere with his ' practice' when he comes out of prison.