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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3956, 25 March 1884, Page 2

Only six nominations for assisted passages will bo forwarded by the outgoing mail, namely, five English and one foreign: all single girls. We beg to remind our readers of the special train to (ho opera this evening. ■Particulars of the time-table will be iourid in our advertising columns.

Two sudden deaths have occurrod this week, carrying off two well known and respected settlers. Mr Ncwbould died on Sunday, and to-day we regret to hear that Mr John Bicknell, of Puketapu, is doad.

"We hear that Mr J. Younghusband is about to leave Napier, having entered into partnership with Mr Rnsrnuesen, of Danovirke. His many friends, while regretting his departure, will join with us in good wishes for his future prosperity in his new sphere.

Mr 0. B. Hankey has returned t<s tho colony after his risit to the old country, and is expected shortly, to resume his appointment of manager of the ; Hawke's Bay railway. In this event Mr W. R- Carruthers, who relieved Mr Hankey,- will return to his management of the Invercargill lines.

A good many public-houses arc changing , hands. Mr Parker, of the Commercial, Spit, has. taken the Border Hotel, To Kapu, Wairoa., and Mr Robson takes his place in the Commercial. Mr Ritchie has' sold out of the Onga Onga Hotel to Mr Glass. Other changes are likely to take place shortly.

The Burgess lists of. the tiirco wards , of the borough have been completed, ..together with the Defaulters' List, and wili be opon to inspection, according to tho Act, : on April 1. The Defaulters'"List'contains tho names of all persons who have.omitted to pay the rates which, rin or before December 31, they were owing. '.''.';.

The Accident Insurance Assocition of Now Zealand is a . company,.that is'being floated at Dunedin, and of which our telegrams : stated the other day the shares are ,being rapidly taken up. The New Zealand Accident Insurance Company.,,has been wonderfully successful, its dividends having reached 25 per cent, the shares standing at ,7s with only 2s paid up. -"With Mich rpturjis it would appear that there is plenty of room for two ■ such . associations. Mr. "W. G-. Motley has bpen appointed the local broker.

At tho R.M. Court this morning, beforo Captaiiv" Prebco, R.M.; judgments wore given for the. plaintiffs in tho following cases: : —Blythe and Co. v. Clark,. 65, , costs 7s ; Fortune and Black v. T. Jensen, £4 10s ")d, costs 7s ; De Lisle v. L. Hoff (Mr Lascelles for plaintiff), £2 2s,;solicitor's fee 10s (id, costs 7s; W. Mayo v. C. Lloyd, £5, costs 7s; Tait and Mills; v. J. Clark, £2 ISs Cd, costs 7s; Curry v. Bloomficld (Mr Lascelles for plaintiff, , Mr Lee- for dofendant), a disputed case in reference to the stabling of certain race horses, tho defence being that the owner was not the responsible party but the trainer, clainv£sL2s, verdict for plaintiff, for £41 3s 3d, costs £3 3s-, solicitor's foe £3 3s, Avitnessos' expenses, £i 12s 3d, and costs atGiebbrno £3 3s. j.

In tho TI.M. Court this morning two cases arising out of the recent Pritchard [fiasco at the Theatre Royal were dealt with. Saoffer v Ashton, a claim for Is. Mr Lascelles for plaintiff, and Mr Leo for defendant. Mr Lee said tho defence Vras that Mr Ashton, as one of the proprietors of tho Theatre, was not liahlo for tho parties who ■were tenants failing to give a performances Mr Lee said he would ask the evidence to be carefully taken down, as if the'verdict was against his client he ' should ask His Worship to state a case. His Worship said that could not be done, as the; amount: was not over £5. Mr Lascellcs said the parly who received the money and failed to give value for.it would be responsible. Whoever had received the moneyhad committed tho legal fraud. After hearing the evidence and the rimmed counsels' addresses, judgment was reserved till Tuesday next. A large number of spectators were in Court. •

A four-roomed cottage on the WaipawaHanipdcn road, the property of Albert Warsnop, dairymail, was burnt down at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr Warenop was away at the time delivering milk, leaving his wife and four children at home. Mrs "Warsnop, it appears, got up at C o'clock and lighted tho fire, and then went to the cowshed to milk the cows. She Vras absent about an hour, and on returning to the house found the kitchen so full of smoke that she could not enter it. Running round she got in by the front door and'gpt tho children out of bed, and then alarmed tho neighbors. . As soon as assistance carao the. kitchen was found to /be iu'flamos,' and owing to a strong breeze blowing tho firo was gaining a hold over tho whole building. Efforts were directed to saving the furniture and clothing, as it was impossible to check the names. In abouf; half ah houi the cottage was. burnt to the grbundl' .The house was insured for £100, aiid the furniture for £50 in the National office! :

Epaulettes are to be restored in the British army. ....... :■ , .. . . ,

Maccabe gave "Bcgono Dull Care" bofore the Prince-and Princess of Wales recently. ■■•'■ : : " " '.

Boiling, tripo by butchers has now-been prohibited-in'Melbourne." What will tho ballet girls substitute for supper ?

Mr Service, tho Premier of Victoria, is said never to read the papers. - Probably that accounts, for .his belief in. Federation.

A woman of 25 at Sacramento has already been married ton times • Boys'with wlates aro now figuring out the result at fifty by rule of three.' '' * ; ' ; '•

A letter has'been received in Sydney from Sir Henry Parkes; intimating that he cannot possibly leave England on his return to the colony before May. : ;

Principal .witness in an important criminal caso at Melbourne got lost in the new Law Courts there, and the prisoner had to be discharged and rearrested.

A littlo girl, two and a half years old, residing at Macquario Plains, New South Wales, poisoned herself by eating wax matches. Sho died in great agony.

Dr. Badham's death was in keeping with, his calm and intellectual life. Alm6.st his last not was to send a faro well in Latin to his friend Professor Cobct, of Leydon.

It was eighty-one years on the Gth March since the first Sydney newspaper was pukv lishcd. It was thirjy-ijvc years later that the first Victorian paper was publishpd.

Tho-author of The Millionaire, according to the Athcnaium, is Mr Louis J. Jennings, who was for sonio years Times' corro spondont in America and editor of the New York Times.

The Rev. D. M. Berry, M.A., ox-scholar of Magdalen College, and late civil chaplain at Port Louis, has boon appointed lecturer hi the French language and literature at Trinity College, Melbourne.

Lord Carnarvon (says London Truth) has recently made some extensive investments in Australia. He has purchased a considerable property in Melbourne, and also a largo estate in the ncighbourhod of Sydnoy.

During-last year the P. and 0. Steam Navigation Company navigated 2,300,000 miles, and consumed 400,000 tons of coal. In the last three or four years it has spout £2,000,00? in shipbuilding on the Clyde. ■

At the head-teacher of tho Sate school at Campbell's Creek (Victoria) was recently punishing a scholar, he was sot upon, by the chastised one, whose example was speedily followed by, other-pupils, and a general frrtctis took place. • • - '

Four lots of sx)irits recently iirmorted into Victoria havo been returned from whenco j%y oaine, as the Customs refitsod to pass the " compounds." %\vo lops Tyere sent to Sydney, one to Adelaide, while tho fourth was despatched to Hamburg..^

In view of reoent disorderly scenes on one or two excursions in Port Phillip, it has been opportunely mentioned that ill tho United States the leading steamboat lines on the Upper Mississippi havo for the past three voars banished liquor from their boats.

During tho last passage of the Orient s.s. John Elder for home, and while in lat! Odcg. 36mins. S. and lon. 75deg. oOmins. E., who passed trees, fungus, and pumiccßtono floating about. The pumice stone was in large quantities. This continued for two days. '

The first town in Switzerland, and perhaps the first in the world, to bo entirely lighted and havo its tramways driven by electricity be llontreaux, on the Lake of Geneva, a company having obtained a concession for the purpose. The motive power i« derived from tho water of the lake. Extensive works are to bo erected ijnmediatejy.

A 'Frisco critic has broken' out in a frosty placo,' auent'Mrs Langtry—of whom we have hoard beforo. Ho says, "Sho is prettier and moro graceful than a picUirft 20 or 30 inches with throo red-wood trees in the foreground, a ruined mill, * and 1 a glorious sunset lighting up tho forest, in. fho background. Her features are mote delicuto than tho 'outlines of tho young gum-tree, and more picturesque than a deserted loggers' camp by moon-light," He was trying to make a wood-cut of her, don't you see ! :,

Messrs Longmans, Green, and Co. have issued a mxponny illustrated edition ot Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Rabbit destruction in a now method has been commenced in the Harrow district. A party of American trappers has arrived -» there having with them 11 horses, 80 ferrets, and about a mile and a half of netting. Their plan of operations is to spread their netting, and drive all the animals into it, forming, of course, with netting, men, and horses, a large circle, working towards the netting.

One of the Southern Pacific Railroads in the United States has been b . all ! ,st^"^i y "Is thoflrat instance known of a railroad roadbed being laid and ballasted m salt. The sea which onec rolled over tins place dried up, and loft a vast bed of salt about 50 miles in length. The quality is superb and the supply inexhaustible, (grasshoppers of enormous size and giant centipedes have boon hero pickled in the chloride of sodium, and aro to-day, nftor the lapse of centuries, in full size and perfection of shape. '

At an insolvency examination, held recently, in the estate of Francis Horace Stublcy, of South Yarra, squatter, some scnptiqual revelations werp made. The insolvent stated that, after failing as a shipbroker, he went to Queensland, where ho engaged as a practical miner, and made at. the" rate of £1500 to .£2OOO per week, and calculated his dividends in eight years at .£200,000. Ho subsequently ".vent into squatting, but his operations in this direction wcro unsuccessful, as also were his dealing as a wheat and wool shipper. A now name for a warm pUce was given by a niuo-year-old boy the other day in the Lyttolton Police Court. His Worship was administering the usual impressive question to "the nervous little fellow, who stood with \ tear in his eye twirling his hat round bc'fcweon his thumb and forefinger. "You know, I suppose," said, his Worship, " where you will go to if you don't tell the truth. Don't you?" After nibbing both eyes the youngster, takes the Court by_ surprise by stuttering out "Y-c-c-s S-i-r, to Eurnham." Burn 'em said bis Worship is a very good name for it. Hero is one of the latest Spiritualistic stories from the Harbinger of Light:—"At a private circle in Queensland a short time since, a spirit, giving the name of Lamont Young, controlled the medium, and .stated that he and others had been lost in a quick - sand. Some of our readers may remember the mysterious disappearance of a surveyor of that name, and his party of five, in New South Wales, not very long ngo. As far as wo aro aware, no traces of the missing men have been discovered, and, if this communication is correct, it Avould sufficiently account for this, as the quicksand would swallow all their paraphernalia. Previous to the name being given, the medium enacted the process of drowning and suffocation in a painfully realistic manner." This does not, after, all,.account for the boat, and the bullet marks upon it. Balmy sleep, good digestion, inch blood, clastic step and cheerfulness in Hop Eitlers. Head and believe.

' Tho feeblest system may bo fortified against the effects" of unwholesome air and rapid changes of temperature, by the occasional use of that celebrated tonic and invigorating cordial, Wolfe's Schnapps.— [Advt.]