The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1884.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4016, 5 June 1884, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1884.

The Willmott Company play at Hastings to-night. The Manawatu Daily Times has changed hands, Mr W. H. Smith having become the purchaser. The moon being favorable, football was briskly engaged in last evening on the Clive Square ground. The Hawke's Bay portion of the San Francisco mail will reach here this evening overland from Wellington. Mr J. Buchanan, Mr J. Sheehan, and Mr H. Tomoana, M.H.R.'s, proceed to Wellington on Saturday by steamer. The annual meeting of the committee for the licensing districts of the Borough of Napier takes place to-morrow at noon. A special train in connection with the production of "Black Cloaks" will leave Hastings on Tuesday for Napier, returning after the performance. The ship Northumberland hove anchor at 2 a.m. to-day, a light land breeze having sprung up at that hour. By 9 o'clock this morning she was hull down. The ground committee of the Recreation Ground Company met last evening, but one member retiring no quorum was left, and consequently no business was done. At the entertainment in Trinity schoolroom this evening M. Bourgeois will sing a French song, and speeches will be delivered by the President and Vice-President, in addition to the various songs, musical selections, and elocution. Mr E. Ashton, of the Occidental Hotel, has become the purchaser of the celebrated pictures, the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo, which have been on view at Mr Margoliouth's auction rooms. They are now on view in the hall of the Occidental.— [Advt.] The accident that happened to Mr Hooper last night might have occurred to anyone under similar circumstances, and it points to the desirability of insuring against risks to which all alike are liable. Mr Hooper was insured in the New Zealand Accident office, and is entitled to draw £3 a week while unable to attend to his ordinary business. There is not much in a name at best, and that was quite evident at last night's Council meeting, as tho writer of a letter was referred to by each succeeding speaker as somebody quite distinct from what any other councillor had termed the writer; The honors, however, were with the Mayor, who spoko quite tenderly of Mr Hong Kong. A football match will be played at Hastings on Saturday between the Napier and Hastiugs Football Clubs. The Napier team will be selected from the following players :—Anderson, Black, Cato J., Cato W. G., Finch, Gibbona, Harrap, Hunter R., Hunter A , Kennedy F., Kennedy A., Le Quesne, Mountfort, Newton, Oudaillo, Thompson, Tylee, White, and Walker. A meeting of the committee of the H.B. Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held this morning, when the annual report and balance-sheet were read and adopted. The resolution that members' subscriptions be reduced from £2 2s to £1 was passed a second time. This resolution, and one carried previously, that balloting for members be discontinued, will be brought before the general meeting to be held to-morrow. At the R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., judgment was given for the plaintiff in the case of J, Hebberley v. P. Donny, £4 Is, costs £2 3s, solicitor's fee £1 Is.' Mr Dewes appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Sheath for defendant. —Richard Anderson was charged with neglectiug to provide for his three youngest children. Not long ago accused had three children sent to the industrial schools. At the request of Detective Grace accused was remanded until Saturday. There is occasionally a good deal of fun to be got out of a.cribbed paragraph. The following has been going the rounds : — " Tho Auckland Star says the reason that Now Zealand editors seldom visit Europe is because they dislike to have their wives mistaken for professional beauties." Week? ago wo cribbed this paragraph from an American paper. The Star gave it a local coloring, and now it is credited with the brilliant idea. Honesty is not the best policy always. We confess our sins. We did not acknowledge its source, nor did our contemporary. Mr S. Hooper met with a very serious accident yesterday evening when returning on horseback from tho Spit. After passing Dr. Matthews' residence, the saddle turned, and Mr Hooper fell to the ground on his head. He was picked up and taken to Dr. Matthews' house, who ordered'his immediate removal to his own home. In the meantime Dr. Hatchings had been sent for, and both medical gentlemen attended the sufferer, who remained unconscious for some hours. Wo are glad to report that Mr Hooper is out of danger, and is doing as well as can be expected. Mr D. Balharry's residence had a narrow escape from destruction by fire last night. From what we hear it seems that one of MiBalharry's little sons, thinking that imitation was the sincerest form of flattery, possessed himself of a pipe, tobacco, and matches, and went into an upstairs bedroom to have a smoke. After lighting his pipe he threw the match on the floor, the curtains were very soon in a blaze, and if it had not been for a servant girl the house would have been burnt down- The flare of the fire was observed from Mr Newton's house, and assistance was at once sent over. Our Gisborne correspondent telegraphs to us as follows:—," Sir George Grey addressed a large audience at Gisborne last night. His speech was mainly taken up by the usual clap-trap- that has ever characterised his stump orations. He referred in feeling terms to the crushed and downtrodden working man, and he spoke bitterly

against the squatters. Every family in the land ought to ha - e happy and smiling homes, trade would then nourish, and the fields would shine with golden corn. Large estates should be subdivided amongat the - . people, and the unearned increment go to ~"> the State for the reduction of tavation. Mr Locke's candidature is progressing strongly in his favor." People are laughing, which is of courso very improper, at the escape of a seaman from the ship Northumberland. The sailor, and another, made an independent trip to the shore last Tuesday morning, and was captured, the other one getting away. -The sailor was brought before the R.M. Court and sentenced to imprisonment till the captain wanted him aboard. Yesterday two sergeants and the prisoner proceeded by the launch Boojum to the ship, and the man was duly delivered over. This morning Constable Harvy, to his immense astonishment, saw the sailor walking, on the wharf. " How did you get here ?" asked tho constable. " Came back, of course, with the Boojum," replied the sailor, smiling. It appears that after he had been delivered over to the mate the sailor was ordered "for'ard," and while nobody was looking slipped over the side and into the Boojum. The Borough Councillors were in a facetious state last night. Cr. NeaL moved amendment after amendment on the proposed sale of Stamford street, but as a councillor he should have known better than to suppose he could propose direct negatives, for which he Avas promptly called to order. His persistency drew forth from Cr. Margoliouth the statement that Cr.Neal "commands my admiration and respect for the consistent manner he has endeavored to choke this at every step."- Cr. Graham thought it was useless to vote on /•.one > occasion, but on being compelled to do so he acted the part of the Irishman in America, who, when he was asked whether he was for or against the Government, said if there was a Government he was " agin " it, so Cr. Graham, if compelled to vote, would be against the motion. The motion of Cr. McDougall to sell the street for £300, which was adopted, earlier in the. evening was ruled out of order by the Mayor,'but word for word later on was allowed to pass. A meeting of tho settlers "• in the Waipukurau and neighboring districts was held yesterday at the Tavistock Hotel, Waipukurau, for the purpose of forming a Jockey Club. There was a large attendance of settlers, Mr H. Gaisford in the chair. It was resolved to form an association to be called the Waipukurau Jockey Club, and the following officers were elected:'—President, H. Gaisford, Esq.; vice-president, G. Hunter, Esq.; judge, John Mackersey, Esq., sen.; A. R. Lyons, Esq., hon. sec. and treas.; J. 0. Evett, Esq., handicapper; committee, Messrs W. A. Warren, Allan Williams, G. E. Carlyon, T. White, S. Johnston, H. J. Baker, C. L. Mackersey, R. Johnstone, J. Mackie, P. • Hunter, A. . R. Lyons, and J. Mackersey. Member's subscription was fixed at two guineas. It was decided to hold the first meeting Easter Monday, 1885. The rules of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club were adopted. The club promises to be a great success, and an excellent course has been arranged for. To make up for tho innumerable camels it has swallowed without, a .blink, the Municipal Council last night nearly choked itself over . a gnat. With no little parade of the kind of pride that may animate the bosom of a policeman when he has caught a small child in flagranti crimine, the Council docked a voucher of the Daily Telegraph of 4s 3d. It was the price of an advertisement. Our contract with the Corporation is for the insertion of its advertisements at 9d per inch, and we had charged ss. But the advertisement in question did not happen to be a Corporation notification. It was an announcement inserted by the Collector of Customs, who turned the account over to the Corporation when he received the bill. Moreover, ; our contract is for the sole right to publish the Corporation's advertisements. The notification referred to was also published in the Herald, and therefore we had the right to charge at the rate of our usual scale, even supposing that it was a Corporation advertisement, which we maintain it was not. But the reduction pleased the Council, and it does not hurt us. Sergeant McGuire,. who has boon fourteen years in the Constabulary force, hasbeen ~* dismissed from the service in a manner that, we cannot but think, is exceedingly harsh, and which wo are under, the impression would not have been his portion if the Minister for Defence had been fully acquainted with the circumstances of the case. Early in May last Sergeant McGuire received a communication while stationed at Awanui ordering him and his family to proceed to Napier as soon as possible after a constable could be sent up to relieve him. On arrival here on the 19th May he was shown the instructions under which he had been ordered to be removed. These were, in effect, "Remove Sergt. McGuire from Awanui as soon as possible, and call on him for an explanation why he took active steps in obtaining native signatures to private deeds." Sergt. McGuire's explanation was that he had never taken active steps to obtain signatures to any deed whatsoever, and that during the five aud a-half years he had been stationed in the Awanui district he had always refrained from mixing himself up in native land matters. To this explanation a reply was forwarded to the Inspector here from the Defence Department to this effect:—" Under instructions from the Hon. the Defence Minister Sergt. McGuire is , dismissed , for travelling abo at-y witnessing native signatures to private deeds, and for receiving remuneration for so doing; permission to do which he must have been well aware wo aid not have been granted him." Wo understand that ther« has been no charge brought against Sergt. McGuire as a police officer, aud in the faca of his distinct denial of having mixed himself up in native land transactions the punishment of dismissal seems preposterous. Why do Hop Bitters cure so much P Because they give good digestion, rich blood and healthy action of all the organs. Read. If people would only exercise more judg- | ment than credulity, they would take nothing into tho system, but what, like Wolfe's Schnapps vindicates its value by its effects. —[Advt.]