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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4060, 26 July 1884, Page 2

Tho Hon. Mr Mitchelson, Minister of Public Works, is a passenger per Manapouri, duo hero to-morrow morning, for Wellington.

Our Wairoa correspondent telegraphs that lavo men named Corrigan and Lloyd were committed for trial yesterday at Wairoa on a charge of cattle stealing."

Tho subject of Mr Paterson's sermon tomorroAv morning is " Night Avithout Jesus," and the subject of lecture in tho evening will be " Tent Mates." Young men arc cordially invited.

Mr IT. Hill's motion to bring tho Athtmvum under the Public Libraries Act, or to open the reading room to the public, and Avhich was lost by only two A'otes at the last anuuai meeting of tho members, Avill be brought foi-Avard again at the general meeting on Wednesday.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., three individuals named Earnest Pelican, Thomas Henry, and Richard. Came Avere brought up on remand charged' with lunacy. All three Avere further remanded for eight days for medical examination. * 7 ■*•••--

~-■ The latest and most, novel; device, to - save life at firos has been put into practice at St. Louis, where the German Turners have organized a '.'corps: 'of athletes who will undertake to form a ; living.pyramid.before a burning building and hand down the children and women safely: . . ..,...

It is said that Mr Carroll Avill protest against the 'Eastern : .''Jlabri' ! election on the groundthat 26.nati.e_ Avere prevented from voting at Waimaremare' by intimidation of certain natives. These natives have sent in a ; letter to : the returning officer oh the matter, so it. is more than likely that we have not,yet heard the'last of the subject.

The old parsonage house of St. John's Church has been sold for £70. "It is to be removed and converted into an addition to tho Presbyterian school. Messrs Glendinning and Griffin's tender for the erection of tho new parsonage is the lowest, and we believe the.AA'.orkis to be proceeded with at once. The ncAV parsonage Avill be erected on tho old site,,and is" to be a two-storey house.

Thore Avas a good attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening, when Professor Anderson repeated his performance of 'the previous evening, and also added several tricks not r giveh before by: him' in Napier. Of course-the audienco was liberal with their applause, a just recognition of tho Professor's cleverness. To-night a number of valuable presents Avill bo distributed among the audience.

A cablegram was receiA'ed at Alexandria from Tawhiao on Saturday morning, and read out at Whatiwhatihoe by his son, Tv Tawhiao. It was to the effect:—"That they were quite well, and were receiving the most generous and lavish hospitality from the noblemen and gentlemen of England." Also, " That all the rangatiras and his people arc to vole and endeavour to secure the return of Te Major Whcoro to. Parliament."

The Customs revenue for the quarter ing 30th Juno amounts omy to g,g gainst'-£345,550 for the <^P° n *™« quarter lastyear. This (says the New Zealand Trade Review) is the lowest quarto for the past three years. Bearing in mnad the lire-, increase of-population- during mat S}m reduction indicated proves that S, hSbeen a very greatcuttmg down of expenditure by the people of the colony. A correspondent requests us to point out thatuthe annual general meeting of, the members of the body corporate of theNapiar Athenaeum takes place on the same evening as that fixed for the annual meeting of the members of St. John's congregation. As many people belong to that congregation and to the Atheneeum, and would much desire to-attend both meetings, our correspondent .thinks an alteration of the date of meeting of one or the other would be ■■/ ; " Wi Pere, who has just been elected for the East Coast Maori -district,'is a halfcaste, being the son of Tommy Albert, the first European settler, in Poverty Bay. Albert'was- drowned in 1866. Wi Beve is of verydark complexion,: and, though only a half-breed, is . n disposition and taste a Maori of the Maoris He is said to emer-tain-tra intense hatred of the Pakeha.and lih. alleged conneciion with the ie Jlooti troubles in 1868 has made him a most unpopular man amongst the old settlers His, knowledge of - English is very'limited, but he is quite an orator in the Maori language. In our Supplement to-day there will be found an amusing "skit," in which an enterprising reporter is supposed to have inter.ieAved Judge Williams, who has just returned' to' Victoria. The following extract shows in some quarters.it has been taken seriously :-" A hubbub hasi been caused in Melbourne by Mr Justice Williams stating on his return from London, that: there will be a republic after the reign of the Prince of Wales ; that the Queen is not liked; she is inclined to be niggardly, and '•peoplo think she does not do her duty. ; These statements are condemned as indecent; and outrageous for a judge to proclaim as Ma opinions.",. A well-informed friend, writing to us; from Wellington, says that Major Atkinson; has signified to Sir Julius Vogel his willingness to take office under • him, should he be called on to form a; Government. Another correspondent from the same place confirms the statement and declares that ithas been settled that nothing is to beoffered Mr Bryce. Both statements carry in them strong elements of belief.; Major Atkinson would take any colleagues or any policy.giving him place and pay, and Mr Bryce has made himself so offensive to his colleagues that his presence was only tolerated in the hope of the Rusden case demanding his absence from New Zealand.— Autldand Labor.

-Mr A. Desmond thanks the ISS electors who voted for him at the late election for Hawke's Bay. He does not seem to have a very good opinion of the district he sought to represent, and altogether takes his beat-in.'-badly. It must surely have been the belief that the '' inhabitants of that stagnant district" "were " petrified "that induced him to come forward as a candidate. Now he has discovered that the landowners tho -tradesmen, artizans, and working classes are of the same flesh and blood as himself, and by no means so utterly devoid of common sense" as to put him info Parliament, it is to be hoped ho will gather Avisdom from experience and look back to the part he took in the late election as a piece of stupendous folly.

Mis 3 Dargon will arrive by the Manapoun, to-morrow from the North, -and on Tuesday next opens for three nights in Napier. Speaking of Miss Dargon the Sydney Mornim- Herald says:—"Nover was earnest, sincere admiration better bestowed than on the display of dramatic skill and poAver by which this great actress held the audience spellbound from first to last. She was repeatedly called before the curtain, andm no half-and-half style, but with a genuineness and sincerity which spoke with unmistakeable emphasis of the extent and depth to Avhichshe had stirred and affected her audience. That Miss Dargon is a great and remarkable actress, few Avho knoAV anything in such matters Avill hesitate for a moment m pronouncing her. Wo have seen no such actress in this country, and in this statement no exceptione are made. The only lady avlio has ever appeared in this country Avorthy of comparison Avith her is Riston, and in point of strength and resistless force every capable and unbiased judge will award the palm to Miss Dargon. It would be curious to enquire if the crowds of ladies and gentlemen who thronged, at increased prices, to see Ristori are in the least de-. gree aware that an actress of a higher or at least as high a stamp is now performing at the Theatre Royal. In this very character of Queen Mary, bloody, bigoted Mary as she is called, will anyone say that Ristori had tho power to give us a portrait so vivid and striking •as that drawn with such wonderful art and natural force of . utterance, and an accompanying action so graphic, expressive, and eloquent, that it is -■ absolutely unexampled on the stage of our day? Ristori fell short of the poAver of MiSS Dargon, and certainly did. not surpass her in the SAvect, touching, pre-eminently natural impression of the pathetic, while m point of graceful, picturesque, harmonious action, attitude, and bearing it Avould be very difficult indeed to find Miss Dargon's equal."

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