The Daily Telegraph. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1884.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4182, 16 December 1884, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1884.

The Salvation Army threatens to attack Waipawa shortly. At latest Mr and Mrs Polk wero doing nothing in America. Sankcy, the Evangelist, was one time with a burnt-cork crowd. Australian Blon din performs in Waipawa to-night and to-morrow evening. Of nine civil cases sot down for hearing this morning seven wore either settled out of Conrt or adjourned. Mr Labouchore says that the great stumb-ling-block to legislation is the inordinate length of speeches. It will bo seen from a telegram that a serious railway accident has occurred near Christchurch, resulting in several deaths. An auctioneer selling land at Woodville the other day said if he had sold the sections in Napier he would have realised twice as much for them. Last month Napier was seventh highest of the boroughs in the death rates, the Thames being lowest on tho list, and Livercargill highest. It is pointed out that all the recent additions to the roll of J.P.'sin Wellington are either Irish or Scotch, there being not a single Englishman on the list. The youngest immigrant that ever crossed the ocean alone recently arrived on a German steamer at Castle Garden, New York, and was only two years old. It is said that some ancient and almost forgotten investments of Bandman's have turned up trumps, and the Geman actor is a little surprised at his unexpected wealth. The minute book of tlie Assignee threatening to run out to-day in the Court only the answers iv a bankrupt's examination could be taken, the questions having to be left out. How to encourage thieving was shown in a case at Court this morning, where a man had bought a pair of shoes from a thief for two shillings, though the shoos seemed fair value for fifteen shillings. A member of the Jewish fraternity objected to being sworn this morning on the Bible. The little difficulty was arranged by opening the book at a portion of the Old Testament. In the small schools of Hawke's Bay the inspector says the work is better done by mistresses than by masters. Capt. Russell asked up to what age the mistresses had the advantage, but got no satisfactory reply. It is notiticd that aIL applications for the awards of the Royal Humane Society of Australia for meritorious services in saving life performed in New Zealand must be made through the Government. A Naseby publican was charged last week with illegally permitting gambling on his licensed premises, but the R.M. Hickson dismissed the case on the ground that the game in question—poker—was not unlawful. At the R.M. Court this morning verdicts were given for tlie plaintiffs in the following cases: —Lyndon v. B. Franklin, £6 10s, costs 10s ; J. Hislop v. Cooper (Mr McLean for plaintiff), £8 15s 6d, costs 10s, solicitor's fee £1 Is. Capt. Russell describes it as a farce that a Chairman of a School Committee should sign a form that a master had devoted so many hours to the instruction of a pupil teacher. As a matter of fact the Chairman knows nothing of the matter. This evening a special train leaves Hastings at 6.45, so as to cnablo the residents to visit the Theatre Royaland witness the second representation of Jane Shore. The train rot urns to Hastings fifteen minutes after the conclusion uf the performance. Even Homer sometimes nods, as is proved bj>- the following curious announcement in the shipping columns of the Times on the .2nd October. "The Coriolanus, Messrs. John Patten, jun., and Co.'s Line, arrived at Adelaide, New South Wales, on the 21st inst., all well." Our Woodville carrespondent wires this muniing:—A heavy slip occurred on the Manawatu Gorge road yesterday afternoon immediately after the mail coach had passed. The road is now badly broken away, but traffic will be kept up by coaches from either side. The Fair was again a source of attraction to a considerable number of visitors last evening. The novelties included the menagerie and a new shooting gallery. Mrs Jarley's Waxworks, tbe Richardson Show, and the Zulu War Panorama wero all fairly attended. The Garrison Band gave their services during the evening. I

A Reuters London cable in tho Melbourne papers reads as follows:—"It is announced that the Most Rev. Richard Chevenix Trench, D.D., Archbishop _of Dublin, has resigned his see, owing to illhealth." The following is the form m which the same message reached and was published here :—" James French, one of the accused in the Dublin scandals, who was acquitted, has resigned the county inspectorship owing to ill-health."

At the meeting of the Harbor Board today it transpired"that tho following gentlemen had refused to act as returning officers under tho Harbor Bill: Messrs Kinross, Tanner, G. Rvmer, J. Bennett, J. Mac-ker-sey, J. N. Williams, and W. C. Smith. Messrs A. Dillon and E. Bibby consented to act.

J. D. Ormond, Esq., Captain Russell, and AY. C. Smith, Esq., M.H.R.'s are doing all they can to impress the Government with the importance of having a Naval Corps at this port, aud at the same time suggesting that the life boat should be placed in the hands of the men, the corps undertaking to train crews to man her when required.— [Communicated.]

Tho following is a list of the brigades who intend entering for the tire brigade demonstration, at Dunedin, received up to date:— Auckland, Grahamstown, Napier, Spit, Masterton, Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Christchurch City, Ch.istchurch Railway, Lyttelton, Ashburton, Timaru, Port Chalmers. Dunedin Cfty, South Dunedin, Roslyn, Hokitika, and Kumara.

A horse, the property of Mr AY. Stock, had a narrow escape of being killed at the Hastings railway crossing on the arrival of ;he 5.40 p.m. train yesterday. It appears Mr Stock had fastened tho horse in the yard of Messrs Knight Brothers, tho animal getting loose, and some of the fence being clown, the horse strayed on to the crossing just as the train was crossing the road.

The Hastings school seems to be tho most crowded one of the Board. Captain Russell drew attention to its wants to-day, and on the inspector saying lie was in the Clive school one day last week and found it also very crowded, but that did not convince Captain Russell as he said tho inspector would never be able to got. in to the Hastings school if he tried. Fifteen of the Board's schools are greatly overcrowded.

Tho Ashburton Mail sums up Mr Wakefield thus in an article, " The Solwyn Turncoat" :—AVithout a shred of political principle—everything by turns and nothing long —as a vindicative as treacherous, audacious in cool effrontery, and shameless in ingratitude, Mr Edward AVakcfield is consumed by an ambition impatient as unwaranted, and by a boundless egotism which swallows all else up.

At tho R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preeco, R.M., T. J. McManus was charged with stealing a pair of shoes. Accused said he hoped ho would be dealt with leniently, as he had been drinking heavily, and his intellect was not as clear as it should be. The police said he had been previously convicted. His AVorship sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment with hard labor.

Mr Allan McLean informs us that ho intends selling off all his racing stock, and that he has"coinmenccd by selling the two year old grey gelding by Musket,—Maid of Atholo ata satisfactory price ; this .olt is full brother to Krupp.—lntending purchasers would clo well to inspect the stock which Mr McLean has for sale, as his stud includes some of tho most fashionable blood in the colony.

A buargy driven by the Rev. TI. AY. St. Hill was roturningfrom Hastings yesterday afternoon, when the king bolt broke, and the horse started off at a gallop. Mr St. Hill pulled the horse to the side of the road, when the buggy capsized, throwing the occupants, Mrs St. Hill and servant, out. Fortunately none were hurt, but tho horse and buggy continued on to Havelock, where a number of persons succeeded in stopping it without much damage being done.

Last night's theatre audience wero in a, good humor, the intervals being tilled up noisily, if not agreeably, with tho singing of tho hymns of the Salvation Army. In fact, it "is high time in the interests of morality and decency, that tho marchings through the streets of the Army were put an end to by tho police, as it is evident from the travestic of their proceedings last night that they have done much to develop the larrikin tendencies of many of the Napier young people.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company are advised, under date London. October 24, that town killed foreign mutton was quoted at 3s 6d to 4s 2d, and New Zealand frozen mutton at 4s to 4s 4d per 81b, and that in consequence of the relative high prices ruling for colonial shipments, Dutch and German sheep killed at Deptford were actually being frozen in London for sale as frozen mutton, while in Liverpool English sheep wore wrapped in colonial cloths with the samo object in view.

Capital reports wero read from the Principals of the Normal Schools of the Hawke's Bay students at to-day's meeting of the Board. The males were highly spoken of, while Misses Corbyn, Palmer, and Brown, were written of in the highest terms of praise, not only as regards their industry and capabilities, but also their teaching powers. Each of the ladies' named ottered her services to the Board, and an opinion was expressed that they should bo recommended for employment to tho various committees when vacancies occurred.

During his interview with tho Christchurch Chamber of Commerce M. do Harven said there were one or two drawbacks to the suitability of this colony an a home for Belgians. One of those was beer. In Belgium the boar was very cheap—not such beer as was to be had here, but what a man could drink a dozen glasses of without feeling the worse. This beer cost a halfpenny or a penny a glass. The excise duty hero made the beer very expensive. Then there was another which he thought they would never get over, and that was their Sundays. In Belgium they were a very religious people ; they would not omit going to church, but they liked after church to enjoy their dance, their glass of beer, and enjoyment.

Friday's Examiner says :— On dit that a gentleman well known in Hawke's Bay, and who consider, himself a. prominent lender of the total abstinence party in Now Zealand, who was lately in Haloombo lecturing on Temperance, volunteered to a young lady the information that his house had. only 90 doors in it, that he had only 75,000 acres, one of his sons had only 50,000, and the other 40,000. However, he would not give a young man anything on behalf of the church he had been lecturing in, but he offered to send the young lady some of his photos for a bazaar, on condition that she did not sell them below their value. What that was he did not say. Here it would bo exceedingly low.

There was a large attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening to witness the first presentation of Mr. Wills' emotional drama of "Jane Shore," and we may say at once that the company scored a success, tho unanimous verdict of the play going people beiug that from every point of view the drama was a high class one well played. As '• Jane Shore" Mrs. Lewis was fitted with a part in every respect suitable to her. She is an emotional actress of the highest class, utterly free from staginess, with a good presence, utterly ignoring meretricious aids, and never once remembering the audience in her delineations, being entirely absorbed in her part. In the second act, where she appealed to her husband asking forgiveness and desiring to see her child, and in the great snow scene, both very pathetic parts, she was seen at her best, but her excellence throughout was so great that it is needless to refer to particular places. In the last scene of all, where she obtains the forgiveness of her husband and lias her child restored to her, she carried the .sympathies of the audience with her, and flic curtain descended amid a storm of applause, only to bo raised again to satisfy the clamor of those present. Mrs. Lewis was called before the curtain at the conclusion of four of the acts to bow her acknowledgments. As the Duke of Glo'ster, Mr. Douglas was not satisfactory, while Mr. Haygarth was a very milk-and-water Lord Cootes. Mr. Forbes as John Grist and Mr. St. Lawrence as Henry Shore wero effecting representatives of their parts, which wero of course favorites with those present. Mr. Douglas had the compliment paid him of being called before the curtain to be hissed. Tho drama satisfies : poetic justice though it departs considerably from tho historical character as Jane Shore, but U probably all the more satisfactory to those who witness it on that account. There were two good scenes, the interior of St. Paul's, and tho great snow scene. '' Who's to win him ?' ■ an amusing

farce, served to bring a capital entertainment to a close, The drama will be repeated this evening, when we hope to see a large attendance, as the play is one of the best produced in Napier for many years.

T. _R. Proctor, oculist's optician, opposite Parker, -• Blacksmith, Hastings-street, has determined to prolong his stay for one week longer, owing- to tho pressure of business. All those wishing aid with weak sight should not lose this opportunity.— [advt.]

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It has been years since the world first heard of AVolfe's Sciinatps, and to-diy itvirtues are as fresh and its fame as unclouded as when it first flashed into public notice. —[advt.]

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