Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1887.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11629, 2 November 1887, Page 2

Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1887.

The fifth competition for Lion tenant IFoster'a cup took plaoe yesterday morning. The followingiwere the ten highest scorers : — Pawaon 51, -Remington 49, Laird 49, Hcoker 48, Oomcie 48, James 48, Armstrong 47, Parkinson 44, T. Garner 42, S. Garner 41. The report of yesterday's sitting of the Educationißoa r d is crushed ont. There* port of fchft. monthly meeting of the Wanganni County Council shares ths same fate. . The laupo Quay property, formerly in the occupation of Messrs Taylor and Watt, was Bold by aiaotion yesterday afternoon by Mr Albert Barns, and was bought in by the mortgagees for'£Booo. A Tecy fulltand ..tfuceessful practice of "lolanthe" was held at the Princess Theatre lajtinighjs,.? ; . ?. - A meeting of the United .Hospital and Charitable Aid Board! will be held to-day. At the Police Court yesterday morning Joseph W, Jones .was charged, on the information of Edward Kaspezek, with indecent assault on a girl, Mary Kaapezek, on the 11th October. On the application of the Police the case: was remanded till Friday, bail bring al'owed in accused's own recognizance of £200 and two sureties of £100 each. Isabella Fookes, charged with drunkenness, was remanded for a week. Fire children of the -woman IFookes were charged with having no Hwang of subsistence, and the cue was adjourned till Friday next. After thoidelifory of the Financial Statement last night, the* Hon. Major Atkinson, ml reply. ' to - Sir Juliue ' Yogel, stated that the (JdT*mment would be prepared to take the debit© on the Statement on Friday. .^;a'--A telegram has been received from Sydney stating that; at ; the" half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Walw, a dividend of 16 per cent., with a 2£ per cent, bonus, was declared, and £12,000 carried to the reserve fund, making the latter £900,000, The local telegraph offioials had a very heavy nightjlastnieht, amongst their labours being the -taranaroisßion. of the Financial Statement,jiwhiqh contains 12,324 words, and was sent on three wires, being commenced shortly before 8 o'clock, and finished a few minutes after IK . We have to thank Mwsrs Bunfcng, Bapley, and Potter, the receiver?, for the speedy and correct manner in which it was transmitted to us. Some curious and terrible effects of lightning are repotted from Mende, in France. During ; a . thunderstorm in that locality the room of Madame Gaillard was suddenly illuminate 1 with flashes of fire. The woman and her three children, frightened out of their wit*, ran for safety to the chimney earner, when a single sharp oi»p of thunder was heard over the house, and the chimney was struck by lightning. The mother and the three children were knocked down insensible.* One of them, a boy of four, was killed instantaneously, and a little girl was Whirled into the centre of the worn and had her eyes completely burned out. •-....' Mt Loudin, of tb!e SUk Jubilee Minstrels, in giving aujpeeount to a Melbourne paper of his New Zealand aaya : — But it wbb amongst the- Maories the Jubilee Singers found their mpst joyful greeting. The natives of New Zealand followed the B : ngers about wherever. -ttiey weht^ "It was a little awkward at times,.;,! must tell . 3 ou, for when I met a Maori in the street 1 wm compelkd to rub noses Mth him; and that is a forjri'cf Balutntion to which 1 am not accustomed. Bat I was delighted with the effect of our music. . I could see. that i my theory ww'eo'nfirmed that missionaries i to the hat. then could make more progress if they made moreVse of music and singing. '} he hearts of Ihe people were touched. They cama again ani again; and when we nsfeed them the reason, they indicated that they recognised a kinship. 1 ' Said a Maori, " How many 'ia your tribe ? " •' Ssven miliioaß in our tribe," I answered, and as they looked incredulous I explained that we were all one tribe in' America. They but imperfectly understood this, but they were quite alear that Maoris were " all saline," pointing to our faces. We were preeenfc at a war dance in Uew Zealand, and were mucli interested in the proaeedings, 1 bad many interesting conversations wiih thn Maoris about the live 3 and hopes oi .-olouied people. I spoke to them ia the m st forcible language at my command of tb - terrible dangers of the " firewater." I lo .yd they lme a horror of the iwful <ff ( to t intemperance. They have tern. ),cn cc (oniei amongst then?- I wish v. cosocutiea all auecess, and I long for tUd>ywhen ? ll>vbie men will f O ,i a t f 1,.-.,. Tbeselhng of grog to native races in ri'.her on the increase than the decrease l uin afraid. When I any that, I do not particularly refer to New Zealand, but coloured people in otfje lmd*— -in Africa. With th* spread of education amonasfc us I am not afraid for the future, but" I am sorry to notice by recent letters from America, that in one of the Sfatea . (Georgia) the Legislature has decided to im:ose heavy penaHics against mixed education — against cdttcatinor the white and tbe coloured chltrin io. eth r. That, X think is a stepbickwarde. '

The civil case, Grant v. Tbe Inhabitants of the Manawatu Road District, was con* eluded about 10 o'clook last night, the jury returning a verdict for plaintiff for £309 7s. The aged statesmen of our epoch seem to be endowed with preternatural activity. A few months ago, juefc before his accession to ofEoe, Signor Gi'iepi, who fills the three offices of President of the Council, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spent a whole day at Palermo in mastering the details of a complicated case in which he was engaged, crois»d over to N ft plea at night, appeared next day as an advocate in court, went on to Borne ac soon as it was finished, whf re he delivered an important speech in the Assembly, and travailed all night to Venice, in order to preside over a Board of Arbitration in con* nection with a maritime dispute. And Sigoor Criupi is now 70 years of ag«. A proclamation from Qeeenßland notifies that stock (pig excepted) is now admitted into that country from places outaiie of the Amtralasian colonies. To Dressmakers—Wanted— A thoroughly competent skirt hand. Must possess taite in drapery. Apply sharp to Mrs Bennetts, Nioholls and Boundy's.