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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6741, 25 April 1893, Page 2

I An article entitled, " A Schoolmaster's Petition—The Wife Defends Herself" will be found on our back page to-day. There was no police business at Court to-day. Mr and Mra J. Hunter Browu have booked parsago for Napier from Ismailia by the P. and O. s s. Australia, whioh left London on March 30 th. Miss Lowry and Miss A B. Lowry are passengers for Napier by the same steamer. Tha man Arthur Desmond, who has got into trouble in Sydney, for writing " Going buug !" on a Government proclamation, is tho person who unsuccessfully contested the Hawke's Bay seat some time ago against Captain Russell. A Maori of this district, the eldest son ef a chieftain, gave a wrong name to a local firm when getting goods off them some time ago. They subsequently found it necetsary to summons him, when he said hia name was something else. The name on the summons was changed at Court to-day, but meanwhile the native has gone to Opotiki. The Frecch. Government have elevated their vice-eon.ulate in New Zealand to a conwulato. Dr. Lcsiilot do Bachoue has--b«»n appointed conßul. '<

The Athena-urn Hall was well filled last right, when the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society waa held, the Bi-hop of Waiapu occnpying the ch_c Canoa F._, the clerical secretary, read tho report and balance-sheet, which wero ■idopted. It was shown that finca tho Rev

Mr Robjohcs' la.t visit a free contribution of £10 had been pent to tho Bible Society in London, «u_ a further mm of £10 f r r_bles. Tbe sum of _:_ 2a o.ha- bo ti

.-'.looted by the la'iies during tbe year. >'■ j c .ifiht increase on last year's total. _egret was expressed at the death of Mr Pa-lev, who with tho late Ko.. ,7. Parkinson, fir . some time carried on almost tbe entire work of tho Napier branch of tho Society. The balance-sheet showed a .edit balance of £77 16a sd. The Rev. Mr Bob Johns gavo an intere.tingadilress, in the Bourse of which he stated that the output of the society I__ year was four million copies of the Bible, wliilo nine !arg_a,.ea bad been added b> their former total of 295. Fo; tha first time for several years th e y had been able to .how a clean balance-sheet. In hi. addre_ on "Three National Types aid the Bible .ocioty" (tbe three type? being Germany Spain, and China) ho succeeded in keeping the close attention of bia audience tilt the fiai.h. Office-bearers for the year were nlenteil as follows :—President, Bi-_o_ of v7ni_pu; tteasuror, Mr J. W. Ne_l ; clerical seoretary, Canon Fox ; lay secretary. Mr Q-. Kelly, jun. ; committee, tbe clergy of all denominations ex. officio, and Measrn W. J. Willoocks, F. W. Williams, J. S. Welsman, F. H. Townshen., J. W. Craig, and J. H. Dean. A collection taken v.p realisod £5 12s 2d. The meeting closed with the Doxology and Benediction. Miss Chegwidden presided at the harmonium. Judgment went for plaintiffs in the following civil cases at Court to-day, Mr Turnbuil. R M., presiding :—Hawke's Bay County Council v P. Hansen, claim 13s Bd, with costs 14s. J. H. Balton v. G. Cook, £5 ss, oosts 10s, solicitor _ fee _1 Is (Mr Dinwiddie fot plaintiff). K. W. Knowles v. H. B. Hill, £1 7« 6d, costs £1 Oa (Mr Dinwiddie for plaintiff). *• idey and Lockie v. John Raurau, £22 9s 6d, oosts £1 lis. Blackwell v. Park Smith, £4 14s, coats Gs. Newton and Co. v. Hapuku, £22 3s 6i, on a judgment summons; to be paid in two months (Mr Rhodes for plaintiff).

The following teams have been selected for the Pakeha-Ma _i match to be played on tho Recreation Ground on Saturday next : — Maoris : Full-back, Bunny; three-quarters, James, Awhi, and M'Donnell; half-back, Nikora, Smilor, and Tuhitare; forwards, More;in, Hiroa, Matiu, Katene, Jew, H. KireU'-, Pomare, and Adam ; emergencies, Kuao, Friday, Tutere, and J. Browne Pakehas:—Full-back. J. O'Connell; threequarters, Wei. man, Laws, and ' Prentice ; halves, Rees, Donnelly, and J. O'Connell; forwards, Malcon, Eliott, Swan, Howard, Cattanacb, Ryan, M'Dowell, Howe; emergency forwards, Fleming, F. Williams, Barnett, and Whyto; emergency backs: three-quarters, Bowes; half, Jago. The game will start at a quarter to 3 o'clock sharp, so as to allow the native team time to oatch the train.

The Union Rowing Olub, with a view to raising funds, intend holding a series of dances during the winter months. A strong committee has been formed; the dances will take place fortnightly, the first of which will be held on Thursday, May 4th.

Mr J. M. Carroll, of Pungarohu, writes to the Taranaki News complaining of the treatment he received from tho Public Trustee. Be states that be is a working man, and about a year ago he agreed with the nativo owner of a section at X'ungarehu to occupy it. He has been on tho section, containing 25 acres, about a year. He has built a house, cultivated the land, and on Saturday he received one week's notice to quit from the Public Trustee. Mr Carroll states that tho native owner is still willing to allow him to occupy the land, but he cauuot do anything on account of tbe action of the Public Trustee. Ho says that all his money and time hay- been expended on the section, and it will bo a tyrannous action to make him leave at such short notice. A physical derelict in the person of John William Bible, who has been locked up and medicinally treated before for alcoholism, had to be again incarcerated to-day. Ho is in a very bad way indeed. It is a wonder publicans supply people of this character, who really do nothing else but endeavor to drink themselves to death.

A telegram from L)nnedin says :—A boy named William Meek, tbe son of a settler at Catlins, was hurt in the groin while playing, and died from lockjaw, which supervened —Annie Cameron, wife of a shepherd at fcFalf Bush, and mother of five children, is missing since Saturday morning. She had been low-spirited of late. An erstwhile Napier resident, F. Watkinson, clerk, who filed at Wellington the other day, has five creditors in Napier. Hia debts amount to £150, and he has no assets. He left a good situation in Napier in 1886, according to his statement, to enter business on his own account, but was not so successful as he anticipated, aud in 1889 he became lessee of tho Northcote Hotel, Auckland, which, however, was burned down iv less than a fortnight. DuriDg the ensuing three years he endeavored to earn a living in various ways, and not long ago he entered the service of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co , his present employers. He was obliged to file, but he would gladly pay his creditors in full if he could over do so. Upwards of seven thousand seamen have signed petitions at twenty-seven seaports, under the agency of The Missions to Seamen, to tbe President of the Board of Trade, relative to the monthly payment to crews absent on long voyages, of half-wages either to themselves, to savings banks, or to their relatives, as contemplated by the Merchant Seamen's Wages Act, 1880. As it is, large numbers of merchant sailors receive, on paying off after long voyages, sums of £15 to £30, or £60, or oven more money in one payment, which has been accumulating in the hands of their eiaployers.