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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3006, 12 February 1881, Page 2

Mr H. Fletcher's hotel at Kaikora has been leased to Mr Scrimigour, late of Tahoraite.

Swagsmen are numerous at present all over the distriot, from six to a dozen visiting the different stations each day on the look out for work.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning JohnMcMannus was charged with drunkenness, and fined 5s and costs or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labor.

The sculling match between Hanlan and Laycock takes place on the Thames on Monday next. The betting is considerably in favor of Hanlan, 3 to 1 being offered freely.

We remind the ratepayers of Napier that the election of three members of the Harbor Board takes place on Monday. There does not appear to be muoh interest manifested in this election.

The Waipawa County Council is repairing the Waipukurau-Wallingford road at Newman's Hill, and travellers are cautioned to be careful at that point during the progress of the works.

The old horse Danebury, who has been at tha stud for some seasons past, was brought out at the Wairarapa races, and yesterday won the big event of the meeting in a time that even astonished hia old admirers.

Thera are 353 registered medical practitioners in New Zealand, and the population of the colony, being in round numbers 600,000, including natives, there is one doctor to about every 1400 persons. No wonder the death rate is so low.

The following eleven have been chosen to represent Petane in the match with the Wairoa on M onday next:—Messrs R. Brathwaite, Hamilton, H. Hill. C Villers, T. Villers, Davies, Richardson, McKinnon, Mullany, and Davidson. EmergencyTyson and H. Brathwaite.

A fire occurred this morning at Onga Onga, which destroyed some machinery, the property of Mr H- H. Bridge, and five stacks of wheat belonging to_ Colonel Herrick. The machinery was insured in the North British for £200, and the wheat, whioh was valued at £200, was insured for £70 in the National.

There are thirty-five men of the _" unemployed" working on the formation of the railway line beyond Makatoko at 4s a day. To show that these men were really deserving of the work supplied by tbe Government, we may metion that many of them last year were earning 8s and 9s a day as navvies under contractors.

The number of strange faces in the town this morning was very noticeable, the influx of visitors being due to the early arrival of steamers from North and South. Tbe loss to the town is incalucnlable through steamers being unable to run alongside a wharf, as may be judged any fine calm day by numbers of passengers availing themselves of the opportunity to come ashore by the launch.

Mr Moore, representative of the firm of Messrs Shand and Mason, the celebrated fire-engine makers, was a through passenger to-day by the Rotomahana. Mr Moore has been travelling through New Zealand " takinjr stock" of the engines supplied by his firm to the various Eire Brigades in this cobny. He visited the Napier engine station in the course of the morning, and appeared well satisfied with the manner in which the engine and appliances had been kept in order.

The Mount Erin estate has again changed hands, as will be seen by Mr M. R. Miller's report in our commersial column. This property has been greatly improved and added to since Mr Forater bought it from Mr Munn's excutors for some £1700. Mr Forster, after holding it for many years, sold out to Mr Harding for about £13,000, who again disposed of it to Mr Tanner for £15,000. Mr Tanner bought a good deal of adjoining land of first-class quality, adding to the estate something like £23,000 in value. Mr Waterhouse has now bought it for, it ia rumored, about £70,000.

Prom Clive we learn that among the many improvements that are going forward none is more noticeable than the alterations, additions, and improvements that have been carried out at the Edinburgh brewery, now the property of Messrs Gibbons and Kuhtze. The whole of the interior has been newly fitted up with all the most modern appliances for carrying on a brewery in all its various branches. They have a considerable quantity of splendid barley on hand, which will immediately be turned into malt, and used by them in carrying on their trade operations ; and it has been determined between themselves and Mr Ruddick, of the West Clive Hotel, to celebrate the re-opening of the brewery and the opening of the new portion of the hotel, which is fast drawing towards completion, with a ball and supper, due notice of whioh will be given publicity to through our advertising oolumns.

Mr Harry Edser, late of this town, ia thus spoken of by the Christchurch Telegraph of January 3rd:—"From the play of Mr Edser, on Saturday in the match M.C.C. v. Post and Telegraph Offices, for the latter, it would appear that this gentleman will be a great acquisition to the ranks of our cricketers. He carried his bat right through the first innings for 75, not out* against the bowling of Grace, Atack, and O'Callaghan, and took seven wickets in the cne innings of the M.C.C, and made one catch."

The London Economist says hundreds of sheep, if not millions, have died of the plague in England, and the Russian, Turkish, and Afghanistan wars, as well as those of Turkey, Syria, Persia, and tho Tridan country, havacaused tens of millions of sheep to be killed. In fact, woolgrowing in Turkey, Hussia, Persia, and India has been almost given up on account of the wars and the low prices current for the past five years.

A wager was laid recently by a junior member of the Household Brigade that he would undertake lo walk from London to Brighton in twelve consecutive hours, the distance —to be measured from Hatchett's, Piccadilly, to the Aquarium, Brighton— about fifty-four miles. He performed the walk easily in nine hours and a-half, having two hour* and a half to spare. The wager waa for £500. and the start was made at 5 a.m. The Aquarium was reaohed at 2.30 p.m.

More than orce lately (says the Times) it has beon asserted that Russia has commenced to import grain. Now it would seem that she is also beginning to import wool, hitherto one of her staple products of export, for a vessel, the Alba, has arrived here from Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, with 915 bales of that article addressed to a merchant at Moscow. It is to be sent to that city by rail, via Kharkoff, at which latter place it will be washed. The same merchant expects to receive shortly from the Tape 1500 more bales, and it may be mentioned that this is not only first importation of the kind into South Russia at least, but the first time in the annals of this port that a vessel of any kind has ever been chartered to it from our South African colony.

The following somewhat amusing telegram re the Wesleyan Conference held at Nelson appears in the Auckland Star of January 24 : —"There were four candidates for ordination—Messrs Griffin, Lawry, Feet, and Neilson—who were put through a severe examination. All were accepted. Some had to be pulled through by friends at court. The examination papers were terribly defeotive. Sympathy won them their position. It is reported one of the candidates sported flowers and white vest at examinaation. A new batch of Nelson ladies daily preside at the conference dinners, and are very fascinating. It is reported that an eldery preacher is going to be comforted by marrying. It is thought that she is rich. The Rev. Fee and Miss Ellis late of Auokland, are going to bs married. Bsiness generaly is dull. Land and city property hard to sell."

The Bruce Standard is responsible for this yarn :—" A short time ago the wife of one of our townsmen took into her employ an amiable (and, hy 4he way, good-looking) servant. The young lady did the work wished by her mistress in a most satisfactory manner, and as a mark of appreciation waa presented with a dress very similar to one often worn by the donor. The other day Mr had occasion to come home earlier than usual, and just as he entered the door of his house he noticed (as he thought) the esteemed partner of his life busily engaged preparing something for the forthcoming meal. Her back was turned towards him, and he gently creeped up, reached over her shoulder unnoticed, and implanted suoh a loving kis son her beautiful cheek. Mrs has heard all about it, and says she will have the dress changed for a different pattern."

Some time since, as will be remembered, gold to the value of £5000 waa not to be found on board the Union Steamship Company's s.s. Tararua upon her arrival at Melbourne to which port it was consigned from New Zealand. The robbery, for such it appears to have been, was a most mysterious one, and although every supposed quarter has been tried by deteotives since its committal, its mysteriousness has not diminished, and appears as impossible of solution as ever. The Union Company are (says the Christchurch Press) to be sympathised with in the loss the occurrence must have necessarily entailed upon them, and as they have found it expedient to pay off the whole crew of the vessel, from Captain, Muir downwards, it is due to whoever are consciously innocent, whether officers or men—and accepting by implication they are"all innocent—that they bo regarded by the public as also heavy losers by the unfortunate event. The orew of the steamer Rotorua, it is said, will be transferred to the Tararua on the arrival of the steamer at Port Chalmers, and the Rotorua is to be laid up for a short time.

The following extract from Cassell'a Illustrated History of India, by Mr James Grant, now being published as a monthly, is (says the Times of India) an amusing instance of the way history is written :—• "On a hill in the island of Bombay (called by the Europeans Malabar Hill) stand, all within a short distance of each other, the churchyard of the Christians, the cemetery of tbe Mussulmans, the place where the Hindoos cremate their dead, and the Tower of Silence, where the Parsees leave theirs uncoffined, to be devoured by the birds of the air. It is a lofty square enclosure, without roof or covering of any kind. Huge bloated vultures and kites, gorged with human flesh, throng lazily the summit of the lofty wall surrounding the stone pavement, which is divided into three compartments, wherein the corpses of men, of women, and of children are laid apart, and all nude as they came into the world. Some relative or friend anxiously watches, at a short distance, to ascertain which eye is first plucked out by the birds, and from thence it is inferred whether the soul of the departed is happy or miserable. The Parsees regard with horror the Hindoo method of disposing of the dead, by throwing the bodies or ashes into rivers; yet their own custom is even more repugnant to the feelings of the Europeans in India." This, according to the Times of India, is totally without foundation.

An exceptional woman received a wellwon appointment lately in New York, when Miss Annie E. 'Wilson was made inspectress of the New York Custom House. Born in the Bay of Bengal, and reared on shipboard, she married a Boston captain when, fourteen years of age. For seven years this child of the ocean continued to Bail the seas by her husband's side without accident; but in 1872 their vessel was struck by a storm on the banks of Newfoundland. The captain, her husband, had his should-blade broken by the fall of a mast, and the first mate and part of the crew were also disabled. The second mate gave way to panic. No sooner, however, had the captain been carried down, lashed on a door, to the cabin, than his wife, then a woman of one-and-twenty, hurried on deck. " Boys," she said, " our lives are in danger. Let us stick together, and all of us work with a will. I will take my husband's place, and take you to B°™o port." They set to work, cleared off the wreckage, manned the pumps, and succeeded in weathering the gale. After it subsided, they rigged up a jury mast, put the ship before the wind, and went to St. Thomas, which they reached in twentyone days. After repairs, the indomitable woman, finding her husband was still helpless, navigated the ship to Liverpool, making the voyage without accident in thirty days. Her husband was never able to resume work, and for seven years sho kept him and her child by working as a clerk in a dry goods store. Eight months ago her husband died. And recently Secretary Sherman appointed Mrs Wilson, who is not yet thirty, to an inspectorship of the New York Custom-house,

At the Cincinnati Exposition the other day a prize was offered for the prettiest dinner table, and it was given to a man who spread a round table about Bft in diameter for a dozen guests. The centre decoration was a round pot of fern leaves With stalks of lily of the valley in the .centre; radiating from the ferns were star Frays of pink laid on green, and between them \vere a trefoil, a horse-shoe, a pipe, atid a slipper in flowers. The button hole bouquets were of rose-buds and lilies of the valley, and the ladies'bouquets wore of the flame flowers. The table was covered with satin damask, and the gloss, china, and silver upon it worth 2000dols. The bill of fare was on tinted silk, painted with wild flowers and landscape panels. A French milliner is celebrated for the artful way in which *he fastens a false fringe into a bonnet or hat, in order that ladies may esoape cutting the hair over their foreheads. She suits it to the style of headgear, whatever it may be. Sometimes the little ourls are like those in the portrait of Ninon de l'Euolos, and apparently owe their symmetry to bandoline or cosmetique. Occasionally tho hair falls straight and uncurled, like a child's. Perhaps this is worn with a baby bonnet* Others are arranged to resemble a small furze bush, or a section of a hay stack. This style is considered suitable to very large hats, which are arranged upon the head at suoh an angle that the brim on one side points to tho zenith, and at the other to the nadir. Election of three members of Harbor Boa. 'on Monday from 9a m. to 6 p.m. Messrs Miller and Potts will sell at Kaikc the 22nd furniture, draught horse, <*■'..' Th '■' la'oliday Association advertise Wednesday next a half-holiday. At the request of burgesses the Mayor has proclaimed Wednesday and Thursday next half-holidays. Mr A. McDonald has signified his acceptance of the trusteeship in the estato of Mr Peter Hansen, a debtor. The Boojum will steam for the Wairoa on Tuesday, the sth, at 9 a.m. dividend is payable to the shareholders ;'•. >he New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ' ,#!-f-*ny, at their offices in Hastings-street, i after this date. . _ Accounts due to Messrs Cornish and /. must be paid on or before the 19th tant. A dramatic performance in honor of the visit of the Australian cricketers will be given in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening next. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column. DIVrNE SERVICES TO-MORROW. The Rev. J. W. Worboys will conduct Divine service at Makatoka at 11 a.m., at Norse wood at 3 p.m., and at Ormondville at 7 p.m. The Rev. W. Nichol will conduct Divine service at Havelock at 11 a.m., and at Clive at 3.30 p m. The Rev. J. J. Mather will preach at Hastings in the morning, and at Clive in the evening. The Rev. L\ Sidey will preaoh at Petane at 3 p.m. The Rev. J. C. Eocles will conduct Divine service at Waipawa at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The Rev. R. Fraser will preach at Waipukurau at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and at Camamu at 3 p.m.

The Rev. W. Robb will conduct Divine lervice at Patangata at 11 a.m., at Kaikora at 3 p.m., and at Waipawa at 7 p.m. The Rev. E. Barnett will preach at Waipawa at 7 p.m.

The Rev. G. Sasa will conduot Divine service in the Scandinavian language at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and in the German language at 2 p.m.