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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3009, 16 February 1881, Page 2

Some cases of scarlet fever are reported at Waipawa. The malady so far is confined to children.

The members of Court Sir Charles Napier, 5502, A.0.F., will celebrate the anniversary of their Court to-night at a dinner to be held at the Caledonian Hotel.

The cricket match, Wairoa v. Napier, was played at Petane yesterday, and was won by tbe former by one run. The scores were _Wairoa, 29, and 61; Napier 35 and 54.

The Chairman of the Waipawa County Council has accepted the following tenders : —"For metalling on Patangata flats, E. White; Bowry's road, Woodville, Wilson and Giles.

The performance given by the Hawk 's Bay Comedy Company last night at Waipukurau for the benefit of the local oricket pavilion fund was fairly well patronised, the proceeds clear of all expenses, being about £7.

The case Watene Hapuku v. Cannon, in which both plaintiff and defendant claimed the same horse, was concluded yesterday afternoon at the Beßident Magistrate's Court. His Worship, in giving judgment, said he wan quite convinced that the weight of evidence was for the plaintiff, for whom judgment would be given for £8, with costs and counsel's fee.

At the last meeting of the Municipal Works Committee, Cr. M'Dougall suggested that the engineer be instructed to prepare plans for the water supply extension. All the members thoroughly agreed in the necessity for extending the supply to all parts of the hills, and in order to give the matter every consideration it was unanimously resolved that Cr. M'Dongall -hould give notioe of motion on the subject in open Council. There is not a word of truth in the report set afloat that Cr. M'Dougall was defeated in committee.

The Australian cricketers arrived last night overland from Wanganui, and were met at the railway station by a good few representatives of tho local clubs, who loudly cheered our visitors as they drove off in a four in hand coach to the Criterion Hotel. We are sorry to say they have brought bad woather with them, for the rain will prevent many from watching the match at Hastings, which began to-day at 2.30 p.m. There being no telegraph connection with the ground we are unable to give a report of the game.

A meeting of the VVaipawa County Council was called for Monday last for the purpose of electing two members to represent tr-i. Council on tho Napier Harbour Board. There being no quorum present at the appointed time the reeling lapsed. Wo understand that the Clerk of the Council, acting under instructions, has written to the Colonial Secretary asking him to recommend that His Excellency the Governor re-appoint J. D. Ormond, M.H.R., and Charles Lambert, to represent the Council on tho Harbour Board.

The fruit growers at Wairoa complain tnat, though perfectly able and willing to supply the town and neighborhood of Napier withffruitt t and for that matter with vegetables, they can get no remunerative market here, 'i hey have tried Beason after season, but as a rule their fruit only fetches at auction about 2d per lb, which, being bought by dealers, is subsequently sold retail at from 6d to 9d. Twopence per lb will not cover the cost of sending fruit from Wairoa to Napier, so the producer and the consumer suffer, and the middle man makes the profit.

i) n appeal is made in our correspondence columns on behalf of the poor dogs, who must have suffered greatly during the hot dry weather. The suggestion is a good one, that at each stand-pipe there should be a small concrete tank at which dogs can get a drink. We are not quite certain whether our memory serves us rightly, but we are under the impression that the last time on which Mr Colenso offered himself as a candidate for the representation of Napier in the General Assembly he promised to present the town with a drinking fountain whether successful or not at the election. 'I he stand-pipes obviate the necessity for a fountain, but tho poor brute creation have not been provided for.

Mr G. E. Sainsbury's poultry-houses and yards were broken into last night by a pack of dogs, which killed and injured some of the most valuable birds in the town. It is an infamous shame that people should be liable to severe losses through the carelessness of neighbors whose dogs are permitted to run ac large at night. If a valuable dog gets occasionally poisoned a great fuss is made over the matter, but when mischievous curs are allowed to go poultry worrying at night the wonder is that canines in town are not destroyed wholesale, irrespective of value. Mr Sainsbury has lost five prize birds, and has hardly a bird left which has not been injured. His lawn this morning was covered with feaihers, and his fowls were scattered all over the neighborhood.

We are informed that the recommendation of the Public Works Committee at its last meeting, in reference to Tennyson and Emerson-etreets and tlie low-pressure water supply, was passed at the instigation of the Municipal Engineer. The high-pressure will be on in those streets when there is a publio pe r formanca at the Theatre, and every night for an hour or two. For household purposes the low pressure water is fairly wholesome, which is more than can be said for the liquid that comes from the reservoir. It may cost a little morG to keep the steam pump pretty constantly goinvr, but it seems to us that it would be cheaper in '„_,_ long run to public health if the reservoir water waH not so much treasured up as at present. If both the in and outflow were increased tbe water would be infinitely fresher, while the store need not be necessarily diminished.

The trial of the suit of the British Postoffice against the Edison Telephone Com-

pany, just decided in favor of the former, was one of the most singular and interesting ever heard in a Court of Justice. The Court-room was transformed into a laboratory, and the learned arguments of counsel were illustrated with batteries and models, and the list refinement of electrical science. Tha Crown lawyers contended that the telephone lines for business were an infringement of the Government monopoly in the transmission of telegraphic messages; to which i;he defendant's counsel replied that with the telephone nothing passed between the two extremes but the human voice. Had the post-office sunh a monopoly that it could prevent two of Her Majesty's subjects from talking together ? The Crown answered with other subtle and refined dissertations on the nature of sound, and the elements required in communication by electric signals. The decision, as stated, was for the Crown, and the Post,office is already arranging for the control and administration of the telephonic service ot the realm. Though great men have often enjoyed frolics with children, it is, nevertheless, hard to imagine the Earl of Chatham at full length on the floor, playing marbles with his boy, and complaining 1 that the rogue had cheated him. And it is equally hard to think of Lord Macaulay, just before one of his eloquent speeches in Parliament, racing like mad up and down the staircase of his sister's house, with a troop of wild nephews and neices in hot chase. But it is

harder than all to think of Nanoleon, who

had no great love of children, captivated by a little English girl, and indulging in madcap frolics. When he was banished to St. Helena, the bouse designed for him was

in readiness, and he took quarters with an English family at the "Briars." A little daughter of the family, named Elizabeth, had no fear of the great Fmperor, and they had famous romps together. One of Napoleon's attendants was horrified, one day, at finding the emperor on his knees, in a corner, whither Elizabeth had driven him, having first snatched his sword, aud flourishing it vigorously -with threats of killing him. She compelled him to fall on his knees and bee - for mercy, and the attendant surprised him in his attitude.

Loid Dufferin has published a letter in which he strongly condemns " The Three F's" system, —fair rent?, free sales, and fixity of tenure—point'ng out that the sale of tenants' interests has a tendency to saddle the holdings perpetually with double rent, and he says tha system, if granted, would

< nly further encourage a new set of agitators to endeavor to dispossess the landlords of the remaining vestiges of their rights. Lord Dufferin favors a system copied from that adopted at the enfranchisement of Russian serfs, namely—the buying up of a large portion of the land in Ireland, and the conversion of rents into land charges, payable to the State. For the chronically poverty-stricken districts of ihe West, he recommends a great system of State aided emigration to Manitoba, and the northwest of Canada, to be worked with the cooperation of the Dominion Government. He points out that as the Catholic church is supreme in these parts, the clere-y of Ireland will not oppose emigration thither as they do to the United States. The Times remarks (hat Lord Dufferin's suggestions, althr>T-frh interesting, do not forecast the Lard Bill, as tho Government will not make grants from the exchequer, or pledge the credit of the country.

The New York World's London special says:—" I have the very best authority for saying that the stories which have been persistently published in one or another society journals for months past, as to a serious personal disagreement between the Queen and Princess Louise, have absolutely no foundation in fact. They aro the more scandalous from the fact that in connection with them an imprepsion has been sought to bo generated that the Queen has wished Princess Louise to return to Canada, and that the Princess has refused to do this. The truth is that tbe Queen has extended her maternal auihurity to prevent the Princess from returning to Canada on the specific declaration of Sir Wm. Jcnner that the health of the Princess has been so severely shattered by the consequences of the serious accident which last year occurred to her at Ottawa as to make it a question of life or death, whether she should pass the winter quietly here under medical treatment, or venture on an Atlantic voyage and a Canadian winter. She is still under the care of Sir Wm Jenner, and her condition is still too precarious to make it possible for her advisers to fix any time at which it will be prudent for her to set out upon a transatlantic trip.

Sara Bernhardt has paid a visit to Edison, and has expressed her royal approval of the mnn who has given the world so much. The interview muofc have been affecting if not embarrassing, for Sara, with the frank cordiality of her profession, squeezed the great inventor's hand, and exclaimed rapturously, " Yes ; he is a great man, and his h<-ad is beautiful. 1 ' This compliment was followed by others more touching to the scientist, as she enlarged at length upon his various inventions, displaying an extraordinary knowledge of the details of all. As to the greatest, the electric light, she expressed her conviction that it was especially adapted for theatrical illumination. Its brilliancy and its power in showing up natural colour would render it unnecessary for actors to plaster themselves over with chalk and rouge; hence it would be easier for the spectator to follow closely the emotions depicted upon an actor's face. Sara then honoured the phonograph by reciting through it several long passages from her more favorite plays, and it is said that the instrument reproduced with marvellous precision all the tones and inflections of her vary telling voice/Last of all, she prophesied that Kdißon would certainly succeed in solving the great question of domestio lighting by eleotricity. In street lighting vast progress has no doubt been made already, and recent advices from New York report that it has at length been largely adopted in that city. Broadway is also illuminated, and so also Menlo Park. The lamps used are of yellow glass, which succeed in relieving the eyes from the intense trlare, and diffuse everywhere a wonderfully steady mellow light.

There is a right way and a wrong way, a hard way and an easy way, an awkward way and a skilled way to catch and handle sheep (says Dover's Prices Current). A great many men will catch the sheep by the wool on the back with both hands, and lift the animal clean from the ground by the wool only. Barbarous! Let some great giant grasp you by the hair of your head, and lift you from the ground by the hair only ! would you not struggle and squirm worse than the mute sheep does when lifted by the wool ? And would there':not be a complaint of a sore head for 'Ja week or two? If you do not believe it,jiry the experiment. We have great many sheep in years past, andywien removing the pelts of suoh sheep as had been handled by the wool we never failed to observe that beneath the skin, wherever the animal had been caught by the wool, blood had settled. In many instances the skin htid been separated from the so that inflammation had became apparent. We have known proprietors of sheep to be 80 ' strict in regard to handling them that they would order a helper from the premises if he were to catoh a Bheep by the wool on any part of the body. Some owners of Rheep direct their helpers thus—< " When about to catch a sheep, move oarefullv toward the one to be taken, until you are sufficiently near to spring quiokly and seize the beast by the neck with both hands; then pass one hand around the body, grasp the brisket, and lift the sheep clean from the ground. The wool must not bs pulled. If the sheep is a heavy one, let one hand and wrist be put around the neck, and the arm pressed against the leg." We have always handled sheep in the way alluded to. We never grasp the wool. Others seize the sheep by the hind leg, then throw one arm around the body and take hold of the brisket with one hand, but ewes with lambs Bhould never be caught by the hind legs, unless they are handled with extreme care. When sheep are handled, especially if their wool is pulled, the small bruises and injuries will render them wild and more diffl* cult to handle.

The cricket match, Australian eleven r. Hawke's Bay twenty-two, will be continued at Hastings to-morrow.

A ball to celebrate the opening will be held in the Havelock Hotel .to-morrow night. ___>.'' Owing to to-day being a Municipal holiday, the ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will take place on Friday evening next.

Acceptances for the Napier Handicap, Railway Stakes Handicap, and Handicap Hurdle Eace, at the Jockey Club's annual meeting, close with the secretary at the Criterion Hotel at 8 p.m. on Tuesday next. Andrew Cooper Riggs, shoemaker declares his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors.

Messrs H. Monteith and Co. hold their usual stock sale at the Horse Bazaar on Saturday next, after which they will dispose of the balance of a storekeeper's stock.

Mr Boutledge holds a sale of draught and thoroughbred horses on Saturday, March 19.

Messrs Newton, Irvine and Co.'s stores will be closed for stock-taking on and after Monday next. Messrs Manov and Co. have apples for sale.

New advertisements appear in our " Wanted" column.