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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3020, 1 March 1881, Page 2

There was a clean sheet at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Mr Winter has been elected to represent the borough ratepayers on the Hospital Committee. The vital statistics registered afc Napier for the month of February are as follows: —Births, 31; marriages, 4 ; deaths, 8. Tho sitting of the Supreme Court in Bankruptcy, which was to have been held yesterday, was adjourned until Friday next. The fire which we stated in our issue of yesterday as being on Mr Rathbone's Abbotsford run was on the opposite side of the railway line, and extended all over the hills as far back as the Waipawa river. Mr Davis, the agent of the Simonsen Opera Company, has been in Napier since Sunday, and has so far succeeded in the matter of a guarantee that there is every prospect of the* Company playing here for a season. The Chief Inspector of Sheep has received instructions to have the fence at the Southern boundary on the quarantine reserve afc Waimata thoroughly repaired afc once, prior to the reserve being let by tender as a cattle-run.

The following is an abstract of the sick in the Napier Hospital for the month of February:—ln hospital on February 1, males 10, females 6 ; admitted during the month, males 10; discharged, males 5, females 3 ; remaining on March 1, males 15, females 3.

A few loads of metal are much wanted hetween the rails that run along the wharf on tho reclaimed land. Yesterday there was a pool of water nearly tho whole length of the breastwork, which was especially deep where the passengers were being landed from the Boojum.

The Union Steam Ship Company, having been unable to find any trace of the box of gold that was lost from the s.s. Tararua some time ago, have dismissed the whole of the crew of that vessel from Captain Muir downwards. Whether this course will have any effect towards the discovery of the treasure remains to be seen.

To-day was the day fixed for the sitting of the Licensing Courts for the districts of Napier and Petane, but there being no business to come before them the Commissioners did not sit. The Licensing Court for the Ngaruroro district sat at noon to-day. Mr Simpson, proprietor of the new hotel at Havelock, produced the plans of his house, and they were approved of by the Court.

Cannot the Government at Wellington in their great wisdom make some better provision than has for some years been made for the despatch of the monthly English mail from this port ? By some singular fate it frequently happens that the slowest boat of the Union Company is the one to carry our mails to Auckland. On Sunday last, the Tararua, which should have left Wellington on Friday afternoon, did not reach that port until 5 p.m. on Saturday, and, consequently, not being able to leave till near midnight, did not arrive here till after dark. Thus the risk was incurred of accidant in the despatch of passengers and mails afc so late an hour. Surely a remedy for this state of things could be found in an arrangement by which one of the Company's boats, with power to keep her time as per table, should be made to arrive every four weeks when the outward English mail ia leaving.

As usual after every slight fall of rain the water courses in Hastings-street were yesterday again choked. We fear residents in that street have little to be thankful for iv what is cuilad the drainage scheme, aud ! till the completion of which the exclusion of the water supply and a I other improvements have to ieaiain in abeyance.

The s.s. Albion, when at anchor in the roadstead yesterday, rolled to an extent which must have been extremely disagreeable to the passengers, and dangerous to the tendering of the steamer. In the other part of the bay the English ships were riding in comparatively smooth water, and it oaused much surprise to many an onlooker that the captain of the Albion did nob also notice the difference, and anchor his vessel where there was the least roll.

The following are th 9 recommendations of the Public Works Committee to the Municipal Council : —I. That, with regard to M. Bourgeois' application for lease of reserve between the Supreme Court and the Fire Brigade station, the Town Clerk be instructed to reply that the Council is not at present prepared to grant the same. 2. That a release be granted of reserve No. 617 to the trustee in the estate of Routledge and Kennedy, conditionally that all rent and rates now due thereon be paid. 3. That the report of the Engineer be adopted, with the exception of that clause relating to the water supply for Chaucer-road, the cost of which is to be estimated and reported upon. 4. Reports of Overseer of Roads be adopted. 5 That it having come to the knowledge of the Council that Mr M. R. Miller has been improperly taking water from the reservoir, the solicitor be instructed to inform him that legal proceedings will be taken again?t him on a repetition of the offence. 6. That Crs. Monteith and Ellis be appointed to act on the committee of the Fire Brigades demonstration. 7. That Crs. McKay and McDougall he appointed members of the Botanical Gardens Committee, viceex-Crs. McVay and Tuxford. 8. That the vouchers passed be ordered to be paid.

Mr Murdoch, the captain of the Australian cricketers, writing to the Nelson Mail in reference to an attack made upon tbe manners of his team in the Nelson Colonist, says:—"Uponreading the report of the late Australian cricket match in the Colonist of the 12th instant I notice some most uncalled for remarks made upon the conduct of our team upon our departure from the cricket ground and the wharf. It is a great pity that the person who went so far out of his way to write in such an ungenerous manner about absent persons did not strictly confine himself to the truth, for if he did not or would not see it I can assure him and the general public of Nelson that the cheering compliment paid us was acknowledged by all of us inside the vehicle; not having such keen eyes as some persons, I could not see through the roof and notice what those outside did. In con. elusion I must thank the person for his criticism upon us, and assure him that if ever I or any of my team want the finishing touches of a gentleman's education, if he will kindly furnish his name we will be most happy to consult with him. Hoping you will find room in your valuable columns for this letter, and apologising for having to trouble you."

After the taste given for astronomy by Mr Proctor's visit, our readers may be interested by the following paragraph from the New York Sun on the astronomical events of 1881: —" The sky will not present such a brilliant pageant again this century as it does during the present year. Among the phenomena are a remarkable series of conjunctions, and double and triple conjunctions. The most interesting of these is the great twenty-year conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in April. As this conjunction occurs in the sign of Taurus, which astrologers say rues Turkey and Ireland, they feel safe, on account of recent occurrences, in predicting very momentous effectß in those countries from tbe conjunction. There will also be conjunctions of Jupiter and Mars, Venus and Jupiter, Saturn and Venus, and the faraway giants Uranus and Neptune will play a part in this remarkable planetary levee, Venus will reach her greatest brightness, and her delicate crescent should be a favorite object in the amateur astronomer's telescope. Saturn opens wider its wonderful rings and Jupiter is remarkably brilliant. Mars will begin to brighten in the latter part of the year, and then his snowy poles and shadowy continents will again become the admiration of those who gaze through telescopes. In short, there will be no end of attractions in the starry heavens, and all the prognostications of the soothsayers will not be able to darken the sky of 1881."

Recently a paragraph has been going the rounds stating that the work to which Mr Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. for Northampton, intends to devote his energies lies in the direction of the Imperial Pension List. In this he ia following in the track of Carlyle, Thackeray, and Grenville, who from time to time directed attention to this monstrous incubus. Their efforts are likely to bear fruit when the subject is pursued by a man of action such as the Liberal member for Northampton, bufc that he has a gigantic task before him is evident from the subjoined list, which, be it remembered, only includes a small number of those who exist at the expense of the British ratepayers. The following figures will show what is paid to only one family when it is extended over a number of years:—Her Majesty's privy purse per annum, £65,000 ; salaries of household, £132,000 ; expenses of household, £173,000 ; Royal bounties, £14,000 ; miscellaneous expenses, £15,000 a year— say £500,000 per annum, enjoyed for 42 years, £21,000,000. Prince of Wales, £40,000 for 17 years, £680,000; Princess of Wales, £10,000 a year for 17 years, £170,000; Princess of Prussia, £8000 a year for 22 years, £184,000 ; Duke of Edinburg, at different rates, £270,000;. Princess Christian, £6000 a year for 14 years, £84,000 ; Marchioness of Lome, £6000 a year for 9 years, £125,000; Prince Leopold £15.000 a year for 6 years, £90,000; Duchess of Cambridge, £6000 a year for 37 years, £222,000 ; Duchess of MecklinburgStrelitz, £3000 a year for 37 years, £111,000; Duke of Cambridge, £12,000 a year for 30 years, £360,000 ; the Duchess of Teck, afc 'different rates, £118,000. The list is far from complete, but the amount hero set dawn exceeds twenty-three and a half millions sterling - .

Upon the active aid of women iv the Nihilist conspiracies in Eussia, a writer Ba y S ; —"I have of ten heard men say : ' The Nihilists dare so much and accomplish so much only because they always have women by their side, encouraging and cheering them on.' And indeed women are found everywhere, side by side with the male revolutionists —in the office of the clandestine journal, in the secret laboratory, in the factories among the working people, in the garb of tha peasant woman, and in that of the Sister of tho Red Cross, in the Nihilist mines, aud, alas, in those of Siberia and Saghalien. In the Czar's country woman is refused only one thing—the gibbet! Before we saw the Nihilist women, pistol in hand, firing at the police, or pasting the revolutionary proclamation on the walls in the crowded streets. Now we have seen some new types : Mile, Bebedeff in a watch house on a railroad, sitting on a box filled with dynamite, chatting pleasantly with the switchmen and mending a ragged cloak; a beautiful young lady of 22. Mile. Figner, nicely dressed, sitting in a handsome parlour and playing on a piano for hours and hours, trying her best to drown the noise made by the printing press working in tho adjoining room, and giving to her horrible krujok the countenance of an artistic family; an Excellency's daughter, Mile. Perovsky day by day watching the approach of every stranger to the place where the Moscow mine was under way, and pulling the underground bell, thus warning the miners to stop work as often as she suspected danger. All these women, well educated and highly connected, leave society in the prime of life for the gloomy mines, the dark forests, and the deep and eternal snows of Siberia; their vacant places will be filled by new recruits. Such

the Nihilhfc women. And tbe men? These, too, in spite of all prosecutions, banishments, and executions, continue at their work. Their watchword is " Death for death, execution for execution, terror for terror!" "

The ceremony of handing over to Rewi the house which has been huilt for him by a grateful country waß performed by the Hon. Mr Whitaker when he was in Waikato, with all the ceremony possible ceremony being absolutely necessary in the eyes of a Maori. The door of the house was solemnly locked, and the Hon. tho Attorney-General handed over the key as the symble of possession. Rewi was quite gratified with the house outside and inside. A Crown grant will shortly be given to Rewi for the house, but his power will be so restricted as that he cannot sell the property.

As a writer of testimonials, commend us to Gail Hamilton. An Irish girl applied to the principal of the State Normal Church, at Salem, Massachusetts, for a situation as cook, and exhibited with pride the following testimonial from G. H.—" Margaret F- - n has lived with me fourteen weeks. I have found her invariably good tempered, immunda (dirty), cheerful, obliging, exitiosa (destructive), respectful, and incorrigible. Sho is a better cook than any Irish girl I have ever employed, and one of the best bread-makers lever saw. With neatness and carefulness and economy she would make an excellent servant. I heartily recommend her to all Christian philanthropists, and her employers to Divine mercy." —Harper's Monthly.

The Timaru Herald has the following oil the Wanganui cricket match :—" From our telegraphic report of the second day of tho crickfii match at Wanganui, it will be seen that the Australians have sustained their rafifc defeat in New Zealand. It is pretty evident that the visitors did not try to play; the number of times Murdooh ' could not hold the ball,' when trying for catches, shows this, if there was nothing else to guide one in forming an opinion. For such a team to be beaten by ten wickets at such a place as Wanganui is simply ridiculous, and the inference is plain that they played with their opponents in more ways than one." Upon this the Lyttelton Times remarks as follows : —" Now, why in the world should the Australians sell the match to Wanganui, for that is what the polite effusion above really means! Does the Herald suppose that eleven men, who have gained the approbation of all England for their gentlemanly behaviour and manly conduct, would condescend to take bribes from an out of the way little corner of tho world that most of them never heard of till the last few days."

The New Zealand Herald Bays:—"We were shown by Mr Joseph May, specimens of worms found in the bronchial tubes of some sheep of his which have died, also worms of a similar appearance, found in the earth. They have the appearance of coarse white cotton thread. Those found in the lungs of the sheep are about five inches in length, while those found in the earth where dead sheep have been buried, ranged from 9 inches to 15 inches in length. These specimens Mr May is forwarding to Dr Hector through Mr Justice Gillies. On a former occasion, Mr May had sent similar specimens from sheep in the Whangarei district to Mr Justice Gillies, who submitted them to Dr Hector, who supposed them to be tbe Guinea worm, but he asked for further samples and information. Mr May now forwards a letter explaining the symptoms and the supposed cure, viz. : fumes of sulphur and turpentine. He finds that they generally attack lambs and poor sheep, and supposes that as the worm is very sluggish the strong sheep when attacked are able to cough them up. It will be interesting to owners of flocks to investigate this disease amongst sheep, and the steps taken by Mr May will no doubt Jead to this result."

Mr E. Lnyclon will sell to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, furniture and other goods. ticain3| Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on Friday next, at 2 p.m., the privileges of tho regatta. Mr S. Pell advertises a list of subscriptions received in aid of the widow and orphans of the late William Caldwell. Mr Dugleby advertises for tenders fop offices and manager's residence for the Union Steam Ship Company. Mr J. Corbett has just imported a new patent multiplying camera, and [is prepared to take photographs at prices to suit all classes. Mr W. Routledge will sell at the Criterion Hotel on March Bth the privileges of the Jockey Club's race meeting. A meeting for tho purpose of forming a rowing club at Clive will be held afc the West Clive Hotel on Friday next. Mr J. Or. Kinross notifies that the book debts of James Stevenson, of Taradale, have been assigned to him. A number of new advertisementa will be found in our " Wanted " column.