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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3021, 2 March 1881, Page 2

The Municipal Council holds its ordinary meeting this evening.

Sir Modred is scratched for the Napier Handicap, and all his engagements for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Clubs's meeting.

A cricket match will be played between the Port Ahuriri and Petane Cluhs at Petane on Saturday next. Wickets will be pitched at 10.30 a.m.

Entries for the races of the Hawke's BayRegatta, numbered on the programme 1, 2, 4, o, 6, 8, and 10, close at 8 p.m. today at the Criterion Hotel.

Mr E. Good's tender, of £8910s has been accepted by the Waipawa County Hospital Committee for erection of a kitchen at tbe rear of the hospital building.

It is reported that there is a leak in the smaller division of the reservoir. It is probable tbat tbe matter will be brought before the Council this evening.

Messrs Harding, Sidey, and Dobson, have been nominated by the Waipukurau school committee to represent that district in the Education Board for the current term.

It is rumoured in Waipukurau that the Rev. J. Hill, of Wairoa, will be invited to take the incumbency of St. Mary's Church, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J. Shearman.

The chairman of the Hawke's Bay County Council gives notice in another column that the bridge between Havelock and Hastings is in a dangerous condition for heapy traffic. The bridge is to be replanked without delay.

At the Resident Magistrates Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Thomas Price was charged with drunkenness, and fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labor. James Harris was charged with leaving a hackney carriage unattended, and fined 5s and costs.

The Gisborne Rowing Club have entered ore for the Inter provincial race, and the pair-oared race. We learn that crews from the Wellington Clubs would have been sent up for this event, but they were previously engaged for Wanganui, which, by-the-bye, offers prizes of less value than those to be rowed for on the Ngaruroro.

The residents in the district of Clive are about to start a Rowiug Club, and a meeting for the purpose is convened for Friday evening next. With such a splendid piece of water almost at their very doors bs is offered by tbe Ngaruroro river, we are surprised that no steps have been taken previously to establish a boating club.

As showing how the tapping of tbe Seventy-mile Bush by the railway has reduced the price (.f totara, we may mention that the piles for the harbor works cost something like 28s. per hundred feet, whereas now a better quality of timber can be supplied at fifty per cent less. All the saw mills are in full work, and unable to overtake their orders. The whole of the timber for tbe Redcliffe bridge is being obtained from Hawke's Bay.

At a meeting of shareholders in the Hastings Town Hall Company, held in Goodwin's Hall last evening, several sites for the projected building were offered, and it was unanimously resolved to purchase trn,t of Mr James Boyle, being town sections 303 and 304, South Hastings, with a frontage of two chains to the Omahu road. It was also resolved to call in at once the first deposit of 5s per share. Nearly nine hundred shares are already applied for, and now that the question of site is determined the erection of a suitable building will doubtless be shortly proceeded with.

Mr J. S. Smith, manager and agent for Sirnonsen's English and Italian Opera Company, we are glad to hear, has made arrangements by which that company will open a season of ten nights at Napier, commencing on the 14th instant. The company includes that most popular artiste Madame Simonsen, and her two daughters Martina and Leonora, Misses, Godfrey, Dehaes, and Douglas; Signors Paladini, and Bianchi, first tenors ; Mr A. Cram, second tenor ; Signor Riccardi, baritone ; Messrs S. Clair and Wentworth,primibassi. Mr Martin Simonsen is, of course, the conductor. The company bring with them a full chorus and orchestra. The operas to be given are Lucrezia Borgia, II Trovatore, Norma, La Somnabula, Faust, The White Lady of Avenal, The Hermits Bell, Maritana, Martha, and the Bohemian Girl.

An unsual case occupied the attention of Mr M'Culloch, Resident Magistrate at Invercargill, last week. Three young gentlemen bachelorising in town obtained from a local tradesman a piano on the deferred-payment system. Shortly afterwards one of the number got into difficulties, and, making the acquaintance of his " uncle," obtained an advance of £35, giving as security, inter alia, the aforesaid piano. On his departure for another colony his erstwhile companions returned the piano to its original owner, against whom the accommodating relative of the departed one brought an action to recover it. According to the Southland Times Mr M'Cullock ruled that the negotiator of the loan had no right to pawn the piano.

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttclton Times telegraphed as follows on Tuesday nijrht:—To-night's Post, writing on a very ill-concealed " authority," puts out a feeler as to the raising of another loan at the earliest possible opportunity. It says : —" That we shall have to raise at least one more Colonial loan, or at any rate to make tbe attempt, appears certain. The public mind in England is therefore being carefully educated in advance, with a view to the application which is expected, and, probably, with accuracy, to be made towards the end of 1882." It is further rumoured that the contemplated new loan will be three millions, and that in bis next Financial Statement Major Atkinson will indicate the necessity for again going upon the London market to this extent, with a view to making it a test question at the ensuing general election,

_ The St. Louis Globe (Democrat) says tbe victory of Hanlan presents a very strong argument in favor of the annexation of Canada by the United States. It adds: " As loiig &s Canada is capable of producing an oarsman like Hanlan it is simply a disgrace that we do not annex it."

The daughter of the ex-Khedive was recently married to Daond Pasha, a brave but savage soldi.---- who paid off debts to tbe amount of oOO.oOOdol before his wedding, which He could well afford, as the bride Drought him, besides ready money, seven palaces and forty thousand acres of land.

The Southland Times reports that at next session of Parliament a bill, in course of preparation, will be introduced, entitled " The New Zealand Institute of Surveyor's Bill," granting a charter and otherwise in detail providing for the legitimate welfare of the profession in New Zealand.

Tho Sydney Morning Herald has an article on the New Zealand educatioual statistics, which thils concludes :'—" A colony which provides so liberally for the education of its people, even when passing Ihrongh a season of financially depression, has public spirit enough to surmont any difficulties that may lie in the path of national development."

It seems the last fire at Parahaka very nearly proved a disastrous affair. The Pungarehu correspondent of the N. Z. Times writes as follows : " The second fire at Parihaka came very near burning out the place, and had it not been for the number of men present the village would have fallen a prey to the flames. Every house had one or two men on the roof to extinguished the thatch as soon as it became ignited by the falling sparks, fanned by a strong north-wester. The stifling smoke rendered frequent relays of men necessary, and the natives were kept at it all night, water buckets in hand."

Two new expeditions 'are about to be despatched to the Congo River. The first sent out by the Geographical Society at Vienna is to start from the Cape, and after crossing the Zambesi to explore the sources of the Congo, returning homewards by way of Egypt. This expedition will, in a literal sense, traverse the African continent from South to North. The command of this expeditionary party has been given to Dr. Holub. The second expedition is to start from the French colonies in the Gaboon country and to push southwards towards the basin, of the Congo River. Besides these two projected expeditions, there are three others already engaged in exploring the Congo, the Belgian, the Portuguese, and the American expedition under H. M. Stanley.

The Banking Reoord gives some interesting particulars concerning the manufacturing operations of the Metropolitan Gas Company during tbe last half-year : —Coal carbonised, 29,515 tons ; cannel carbonised, 1963 tons. Coke made, 14,807 tons; used in manufacture, 4859 tons; sold, 10,403 tons. Tar made, 418,098 gallons ; sold, 708,098 gallons; in ptore, 258,000 gallons. Ammoniacal liquor made and sold, 400,000 gallons. Estimated quantity of gas made, 327,500,000 feet; sold, 277,000,000 feet; used on works, 2,000,000 feet; total accounted for, 279,000,000 feet; not accounted for, 48,500,OOOJfeet. From this it would appear that the estimate of gas lost by leakage, condensation, &c, is nearly 15 per cent, of the whole amount manufactured. The company lights 3891 public lamps.

The Wellington Post says :—" Although the strictest reticience is preserved by the Government in regard to the results of the Reviewal Courts as affecting the yield of the property tax, there appears reason to believe that it will produce a larger sum than was anticipated -when the amount of the assessment became known. It was then thought that the property tax would not produce more than £250,000, instead of £300,000, as estimated by the Colonial Treasurer. Now, however, it is the opinion of competent judges that £270,000 or £280,000 will be collected —exclusive, of course, of the land tax arrears. Unfortunately, however, there is considerable doubt whether all this sum will ccme in during the current financial year, as the second instalment of the tax is only due on the 22nd of March, or nine days before the close of the official year."

One thing at least a man—especially if he be a country gentleman—may be insured against just now in Ireland; that is ennui, as he is certain to be kept on the alert, if not for himself for his fiiends. One day this week a Clare, magistrate, who is himself up the present free from the Boycotting operation, rode over to pay a visit of con~ dolence to a brother magistrate, who is also a neighbour, and who is now laid under this worse than Papal interdict, when he found his J unhappy friend mounted on horseback, his wife also mounted, each with a short rifle slung over the Bhoulder and a revolver at the saddle pommel, about to ride with an escort of two policemen similarly armed to the neighbouring town — to post his letters, and obtain at the office any directed to him. They could get no one else to perform the service fcr them. During their absence two policemen kept the house until they returned. This is having a lively time of it.

The Vienna Presse draws a parallel between the present situation of the British and Russian Governments. it observes : " Extremes meet. The two members of the politicial systems of Europe who represent the opposite poles of national development England and Russia—are the victims, at the present moment, of revolutionary maladies presenting a close resemblance." The Presse notes that all the reforms of Louis Melikoff have failed as yet to exterpate Nihilism in Russia, but the British Government has a more difficult task to perform than its friend on the Neva. _ In Russia, by a movement in the direction of sound reform, the Government may succeed in cutting the ground from under the feet of the conspirators. But not even from the most extensive measures for the disencumbrance of land, not even from changing all the destitute and hungry tillers of the soil into free peasant proprietors, does the English Government ever expect to make British patriots out of Irish Home Rulers and Nationalists."

Messrs Hoadley and Lyon, in conjunction with Messrs Stevens and Gorton, of Bulls, will sell, to-morrow, at Hastings, mares, colts, &c. The ratepayers of Heretaunga Highway District are informed that rates are due on the 15th instant.

Mr- J. T. Cassin advertises a clearing sale of crockery, &c. Messers Wilding and Bull advertise the opening of their new mills at Waipukurau.^ Messrs. Hoadley and Lyon hold their Hastings monthly stock sale to-morrow, draught horses, milch cows, cattle, and fat wethers. 1.30 p.m.

Messrs. Kennedy and Gillman will sell on the 9th March furniture, &c.

Madame Lotti Wilmott will lecture at the Theatre Royal on Sunday evening next on " Hell."

The monthly meeting of the Scinde Lodge will be held to-morrow evening at 7.30. The quarterly meeting of the H.A.C.B.S. will take place this evening at 8. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.