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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3070, 29 April 1881, Page 2

TheHonpita Committee will thankfully receive clear white rags, and old books for m - the U3e of the patients. 'V Louisa de la Ramee (Ouida), though of ~~<~ French extraction, was born at Bury Sfc. Edmunds, in the year 1840, and so was only 41 years of age at the time of her death. The country districts lying between: the Manawatu Gorge and Waipukurau enjoyed a heavy fall of rain yesterday, but unfortunately the welcomed moisture did not come further north. . . : The diorama of the American war will be again exhibited on Saturday evening, when there will be a distribution of valuable gifts. On Saturday afternoon there will be a grand matinee, when every child present will receive a present. The Resident Magistrate's Court should' have sat to-day at 10.30 o'clock, but owing to the unpunctuality of the presiding magistrate business did not commence till ten minutes to eleven. Mr Preece did not think it necessary to account for the delay, which was in marked contrast to the courtesy that is always shown by Mr Kenny,, who never fails to apologise to counsel, &c, if he be three minutes behind time, whioh is very rarely the case. ■"■' ' ' ; - Messrs Selig and Edwards, of Hastingsstreet, have just invented a candle extinguisher of extremely simple design, which they'purpose to patent. It ooneists \, of a silver band, that tightly encircles the / " candle, affixed to which are a .spring and an extinguisher. The spring presses upon the candle, so that, when the oandle has burnt down to the spring, the pressure is removed, and the : extinguisher falls over the wick. It is a most ingenious invention, ' "t and every bedroom candle should have one. I At a meeting of. shareholders in the Hastings Town Hall Company, held in Goodwin's Hall last evening, Mr Fitzßoy in the chair, the following gentlemen were appointed direotors: — Captain Russell, Messrs J. N Williams, C. A. Fitzßoy, T. Bishop, E. Beck, W. Vickers, and R, Well wood. Messrs D.-A. Wright.and W. 0. McLeod were appointed auditors, and Mr W. Beilby secretary.. The temporary office of the company will be at" the residence of Mr Beilby. Nine hundred and fifty shares are now taken up, and no time will be lost in proceeding with the erection of the building. . ',':'," ~ , ■ ' .',', " : The half-yearly meeting of the , Hawke'g ;Bay District Ancient Order of Foresters ; was held at the Oddfellows lodge room last i night. The following district officers were ~*~t present:—D.O.R. J. Ashton, D.5.0.8.—. ->E Briggs, W.S. T. G. Gilpin, D.T. S. i and D.B. Samuelßaddeley. The fdllowing brethren represented the various Courts :— No. 6502, Bros. Cohen and Qilberd; 5840, Bro. Minuet; 5841,' Bros.* Bethel and ! Graham; 6389, Bros. Riddle and lieGeyt; 16496, Bro. Garner; 5653, Bro. MoLeod. • The district officers repnted that the total ] number of members now; amount to 361, of j which 325 were finanoial,ill honorary!'and i 25 unnnancial, being an increase of 42 mem- \ bers since last meeting. It was also notified '■ that the'Wairoa Court had joined'the dis« ; trict. Proposals were moved to hold the next district meeting at Wairoa, iWaW pukurau, and. Havelook, and. the latterplace was selected. The aggregate Court, funds now amount to £1642 Is 4d, against £1247 2s 4d for the last half-year. Two, deaths have occurred during the half-year, j Mr James E. Thorold Rogers writes'in 1 the Daily News: Sir,—-the particulars to 1 which Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice'''•and' : P have invited attention are four orders of the House of Commons. "1. April 14, , 1804.—1f any man speak impertinently, pr a beside the question in hand, it stands with the orders cf the House for Mr Speaker to interrupt him, and to know the pleasure of the House whether they will further hear: him." "2. April 17, 1604.—1f any superfluous motion or tedious speech be offered la ; the House, the party is to be directed and 1, ordered. by Mr Speaker." tl 3. May "2, 1610.—Mr Speaker may stay impertinent speeches." "4. November 10,1630.—When a business is begun, and in debate, if any man rise to speak to a new business, any man may, but Mr Speaker ought to inter-' "V rupt him." These orders are jiinreVokedy and are therefore still binding, for orders in Parliament are its laws. They were, aqcording to Hart's Manual regularly put into execution by Speaker Onslow. They are" strangely omitted from the printed order book, though they were constantly found in Such books during the eighteenth century, and are contained in the last edition of Hart's Manual. A number of the police .force in plain clothes, under Sergeant Duffin, lay in wait at the New Plymouth station recently, for the purpose of detecting any'bf,the sp'ertsmen who might have infringed the,■'.provisions of the game lawsJ ' Not' "a ■". few sportsmen with bags well-filled stepped on the platform, and they were, eachV and ..i severally ' accosted by a'policeman,' who wished to examine the contents of the game bags. Many protestations were made that no pheasants had been shot, but that would not satisfy the officers of the law, and consequently the contents of every bag had to be taken out and examined, an operation which was attended with a certain amount of chagrin to the sportsmen. The Resident Magistrate was among the number who carried bags, and he was accosted by Sergeant Duffin, who wished to have a look - at what his Worship had bagged during the day. Not even the dignity attached to the office of magistrate could overawe the aseiduoup sergeant, who proceeded to search the belongings of the magistrate jas if he had been an old offender. A general titter went through the crowd (adds the Taranaki Herald) as his Worship with the utmost suavity submitted to the degrading process. Notwithstanding the great vigilance shown by the police they did not obtain a single "case." - : Students of Roman history cannot fail to be interested in a statement that reoently fell from the lips of Senator Windom, Minn., respecting the mechanical capabilities of the Soman fleet two thousand years ago. This erudite gentleman, having been elected chairman of tho committee appointed to consider the regulations of the great American rivers in such sort as to facilitate their navigation, delivered _ an impassioned oration at the first committee meeting, in which he drew an eloquent comparison between the grain fleets that would be enabled to issue from the >», Mississippi to all parts of the globe, and the convoys of corn-laden vesßels that in days of yore supplied mighty Rome with cereals from Egypt. "When," the ex- * claimed, " one of these Egyptian convoys, was expected to arrive, the stately Roman steamers, gaily dressed in many-colored bunting, sallied forth from the City's port in order to pick up the slower sailing , vessels and conduct them safely into the Tiber's mouth!" Some disorder in the proceedings of the committee was occasioned by the learned senator's authoritative attribution of steam power to the war galleys of the Clears. Mr Windom, after in vain endeavouring to regain the attention of hia fellow-cor- . missioners, sat down amidst shouts oi merriment. Thereupon the representative of lowa arose and addressed the meeting with saturnine gravity to the following effect: " For my part, gentlemen, I believe the senator's story is correct. > We muet not rashly reject anecdotes of this description. Why, I have an illustrated Bible at i home in which Cain is drawn shooting his brother Abel with a long rifle. That event can give points to the senator's Roman steam galleys anyhow!' _ i -— ~ " .<. \