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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3073, 3 May 1881, Page 2

The vital statistics for Napier daring the month of April are as follows :—Birth 33, marriages 10, and deaths 6. <

There are two civil cases set down for hearing at a sitting of the District Court to be held on Thursday next :—H;,,L. Donnelly v. J. Hindmarsh, an adjourned case, and Bi.widdie and Speedy y. W. L. Rees. .■ '.Y'.-.y.. '"" '• :;, ' ; '

: The weather yesterday and to-day wa 8 very unfavorable for sportsmen. We have not heard of any large bags, but from the goodly array of wild duck to been, seen hanging to-day at Mr Conroy's, Hastingsstreet, it is evident that aombody found good shooting ground. ••■.•-

We are indebted to Dr. Menzies for the following hospital abstract for April:—ln hospital on the Ist of April, 15 males and 8 females; admitted during the month, 9 males and 5 females ; discharged, 8 males and 3 females; remaining in hospital on 30th of April, 16 males and 10 females.

Tne Public Works Committee of the Municipal Council held their usual meeting last evening. The following recommendations. ,were. agreed to:—1. That the engineer's report of the 30th of April be adopted with the exception of clause No.' 7, and that with reference to clause No. 14 the engineer be instructed to erect a board near the quarry in the Chaucer-road, notifying that it is unsafe; 2. That with reference to the circular from the Manawatu County Council, the Town Clerk be instructed to reply that this Council are not prepared tq,take action in the matter of the proposed conference.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Hj- Eyre Kenny,' Esq., R.M., Patrick Lynch, oh being /charged with being drunk, said he had met with a countryman of his who wanted him to go back to Ireland, and as a guarantee of good faith he had poured two bottles of rum into him. He was guilty. Fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labor. Robert alias Andrew Gallagher, on remand,"" charged' with, bigamy, $was further' remanded until the 11th. His . Worship said ) it would be necessary for his suerties to enter into fresh recognizances.

A patient in the Hospital of the name, of Robert Laird some time last week thought proper to make certain charges against the chief nurse with respect to treatment of two patients who died more; than a month ago. The charges were investigated by the Committee last Saturday, by whom it was resolved unanimously that they were entirely without foundation. ' On the Saturday night Mr Laird was notified by the gardener to leave the institution by the orders of the doctor. He refused to go on the word of the gardener. On the Sunday Dr. Menziea saw Mr Laird, and told him; that if he would not go he wonld be forcibly expelled. Laird stayed till Monday morning, when a police constable arrived; and ordered him out. Since Mr Laird gave; us the above partioulurs we have made enquiries, from which we learn that the: authorities had good cause for the course taken in his case.

There seems to be great anxiety and impatience on the pare of the people to see the revised edition of our Bible, that they may see what changes have been made. The trouble with most people will be that they don't know enough about the old Bible to recognise the change when they sco it. W heard a man say that ho considered this unauthorised and meddling with and changing of tho sacred book was little less than blasphemy. And at the time of making the remark, he was hunting all through the book of Job to find the quotation, " Make hay while the sun shines."—Burlington Hawkeye.

The Chinese difficulty is once more forcing itself to the front, and assuming proportions which can no longer be disregarded with safety to the public welfare. The Australian Colonies are threatened with an absolute invasion of Chinese paupers. The following ominous items are contained in . the last Sydney telegrams :—" The Union Company',? steamship Hero, which left here on.Friday last for New Zealand, took 380 Chinese." " The steamer Brisbane, which was quarantined at Cooktown for smallpox, is now on her way here with 350 Chinese." " The Chinese merchants anticipate an influx of 50,000 Chinamen in Sydney during the present year. They state the new arrivals bring little or no money, and will be a heavy burden on Chinese residents." " The Kenmuir Castle brought 190 Chinese for New Zealand. The Crusader is expected to arrive shortly with a further batch." These are by no means ' acceptable items of intelligence,' demonstrating as they do most conclusively that the Chinese difficulty, instead of proving a mere passing scare, as at one time it was hoped would be the case, is rapidly attaining dimensions too formidable to be contemplated with equanimity. It is now abundantly clear that the Chinese immigration question can no longer be left in abeyance. The Government must deal with it, and that promptly and decisively. We hope that Ministers Will reassure the public mind by taking an early opportunity of officially intimating their intention to introduce repressive legislation of a very stringent chaiacter. -

p.. , ._ iVv?'-^'">-In an artiole-ori the late Earl of Beaconsfield the Auckland Shar says :—" The title will die with its first holder, Earl Beaconsfield having neither heir apparent nor heir presumptive. His wife, who was 49 when he married her, and who lived 33 years afterwards, had no issue. The Earl's only rela- _ tion is his brother, Ralph Disraeli, Deputy **• Clerk of Parliaments, who had one eon, Coningsby, born in 1867. Some time ago the Queen offered to make the title go to his brother, but Earl Beaconsfield declined." The taking of the census has enabled a smart man, who evidently lives by his wits, to victimise a number of poor people in Prahran, Victoria, Ho visited only the houses occupied by poor people, and stated that he was going round to examine the ceneus papers to see if they were correct before the enumerators called for them. He had * pen behind his ear. His plan . was to look at the papers and correot some trifling error which he had pretended to digcoyer. He then demanded a fee of lfl, which was generally paid. In some caßea hejrequired another signature to the paper, which he witnessed, signing "John • Gardiner,-' and then demanded Is for his trouble. He told some of his victims that' he! was fairly knocked up, having been walking all the previous day. As it was noticed that he did not call at every house, < one woman was suspicious, and accordingly informed the police: Upon the active aid of women in the Nihilistic conspiracies in Russia, a writer says:—" I have often 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 revolutionists—in the office of the clandestine journal, in the secret labatory, in the faotories among the working people,: in the" garb of the peasant women, and in that of the Sister of the Red Cross, in the Nihilist ; ' mines, and, alas, in those ©f Siberia and : = Saghalien. In the Czar's country woman is refused only one thing—the gibbet! Before we saw the Nihilist woman, pistol in hand, firing at the police,.or pasting the revolutionary proclamation on the walls of of the crowded streets. Now we see some new types—Mdlle. Lebedeff in a watchhouse on a railroad, sitting on box-filled with dynamite, chatting pleasantly with switchmen, and mending a ragged cloak; a beautiful young lady of twenty-two, Mdlle. Figner, nicely dressed, sitting in a handsome parlor and playing for hours and hours on a piano, trying her best to drown.' •* the noise made by the printing' press » working in the adjoining room, and giving ! to her horrible krujok the countenance of an artistic family; an Excellency's daughter, Mdlle. Perovsy, day by day watohing the approach of : every stranger to, the place", .... Where the Moscow mine .wag juhder^wayj 1 '' and pulling the underground warning the miners to stop..work as often as she suspected danger J All; these women, well eduoated and rhighly connected, leave. society in the prime'of Ufa .for. the gloomy mines, the dark forests* arid the deep.and -w. eternal snows of Siberia;" their" vacant "" , places will'be filled by new recruits. Such aire the Nihilist women. And the men? These, top, in spite of all prosecutions, blanishmeritSj arid executions;.* continue at their work. Their watchword is, ' Death for death, exeoution for "execution, terror for.terror!'" ■■ * !:; *>" 7 •;*"« : !.';'."" * ■ '■■'■'"' : ■ •" ■•'-■''ijAVAjas