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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3078, 9 May 1881, Page 2

It is officially notified that the name of the town hitherto known as Carlyle, West Coast, has been altered to that of Patea. We were slightly in error in stating that the " trustees" of Mr Bourgeois' creditors haye been advised to sue that gentleman's late boarders, the members of the Napier Club. The creditors have no trustees, for Mr Bourgeois has not declared himself insolvent. We believe the creditors have been advised'to take a test case in Court, and to that end propose sueing one of tho officers of the Club. Complaints are made by persons both riding and driving from TS'apier to Farndon respecting the numbers of pigs running at large in the neighborhood <>f the slaughterhouse. The nuisance has been complained of time after time, but the County authorities take lit tie notice of the matter, though it must be recognised that with timid horses few things are more dangerous than a start caufied by a pig suddenly presenting itself from a thicket. In reference to the Chaucer road quarries, the dangerous state of which was brought before the Municipal Council at its last meeting, we have received a telegram from Mr J. R. Davies, who is now at Gisborne, as follows: —"T have just seen the report of last Council meeting. Will you kindly contradict. Cr. MoDougall's statement re quarry.it being false, and evidently misleading to the public. There is plenty of proof in Napier that my quarries were left perfectly safe by me. I objected, and do so still, to allow Mr Glendinning to encroach into and undermine my quarry. On my return, which will be by first boat, I will have the matter investigated.—J. R. Davxes."

We learn by telegram from Wellington that the Government have issued a memorandum, to the several Education Boards throughout the colony to the effect that after June 30th next capitation grants will not be paid to Boards on account of children under five years of age. The number of children below five years of age attending the public schools within the Hawke's Bay district is put down at 160. If the school age was altered from five to seven years there would be some chanoe for the maintenance of a State; system ,of education. His Excellency the Governor haßbeen pleased to cancel all previous appointments of rangers for the dietriot of Hawke's Bay, and t® appoint the under-mentioned persons to be rangers under " The Animals Protection Act, 1880," for the said district:— James Warrilow, Sergeants Crosbie KMd, Michael John Mahon, and James O'Malley, Constables Denis Brosnahan, John Forster, Edwin Joseph Lawliss, Joseph Motley, Thomas Haney, Britten Irwin, John Laurenson, William James Livingston, Arthur Pickering:, David Shaw, James Siddells, Joseph Walter Strudwick, Gerald Tronson, Frederick Arthur Wilson, and Detective Martin Grace. A special funeral, sermon on the Revs. J. B. Richardson, J. Armitage, and J. Waterhouse, who lost their lives by the wreok of the Tararua, was preached in Trinity Wesleyan Church, by the Rev. B.\ S. Bunn, last evening. The rev. gentleman took as Lis text the third chapter of Revelations; "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in ,white raiment; and I will not blot oat his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before His angels." Having dwelt on the personal characters of these gentleman, and also the two laymen, Messrs Mitchell and Connal, who were drowned at the same time, he described the many difficulties to he overcome, and then the prize that would be gained, pointing : out to his hearers the dangers that at all times surrounded them, and urging them to be prepared for whatever might come. The eloquent and touching discourse,thougb. somewhat lengthy, was listened to with wrapt attention by a very large congregation. At the conclusion of the sermon the choir sang, " Vital Spark," and at the close of the service the "Dead Maroh" was played. The pulpit waß draped in mourning for the occasion. ' In remarking on the speeoh recently delivered by Mr Crmond. the Dunedin Morning Herald says:—" We do not oonceive that Mr Ormond is likely to exercise much influence on the fortunes of either party next session. His address, though, clever and interesting enough, was, as we said, eminently unsatisfactory' from a'party point of view; and independent members of the hypercritical order seldom attain to ? ' any commanding position in politics. The fact that the part they play is in great measure an irresponsible one militates sadly against their pretensionsj and: more than counterbalances all the: effeotprbduoed by -. > their most skilful attacks. As long as party government exists—and it is difficult ; . to imagine any other sort in a free country —such members will be suspected of consulting their own peculiar humoars rather than the public good. They may indeed, be very superior persons (though the highest ability and the highest conscientiousness are almost sure to choose a side), but their influence as a rule will. be infinitesimally small. The true politician is a gregarious creature; the independent member, on the other hand, may be said to have a resemblance—a distant one of course—to • solitary beast of prey." ■.., ,'■■-.-.: The liquor which in Wellington is dis--- - tilled through the corporation pipes, *nd charged for under a water rate, is of " the colour of coffee, the consistency of pea-soup, and of the odour of what is politely termed on board ship eau de bilge."

I At the Theatre Royal Herr Bandmann as Othello at 8. Mr T. K. Newton will sell to-morrow at Kaikora, drapery, clothing, &c. Meeting of the H.B. Philosophical Society to-night at 7.30. Tenders are invited for the supply of forage to the A.C. force. Mr S. B. Pirth announces that his saw* mills will be closed for a short time. Messrs Banner and Lid die will sell tomorrow apples, grass seeds, &c, at 11 a.m. • The annual meeting of the Napier Grammar School Company will be held on the .16th instant. A meeting of the A.0.P., Court Captain "• Cobk, will be held to-morrow evening. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell tomorrow pears, potatoes, &c, at 11.30 a.m. .. Meeting of the Victoria Lodge to-morrow '•; evening. ■' A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted" column; ._■_—»—__—_—_■—_■___—_»—_q— ——,—»