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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 2

The agent of the Union Steamship Company has requested us to state that the steamer Te Anau, which is announced to steam for Sydney via Gisborne and Auckland to-morrow, returns from Auckland on the 2nd June, and the Arawata proceeds to Sydney in her stead. Passengers for Sydney will therefore tranship at Auckland from the Te Anau to the Arawata.

The Premier's speech at Leeston lasb night was telegraphed to Napier and the message delivered before eleven o'clock. This was very smart work, and, besides which, the message, which contained between 4000 and 5000 words, was rdinarkably well telegraphed. r lhe message cost the Herald £1 0s 6d. Sir George Grey's speech, if telegraphed as fully, would not have cost any more.

An accident occurred at the Napier railway station this morning by which the departure of the early train was delayed till five minutes to nine o'clock. It appears that owing to something going wrontr with the points, the engine, which was doing shunting work, got off the rails, and broke two of its spnngs, necessitating steam being got up in anther engine. A telegram was sent to Hastings, and a trolly from there conveyed the information to Paki Paki, so that the up-train was not kept waiting. The Juvenile Pinafore troupe had a well filled house laet night, and portions of the opera were received with as hearty marks of approval as ever. In some respects the change in the cast was an improvement. The character of Dick Deadeye was taken by Master Salinger, and most admirably he filled the part. His acting had all the finish which characterised his Captain Cocoran, and his singing was an improvement on that of his predecessor. The new Hebe was also an improvement. As Captain Corcoran Miss Salinger will no doubt improve with practice ; she shows an aptitude which promises euccess. To-night is the last performance of this charming little crew, and we are promised a repetition of the violin performance by Little Buttercup,

Another big batch of summonses against defitul ing borough ratepayers is being prepare^; M r Cllarles Helandcr has been appointed pounakdiper at Farndon, viae Mr George White, rtsigned. A comply la to be formed at Auokland for the %%oae of establishing a " coffee palaoe. |15*Lsite selected for the building is a oorn^f^jp n opposite the Waitemate Hotel. i r^fs|.

The Napier, Gaiety Club intend giving a dramatic performance next Tuesday in aid of the Artillery Volunteer Band's funds, in recognition of the services rendered on public occasions by this very excellent band.

Mr A. A. Stanley formerly of Hampden, but now of Hastings, desires us to state that he is not the A Stanley who was fined the other day for being drunk. We are rather tired of these disclaimers. If Tom Brown is "up for a drunk" half-a-dozeu Mr Browns write to say that they are not the T. Brown mentioned in our police news. Nobody thought that they were. It seems to us that where a disclaimer may be useful is in the case of a man of very shady charaoter who cannot afford to bear any addition to his infamy. But when a man is known to be sober and industrious no one would suspect that he could be had up for being drunk and disorderly, and, therefore, he should be above any foolish fear of being mistaken for a namesake.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court fchia morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., the following civil cases whioh stood over from last Monday's list were disposed of:—-Smith v. Dinwiddie, claim £1 sn; Mr Lascelles for defendant; judgment for defendant with costs and counsel's fee. Smith v. Foreman, claim £11 15s 6d; Mr Lee for defendant; judgment for defendant •with costs and counsel's fee. Stokes v. Ratnsden, claim £2 16s 6d for labor done; Mr Lasoelles for plaintiff: judgment for plaintiff with costs and counsel's fee ; the defendant, in this case,, applied for a rehearing, but not being able to give any grounds for the application His Worship refused it. .The following police cases were then disposed of: —Henry M'Kinley, Robert Wilford, land; James Gormley, were charged with drunkenness, and each fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours , imprisonment with hard labor. Edward Afcdrew Clark was charged with vagrancy, and, being an old offender, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor. Honi Eiaka and Koti Pi Eiha were charged with oattle stealing at the Wairoa, and on the application of the police were remanded for eight days. James Griffin was charged with stealing some clothing at llaßtings, and remanded until Wednesday next. The Court then rose.

It is asserted that if a person exposes himßelf to the electric light for some time in a close inspection of the same, hia hands and cheeks will show—if he be of fair complexion—all the symptoms of " sunburn, ,, even in midwinter, and he will quickly develop freckles on his oountenance.

Queen Victoria has ordered a pathetic little inscription to he placed upon the memorial of the Princess Alice at Frogmore:—"To the memory of my beloved and lamented daughter, Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, who survived but a few days the fev3r-stnoken child beside whom she had watched, not counting her life dear to herself."

A contemporary tells the following:— Onoe there was a run on a Bank in South Wales. Small farmers jostled each other in crowds to draw out their money. Things were at low water, when the manager in desperation bethought him of a resource. By his directions, a clerk, having heated some sovereigns in a frying pan, paid them over the counter to an anxious applicant. " Why, they're quite hot!" said the latter as he took them up. "Of course," was the reply, " they're only just out of the mould; we're coining , them by hundreds as fast as we can." " Coining them !" thought the simple agriculturists. "Then there's no fear of them running short!" Their confidence revived, the panic abated, and the bank weathered the storm.

A correspondent of the New York Tribune sends to that journal a letter, written in 1847 by Mr Carlyle to a young law student in Tennessee, who afterwards became a United States District Judge. The letter concludes as follows: " I have observed this truth, even in our confused world, that whatever of real human worth a man does put into his grand enterprise, just about the same quantity of real human victory (irrecognisable often to blockheads, but very real for all that) does he in the end. get out of it; this is an unspeakable comfort to a brave yoang man! But' real' human worth and human victory are, as I say, very often no so recognisable ; who knows, for example, whether your President Polk and our King Hudson (if you have heard of such a man, who has made two millions by railways here) have gained any " victory" at all—have gained anything but" a more conspicuous exhibition of their own ugliness;" which surely is defeat, and not victory p You must very particularly pray the heavens for one thing. Not to infect you with vulgar ambition (literary or other), which ia fatal to all nobleness in man ! " Seekest thou great things, seek them not." Seek eternal things (if you know them) ; you will better pet to know them, if you seek honesty. That also is a fact. As to " reading"— read " History and Prophecy" (if you understand these words) ; whatsoever of truly interesting, has been, or is about to be, in this world where you have come to live—all that- authentically bears on these questions, snatch it wherever you can find it, read that with greedy heart, and on the whole read nothing else. The hugest follies of this world are flying about at present in the shape of books and book celebrities."