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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3158, 11 August 1881, Page 2

There were no oases Bet down for hearing at the District Court this morning. Tbe Registrar of the Supreme Court will hold a sitting to-morrow, at 2 p.m., for the despatch of business arising under the Debtors and Creditors Acts. There having been no nomination of a candidate for the vacant seat in the Municipal Council, a fresh " extraordinary vacancy" has occurred, and another election will have to be held. We regret to learn that Mr Boggs, of the Waverley Hotel, Taradale, died somewhat suddenly yesterday. It appears that he had not been in good health for some time, and hia illness develoyed into serous apoplexy. Drs. Caro and Hpencer were in attendance, but their services were too late to be of any avail. At the .Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Charlotte Butwell was charged with drunkenness, and, not putting in an appearance, her bail was estreated. William Smith, charged with the same offence,- was fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours imprison* ment with hard labor. The wind blew with excessive force yesterday. Mr H. Duff, who was driving a buggy from his Btation to Hastings, had occasion to alight in order to adjust the harness, and pulled up on a cutting on the road; while he was seeing to the hoise the wind seized the carriage and hurled ifc over the side of the hill, smashing it to pieces. . We are informed that the man Robert Lynam, who so courageously stopped the horses which ran away with Simpson's coach about a fortnight ago, has received no reward for hia plucky action. Of course the question of reward did not enter into Lynam's consideration when he started in pursuit of the runaways, and it is probable that he would have thought no more about the matter if a reward had not been promised him. But for his promptitude the horses and vehicle would almost certainly have come to grief, and serious injury to some pedestrian might have resulted. It would be but gracious on the part of the owner of the coach to see that Lynam is suitably rewarded. An accident, which has since terminated fatally, occurred near Puketapu on Tuesday. It appears that Thomas McDermott, who for some time has carried the Puketapu and Patea mail, left Puketapu with the mails early in the evening. A man who was to accompany McDermott left shortly afterwards, and after proceeding a Bhort distance along the road he found McDermott lying upon the road side with blood ousing from his ears. It was evident he had fallen from his hcrse, as there was a deep out on the back of his head, and he was quite insensible. He was conveyed to the Napier Hospital without delay, and received prompt attention. He never rallied, however, or regained consciousness, and died next morning. We understand the deceased was an unmarried man, had been for a considerable time in the district, and was greatly respected. Mr Henry Driver, M.H.R. for Roslyn, the absent member in the No Confidence division, has written a letter to the Dunedin Timeß in whioh the following passage occurs:—"With reference to my vote on the no-confidence motion, I will hasten to relieve your mind of any doubt on this head by stating that if I were in Wellington I would record my vote with the Opposition; and further, if I believed my vote would carry Mr Ormond's amendment, I would go to Wellington to do so." Mr Driver then stated his objection t" the Government in these words :-—" It is not the men I object to—they are all personal friends of my own, and for whom I entertain the highest regard ; but I believe them to be too weak to conceive measures for the well-being of the Colony, and without political courage enough to carry through the House such as are absolutely necessary." Tbe majority of the Government is only three, a margin that would melt into thin air if the local government proposals were pushed forward as part of a vital policy. Referring to the Gaming and Lotteries Bill the Lyttleton Times says :—" We can only eugtresfc one improvement. Let a clause be added providing for the whipping of offenders at the post and cart's tail, for the free use, iv this regard, of the pillory and the stocks, and for the application of torture to suspected persons, and the measure will be complete. Then, if it is labelled with a remote date, say A.D. 1300, and exhibited as a relic of the good old times at some show like ' Ye old English Fayre,' of which the illustrated papers are just nowfull, it will be en regie. Under no other circumstances can the bill be looked upon with toleration. ..... The logic of this tremendous attempt to make severe moralists of all colonial mankind is quite incomprehensible. It regards the totalisator as moral, but comdemns book-making as wicked. What is the difference between them in principle ? They are both gambling. There is the same identity of principle between the totalisator and a sweepstake, or a ' consultation,' and less difference of degree. Yet the first is a proper thing for the people to indulge in, while the others are punished with fine and, if repeated, with imprisonment And this is the bill upon whioh so much Ministerial thought and labor have been extended. It is a compromise with the public's acknowledged propensity for gambling, and a stupid compromise. It includes so much in its sweeping provisions that it can never be enforced." The New Zealand Herald, referring to Mr Murray's Bill re duration of Parliaments, says's—" It were not easy to conceive a more glaring ir-stance of the treatment which ci _stituents receive from the members, than the impudent attempt which is now being made to tamper with the constitution. Ifc was but yesterday that Triennial Parliaments were approved of by the Legislature, and now Mr Murray has carried the first reading of his Bill again to alter their duration and period, and the second reading has been affirmed by 37 to 34. There has not been any sign of dissatisfaction shown with the late change ; no meeting has been held condemning it ; not a petition has been presented to the House to repeal it, and yet, in the last session of Parliament, and without the constituents being allowed to express any opinion on the matter, an attempt is being; made to effect such a change. That this matter has been arranged there can te no doubt, because nothing were easier than to hold the matter over and allow the constituencies to express their opinion at the approaching general election. It is presumed, however, that they would not tolerate this, and so Parliament is asked,

knd 37 rueni'berg -consent to give their constituencies tha go-by, and leave tbem to make the best of what they could not help. Mr Murray has so far been fairly successlul, but should tho Houoe have the audacity to alter the duration of its own existence, Without first having" the approval cf their these same constituencies at the next general election, inflict ■ueh a penalty as would teaoh the offenders Mid all others' the peril of exercising a 'jfcwer which! depsnds upon their good pleasure." According to the Lyttelton Times, Mr Hoßkins, tho well-known comedian, is about to enter the matrimonial state for the third time, the bride elect being a Melbourne lady still in her teens. Mr Mackay, the great silver-mine proprietor,has received a letter from a projector, who proposed that Mr Maokay should furnish a hundred million dollars to enable him to buy up all the goats in the world. Having collected them they would be able to monopolise the kid glove trade. Of Course the proprietor would stand in for half profits. Mr Maokay, however, appears to consider that he is quite rich enough already, without destroying the trade of Jouvin and Dent. Experience of Rugby, Tennessee, is as yet hardly ripe for definite opinion of its prospects; bufc the ourious reader will find much information about the condition of things in the new colony in a volume written and compiled by Mr Thomas Hughes, president of the board, and published by Messrs Macmillan. Mr Hughes olings to his favorite notion of making this a place where our Will Wimbles may find fitting exercise for their wasted energies; but readers are warned that experience so far has shown that young men who go out cannot at once earn a living. A probationary period of one year is recommended both for boys and young men to be spent with one of the present settlers. The coat, we learn, will be £60 or £70 for the year's board, lodging, and teaching. A Paris letter contains the following f item:—Henceforth, be it understood, the demographic artists will be looked upon as valuable auxiliaries fco surgery. " Why is it," asked Dr le Comte, who is physician to a regiment of dragoons, " Why is ifc that such quantities of soldiers die upon the field of battle ?" And then he replies, confidently, " Simply because of the difficulty which arises in regard to arresting hjemorrhages." The compression of an artery being the best mode of stopping profuse bleeding, Dr. le Comte promises to teaoh each soldier first where these vessels are situated, so tbat he may assist himself while waiting for a surgeon. Therefore he tattoos an image of some kind upon every portion of the soldier's body where there is an artery.

The will of His Holiness the late Pope Pius IX., who died, on February 7,1878, at tha Palace of the Vatican, Rome, has within the last few days been proved in London by William Walker, the attorney of Raphael, Cardinal Monaco, John, Cardinal Simeoni, and Theodolphus, Cardinal Mertel, the universal heirs appointed in the will, the personal estate in England being sworn under £800. After making various bequests, the testator gives one-third of the remainder of his property to Imigi Mastai, one-third to Ercole Mastai, and one-third to Anna Arsili, daughter of Virginia Mastai. By the subsidiary papers or codicils there are legacies, principally of relics, pictures, and crucifixes, to the King of Naples, the Duchess Bo wager of Modena, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Duke of Parma, Don Alfonso di Bourbon, Count di Chiambo, the Princess of Thurn and Taxis, Queen Isabella of Spain, and others, and to several churches and charitable institutions.