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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3159, 13 August 1881, Page 2

Cantain Kussell, M.H.R., returned to Wellington to-day after spending , a week in this district;. Wβ hear that Mr A. Laselles has been retained on behalf of Mr J. M. Fraser, the head master of the Waipawa district school, who is about to take action asrainst Mr B. B.Johnson for the cape of assault referred to in our Wajpawa letter on Thursday. Mr D. Guy is retained for the other side. .The Union Company's new steamer Manapori, Thomas Logan, commander, ia advertised to leave the Clyde, for Melbourne and New Zealand, early in November. She is expected to make the passage to Melbourne in 45 days, and to New Zealand in 51 days; she should reach New Zealand about the middle of January. Afc the "Resident Magistrate's Court this tnornine , , Thomas Weatherley was charged with drunkenness, and fined 5a and costs, orj4B hours imprisonment with hard labor. In answer to a correspondent we may fitate that the culvert in the Wbite-road at Raffles-street corner is a Corporation work, and is no part of the drainage contract which was completed about eleven, months ago. The City of New York with the London mails of the 14th ult., left San "Francisco for Auckland on Swnday, the 3lst of July, one day late. The Zealandia, with the July, coloni'il mails, arrrived at San Frar.cisco on the Bth in.st.. being three days earlier than her time-table date. The Juvenile Pinafore Company, the members of which were so popular at Napier, have made another " great bit" at Auckland in "Lea Cloches de Corneville." The children were perfect in their parts, and as in the " Pinafore " entered heartily into the spirit of the opera. Our readers will be triad to learn that this talented company will open a season at Napier on the 3rd of next month. Miss Pomeroy, the celebrated actress, will visit Napier during the month of November. The Lyon's Tourist Company will give a series of their popular entertainments about the middle of next month, opening here after the close of the Pollard Juvenile Company's season. There are three informations laid atrainst Mr B. B. Johnson in the matter of the late school assault case at Waipawa. The first is for a common assault, the second is laid under the Education Act for creating , a disturbance, and hindpring , the work of the =fbool, and the third is laid under the Vagrant Act Amendment Act for usina" abusive and insulting language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. An application will be made to the Resident Magistrate for the appointment of a special day for the hearing of the case. Our Wairoa correspondent telegraphs that the soiree yesterday at. Frasertown in aid of the church biilidnis , fund was a β-reat success, the rooms in which it was held being crowded. A report comes from Wellington that the Government, in pursuance of the recommendation of the committee are willing to pay Mr John Harding £20 an acre for the twenty-one acres in dispute between him and the natives at Waipawa. It is also said that the offer will be refused by Mr Hardimr who, if he cannot obtain what he wants, will lay his case before the Privy Council. It seems to us that £20 an acre for a piece of shingle flat, and that has never been improved except by native occupiers, is a very fair offer considering that the thousands of acres of good land forming the balance of the estate were acquired originally for five shillings, and ten shillings an acre. The Gaiety Dramatic Club gave their performance in aid of the Page family last evening in the Theatre TJoyal. The audience was large, and appeared thoroughly to enjoy the entertainment. The piece selected for representation was Byron's " Lancashire Lass," and the performance was creditable throughout. There was, of course, a want of smoothness at times, but nothing more than was to be expected from amateurs who have not hud a lengohened experience. Mm Williams acted admirably ; Mr Hodgson as Johnson played with his usual ease and finish. Messrs Collins and Johnston also rendered good service. The rest of the company did their best to secure success to a very praiseworthy effort in a good cause. The band, under tbe guidance of Mr Garry, rendered some good music during the evening. Mr Alexander Rodonow alias Ganz, of watchmaking and Nihilistic notoriety, who swindled no end of newspapors and people in the oolonies, was arraigned in Boston (Mass.), on a charge of using the UnUed States Postal Department for fraudulent purposes, and was acquitted through defective evidence. The Wairarapa Daily says that " Rabbit Bees" are now the most recent development of the Bee in that district and are becoming popular. A few days ago a Bee of this character took place at Te Ore Ore, and resulted in the destruction of 300 rabbits by dogs and guns. Another one is to be held shortly at'Rangitumau on a 200 acre patch, which once was said to be equal to feeding 100 head of cattle. Now a soliary horse browses on it, and gets thin by degrees, and beautifully less. No less than 18,000 rabbit skins have been gleaned off this section during the past two years. There is still plenty of the raw material yet, and it is anticipated that the coming Bee will realise at least 400 oorpses. i 3

A good number of boating men mustered at the Criterion Hotel evening , with a view to organizing a Sailing Club. Mr Russell J. Duncan occupied the chair, and after opinions favorable to the formation of such a club had been expressed by several present, it was resolved that those present constitute themselves a club, to be called the Hawlce's Bay Sailing Club. It was also resolved to ask His Worship the Mayor to V accept the position of President of the Club. The following officers were then appointed:-*-Vice-Presidents: Messrs Wardrop an?** Patten ; Captain: Mr Euesell J. Duncan ; Secretary and Treasurer : Mr John Hindmarsh ; Committee: Messrs Brooking, Sainsbury, Weber, and J. Provis. About tweniy working , members and several honorary members were enrolled, and it was resolved that the second Saturday in September should be the opening day, and that a regatta should be held at an early date. The subfeription was fixed at 10s 6d per annum. This is how an American journal screams over their Derby victory :—" Iroquois has won the Derby, and all the horses in the United States will be so prond that there will be no managing them. The men and women of America, we judge, are expected to be proud also. We do not know exactly why. but all the papers say 'twas a famous victory, and there seems to be a general idea that the Eagle should scream and the Lion hang his head. Since all Canada, including the Governor-General, turned out to receive Hanlan,the oarsman, we warrant that Iroquois would be welcomed like a hero if he could set his fleet foot on these shores to-day. He is a good horse, and Archer is a good jockey. He has won a race, and his owner, a sporting gentleman, has won a lot of money. No wonder our English cousins complain of American competition. Will they kindly mention something that they think they are good at r A Planter's Association has been established in Fiji. The objects are :—Firstly, to encourage and secure the investment of capital in the colony; secondly, to eimplify and improve the relations of employers and labourers ; thirdly, to remove obstacles to ~~f the successful prosecution of planting enter- ' prise; and, lastly, generally to watch over and promote the planting interests of the colony. The Lyttelton Times in a leading article expresses approval of Mr Weston'e Bill for flogging wife-beaterd. It hopes a clause will be added extending the lash to men wilfully exposing themselves in parks, &0., to women and children. The telephone is ußed with great success in the scientific explorations now conducted in the Bay of Naples. By its means the diver can communicate with those r the boat above without the possibility of w mistake. The Akaora Mail thus refers to the death, of Mr Breitmeyer, one of the pioneers of the French expedition to Akaroa when it was fondly hoped New Zealand would be made a French colony : —" Mr Breitmeyer came to New Zealand in the year 1840, in the Comte de Paris. What an extraordinary thing that was ! It was the revealing of a nation. It was by the merest chance that New Zealand was a British dependency. France had made efforts to enlarge her possessions, and it was poeeible —nay. even probable—that the Britain of the Southern Seas would be under French rule. As it is, by the smallest chance we are English. Three days before the people from the Comte do Paris could settle, the English flag was flying from the heads and peaks of the bay, and thus we became an English colony, Mr Breitmeyer was a Bavarian by nationality. When ho died he was 77 years of age, and he leaveß behind him only six of his original shipmates. May they live long and die happy! We shall give their names, as each of the men will require and demand a life-long j tribute of praise from their descendants— — Messrs Waeckerle, Bernard, Bouriaud, Libeau, Malmanche, and Lelievre." We extract the following" highfalutin " from a letter addressed to a country contemporary by the Rev. Father Ahem, of Waipawa, on the subject of the Irish troubles :—" The world watches the issue between five millions of people on the one side, trying to break the chains and throvr eff the yoke under which they have been enslaved for oenturies —like galley-slaves toiling on a bitter sea of tears and blood— and on the other side, ten thousand tyrants supported and protected by British bayonets and " buckshot," while they endeavor to mend the breaking manacles and to forge new chains, whereby to perpetuate the slavery, if possible, to the end of time." i he reverend gentleman has evidnetly been carried away by the exuberanoe of his verbosity, otherwise he would have paused before implying that five millions of Irish slaves were trying to free themselves from he bondage of ten thousand tyrants. We learn (says the Wanganui Cbromole) that many of the pictures which have been returned from the Dunedin Exhibition have been returned very much damaged by water. Some of them are so much injured : that they have been rendered almost value* J less. Te Teira Waio-tinirau, one of the most prominent natives in the late Opoho block dispute, is dead. His death is believed by his friends to have Leen caused by witchcraft practised upon him by the opposing party in that dispute. Alluding to the Meat Freezing Company, the Manawatu correspondent of the Wairarapa paper asserts that the effect of the proposal to export meat has already caused a rise in the prices, and that, at a Z recent sale, cattle fetched £2 per head more y, than they have for the past three years, although fat stock of all descriptions is most plentiful. With the view to encourage orange cultivation, the branch of a tree laden with fruit has been exhibited in Auckland, the exhibit having been forwarded from the Bay of Islands. The grower says there are W thousands of places in the North where the orange would grow to perfection, and that it is purely the result of neglect or want of skill on the part of our settlers that the orange groves in the North do not supply the whole of the New Zealand demand. During the last ten years all the exports from Taranaki have been—Bran, 5 tons, value £15 ; wool, value £1712 ; sawn timber, £327. During that time Otago alone has exported wool to the value of twelve millions. Railway charges are receiving attention at Home. It has been stated that grain can be brought to the south-east of Scotland from New Zealand at about the same cost per quarter as Scotch corn can be sent by rail from Scotland to the South of Fifty thousand pounds have been subscribed in America as a manifestation of sympathy for the wife of President Garfield. The lateal report of the President's condition is that his recovery from the pistol-sLofc wound is still doubtful. Arnongrst those nominated K.C.B.'s in the Queen's Birthday Gazette, we notice the lames of Captain Frederick William Richards, E.N C.8., Naval A.D.C. to the Jueen, now Commodore Commanding the Squadron at the Cape of Good Hope and ;he West Coast of Africa. Sir Frederick cticbards is eldest and only surviving srother of Mr Urban V. Richards, formerly ifH.M. 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, and ate of the Public Works Department, Ne\k x Zealand. J A Chinese company intend starting rice rrowing at Cooktown. They will take up 000 acres of land for the purpose, and vill introduce Chinese labor and English aachinery. The Empire City has suffered from a aild attack of coal famine. The long preva- i 3nce of southerly winds having prerented he colliers in the Newcastle trade making he port, coals had gone up to £2 10s. Sir F. I/. Bell says regarding his work at lonie :—" I know what work is, and I may ay, with the exception of the West Coast -ominission, I have not for 18 years done a much continuous work as since 1 came to England."

A special meeting of tho Licensed Victuallers' Association will be held on Monday at 2 p.m. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell on Monday, on the premises, the furniture, etc., of tho Waverley Hotel, Taradale, at 11 a.m. A bazaar in aid of the Convent will be opened at Taradale on the 2nd and 3rd of September. Messrs Leonard and Co. announce an unreserved Bale of winter stock, to commence to-day. Mr H. R. Gunn has received, per Orcti, a consignment of drain-pipes, which will be sold cheap. The sale of Banner and Liddlo's fruit trees is unavoidably postponed till next week. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.

DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW.

By the Rev. E. Reignier, at Havelock, (tnass) afc 11 a.m. By Mr Griffin, at the Methodist Church, Shakespeare road, at 11 a.m.; and by the Rev. C. Penney at 7 p.m. By the Rev. W. Nichol, at Havelock, at 11 a.m., at Mai'aekakaho at 3 p.m., and at St. Andrew's, Waipukurau, at 7 p.m. By the Rev. E. Granger, at Hastings, at 11 a.m., and at Havelock, at 7 p.m. By the Rev. J. C. Fccles, at St. Peter's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m. (communion), and 7 p.m. By the Rev. F. H. Long, at Waipukurau, at 11 a.m., and at Onga Onga at 3 p.m. By the Rev. W. Shirriffs, at Patangata, at 11 a.m., Kaikora at 3 p.m., and Waipawa at 7 p.m. Preebyterian service will be hold at Tatnamu at 3 p.m. By the "Rev. E. Barnett at Mr Moore's, ITaikora, at 11 a.m., and at tho Methodist Church, Waipawa, at 7 p.m. At St. John's church, by the Rev. De Berdt Hovell: —8 a.m., Holy Communion ; 11 a.m., morning prayer and sermon ; 2.30 p.m., Baptisms and churchings ; 3.15 p.m., children's service; 7 p.m., evening prayer and sermon.

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