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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3165, 20 August 1881, Page 2

Tho Union Company's s.s. Albion reached Wellington at 10 o'clock last night with the Suez mail. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morniner, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., John Holland was charged with drunkenness, and fined 5a and costs or 4S hours' with hard labor. Mr Hesebeck, gardener, of tho Milton road, has left with us a splendid sample of new potatoes grown by himself. They are of the " Early American Rose" class, and are undoubtely the finest samples we have seen this season. The advantage the Waipawa County obtains from " local government " is to be seen in the fact that on the south road the mail coach can no longer travel further than Wallingford. The track from Porangahau to Wainui iB described as in a most deplorable condition. The Napier Holiday Association Committee held a meeting this morning to consider a communication from the Napier Football Club asking the Association to declare a half-holiday for Monday next, the occasion of the match between Napier and Gisborne. The committee declined to aocedo to the request. The true history of the cask of beer that was seized yesterday morning at Farndon will be found m Mr Kutzhe's letter published in another column. We have only to add that the Collector of Customs went to Farndon, and, taking possession of the beer, brought it to the Spit. Mr Kutzhe haw been of&jially informed that the beer is forfeited, which seems rather hard in the face of what he states in his letter. The football match Napier v. Gisborne has been postponed till Monday, the 22nd August, on account of the non-arrival of the Oreti. The Gisborne representatives will arrive either to-morrow by the Oreti, or by the Union Rteamer on Monday morning. The hour of departure of the speoial train has been altered to 2.30 p.m. on Monday. The dinner to the Gisborne team will also take place on Monday evening at the Masonio Hotel at 6.30. A correspondent under the signature of " Anti-Humbug " writes upon the subject of the East Coast Native Land and Settlement Company, but as we understand that a sufficient number of shares have been taken up to float the company no good object could be attained by the publication of hia letter. The shareholders have put their faith in the soheme, and there the matter may rest. It can be nothing to those who have not and do not intend to risk their money whether the company is successful or not.

We are to have a succession of talent at the Theatre Royal, commencing on Saturday evening next. First in order comes the Lyon's Tourist w& J?l©wo Party

whose agent arrives to-morrow by the Southern boat. This company have had a successful tour down Souih, and tho press generally write highly of their performances. Their stay here will be limited to six nights. Mr Pollard and our juvenile friends, Into of "H.M.S. Pinafore," will open on September 3rd with " Les Cloches de Corneville," and iv October, during the race and tibow week, the Lydia Howard troupe will pay Napier a visit. This company contains a number of Napier favorites. They are at present doing good business in Wauganui. The performanco of tbe Union Minstrels at tho Theatre Koyal last night was a decided success. The audience was large and sympathetic, and, with the exception of thedelay in commencing the performance, which appears inseparable from an amateur performance, the arrangements were admirable. The first part of the programme, consisting of comic songs and ballads, was gone through iv an excellent manner. The Btage was arranged in the orthodox netrro minstrel fashion. Messrs Simmonds and Kettle made remarkably good corner men, and Mr Gilpin made a very satisfactory Mr Johnston. Mr Hill's singing of " True as the Stars " was remarkably good, and received general applause. In " Down by the Deep Sad Sea" Mr Gilpin was thoroughly at home. " See that my grave's kept green " was sung by Mr Shelton with a sweetness and pathos that we have seldom heard surpassed. In the second part Mr Foster sang " The Sea is England's Glory" in his usual finished style, and received J loud applause. Mr Hill's "Pilgrim of | Love" was perhaps the success of the evening, and the audience insisted upon an encore, which was responded to with " The Death of Nelson." The two slight farces " Troublesome Servant," and " Put up your Thumb," were given with vigor and sucess. A great amount of credit is due to Mr Garry as musical director for the manner in which the . orchestral part of the performance was arranged and carried out, and, considering the short time there was for perfecting the arrangements, the smoothness with whioh matters went Bays much for Mr Garry's skill as a conductor. The death is announced, in hip 62nd year, of Mr Jos. Bravo, of Palace-green, Kensington, and of Seville, St. Anne's Bay, Jamaica. He was the father of the lato Mr Charles Delancey Turner Bravo, barrister-at-law, whose death by poison a few years ago formed the subject of a protracted coroner's inquiry in South London, and whish created so much sensation at the time as " the Balham Mystery." Talking of dress, if you think I exaggerate, my reader, you cannot know the vagaries of an " iEsthete." Why, this same individual —I will not call him a man —was heard to say, when a friend pointed out to him that the lily in his button-hole was upside down. " Ah ! you do not know me; you do not understand me. It is all meant. It is as if some pure and lovely maiden has felt impelled to give me this lily ; as if she had rushed aoro-s the room, fastened it in, and in virginal confusion, in maidenly bashfulness, without noticing her mistake, had fled as if ashamed." To such depths can an iEsthete sink.—Exchange. Referring to the Parliamentary report on New Plymouth harbor, the Canterbury Times says :—" A more lamentable state of things one cannot well invent. That Taranaki was ever allowed to incur such desperate liabilities is a scandal. Clearly tbe duty of the colony, assuming the report to be fairly based on the evidence, is to stop the whole thing, taking over assets and liabilities, and devoting the land fund to other purposes. Wo hope Taranaki will live to thank Mr Wright, to whose exertions the appointment of the committee was due, for having saved her from the failure of her destined attempt to get the colony to pay, what would have been if she had not been sayed from her politicians, her enormous debts." Mr Stout lectured lately in the old Knox Church, Dunedin, the subject being " Why does tbe State interfere with the Liquor Traffic ?" He showed that the State regarded as the product of a social compact or as a social organism, had a right to interfere in the liquor traffic. The great waste of capital and other evils which resulted from drinking were commented upon, and he mentioned that, estimated at the retail price, two millions sterling were annually expended in New Zealand on liquor; or, since 1870, an amount which would build all the railways of the colony. He referred to a resolution of the Canadian House of Commons to show that State interference had been attended with success in diminishing drunkenness, and in conclusion he urged upon all present to seek to use their utmost endeavors in the cause of temperance. The new Victorian Cabinet is being very severely handled by the press of that colony. One journal says: "It is not alone a burlesque ;• it is not alone elevating Billingsgate and stupidity; it is not alone a monstrous piece of Cabinet manufacture. It is worse than all this, for it is an insult to the country. The very rakings of the Assembly have been brought together to discharge functions whioh none but men of intelligence, good character, and prestige among their fellows should have any kind of part in. With the exception of one member, there is not a man in this new Ministry who is not either a rowdy, a chronic place-hunter, a traitor to his party, or a political imbecile of the first water. The sole exception is Dr Dobson ; and how the mischief a man of his culture, University standing, and respectability, could have anything to do with such a motley crew passes all comprehension. All the rest are tbe very " rag-tag and bob-tail" of the House, without their careers of late exhibiting one redeeming feature." Divines, like doctors, differ. A Melbourne paper calls attention to the remarkable opposition of opinion in two very competent authorities—Dr. Macdonald of Emerald-hill, and the Bishop of Melbourne, who have given to the public their estimate of the changes introduced in the revised version of the New Testament. These two authorities arrive at exactly opposite conclusions. Their opinions may be summed up and contrasted thus:—Dr Macdonald: " a marked effect of the revision .... was to bring out more darkly and more strongly than before the dark side of eternity as contained in the teaching as to the devil, hell, and eternal punishment, instead of eliminating such teachings, as certain sceptics had hoped and anticipated." Dr Moorhouse: " The net result is a decided drift, a tendency to obliterate some of the sterner features of the old translation. . . . The effect of the alterations in such passages is to subdue the accent of threatening and to rob the awful face of retribution of something of its dread sternness." A meeting of the Christchurch Industrial Association was held recently, at which the question of an intercolonial exhibition was discussed, and the claims of Christohuroh as the place for holding it pressed upon the attention of the Government. A resolution was unanimously carried as follows:—- ---" That in the opinion of this association it is desirable to hold an intercolonial exhibition in Christchurch about the close of the year 1882, in accordance with the views expressed to the Government in September, 1880." A second resolution was also carried to the effect, " That a sub-committee be appointed to draw up a memorial to ask for a grant in aid of the proposed exhibition. 1 That the sub-committee be requested to draw up a proposed scheme for an exhibiI tion, to report so soon as the answer of the I Government is received." The President (Mr Robert Allan), in referring to the claims of Christchurch both as a place for building the exhibition, and to have Government money spent there, made übg of the following modest language:—" He thought that the claims of Christchurch, if Government money was to he spent, should have great weight." I want to know what society is coming to, and how it is that such unmitigated cads, snobs, and worse, manage to obtain j the entree to good oirclea. Last week I had I to elw Pj? op.q miml oi tbe }

baboon tribe, and now, In the interests of humanity, I am compelled to exhibit the atrocious antics of a creature betwixt an ourang-outang and a gorilla. The brute was at a party. That he was invited was incomprehensible, for his proper place is amongst the cannibals of the West Coast of Africa. Having an eye that instinctively sought what was least attractive in nature, he accosted a gentleman with the interrogatory as to " who was the lady with spots on her face, &c." The" person questioned started and stammered out that she was his wife. " Ah, ah," chuckled the gorilla, " the very man I've been looking for; you are her husband, and ought to know, by Jove! Is she spotted like that all over ?" Incredible though it may seem, the gorilla was not taken by the throat and choked upon the spot, but I am hopeful that he will some day meet a man and his deserts at the same time.— " Asmodeuß," in the N.Z. Mail. The idea that fish-food is specially adapted for brain nourishment is (says a London paper) scouted by no less an authority than Dr. Beard, of New York, one of the most eminent neurologists. Referring to this wide spread popular notion, he terms it a delusion, opposed to chemistry, physiology, to history, and common observation. He casts the responsibility for the almost universal acoeptanoe of this delusion, by the Americans upon the late Professor Agassi-, "who impulsively and without previous consideration apparently as waa his wont at times, made a statement to that effect before a oommittee on fisheries of the Massachusetts Legislature." The statement soon became the creed of the people. The well-known phenomenon of the glowing, or phosphorescence, of fish in the dark is popularly believed to indicate the presence of a large proportion of the nutritive element. Chemical analysis however, fails to substantiate this idea, but demonstrates that the flesh of fish contains a smaller proportion of mineral elements than any other form of animal food. So, if we can trust Dr. Beard, as we may well do, here is one more pleasant popular delusion gone.