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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3193, 22 September 1881, Page 2

The Rev. Father Reiunier will celebrate Mass at Havelook next Sunday at the usual hour.

The ordinary meeting of the Boropgh Council, whioh should have been held last evening, fell through for want of a quorum.

The Hiwkt's Bay letter portion of the European mail via San Franoisoo will arrive at Napier this evening overland from Wellington.

The beautiful little Roman Catholic ''hurch designed by Mr Dugleby, and ereoted at Hastings, will be opened on Sunday, the 2nd of October. The ohurch, which ia capable of seating about 200 worshippers, is of a strictly eclesiastical style, and a deoid.d ornament to the neighbourhood.

Mr Thomas Tanner, having made arrangements to go home to England early next year, is compelled to decline to stand for the representation of Napier at the forthcoming eleotions. On his return to the colony, and should opportunity offer, Mr Tanner hopes to do himself the honor of presenting himself as a candidate for the suffrages of the electors.

Afc the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, bpfore H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., S. W. P. Peddle was charged with cattle stealing, and remanded until Monday

next, bail being accepted, the accused ia £200, and two sureties iv £100 each. Prank Kennedy was charged with drunkenness, and fiued 5s and costs or 43 hours. Andrew Anioß, charged with the same offence, did no' 6 put iv an appearance, and hia bail was estreated.

" Battle - Axe," under date of Wednes ".<y, sendß us the following :—" I got on the course at 8.45. Martin sent Mischief and Mavis twice round slowly, the former moving very freely. Ido not think Mavis will strip as well as I have seen Martin get her. Badsworth went four times round with sweaters on, and travelled as if his feet were going to trouble him. Proffit sent Foul Play and The Bquiro three times round, the last time at a good pace, both horses moving very freely. Loui was sent four times round slowly. Kincraig and Nellie were sent next three times round, the last time at a good pace; the former 1 j.ks as if he is overdone. I think these horses have been up too long. Sydney waa sent next with a hack three times round, and that finished the morning's work. I see the improvements are going on steadily."

The performance of "Quilp" at the Theatre Royal last evening drew a very large audieace, and the reputation which Mr Marshall has mbcte for his delineation of this .ingular character was thoroughly sustained. There was a wonderful power displayed in the intense vindictiveness attaching- to the character. That Mr Marshall should achieve success in a character so entirely dissimilar to those he has already taken in Napier, exhibits a remarkable versitility in the actor. Miss Knight did double duty, making a most sweet and charming Little Nellj and aa slatternly and pert a Marchiotae-s as could be denired. Mr Elliott's conception of Dick Swiveller is not ours, but he carried through the part with a rollicking humor which was effective. .MissAdelle gave, an excellent representation of the spirit-broken Mrs Quilp. To-night the well-known comedy of Betsy will be performed, and we should imagine that Mr Marshall's Dawson will be one of his most popular characters.

The Times correspondent at Berlin gives an instance of the thoroughness with which musketry practice is taught in the German army» The better to accustom the men to the opaqueness of a battle-field, clouds of smoke are produced by burning furze and wet grass, or by other means, between the marksman and his aim, and the advantages of this practice are apparent. "It is surprising" the correspondent adds, " that something of the kind has not yet been thought of at Wimbledon." The odd thing is that something of the kind actually came to pass at Wimbledon, for the furze on that admirable common took fire by accident during the late encampment. Instead, however, of seeing the use to which the conflagration might be put, as the burning of the house taught Charles Lamb's Chinese the wdy to produce roast pig, the people at Wimbledon not unnaturally stopped firing until the smoke had cleared a way.

It will interest Australian merchants to know that a public meeting of persons interested in the purchase and sale of tallow in the port of London was held at the " Baltic," Threadneedle Street, the other day, under the presidency of Mr Richard Wheen, to consider the question of the abolition of the loading charges on tallow, cocoa-nut oil, .and palm oil at .London wharves. The following resolution was agreed to: —" That it having been proved that the loading charges hitherto imposed in London upon buyers of tallow, coocanut oil, and palm oil operates injuriously Upon the trade, it is resolved that on and after September 1 next these articles be sold and delivered free to buyers, and that this meeting- pledj.es itself to buy only on. such. terms from that date." On the moiion of Mr J. Cowan, it was also resolved that the meeting invited the selling brokers interested in the matter to offer goods on the new terms as soon as practicable, previous to September 1 if possible. —European Mail.

The Christchurch Press concluded a long and appreciative article on the late Mr Moorhouse as follows :—" He has done his work; he has laid down to his rest. In the days when a stout heart and wise brain were needed to guide the young settlement over the rocks and the rapids of its course, the heart and the brain weie found in him, and now others have but to carry on the work which he began. It may be that, of the tens of thousands who have orowded to our shores in these latter years, there may be many who do not know what those earlier times were like—what the men of the earlier times had to do. But, however in Canterbury if there is a family who, from penury have become affluent, who from affluence have become rich, it is for them to remember that they owe their comfortable home and easy life, in a very great measure, to Mr Moorhouse. Like the great architect of England— Si monumentum requiris, circumspice,—hia monument is the whole Provincial District of Canterbury. Others have taken up and carried on his idea; but the first initiation, the first practical step in action, the first real beginning of the material comfort and happiness of the people of Canterbury is due to him."

Our readers will remember that a paragraph appeared in the European Mail of August 13, 1880, reflecting upon the management of the post office at Wellington, in New Zealand. The paragraph we referred to we took over from another journal, but we regret, as the copy has been destroyed, that we have not been able to trace the source from whence it was obtained. Our contemporary, however, said that the complaint in respect of the nondelivery of letters came from Mr Edward Taylor, of Liverpool Road, London. As we expected, these charges created some sensation at Wellington, and it was only very natural that inquiries should be made into the matter. We are therefore, glad to state that an official inquiry shows quite certainly —a-i, indsed, locally well-informed people would know from the first—that the accusation was absurd as well as untrue. That the people who set the accusation going should be mean enough to deny that they had any hand in the business will surprise no one, but it will be some satisfaction to the authorities and employes of the post office at Wellington to know that the Agent-General has the name of the person who sent the original accusation to Mr Taylor, who now declares that he never made any charge at all. To say the least, the charges made were as cowardly as they were unwarrantable, and they might have gone uncontradicted but for our chance observation of the paragraph whioh we took over. It needs not to say that we did not share the views of Mr Taylor, and that we shall very much regret if we have been associated in the minds of our readers with the charges which were so unjustifiably made. Regretting the pain which the accusation against tho post office officials caused, it might be urged that the publicity which we gave to it had this advantage, that it brought the matter to the authorities, and led to a strict investigation, whioh proved the charges to be utterly groundless.—European Mail.

It does not appear that the law with regard to vaccination is very carefully carried out at Home, nor do the authorities take such steps as will enable the Government officers to enforce it. The following extract from the Daily Telegraph gives a case in point: —"Mr Dodson, on June 11, in Parliament, promised that calf vaccination should become a department of the national vaccination of the country. It is now eleven monthß since Mr Dodson gave this promise; but up to the present day it has not been fulfilled. As private individuals who can give their time to the work of obtaining calf vaccine find it not only interesting, but somewhat profitable, have we not a right to ask the reason for this delay on the part of Mr Dodson and the department ? The excuse given by Mr Dodson that a difficulty had arisen in finding stables for the calves is surely not a reason sufficient to satisfy the publio. The ever-increasing number and severity of our smallpox epidemics demonstrate that the infantile vaccine now in use is inadequate. On the other hand, it has never been shown,

during the last twelve years, that any iadividual vaccinated with oaif lymph has taken smallpox. Ono great advantage possessed by calf vaccine consists in the rapidity and certainty of its production— a fact of great value during epidemics of smallpox, as, within two or three weeks, any quantity of this lymph can beproduced, whilo the supply of lymph from infants must necessarily be limited. As one calf can provide sufficient vaccine to produce the efficient two large vesicles in 400 in-, dividuals, the force of my statement will be apparent, An enterprising foreigner is busy all day, in the Marylefeone<-road, dis* tributing calf vaccine. Ho is doing a largo business, to his own satisfaction and that of the public, and, if so, I would again ask why Mr Dodson and the Local Government Board, backed by the will and the money of Parliament and the country, simply sit on their stools as they calmly survey the present dangerous epidemic"

Mr E. Marshall in "Betsy" at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. The usual meeting of the Napier Tern« perance Mutual Improvement Society tonight at 8. Tenders are invited for renting a large grazing paddock between Earaday street and Clive Square. Mr E. Lyndon will hold his monthly land sale on the 27th instant, at which he will offer for sale a town section, a Bection at the Western Spit, and Wairoa sections. Impoundings at Taradale are advertised. Mr H. R. Holder inserts a fencing notice. A reward is offered for a lemon and white setter dog which is lost. Poultry trespassing on Mr Carnell' I garden, Coote-road, will be destroyed. A number of new advertisements will bo found in our " Wanted" column.