The Daily Telegraph. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3217, 21 October 1881, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881.

Mr William Price, who is not altogether unknown in Napier aa a teetotal lecturer and Government Life Assurance agent, is a candidate for the representation of one of the Wellington constituencies. Mr Price, from a speech that he recently delivered, appears to be one of that mischievous class of politicians that glories in the outrageous nonsense of its political creed. Mr Price shall, however, speak for himself. He is reported to have said that at the earliest age he found himself a Chartist, and, ha\ing the courage of his opinions, bad even at that age found himself a political Pariah. The question of non-alienation of land was what he called his philosophy of politics, the central idea of his theory, round which revolved all other opinions and ideas which he held. If practical effect were given to his views, he believed it would change the aspect of things iv New Zealand, fill the streets ot the cities, and people the land with tens of thousands of agricultural labourers, and bring prosperity and happiness where now nothing was heard but complaints of wretchedness and sorrow. He held that it was contrary to sound economic, social, and political principles that the lands of the country should be sold, and be would advocate the peremptory stoppage of further sales. This was the fundamental question which affected our future. He warned the electors of the colony against returning squatters or lawyers to Parliament, the latter class making nine-tenths of their money out of conveyances of land for the former. The land tenure had brought New Zealand to its present condition —it had damned and spoiled one of the noblest, one of the most comprehensive, one of the most statesmanlike policies that ever a young colony aspired to give effect to, the Public Works Policy. He accused the Premier of deliberately desiguing to thwart that policy, and said thnt gentleman's name would go down to posterity aa the man, of all others, who had attempted to enslave and beggar the people of the colony. The runholding interest he denounced in vigorous terms, and said sheep caused all the misery of the present day. Where there were hundreds of thousands of sheep there ought to be tens of thousands of prosperous men and happy women spreading plenty and prosperity, and peace and blessing, far and wide. This completely puts Sir George Grey in the shade.

The New Zealand Times makes the following sensible remarks on the subject of candidates for election :—Every election period brings to tbe surface all that is impudent, impotent, useless, loquacious, and vaiu-glorious in the body politic. The more unfitted by training, education, social position, or ability, a man may be to represent his fellow colonists iv Parliament, the greater his confidence in thrusting himself prominently forward as a candidate. The country has suffered grievously from men of this stamp, and the electorates should, if they desire to see wiser counsels and more dignified procedure prevail than characterised the last and preceding sessious of Parliament, resolutely set their faces against tbe election of mere " plugless word spouts," as they have been most aptly termed ; men who have no real faculty of usefulness, or, having some good idea, utterly deluge them by their own incontinent babblings. There is an advantage to the electors in the length of time afforded candidates to express their views previous to the polling chy. On that they may fully gauge tbe actual worth of each. To pass unalterable judgment on their first utterances would be scarcely fair; those who have yet spoken are not many, and if not avowing, still reserve to themselves the privilege of future explanations. It is plain from the present list of candidates announced that many new and untried men will come forward, that not a few of the most useful amoug old members of the House will not seek re-election, and that all or nearly all, of those whose demonstrative loquacity has been their chief characteristic will all come nimbly to the fore. Tbe selection will require most careful judgment, and the best criterion of each candidate's qualification will be his capability of expressing an intelligent opinion on the politics of the colony without depending on the ideas, or opinions, or probable intentions, of other men. Old party lines are already dissevered, never again to be united except in new combination. The colony wants no carpers and cavillers at past or present policies, but men who, of their own power and genius, can carry on the work of legislation.

The English and Southern mails received at the Post office, Napier, last night consisted of 2041 letters, 7u4 books, 3395 newspapers, and bo registered letters. A cricket match between the Herald Club and an eleven of the Gary Opera Company will be played upon Clive Square tomorrow afternoon, commencing at 1.30. A circular letter has been received by the native chiefs of Hawke's Bay from the Ngatiporou tribe asking their support for a candidate to oppose Henare_ Tomoana at the forthcoming genoral elections. A Southern contemporary is responsible for tho following:—"A London telegram states that Colonel Whitmore is rapidly recovering from a painful surgical operation performed on him about a month ago by Professor H. C. Smith, of Kings' College." The Napier railway station is about to be placed in telegraphic communication with the rest of the line stations. It would be of great public convenience if the Kaikora, Waipawa, and Waipukurau stations were also connected by wire with the Napier office. The Hawke's Bay Sailing Club will bold the second of the season's sailing matches to-morrow on the inner harbor. Tho boats will leave the usual starting place about 2.30 p.m., and if the weather holds favourable some exciting races may be looked forward to. The following team has been picked to represent the Napier C. C. in the match with the Civil Service C. C. at Petane tomorrow :—Messrs. Carncll, H. Martin, J. Martin, Gilberd, Edwards, White, Mayo, Gilpin, Ellison, Humphries, and Cato. The coach conveying the teams will leave the I Empire Hotel at one o'clock sharp.

The following gentlemen have been appointed the Returning Officers for this provincial district: —For Napier, J. T. Tyke, Esq.; for Hawke's Bay, G. A. Oliver, Esq.; for Waipawa, A. St. C. Inglis, Esq. A good opportunity has apparently been lost for an excurson trip to Wellington and back by the Union Company's steamer Ringarooma, which left here at noon today, as that vessel might have been detained a day and have left Wellington on her return, when no doubt a good many persons would have availed themselves of the trip, especially if excursion fares had been advertised, as it is seldom the weekly boats leave here on Friday to enable passengers to return in so short a time as might have been done on this occasion. We have received copy of " Brett'.? Guide to Fiji," a handbook for resident., and tourists, edited by H. C. Thurston, Esq., and printed and published at the Star office, Auckland. The Guide contains some excellent maps, and a directory, besides useful information concerning the various islands composing the groupe, and some well told stories illustrative of native character, and of the early settlement of Fiji by Europeans. It is needless to say that the " Guide" is well printed, and is a credit to the enterprising publisher. The chairman of the County Council of Hawke's Bay has received the following letter from the Surveyor-General's Department :—"ln accordance with the request contained in your letter of September 20, I am directed to inform you that the Government has decided to entrust to your County Council the expenditure of £520 voted for the purpose of opening up the Puketitiri Bush. It is also understood that the County will contribute a further sum of £200 towards the same object. (Signed) J. McEjereow." In accordance with this authority the County Council will take immediate stepp for the opening up of the Bush. Another old colonist has passed away in the person of Mr Thomas Lowry, who died yesterday at Taupo, at the age of 67 years. Mr Lowry was amongst the earliest settlers of the province of Nelson, but about 1849 left there for this Island, and lived two or three years in the Taupo district. In 1852 he became a Hawke's Bay settler, and took up the Okawa country, which he held at the time of his death. Mr Lowry led a very retired life,*but he was a liberal supporter of all local charitable institutions. Tbe remains of the deceased are to be brought to Napier, and the funeral will leave the Criterion Hotel to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock for the Puketapu cemetery. " The Pirates of Penzance "is to be repeated at the Theatre- Royal to-night, and as this is the opera to which the Gary Company appear to have devoted special care, and in which the full strength of the company comes out, no doubt a repetition of it will draw a good house. The part of Mable, assumed by Miss Murielle, is one of her most finished performances, and one for whie.h she has received a large amount of well-merited praise. The Ruth of Miss Leaf is a thoroughly charming delineation. All the oher parts are well filled, and the beautiful choruses which abound in this opera are rendered with a precision and power worthy of the highest praise. This is tho last night on which the season tickets issued will be available. To-morrow night Pinafore will be produced, and as will be seen from advertisement a special train will run from Hastingp, and special coaches from the districts near Napier. The Napier Temperance Mutual Improvement Society held its regular meeting last evening, the subject for consideration being the new Licensing Act, and the opportunities afforded for carrying on temperance work under its provisions. Members of other temperance bodies had been invited, and there was a good and thoroughly representative attendance. The Rev. J. Spear, of Taradale, was placed in the chair, and opened the proceedings by prayer. After some remarks of a preliminary kind, he called on Mr R. C. Harding to give an outline of those parts of the new Act which were of special importance. A desultory discussion followed, and was kept up to a late hour, the subject being the position to be taken by the distinctively temperance bodies in the forthcoming elections. The Rev. Mr Penney, among others delivered a short address, which was of a very practical kind, and very much to the point. There seemed to be a more numerous and united party than on the occasion of any previous election; but no practical steps were taken at the meeting, the active work being deputed to a joint committee. The usual compliment to the chair having been tendered, the meeting was closed. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning His Worship gave judgment in the case of Wells v. the Corporation of Napier, a claim for £10 0s Gd. Mr Lascelles appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Sainsbury for the Corporation. His Worship said in this case the plaintiff sued the Corporation for work, &c, done by him (plaintiff) between the filing of his declaration of insolvency and receiving his discharge. The defendants pleaded, among a number of points, that the plaintiff was an uncertificated bankrupt at the time the debt was incurred; that the trustee in his bankruptcy was the person to sue, and that the defendants had paid the said trustee. Tt was a question which mast be decided upon hard points of law. The equities in in the case were fa ; rly balanced. The sympathy of the Court was strongly with the plaintiff in the matter; the interval between the filing of a declaration and a discharge must be considerable, and a man mnst do something to support himself and family. On the other hand the Corporation had paid the amount to the trustee in the plaintiff's estate. His Worship quoted many English authorities and cases to show that a man under the circumstances of the plaintiff is entitled to sue for personal labor done. Two questions were raised —(1) Was this principle applicable to the colony ; (2) was the claim of the plaintiff a claim for personal labor. The first question was settled by a decision of Mr Justice Richmond's, that the same rule of law in this matter as obtained in England applied to the colonies. Unfortunately for the plaintiff in this case the larger portion ot bis claim was for certain chattels transfered to the defendants, which must be treated as goods sold and delivered, and for that portion the plaintiff could not recover ; £1 of the claim was clearly for personal labor done, and for that amount judgment would be given for plaintiff. In the matter of costs a wido latitude was allowed to the magistrate, and in this case he would order that the costs of the case be equally apportioned between the two parties in the suit. Many hearts that have been moved by the music of "Kathleen Mavourneen" will learn with regret (says the Manchester Guardian), that the gifted author of that famous song (Nicholas Crouch) has not been successful in the battle of life, and is now, at the age of 73, reduced to the necessity of working as a varnisher in a Baltimore factory. Wo (Post) learn with much gatification that tho Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, who on former occasions has devoted the amount of his honorarium to benevolent objects, has again adopted the same course, and has just sent a cheque of £140 as a contribution to the funds of the Wellington Ladies' Christian Association, to be applied to the purposes of their Home for Friendless Women. If all the members of the Legislative Council were equally generous in their appropriation of their honorarium, it assuredly would not be grudged to them by the public. So the Honourable Richard Oliver (says tho Post) has rejoined his late colleagues in the New Zealand Cabinet. Ho is not to hold a portfolio, because his business engagements will not pormit this: Consequently he will receive no salary. He is not to stand for re-election to the House of Representatives, because his health will not permit this: Consequently he will be called to the Legislative Council. All this is clear enough. Everybody can understand that Mr Oliver "hasaccepted a seat! in the Cabinet without a portfolio and is to '

be appointed to the Legislative Council." But what everybody cannot quite understand is, why this arrangement was made. Mrs Parnell (that is to say, the agitator's newly wedded bride), has been in America since 1874. Before that she lived in Paris for a long time. She became familiar there with all the famous men and women of the day, and saw all the glory of the reign of Napoleon 111. She was intimately acquainted with the Empress Eugenic. She has a vast amount of knowledge of European courts, and is, all in all, a very interesting lady. The Builder says there is a peculiarity about the present year.of grace which may afford materials for those who are seeking for omens and portents in these terrible times, and which, so far as we know, has not hitherto been pointed out. The date 1881 reads the same either from right to left or left to right, as it does also if turned upside down. Some thousands of years must elapse before it will be possible to say the same thing again, in fact, not till the year 8008. Eighty years hence, in 1961, it will read the same upside down, but not from left to right or right to left. The figures of the present year 1881 are divisablo by 9, giving 209 as the result, and added together make 18, also divisible by 9, and making 9 when added together. A story is told me of the late Sir Redmond Barry. Truth or fiction I cannot say, but a good story—good enough for the good man gone to rest. There was in Melbourne a person named Bulfinch, a creature with one characteristic—his immediate progenitor had been a baron. 'My father, the barou,' was ever on his lips. It is not difficult to imagine such a one becoming an intoldrable nuisance. Bulfinch was a nuisance—in society, one evening, an intolerable nuisance. Sir Redmond called the offending one aside, with intent to administer a healing rebuke. ' I have an infinite respect for you, sir, but mingled with regret.' Bulfinch found cause for self-gratulation in the words but the end was not yet. ' Your father, I have heard, was a baron.' Bulfinch acquiesced. 'My regret, sir, is, that your mother was not baron too.'—Sydney Mail. The Cary Opera Company in "The Pirates of Penzance " at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. A grand concert at Hastings this evening at 8. Messrs H. Monteith and Co. will sell tomorrow hacks, harness horses, etc., at 1.30 p.m. Messrs J. Speight and Co., of the City Brewery, Dunedin, advertise that they are prepared to supply their ales and stout to consumers in Hawke's Bay through their agent, Mr W. Cato. Those interested are requested to look out for Leonard and Co.'s great auction sale. Dr de Lisle has returned from Taupo. A special train leaves Hastings at 6.45 to* morrow evening for Napier, returning after the opera. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.