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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3246, 25 November 1881, Page 2

Mr Sutton addresses the electors at Hastings this evening , in the new town hall. To-day the Sherriff drew the panel of the jury for the sitting of the Supremo Court on the 12th of December. Mr It. Stuart wires his friend Captain Bower that he has greatly improved in health since leaving the Cape, and that ho will be back in Napier to-morrow. This answers "Friendship's" letter. Mr Macdonakl, of the Taradale Hotel, has applied to the Acclimatisation Society for 1000 young trout and 500 English perch for the purpose of stocking with those fish the lakes and streams in the vicinity of Kuripapangi. If the " weather notice" ?.t the telegraph office 13 to be of any service to the publis it should certainly be written clearly enough to make its contents L-gible. To-day the j ordinary reader could only discover that it was snowing at Nelson, and at several other meteorological stations, and that at Napier alone was the atmosphere cloudy ! The wretchedly slow progress that is being made with Tennyson-street is very discreditable to the borough. For months has this road been in the hands of the workmen, and is far from being finished. A little tinkering here and there appears to be the system, instead of a job teing taken in hand vigorously, and thoroughly completed before another is touched. The children and teachers attending the district school have good cause to complain at the disgraceful state of the road and path leading to that building. Very little moist weather converts the ground all round the school fence into a sloppy quagmire, in wading through which teachers and pupils get their boots soaked, and with damp feet they have to go through the day's duties. Our readers will be glad to hear that Mr Hoskins is reported to be slightly better to-day. It has been a great disappointment to playgoers that this most popular comedian has been laid up for so long a portion of his stay here, but we are happy to learn that hopes are entertained that he will be able to leave with the Pomeroy Company on Monday to fulfil engagements at Wellington. The F. Battery Artillery Volunteers paraded under Captain Garner and Lieut. Pell on Wednesday night for company drill in the Protestant Hall. There was a very good muster. After a short drill the corps was marched along the jßeach road, and returned @ to town by Shakespeare hill, headed by the battery band. The corps were put through a number of company movements on the march by Lieut. F. Pell, which were very well executed. At a meeting of the committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society to-day it was decided that the ram fair should be held on January 25, IPB2. In reference to offices for the society, Mr Winter stated that plans and a definite offer would be submitted by the Permaneut Building Society next week. Mr M. R. Miller said that when the society had offices he would be glad to give £10 towards the formation of a reference library, conditionally upon a further sum of £90 being subscribed. Mr J. Heslop, sen., immediately offered £10 towards that object. It is scarcely credible, but it is nevertheless true, that a wide belief exists in the nonseorecy of the ballot. Many people, absolutely ignorant of the responsibilities of life as regards the conduct of the operation of the laws of the country, cannot understand how the ballot can be secret while a figure !is attached to a ballot-paper. We have explained why it is times without number. All that we can say now is, that if electors think they cannot vote without it being known, who they voted for it is a great pity their names were entered uponthe electoral roll. The ballot is absolutely secret. Tho performance of " Led Astray" by the Pomeroy Company drew a good house at the Theatre Royal last night. Miss Pom eroy's Countess Armande was admirably done. Miss Jessie Grey, as Mathilde was charming. Mr Hollo way's Count Rudolph was a careful piece of acting. Mr Herberu Flemming us George De Lesparre acted with his usual ability. Miss Kate j Arden as the Dowager Countess played with remarkable spirit and success. Mr J. J. Wallace as Major O'Hara was all that could be desired in the comparatively poor part he had to take. To-night Miss Pomeroy will take a farewell benefit asLady Gay Spanker in " London Assurance.' , At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Mr G. H. Swan was charged with neglecting to affix and cancel a duty stamp in the manner required by the Beer Duty Act, 1881, upon a cask containing eighteen gallons of bner removed from the brewery of tho said G. H. Swan. Mr Sainsbury appeared for the defendant. Defendant was fined £20, and costs in the action. At the conclusion of the case His Worship remarked that a number of cases had come under his notice in which the publican had failed to deface the stamp on the cask, contrary to the Act, which distinctly stated that the publican shall cancel the stamp on the barrel. An " Elector " wishes to know whether there is any truth in a report he has heard that, the peculiar mixture of men and politics now observable in Hawke c Bay is due to an arrangement with Mr_ John Sheehan, namely, that, in consideration of Mr Buchanan being allowed to go into Parliament for Napier unopposed by the Ormond paity, Mr Ormond's seat would not be contested by Mr Sheehan. The Hawkc's Bay seat was to go to Captain Russell. The report goes on to say that Mr Ormond agreed to this, and was willing to sacrifice Mr Sutton for Mr Buchanan. Mr Smith looked for tho support of the Liberals, but finding that they weie " stand-

ing off the grass," presumably in accordance with tho Ormond—Sheehan compact, of which ho had not been informed, he started Mr McDougall into town to oppose Mr Buchanan. Perhaps some of the candidates will be able to throw a little light on proceedings that at present appear shrouded in darkness. The law provides, Rays the Dunedin Herald, that anglers who may happen to oatch trout under seven inches in length must return them to the stream, or they will, if detected, lay themselves open to a heavy penalty. On Wednesday the Acclimatisation Society's ranger visited the Water of Leith stream, and discovered that an angler had hooked a trout measuring s|in long, and had not returned it to the water. The ranger immediately took possession of the fish, and we understand that an action will be taken against the angler in question. It is reported in Dunedin that an effort will shortly be made to secure a service of steamships from Great BritaiD to that port, on a different basis to any yet proposed. It has been suggested that a combination, of a large number of merchants and leading , settlers would be able to offer inducements to lead steamship proprietors to make the experiment. The inducement would probably take the form of assuring freight, with a guarantee against any actual loss being incurred by the owners. To successfully carry out such a scheme would be an undertaking worthy of Otago. Among the native ceremonies at Fiji in welcome of the Royal middies was the chewing of the Kawa (the Kawa-Kawa of New Zealand) and the mixing of it with water to make grog, and passing the bowl round to the distinguished, guests. Prince Edward had to submit, and to screw up his courage very much like a little boy who had to face a nauseous dose of medicine. He failed to empty it, however, and passed it on. His brother, Prmce George, did better. He drank it manfully, and threw the bowl among the exultant chiefs, who would have replenished it had he shown any desire for more, but he did not. Commenting on the Protection v. Free Trade controversy, the Wairarapa daily says :—" The great charm of New Zealand to the dwellers in the Old Country is the belief that it is a land where a healthy natural life may be led without the strain, the anxiety, and the worry, which attend the earning of daily bread in the thicklvpopulated countries of Europe. We would like to retain for New Zealand this characteristic rather than stamp it as a commercial and manufacturing colony. We are very willing that England should make spades and shovels for us, provided that we can supply that country with meat and butter and cheese." In palming off upon the public an inefficacious article, the injury is not so much in the fact of its being utterly valueless, as in the mistrust it produces, and the consequent lack of public confidence that inevitably ensues. People upon whom impositions have been practiced grow wary and watchful, and this euspicion soon becomes so intensified, that they even look with disfavor upon what is genuine. Hence the necessity of rejecting everything that trenches upon Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam: Abomatic Schnapps, the one, unapproachable preparation.— [AXPfT.J