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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3248, 29 November 1881, Page 2

G. A. Preece, Esq., has been appointed a Trust Commiwuoner, under the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, for the district of PoVerty Bay.

It i« announi r.d tha*- _I_ G. H. liwnn will take ih. ch-iir at M_ J3uohanan's meeting on Thursday at the Theatre Koyal. Mr Goodall, 0.E., left Napier last night by the Albion, after having obtained all tho information he required to report upon the feasibility of constructing an artificial harbor. The following civil cases are set down for trial at the ensuing session of the Su promo Court:—Sutton v. Douglas, and ?ees r. Barker. We understand that there will probably be others. Tho Pomeroy Company took their departure from Napier by th-3 Albion last night, but we regret to learn that Mr Hoskins was too mi well to accompany them, being laid up with gout and a severe attack of dysentery. A report having been circulated that Mr E. Price, of this journal, intended to offer hirrisolf as a candidate for the representation of this constituency, we hare his authority for stating thai- he has no intention of doing anything of the kind. Ehewhere appaars an advertisement requesting that the subscription lists, sent out by th» comtnitte. of the fund for the relief of the widow and orphans of the late E. Shubley, may be returned as early aa convenient, so that the fund may be afc once put to its best uses. Mr C. B. Har«key, district manager of the railway, has received from Mr H. Bickerton thopumof £11 8s 6d, being tho proceeds of an entertainment given in aid of the Shubley fund, nnd also the sum of £9 3s, contributions received by Messrs Diuwiddie, Walker and Co. for the same object. Iv the .Resident Magistrate's Court today, before PL Eyre Kenny Esq., ±t.M., Edward Andrew Clarke was brought up under the Ys.g_.u_y Act. and sentenced to three tr.-:uths imprisonment with hard labor. Five previous convictions had been recorded against the prisoner. A charge of l"icen v again.. Lin a Hofl was remanded till to-morrow. The Court was occupied up tr» tho hour cf our going to press in the hearing of several civil caries. ■A. a meeting of the Poverty Bay Cricket Club, held on Monday evening, the follow-! :ng were the names out of which the eleven to piny again*, the Napier team on 27th] and 2St:i December, will be chosen : —Messrs J. iW., G. J. Winter, Thelwall, White, Erauss, Nolan, Woodhead, W. L. Eees, Sunderlar.d, Day, Bourne, iteefer, Murchie, J. Bull, H. Bull", A. J. Ifyson, Stotfc, Ballantyne, P. Bond, liiahon, W. J. Quigley, J. W. Johnson and Reynolds. It will be seen that Mr F. H. Stevens has given notice to apply for a license for the Beacousfield Hotel, a building recently remove;! from Kopua to M„katoku. Travellers overland from souibern districts by coach and train can speak highly of the accommodation and conveniences ever supplied by Mr and Mrs Stevens at Kopua, and will be glad to learn that such a capable host and hostess are prepared to supply the wants o! passengers at the new terminus at Makatoku. The annual meeting of the members of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church took place last night, the Rev. David Sidey occupying the chair. - The balance-sheet showed receipts, £980 15s lid; expenses, £825 ossd; assets, £2G4 Os 6d; liabilities, £118 6s lOd. A. resolution was carried to increase the Rev. D. Bidey's stipend by £50 a year. The Sunday School report showed 231 children on tho rolls, eleven lady teachers and six gentlemen. Addresses were given by the Revs. Sidey, Penney, Bunn, and Campbell, the choir rendering anthems during the evening. Mr Hob. Lamb desires to inform all who are not " children or fools " that he is not responsible for the " tomfool corner at Newton's," nor for the "ridiculous culvert across Hastings-.treet." Nobody thought that he was. But when it becomes necessary, after a heavy shower of rain, to out a gulch across the Shakespeare road to allow the storsn wster to escape in some other direction to that which the public works intended, it is high time somebody was made responsible. We venture to think that few towns in New Zealand can show for the size of its population more money spent foolishly than Napior. If the public work, in this town could be characterised as " cheap and nasty," there would bo less rea.cu to complain. On Sunday next the offertories at all the churches in Napier will be devoted to the aid of the Hospital funds. It has also been suggested by some of the members of the Freemason lodge 3 that a special Ko=pit&.l eh-arcK service on an evening l of the week towards the close of the year would bo an appropriate way of outwardly exhibiting tho chief characteristic of the Craft. Tho last Masonic Hospital Sunday was the manna of contributing £200 towards the funds of the institution, but it is now thought that an evening week day service would less interfere with the regular divine service of the Sabbath. The hospital is greatly in need of funds, and we know of no public charitable institution that is so deserving of support. Some large scores have been made during tho past cricketing season in England. Prom _ome papers received by the last mail, we observe that, in a match, Lansdown v. Trowbridge, tho former eleven, with the loss of only four wickets, scored 348 runs, to which Messrs E. and F. Sainsbury, who, we understand, are brothers of G. E. Sainebury, of this town, contributed respectively 171 aud 33. In another match, Lansdown v. Clifton, (the latter team being a very strong one, and comprising several members of the famouf< Leicestershire eleven), the Lansdown eleven made the enormous score of 334 with the loss of two wickets only, E. and if. Sainsbury making 156 not out, the whole Clifton eleven going out for only C 8 runs. A correspondent writes as follows: — " i'frLamb denies all responsibility for the present arrangements for carrying off storm water. He also says that extensive works are in progress for underground and surface drainage, but as yet incomplete, and therefore not available in such an emergency as the sudden storm of yesterday. Sudden storm indeed! Why yesterday's rain was'a gentle shower compared to the summer rain storms Napier is subject to, and for the carrying off of which the engineer should be responsible. A pretty thing for Mr Lamb to tell the flooded out shopkeepers in Hastings-street he is not responsible. The Herald said, when advocating the appointment of Mr Lamb, that the drainage works would be complete in twelve months, and that the Corporation would want an engineer for that time only. 1 am afraid twelve years will be nearer the mark." A progressive land tax (says the Press) is the favorite theory of a few shallow politicians, who have either never really looked into the matter at all, or having done so, care little about its reasonableness or practicableness as long as they are able to win a little cheap popularity amongst those even less informed than themselves. As a scheme of taxation it is destitute of every element which should commend it to the consideration of reasonable men. It will not produce the revenue promised on its behalf by its advocates ; nor is it needed for the other purpose stated, namely, for bursting up the big estates. There is plenty of land available for settlement at the present moment without resorting to the barbarous method of confiscating one class of property simply because there are a few men who have acquired freeholds of such an extent as to make them an object of envy to their less fortunate fellow settlers. Speaking at a meeting held at Ellesmere, Canterbury, for the purpose of forming an Association of Teachers, a Mr Baldwin stated that the salaries of teachers in New Zealand were at tho present time less than those in the old country; indeed, they were not equivalent to tho wages of a good plonghinan. It would be well if a deputation were oppointed to interwiew the Board, as had been done by the town schools. He thought that a great saving might be effected by the abolition of certain offices. Eor example; one inspector would,

be quite sufficient for tha whole district. Half the time of the present inspector was taken up in performing police duties. There were about 120 schools in tho district, tho examination of which could bo easily done by an inspector in 40 weeks, being three per week, and if the schoolmasters required a policeman to look after them, one could be obtained afc a lower salary than that paid to inspectors.

Neglect is often as fertile a cause of suffering as the disease itself. Human nature, warned as it is by repeated examples, is prone to forget the salutary lessons they inculcate, and apt to lose, by deferment, the good it may derive from prompt and decisive action. When the means are within our grasp, it is almost sinful to allow their escape, and those who overlook the virtues of lldoi-piio Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps must stand forever self-criminated and reproached.— [Advt.]