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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3483, 5 September 1882, Page 2

On taking hia eeat in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning . Captain Preece, R.M., announced that the new Justices of Peace Act came into force on and after this date.

We have received Biadshaw's Guide and the Pocket Guide to the Union Steamship Company's services for the month of September. Both publications contain the usual amount of useful information.

At the meeting of the local branch of the Irish National Land League last night, it was resolved, in addition to other business transacted, to forward by the outgoing English mail the sum of £25 to the League at Home.

The Napier Artillery Volunteers were inspected by Major Routledge in front of the Athenaeum last night, after which, headed by the band playing inspiriting airs, the Battery had a march out. Subsequently the men were served out with their new undress jackets.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning a prohibition order under clause 187 of the new Licensing Act was issued in the case of William Swanson, prohibiting publicans in this district from serving him with liquor for a period of twelve months from date of order. There is a standing reward of £10 offered by the Corporation for information that may lead to the conviction of persons damaging a gas lamp. In addition to this reward the Municipal Works Committee last night recommended the offer of a reward of £5 for the conviction of the person or persons guilty of damaging the lamp at the corner of Carlyle and Owen streets. Mr R. Lovo, advance agent for the Royal Australian Circus Company, was •energetically engaged " billing " the town yesterday, and is now only awaiting instructions from head-quarters to announce the exact date of opening here. It is the intention of the company, after concluding their Napier season, to proceed overland to Wellington, calling at Hastings, Waipawa, Waipukurau, and probably Woodville, «n route. The contractor for laying the drain pipes from the hospital along Main-street into the lagoon is making rapid progress, and expects to have the work completed by Saturday. We ehould like to see tho drain carried a little further into the lagoon, because we believe, as at present determined on, the sewage matter will be deposited on a mud bank exposed to the sun, and will inevitably cause a nuisance during the enxuing -utnmer to the inhabitants of that locality. The Public Works Committee of th e Municipal Council met last evening , , and agreed to the following recommendations : —1. That the boundaries for limiting the operation of the by-law with regard to cesspits as suggested by Cr. Margoliouth be adopted. 2. That with reference to the steps known as " Jacob's Ladder," a reply be forwarded to Mr C. Graham that the Council regret they cannot undertake to repair them. 3. That a reward of £5 be offered for the conviction of the person or persons who damaged the gas lamp in Carlyle-slreet, (Owen-street corner). 4. That tenders be invited for the laying of water pipe trenches. 5. That the attention cf the Harbor Board be drawn to the danger arising , from the lagoon along the Spit road being unfenced, and that they be directed to fence the same. 6. That be instructed to proceed with the channelling in Waghornestreet. 7. That the engineer's, inspector of nuisances, and overseer's reports be adopted. The death of Mr William Walters will be a severe loss to nearly every Jockey Club in this colony. Tho deceased gentleman was a thorough sportsman, unboundedly liberal in the support of racing, quiet in manner, and of the most even temper. It could never be told by his countenanco whether he had aohieved a success or experienced a heavy loss on the turf. His memory will be cherished by all who knew him, and his absence from the grand stands of thfi racecourses of Wew Zealand during , the coming season will cause many a regret, and bring to mind his numerous acts of generosity and kindness. Mr Walters came to this colony as a lad of fourteen years of age with his parents, his father, a practical miner.'being in the employ of an English company that was formed to work the copper deposits in the Great Barrier and Kawau Islands. A.t an early age Mr Walters married, and his Srst business venture waa in the butchering trade at which he made a considerable fortune in the supply of the troops during the war. He then sold out and invested in landed property at Papakura, but rerentered his old business just prior to the discovery of the goldfields at the Thames, finally selling out to Mr Dornwell, and realising a large fortune. Mr Walters then devoted himself to the turf, on which he has not been so conspicuously successful as to lead to the impression that he has died a wealthy man, He leaves a widow and a son and daughter to mourn his loss. Miss Walters married some time back Mr Hay, solicitor, of Auckland.

The Auckland Herald, referring to a trial of the newly-patented Ligowsky shy pigeon and trap which took place under tbaauspicee of the Hamley Gun Club on Saturday laet, at Ellerslio, says :—The great feature of this invention is that it enables a person to become a crack shot "on the wing , ," without the expenaiveuse of pigeons. The clay pigaons are a capital substitute for the live bird, and much superior to " glass balls" or the " gyro " for practice, It will take some of our best shots to stop them, so rapid is thefr flight. From the favourable reports in the American and English Press, this clay pigeon eeems to be well thought of, aud will uo doubt supersede the uee of live ones.

Such is fame! The Australasian knows so little of the history of our Colonial Treasurer that it takes him to be tome half-pay officer, who has reoently tried his hand at politics, instead of a veteran statesman. In a leading article it says:—" Retired military men often becomea philanthropists. Their superfluous activity is diverted from the destruction of their fellow creatures to their preservation. It rarely happens, however, that the skill of these enthusiasts is within speaking distance of their benevolence. "Wβ hardly, therefore, wonder when we find Major Atkinson, the Treasurer of New Zealand, gravely proposing such a scheme of benevolent finance as we might have expected under similar conditions from good Colonel Newcome. Major Atkinson, it seems, read an artiole in one of the London magazines by a clergyman, showing that pauperism is a very bad thing, and that Government ought to put it down, and that if every man was made to insure his life, the whole thing was done. Thousands of such projects may be heard or read every day in the year. The project we refer to did not differ from its predecessors in other way than that it was cleverly written. But it fetched the gallant major immediately. His position gave him an opportunity of affording an official sanction to this admirable plan, and he has * accordingly declared war against pauperism, and has introduced into the Parliament of New Zealand a resolution in favour of a scheme of compulsory insurance by the State." The Australasian, then proceeds to demolish the gallant major's scheme.

Tbe enormous indebtedneai of Egypt, amounting to 400 million dollars, wai created in this way. Ismail Pasha, says an exchange, was in part educated in France, and whild there he imbibed with eagerness the French ideas of splendour and material progreis. A man of ability and with unbounded ambition, he aimed to make Egypt a second France. He borrowed money in, England and France with which to build railroads, factories, bridges, palaoes, canals, roads, and to carry on every conceivable internal improvement, far in advance of the ideas or needs of his people. Taxation, to pay the intere»t on hii enormous indebtedness, and to run hie expensive government, was laid heavily upon the people, until each cultivated acre paid an average of 12 dollars a year, and every fruit tree and shrub paid tribute. The fellaheen were forced to work for him, earring out his improvements, for nothing. He managed to get nearly onefifth of the land into his possession, and this was worked without pay to the laborers. The poor people laid all their troubles to the Europeans and to European ideas. They wish to blot out all European institutions and influences, a feeling that cannot be wondered at, however just the rights that the usurious European nations have obtained through the reckless sway of the khedives.

Notwithstanding the tightness of money, and the buiineas depreision that has followed the recent inclement weather in the country districts generally, Professor Moore, of the Medical Hall, Waipawa, has largely increased Lie stock, and is now offering , white enamel sufficient to stop 12 teeth at Iβ !; scents in great variety from Iβ to 10s per bottle; toilet sets I7e 6d to 35i.— [Advt.]

The weather prophet of Hackensack.— There is a meteorological Sayan at Hackensack, New Jersey, who claims that observations can be based just as effectually on the mutations of the clouds as on the instruments that gauge the pressures. His predictions, however, have not sustained his theory. How unlike the augury of the success of Udolpho Wolpb'b Schiedam Abomatio Schvapps, made in the earliest days of the article's manufacture.—[Advt.J