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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3502, 27 September 1882, Page 2

A tea meeting for children will be held this evening in Trinity Wesleyan Church schoolroom, to which all children attending the Sunday classes are invited. No charge will be made for admission. The vacant corner opposite the Post Office is to be built upon, as new premises for the Colonial Bank are to be started very shortly, and are to be completed in six months from the date of signing the contract. The succesful tenderer for the constructoin of a groin at the Waipawa river approach is Mr Thompson at £73 3s 4d. This ia only for lahor, the Waipawa County Council finding all other requirements. We are informed that the chief promoter of the Scandinavian concert to-night is a Bachelor of Music, Oxford, and a grand mudician. By request the Bishop of Waiapu has consented to take the chair. We •wish the object every success. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before E. Lyndon, Esq., J.P, William Elliott and Charles Jansen, alias Charles Brown, were each fined 5s and costs, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk at Hastings yesterday. Both the prisoners elected to " take it out," and adjourned to the hill under an escort. Woodyear and Ross's Australian Circus gave a performance at Waipawa last evening, and met with an enthusiastic reception. Over one thousand people must have been present. A great number of equestrian and acrobatic feats were gone through, the performance concluding with a " Grand National Steeplechase." The circus will appear at Waipawa to-night, at Makatoko to-morrow night, and at Woodville on Friday. We remind teachers and pupils that the sewing sgecimens for the prizes annually offered for competition by Captain Russell must be forwarded to the ofnce of the Education Board not latter than the last day of November. The examination is to take place on December 7. Any school intending to compete can obtain a " franked" address on application to Mr Pannin at the Education office. No prizes for " mapping" will be awarded this year. A general wish having been expressed that the sale of land at Gisborne under instructions from the New Zealand Land Settlement Company should be contemporaneous with the Government land sale, the date for holding same has been postponed to November 28th. By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that the dite for receiving tenders for the Wairaata South and East blocks has been altered from the 17th of October to the sth of December. The painful news reached town this morning that a lad, aged seven years, son of Mr Thomas of Petane, met his death last evening by drowning in the Petane river. From what we can gather it appears the youth was on board his father's steam launch Echo, when, by some mischance, he fell overboard, and was drowned before help could reach him Up to the time of going to press we were unable to obtain any further particulars, but an inquest will in all probability be held to-morrow. We remind brethren of the Masonic Craft that the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Masonic Hall at Waipawa, takes place to-morrow. The brethren are requested to meet at the Abercorn lodgeroom at 11 a.m., from whence they will proceed at 11.30 to the site of the proposed new building, where the customary ceremony ie to take place. Visitors proceeding from

Napier by the 7.25 a.m. train will arrive at Waipawa in ample time to take part in the proceedings, and may return home again the same evening. The ship Mataura, whose arrival in London ie reported in our cablegram with her oargo of frozen meat in excellent condition, is now loading at London for Wellington and Napier, and will be one of the New Zealand Shipping Company's vessels from this port to load with frozen meat this ensuing season. The Mataura is in command of our old friend Captain Greenstreet, formerly chief officer of the Waimea. There are twenty-eight lunatics now in the asylum at Napier, and there being but sleeping accommodation for six females and sixteen males the over-crowded state of the institution may be imagined. On Saturday next seven of the inmates, five females and two men, are to be removed to Nelson under the charge of Mr Mills and a matron be« longing to the asylum there, and assisted by Mrs Barry, the matron at Napier. Thie will leave fifteen males and «ix females. The Napier asylum is ouly fitted for the temporary safe keeping of lunatics, and it is not creditable to the colony that better arrangements are not made. At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Napier District School Committee, held last evening, Mr C. B. Winter was unanimously appointed chairman, vice Mr DobaoQ, whose resignation was received, and Mr Large was elected to fill the vacant peat on the committee. A letter was read from Miss M. Bedingfield resigning her position as asnietant mistress in the infant school. It was decided to reaommend the appointment of Mieis F. Eeed to the vacancy thus occasioned. Messes Large and Laws were appointed visiting committee for October, and the meeting adjourned after transacting some routine business. It was decided by a committee of the local Rifle Volunteers, who met last evening, to ask Hie Worship the Mayor to preside at a public meeting to be held early next month for the purpose of presenting the company prizes won in the various competitions last season. The following were selected as a team to compete on behalf of the company for Major Routledge's prize : —Sergeants Chicken, Eedwood, and Duncan ; Privates Hovell, Beck, Crossman, J". Frame, C. Cato, Galbraitb, and Tait. Emergency: W. Frame and Langhan. The team will compete against a team selected by the Artillery corps, and then the winning team will compete against each other for the individual possession of the prize.

The following civil oase was heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday after we went to press:—A. H. Hopkinson v. Dr. Faulkner.—Claim £45, for damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through certain injury to a horso hired from him by defendant, and which injury was stated to have been caused by the alleged negligent and unskilf uldriving and management of the defendant. Mr Lee appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Cornford for the defendant. Over half a dozen witnesses were called on each side, and the case lasted nearly four hours. Counsel having ad-

dressed the Court, ani quoted authorities and precedents, his Worship decided that no negligence or want of skill in driving had been proved by the plaintiff, and gave judgment for defendant, with costa £1 10a, counsel's fee £3 3s, and witness's expenses £4 6s 6d.

A correspondent calls attention to the hour fixed upon by the Holiday Association for the closing , of shops on Tuesday next, the day of the racea. He says, and we think with a [great show of justice, that, if the Association gives a holiday or a portion of a holiday for the ostensible purpose of permitting , employes to visit the attractions of the day, the hour of release from business should be timed in accordance with that object. On Tnesday the shops are to close at 11. BO a.m. Now, as the train for Hastings to catch the first race will certainly leave before that time, it looks as though the Association did not perceive that the closing hour must exclude employos from the sight of the most in* teresting event of the day—" The Guineas." If the Association will alter the hour of closing to 11 a.m.j employes will be afforded time, by a little hurrying, to get to their homes, and, taking charge of their wives and children, reach the station in time to cacch the 11.25 train for Hastings.

A meeting of the provisional committee of the Meat Export Company (limited) was held to-day in the Provincial Chambers, Captain Russell in the chair. Mr Ormond brought up the sub-committee'• report on the business accounts of the Tomoana works, which was passed as entirely satisfactory. Aβ a consequence of this resolution the company is to be floated on the basis proposed, viz., a capital of £50,000 in 5000 £10 shares, and Messrs Nelson Bros, and Williams' works, plant, &c , is to be purchased at £30,000. The whole of the resolutions will be submitted to the meeting of intending shareholders called for Friday next. An agreement was signed by various members of the provisional committee present to take a certain number of shares, if allotted. The total number applied for to-day is 1650 sharee. This, with 1700 to be taken by Messrs Nelson Bros, and Williams, amounts to 3350 shares, leaving 1650 to be yet applied for. The application list is open for signature at the office of Mr M. R. Miller, the acting secretary.

A discovery has been made by a gentleman in the North Otago district, (says the local Times) which at the present time looks as if it would turn out a bonanza on a small scale to the fortunate discoverer. While perambulating a certain part of the district he found a number of oyster shells lying in the clay and drift of a dried up water course. The shells have not been opened by the action of the sea or water, but both valves were cemented close together. The finder broke one of the shells open, and discovered what on a close scrutiny proved to be a pearl. A number were opened and invariably with the same gratifying result as occurred in the first instance. Two or three week ago a matoh-box full of these treasures was brought to Osmaru to a watchmaker and jeweller, who gave the finder a pretty fair idea of their value. This led to the assertion on the part of the finder that he thought he could bring in enough to appreciably effect the price of pearls in the NewZealand market. Whether this can be done or not remains to be eeen. The gentleman referred to, however, keeps the information regarding the locality of the discovery to himself. This district teems with evidences of the former and, comparatively, not very remote submarine state of the present New Zealand, and the spot where the above discovery was made is evidently an oyster bed, whose present position may be due to some volcanic agency of a byegone era.

Dr. Tucker, a gentleman bringing high credentials from Australia, has made some disgraceful discoveries in the Insane Asylum, Salt Lake City. He found twenty-one patients—twelve males and nine femalesall rolling in filth and dirt. Two of the patients were sane, and why they are in such a place no one knows. In the yard of this institution were iron cages kept for the purpose of confining the patients, numbers of whom were ironed hand and foot. An. attendant said they gently chaatieed these patients with a stick and strap, the latter being used on the women. The stanch around the place was unbearable and the filth was like that of a pig pen. The place is in charge of a Mnrinon,named Seymour B, Young, nephew of the late prophet Brigham Young. In a bigamy case tried at South Melton l England, Michael Allen, cuttler, pleaded that his second wife when she married him knew that he was a married man. The first *ife was convicted of felony, and othw-wise led him an unhappy life, so he sol<* her for five shillings to & man with wJ»om she lired for many years. This in 1851. He had never seen her The sale agreement was duly up. witnessed by her father and mother, and he thought it absolved him ; but he did not marry again till-last year. He waa committed for trial, — "mm

A single man t nam9d John Lee. forty-four years of age, lost hie life near Kendal under peculiar circumstances. The authorities of the Kendal and Preston Canal were draining it near Kendal for the purpose of cleaning it and repairs. Lee, with three other men, proceeded, a little hefore eleven o'clock at night, with nets for the purpose of catching , fish, and they were netting the outlets at Nataland, about a mile below Kendal, when Lee was drawn into a pipe by the force of the suction and carried some distance. "When the pipe was dug out of the ground Lee was found curled up in it and quite dead.

Fourpenny pieces are disappearing. The Association of English Country Bankers recommend that all coins of this denomination coming into the hands of bankers should be withdrawn by them from circulation and sent to the Bank of England. The Mint has ceased to issue these coins, and the Bank of England receives them, no matter how worn, at their full nominal value. Those withdrawn in 1881 represented £4000. The similarity to the threepenny piece renders the fourpenny coin undesirable, and the sooner it becomes obsolete the better. None have been minted since 1856. The principal sufferers are the churches, which, through the supplanting of the coin of larger value by the threepenny piece, have lost about 25 per cent, of their offertory collections.

Mr Childers recently said in the House of Commons that he did not know what became of the 100,000 to 200,000 rifles sold in 1878 by the War Department. We (Pall Mall Gazette) can tell what became of some of them. The Mayor of a town possessing a large number of Irish residents bought some thousands of them at about 2s 6d or 3s 6d a piece. Hβ then advertised throughout the district that any one who cared to buy goods at his shop to the value of 10s or 20s Bhould be presented with one of the discarded War Office firearms. The bait took. In a very short time the whole parcel was disposed of, and some thousand rifles were, by the agency of this enterprising Mayor, placed in the hands of piivate individuals — to be used, no doubt, for purposee of their own.

The Austrian Government (saya the Spectator) is evidently nervous about its popularity on the Adriatic. It recently arrested and expelled an Englisnman, Mr Evans, for unpleaeing statements about the result in Herzegovina; it has now warned Mr Stillman, an American, that he must not enter the Austrian dominions ; and it confiscated a Trieste paper for appearing in black on account of Garibaldi's death. Civil fortitude seems to be the one virtue which Continental statesmen can neither acquire nor affect. They fancy themselves insulted when they are criticised, they see danger in caricatures, and as for a demonstration of feeling it is to them intolerable. They might all be policemen at Ballina, where the authorities treated children's impertinence as a sort of treason. Their sensitiveness is, perhaps, not wonderful, as it is only the experience of freedom which teaches officials how little effect criticisms have ; but why do they reveal it so clearly ? They ard trained to conceal emotion in diplomacy, yet in civil affairs show themselves utterly hysterical.

In these modern days of social improvement there is hope for everyone so long as life exists, and the results of science show there is an antidote for every disease, however deep-rooted or stubborn. The external application of Pepper's Sulpholine Lotion, •which may be obtained of Professor Moore, chemist, &c, Waipawa, is infallible in the eradication of all descriptions of skin diseases. No family should be without this valuable specific.—[Advi.] " Poeta nascitur, orator fit" means, liberally translated, that the men who have signalized their lives by certain achievements, have been specially endowed and fitted by nature for the particular purpose. The minds of all the centuries might have plodded fruitlessly at certain, enterprises, and the grand principles from which the great discoveries of the ages were developed might have unfolded themselves to many, and yet no inventions resulted tberefrom. It remained to the proprietor, and him alone, to have originated Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Abomatic Schnapps.—[ Avt.l