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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3510, 7 October 1882, Page 2

Messrs J. Gilberd and R. Barrows, who left Na.ier for a visit to England last March, "returned here to-day after a thoroughly enjoyable holiday, for which they look all the better. It was tbe intention of Ministers to leave for Wellington to-day but owing to the postponement of the sailing of the Te Anau till to-morrow morning their departure for the seat of government has been necessarily delayed. The first of a series of handicap sailing matches takes place in the inner harbor this afternooD amongst the Hawke s Bay Sailing Club's boats, and as the day has turned out fine a pleasant afternoon's sport may be anticipated.

Mr W. C. Smith, M.H.R., has presented each of the public libraries in his district with £5 towards their funds. The libraries are nix in number, viz., at Waipawa, Waipukurau, Tamumu, Porangahau, P a t an ; gata. and Hampden. This is an aot that will bear imitation by other M.H.R. s when disposing of their honorariums. Tbe proprietors of the Zulu War exhibition have just concluded a very successful season at Hastings, where they opened each evening to crowded houses. A number of new panoramic views of the war m Egypt are expected to arrive shortly, and with these the proprietors will probably open a fresh season in this district.

In answer to " One of the astonished" we may Bay that general surprise was ex-

pressed afc Blair Athol getting honors in front of Pohukura, afc the late show, but as it is impossible for a judge to please everybody it would be moßt unfair to call in question decisions based on grounds of which we ura ignorant. We are not inclined t*> render a judge's task more thankless than ifc is. We understand that the few pots of honey exhibited by Mr Goddard afc the Agricultural and Pastoral Society'? show on Thursday had absolutely to be held back from sale for that purpose, it being the desire of the exhibitor in entering the commodity to draw attention to the advantages of beekeeping, and to encourage others to take a part in the development of what should prove to _be a useful and paying industry. As showing the demand there ia for locally grown honey, we may mention that Mr Goddard has entirely disposed of all his large stock without being put to the necessity of exporting a single tin. The weekly meeting of the Clive Square Mutual improvement Association was held last night. There was a fair attendance of members. After some preliminary business an essay on Lord Maeaulay was read by Mr Le Petit. The essayist, who kept the attention of the class in a marked manner throughout, was freely criticised at the conclusion of his interesting and instructive compilation. Illustrations from Macaulay's works were given by Messrs Campbell, Gibson, Alpers, and C. H. Laws. The next meeting of the Association will be held on Tuesday, October 10th, when the question " Is the phonetic system of spelling more desirable than the present method;?" will be discussed. _^WLaat Thursday evening a was held in St. John', school-room for the purpose of inaugurating a Band of Hope in connection with the Church of England Temperance Society. To attract the juveniles Mr Steevena kindly exhibited a number of interesting maa-io lantern slides, after which the Bishop of Waiapu took tha chair and addressed those present, briefly explaining the object for which they had met. He was followed by Mr Thomson, the Revs, de Berdt Hovel and Tuke, and Mr Steevens, each of whom addressed the meeting. Parents "permission cards" were then distributed to the young people, of whom about 200 were present, and the meeting dispersed. The special prizes given by Mr M. R. Miller valued afc £7 each, for the best pen of ten Merino ram hoggets, and for the best pen of ten Merino ewe hoggets, exhibited at the A. and P. Society's late show, have taken the form of a pair of solid pilver inkstands that have been manufactured by Mr Shanly of this town. The design is that of a running emu with outstretched wings, a stump of a tree forming the pen rack, and by throwing back one of the wings the inkpot is disclosed within the body of the bird. Tie stand is of ebony, having a silver plate on which to engrave the inscription. The design and workmanship are alike creditable to Mr Shanly. These prizes go to Mr D. Gollan and to Mr D. McLean. We are glad to hear that the long-stand-ing dispute between Mr J. Harding and the natives was amicably settled yesterday through the medium of the Hon. J. Bryce. The Government purchase five acres or thereabouts of land from Mr Harding, and give it to the Maoris, bringing the boundary line of Mr Harding's estate through the centre of the native enclosure where the tohares are situated. All dwellings—we think there are three—to the west, or on Mr Harding's side, of that boundary are to be removed within four months from this date, Mr Tomoana, M.H.R., being the surety, and Mr Harding is to give the Maoris a certain right of way through his land. This is virtually the same arrangement that was offered years ago by Mr Harding for the settlement of this dispute. A number of Scandinavian rewdenfcs assembled last night in the Scandinavian Good Templar's Hall. There were two questions laid before the meeting. 1. Would it meet with the support of the assemblage were a Scandinavian Union formed P 2. Should a choir of ladies and gentleman be established, and the concerts in aid of the Children's Ward for the Hospital be proceeded with. MrSchuthewas voted to the chair, and several gentlemen b'-ipfly addressed the meeting. It was proJJOB d by Mr Englbretsen, and seconded by M Brok, that a Scandinavian Union be lorrned, a choir organised, and that concert j under the leadership of Mr P. H. Holm !be continued forthwith. After a committee had been elected a list of members was opened, and about fifty signatures were obtained. Scandinavian residents wishing to join may do so up to Thursday evening nexc.—Communicated.

A deputation consisting of Messrs Gemmel, McKinnon, Strachan, Webb, Peddie, Carroll, H. Duff, and M. R. Miller waited upon the Hon. Mr Rolleston to-day by appointment at Mr M. R. Miller's office, in order to urge the construction of the inland Napier-Wairoa-road. Mr Rolleston listened patiently to what the gentlemen composing the deputation had to say, and, in replying, recognised the importance and the urgent need of the work. He promised that as funds were available the construction of the Wairoa-Gisborne branch would be proceeded with without loss of time, and the Napier-Wairoa inland road would have his best support. There were liberal means for carrying on the work under the Roads Construction Act, which should be promptly adopted. The deputation also imprewed on Mr Rolleston the necessity of works being undertaken for keeping the bar at Wairoa open. In reply he informed them that this was a matter he would favorably mention to his colleagues in whose province matters affecting the harbors of the colony were placed. Wairoa, he felt, had peculiar claims, as a very large quantity of Crown lands still unsold would be greatly increased in value by the harbor improvements were it found possible that the works required could be formed at a reasonable outlay. The deputation, having thanked the Hon. Minister for his patient attention, withdrew. The following is the reply of Lord Kimberley to the deputation of Maori chiefs headed by Hirini (Maori for Sydney) Taiwhanga :•—That in these matters it was necessary for the Queen to be advised by the local Government, and after the great troubles that had happened it was thought their affairs would be better managed by people on the spot than by us who, however good our intentions, were a long way off, and did not know any of the details. This did not imply that the Queen, did not take great interest in the welfare of her Maori subjects; it was because she believed the interests of all in the colony would be better promoted by arrangements made there than by interference here that she had delegated these powers fo" the Colonial Government. Although he couiS not in any way promise that there would be any commission of inquiry—for that' was a matter which must be referred fo the Government of New Zealand—there was about to be laid before Parliament papers which would give a full account of all that had happened with regard to Te Whiti. The deputation then thanked Lord Kimberley and withdrew. In a letter from an officer of the Invincible, to the Western Morning News, mention is made of a hitherto unpublished fact in connection with the spikiDg of the guns at Alexandria. When the volunteers were called for to go ashore and spike the guns, nearly every hand in the ship expressed a desire to be selected. Ultimately ten torpedo men weie chosen, and they landed in charge of a flag-lieutenant, under cover of the ship's guns. The Dingy was conveying tbe men from the shore to the steam launch when it was struck by a shot and foundered. The occupants all succeeded in swimming to the Canal, and were broug.it safely on board. The Admiral shook hands witb each of the men employed on this dangerous service, and told them how proud fie was to feel he had such men under his command. Admiral Seymour's kindly attention to the wounded ia marked, and on all hands gratification is expressed at being under the command of such an officer.

i State aid to denominational schools will ) cease in New South Wales at the end of this year. Four thousand six hundred and sixty-five tons of coal were shipped from We&tport during the month of August. With regard to the burning of tbe mails on board the Alaska, tho London correspondent of the Age telegraphs that the fire is supposed to have been the work of incendiaries, who are accused of depositing explosives in the mail compartment of the vessel prior to her departure from New York. Rather a ludicrous printer's error occurred in the Rockhampton Argus (Queensland) recently. The editor, in is leading article, speaking of the forensic honours gained by a local judge, wrote that " the greenest of bays will fade," but he was made to say in print that " the greenest of baize will fade." We hear from California of tbe invention of a reaping machine fitted to cut the enormous areas of wheat which are growing there. The straw of this wheat is practically valueless, and the new machine has thereforo been adapted to cutting the ears of the corn off the straw without clogging with the straw itself. The reaper cuts a width of from 10 feet to 16 feet, and the ears are received in an endless travelling bag that drop, them in a waggon.—Land. In the south of Abyssinia, upon the testi- • mony of the late Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, i monkeys are still taught several useful accomplishments. One of these is that of officiating as torchbearers at a supper party. Seated in a row, on a raised bench, they hold the lights until the guests have departed, patiently awaiting their own supper as a reward for their services. Occasionally an obstreperous animal will interrupt the festivities by throwing his lighted torch among the guests, but he is promptly caned into submission. An interesting feature of " bonanza " farming in California is that a regular corps of riflemen is required to be attached to each farm to protect the wheat from the depredations of wild geese. Dr. Glenn, of Colusa, who has 75,000 acres under cultivation, keeps 40 men constantly at work shooting geese. The men use about SOOO cartridges a day, and as their shooting is done principally at long range they expend more than a goose's weight in lead for every goose shot. Telescopes are used with which to detect the geese. When found a bullet is sent in among them, and as they rise they are pursued with bullets as far as the rifles will reach. In foggy weather and on dark nights, when the herders cannot shoot for fear of hitting each other, is the festival time for geese. " Atlas," in the World, speaking of the Zulu chief, Cetewayo, says :—" The manner in which Cetewayo has been received by the British public would be amusing if it were not disgusting. This gormandising black savage, who cost us many of the flower of our youth, thousands of lives, and millions of money, has scarcely landed before a young lady piesents him with a valuable locket, and all Southampton is wanting to clasp his enormous paws. The airs that the fellow gives himself are tremendous. He 'would not receive the Governor of Madeira, but sent word that' the King sleeps,' md on awaking the first morning at Melburyroad, he ' expressed a tvish that the people should be thanked for tho way in which they j bad cheered him.' This really only wants the insertion of * was graciously pleased to express,' &c, to read like a bit Out of our own Court Circular.

The two guns in the Alexandra, -which were injured during the bombardment on the llth of July, were a 10-inch 18-ton muzzle-loading gun, and an 11-inch 25-ton muzzle-loading gun. The 18-ton gun had got somewhat hot owing to the constant firing, and it was found that one of the wrought iron coils os the B tube, which is at the muzzlo of the gun, had started to the extent of a hundredth part of an inch. The gun. did not go out of action, and it is still serviceable. The accident to the 25----ton 11-inoh gun was some what more serious. At about 6 in the evening, just before the bombardment was about to conclude, a Bhell broke up In the gun, and it was immediately thoroughly examined, no damage being discovered. Another shot was fired, and the orders to the fleet to cease firing being given the gun was examined again. It was then found that there was a small longitudinal crack in the A or inner tube'of tough steel. It was not, however, considered that the injury was a very serious one, and had ifc been necessary to continue firing this gun would have been used. The guns in Her Majesty's ship Alexandra fired over 420 rounds. They expended all their common shell with the exception of 15.—Times. v Daring the spring and summer months ' Berious sickness as well as all those distressing symptons of lassitude and depression that in warm weather afflict persons residing in southern latitudes may in a very great measure be prevented by occasionally taking a dose of some Effervescing aperient such as Eno's Fruit Salts, Maltine, or Lamplongh's Pyretic Saline, which correct and invigorate the entire system. To be had of T. F. Moore, chemist, &c, Waipawa, at prices within the reach of all.—|_Advt.] "Still waters run deep," and the unpretending virtue of an article is more apt to be genuine than that which flaunts itself in noisy and ostentatious show. The compounds and specifics advertised in flaming placards and garish posters, need such adventitious agencies to foist them into publio notice; but such a preparation as UdoiiPho Woltb's Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps, modestly but effectually asserts its own superiority and takes the public patronage by Bheer force of its intrinsic merits. —[Advt.l