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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3521, 20 October 1882, Page 2

There was a blank charge sheet presented in Ibe Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. In the Municipal Council last night Cr. Margoliouth raised a laugh by suggesting the propriety of discharging the municipal solicitor and appointing Cγ. Ellison in his place. The inward San Francisco mail, the letter portion of which arrived last night and the newspapers, &c, this morning, consisted of 1690 letters, 450 books, 4680 newspapers, and 47 registered letters. A free public meeting in connection with the Church of England Temperance Society will be held in St. John's schoolroom tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, when addresses will be delivered by the Rev. J. Hill, Mr A. B. Thomson, and Mr R. C. Harding. Members who desir6 badges, or any periodicals issued by the society now in hand, may have same on application. The lafcd fancy dress ball committee held a final meeting' at the Criterion Hotel last night, when the accounts showed a net balance of £136 0s 10d, which it was resolved should be vested in the Mayor and Messrs Balfour and Bogle for the purpose of aiding the funds for the erection of a children's ward for the Napier Hospital. Votes of thanks were passed to Mr Bogle for bringing the ball to such a successful issue, and to other gentlemen who had supplied services and articles gratis. The second match of the season between boats of the Hawke's Bay Sailing Club will take place in the inner harbor to-morrow afternoon, when, judging by the present appearance of the weather, the competitors will have no cause to complain of scarcity of wind. The barque Langstone has entered a boat to try her powers against the local fleet, which will give additional interest to the race. Boats will anchor for starting west of the flagship in the order named—Nancy Lee, Fairy, Nautilus, Midge, Resolute, Lorna Doone, Langstone, Revenge, Wave Queen, and Buttercup. Cr. Ellison will forgive us, perhaps, for saying that he has seriously impaired his utiltity in the Borough Council by his partiality for long speeches of an educational tendency. Last night he spoke for forty minutes in proposing the abolition of the finance committee, and in reply he spoke for twenty minutes more. The result of this weakness will be that councillors will shrink from exposing themselves to such slow torture, and desline to second any proposal that he may desire to make. This course has been adopted on two occasions already when it was seen that he had come primed with a long oration. The soiree and concert at Clive last evening connected with the Presbyterian Church turned out a success, the weather being most favorable, and the attendance large. Mesdames McPherson, Orr, J. McGlashan, W. McGlashan, Kirk, Martin, Mcßurnie, Young, and Davidson made splendid provision for the tables, and were aided by the young ladies. Tea over, the Rev. W. Nichol took the chair, and musical selections were given by the Port Ahuriri cboir, and brief addresses by the Revs. D. Sidey, Nichol, and Rodger. The chairman complimented the audience on the excellent order which had prevailed throughout, and the usual votes of thanks brought the meeting to a close. At the various indignation meetings held in Stanmore, Mr Pilliet has been abused in most unmeasured terms. At one meeting an elector actually proposed, " That this meeting consider Mr Pilliet a d d rascal;" and at the meeting held at Phillipstown the other evening the greatest applause greeted the statement that Mr Pilliet had betrayed them, and would betray the devil. Mr Frederic Maccabe, the celebrated character actor, who has been in Australia for some months past, has just come in for an unexpected piece of luck. It appears that five years ago he gave £5000 for some property in Leeds, and at the time he was called a fool who was throwing away his money. The other day he received a cablegram from his lawyer, telling him that he could sell it for £50,000, and asking him for instructions. Mr Maccabe, who is now in Sydney, cabled telling the lawyer to sell. The New Zealand Herald is responsible for the following :—" During the present season a mare belonging to Mr James Ellett, of Mangere (Auckland) gave birth to a foal, which presented the most hideous and monstrous appearance conceivable. The general formation of his head resembled a donkey's, even the hair that covered it, and its ears were longer than those of an ordinary donkey ; it had but one eye, and that centered in the forehead, fiery red in appearance, and protruding an inch and a half, shaped like an inverted thimble. The upper jaw was very peculiar, whilst the under jaw curled over its mouth, and closed or rested on the face, just under the eye. There were peculiarities in other respects about the head, but the body was fairly develop6d. The foal lived for a few dajs, but of course was unable to suck, and Mr Ellett thinks that in trying to feed it choked with the milk. It was intended to preserve the creature, and we have been told that it has been sent to a taxidermist for that purpose." A possible clue (says the Southland Times) to the many mysterious burnings of grain may be found in the following narrative. On Tuesday of last week, Mr G. G. Fyfe and ploughmen were engaged in carting off a stack of rye-grass hay on Mr Lumsden's farm at Mimihau. Suddenly a stack of the same stuff, standing at a distance of 150 or 200 yards, took fire, when the two men ran and managed to tramp out the flames. Mr Fyfe discovered on the ground a email piece of phosphorous, half an inch long, and partly dissolved. The heat of the sun had been very great, and Mr Fyfe's theory is that the phosphorous had set fire to the hay. While he was stamping the fire out a portion of the phosphorous had caught hold of his trousers and bootß, and after igniting had scorched them. The curious thing is that huts and grain had been consumed in the same neighbourhood the previous year. _ Mr Fyfe noticed a piece of phosphorous in the ground, burning and crackling. Mr Lumsden and others had been laying poison in the neighbourhood for rabbits. It seems, in view of all the circumstances, the most probable conjecture, perhaps the only tenable conjecture, that to phosphorous the fire in the stack was due, and the last year's conflagrations were likely to be traced to the same cause. The annual report of the Commissioners of Customs in England, says the Pall Mall Gazette, " is always very interesting reading, and that for the year 1881, now issued, deals in the usual perspicuous way with the leading features of the trade of the year. In the aggregate that t'-ade was hardly so large as in the preceedingyear, because the imports fell off about £14,000,000, but it was a very good business year for all that. The commissioners, however, are considerably exercised in iniud about the inelasticity of the revenue. Statistics of home consumption indicate a decline in. the use of some intoxicant, or an absence of increase; the consumption of tobecco per head is stationary and that of tea and coffee has diminished, as well as that of foreign spirits. It does 'not seem obvious, however, from a summary of all the facts, that wecanloa&t yet of any great progress in the direction of temperance. Only certain kinds of spirits show a diminished consumption, which 2an be accounted for on other grounds than the success of the spread of education. Tho mild winter might account for the lessened consumption of rura and brandy, and the manufacture of tha latter has certainly been checked by the ravages of phylloxera among the vines. While these heavier spirits show decreases, moreover, the readjustment of the surtax has led to an increase of 380,000

gallons in the imports of Geneva and plain epiritß." Homoeopathy is the name given to a system of medical treatment introduced by Sir Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, in 1796, and now extensively practised and having many adherents in every country and clime, amongst the number being not a few medical men of high distinction. The mode of treatment is extremely simple, and no home is complete without a supply of homoeopathic medicines. Country residents will find the largest stock in Hawke's Bay (by Marshall and other makers) of this invaluable remedy for nearly evary ailnaeat afc Professor Moore's Medical Hall, Waipawa.—[Advt.] A single spark dropped upon a dying ember may revive the inextinguishable flame, just as a little draught of Udolpho Wolfe'« Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps, gratefully diffusing itself throughout the system, may refresh the languishing spirits and rekindle the fading glow of exhausted vitality. A drop of water to the paiched tongue may save a life elsewise drying up from burning thirst. It is in timely application, and the potency ot the thiner administered, the good is consummated.—[Advt.J