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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3542, 15 November 1882, Page 2

We extract the following from the New Zealand Herald :—"The proper method of draining large cities is a much disputed one. The various systems in use have each their eet of advocates, and corporations, when once a certain system has been adopted in a city, are unwilling to make a change. To do so is a public acknowledgment that their former action was wrong, in other words that they are wiser to-day than they were yesterday. This corporations and public bodies generally do not like to admit. The system of carrying away the refuse of a city by means of water through large underground drains is the method generally in use. Many engineers of eminence and other scientific men have condemned the system as one calculated to spread diseases. Paris, of all European cities, is best supplied with spacious underground sewers. Many of these channels are of the capacity of goodsized underground canals, and the advocates of the water closet system have always pointed to Paris as an evidence in their favour. At the present time this drainage system of Paris is being subjected to a very severe trial. A telegram from London on the 13th October reported that a fearful epidemic of typhoid fever had broken out in Paris, that thousands were affected, and that in 250 cases the disease had proved fatal. A later telegram informs us that the epidemic prevails unabated and that the deaths are at the rate of over 200 weekly. Typhoid fever is one of those diseases due to uncleanly surroundings. The origin of the present violent outbreak has not yet been reported, but in all likelihood it is due to sewer emanation. It was the escape of foul gas from a defective sewer that brought the Prince of Wales J so near to death a few years ago. The sewers of Paris would no doubt_ rapidly convey the infection from one district to another ; and the expensive lessons thus being taught to older communities should be laid to heart by the young com-

munities in the Pacific now s* fast building up large cities."

An ordinary meeting of the Municpal Council will be held in the Council Chamber this evening at 8 o'clock.

The only business before the Resident Magistrate this morning was the disposal of " a drunk," who was fined 5s and costs. The offender was a female.

Within the Borough of Napier there are 1178 (iwelling-hounes, of which number 725 are on what is called the low level, and therefore capable of being connected with the main eewer, but connections have been made in only 105 cases.

The regular monthly meeting of the Victoria Lodge, 1577, E.C., was held at the Masonic Hall, ftlunroe streat, last night. An election of a brother to fill the office of W.M. for the ensuing year resulted in favor of Bro. R. Duncan, S.W.

At a special meeting of the Waipawa School Committee, held on Monday, Mr W. White, of Kaikora, was unanimously nominated to the vacant seat on the Education Board. The Kaikora School Committee have also nominated Mr White.

In spite of the threatening weather last night the art exhibition was well attended. A model printing press, lent by Mr W. Murray, was used for the first time, and visitors were presented with specimens of typographic art as a memento of the exhibition.

A man named Michael Maloney, a laborer on Saunders' railway bridge contract, Makatoko, was admitted to the County Hospital, Waipukurau, yesterday afternoon, suffering from a broken leg, received through a quantity of earth falling upon him. Maloney received no other injury, but had a narrow escape from death.

In consequence of the rain this morning the Church of England. Sunday School annual treat could not be held. In the morning a large concourse of children with their teachers assembled in St. John's schoolroom, and arrangements had been made for a march out to Sturm's gully and a pic-nic. The rain, however, continuing to increase, it wag decided to poetpone the treat till to-morrew.

A local option poll to decide whether publicans' and other licenses should be increased or otherwise in the Ruataniwha licensing district, was held at the Town Hall, Waipukurau, yesterday. Not much interest was taken in the matter, only twenty local residents going to the poll. The following are the results:—For the increase of publicans' licenses 14, against 5 ; for New Zealand wine 12, against 6 ; for accommodation 13, against G ; for bottle 12, against 6.

It haa been finally arranged that Caledonian sports will be held at Petane on New Year's Day. Prizes of considerable value have been promised, and we understand the sports will include an archery contest and a shooting match at Bogardus balls. A number of the best known pedestrians in the district and others interested in athletics have signified their intention of competing at these sports,_ so that a successful meeting may be anticipated.

A poorly attended meeting was held in. Trinity Church last nitrhfc in connestion with the Wesleyan Home Mission Fund. The Key. P. H. Cornford presided, and the Revs. Cannell, Bavin, and Lewis, and Mr Laws, addressed thoce present on the importance of maintaining the fund. The collection amounted to £3. It would almost seem from this meagre offertory that our correspondent " Out of Date" was not far wrong in saying that the Rev. R. Bavin had come to the wrong place to seek for an augmentation of the Home Mission Fund.

We remind our readers of the Northern concert to be given in the Theatre Royal this evening- in aid of the funds for providing a Children's Ward at the Hospital. A reference to the programme, which appears in another column, should he a sufficient guarantee of the bona fides of the entertainment, and, judging from the successful rehearsal that took place last night, some good music, both vocal and instrumental, may be expected. Apart, however, from every other consideration, the praiseworthy object for which the concert has been got up should attract a full attendance of the general public.

The foundation of the new Anglican Church of St. Andrew, at Port Ahuriri, was laid yesterday afternoon by the Bishop of Waiapu. His Lordship, accompanied by the Revs. De Berdt Hovell, E. H. Granger, H. W. St. Hill, O. L. Tuke, and H. Maclean and Mr Welsh (deacon of the district), proceeded to the site of the church, where they were met by Captain Gleadow and the other members of the Church Committee, and the foundation stone was laid with the usual prayers and formalities. A hymn was then sung by the choir,_ who appeared in force in spite of the rain. The collection made during the singing amounted to more than £7.

At the forbnightly meeting of the Napier District School Committee, held last evening, an application from the head-master for permission to hold a concert in the second week in December in aid of the fund for prizes at Christmas was granted. _ A recommendation that Miss Minnie Spriggs be appointed a pupil teacher was approved. The visiting committee having reported that there was a leakage in the roof of the school building , , the secretary was directed to write to the Board on the subject. It was decided that the visiting committee should confer with the head-master on the subject of providing a gymnasium for the school, and report at the next meeting of the School Committee.

Our telegrams mention that the railway station at Invercargill is to be remodelled at a cost of about £10,000, and that £1,500 is to be spent in improving the station at the Bluff. Both the Invercargill and Bluff stations are palatial erections, commodious, comfortable, and luxurious, compared with the little miserable dens that have to do duty at Napier and the Spit. No Government, no Minister of Public Works, no head of department would have dared to countenance the erection of a station on a South Island line at any little centre of population that did not provide good accommodation for passengers and luggage. On the Napier line, however, any make-shift of a mudcabin character is thought good enough, and passengers and luggage can stand out on an unprotected platform and get wet through, and be thankful.

An alarm of fire, which fortunately did not become widespread, was given la«t evening in Hastings-street at about 5.20, and as usual on such occasions it had the effect of causing a little excitement. Numbers of people rushed from their houses to the roadway, wearing on their faces a look of enquiry, while a fireman in semi-uniform could be seen running as if for life in the direction of the station, apparently delighted with the prospect of having "a show," and ejaculating as he ran, " Where the d lis it. The excitement, however, soon gave way t merriment, on it becoming known that the alarm had originated by the energetic fireman mistaking for a fire alarm none other than the sound of the " gong at Yeuell s restaurant, which was sounding for the tea call. Some of the remarks made in respect to the " gong" and the fireman were both complimentary and assuring.

At the sale of Grassmere estate yesterday, by Messrs Hoadley Lyon and Co., lot 1, consisting of 46i acres, was sold to Mr G. A. McDonald at £11 per acre ; lot 2, 50» acres, Mr James Daley, £11 per acre; lot 6, 27-| acres, Mr G. Rymer, £16 10a per acre ; lot 7, with cottage, Mr Lansdown, £120; lot 8, U acres, Mr R. Kerr, £50. The following lo"ts of one acre each were sold as follows ; — Lot 0, Mr Kerr, £36 ; No. 10, same buyer, £27; No. 11, Mr Scullen, £25; No. 12, same buyer, £2G ; No. 13, same buyer, £23 ; lot 14, Mr W. English, £26 ; lots 15 and IG, Mr LaiiPdown, £57 ; lots 17, 18,19, 20. and 21, at the rate of £20, same buyer ; lot 22, Mr D. R. McDonell, £36 ; lot 23, Mr Sneller, £30 ; lot 21, Mr J. Gilligan, £23 ; lot 25, Mr English, £21 ; lots 26, 27, and 28, Mr Gγ. Rymer, at the rate of £20 each ; lot 34, 1J acres, Mr Scullen, £50. The

balance of the estate is open for private sale.

George Rose, better known as Arthur Sketchley, whose death was announced in our London cablegram yesterday, took a tour round the Australasian Colonies in. 1880, and visited Napier in the month of April of that year. Mr Rose was the creator of that once-upon-a-tirae humorus conception " Mrs Brown," and upon that he made his reputation. "Mrs Brown at the Play , ' was the first of a series of sketches of the experiences of the vulgar wife of a vulgar cockney, and in the fearful vulgarity of the whole thing wae to be found all the fun. Mrs Brown, in the course of time, became wearisome, and her later experiences were dull and common place. Mr Rose, however, judging from our short acquaintance with him in Napier, labored under the impression that Shakespeare, in all his glory, never achieved such a masterpiece of philosophy, wit, and humour as his own low - bred London woman. In his travels round these colonies he tried to revive her prestige, but it was a failure ; people could not be got to laugh, and afterwards they wonld not go to hear his readings. In high dudgeon he shook the dust off his shoes, and fulfilled his promise that he would " show up " the colonies. A letter written by him to one of the Indian papers, when he had got as far as Calcuttafon his return to England, full of venom and calumny, exhibited the disappointment he had experienced in not being recognised and appreciated as the most brilliant wit of his day. In his old age—if he was old —if he possessed any sense of humor at all it was completely hidden by conceit, and—adipose matter.

Decayed teeth are not unfrequently a prolific source of stomachic disorders, which often arise through the inability of the subject to properly assimilate the more solid forms of food necessary for the sustenance of the body. To preserve the teeth it is highly necessary that they should be carefully brushed night and morning so that neither acids or particles of food which destroy the enamel may attach thereto. Professor Moore, of the Waipawa Medical Hall, keeps the largest and cheapest stock of tooth, hair, and nail brushes, of any chemist in the province.—[Advt.] Persons who suffer from eleeplessness are habituated to the practice of wooing the drowsy god by narcotics, on which they become so absolutely dependent that they cannot enjoy the luxury of " Nature's kind restorer," as the Poet Young felicitously terms it, without a recourse to these extrinsic aids. Irrespective of this pernicious habit, no constitution can stand continuous drugging, without being eventually undermined. If, in lieu of opiates, those who suffer from insomnia, would make a judicious use of TJdolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Akohatic Schnapps they would soon fall into the way of this nocturnal balm.— [Advt.]