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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3544, 17 November 1882, Page 2

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece,R.M., John Newton pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Napier yesterday, and was fined os and costs.

In the passenger lists published in the home papers we notice the names of Mr., Mrs., and Miss Knowles from London to Napier, to leave by the P. and O. steamer Assam on October 26.

The late rains have caused floods in all the rivers, and the usually clear blue sea in the bay is quite clouded with the muddy waters discharging from the rivers. An immense quantity of drift timber has been washed up on the beach, but, so far, we have not heard of any losses amongst live stock.

The following programme will be played at 7.30 this evening in front of the Athenjeum by the Artillery Band :—Quick march, " The Royal Fusiliers ; " fantasia, "La Bouquetiere ; " lancers, " Fautashcal; " valse, " True Love; " polka, " The Merry Belles; " gallop, " Climax; " finale, " God Save the Queen."

Mr Hazelbeck's nursery garden on Fitzroy road has now a splendid show of roses of great variety and beauty of color. _ A nosegay that he has left at our office is a perfect picture, and contains a lovely collection of rare and sweet smelling' flowers. Mr Hazelbeck has also left us a sample bunch of perfectly ripe cherries, which, we believe, are the first of this season.

We deeply regret to hear that another domestic calamity has fallen upon Mr W. C. Smith, M.H.R., his wife dying early tbis morning after a short illness. During the session Mr Smith was called away from his parliamentary duties in consequence of the death of his youngest child, and now a still heavier affliction has occurred in his family. The deepest sympathy will be felt for him.

Several exciting incidents which occurred during the progress of the recent war in Egypt will be found narrated in our fourth page to-day.

The first annual general meeting of the Clarendon Club was held last night in the club rooms at Mr T. Peddie's hotel, at which there was a good attendance of members. Rules were submitted and adopted, and the following officer-bearers elected for the ensuing twelve months: — President Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R.; Vicepresident, Mr S. Locke; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr R. E. Mackay. A committee of four was also elected. The club now numbers forty-seven members.

The improvement in tho state of the weather has led to an improved attendance at the art exhibition, the rooms being well filled yesterday, and we hope to see the number of visitors still greater. The exhibition will positively close to-morrow evening, so that there remains but a little time for those who have not yet paid the exhibition a visit to do so. We should he sorry to think that such a genuine collection of art works, etc., should not be seen by overy one in the town and district. The Artillery band will play in front of the exhibition this evening at 7.30.

At the Waipawa Police Court yesterday, before Messrs Wilding and Inglis, J.P.s, W. Matthews was charged by the police with having maliciously wounded a dog, the property of Mr P. Smart, by striking it on the head with a cleaver on the 10th November. Defendant admitted throwing a cleaver at the dog, but said he did so on the impulse of the moment, because the animal was knawing at a quarter of beef. He had no deliberate intentions of wounding the dog. The Bench imposed a fine of £1 and costs, and ordered defendant to pay £3 as damages, or to go to prison for seven days. A yaung man named Staake was then charged with the larceny of a saddle, the property of Jan Jansen, and valued at £4 15s. Prisoner admitted the offence, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor in Napier gaol.

There was a full attendance last evening at the concert given in Mr Stuart's store, Port Ahuriri, in aid of the prize and library fund of the district school, the total receipts amounting to about £25. Mr W. Wilkie occupied the chair. A lengthy programme was presented, and seemed to give general featisfaction. The first part opened with a pianoforte duet by the Misses Murray, which was nicely executed. Mr Gilpin followed with a song, "The Arab Steed," in which his fine voice was heard to good advantage, but the effect was marred somewhat through a lack of due regard to time. Miss Caulton sang a rather pretty air, which, however, could scarcely be said to have been a happy selection for so large a room. " Free Lance " was very accurately sung by Mr Aplin, who evidently made a favorable impression on the audience. The ever-verdant tiio, "A Little Farm well tilled," by Messrs Martin, Gilpin, and Monteith, went very well indeed, and received an imperative encore. The evervarying facial expressions of one of the gentlemen caused no little amusement. Mr M'Carthy was fairly successful in his reading from David Copperfield, as was also Mr Wdkie, who later on read an extract from Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Mr C. Monteith's comic song, "Not so bad for me," was successfully negotiated. Mr Aplin showed a just appreciation of the music in his rendering of " The Midshipmite," and was followed by Mr Lindsay, who sang a difficult piece, " The Little Hero," very cr e T dlt £ bl J* Part one came to a conclusion by Mr .Kuaman singing " The Lass that_ Loves a Sailor " After a short intermission Misses Kraeft and Murray opened the second part with a pianoforte duet, which would have bßcn much more effective had some person been employed to turn over the music leaves. The frequent pauses detracted lar-rlly from the merits of the performance. Mr°Martin came next with a song, " Hear the Winds Blow," for which he was loudly applauded. " There is no home like my own," a Swiss air, was nicely sung* by Miss Pirani, who possesses an agreeable contralto voice. The best thing of the evening was Mr Gilpin's descriptive scena, " Wrecked and Saved," with cornet obligate, good time and a rigid attention to the music being both observed. A comic song in character, "The German Fifth," gave Mr Monteith an excellent opportunity for displaying his versatility, and in response tn a rapturous encore he re-appeared in Irish character (re la Boucicault) and gave " I'm off to New York City." Mr Garry played a selection from La Traviata in firstclasss style, after which " My Old Friend John" was sung by Mr Lindsay, and the entertainment was brought to a close. We

should mention that tbe various accompaniments were played very effectively by Messrs Aplin and Garry; Mr P. Smith (cornet) also gave good assistance.

The Tambour-Major Opera Company under the management of Mr Howard Vernon, which opens at the Theatre Royal to-morrow week for a season of six nights, is highly spoken of by the Auckland press. Referring to the company's performance of Offenbach's latest work, " La Fille dv Tam-bour-Major," the New Zealand Herald says :—" Miss Elsa May (the prima donna of the troupe) sang from first to last with the greatest success. She possesses a naivete of manner which secures sympathy for her immediately. The excellence of her voice in the upper register is more conspicuous than in the lower. Nothing could be prettier than her rendering [of " Beyond the hills, beyond the sea," which elicited a very hearty encore. In the duet, "In spite of chiding," and for other passages she received similar compliments, so that she is likely to grow in favour during the season. The character which next appeared to secure unqualified approbation was that of" Griolet, the little drummer," by Miss Fanny Liddiard. Her humour is of that rare kind which is without effort responsive to the humour of others. Even her eating a salad had fun in it, and there is no doubt about her success. Miss Andrea Novarro, as the Duchess in a duet, " What Strange Feeling " with the Tambour - Major (Mr Howard Vernon) reminded one of the success she achieved when last in Auckland. Miss Blanch Lewis as Claudine (Vivandiere) was piquant as well as graceful. All sang well. But Mr Howard Vernon as TambourMajor more than sustains the reputation he acquired by his performance of Bunthorne in "Patience." He is humourous sense that every movement of hia has'-some element of fun in it. The part is also one which requires great sustaining--- power to give it adeauato effect. He is the central figure in every act, and almost every scene. He is perfectly natural, and it is in the striotly typical character he makes of the part that the great humour of it consists. Mr Drayton as Captain Robert, has an excellent voice, and possesses great merit as an actor. Mr Dark, as the Duke, displayed a comic vein of another kind, and afforded plenty of amusement. Mr Burt as Marquis Bambini waa also effective as the parvenu dandy. The opera abounds with exquisite trios, quartettes, and other concerted pieces. Nothing could be better than " The Billet paper," " Once again," and the septette in the second act. The audience enthusiastically demanded the repetition of those admirable examples of vocal harmony. The orchestra participated in the favours of the evening. Signor Tramaglia is a thoroughly efficient and energetic conductor. The final tableau is really a very extraordinary piece of 6tage effect. It must appear to a colonial audience as if a first-class London theatre had come into this city. Everything ia rich appropriate, and artistic in the truest sense of the terms."

The South Australian Register states that " Mr Ernest Eugster, the commissioner of the Swiss Court at the Adelaide, Exhibition, writing to a friend in Adelaide, speaks strongly of Lis vivid recollection o£ the hospitality and kindness he experienced at the hands of the people of Adelaide, and goes on to say that New Zealand, ' with her Swiss like scenery, silver streams, mountain lakes, snow-capped peaks, green pastures, fertile soil, and her kindred people,' has charmed him the most. He mentions that he has purchased, on behalf of a syndicate of Swiss gentlemen, a large block of nearly 4000 acres of virgin land in Pukekohe, thirty miles south of Auckland.on the railway line to Hamilton. It is intended to survey and subdivide the block, and then have it settled by idustrious farmers, chiefly Swiss. He belives there is better scope for the hard-working, thrifty tillers of the soil in the colonies than in the Old Country. The new settlement is to be named Helvetia." New Zealand flax fibre is growing in favour in Victoria. The Melbourne Age says :—" The committee of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures visited the rope, jute and mat works of Mr James Miller, on the Sandridge road. Mr J. B. Whitty, was present, and about twenty members of the committee composed the visiting party. They found the works much larger than they anticipated. About £50,000 has been expended on machinery and other appliances necessary to carry on the enterprise. There are about 70 looms, 2 engines, 4 boilers and other machines in full swing. The jute works employ nearly 300 hands, the rope works 60, and the mat works from 55 to 10. The rope and twine is made from Russian Manilla and New Zealand hemp. Italian flax is used for making engine packing and twine, but Mr Miller expects to be able to use New Zealand flax entirely at an early date. The mats are made from cocoanufc fibre and cocoanut yarn. New machinery is being continually imported, and at no distant date the establishment will assume very large proportions, as the demand for the goods made is continually increasing, and the home and intercolonial trade expanding. The works have been established for twenty years, and their history has been one of growth and progress from the beginning, when they started as a mere rope-walk. The weavers and stichers get from los to 25s a week, and the drawers and doffers from 5s to 10s, a very large proportion of the employes being young girls and children. Tbe following statistics of the good old winters are curious : In 401, the Black Sea was entirely frozen over. In 768, not only the Black Sea, but the Straits of the Dardanelles, were frozen over; the snow in some places rose fifty feet high. In 822, the great Rivers of Europe—the Danube, the Elbe, etc. —were so hard frozen as to bear heavy wagons for a month. In 860, the Adriatic was frozen. In 991, everything was frozen; the crops totally failed, and famine and pestilence closed the year. In 1067, the most of the travellers in Germany were frozen to death on the roads. In 1133, the Po was frozen from Cremona to the sea ; the wine casks were burst, and even the trees split by the action of the frost, with immense noise. In 1236, the Danube was frozen to the bottom, and remained long in thafc state. In 1316, the crops wholly failed in Germany ; wheat, which some years before sold in England at six shillings the quarter, rose to two pounds. In 1339, the crops failed in Scotland and such a famine ensued that the poor were reduced to feed on grass, and many perished miserably in the fields. The successive winters of 1432-3-4 were uncommonly severe. It once e-nowed forty days without interruption. In 1468, the wine distributed to the soldiers in Flanders was cut with hatchets. In 1684, the winter was excessively cold. Most of the hollies were killed. Coaches drove along the Thames, the ice of which was eleven inches thick. In 1709 occurred the cold winter. The frosts penetrated three yards into the ground. In 1716, booths were erected and fairs held on the Thames. In 1744 and 1745 the strongest ale in England, exposed to the air, was covered in less than fifteen minutes with ice an eighth of an inch thick. In ISO 9, and again in 1812, the winters were remarkably cold. In 1814 there was a fair on the frozen Thames.

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.]

Convalescence seldom steadily develops without the co-operation of some recognized assistant. A severe or protracted illness necessarily leaves the patient nervous or dejected, weak and languid. The body must be built up by slow gradations, strength renewed and the inoperative functions stimulated to reinvigorated action. Of all the tonics, diuretics and nervines,

emulating successfully and surpassing many of those ranged within the pharmacopoeia, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schvapps is indubitably the best.—[Advt.]