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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3559, 5 December 1882, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found, in. addition to other matter, some interesting telegraphic European news. The New Zealand Insurance Company have removed from their late premises, Shakespeare road, to those lately occupied by the Bank of New South Wales in Has-tings-street.

We believe it is contemplated to water the streets this summer with salt water from a well to be sunk at the seaward end of Emerson street. Tho proposal includes the erection of a wind-pump and tank. There was a narrow escape from a serious conflagration at Waipawa yesterday. Some children who were playing about near the houne of Mr H. Arrow, where building operations have been lately concluded, obtained some matches and set fire to a heap of wood and shavings packed up against part of tho premises. Some considerable damage was done, but before the flames obtained a mastery the alarm was given and the fire put out. But for the timely discovery a number of dwelling houses must inevitably have been consumed. The Public Works Committee of the Municipal Council met last evening and agreed to recommend the Council as foll_l. ows: That Messrs Glendinning and Griffin be allowed tar in quantities of not less than 1000 gallons at 4d per gallon. 2. That the engineer's report of the 4th Jjecemher be adopted. 3. That with reference to the report of _ the inspector of r.uisances, the engineer be requested to make a plan and estimate showing the best means of draining the houses on the western side of Hastings-street. 4. That the vouchers for expenditure for November be passed and ordered to be paid.

The New South Wales elections are going badly for Sir Henry Parkes , party. Sir Henry himself has succeeded in obtaining a Beat for the country, being returned unopposed for TenterfLeld, but the only other member of his Government who has been re-elected is tho Hon. Mr Suttor, the Minister for .Education. Mr J. Davies, the Government Whip, hao been defeated. It

is this gentleman who has made himself c* conspicuous in attempting to enforce the ancient laws in support of religion. For the last ten years he has eat for South Sydney, being always returned at the Lead of the poll. Mr Watson, the Colonial Treasurer, has also been defeated. So far four members of the Ministry have been rejected, and only two re-elected. "La Fille dv Tambour-Major" was repeated at the Theatre last night, the cast being the same as on the previous representations. It is needless to say that the performance was most enjoyable, and the tableaux brilliant and effective. Wβ cannot allow the opportunity afforded in noticing the company's last representation of " Tam-bour-Major " to pasa without awarding credit to Miss Olive Verne, a young beginner, for her careful impersonation of the Abbess. Miss Verne is a painstaking actress, and her success in the profession is, we feel assured, only a matter of time. This evening " Patience" will be reproduced for the last occasion. This wonderfully popular opera is certain to draw a crowded house. We notice that special coaches have been put on from Taradale, Meanee, and Petane for the convenience of country settlers desiring to witneEs the performance this evening. The news of the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury is not unexpected. Our telegrams from London for some time paefc have had repeated references to his failing health and strength. His death adds one more to the long list of eminent men who have passed away during the past few years. The Most Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, D.D., was born at Edinburgh in 1811; went from the High School there to the University of Glasgow, and from there to Oxford, where he became successively Scholar, Fellow, and Tutor, and graduated B.A. in firat-class honors. On tie death of Dr. Arnold, in 1842, Dr. Tait was appointed head master of Rugby School, where he remained eight years. In 1850 he accepted the Deanery of Carlisle. In 1856 he was nominated Bishop of London, and by zealous efforts raised in ten years a fund of one million sterling to Bupply increased church accommodation. On the death of Dr. Longley, in 1868, Dr. Tait was appointed hie successor in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury.

Mrs Hampson opened her " mission," as announced, last evening in Trinity Church, Clive Square,, when there was a fair attendance, the building downstairs being comfortably filled. The service was commenced at 7.30, and did not terminate finally until nearly 10 o'clock. After prayer, and the singing of some hymns from Mr Sankey's collection, Mrs Hampson read the 55th chapter of Isaiah, upon which she made a running tommentary. This was followed by another hymn, " Man of Sorrows," and was succeeded by the sermon proper. Mrs Hampson possesses a good and flexible voice, which, together with a certain amount of simple eloquence and dramatic force, constitutes her an agreeable speaker, and gains for her the close attention of an audience. With respect to Mrs Hampson's style however, and her treatment of the subject, which, judging from her apparent earnestness, we should say she has most a"fr heart, wo felt some disappointment. A.ny argument of a character likely to convinces persons holding settled opinions contrary to the speaker's were entirely absent, the address for the greater part ".onsistmg of impassioned appeals, anecdote, and common place extracts from Scripture. The noon prayer meeting to-day in the Protestant Hall was but thinly attended.

Commenting on the rejection by Tawhiao of the Governmeut proposals, the Sydney Evening News makee the following extraordinary remarks :—" Well, in all probability, he would have made a better J.P. than many we have known in New Zealand. The old gentleman was very well behaved •when he eat in the House of Representatives (!) with his black silk hat and purple bandana, and we have never seen him, as we have some of his white colleagues, lying drunk on the floor of the House."

Says an Auckland contemporary:—" The well-known Maori chief Paul, of Orakei, is at present on a visit to Ahipara with his wife, for the purpose of consulting a celebrated female doctor, who is causing a great stir throughout Maoridom by her remarkable cures. Paul's wife consulted her some months ago, but being again seriously unwell, has gone back for further advice and treatment. The doctor is a woman, and it is said that her auccess has been amazing, especially in cases of chronic asthma. Maoris from Waikato, the Thames, and all parts of the North, have flocked to her in hundreds during the past year. She is a Christian, and has an aversion to seeing any patients on Sunday. The natives regard her as a prophetess. She steadfastly refuses to receive any payment for her services, believing it will cause a loss of influence and power, and she has been almost eaten out of house and homo by her multitude of visitors. In order to avoid this patients now keep away from her place as much as possible, stopping at some settlement near at hand. A general collection is now being made throughout the North to provide her with an annuity. Her mode of treatment appears to be mainly hydropathic. She enjoins the strictest cleanliness with frequent baths, which in itself must have a beneficial effect on most Maori patients, and she lays down the most detailed rules for diet. To these causes her cures, which seem to be tolerably well attested, may he fairly attributed."

A curious industrial project — says "Anglo-Australian! , — has just been brought under my notice. This is nothing less than planting sunflowers in some at present unproductive lands in the Thames Valley. The sunflower has many virtues and much commercial value, and is held in high esteem hi China and in many parts of Southern Europe. One of the main objects of the present scheme is to obtain oil—one acre of sunflowers usually yielding 50 bushels of seeds, and each bushel a gallon of excellent oil. It happens, moreover, that the sunflower supplies the best bee food in the world, and as in New Zealand and certain parts of the Australian continent bees abound, it might be worth while, perhaps, to take the hint and combine bee-keeping with oil culture. The two pursuits would surely be very profitable if systematically carried out. Not long ago, in San Diego, California, one bee-master raised six thousand pounds worth of sound merchantable honey in a single year. In Western Australia especially bees already abound in countless myriads, and if certain tracts were properly planted with sunflowers, we might soon have something more than the nuclei of a very promising industry. The sunflower, by the way, is, I believe, really indigenous to Central America, and there frequently attains the amazing heiprht of 20ffc, and forms a conspicuous and splendid object even in the midst of the startling flora of that sub* tropical region.

The following is given as an example of the Salvation Army street address: — " Suddenly the ranks break and form afresh into a circle. The crowd halts, too. The people in the neighboring houses come out into the street, or throw open their windows to listen. A man steps forward into the middle of the ring, and addresses the bystanders with much earnestness and vehemence of gesticulation in the simple tongue whioh they understand best. ' Friends,' he says,' thank God, I'm trav'lin' on to heaven above ; (' Allelujah ]' ejaculate his companions,)— 1 but I ain't satisfied with gettin there myself; I wants you, everyone of you, to come along-, too ! Will ye go ? That's what I axe ye—will ye go ? You can ; the worst on ye !' (Cries of ' Oh, yes' so ye can ; praise -the Lord ;') 'A. year ago I was as big a blackguard as anyone here. I used to be well nigh mad with. the drink, but Jesus showed me the hell aforo me, and what was better, He showed mo his love, and has cleansed me in Hie blood, and saved tne!' (Amen ! Allelujah !') ' Oh, friends, let Him do the rtime for you, now, to-night! He's a-longin' to ! Come right off to our meetin' aad hear of His salvation.'"

The Melbourne Ape of a recent date has yk the following:—" The Rev. Arthur Graves, young . Church of England clergyman, whose recent trial and subsequent acquittal, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences rendered him so notorious, was again arrested yesterday morning, and brought up at the City Court on a charge of conducting himself in a grossly indecent manner at the window of one of the bedrooms of the Coffee Palace, Collins-street, where he was temporarily residing. The Bench reraanded the case ; bail was allowed, but, as the sureties were not forthcoming, the prisoner was removed to gaol." Public opinion in Hungary (the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says) has for some time past been absorbed by a mysterious affair that occurred at Tisza Eezlar, where a young girl belonging to a Christian family, suddenly disappeared, the Jews of the locality being subsequently charged by public rumour with having assassinated her and disposed of her remains. A married couple named Scharf are under arrest on suspicion of being , connected with the girl's murder. The legal adviser has just addressed a memorial to Minister President Tisza, revealing a state of things in Hungary worthy only of the middle ages. It contains the following horrible disclosures :—" Your Excellency is quite aware in what fashion many commissaries of police proceed in view of eliciting confessions from prisoners. Tour Excellency knows perfectly well that only recently the commissary jpf a certain district was accused, while interrogating a youth of eighteen, the only child of hAs widowed mother, of hanging him up ky'his feet, in which position ho died. The covnmissary of another district, while examining a woman whose innocence was afterwards established, had her hands tied, and then caused her to be held over a fire. Your Excellency is further aware that, notwithstanding our severe laws and the vigilance of the Government, the secret interrogatory of prisoners is largely conducted by means of torture aud corporal ill-treat-ment, and that it is practised chiefly by the commissaries of police, who, as a rule, escape detection and punishment.

" Men shut their doors against a setting sun," is a very remarkable saying , , to be found in "Timon of Athens," and one of the oracular utterances of the great Bard of Avon, The expression, is a truism. The moment a thing declines, it is dismissed from public favor. Let a man degenerate, and friendship closes its hand against him, society tabooes him, and he is exorcised, as from all hia past associations. This contrary condition of things, proves the high esteem and popularity of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps. The gates of all the marts of the world are open to it. —[Advt.]