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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3608, 3 February 1883, Page 2

The Right Revs, the Bishop of Auckland and the Bishop of AVaiapu are passengers from Auckland by the steamer Te Anau, expected here to-morrow morning.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., a native named Ramiha Tcaomhata was charged with the larceny of a five-pound note, and was remanded until Thursday next at 10.30 a.m.

The three members of the Education Board, Alessrs Ormond, Locke, and Captain Russell, who retired by effluxion of time, have been the only gentlemen nominated by the School Committees, and therefore they have been re-elected without opposition. This fact speaks highly for the administration of the Board.

The distribution of Sunday school prizes to the children attending St. John's and St. Augustine's schools will take place to-mor-row afternoon at 3 o'clock. It is expected that Bishop Cowie, who will arrive here from Auckland to-morrow morning, will be present. His Lordship is announced to preach in St. John's Church at the evening service.

" Les Cloches de Corneville" was repeated at the Theatre Royal last night by the Juvenile Opera Company to a very fair audience, who signified their approval of the efforts of the little performers by frequent and hearty outbursts of applause. To-night the opera will be again produced for positively the last time, when we expect to see a good house, as the merits of the performance certainly deserve it.

The lad John Rogers, who was brought before the R.M. yesterday charged under the provisions of the Industrial School Act with having no means of sustenance or settled place of abode, and who was remanded pending enquiries as to his late father's religious'"belief, was subsequently committed for six years to St. Mary's Orphanage school at Nelson, there to be brought up in the Roman Catholic faith.

Mr Sutton, as Chairman of the Hospital Committee, telegraphed to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary last night informing him that the Committee's account at the bank was overdrawn to the extent of £112 ; that the salaries for January remaining unpaid amounted to £71 : and that accumulated tradesmen's accounts still owing were £700. Mr Sutton requested the Government to at once place the Committee in a position to meet its engagements.

AYe commend to the attention of those likely to be interested that portion of our AVairoa correspondent's letter which relates to the Resident Magistrate's remarks in reference to the "Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act." There is no doubt that, under the legal phrase of contempt of the order of the Court, the Act has been greatly over-ridden, and many a man has been sent to gaol for debt because his means would not allow him to satisfy judgment,

There were full musters of both the Rifle and Artillery Volunteers last night. The men paraded in plain clothes in Mr Ryan's auction mart for the purpose of having their height ascertained as required by the new regulations, and, with one or two exceptions, we believe, the whole of those who presented themselves came up to the prescribed standard, and were passed by Major Routledgo, who took the opportunity aft'orded him of informing* tho members of the two corps of the course lie intended to pursue towards them iv the future under the new state of affairs.

Tho Swedish journals are urging with much enthusiasm the propriety of forwarding a subscription towards the Darwin memorial. They say that Great Britain does not want money as such, but as an indication of a deserved tribute to one of the most original thinkers and eminent scieutjsts of the'tiineV"

"Men of the Time " contains the following notice of the eminent musical composer whose death has just occurred:— ( ' Frederick Ferdinand Adolphus yon Flo tow,, composer, born at Tenterdorf, in MecUonlf_ g-h-Sch-werin, April 27, ISI2, was intended for the "* profession of diplomacy. His fondness for music induced him to go to Paris, where he placed himself ruider the composer Reioha. The revolution of 1830 recalled him to Germany, whence he returned a few years later with.several operas composed by him during the interval. None of these, however, found favor with the Parisian managers, and it was only the impression they produced by their representation in private before amateurs that obtained for him the commission, in 1838, to furnish the music to 'Le Naufrage de la Meduse.' This at once established his position, the opera being successful. Since that time he has composed several, of which the 'Forrester,' produced in 1840 ; ' L'Esclave de Camoens,' in 1813 ; and < LAme en Peine,' in 181G, hold possession of the French stage ; while 'Stradella,' in 1844 ; 'Martha,' in 1858 ; and ' Zilda,' in 18G6, established his reputation in Germany as a composer of light operas. ' Indra,' 'Rubezahl,' and 'MarieKaterina,' are favorites in Germany. After residing in Paris and in his native town, M. Flotow settled in 1855 at Schwerin, where he became director of the Court Theatre. He was elected a corresponding member of the French Institute in ISGI. His latest composition was ' Fiore di Harlem,' an Italian opera, at the rehearsals of which he himself presided at Turin, in November, 187 G."

"Horrors upon horrors accumulate" in the pandering for sensationalism in the socalled new dramas of the day. A wellknown Melbourne critic, now in London, writes from that city under a late date:— " AVhile at the AA r est End we condemn the melancholy and metaphysical pastoral of Mr Tennyson, and find the ' Promise of May ' fade and futile, the East End is revelling in a production which seems to defy competition, aul leaves 'Pluck,' 'Drink,' 'New Babylon,' 'Youth,' 'Light-so' London,' and the 'Romany Rye' nowhere. 'The Ruling Passion,' at the Standard Theatre in Shoreditch, introduces us to cabs, an omnibus, bicycles, the Salvation Army, a Foresters' fete, two murders, a woman thrown downstairs, and then hung up her thumbs in a private madhouse, and another woman firing several bullets into a man until he is ' perwailed on,' after the method of Dick Turpin, in the famous ballad snug by Sam AA r eller. The heroine, who is perpetually encountering extraordinary perils and adventures in streets and public places, makes her final escape from her presecutors in a balloon. Ascending from the Crystal Palace—admirably put on the stage —the balloon falls into tne sea, and she is rescued by a boat. As her husband is led off to meet his deserts for murder, this injured lady promises to marry the lover of her deceased sister. A real shower of rain, and the real wetting of some of the personages, are ' great attractions' of this performance, which is a genuine curiosity in its way."

The London Spectator says: — Miss Nightingale has pointed out how constantly the mental state of the dying depends on their physical condition. As a ride, she tells us, in acute cases interest in their own danger is rarely felt. "Indifference, except with regard to bodily suffering, or to some duty the dying man desires to perform, is the far more usual state. But patients who die of consumption very frequently die in a state of seraphic joy and peace ; the countenance almost expresses rapture. Patients who die of cholera, peritonitis, kc, on the contrary, often die in a state approaching despair. In dysentery, diarrhoea, or fever, the patient often dies in a state of indifference." Those who have carefully examined the dead on a battle-field or in the streets after an entente, arc struck with the fact that while the expression of the faces of those who have died by gmishot wounds is one of agony and distress, the dead by sword have a calmer expression, though their wounds often seem more painful to the eye. A very careful observer, who was through the Indian _ Mutiny, entirely confirms this. After giving several instances, he says: —"A rapid death by steel is almost painless. Sabre edge or point divides the nerves so quickly as to give little pain. A bullet lacerates.''

The famous conjuror Hermann has arrived in Paris from Vienna, after a sojourn of six months in South America. During a performance at the house of the Governor of Montevideo, Hermann determined to mystify three half-savage Patagonians who were present, and whom no one dared to approach. He stupified the first by taking an orange from his nose, he astonished the second by producing a series of piastres from his hair, but tho third seemed ovepowered with terror as ho extracted from his rose a living rat. Uttering a cry of fright, the Patagonians withdrew, and the company congratulated Hermann upon his success. AVhilo receiving their congratulations, he suddenly discovered that Ins -watch was gone, and that his chain had gone with it. His purse, too, had disappeared, and the thief had also appropriated his eyoghrs's aud his pocket-handkerchief. Half an hour afterwards the eluef of the Patagonians returned, bringing the missing articles. The savage from whose nose Hermann had extracted the rat had emptied the conjuror's pockets at the moment when he was pretending to be overcome with terror at the unexpected apparition of the rat from the tip of his nose.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Among the many dangers, seen and unseen, by which we are surrounded, that of poisonous dyes in articles of clothing is not the least formidable. Some evidence was given on this point at a coroner's held in London the other day respecting the death of a boy aged eight years, who was killed by his stockings. On coming home from schools ho complained of a pain in his foot. As the pain got no better ho was taken a few days later to a doctor, but, unfortunately, the mischief clone was beyond the reach of medical assistance, and two hours afterwards he was dead. It appeared that some time ago he had grazed the skin on his heel by wearing a tight

\ t; and the dye having come off some v, :en stockings he was wearing entered th- mud. The cause of his death was, the ■: 'or stated, blood poisoning, originally due *■■ the injury to the heel and to the stocking dye. The jury returned a verdict accordi* 1 _to the medical evidence; and the coroner mentioned the fact that some striking cases had come under his notice illustrating th- danger of wearing stockings heavily dyed wii>. poisonous matter. There seems to be no good reason why the sale of poisonous clothing should be permitted, any more than the sale of poisonous food.

An old, hard cocoannt is taken and a very small hole made in the shell. Furnished with this and a pocketful of boiled rice the x sportsman sallies into the forest and stops beneath a tree tenanted with monkeys. AVithin full sight of these inquisitive spectators he first cats a little rice and puts a quantity into the cocoanut, with all the ostentation possible. The nut is then laid upon the ground and the hunter retires to a convenient ambush. The reader may be>-sui-c that no sooner is the man out of their sight than the monkeys race helter-skelter for the cocoanut. The first arrival peeps into it, and seeing the plentiful store of rice inside, squeezes his hand iv through the tiny hole aud eluches a handful. Now so paramount is greed over every other feeling connected with monkey iirturc, that nothing will induce the creature to relinquish his hold. AVith its hand thus clasped he cannot possibly extract it, but the thought that, if he lets go, one of his brethren will obtain the treat is overpowering. The soon appears upon the scene. The unincumbered monkeys fly in all directions; but the unfortunate brute, who still will not let the rice go, is thereby handicapped beyond hope with a cocoanut as large as himself, a state of affairs quite fatal to rapid locomor tiou, either terrestrial or arboreal. Tire sequel is that he falls captive to the hunter, a victim to his own greed. Even when caught he reads in the actions of his captors a design to rob him of his rice, and he clutches it all the harder, and the very first thing he docs Avhen the nut is cracked and the hand released is to cram its contents into his mouth. Thoughts of escape come afterward.—London Field.

AYe suppose most people tiling when they read of gveut battles tliu-t all file men ou. cither side were engaged iv fighting, or at any rate were at some time or another under lire. Why should one side have been defeated if it had not put forth, all its strength'r But, says the author, " during the great battles of the Franco-German war the numbers were so great that seldom more than two-thirds of those present were ever under fire at all." At Saclowa, in 1866, the Prussians brought 221,000 men into the field, but only 129,000 came under fire. Iv

the same battle the defeated Austrians brought 215,000 men into the field, but no less than 05,000 of these were never in action. When we consider the tremendous fighting in 1870 and the number of battles, it is surprising to learn that only 7,0000 men wero killed and less than "50,000 men wounded in the German army during the whole rifle btdlets ; and still more remarkable that only 700 men were killed and 4,4-10 ■wounded by artillery fire. '' I trust,'' adds Sir Garnet," " that these figures will put a stop to the cry for more guns ■which one still hears occasionally. AVhen we compare tho losses incurred at such battles as Gravellottc aud Sedan with those incurred in the smoothbore days of Borodino and Waterloo, it is plain that increased facilities for destroying are not accompanied by a corresponding amount of destruction. At Gravelotte the Germans lost 1-00 per cent, in killed and 5--1G per cent, in wounded." At Barodino the Russians lost 10 ten per cent, in killed and 30 per cent, in wounded ; the French, who were the victors, having a still larger proportion. It cannot be "said that battles arc of much shorter duration now. AVatorloo and Gravelotte were both begun about noon and finished about seven o'clock in the evening. It took six hours to light out Austerditz. but no less than twelve to settle matters at Solfcriuo. In spite of the enormous superiority of the Germans at AA r orth, that battle lasted for seven and a-half hours. It may perhaps be the case that, from the great use to which iiitrcnclnncnts will be put in coining wars, it will take longer than ever to find out which is the winning side. —The Spectator. Quinine is an alkaloid found in tho bark of trees belonging to the Cinchona or Peruvian bark family, and is one of the most valuable febrifuges and antiperiodies known to medical science; while incorporated with iron tincture it has no equal as a tonic. Pure quinine and iron may be obtained jmt up in bottles of any size to suit customers at Professor Moore's Medical Hall, AVaipawa. —[Advt]. AATien AVolee's Schnapps was first introduced here, the article was analysed by competent chemists and pronounced pure and wholesome; it is now and has been for many years a standard professional remedy. .—[Advt.]