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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3616, 13 February 1883, Page 2

Mr F. Siitton, M.H.R., in his capacity of chairman, has called a special meeting of the Hospital Board for Monday next. We arc requested to state that the s.s. Taiaroa leaves our port for Gisbome and Auckland to-morrow (Wednesday), at 4 p.m. "Cinderella," the pretty picture in the Christmas number of the Graphic by Millais is the portrait of the third daughter of the late celebrated actor, J. B. Buckstone. Mr G. H. Swan arrived at Melbourne by the s.s. Liguria on Sunday, and leaves today for Napier by the Manapouri. He may therefore be expected here on Saturday, 21th instant. Mr C. D. Kennedy, engineer for the County of Hawkc'.s Bay, proceeded to-day to Kuripapanga to lay off an extension of the inland Patea road from the Taruarau to the Itangitikei via Erewhon, Messrs Birch's station.

Owners of unregistered clogs who desire to escape the penalty provided by the Dog Registration Act -would do well to interview Sergeant AValker at the earliest opportunity and pay the necessary fees, as it is intended to deal rigorously forthwith in the ease of all defaulters. The catalogue for the forthcoming show of the Hawke's Bay Horticultural Society, to be held on March 7th and Bth, Avas issued as a supplement with last evening - 's Daily ! Telegraph. It will bo noticed that the committee, with a view to induce greater competition than previously, offer first and second prizes in no less than Hi classes. All exhibits for competition must be delivered at the place of exhibition, in Mr Titfen's grounds, Tennyson-street, not later than 10.30 on the morning of the 7th instant. It was not till 2 a.m. to-day that the Returning Officer finished his work in connection with the PLu-bor Board election yesterday. As some grumbling has been heard about the Returning Officer not declaring- the poll before noon to-day, we may remark that it would have been very absurd for him to have made his official declaration at an hour when only a stray cat would have been likely to have been present. The 43rd section of the Local Elections Act imposes a penalty of jCoO for disclosing the state of the poll before the official declaration is made. The New Zealand Shipping Company have issued a circular with reference to the despatch of their pioneer steamship of the new direct lino from New Zealand to London, the British King. The fares to London have been fixed at £73 10m first class, £42 second, £21 third. The voyage will be made either through Magellan Strait or round the Horn, according to weather, thus avoiding the extreme heat and discomfort of the Red Sea and Suez canal. The British King is expected to sail from Lyttelton about the 31st proximo. From the New Zealand Gazette of the Ist instant we (New Zealand Times) find that arrangements are made by the Telegraph Department for transmitting messages relating to sickness or death after the ordinary official hours on payment of a double fee. Two-and-sixpence will also be charged for calling , on the operator to despatch a message after the ordinary hours, and a fee of two shillings for delivery within one mile of the telegraph office. In a case for which this accommodation to the public is especially provided, no one, avc should think, could grumble at the charges for the increased facility of communication, when a delay of a few hours, or even minutes, may be fraught with tho most serious consequences.

Mr W. Miles, liig-ht soil contractor for tlie borough, called at this office to-day with reference to a report that has been circulated to the effect that he has "struck" ho far as the removal of the dust at the Hospital is concerned, "because there is no money to pay him with." Mr Miles desires to explain that the reason he lnts refused to attend at the Hospital for the dust is because there was nine months pay for such service due to him on January 31st, and although his accounts have been sent in to the secretary regularly every month during that time no notice has ever been taken of them further than that he was informed the other day that the Committee would doubtless have funds by and bye, when he would be paid. The contractor naturally enough regards this as a hardship, as not only has he to pay his staff regularly and keep up his plant, &c, but he is (according to his own showing) an actual loser through having to remove the Hospital rubbish at half piice.

A startling discovery, which has occasioned a considerable sensation in the canton Tessin and the neighborhood of the Italian Lakes, has been made at Como. It appears that the entire staff of the Lariana Company, which owns the fine steamers that run on Lake Como, have for years past been systematically robbing their employers. Every employee of the company, from the captains to the cabin boys, is implicated. They had formed themselves into a fraternity, a veritable C'lnnorm; tickets were forged, books falsified, and the members of the association meet every month to verify the accounts and divide the spoil. The company remained in ignorance of these depredations until they were informed by a dismissed steward, whose silence his confederates had refused to purchase by continuing to allow him a share of the plunder. Nearly all the employees are now in custody,

At the inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the steamer New England, with the loss of many lives, John Lemaire, chief engineer of the vessel, stated that aftor the chief officer told him that he was not to move the engines without his orders, he (Lemaire) went on to the bridge, called the captain down to the upper deck, and asked him if he was going out. Captain Mann replied in the affirmative, adding that the pilot distinctly told him that there was sufficient water in the channel to allow of their going out. Witness then asked the mate of the vessel if he would go rip and stand by the captain in case anything should happen. He saw that there was something the matter with the captain. The mate went up accordingly. In the early part of the day it appeared to him (Lemaire) that the captain had had too much liquor. He did not appear to work the ship coming down the river that day as well as usual, and he (witness) thought this was from the effects of drink. The chief engineer detailed at length what took place after the steamer struck. The president, on behalf of the Board, complimented Mr Lemaire upon the bravery he had exhibited in riskinghis life to save others, and said if there had been some more like him on the occasion of the wreck there would probably have been far less loss of life. Henry Jamieson, steward on board the New England, stated that the agent of the company came to him at South Graf ton before the vessel left, and told him not to give the captain anything to drink.

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