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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3626, 24 February 1883, Page 2

We are requested to mention that there will be no celebration of the Communion at St. Augustine's Anglican Church at the morning service to-morrow.

The Cook County Council has been notified, according to the Gisborne papers, that the sum of £10,700 has been allotted to it under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. The sum applied for was £29,700.

Mr G. H. Swan arrived in Napier to-day by the s.s. Mauapourr after an absence of eleven months, looking all the better for his visit to the old country. A large nnmber of Mr Swan's numerous friends were at the port to welcome his return home.

A gentleman received a valentine the other day, and feeling aggrieved at the implied insult, he placed the ugly picture in the hands of the police to find out if possible who had sent it to him. Is not this carrying dignity to rather a ridiculous height ?

AA r e have received from Mr G. T. Robinson, AVhitc road, a very excellent sample pot of mango chutney manufactured by him. The flavor is good, and altogether the condiment will compare favorably^with the best imported article of its description.

The Corporation banking account was transferred yesterday afternoon from the Union Bank to the Colonial Bank. Sums of money were paid into the credit of the Corporation amounting to -£2119, and a cheque was drawn for £5300 to pay off the overdraft at the Union Bank.

An inquest was held at Taradale yesterday (before Dr. Hitchings, coroner) on the body of Luke Maddigan, whoso sudden demise was chronicled iir our last issue. The jury, after hearing the evidence of several witnesses, returned a verdict that death had resulted from natural causes.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court, this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., Jane Linton, a girl of about 12 years of age, was charged, on the information of Constable Lawless, with tho larceny of a pair of boots and a parasol, valued at 20s,_ the property of AVilliam Rodgcrs, of Hastings. Tlie accused pleaded not guilty, but the offence having been proved she was committed by the Court and sentenced to 4S hours' imprisonment with hard labor.

The jewellery business formerly carried orr by Mr AVall was opened this morning under its new proprietor Mr Colledge, whose purchase we announced yesterday. Tlie number of years that Mr Colledge has been in business irr this town warrants tho belief that the establishment will maintain the reputation it had earned under Mr AA'all for tho excellence and genuine character of the articles to be purchased within it. Tlie stock having been bought on liberal terms, Mr Colledge announces that he will be enabled to make still further reductions irr sale prices.

A private cablegram received iv Napier last night announced the death of MiArchibald Anderson AA 7 att, of Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, Scotland. The deceased gentleman was the elder brother of the late __r James AVatt, with whom he was for many years a partner irr the wellknown business firm at Napier of AA r att Bros. Mr A. A. AVatt has only survived his brother four years, and has died at the age, we should think, of bb years. Ho retired from business when he left the colony in 1877. Mr AVatt had no children to inherit his wealth, but leaves a widow.

The AVaikato Times of the 20th instant says: —"An iniluential native named AVi Pcre, of Gisborne, one of the leading agents on the native side of the New Zealand Land aud Settlement Company, arrived in Cambridge a few days ago for the purpose of canvassing the natives of this district to entrust "their lands to the company. During his stay at Cambridge he held two meetings, one on Thursday afternoon -and one on Friday afternoon. Both meetings were largely attended and considerable" discussion took place. A number of questions being put by the natives and answered by the agent, the general feeling of both meetings was that more information was required; and. it is not likely that any material hold will be obtained "over the natives of this district, unless propositions of a more business-like character are put before them. A number of important chiefs took part in the discussion, and the speaker (AVi Pere) was accorded oil both occasions a long and patient hearing. The wind up of the discussion was practically a suggestion by Mr Shcehan that AVi Pere should submit his proposals in writing for examination by a committee of tho chiefs present. "AVi Pere in company with R. A. Sherrin proceeded to Alexandra on Saturday morning, where ho expects to interview some of the leading men of the King party. His stay there will be a somewhat lengthy one, as some time will be taken up _in bringing together the leading men to review his proposals."

Among the liabilities of Mr Duncan Maccalluin, the late manager of the Tambour Major Opera Company, aro the following: — Union Steamship Company, £101 8s; AA-lliamson, Garner, and Musgrove, theatrical managers, Melbourne, £1,288: MrR. AY. AVilson, stock agent, Brisbane, £1,000; Mdlle. Andrce Navaro, actress, AVellington, £400; Mrs Mary Rolfe, hotelkecpor, Sandridge, Melbourne, £50; Roland and Lewis, icratcd water manufacturers, Melbourne, £10; Bell and Co., wine and spirit merchants, Melbourne, £49 ;H. N. Abbott, hotel-keeper, Auckland, £68 ; executors of the late J. DeLias, theatrical manager, Auckland, £20. And members of tho profession as follows: — Signor A _ncent Tramaglia, musician, AA r cllington, £20; Mr HoAvard Amnion, £187 ; Messrs. J. J. Dixon, £12 ; Fred Dark, £25 ; T. Sullivan, £28: AY. Lindsay, £15; J. Drayton, £17 10s; Cecil Burt, £12 10s; P. Favas, £11 ss; __-_ May, £50; Mdme Mena Miuiclle, £35 ; the Misses Liddiard, £17 10s; Florence Low's, £20; Nellie Fernlergh, £7 10s; Olive A r cine, £7 10s; Emily Claccy, £7 10s; May Ellis, £5 ; Ncille Beattie, £7 10s ; Amy Lovell, £7 10s; E, Leslie, £0 ss; M. Green, £5; Addy Capper, £6 5s ; J. Capper, £5 ; E. AA r alkcr, £5; J. Cameron, £5 ; Messrs 11. Lee, £7 10s; A. Fairfax, £7 10s; C. Carlyle, £7 10s ;G. 11. Rocks, £6 5s ; R. Cryine, £6 ss; T. Cross, £7 10s F. B. Cooke. £7 10; F. Marshall, £7 10s; H. Dubois, £7 10s: F. G. Kelly £10 ; R. L. Skinner, F. Wilkinson," £6 5s ; Louis Tutschka, £10 ss; H. Phillips, £25, F. Sharp, £12 10s; F. Schaubc, £18 12s 6d: G. Namman, £12 10s ;F. Simbolkc, £12 10s: F. Lilly, £10 ; C. Schcidan, £12 10s; Cushla, £13 15s ; C. AVard, £20. The total liabilities are £1006, and the assets nil. J

The Christchurch Telegraph remarks : — The ono cry all over the Colony is, "Renew immigration as speedily and as liberally as may be, but let us have none but the best people who are to bo got in tlie old country. With things in this position, avc find Mr Rolfestoi- eaiecring about tho North Island with " Mr de Gesare, & Maltose emigration agent," with aviewtothoJmportati.cn of population from Malta ! Now, the Maltese are just about the most mongrel people in tho "world. They are half Italian and half Arab, with a dash of Greek, Turk, Jew, Negro, German, and very indifferent English. They are the most bigoted and superstitious race irr Europe, and a singular nuxtuie (if servility and turbulence. They are at once abject and quarrelsome, while their social ajid industrial status is of the lowest, scarcely; if at all, ahove of the Maoris. A settlement of these people ip. this country would be simply a nuisance, while the difficulty in procuring them would probably be very great. If avc want settlers, for heaven's sake let us get Britons ; and if we want slaves, let us get tho ingenious, industrious and harmless Chinese. It is certainly _n extraordinary thing a Ministry who passed the Chinese Immigration Prohibition Act should give conspicuous encouragement to a schoiuc for importing Maltese. But it is a now-fanglcd project, and that is quite enough to sot Mr Rolleston off in a fit of what we cannot but call false zeal. i

The Wanganui Chronicle thus chronicles danger ahead for lovers of sharks as food: —" A score of natives secured a fine collection of sharks' livers, after a fishing expedition to the heads a short time ago. They took them up the river, and converted them, mixed with Maori cabbage and potatoes, into a savoury mess dear to the aboriginal palate. The consequences to the gourmets were unpleasent. We do not know what particular properties a shark's liver may possess, but the whole twenty natives speedily found their skin peeling off, commencing at the toes, and ending at the finger-tips. They were a long time recovering from these disagreeable symptoms of blood-poisoning."

Although an intelligent Maori in the Wellington district lately confounded two Mormon elders from the scriptures, it would seem that the Salt Lake missionaries are making some impression upon the natives in the AYaikato. According to a newspaper correspondent, Elder Bromley, who recently returned to Auckland from a Southern mission, has been making a tour of the AVaikato native settlements, with a view to proselytism. At AVaitoa a number of tho natives have given iv their adhesion to the doctrines of Brigham Young, and a European settler at Cambridge has been appointed to minister to and supervise the new converts. Considerable curiosity is felt here as to how the theological experiment will turn out. Elder Bromley now intends to fly for higher game, and will interview Tawhiao on his return from his Southern progress. A Maori chief at Carterton, in tire province of Wellington, has also written a letter to Elder Bromley, inviting him to como to Ids settlement, .and proclaim the " glad tidings " —of the doctrine of plurality of wives.

It is a generally admitted fact that when our domestic away from their homes into the wilds of bush or mountaiu, they very soon resume their natural characteristics. The following paragraph from the Lake County Press warns us that a breed of wolves in New Zealand is not an impossibility, if dogs are allowed to roam wild, as at present they are. The rabbit pest will be a veiy small nuisance compared with the ravages that wild dogs may commit, if once they are allowed to increase in numbers. The Lake County Press says :— "AA r e are informed by a gentleman who lately crossed A r en's Pass, Greenstone, that he was tracked by a couple of ferocious dogs—a half-bred foxhound and a bloodhound—and with difficulty escaped from them by mounting his horse and putting spurs to it, they paying no heed to his whip. Had ho been on foot it is very probable that his life would havo been sacrificed. A rabbiter that he afterwards met informed him that there were sixteen of these brutes in one pack that he was aware of, and that it was unsafe for any person to come through the Pass without firearms, owing to their ferocity."

Tho following extract from the Lancet seems to prove that the idea of converting into nutritious food the immense quantity of blood now wasted has to a certain extent proved successful, even with herbivorous animals: —"The blood was rapidly dried sufficiently to enable it to be ground in a coffee-mill, in which state it was found to keep well, and to be destitute of odour and taste. It was then mixed iv small quantities with other food, and fed to lambs which had been abandoned by their mothers. Lambs kept on beetroot, hay, Sec, only, steadily lost flesh, while those which received a portion of the powdered blood mixed with their food incre xsed to three times their original weight, and connoiseurs said they had never seen as fine lambs of their age. The animals surpassed their fellows who had been suckled by their darns in weight and size, and their coat of wool became doubled in thicknesss. Calves arc now being experimented upon, aud the process promise? well. It appears that tlus system of alimentation is applicable to man also. In tho case of a rickety child of eighteen months, the results have boon most encouraging. These experiments are most valuable from an economic point of view as the sai-lug of milk in rearing young stock, aud tlie utilisation of so much waste material, is of immense importance."

The English public are but imperfectly aware of tho magnificence of the noble island of Madagascar. Its immediate progress may be as retarded and as languid as that of the past has been; but it requires no seer to foretell its future greatness. It has every element of success; a fertile soil, capacious harbors, mineral treasures, cattle upon a thousand hills, and inexhaustible forests of valuable timber. The Hova, or governing raco, have attained high intelligence, and the commonality are as ingenious as they are industrious. A friend of tho writor's, who has visited every port of Madagascar, taking peeps here and there at tho interior, is most enthusiastic as to its ultimate success. My own more limited knowledge of the island goes to confirm his opinions. The inquiry, then, arises as to what bars or what delays the progress of this beautiful land and of these fine races to the promising goal. Certainly not the uuhealthinoss of the littoral districts, for drainage would remove what is now a bugbear to the stranger, and the high lands of the interior are free from malaria. It springs alone from the dread of tho foreigner, and that foreigner is the Frenchman and his bastard creole descendants of Bourbon and Mayotte. Roads cannot be made from the coast to the capital, or to bring down tho products of the interior, from the unwholesome fear tliat these roads would be used for the purpose of invasioii and conquest, Such is the wretched state of matters that tend to keep a noble land from contributing its quota to the welfare of the world. Great is the difficulty to suggest a remedy. The greed of conquest, the clashing and complications of material interests, the urgencies of governments, political and irational necessities, all tend to prevent rulers from taking the direct road to free a struggling nationality from the paralysing apprehension of impending invasion. — J.AV.AV., in the Pall Mall Gazette.

The recent metallurgical discovery noticed in the London Telegraph, threatens to re? volutionise the economy of the world, T?'e Morning Post thus deals with the imposr sibilites involved in the discovery;—"lt is said that aluminium bronze can be used for cannon. If an aluminium piece of equal, or anything like equal, size be as strong as one of steel, it would bo possible to reduce by more than one-half the weight of all our artillery, and possible, consequently, to bring into the field pieces of twice the calibre now employed, and capable of throwing shot manj- times as heavy. It would obviously be possible to construct armoured ships of something like thrice their present strength without increasing their weight. Aluminium indeed inig-ht very speedily snpersede iron for ship-building purposes, even although its price should be consider ably greater. It would, we believe, require no sheathing, and would not affect thecompasses as iron inevitably does. Aluminium wires of the weight would bear the same strain as wires of iron. Aluminium carriages might be made cheapor than wood ; aluminium bycicles would certainly be the delight of athletes; aluminium boats and oars may, before many years are past, be common sights on our lakes and rivers. The present canoe is a graceful and beautiful object: a canoe made of aluminium would "be a thing of beauty indeed, as well as of use. A\ r e may live to see locomotives shining brightly as silver, and dragging a a train of silvery carriages after them at about half of the present cost per train-mile run, seeing how greatly the dead weight might be reduced. Aluminium tables, chairs, picture-frames, furniture of all kinds, would be not merely light and convenient, but, if devised with anything like aesthetic taste, exceedingly beautiful.

If possible, let the sun have full play in ; ' your sleeping room, penetrating to every nook and cranny. Make a_ little use as possible of artificial lights, not so much because of tho AA-ell-known fact that light is antagonistic to sleep, as that, even when the lights are extinguished, the effects of combustion in a close receptacle bring discomfort to the sleeper. The mistake, then, . is to convert a sleeping-room into a readingroom. The less tune that a gas-light, eA-en ;l candle-_.g_t is left _vir_i_of in a*"loedroom the better. AYe should try to retire at the same time every night- Extension of the time ivheu a person ought to go to sleep somehow breaks upon tho rhythm of labo'i. and rest which physicians understand so well. Keep wide-staring awake too long over your work or your amusements, and, after a time, longer or shorter, the capability to sleep at all has lied. The sleeping-room should be kept spotlessly clean, and repapered at least once ;n every three years ; things got poisonous Avithout our realising it, seriously affecting our sleep, and, in consequence, our health.

Indiana society is finding much pleasure in a new game called egg-jumping. An egg is taken in each hand before making the leap, and the contestant who jumps the farthest without breaking the egg is the Avinner. It is said to require great self-con- .-• trol to resist the involuntary closing of the T liands in a tight grip at the moment of making the jump. In a well-known town in the southern district of New South Wales a few Sunday evenings ago, a lady, thinking it might be cold coming out of church, went to the wardrobe in her bedroom to get her '' dolman." It was dusk, but she thought it hardly worth while lighting a candle. A quarter of an hour later she was walking with stately mien down the aisles of the church—with her husband's trousers hanging over her arm. She had made a mistake in the dark. The Timaru Herald says:—Talking about the dress of colonists, there is a fine picture in one of the latest copies of Punch. The cartoon has reference to the recent changes in the Cabinet at Home, and represents Gladstone "makingup" the several Ministers for their ' ■ parts.'' Lord Hartington, the new Minister for AVar, is dressed as Mars, Mr Childers Avears the gold-laced robes of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and so on. And Lord Derby, the ucav Secretary of State for the Colonies, appears m the Avell-known costume of a British colonist. This consists of a high steeplecrowned hat Avith a turned-up brim, a Garibaldi jumper with a trrrned-doAvn collar and neckcloth, a belt and pouch, tight breeches, and immense boots coming half way up the thigh. We wonder Avhat they would think if Sir Dillon Bell or Sir Saul Samuel were to drop in at the Colonial Institute some evening in such a brigand's get-up as that. Mr Buskin says : — '_' Because I have passed my life in almsgiving, not in fortunehunting ;" because I have laboured always for the honour of others, not my oavii ; and have chosen rather to make me look to Turner and Linui, than to form or exhibit the skill at my oavii hand ; because I haA'e loAvered my rents and assured the coufortable lives of my poor tenants, instead of taking from them all I coidd force for the roofs they need; because I have loved a Avood walk better than a London street, and would rather watch a sea-gull fly than it, and rather hear a thrush sing than eat it; finally, because I have never disobeyed my mother, and have honoured all women with solemn worship, and have been kind eA'en to the unthankful and eA-il; therefore the hacks of English art and literature Avag their heads at me, arrd the poor AA-retch who pawns the dirty linen of his soul daily for a bottle of sour Avine and a cigar, talks of the effeminite sentimentality of Buskin." This story is told by an American paper : '■> —A young lady gave " her young man " a beautifully-worked pair of slippers, and he acknowledged the present by serrdirrg her Iris picture, encased in a handsome frame. He wrote a note to send with it, and at the same time replied angrily to an oft-repeated dun for an unpaid-for suit of clothes. He gave a boy ten cents to deliver the package and the note, giA-ing explicit directions as to the destination of both. It Avas a boy with a freckled face, and he discharged his errand in a manner that should give him a iriche in the Temple of Fame. The young lady received a note in the adored one's handwriting and flew to her room to devour its contents. She opened the missive Avith eager fingers, and read, " I'm getting tired of your everlasting attentions. The suit is about worn out already. It never amounted to much, anyway." And the tailor was utterly dumb when he opened a parcel and discovered a picture of his delinquent customer, Avith a note that said, '' AVhen you gaze upon the features, think how much I oavo you." AVhen the unfortunate young man called around that OA-ening to reeeiA-e the happy acknowledgments of his sweetheart, he was ostentatiously shoved off the steps by the young lady's father. A GlasgOAA- journal of a recent date publishes the following :—" Ncavs has just been received at Lerwick from the island of i Pupa Stoiu - , which lies at the west side of 'Shetland, of a very melancholy accident which occurred there last week. A boy named John Johnston, agod fifteen, had gone out to the lull in the morning to fetch home peats, and not returning as the day advanced, apprehensions began to be felt for his safety. Men Avent out in search, and finding the traces of his footsteps in the snoAv, discovered that he had not gone direct to the hill, but had eA-ideutly proceeded to the north-east side of the island to the cliffs in search of rabbits. His footsteps were traced to the top of a cliff, where his peat basket was found with a dead rabbit in it. His dog was there, running about in a distracted state. The mark of his body was found in the snoAV Avhere he had fallen over the cliff, a height of about 150 feet. His body has not yet been recoA .red, and has probably been carried away by the sea. His faithful dog would not leave the spot, but remained there all day, and only returned home for a short time. Next morning the poor animal again took up its watch on tho top of the cliff. Tlie deceased Avas the only remaining son of poor parents, aa-lio havo only recently lost four of their children. r An extraordinary tragedy occurred recently at Cambridge Barracks, AA r oohvioh, resulting in the death of a corporal and the wounding of tlu-ee other soldiers. Corporal Alfred Harris, of the IstAViltshiroßeginient, returned to barracks about 7.30 p.m. in a state of partial intoxication, and on being ordered into arrest for disorderly conduct, dreAV a SAvord-stick, and stabbed Corporal John Edgar, who Avas proceeding to carry out the Order, the weapon penetrating the heart, and i causing death within a feiv minutes. George Light, avlio advanced to assist Edgar, was also wounded by Harris, who then made his escape, after wounding a sentry Avho challenged him. Pm-suit parties of military and police Avere immediately organised, but their efforts were unsuccessful. About 9.30 p.m., hoAVever Harris walked unconcernedly into the barracks, and was secured in the guardroom. Hebecame exceedingly A-iolent, breaking tAvo pairs of handcuffs and some straps. Ultimately ho was strapped on a stretcher and conveyed to the police station under an escort of forty men, avlio were required to keep off a large crowd. Prisoner had purchased the sword T stick in the afternoon while with a comrade named Newman, and shortly afterwards ran Newman through the hand Avith it. Harris is 25 years old, and has been six years in the army." At the inquest on the body of Corporal John Edgar, a verdict of AA-ilful murder against Alfred Harris Avas returned, and he was committed for trial. EA'eryone avlio has read Jules A r crne's " Twenty Thousand Leagues under tho Sea" will remember the manner of craft in Avhich that marvellous journey was undertaken, and, though that wonderful vessel Avas **- entirely a predict of M. A T enie's fertile the neAV scientific steamer Albatross seems in many ways a practical embodiment of the mythical Nautilus. A\ r e all knoAV that fish, like moths, are attracted by light, and thb Albatross Avill be provided with tAvo classes of electric light, tho Brush X. for illuminating the surface of tho sea, and ibc Edison for lighting up the deep. Fancy the effect of those brilliant rays, shining through the transparent Avaters, and fading away in soft gradations towards the lower depths. Imagine the A r ast aquatic army, which A\-ill come sailing through the illuminated sea, A-isible in this liquid crystal, as through the glass of an immense aquarium. The officers and crew of the Albatross will indeed be able to '' call spirits from the vasty deep." This new steamer has been provided AA-ith laboratories for microscopic purposes, and all the most novel aud approved apparatus for dredging, trawling, and deep-sea soundings. She has also a new distillery apparatus and an effective method of ventilation. The Albatrosshas been designed for the United States Fish Commission, and, besides ichthyology, ornithology will also form a part of her researches, a room having been fitted up with every arrangement for the convenience of the taxidermist. She was ready for sea about December Ist, a most Avonderful example of the progress of science witliin the past ten years. Are you troubled Avith any affection of the Liver ? If so send at once to Professor Moore, of the Medical Hall, AVaipaAva, for a box of his Podophyllum Pills. Poduphyllin is the most reliable liver stiinulent and alterative leuowu Avithin the whole range of the vegetable kingdom. Controlled and modified iv action by the addition of other vegetable active principles, Professor Moore's Podophvllin T l'ills are perfection.— i [Advt.] ' The fcAV choice spirits avlio constitute what we may call the medical jury of the country, were right in their verdict about AVolfe's ScnxAP-S, and Time, the greatest and highest tribuaal, confirms the decree.— [A-vrH