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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3632, 3 March 1883, Page 2

There was a clean charge sheet presented in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning , . Wo have to acknowledge receipt of os from '" No Name " in behalf of the Wilson (Woodvillc) relief fund. The departure of the Union Company's s.s. To Anau for Gisborne, Aucldand, and Sydney, has been postponed until Monday at 10 a.m. The bore of the South Pacific Petroleum Company is again down 115 feet, the new sinking" being- past the depth of the late obstruction. A correspondent points out that clergymen form a very good proportion of the travelling public by coastal steamers. To-morrow returning from the Presbyterian Conference there will be many of the cloth on board the Mauapouri. Now, a reference to the timetable would have assured them that by leaving Auckland on Friday there must of necessity be Sunday traffic at Napier. They should, therefore, 'have delayed their departure for another week, or come overland, so as to have made their practice consistent with their professions. The Hospital Committee have sent to England for a complete set of surgical instruments, ifcc, to the amount of something , over £120. Hitherto the hospital has been dependent for the most part on the kindness of the medical profession for the use of instruments required for operating upon patients. When the order is supplied the hospital will bo furnished with the best and latest appliances for surgical operations that can be procured. Dr. Menzies and Dr. Spencer drew out the list, which will be a sufficient guarantee that it will comprise all that can be needed.

In another column will be found the programme of the fete and sports of the Loyal Moanee Lodge of Oddfellows, which will be held on Easter Monday in a paddock at Roseneath, kindly lent for the occasion by Mr A. McCartney of Taradale. The prize money offered for the various events is liberal, and should ensure a large number of entries. Mr McCartney offers a special prize of £5 to the winner of the mile race on condition that the distance is covered in 4 minutes 10 seconds, a new feature, so far as we arc aware, in public foot races in this district. Quoits, swings. Sec, are to be provided, and dancing will take place at intervals to music by the Garrison Band, which has been engaged for the occasion. In his prologue to his " mellow-drama " Mr Maccabe gently hints at the pardoning of To Kooti in a way that provokes laughter. He points out that in the conventional sensation drama, there are always a nice young man and a nice young woman who love each other, and there is also the villain who frustrates their plans and behaves himself very badly generally. Of course, adds Mr Maccabe, everything turns out exactly right before the end of the play, and the villain, who, it transpires, cheated either the virtuous young man or his affianced out of their property, is filled with remorse and receives " the just_ punishment due to his many crimes." ."You sec," he continues, " the villain is always punished" —"on the stage" : "in real life it is different now-a-days, and tho villain is sometimes pardoned, so the drama is not infallibly true to life."

The March number of the New Zealand Schoolmaster, referring to Sir W. Fox's prizes offered to pupils in district schools who passed the best examination in the subject of Dr. Richardson's book on Temperance, says:—"lt is much to be regretted that such little interest is taken in the teaching of temperance in public schools." It is very much moro to be regretted that no greater interest is taken in teaching children that blasphemy, or foul and disgusting language in the public streets, is both a moral and a civil crime. In these days we presume that all children who find their amusement in the public roads attend one or other of the public schools. Listen to their language which flows with the freedom of habitude, and ask yourself Mr Schoolmaster whether these children cursing and blaspheming while playing marbles on the footpath could ever have had any moral teaching. The committee of the '.Horticultural Society met last evening on the show grounds, and arranged all the remaining details in connection with the forthcoming show. The special prizes were finally allotted, as will be seen by the amended advertisement elsewhere. It was decided that a space be specially reserved for plants for "exhibition only." Messrs Tiff en, G. Read, and J. Hester were appointed the staging committee. It was resolved that entries should, close on Monday evening at 8 o'clock for all intending exhibitors north of Waipawa. The committee also decided that the exhibits in dried ferns must be collected and botanically arranged by the exhibitor. As no pains have been spared by the committee to make the forthcoming show a success in every respect, it is to bo hoped their efforts will be appreciated at their full value, and that the society will receive that degree of support which it so richly deserves. At a general meeting of the Hawkc's Bay Sailing"Club, held last evening at the Crown Hotel, Mr J. E. Provis, being in the chair, it was decided that a series of matches should be held for a cup presented to the club by Messrs P. Ilaytnan and Co., of Dunedin, the matches to be sailed in tho inner harbor on the 10th, 17th, and 24th March, and the handicapping to be on the same scale as that employed in the last series of matches. A regatta committee was then formed, and after much discussion it was decided :" that, taking into consideration the unsuccessful result of the meeting held last 3'ear, it is not expedient to hold a public, regatta this season under the auspices of the club, but should the public take tho initiatory they would receive the hearty cooperation of the individual members." Before closing the meeting a vote of thanks was recorded to Messrs P. Hayman and Co. for this their second presentation of a valuable trophy to the club since its inauguration.

Mr Maccabe was favored with another •rood house last night, when he repeated with great success the programme of the previous evening. It is well known that Mr Maccabe, no doubt feeling that the task he allots to himself each evening is a sufficient tax upon his physical energies, never permits encores in his entertainments, but last night, at the conclusion of the now very popular Irish song, "I'm not mcssclf at all,'' the audience showed its approbation in so demonstrative a style thai Mr Maccabe plainly saw there was '.' no getting away from ft" that time, and it was not until ho had taken his seat at the piano that the thunders of applause ceased. He responded by giving a pathetic little Irish disentitled '' You had better ask me. , ' All the other characters represented evoked loud tokens of satisfaction, notably the ventriloquial display and the London street singer. To-night Mr Maccabe will make his final bow before a Napier audience as he leaves by the Te Auau for Auckland on Monday morning. An excursion train in connection with the performance will be run from and to Hastings this evening, conveying passengers at single fares for the double journey.

The first public meeting of the Napier Christian Temperance Association was held in St. John's school-room last evening, and was well attended. His Lordship the Bishop of Waiapu occupied the chair. The programme opened with a pianoforte solo, which was carefully played by Miss Banbury. An address by the chairman on the subject of " Temperance as a Christian duty" followed, in the course of which the speaker explained that the -word ■'' temperance as found in the Scriptures meant the keeping of the body in subjection, and from this he argued that the total abstainor who was convinced of total abstinence as a duty either

for his own safety or tho good of others was an embodiment of temperance in the tamest sense of the term. After a song given by Mr T. It. Gilpin in his usual good style, and a reading, "The Widow's Choice,"* by Mr Diddams, which latter fairly brought down the house, the Rev. de Berdt Hovell made a telling speech on '' Temperance in its relation to home life.'' Mr Hovell dwelt principally on the contention that the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants tends to make men morose and cruel, and as a natural consequence those addicted to drink rendered their homes unhappy. He also spoke of the many comforts that could bo obtained by the working man for the money he annually wastes in intoxicating liquors. Miss Banbury contributed another pianoforte solo, and was followed by the Rev. J. J. Lewis, who brought beforo the meeting the question of ' ! Temperance in its relations to our health,'' quoting largely from works by Dr. Richardson and other medical men to show that the effects of alcohol on the human system are to lower the temperature of the body and to exhaust its resources. At the close of the meeting several new members were enrolled.

A Gippsland paper (Victoria) states that a housewife, in making up a bed recently, in which two children had slept all night, discovered a black snake Ift long, coiled up under the sheets. Not a very comfortable bedfellow !

Speaking of the impending - Inaugahua election, the Christchurch Press says :— '' The contest is in reality to turn entirely on the education question, or, to speak more plainly, it is to be a trial of strength between Catholics and Protestants.

It is gravely recorded in the Timaru Herald that the sun has been so hot at Pareora that green apples on the trees have been "literally cooked." One would imagine from their appearance that they had been near a fire, or that the trees on which they hung had been burnt.

A most singular and extraordinary accident occurred recently sit Waihenga. It appears (says the Wairarapa Standard) that a man named Shrubb was firing at a rabbit when, owing , to some unaccountable reason, tho gun burst, the man miraculously escaping one danger only immediately to fall into another. A spark from the exploded gun fell into his powder flask, which lie had on his belt, causing it to explode with frightful percussion. The man's arm and side were most severely burnt, and his whiskers and eyebrows were completely singed. No serious residts are anticipated. The District Court of Philadelphia is engaged in considering whether " damn" is a profane word. The question was raised by a Telephone Company removing an instrument, used by a printer, on tho ground that it was made the medium of profane and vulgar language. The printer denied this, but admitted the use of " damn," and the Court has now to consider whether the word is profane. An American paper says that their decision will be awaited with a deep interest by a host of worthy men, and possibly by "devout women not a few," who in moments of physical or mental torture have found a grateful solace in the use ,of that compact and cogent expletive. In criminal life it has often been observed that a strange fascination exercises itself, attracting the evildoer to the place which, above all, from its association -with the crime itself or its punishment, should be tho most shunned by him. An instance of this occurred somo time ago at the Water Police Court in Sydney. A man had been arrested on a charge of having brutally assaulted and robbed, in company with two others, a man passing , through a park at midnight. The prosecutor, whilst giving his evidence in Court, said, '' I recognise the man in the dock as one of those who assaulted me"; then, looking at the crowd in the place in the Court reserved for the public, said, '' And I see the two other men who aided him in the Court." The exits from the Court were at once blocked by the police, and the prosecutor then picked out the two romaining offenders from among the crowd, and they afterwards received sentences of three years' imprisonment each. Tho Wanganui Chronicle says:—Major / Stapp, as officer commanding the district, entertains grave objections to volunteers smoldng whilst on military duty, and has posted up the following notice in the defence office:—"Nothing has a more unmilitary appearance, or shows more an utter want of attention to tho first rules of military service, than for officers, non-com-missioned officers, or men to smoke Avhen in uniform.in the streets or other public places." The necessity of this rule is obvious, and only those can fully appreciate orders of this kind who have witnessed the un-military pranks which volunteers frequently indulged in at the Drill Hall. The spectacle of a bandsman in his shirt sleeves, or a citizen soldier with a short pipe in his mouth, is by no means an uncommon circumstance. Major Stapp evidently intends, also, to put down the practice of visitors smoking in the Hall, for at the parade on Tuesday night he gave directions to have it put a stop to. Lecturing at Sydney, on "The Deluge, in the Light of Modern Science," Professor Den ton stated that ■geology proved that the whole of the earth's surface could not have been submerged since the tertiary period, at any rate, as there were mountains in various parts of the world covered with cinders, which would have floated away on the surface of an overwhelming flood. The Biblical account of the saving of the members of overy existing race of animals in the ark, he considered, was incredible; contending inter alia, that a structure the size of that vessel would be inadequate to hold anything like the number of animals, together with the provisions necessary for their sustenance for a year. He referred to certain inscribed tablets recently discovered amongst the ruins of Babylon, containing an account of a great deluge, and maintained that the Mosaic story had merely been copied from the earlier one. Tho lecture was well received by the audience, who marked their appreciation by frequent bursts of applause. A Chicago paper say:—"Mrs Langtry travels on her shape, and people who've seen her say she's as pretty as a red waggon. For man}" years she stood up in a stall at flower sho wk and fairs, andsold button-hole bouquets at a nickel each. For this kind of work she received about tho same wages as the Queen of England. But speaking of professional beauties, wo don't think they ought to be encouraged. No man who has been down town all day doing trade would like to go home, tired*and hungry, and find that the wife of his bosom has set up as a professional beauty. Beauty is something a man wants all to "himself ; and after he has gone to the expense of getting married and setting up housekeeping, he doesn't feel exactly like sub-letting his newly acquired possession Beauty may do very well to fill a house with joy and peace, and illumine every careworn crevice in a husband's heart but when you come to spread the beauty all over England and part of the United States, you find it spreads mighty thin. Beauty is for one home, not for a nation. In fact, we consider that beauty is an article that should be . kept strictly and entirely for family use, > and not-let out to other fellows on any *~ terms whatever. That's why we don't risk much on professional beauties."

Wo extract the following' from ore of leading , American milling , journals:—Of all the unreasonable, pernicious practices in milling-, that of mixing wheats is the most to be wondered at. If a miller knows what he wants most, he knows that he want wheat of an uniform texture ; that is iiniformly hard or soft. Hard wheat requires different grinding, diiferent bolting and different handling on the purifiers from soft wheat. Any handling which confirms to one kind of wheat cannot meet the other.

In milling mixed wheats, in an effort to divide the difference in manipulation of the mill, neither part of the mixture is handled as it would be if taken singly. Therefore, as applied to each kind of wheat, each is handled AVhere the handling for each kind is different, working , can be adapted to the mixture. Nothing can more plainly illustrate this than changing from JAiltz to Mediterranean wheat in the winter wheat district. A mixture of these is a conglomerate. In the face of this we often hear millers speaking , of their favourite mixtures. This sort of tiling is not confined to small country mills, but it is done by men who, if they would stop to think, would know better. Flour mixing is all right; wheat mixing is all wrong. The journal also quotes a remark of a practical miller as follows:—"There is much experimenting with proper mixes of wheat of widely differing kinds. All the directions that I can Agive on this point are ' Don't.' If it is found desirable to grade the different sized of ono kind of wheat, and it assuredly is, it certainly is a bad practico to mis widely differing wheats."

John Colbourne Prinder, aged fourteen years, has a marvellous memory. He already knows by heart, aiid has recited in public, three complete plays, besides which he can give by heart selections of popular pieces by standard authors. At St. James' Hall, London, recently, he recited the entire play of "HamleV' with scarcely a slip, and. with a fluency simply extraordinary. Country residents requiring patent or proprietary medicines, toilet requisites, fancy goods of any description, stationery, &c.,"will best consult their own interests by calling at Professor Moore's establishment, Waipawa, where there is a large and well assorted stock to choose from. On hand Coutts' acetic acid, the noted cure for rheumatism, neuralgia, and all nervous complaints ; an unfailing , remedy requiring outward application only.—[Advt.] Where authentic signatures are affixed to recommendations regarding a certain preparation, the character of the article stands eloquently vindicated; perhaps no other preparation can boast of a more complete record of eminent names than Wolfe s Sciujapps.—[xldvt.]