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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3642, 15 March 1883, Page 2

The town to-day was almost deserted after the 11.1 •> train left for Hastings, and by a quarter to twelve the sight of a human being in the streets was something to take note of.

We arc requested to mention that ferrets for the purposes of rabbit extermination can be obtained from the Waimata depot at 30s a paii , ,. on application to Chief Inspector Pasley, Napier, or Inspector Muuro, Wairnata.

The chief Renata Rawepo has chosen a rather unfortunate day for his addrees to Tawhiao, the races being to the majority of people more attractive than a Maori gathering. The speech-making was to have commenced to-day, and extensive preparations were made to hospitably entertain European guests.

In our report yesterday of tho annual meeting of the llawke's Bay District of Oddfellows an error of a serious character was permitted to appear. Under the head of " Statement of Accounts " the balance to credit of lodge sick and funeral funds was shown at £47 Us 9d, whereas the correct figures are £4,711 9s.

An advertisement appears in our columns signed by the Property Tax Board of Reviewers, notifying that the Board will sit at the Supreme Court House, Napier, on April 4th next, for the purpose of hearing objections to' assessments in respect to property "in the undermentioned places." As no places whatever are -undermentioned property owners are once more puzzled.

At the "Waipawa Police Court on Tuesday, before A. St. C. Inglis, Esq., J.P., E. Edwards was charged with being unlawfully on the premises of Dr. A. Todd on the preceding night. Having heard the evidence of Dr. Todd and of L. Lassen, the Bench considered the case fully proved, and sentenced prisoner to one month's imprisonment in tiie Hapier gaol with hard labor:

Mr R. C. Harding has received the following subscriptions per Mr R. E. Rasmusen, Danevirke, on behalf of the Sehcoffler family:—B. Amundsen, 10s; Petrus Erikson, 5s ; Augustus Perston, ss; Jacob Halverson, ss; Annie Bemtsen, 2s Gd; Caspara Amundsen, 2s 6d; Anton Bemtsen, ss; C. C. Neilsen, 10s; Martin Carl Jensen, 10s; Olaf Carlson, ss; Neil Bemtsen, ss; C. Olsen, ss; R. E. Rasmusen, 10s ; C. Pedersen, 3s ; Jacob Baak, ss; Mrs Knight, 5s ;W. F. Knight, 5s ; F. J. C, 10s; W. Rasmussen, ss; P. Christiansen, ss; McKenzie, 4s; H. P. Jensen, 4s; Hans Jensen, ss; F. Ehnbranch, os ;J. Martin, 2s 6d; J. Allardice, 5s ; total, £7 4s 6d.

The Egyptian "War Gift Exhibition, opened in the Protestant Hall last evening, and received liberal patronage. A largo number of views illustrative of incidents in the late Egyptian, Zulu, and the Franco - Prussian wars, also of Continental scenery and other interesting subjects, were exhibited. At one end of the room stands a large stall profusely decorated with useful and ornamental articles, including gold and silver watches, framed chromos, toilet services, cut decanters, albums, card receivers, sewing machines, mechanical toys of every description, and a host of fancy goods "too numerous to particularise," the whole surmounted by a gigantic Japanese umbrella. Thesegoods Miss Jennie Nye, who, we understand, is part proprietress of the exhibition, dispenses with unsparing hand, every visitor receiving a present of some description, the denomination of which is marked on his entrance ticket. The leading presents last night were a gold watch, a silver watch," and a handsomely carved Japanese cabinet. The remaining attractions of the show are a "Zoetrope," the manipulation of which produced very amusing effects and created quite a fund of amusement, and the serial suspension act, a hick that was veiy cleverly performed by a young lady. A phonograph was also brought into requisition and performed its duties satisfactorily. To-night the exliibition will be open again from 7 to 10 o'clock when new views will be shown, and gifts distributed.

During the month of February, ISS3, 1252 persons arrived in New Zealand from "foreign parts," and 752 left the csloniv,leaving a balance in our favour of 500 persons. The respective arrivals at tlie various ports wore as follow:—Auckland, 404 : Wellington, 75 ; Napier, 2 ; Hokitika, 1 ; Lyttelton, So; Duncdin, 192; Bluff, 493. * Departures—Auckland, 212; Wellington, 189 ; Napier, 12 ; Lyttelton, 10 ; Timaru, 1; Dunedin, 14 ; Bluff, 314. The balance in favour of the colony—that is, of immigration over emigration during the last four years was 31,113 persons. The smallest net gain was 1655 in ISSI ; there has never been a net lost on the whole year.—Post.

Speaking of the banking- returns for the colony, the Lyttelton Times has the follow- 7 ing:—"The increase in advances made in the latter part of the year may be easily accounted for, as it is well known that at that time assistance is required by squatters and farmers, who are obliged to discount their prospective wool clips and crops ; and io is further known that this assistance, wheii required, must be givon. Such being so, it does not appear illogical to suppose that bankers, becoming somewhat anxious on the score of their heavily - increased advances, have endeavoured to reduce them, and being unable to obtain them from the landed and agricultural class, have had to call upon the trading , community. This is the way in which we read the writing on the wall, and, .if we are correct, it is not unnatural to assume that when the proceeds of our wool and grain have reached the colony, the pressure on the trading community will be wonderfully relaxed, and we shall have at once a period of business, briskness, and prosperity."

Commenting on Judge Gillies' '' explanation" to the Auckland barristers, the Christcliureh Telegraph remarks:—"The kernel of the whole controversy lies in his Honour's proposition, "In order that a woman may be reported to have a character she does not possess, a man ought to plead, guilty to a crime he did not commit!' A* pretty system of morals truly. The interests of the State are so bound irp in hoodwinking , husbands who have unfaithful wives that it is better to send a man to gaol than to allow the husband's eyes to be opened. ' Honour among thieves' is a principle that cuts both ways. Judge Gillies is horrified that a man should preserve his liberty by telling the simple truth about his paramour ; we take the liberty to be horrified on our part that a women should, with a view of deceiving her husband, charge her partner upon oath with a crime of wliieh, in the eyo of the law, he was, to her knowledge, in - nooent that she should further expect him to say ho was guilty, and go cheerfully to gaol, and present his back to the lash, for no other end than to conceal ' the truth the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."'

It is just as well for the master of tho Elibank Castle (says the Grey River Argus) that he in a muscular Christian, with a formidable pair of biceps. Quite an interesting little scene was enacted on her clock as she was being towed across the bar. Some of the crew seemed to have had a parting glass or two with their friends before leaving, and treated the captain's orders with a nonchalance not usually tolerated on shipboard. These pot-valiant r fellows seemed to have their own ideas as to what ought to be done aud who was in command of the vessel, and after an apparent difference of opinion upon these matters, advanced in a body towards the captain with threatening brows and in a fighting attitude. Iv a very short space of time all were busily engaged in picking themselves up from different parts of the deck, all having been knocked down.ou&. after another. Captain Grant weighs lost., ' and apparently knows how to hit out when necessary. Before the tug boat got out of sight the unruly members of the crew of the steamer had settled down to their work quite cheerfully. The .vagaries of a young man in "Wellington, who gave the name of Edward Hunt when arrested, created no little excitement on the Terrace one evening last week. The man entered the premises of several residents in that part of the city jus t after tea, and conducted himself in such an eccentric manner that many women and children were almost scared to death. The matter was reported to tlie police, and Constable Milton was detailed to arrest the fellow. The guardian of the peace, according to the Post, pursued Hunt for over an hour over fences and across ditches, the chase at times being most exciting, but was unable to overtake him, and at icngtli the quarry became lost to view. However, as Acting-Detective Campbell was making enquiries at the Whitehall boarding house, Plimmer's steps, Hunt rushed into the place, and was at once secured by that officer, who marched him down to the station. The man was brought before Mr" Ilardcastle in clitimbors on Thursday morning on a charge of insanity, and was remanded for medical examination. He was examined by Drs. Henry and Key worth, and on their certificates was committed to the Asylum. Hunt is "of the laboring class, and only recently arrived frou>, Napier. "~

If we may believe the Geeleng Advertiser, Messrs Lalor and Rees, who represent the electors of Grant in the Victorian Parliament, have reduced tho art of electioneering to an exact science. We fear, however, there is a tinge of party hatred in tho following , description of their method:—"lt lias been the rule of these two*political pedlars, Messrs Lalor and Rees,' to hire a buggy, and travel round with a paste pot and a pile of handbills. Laylor has held tho reins, and Ree.s,- xuidgr cover of night, has plastered tho bills on trees abiitting on the .several townships they have passed through. They have loafed on. some hard-working fanner in the neighborhood for bed ap' l breakfast; have next morning , canvassocT tho village, kissed most of the old women and children there and passed oil again, committing- themselves, politically, to nothing, and nobody, and finding themselves eventually at tho head of the poll. Many attempts have beenmnde to put them out, but they have been futile. MrLuplau, a Ballarat man, is essaying the task of defeating one of them at this juncture, but ho is necessarily at a disadvantage, as all other competitors must be until some political pedlar, horn about the same time, and under tho same star as Messrs Lalor and Rees, conceives the happy idea of following in the wake of these ' Johnny Gilpins, , and improving upon the system of candidature which this ' child-like and bland' pair of Victorian politicians have made exclusively their own." Mr Lalor, we might has just been elected Speaker of the Victorian Assembly. We learn that the Union Steam Shipping Company holds the proud position of being the fifth largest steamer company in the world.

The Poverty Bay Herald states that for twenty-four small allotments in a new Tillage in Poverty Bay, put up by Government at £10 per acre upset price there were 333 applicants.

New South Wales l .has 33,000,000 sheep. The Bank of New South Wales has 103 sheep runs standing in its name, and the Commercial Bank 157—a1l in the colony of New South Wales.

The other evening the Mayor of Auckland entertained the employes of the Corporation in the Lome street Hall. The heads of departments and the humblest laborers were invited alike without distinction.

The Melbourne Leader is hitting around at the taste displayed by the Melbourne public for legs and thin dresses, as exhibited on the stage. Time too, as the economy displayed in dress by some actresses is very great, and approaches occasionally to that of the fig-leaved days.

A ship named the Torrens had a narrow escape from sharing the same fate of the Austral, at Adelaide lately. Whilst being loaded she suddenly lurched over, bursting the tics that held her to the quay, and but for a steamer that was alongside her must i nevitabry have capsized.

The number of rabbit skins exported from New Zealand in in 18S1 was 8,514,085, valued at £81,774, against; 7,00">,Gi1, valued at JEGG,O7G in 1880. There will probably prove to .have been a further increase in 1882 ;' and at this rate rabbit-killing is becoming a most important industry—less satisfactory, however, than wool growing.

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 uiif ailing remedy requiring outward application only.—[Advt.]

Keep regular hours, seek the air where it is,purest, avoid unnecessary exposure, work without excess, and interlard all with draughts of that celebrated stimulant, Wolfe's Schnapps.—[Advt.]