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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3670, 19 April 1883, Page 2

"We hear it is Major Butts' intention to inspect the recruits at their ordinary drill this evening, when it is to be hoped every man will make it a point to be present.

Wo remind burgesses of the Middle Ward that nominations of candidates for the vacant seat in the Municipal Council must be sent in to the Town Clerk not later than noon to-morrow.

The premises adjoining the Criterion Hotel, lately in the'occupation or Mr W. E. Woods, "chemist, have been taken by Messrs Nelson, Moato and Co., who have opened in them a branch establishment of their blended tea business.

To-morrow is the day appointed by the County Council of Hawke's Bay for the nomination of candidates for seats in the various Road Boards within the county, with the exception of Clive, the nomination for which has been fixed for the 27th instant.

The usual weekly meeting of the Napier Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association will be held this evening at the usual time and place. The programme comprises the reading of the " Monthly Magazine," and as great care has been bestowed on its compilation it will no doubt afford a good evening's entertainment.

The Agent-General lias informed the New Zealand Government that the s.s. Westineath was to have been despatched from Plymouth on the 10th March witli emigrants for Auckland and Hawke's Bay, and" the British Queen from the same port on the 2-lth ultimo with immigrants for Wellington and Canterbury. Each vessel will bring about '250 emigrants.

One of the borough laborers named George Shcllam met with a nasty accident the other day, which has resulted in his losing the sight of one of his eyes. It appears that ho was assisting in the work of cutting some water pipes for the waterworks extension, when a splinter of iron new in his eye, damaging the member seriously. Shellam was attended by Drs Menzies and de Lisle, but when the iuiiainatioii abated sufficiently to admit of an examination it was found that the optic was irreparably destroyed.

There is a little piece of -work on the Farndon road that the county authorities might apply themselves with advantage to the travelling public. We allude to the divergence at the Shamrock Hotel. In the days of the old toll-gate the road tos brought round in its present manner in order to make the Farndon and Meanec truflie pay toll at one gate, and a fence was run down to the sea to prevent evasion of this tribute, The necessity no longer exists for this divergence as far as the Farndon road is conwmpd, and we would suggest the advisability of straightening this main south highway.

At a meeting of the committee of the Napier Rowing Club, held last evening, the question of shifting the shed to some more convenient position was discussed, and the idea will pi-obabjy be carried out before next season. A great many of this year s subscriptions and some of lanfc year s remain unpaid, and we are requested to i»ir form members who arc in arrear that a piompt settlement of their dues will further the interest of the club. We may add that an alphabetical lock is about to be placed on the shed doov, and members, can obtain the " word " from the captain of the club or from the members of the committee.

" One who is disgusted with the Irish assassination conspiracies," in a letter that we do not care to publish, urges the immediate dissolution of all the colonial branches of the Laud League in consideration of the alleged close connection between the Land League and the murder conspirators. An article headed "Fcuianisn!,," published in the St. James' Review, and written "by a Fenian," if true, discloses what lias long been suspected, that it wa« the Land League that found all the money and came to the rescue of the Fenian orginsation whemt was moribund and penniless. The Fenians and Land League then amalgamated. If this account be true colonial Land Leaguers are dupes, and should no longer countenance a cause that is hungry for money to keep m j>ay gangs of murderers.

The Artillery and Rifle Volunteers paraded in g - ood force for Government inspection in front of the Athenaeum at 7.40 last night. The following was the parade state:—Staff: Majors Routledge (inspecting officer) and Butts, Drill Instructor Nelson, Sergt.-Major Fox, Lieut. Pell, N.A.V. (acting-adjutant), 52 rank and file of the N.A.V. under Capt. Garner and Lieut. Ross, 54 rank and file of the N.R.V. under Capt. Blythe and Lieut. King, and 1C bandsmen. The customary evolutions having been gone through, the men were marched to Mr Tiff en's shed, where the inspection took place, after which Major Routledge stated that he was commissioned by Major Butts to compliment the men upon their appearance and the clean state of their guns and accoutrements. He requested the men to attend regularly to drill, so as to get as 'perfect as possible. Major Routledge also stated that Major Butts had promised to do all in his power to obtain a drill-shed for the volunteers. The band were highly commended by Major Butts for their efficiency in playing. The Artillery were then dismissed, and the Rifles proceeded to Clive Square, where the company was put through the manual and new filing exercises by Major Butts and Lieut. King.

At one of the Salvation Army's meeting last week a short address was delivered by Dnnedin tradesman, who stated that he had been converted through the instrumentality of General Booth about 14 years ago in London.

In an article on the "Wain inquiry, the Lyttelton Times says :—" Believing that there had been inhuman and brutal treatment, the jury might very -well have regarded the guilt of the responsible parties as alleviated into manslaughter by the concomitant circumstances of the tuberculosis. It is strange that the coroner did not direct them to that effect, instead of frightening them into the belief that it must be murder or nothing. Happily the law is still open to be applied to. The question of the exact culpability of these iiiluun;m parents should be settled by the highest tribunal. It will be a blot on our legal machinery if what is prbiin facie the most revolting case that has come before the public for many years does not form the basis of a serious indictment."

Speaking of Mr M. "W. Green's insurance scheme the Lyttclton Times says:—"The financial basis of Mr Green's scheme is about ;is sound as a bottomless Irish bog. If the scheme were to come to anything", protection lo native industry and village settlements under stimulus of loans (a good thing in itself) would only aggravate its financial failure. As to the drinking, does any man suppose that in a country of drinkers, where alcohol is sold by men having no personal interest in its sale, and therefore no reason to care who sells unlawfully, any large number of public-houses suddenly closed by enactment would not continue always open as grog-shops kept by sly trade? Mr Green's scheme offers a paradise of sly-grog shanties, maintained by a drunken, bankrupt people."

The Cromwell Argus makes the following comment on the dummyism question :—" It is no slight matter that at the very outset an attempt should be made deliberately to sot aside the previsions of the Land Act

specially designed to promote settlement and prevent tlio re-acquiremeiit of large blocks of country by'wool kings.' The province lias long enough suffered from this iuicpiity, and the people rejoice to see a disposition on the part of influential men oil the Board to stamp it out rigorously. . . Good in the future must result, as the outcry in the present suspected cases will have the effect of making others very shy in attempting dummyism. If, on the other hand, the agent fails to make a clear und satisfactory statement, not only should the licenses be ooncelled, but stringent measures taken to punish, on proof, the offenders against the law, no matter what their social statuts. If they are men in high places they will afford all the more strikiug example of those following in their footsteps."

The Lake County correspondent of the Otago Daily. Times writes:—"TheQueenstown Municipal Council recently appointed a doughty little gentleman, avlio enjoys the universal respect of all the Queenstownites for his mtuiy estimable qualities, as returning officer to the Licensing Board, without first ascertaining his willingness to act. Such a liberty being taken with him chafed the hot little citizen considerably, and ho roundly rated the councillors for disposing of him in such an arbitrary manner. Somehow or other a sudden change came over his feelings, which he must be allowed to explain in his own words. Writing to the Mayor, he says : —' Having just learnt that the office of returning officer to the Licensing Bench is one of emolument, I ■shall esteem it a favor if you will express to the Council my hope that the apparent discourtesy of tone in my correspondence on this subject, while under the impression that the office was honorary, will be overlooked.' One hardly knows which to admire most, the offence or the apology."

The European Mail says:—"The term ' lady' lias certainly become a somewhat clastic one; nevertheless, we were somestaggered upon seeing Cctewayo's wives described in print as the ' ladies ' of his household. Really, if a savage female who shaves the wool from the crown of her (head (with the exception of a small top-knot, which she daubs with red clay), anoints her whole body with butter of fat, and wears by way of dress only a very short kilt of prepared hide, who takes snuff prodigiously, and neglects all use of a handkerchief, and looks upon a stewed bullock's paunch as a banquet, is to be spoken of as a 'lad}',' the word has lost its significance." Onehundredand seventy thousand Chinese die annually from the use of opium, and as many of the Anglo-Saxon race from dyspepsia, brought on by the abuse of liquor, tobacco, and quack medicines. Many people dig their graves with their teeth ; more die from bad drink than starvation. By using only the pure teas sold by Professor Moore, of the Medical Hall, Waipawa, made up in lib packets, and sold at 2s, '2s 6d, and Us each, sturdy health and long life may both be secured. —[Advt.] It has been years since the world first heard of Wolfe's Sciixaws, and to-day its virtues are as fresh and its fame as un* clouded as when it first flashed into public notice.—[Advt.]