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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3671, 20 April 1883, Page 2

The Union Company's steamer Te Anau steams from Wellington for this port at 8 o'clock to night. She will be the bearer of a supplementary mail for Auckland to catch the steamer for 'Frisco. The mail will close at the Post Office, Napier, at 2 p.m. The only nomination for the vacant seat in the Municipal Council to day was that of Mr J. W. Neal. Mr Neal's re-election to the Council will bo received with the utmost satisfaction by the ratepayers. " Plunks " in Christchurch Society states that, during the recent opera season at Napier, Madame and Leonora Simonsen were nearly buried in floral offerings, also that the company produced " Die Fledermans " the evening preceding Madame's benefit. This is indeed news. Iji the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, E.M., Mary Maddigan, wife of the late Luko Maddigan, of Taradale, applied to have her two eldest children, Bridget and James Maddigan, aged 6 years and 10 months and 4 years and 9 months respectively, committted to St. Mary's Orphanage at Nelson, under the provisions of section 16, clause 1, of the Industrial Schools Act, 18S2. The Court made an order accordingly, the girl being committed for a period of eljjlit years, and the boy for ten years, to be brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, There was no other business. One of the celebrated Carpenter American organs, just imported by Mr H. G-. Spackinan, Emerson-street, has been purchased for the use of the Petane Church. It contains eight stops and crescendo knee swell, diapason, melodia, piano, echo, forte, tremola, and sub-bass. We have inspected this and the other instruments in Mr Spackman's show rooms, and specially note the following excellencies in the insti/uinents— variety of tone, combining both strength and sweetness, absence of unnecessary stops, and simplicity of action. The patent divided octave coupler is also a great feature in the larger instruments. The cases are effective in appearance and of good workmanship. Another crowded attendance assembled at the Theatre Royal last night, when "The Grasehoppoi , '' was repeated. To-night the same piece will bo presented for Miss Lee's farewell performance in Napior, th.o company leaving per Te Anau for Auckland to-morrow. A speci;il train will be run from Hastings in connection with this evening's performance, returning at the conclusion of the play. It is to be regretted that the management has not seen fit to repeat "Jo" this evening instead of the ptceo announced. A great number of people who were unable to be present at the Theatre on Monday and Tuesday evening, including not a few from the country districts, will feel much disappointed in consequence. In reference to the shocking death of John Smith at Messrs Wilding and Bull's saw mill yesterday it appears that the deceased was working on the bench fixing a log for the circular saw. He was levering , the log with a crow-bar at the end of the log , nearest the saw. He would thus have his back turned towards the saw, which was in motion, when he slipped, fell, and was cut in half. We believe it is a rule at very many saw mills that no saw shall be in ■motion except when actually at work cutting wood. If this rule had been in force at Waipukurau the accident could not have tenniuated fatally. We hope this shocking aif'air will act as a warning to mill owners, and that every precaution in the future will bo taken to protect thp lives of employes by the strict enforcement of rules for their safety. A Southern contemporary publishes a report of the interview between the Lord Mayor of London and those gentlemen who requested him to open a subscription list for the distressed Irish peasant*;. It .seems that it wan almost wholly in consequence of the speeches of Frank Hugh O'Donuell that the Lord Mayor declined the request. This O'Donnell—who, by the way, voted against the admission of Mr Bradlaugh into the English House .of Commons on the ground that " ii Atheists* (si?) were to be admitted

to Parliament England would l>o mined,' and who denounced the proposition that members should be allowed to affirm—is the same -who gloried in the assassination of Lord Cavendish ! No wonder, therefore, that the Lord Mayor of London to identify himself with a movement with which Mr F. H. O'Donucll was to he associated as a member of the Fund Committee. Another Torptfo FairchUdn was caught yesterday in the inner lagoon, being found stranded'on a mud-bank. If these electric skates arc going- to get common a good deal of unnecessary fuss was made over the one captured the* other da}-. Perhaps yesterday's torpedo thought if it was caught it would bo photographed by Mr Carnell, and put into spirits of wine by Mr Bowevman ; but it is a day behind the fair. Sir Henry AY. Tyler, M.P., has been forced to resign the chairmanship and his position as director of the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Association, Limited. This is the person who laid the information for blasphemy against Mr Bradlaugh. His piety may bo great, but the shareholders of this Electric Company did not value his commercial morality high.— Echo. The death is announced at of Mr William Gonrlay, the popular Scotish comedian, who performed in Napier with his family some ten or twelve years ;igo. He was well known as an able exponent of such parts as demand a pure delivery of the Scotish dialect, and of late years had frequently appeared on the Glasgow boards ;is the Bailie in "Rob Roy," and Dumbicdykes in " Jeanie Deans." Since returning , from the colonies some years ago he had resided principally in Glasgow. Three boys named O'Loaiy (aged M), Fitzsimmons (12), and Adamson (10), were charged at the Hawcra Police Court the other day with entering a shop at night and stealing therefrom a desk. The charge was proved, and O'Leary was sentenced to three months imprisonment, then to be detained at the Industrial School till he is 15, Fitzsimmons, was sent to the Industrial School till he is 15, and Adamson was discharged. O'Leaiyis well known in Napier, having served two sentences here, including a whipping for larceny, and also _ being acquitted on a charge of horse stealing. An exchange relates that in some parts of the south the "recent visit of the Governor seems to have given rise to a conflict between the people's feelings of loyalty and their economic instincts. At the last meeting of the Oamaru Harbor Board a little squabble took place about the money expended in entertaining the Governor. Mr Shriinski protested against any of the board's funds being used to defray the expenses of that entertainment, but the board passed the account- only JL'l or £s—subject to the chairman's approval. Mr Shrimski warned the chairman not to pay it, saying, " Now, mind you, if you pay that account, I will summons you." Bays the Duncdin Echo:—" Notwithstanding the many years Archdeacon Stock has been an archdeacon and a clergyman, he piteously asks the General Synod to tell him what is a communicant ? His Bishop told him not to submit such a conundrum to such an august body, but to bring in a statute to define it. No sooner had this conundrum been in a fair way of solution when another questioner propounded the solemn question, What is a licensed clergyman I" This so took the Synod by surprise that the matter was takento avtzniidum, as the Scotch lawyers say, and there it remains at present. When such important questions require solution the Church has no time to busy itself cither about the affairs of this world or the next." An Otago paper thus describes the Land Nationalisation Association of New Zealand, which has just been formally instituted in Dunedin. Mr Stout has been elected as its first president, and its objects ore declared to be, "To prevent the further permanent alienation of Crown lands in this colony ; to advocate a system of leasing in lieu thereof; and to endeavor to direct, as far as possible, public attention to a consideration of the importance of the question of land tenure." Any person on payment of 2s 6d annually, or on one payment of £2, may he enrolled as a member of the association ; and the executive is from time to time to determine how best to further the object.i of the association—whether by pamphlets, by lectures, by public meetings, by the dissemination of information through the Press, by furthering the formation of similar associations throughout New Zealand, or by any other means they may deem advisable. The Wanganui papers draw attention to a curious case of investment of capital and glow realisation. For near a score of years, it is said, there has lived on the sea beach near Opunake an old man whose colonial life has been a hermitage. The purchaser of the wreck of the steamer Lord Wellesley, the remains of which .still lie within a few yards of the beach, this man is said to have squatted down just above high water mark, to live for the rest of his days on the realisation of his purchase. Years have rolled on, and day after day, as the tide recedes, he visits the wreck, procuring from it some little piece of metal or some useful article of the many which went to make this once powerful steamer. These are disposed of one way and another, and thus he earns his livelihood. Of late he has been blowing up by means of dynamite the coal which still remains in her hold, and although nothing else but the boiler appears above the surface, he still finds enough to keep the flame of life alive. To-day day he repeats the task just as he did twenty years ago, living away from the society of men, bound up solely in himself and in the object of his livelihood. They say (remarks the Melbourne correspondent of the Hamilton Spectator) that Berry's necessity for office has blinded him to the artificial trap into which lie has been drawn by accepting office under Mr Service. Like the apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, Mr "Bern* has virtually said, and will probably say very often again, " My poverty and not my will consents." The case is put thus. The Ministry is a team of ten, rimuting the two members in the Upper House, and of the ten, six arc Constitutionalists. The Berry four are four steers placed in the body between the polers and leaders of a ten-bullock team, where they will either have to go as the driver wants them, or be choked. Matters will go on quietly enough for a few months when some questions of a party political nature, say immigration or the land tax, will be raised. In the Cabinet the debating power and the numbers are alike on the side of the Constitntionalists. AVlr.it must be the result ? Berry must either consent to cat humble pie or resign. Either step will suit his Constitutional masters ; but alas ! what a position for the "leader of the great Liberal party " to find himself in. Some of our Australian dependencies observes the Globe, have lately been holding out inducements to English women to try their fortunes at the Antipodes. Should the invitation have received an insufficient response, we would direct the attention of those from whom it proceeded to Dcwsbury and its neighborhood, as a most likely place to furnish recuits. Young women are not, it appears, very highly valued m that locality. A few days back two of them were brought before the magistrates for having attempted to drown themselves, and in each case it appeared that the wouldbe suicide considered herself rather tic trap in the world. Not without reason, cither, in one instance, for when the half-drowned girl, after being fished out of the water, was carried home, her loving father objected to receive her. '' I don't want the lass here: she's been nowt but bother," was the remark with which he greeted his dripping daughter, almost as if he felt disappointed at her rescue from death. In the other case, the. evidence did not exactly show that the rash damsel was regarded at home as "noAvt but bother," and yet there would appear to have been some such idea in her mind, or?he would scarcely have endeavored to make away with herself at such an early age as sixteen. To girls in that frame of mind it would be an amazing and most delightful revelation to learn that on the other side of t>.e earth there is a country where some niuc-teiithd of the men are constantly thinking, "I do want the lass here," the hiss being any young women in general. The history of the Daccused Wife's Sister measure in the English Parliament is thns told:—" It has been four tunes thrown out in the Commons ; it has once passed a second reading in the Commons, and broken down on the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair; it has three times passed h second reaching in the Commons, and broken down in Committee; it lias once been sent up to the Lords from the Commons and withdrawn without a division ; it has been five times sent up from the Commons, to the Lords, and thrown out by them; and it has been five times initiated in the LordSj tiud rejected there."

The Rangatikei Advocate states that an immense cloud of what were said to be flying ants was seen passing over Feilding on Wednesday last. The gentlemen who saw them informs us that they extended from the railway station as far as the Town Hall. A mission church is being erected in Zululand on the battlefield of Isandhlwana. Under the memorial stone, which was recently laid by the bishop of the diocese, wei'c deposited several coins and some buttons and badges of the 24th Regiment found on the field. The longevity of the Archbishops of Canterbury isvery remarkable. The late incumbent, Dr.'Tait, when he died was 71 ; liis predecessor, Dr. Long-ley, who died in 18.55, was 74; the preceding one, Dr. Sumner, who died in 18G2, was 82 ; the preceding one, Dr. Howlcy, who died in ISIS, was S3 : his predecessor, Dr. MannersSntton. who died in 182S, was 73. In addition to the enormous crops in South Canterbury and Otago, particulars of which we published the other day, we now learn that at AYindsor Park, near Oamaru, over oO bushels of wheat, per acre were thrashed out from a paddock of 350 acres. On the Totara Estate, in the same district, Go bushels of wheat and 111 of oats have been obtained, and from 300 acres in the Cave A r allcy the owner has extracted 72 bushels per acre. In the Do Mcstrc v. Ago trial Mr Justice AVilljrmis ruled that newspapers arc not required to prove their statements with regard to public men "to the hilt,'" and said that even if " comment upon the fact is erroneous, yet if it is fair the defence is complete." This, which is thoroughly in accord with the spirit of libel law procedure in England, reads very curiously in a colony where the unfortunate proprietor of a newspaper gets mulcted in costs for the least slip of a reporter's pen.—Taranaki Herald. The Darling Downs (Queensland) Gazette learns from a gentleman resident in the Toowoomba (Queensland) district that he has twice noticsd the comet which recently visited us travelling rapidly towards the sun. It is in the west, straight under the Bull's Eve, at a considerable distance, and is slightly on the horizontal. It was not at all brilliant, on account of the moo a being so clear. It rose at 7 o'clock and will be visible for a few nights only. Calculations previously made showed that we should have seen the stranger again about the Ist of April. Bernard Doran, the janitor of the Grammar School No. 30, in New York, died on the 23rd nit. of bronchitis. His relatives claim that at the time of his death lie was 110 years old. Two sons of the old janitor who'are living in the city, are gray-haired men. They say that the family record showed that their father was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, on January 7, 1773. The old man came to the city in 1839, and he procured his position as janitor in IS-15. His father, it is said, lived to the age of 101 years in Ireland. Doran never required the assistance of a physician until his fatal illness, which was of short duration. He never smoked or drank intoxicating liquors, and he was a man of singularly quiet temperament. A good wash to prevent the hair from falling out is made with one ounce of powdered borax, half an ounce of powdered camphor, one quart of boiling water. AVhen cool pour into a bottle for use, and clean the head with it, applying with flannel or sponge once a week. Onchuudredand seventy thousand Chinese die annually from the use of opium, and as many of the Anglo-Saxon nice 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, AVaipawa, made up in lib packets, and sold at 2s, 2s Gd, and 3s each, sturdy health and long life may both be secured. —[Advt.] Life Insurance as a provision.—The importance of securemeut of means for those wo might elsewiso leave in needy circumstances, i." , not more wise than the procurement of an extended lease of life by the continuous use of AVolfe's Schnapps.— [Advt.]