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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3790, 7 September 1883, Page 2

As the s.s. Tarawera ■will not arrive here till Sunday the outgoing 'Frisco mail will be despatched by the h.b. To Anau via Wellington. The mail closes at noon tomorrow, for money orders at 10 a.m., for registered letters at 11 a.m., and newspapers and bookpaokets at 11.30 a.m. A private letter from Murrindi, N.S.W., states that the Rev. W. Marshall has suffered an attack of paralysis. The numorous friends of that reverend gentleman in this town and district will exceedingly I'Ogret to hear of his illness. We are requested to mention that a spocinl service will bo held in All Saints , Church, Taradale, on Sunday next at 11 *Volock by the Right. Rev. the Bishop of TVniapn, to induct the Rev. 0. L. Tuke, who has been nominated to the incumbency. The Bishop will preach tho same afternoon at Puketapu, and in tho evening at Taradale. Mr David Peat, of Wanganui, who has presented a hondsome silver cup as a special W prize to tho ' Agricultural and Pastoral Society, acted at last year's show as judge of long-wool sheep. The society, as usual, paid Mr Peat's expenses, amounting to £6, and this cirp, which must have cost fully £15, is the handsome manner in which tho judge's foes have been returned. A meeting of St. John's Band of Hopo was held last evening, when Mr. J. Harding delivered a lecture on the " Wasto of Food in the Manufacture of Beer." Mr J. B. Teychenno occupied the chair, in tho absence of the President, tho Rev. Dcßerdt Hovell. Tho lecture was illustrated by diagrams and experiments, and was listened to with much evident attention. Tho usual compliment to the chairman and the loeturer brought the proceedings to a closo. It is the intention of tho members of tho Volunteer Band this evening to assemblo after parade at tho Protestant Hall for tho purpose of presenting Mr J. Gilberd with a small memento of their appreciation of tho service rendered by him in selecting , the new instruments for the band on tho occasion of his late visit to England. The presentation will take the form of a shield containing photos of tho bandsmen. This will be followed by the formal handing over by the band of their instruments i to trustees, on behalf of the citizens of Napier, as required under the provisions of the Volunteer Act, ISSI. Tho shareholders in the Southern Cross Petroleum Company were somewhat amused at seeing in tho morning paper a telegram j reporting, in tho name of the directors, that the pipes had again broken in the shaft. This piece of news is very stale. Mr Motley received a telegram from Gisborne yesterday afternoon which stated that Major Ropata had arrived m town that day from tho Southern Cross worke, and that he reported the "Yankee" (Mr Weaver, the working manager) to be much, excited at the prospect of success. Tho news brought down by Ropata caused considerable excitemont at Gisborne. The following is tho Napier team to play against Gisbonio to-morrow afternoon:— Begg (captain), Anderson, Cotterill, Coupcr, Gibbons, Kennedy, Le Qucano, McVay, Parker, Robinson, Siinpscs,St. Hill, btubbs, Thompson, and Wake; emergencies, Tyleo and Walker. The match is to commenco at 2 o'clock, to enable country people to so the finish beforo starting for the 1.20 train. TJie above named players will moot at 8 o'clock to-night at the Masonic Hotel to receive the captain's orders for the arrange monts in tho match. A coach will meet the steamer to bring the Gisborno team from the Spit, and in the evening a dinner will be held in honor of the visitors. A cominittco meeting of tho Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held this morning, at which twenty-one members weropresonJ. An offer was received from tho Hawkp'n Bay Jockey Club to lease the grazing tf the society's ground for tho remaining torn of their lease, ten yoars, at £100 per annum, After some discußsion, it was

agreed that the offer should be accepted for three years. A sub-committee was consequently appointed to settle with the Jockey Club the terms and period in the event of the non-acceptance of the three years lease. An offer was received from Mr T. Bishop of a special prize of five guineas for a pen of twenty Lincoln rani hoggets shown at the next show. An offer was also received from Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. of a special prize of ten guineas for the best pen of long wool owes with lambs at foot. A very handsome silver cup was received from Mr David Peat, of Wanganui, to be awarded by the committee The committee resolved to grant the cup as a special prize for the best draught colt or filly under three years old. The committee then adjourned.

In tho Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., Elizabeth Gillett, on remand charged -with drunkenness, was dismissed with :i caution. Benjamin Taggart, on a similar charge, •was also dismissed with a caution, it being his first offence. Laurence Hoff pleaded guilty to having, on the sth instant, stolon a box valued at 2s, also £2 2s Gd in cash, the property of W. L. White. The prisoner, a lad of 16 years, was previously twice convicted for larceny, and the Court sentenced him to six months imprisonment •with hard labor. Sergeant "Burtenshaw remarked upon the fact that petty larcenies had been rather frequent of late, and that, when Hoff was arrested, there was found upon him about a pound of tobacco, besides several packets of cigarettes. He thought it strange that tho lad's parents, when they found money in his possession, had not made enquiries as to how he came by it.

*• One of those unfortunate occurrences incidental to football playing happened (says the Post of last Monday) at tho Newton Park on Saturday afternoon, the victim of tho mishap being Mr Onward Kreeft, who was engaged in the match between the Wellington and Greytown Clubs. Shortly after the commencement of the second spell, one of the country forwards —a big, strapping fellow nearly six feet high—made a kick at the ball. Kreeft did tho same, but before his foot could reach the oval the Groytown man's heavy boot caught him above tho ankle and snapped his leg like a twig, the noise of the break being audible to the spectators standing , a few yards away. Tho game was at once suspended, and tho injured player carried into the shed, from which he was removed in a spring cart to the Hospital, where the broken limb was sot. Tho patient was removed to his own homo yesterday. The injury is in rather a bad place, and it will be several weeks before tho sufferer is ablo to move about again. Lord Ronald Gower, in his. "Reminiscences," has the following concerning an old acquaintance of New Zealanders whom ho mot in Sydney :—" What paints Sir Arthur Gordon to the ground is a story told of him when ho was Governor of New Brunswick, where he is said to have reproved the clergyman for not substituting in tho prayer for the Queen ' Thy servant for 'Thy servant Victoria!' I can hardly imagine anybody quite such a superior person as Sir Arthur appears to think himself. "Thy servant Arthur' shakes your hand as if it wore truly tropcVhonncur, in a limp fashion, which, woro it not so comical, would be almost insulting."

We observo by a recent Carlisle (England) newspaper that wrestling matches still form an important factor in the holiday sports of "Old England." On the occasion of the Carlisle races, held in July last, two days wero devoted to wrestling competitions, ■which wero held under the patronage of Lord Muncastcr (Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland), the Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdalo, tho Right Hon. the Earl of Beotive, M.P., tho Hon. Percy Wyudham, M.P., and other gentlemen of influence and position. The liberal prizes offered for the different events brought out large fields of competitors, the number of wrestlers who took their place in the ring during the two days being throe hundred and sixty-one.

Says tho San Francisco News Letter :— "They are making tho usual fuss over the water about the Bill allowing a man to marry his deceased wife's sister, and on what grounds it should not bo allowed. Any one who ever knew what it was to have a maiden aunt try and drive him crazy by filing him that tho niece of his groat aunt 6ophia Smith was a second cousin once removed to his new baby, must see at once •what maddening and horrible complications would arise by passing this Bill, and what torturing advantages would be given to the genealogical spinster in every family when she tangled up tho descendants of children who wero cousins, half step-sisters, and the Lord knows what else besides, to say nothing of tho rumpus that would break out when tho on tiro gang got to heaven, and the first deceased wife spread her wings and flew at tho combination of her new relatives and banged hor younger sister over tho head with her harp."

During the Last six months 3085 horses have been used for food in Berlin. The warm sausages sold in tho streets at night are mostly of equine origin. When a prominent restaurant keeper failed some years ago tho most conspicuous among his creditors was a horse butoher, which throws ft side light on tho " roast beof " that used to be served up to his guests. Tho poor are tho chief buyers, but there aro not a few gourmands who look upon horseflesh as a delicacy.