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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3868, 10 December 1883, Page 2

a There arc no fewer than 34 civil cases sot 8 down for hearing to-morrow at tho R.M. 2 Court. Mr R. Lamb, who has occupied the 1 position of Municipal Engineer since the resignation of the late Mr Pcpporcorne, B ceased his official connection with the s borough to-day. 1 Judge McDonald, in tho Native Lands Court to-day, decided that in cases of subdivision it was competent for any of the parties to bo represented by an agent with the approval of the Court. Tho Rev. E. 0. Perry having been requested to repeat his lecture on "Memory," he will again deliver it at the Methodist f Church, Cariyle street, on AVednesday evening next. Tho Rev. Do Berdt Hovell will take tho chair. The Licensing Commissioners for the . district of Ormondville met on Saturday . last for their quarterly meeting. The only z business was an application for the transfer of the license of tho Matamau Hotel from Mr .T. Towers to Mr S. Baddeley. Mr Bamford, the Registrar of Deeds, has ! received instructions to call for tenders for the alterations required to fit up the municipal offices as additions to those of tho ' Registry of Deeds. Tenders are to be called without delay, and from all appearances the Corporation officers and offico property will be summarily bundled into the street on December 31. AYe understand that a communication has been addressed by the Town Clerk to the secretary of tho Napier Gas Company statt ing that, if the company will supply gas for the street lamps at the rate charged to gas " stove consumers, the Corporation to undertake the lighting and cleaning of the lamps, the Council will be prepared to further consider the question of street lighting. Capt. Jackson Barry drew a. good audience at Clive on Saturday night, and his lecture was well received. He gives his first lecture in Napier to-night at tho Protestant Hall, and no doubt he will succeed in attracting a large attendance, as the entertainment is said to be very amusing and interesting in its nature. The chair will bo taken at 8 o'clock by Mr J. Sheehan, M.H.R. From the Seventy-mile Bush we learn that with neither the Danevirke nor Pahiatua Highway Boards is the proposed formation of a new country received with favor. Both, however, desiro tho suspension of the Counties Act, and as it was intended to " hang up " the Act as soon as separation was secured from AVaipawa a little united action will bring about the same results as would be obtained by forming a new county. Tho firing for the annual district prizes by the F Battery Artillery Volunteers took place on Saturday at the riflo range. The first squad, under Lieut. J. Ross, fired in tho morning, and tho second squad in the afternoon, under Capt. F. W. Garner. The ranges were 200, 300, and 500 yards ; classfiring targets ; positions, standing- at 200 yards, kneeling at 300 yards, and any position at 500 yards. The following were the winners, with their scores, and the amount of prize won : — Serct. K. VV. l!l:.ok.vcll 45 points lft Prize £3 Gunner W. Lai»c .. 40 „ 2nd „ 2 Gunner A. G. Fuford 33 „ 3nl „ 1 10a AcMiiK-Sergt. G. Pram 33 „ 41 li „ 1 Liuut, J. Rosa .. .. 3! „ sth „ 0 158 A very nasty bolt occurred yesterday morning. At about 10.30 o'clock Mr Kitto's milk cart was coming down Shakespeare road, when tho horse took fright and bolted. Opposite Mr Cowell's residence tho cart cainc into collision with a small culvert over the gutter, and the concussion threw young Kitto into the air, where he turned a complete somersault and lighted on his feet. Another youth named John James stuck to the cart. Tho horse kicked tho cart free of tho obstruction, and continued his wild career, and at the Colonial Bank corner James was thrown out, breaking his arm, and receiving severe bruises and cuts. The horse then turned up the Marine Parade, and at the top of Coote road came to a stop. James was taken to Dr. Spencer's, where he was attended to, and is now doing as well as can bo expected. A special sitting of the Native Lands Court ivas commenced this morning at the Supreme Court buildings before Judges McDonald and Mair, Tapsell acting as assessor. Tho subdivision of Mangatereterc West was the cause of the special sitting. Mr Sheehan appeared in person as well as for several natives, Mr Cornford appeared for Mr Sutton, and Mr McLean appeared for Tomoana and several other natives. Mr Cornford asked whether the original documents and Judge's notes, taken at the time of tho original investigation of the title, were in Court. The Chief Judge replied that they were at Gisborne ; that he had wired to the Registrar there asking what would bo tho cost of forwarding them by wire, and the reply was about £12. Mr Cornford ; said that, with great regret, he must ask , that tho matter be postponed till he had au ' opportunity of investigating them. This matter had been in abeyance for some ' years, and it was not to be expected that he ' would be prepared to meet such an impor- j tant case upon one week's notice. Ho required timo to peruse the documents. The j Chief Judgta admitted tho reasonableness of j tho request, and consented to wire to Gis- j borne instructing the Registrar to forward tho whole of tho proceedings by wire, Mr Sheohan agreeing to pay the cost, tho n original documents to be sent by Union -r steamer leaving Gisborno to-morrow. The c Court then adjourned till to-tnorrow at i 2 p.m. iv tho R.M. Court. [

We have received the following telegram from Mr A. McDonald, M.H.R., dated to-day _ from Gisborne :— " Re what peared in your issue of the 3rd about my going to resign in favor of Mr Ormond, I never offered to resign, nor did I write either. Publish this." We received our information from a source that we had every reason to believe was sufficiently authentic, although we only published the news as a report. If Mr McDonald wishes us to mention anything more on the subject we can give the names of our informants, and say something', perhaps, concerniug the terms of the negotiations.

The concert and performance of the cantata "New Year's Eve," for the benefit of the district school prize fund, takes place to-morrow evening in the Theatre Royal. We were present at a rehearsal in the school on Saturday night, and we can assure our readers that the music in the cantata is sparkling and pretty, while the various tableaux, especially that representing the crowning of the May Queen, arc really artistic No expense, we understand, has been spared in the production of this piece. The magnesium light has been brought into requisition to show up the various tableaux, and when we say that the stage managership is in tho hands of Mr Hodgson, and th« incidental music in those of Mr Garry, wo have said sufficient to promise that both will be efficiently carried out. Several of our leading amateurs take part in tho concert in the earlier part of the evening, and altogether an enjoyable evening is promised. The full programme and a sketch of the plot of the cantata will bo published to-morrow.

The Napier Rowing Club's trial fouufc on Saturday was a great success, the attendance of tho general public being rather better than of late. The first heat between C. D. Kennedy (stroke), Black (3), Gibbons (2), Gilpin (bow), and J. Begg (stroke), Arrow (3), Hunter (2), Hunter (bow) was won by the former by about three lengths. Tho second heat, Gower (stroke), Tylec (3), Parker (2), Collins (bow) against F. Kennedy (stroke), Harrap (3),Provis (2), and Anderson (bow), was won by Gower's crew rather easily. In the final heat between Gower's and Kennedy's crew there was "a capital race, Gower managing to win by a littlo over a long-fch at the finish. There was also a ship's boat race; in which the Waikato, Wave Queen, and Wairoa were represented. This was the race of the day, a very closj finish resulting in the Wave Queen oominj iv first, the Wairoa second, being about hat a foot behind, and the Waikato a very gool third.

In another column will be found th) prospectus of the Champion Copper Mininf Company. For some time past tho effort of tho promoters have been to prove th> mine thoroughly at various points befon embarking in a large company. These of* forts have been crowned with wonderfui success, tho first shipment to Newcastle having proved that the mine is one of grea. wealth, it being acknowledged that the parcel sent was the richest ever seen afc Jthc smelting works -of the English and Australian Copper Company, a place where thousands of tons aro annually sent to be smelted from South Australia and Now Caledonia. The capital to be callod will be wanted principally for machinery, prepara-• tion of necessary dressing floors, buildings, &c , and the sinking of a main shaft. By the time the road is finished it is estimated that the mino will be able to produce 400 or 500 tons of copper and ore per month. This, on the average of the 2to tons already shipped, will amount to over. £100,000

worth of copper per annum. Modern machinery of tho latest kind will be erected, and tho mine entrusted to tho charge of a first-class experienced manager. Mr W.

G. Motley has been appointed the local

agent of tho Champion Copper Mining Company, from whom all further particulars can bo obtained.

English telegrams sometimes stop short suddenly just as one gets interested, and

imagination must supply tho conclusion

Something of this kind must be supposod in i-eference to the news that Mr Long has offered to back Trickett, Edwards, and Rush to row Hanlon. The query is, how aro tho three to row, are they jointly to tacklo Hanlon, each rowing part of the distance, oris it in answer to Hanlon's ohallengo that ho will row six races of a milo each, one each day of tho week, against any six men in tho world, and so Mi Long offers to back the thrco colonials.. Mr Long had a much better "moral" in Grand Flaneur than ho would have in the three rowing contests. Bob Edwards is simply not big enough for such a contest, and is inferior to tho coming giant of Now South Wales, Beach. Rush as a rower has loarned nothing these last ton years, and never will, as he, being " cusscdly rich," backs himself, and therefore says ho can row his races as scemcth to him good.

Says the Fraser town correspondent of tho AVairoa Guardian:—A nativo of " some standing" here named Hori Wharerangi, who took rather an active part in obtaining signatures to Hirini Taiwhanga's petition re Maori grievances, and even went so far, it was alleged at tho timo, as to affix tho signatures of the Lake natives to the petition without their knowledge or consent, has incurred the anger of Te Kooti, who has evinced his displeasure in a way that the Czar of all the Russians might seek to emulate. Recently a messenger arrived at Onopoto bearing- a letter for Hori Wharerangi from Te Kooti; tho letter was not only remarkable in itself, but it contained an equally remarkable enclosure, which was nothing more or less than a fragment of a rather dilapidated shawl, which, as tho recipient was informed, ho had to match at one of four native settlements mentioned, or remove with his family to Ruatahuna. Tho penalty in case of non-compliance would be death. To match the shawl at any of tho places indicated was found to be impossible; Hori had no alternative therefore but to remove withhis family to Ruatahuna, whichihe has accordingly done, preferring that course to encountering the evil spells that would be wrought against his lifo by To Kooti were he to remain.

The long spell of bad weather has had a very bad effect on the orchards of Rangitikei, inducing attacks of pests which had been previously almost unknown. Tho peach trees this season will bo almost devoid of fruit, and a wholly novel form of blight has attacked the cherry trees, giving the young fruit and tho loaves the same appearance as if they had been burned by an acid. The wet weather has also made the slugs moro than usually numerous and active. AYe have heard (adds the Rangitikei Advocate) of* a field of four acres of rape which lias been almost totally destroyed by them.

The Evening Post of Tuesday last has tho following:—"Tho Property Tax is coming in remarkably well. Somo heavy payments were made on Saturday and yesterday, and it is expected that considerably over £200,000 of the estimated total yield (£250,000) will be in hand by Saturday next. Some of the biggest payments are, however, sure to be delayed until the last day for tho sake of saving the fortnight's interest, which comes to an appreciable sum on these largo amounts. It is anticipated that not more than two or three thousand pounds will bo outstanding at tho expiration of the "days of grace" From the Wairoa paper of the Ist instant we learn that on last Wednesday "a quarter-caste lad named Henry Rogers} about eleven years of age, was brought up by Constable Shaw before Captain Preece, R.M., charged with having no means of subsistence, and no home or settled place of abode. Two or three natives present stated that tho boy had an interest in some land afc the Wairoa. Constable Shaw deposed that the boy had been living with tho natives for about twelve months, and had formerly been an inmate of the Catholic school at Napier. Captain Preece decided to commit the boy to St. Mary's Catholic School, Nelson, till he reached the ago of fifteen years. AVo learn that a woman subsequently tried to rescue the lad from thehands of the police."

A very curious phenomena occurred in Gisborne on Monday morning last about 2 o'clock. As Constable AVilson and Nightwatchman Humphries were proceeding along Peel street, says the Telephone, and whilst the sky was perfectly clear and bright, a meteoric light suddenly flashed in front of them, lighting _ tip the houses on one Bide of the way in a most brilliant manner and creating such surprise that they felt constrained to go and examine the" building to see whether it had sustained any injury. They'state that tho light lasted a couple of seconds and looked like a luminous star radiating brilliant rays of light.

The feeblest system may bo fortifiedi against tho effects of unwholesomo air anti rapid changes of temperature, by tho occasional use of that celebrated tonio and invigorating cordial, Wolfe's I [Advt.]