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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3954, 22 March 1884, Page 2

Concerning the frozen meat trade a gentleman in Canterbury hasreceivedthefollowing letter: —" Tliero is one peculiarity I notice and that is, that at the shops where it is professedly and openly sold not one single butcher calls any of it 'Australian.' They all call it ' New Zealand.' Now _we all know very well that large quantities keep coming in every week by the Orient line and others, and after it passes the hands of the wholesale men in Smithfield there is but one name for it, and that name is ■ our dear colony. Even the rubbish which we are getting from the River Plate and which fetches about 2s 2d per stone of eight pounds, as against the 4s and 2d of Now Zealand, is all disposed of to the consumer under the one name. When the stuff is cut up and ornaments the blocks of the retail butcher, it takes a better judge than I am to know where the animal was brought up. I think it would puzzle your champion judge Mcßeath himself to decide. It is likely that the choicest of your shipments, like Mooro and Burgess's Minstrels, ' never appear out of London.' The only dealer I know in London to make a parade atall of frozen mutton is Fitter, of Leadenhal! Market. ■ His shop front is largely placarded with, a double-demy poster announcing the fact, and until very recently a small price list attached informed an inquisitive public tho retail price for each portion of tho carcase. I was in Birmingham yesterday, and after tramping about it for some hours, saw not the slightest announcement of your meat for sale. Some of tho shops had their prices marked, and which ran from 5d to Bd. Tho rates satisfied mo that it was not English mutton. In the town I am now visiting (Wolverhampton) them are; two shops openly selling frozen mutton, arid very attractive the meat looks. One of tlie proprietors, Macbeth like, hangs out a " banner on the outer walls " announcing, in large characters (painted white on a blue ground), " This is the cheap shop for New Zealand frozen mutton." I found, : on enquiry, that tho prices ranged from 5d to 8d per lb, fully 2d less than the locallysupplied article. Canadian beef, which at this season of tho year comes in in large quantities, is selling , at prices ranging from 4d to 8d per lb, which is 3d to 6d per lb less than that produced here. The shops where this special article is retailed, close for the day directly all is sold out, and a; card announces that having done so, it will bo re-opened next morning, when the new supply shall have been received. ■

A blank day at tho R.M. Court. ; ■' Emit' Bey was sold yesterday for 150 guineas, but remains in the province. The subject of Mr Paterson's lecture tomorrow evening will bo " Is it possible to bo a Christian in Trade ?" . , . ■ A contemporary gives ' Berritt* as '.■ the •winner of tho Autumn Handicap on TuoSday last: . Such is fame—Derrittr being a crack jockey. The manager of the railway has received instructions from the Public Works Department to proceed with . the construction of a siding- at Awatoto. Everything comes to those who wait, and there is now a prospect of this siding being- made at last. . . An election for the representation pftHe East Coast in tho General Assembly appears to be imminent. Our Wellington telegram states it to be Mr Allan McDonald's intonation to resign his seat, and proceed to England by the next outgoing Sari Francisco mail steamer.. The following horses left to-day for tho North :—Nelson, Wapiti, Revolver, and the following-horses left for the South :—j ■ Sou-wester, Tim Whiffler, Mischief.'- When we went to press if , had not been decided whether Minerva and The Poet should go North or South. * . Dr. Kelynack, of Sydney, is "expected to deliver a lecture in Napier next Wednesday evening. Some ten days ago we announced his arrival in New Zealand. He is''a'Very eloquent preacher and lecturer, : but those who compare him with the liev. Charles Clark do him but scant justice, as .the latter lacks alogether the forvor of the Wesleyan minister. ' , _ ; . With regret it will bo learned that Pohokura received a Icicle yesterday which fractured his near f ore> leg, which will necessitate his having to be shot, which; • will be not only a serious loss to his owner but to tho district generally, as.his young stock are so very promising, and his services have been sought after more and more each year, owing to the quality shown by his progeny. Cr. McDougall, who on his subject speaks as one having authority, does not appear to have a high opinion, of architectu. Speaking on the question' of tho proposed offices for tho Corporation, he said that unless the Council bound itself to accept no tender that exceeded £900 for the bnildings a dishonest architect would derive a direct benefit from his commission by making a design that would cost more' than that amount to' carry out. To protect tho Council from any such machinations Cγ; McDougall made an addition to the original motion, which will apparentlj , meet his contention. Among tho gaieties at present ■ livening up Hawke's Bay, the youngsters have not boon forgotten. Woodyear's circus will open in Napier on Monday week. Sinro the circus w'aa last here the company has been entirely changed fov the better. The tent at night will be illuminated with the electric light, a troop of dogs and monkeys has been added, there are now forty trained horses, in fact everything will bo new to

Hawke's Bay, including the company of thirty-five artistes. The cavalcade is an imposing one of sixteen wagons. The circus will appear at Waipukurau on Tuesday, at Waipawa on Wednesday and Thursday, \ and at Hastings on Friday and Saturday. The show at Wellington for six nights was a wonderful success. The Opera Company, about whom our readers have been kept well posted, arrived here this morning by the Wairarapa. Having , had a Smooth water passage they landed at Gisborne last night and gave a performance to a crowded house, the comio opera " Patience " being produced-in its entirety. The company re-embarked at midnight, the steamer having been detained for the occasion. Everything being in readiness here, - the company-will make their first appearance at Napier to-night in the opera of "La Mascotte." The company consist of sixty-four members, and are supplied with magnificent scenery and wardrobes. Unfortunately the company have to open at Wellington on, Monday week, so can only give six performances here, two representations of "La Mascotte," "Olivette," and "Cloches do Corneville." The whole of the familiar scenery of the theatre has been cleared away, and entirely new sets substituted, co we can promise our readers ttmt in visiting the opera they will have the onjoymeiTt of a thorough novelty. The success of tho company at Auckland for over a month has been most unprecedented, and with that .assurance of excellence we may be.sure a treat is in store for play-goers that has seldom been offered here. . , . The Theatre Royal was literally crammed laefc evening, when tho farewell performance Of the Kennedy Family was. given; . Our Scottish friends mustered in strength, and v the performance right throughout mat with unqualified approval, bouquets being thrown to each of the lady performers, and ehcorOß were very numerous. Mr Kennedy, as usual, pleased hisaudience greatly. ." Auld Robin Gray," the most difficult. of all Scotch songs, was splendidly given by Miss Helen Kennedy, in fact it was 'the lady's premier performance in Napier. Misses Marjory and Maggie Kennedy seemed.also to surpass their usual meritorious efforts. Mr Robert Kennedy received a perfect oration for his singing of. the ■ " March of the Camoron Men." It gets monotonous repeating prftises of this gentleman. No finer tenor has been hoard in this part of the world ; his high notes, clear as a bell from the chest, ■ are * sneh. as no ordinary tenor could accomplish without going into falsetto. At the close Mr Kennedy addressed a few words to the audience, thanking the Napier folks' for their warm appreciation of, the company's efforts. Ten years ago they had met with a warm reception, and the. strength of that recoption had been.increased on this visit. He wished them all happiness and good luck in this world and the world to come. It would be five years before they finished their mapped out tour, as they purposed visiting Canada, United States, and South Africa. -The last word had to be said, farewell. The Kennedys ■ are ■. however to ~*. appear in Edinburgh in October. • Tho Canterbury Times calls tho Freethinkers " the Silly Sect." New Zealand horses shipped to Sydney find a market in Queensland." Tho Lacblan river in Now South Wales, owing to drought, has stopped running, first time since 1569. '■ An American paper • speaks of. a. wellknown militia general that " his sword was ch-awn but once—and then in a raffle." A remarkable skin disease' oalled : .scabies has broken out amongst the children attending the State school at Omea, in' Gippsland. Thirty-seven out of a 100 children have been attacked. In a Sydney paper, W. .0. Wood, bootmaker, challenges to walk any other wooden-legged man in the colony, for any sum of ; money not exceeding fifty pouudi (£50); either give or take expenses. An innocent. old farmer weighed tho butter ho sold to his grocer with pound bars of soap that he bought of him,.: and. it turned out that the butter fell short throe ounces to the pound; but the grocer didn't make a public row over it. :., . A temperance lecturer holding up a glass of water said, " With a microscope it would bo found to contain many insects; but if I -v drop in a little whiskey the insects instantly die." An old woman' 1 responded, " Then, thank God for the whuskey." • "' •; On July 28, last year, the Doric sailed for New Zealand.and the -Garonne for Melbourne. ~ On November 16th they entered Plymouth Sound together. From the time they sailed they did not again sight one another till an hour boiore.entering port. A rather eoa&riao'nal occurrence/ took placo at the railway terminus at Albury on the arrival of Cluarini's Circus by train from Sydney. A-boy named Carter, who was prying too closely into the cage containing the tigers, enraged one of tho animals, which tore oil the boy's scalp with its claws, and inflicted a wound on .the head, but it is not considered to be serious. The seoretary of. thp.jHoward Prisoners' Aid Association criticises the American prison system, which he maintains is a great cause of the increase "of crinie. ' He says prisoners are i overfed, and there Jβ great laxity of discipline. He alleges that diets should be ! moderate especially for thoso whose work is sedentary ;' that to overfeed, side by side with solitary life, .has a most demoralising tendency, "defeating the object of prison discipline altogether.' .■■,-. , The great total abstinence advocate, Mr John B. Gough, does not believe in. prohibition. ,Whon interviewed recently, Mr Gough said, " I have, given this question forty years of thought, and,l am fully ; convinced that the only way to deal with, tho liquor business is to annihilate it. First wo had a wave,of license a wave of prohibition, and then a wave of blue ribbon;"; but, like bubbles,, jtheyhayo all burst. No, sir, the only way is; total annihilation,;and my. idea is to instruct tho young, who are ignorant pf..the effects and results of alcohol." . ; . - } , The following extraoi'dinary story of a lost schooner is told by the Northern Standard (Queensland):— "Tho Edith May, schoonerj is At present in port 1 under. : somewhat pbo'ulia.i 'This vessel it was that coaled at Cariccolo, tho Indian man-of-war that' Visited this port* not long ago. Here her. captain resigned and ' appointed a substitute, with whom sho left the port." Encountering tho late storm, sho returned minus" sails, and without provisions. Tho peculiarity of the affair is that tho present ■ captain cannot : discover who tho owner, or owners are, and has.been doing ■>- his best to find out. : : The last contribution of modern chemistry to science is the 'production' of quinine from gas tar. ProfcsHor Fischer, of Muuich, has succeeded in obtaining from distilled coal a white crystalline powder, which,"bo far'as regards-its action : on tho human- system, cannot be distinguished fromquinine'except that-it assimilates even more readily-'with tho stomach;"' Its efficacy in reducing"fever "heafc is said to be remarkable, even."renderiiig the use of ice , ; unrietessary* Tho imporfxmeeof -such'a discovery as this consists not so much in the actual fact achieved as an the stimulus given to scientific research by "* the opening up of a new channel of invosilegation. The romance of gas tar is ovidontly far from being exhausted. In addition' to the sweetest scents, the most brilliant dyos, tho most powerful disinfectants, and even pru'tnic acid are f-ome of tho numoroun and wonderful products of its decomposition. The Tiinaru Herald says :—" Sir Robert Douglas will be best remembered, perhupe in political circles, by his inimitable caricatures. He had an extraordinary talonLfor drawing, and especially for portraiture ; and many a time whon a member addressing the TTouso imagined he was busily engaged in taking notes for a slashing , reply, he was in reality sketching Hie, face and figure, of the speaker in some ludicrous guise, and reproducing with wonderful accuracy Ills prevailing mannerism 'or porno other peculiarity by which he could be recognised in an instant. These picture*, some of which were highly-finished drawings, ho would afterwards ]iayephotographed, and there are still in existence collections of them which supply a far better clue to the political history of that period than Hansard doon. Sir Robert Douglas, though he gare his satiro n good deal of liberty sometimes, was never intentionally ill-natured in his caricatures, and nothing upset him more than to learn that anyone had Liken offence at his sallies." Mr Algernon Charles Swinburne has just furnished a very amusing instance of tho , way in which authors are apt to forgof, their own compositions. Among tbo mfiny Christinas annuals which have 'appeared this year is Ono entitled " Walnuts and Wive," the oditor of which is Mr Augustus

M. Mooro. This annual contained, amongst other things, a poem under the name of "Dolorida," the authorship of which was attributed to the great prophet of the "fleshly school." No sooner had the papers beguu to comment upon it than Mr A. C. Swinburne wrote off in hot haste, disavowing all connection with the Annual and all knowledge of the poem. To quote his own sweeping language : " The Annual and the editor, the contributor and the contribution, are all alike unknown to your obedient servant." This at once brought the editor (Mr Augustus M. Moore) into the field, who defended himself in a very amusing letter. After expressing surprise that Mr Swinburne should have failed to recognise his own inimitable style, and confidently believing that none but himself would have dared to doubt the genuineness of the lines which bore the indeliable impress of his genus, Mr Moore goes on to say : "Perhaps when I tell him that I discovered this pc-.rl of pearls iv the treasure house of a friend, who is tho direct inheritor of the same from a lady who was as proud of Mr S's friend as ho w.is proud of hers. when I tell him that I copied tho poem from his own unforgeable handwriting, I am sure that oven the fancies of poetry will permit him to recognise tho stern fact that the lines aro his." This story recalls the anecdote of Sir Walter Scott, who, after having heard one of his own shorter poems read aloud at a drawing-room, innocently remarked. /'That is a charming little thing. I wonder now who wrote it ?" Hop Bitters give good digestion, active liver, good circulation and buoyant spirits. Head larger. No nervous sufferer of either sex ever tried a course of that agreeable and wholesome stimulant, Wolfe's SonwArrs,,. without being thankful. It is now and has beon for many years a standard professional remedy.—[Arm , .]