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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3957, 26 March 1884, Page 2

Referring to the returns of the last general election wo find "that there wero 790 votes polled! Of these Mr Buchanan received 459, Mr McDougalllß7. and Mr McSweeny 114, With, theso figures before . us Mr Ormond's. supporters may., congratulate ihcmselycjs that, unsolicited, _ oneseventh of the electorate of ' Napi.er signed the requisition that \vas presented ,fo-uity. Everything' points to T an "early dissolution of Parliament, and, though it was thought by some to be premature to ask any one to

come forward as a candidate for the representation of the town, in other constituencies it has not been deemed too soon to learn from public men whether they will stand for election. Wo arc extremely glad that Mr Ormond has consented to oflir himself as a candidate for the Napier seat.

- .Bishop Hadfield is soriously unwell. Complaints are made that tho Havelock bridge repairs aro not being so rapidly proceeded with as might he tho case, to tho serious-annoyance of traffic. - An opera excursion train will leave Hastings at 5.45 to-morrow evening, calling at all intermediate stations, and returning to Hastings at tho conclusion of the perform-' ance. Excursion fares will bo charged. Captain Precce left this morning overland for Wairoa., as the Court is-to be held ( I there to-morrow. The overland joiimoy ia necessitated because of the state of.tho,bar at Wairoa preventing any steamer'leaving here for that port. Dr Kelynack, one of the brightest ministers of tho Wosloyan body, wilt lecture this evening in Trinity Church on behalf of tho South Sea missions. It is probable, bef oro Dr Kelynack leavos us, that ho will lecturo on somo undenominational subject. ■, r ..;: • We have been requested to call the attention of the lefeseos of • tho 'Theatre to ft' form that bars'the way from the body of tho Theatre to the exit dooiu at the back of', tho pit. In the event of a rush a-serious accident might occur from ; this obstruction.' ' The long pending dispute- between jibe Government and tho native owners .respecting the division , of, the. balance, 'of tho, purchase niohcy'of the Otariiakiipua blockj £48,000, wo hear, is likely to bo 'sottled at a Native Lands Court to bo .held at .Palmer-, ston this week.,' Mrs Donnelly and a ; largo number of natives.of this district leftto-day, for Palmerston. - ■ " ' ■ " The Governor has appointedtho follow-; ing Licensing Committee for the- Hampden district:— N-.Campbell, S; Harris, H. J. Murcott, J.-Stoddart, andT. J. Watkins.!'. The Hampden licensing. district, our contemporary perhaps is not awaro,;- is> near.; Oamaru, and our local Hampden is included iv the Waipawa licensing district. Wo wero also glad to learn from.another local in this morning's paper that it was hoped Mr Wakefield would get in for Selwyn !', Tho Napier School Committee held their usual meeting last evening: Present: 1 Messrs Laws, (chairman), White, .Sidoy, Parker, and Soarfo. After a ! long discus-; sion the Committee decided to request the Board to appoint a'fourth master at'asalary of £12p'per annum; The Board was also recommended to appoint Miss Reed as'• third mistress. The resignation of Mr 0. f 11. Laws as pupil teacher was accepted Avith' regret, tho secretary'being instructed to" writo to Mr Laws expressing tho Committee's satisfaction with his work in the school. Mr Laws, as previously notified by; us, has received the appointment of second master at Hastings. Account's amounting to £35 9s wore : passsd for payment,-;/and' the Committee adjourned. : ' •'■ ; i --" "■'" When the ..turning of the Ngarurorb" river was determined upon it was littlo thought that the work would bo of any great magnitude or expense:' It has, however, cost the . county somo £1600, and IS.OOO bags in the' s formation ; pf i tho ;sand : bag..wall have been ; used. The -iyork Jis how being undertaken :by the Government, and 2000 more bags arrived at the ( Bc.ene of operations yesterday. ( JTho dani across the river seems to hftVo'h.ad 1 ' !the effect of partially diverting tho stream I towards tho Tuki Tula, and .as a consequence the mouth of the Ngaruroro is » gradually closing. The intention 1 of tho - ;dam was to force the river-to cut a new ■ • 'mouth for itself, hut this has not been ' ;effected, and tho channel that was scooped • ' through the beach has .been ' refilled by,, the » ; action of the sea. In the meantime tho i iriver continues to oncroaoh on the land) and : some protective sand bags have,been iilaced i > on the"bank. : '■'v..'''.'-.' " " " '.; { ; Messrs Blytho, Faulknor, McVay, Swan, ; ' :T. Sidey, and Neal, waited : upon Mr" ' Ormond this morning to presoht him with,* ! a requisition to stand for the representation" L of Napier at tho next•■; general olection.,.----1 The requisition was signed by ono hundred ;, ' and ton electors. In presenting the rCquisi- : ' tion, Mr Blythe, as chairman, of the. committee, stated that, in response to a generally 1 expressed wish that Mr Ormond should bo , the future-" representative of Napier, a com- : mitteo : had beon formed to promote his ' candidature, the outcome of which was tho, I requisition he had now th&honor of present- [ ing. Mr Blythe added that, as doubts.had ' been ontortained as to whether Mr Ormond: \ would stand, the committee desired that ho,, : 'should appear before tho electors in tho. ;' light of a future candidate.: Tho cornmitteo had thought it best to get a spontaneous, ! expression of opinion from tho electors,. and ! therefore no canvassing for; signatures, had ; been made. Mr Ormond, in reply,; ox-, pressed his gratification at tho honor that 1 had been done him, and ;said tho manner in which ho had been asked to como forward "was most gratifying to himself. He stated that he had been asked to stand for other constituencies, 'but ho luuLrofusod, preferring that, if ho returned to public life, it sbouhf b& as representing a 'district whoso interests wore his own. The com- . raittee, thanking Mr Ormond for his compliance with their wishes, withdrew. : Lyttelton can .claim to bo tho modol borough of the colony. Its general rate of 9d in the £ includes lighting and scavengoring - '' '..V--' '■.'.'.' . :,: :■■ :; For tho throe days' racing at Flemington tho stakes amounted to over £10,000.,.H0n.; Mr White received nearly £3000. Tho Champion was worth £1410. It turns out that Barnum's white olephaut - is of a pale ash color, with livid' markings on the face. There is no suoh thing as a white elephant to be found, and there nevor was one. •• <' : : ■■ The Victorian Railway Commissioners have declined to l»o banqucttcd When '"visiting a locality professionally,, and havo put an : end-'to'' the, deputationising nuisance. , They will receive all complaints and requests in writing ouly. It take seven years for an alligator to grow to that point when his hido is worth §3, and during that time ho.is pretty liable to devour two' niggers and a calf worth §5, so tho alligator cannot bo regarded as a [joifpop of profit. • •■'••: An amusing incident is rocorded at a book sale inNew York. Tho owner of fclie collection gave §5000 dollars to ton' several public libraries to be spent at the salo. Tho natural result was that the libraries bid against one another, and many of the books were run up to nearly double their market ' price. ' A lady's.idea of a good hurdle race is at least original. At the conclusion of the Hurdle Race at FlemingtOii (says the Sportsman), as the occupants of the .grand . i»tand' were preparing to descend the, lawn,." a' gentltimah' \yhq y/as , chaperoning " two ' ladies remarked: ''A splonrlid race; the ' host! havo seen." " Oh," replied 'ono of ' his fairfriends, " I didn't' think much of \ it. Why, there wasn't ,a single spill from start toj'iiish." ],/., ''-,'.] " ; In a recent divorce suit in America tho husband demanded a separation partly on tho-ground that his wife was a termagant. It transpired that he had adopted a novel method,of stopping her tongue by the help of rats.',. He knew' sho had a perfect horror of pats, so ho kept a stock in hand in a cage, and .when she hud a scolding fit.he let ono loose. The lady immediately fled, and thus lie secured poaco. Wp should think: tlj'aj. , this ingenious gentleman will find some difficulty in obtaining a fresh wifo. There is, grief, among tho Chinese latin - drymen of New York over an order of their Consul that no Chinaman shall open » laundry within three blocks of any other Chineso wash-house. Tho order is inox- ' plicablo except on tho ground that the Consul wants to lessen competition by scattering tho laundries. The Ghinamon growl, but ! will obey. As one of them says:—"Ho alle?} s.iimco empelol. What him say Chinaman all got ihf allop sanib Melican man do allee Boss Kelly telleo. Bqs's Kelly" say do Melican man: him" say ,' v.ou bet' 'eyly tinioo." ' . ;•.; ■■'"''' ■•'-,* Amongst tho patents, granted on the Gth March in Melbourne was' one of li'nuHuaJ intbrest issued to Mr Park, a well-known machinist and iron founder'for improvo-' ments in steam machinery. 'Mi: Park 'has discovered a moans whereby flio wholo of the expansive power of steam is utilised in a novel manner, tho result beiiig tho attain- , ment of greater power, with a largo diminution in size of tho engines employed., .If is indeed believed by some machinists that the now invention by diminishing tho size of / ma,rino boilo|'S to about one-fourth of what they at'present are will afl'oct a revolution in the bliip-carryiiig'trade'.' ' ' " -''

Tho following curious puzzlo beats the celebrated " 13-16-14," and is well worth investigation. Toko a strip of paper or cardboard thirteen inches long and fivo wido, thus giving ft surface of sixty-five inches. Now cut this strip diagonally,! as true as ■-< you can, giving two pioces in tho shape of a triangle. Now, measure exactly fivo inches from tho larger end of each strip and cut in two pieces. Take theso slips and put thorn into ttnJ shapo of an exact squaro, and it will appear to bo just eight inches each Avay, or sixty-four squaro inches —a loss ot ono squaro inch of superficial measurement, Avith no diminution of surface. The question is, then, what becomes of that squaro inch f

Michael Power, a boundary ruler on the Keilamboto station, near Terang, Victoria, recently skinned a bullock supposed to have died from plouro. After tho operation had been successfully performed, Powor washed his hands roughly, and proceeded about sumo other work. During the day ho apparently scratched his face, which was a Hfctlfl sore, with his finger, and in a littlo time his face began to swell, and symptoms of blood-poisoning set in, and he died a few days afterwards, after having remained in an Unconscious state for somo time. A sorrowful circumstance is (says a Victorian paper) that young Power Avas engaged to bo married at Easter, and was making all arrangements for tho event.

A Boston member of tho Zoological Society (not caged) says : " I onco had a cat who always sat up to tho dinner-table with me, and had his napkin round his neck and his plate and some fish. He used his paw," of course, but ho was very particular and behaved with extraordinary decorum. When he had finished his fish I ✓sometimes gave him a pieco of mine. Ono { day ho was not to be found when the dinner boll rang, so we commenced without him. Just as tho plates were put round for tho entree, puss camo rushing upstairs,_ and sprang into his chair with two mice in his mouth. Before he could be stopped he dropped a mouse on his own plate and then ono on mine. He divided his dinner with mo as I laid divided mine with him." Parson M. was called to his door ono evening to sco a man, Avho'asked him if he cjuld come to officiate at a funeral, and seemed to bo somewhat affected. The parson assumed as sympathizing a tone as possible, and askod somewhat about the personfinding it was a woman, asked if sho was married, and tho man said no. Then tho parson asked tho hour, and was told that 8 o'clock p.m. had been appointed. Upon his remarking that was rather a peculiar time tho man said that seemed to be the most convenient time for tlio friends to assemble Then the stranger said: "Wouldn't'it bo bettor to appoint somo ovouing for a rehearsal?' and a" few moro words showed the parson that tho man was talking about,his own wedding, and had said funeral without knowing it.—N. Y. Tost. j ' •;; Thoro is a passago in tho memoircs of Diderot, taken from his correspondence r with Grimm, that relates to the production of an adaptation of " The School for Scandal" upon, tho Parisian stage. It sounds funnily to-day, when every French drama requires somo deodorising, to bo accoptable in English. It is as follows : "Tho great liborty of tho English theatro may givo success to tlioso bold attempts at which our ideas of dramatic proprioty would revolt. Plays representing morals such, as this would* not lie permitted on the French stage.' Tho example of a married woman, gallant as Lady Teazle, joalous of her lovers ready to, meet liira at a rendezvous which sho has accepted, would on tho, Parisian boards bo too scandalous for represonta-. tionn." Truly the modern race of French dramatists may say: " Nous aims change tout ccla.'.'\ In tho course of a leading article on tho opening of tho Tuhua country, the Feilding Star makes the following remarks, which may prove interesting:—The greatest difficulty will bo to prevent outside parties starting and working in tho name of the company., A second difficulty will bo found in tho class of Pakcha Maoris, or Maori Doctors, who will want to pull some of the "plums out of.the pie" after tho manner of thoir kind. If tho company desires to discover and take up gold-bearing country, Avhich thoy can work in peace and quietness, -•arrangements should bo entered into with Major Kemp, or other person in authority, to keep back all unauthorised persons until ■ tho country : is proclaimed gold bearing, when proper miner's rights would bo" issued in a similar mode to'that adopted in' Anokr laud on tho Thames diggings. That there' is good gold in tho Tuhua we have known for many years.

On Friday, Bth February . (writes the Church of England Mcssongcr, Melbourne), a now departure was taken in this diocese by the soloinn admission of Miss Marion M'Farlano to tho order of deaconess. It is now'.iiioro than twenty years ago since the order AVaS revived in the Church of England, the first attempt being made in the diocese of London, under the authority of the lato Archbishop Tait, then Bishop of London. There can no doubt that deaconesses wore a recognised ordor in tho primitive church, and Avere solemnly set apart for authorised ministrations. In these days of female "Evangelists," and "Hallelujah lasses," Avhen it'is quite clear that if Avomon cannot engage in spiritual AvOrk under authority it Avill bo'donb by them without authority, it seems not only prudent, but necessary, that a legitimate field should be opened up for ' their exertions within the church.

V An extraordinary scene took place on a recent night on tho top of a Welsh mountain. The inhabitants of the Vale of Glamorgan Avero startled by witnessing flames ascending from tho summit of a mountain near tho loavii of Llantrissant. About a thousand people mado their way to tho top, and in tho midst of a contro of fire saAv an aged physician named Trice standing, robed in whito, chanting a Druid funeral hymn. Dr Price had long assumed what ho calls tho dress of Druids. Tho people presently discovered "that the body of tho doctor's own child was in tho midst of tho flames, and thoy becamo greatly excited,. The police having secured the doctor, the croAvd rushed forward and snatched away tho corpse, which they conveyed to ■ the Llantrissant police tstation. The hill on which the attempted cremation took place was the doctor's oavii property.

The recent meteorological disturbances form the subject of a very elaborate articlo in the Edinburgh Scotsman, inAvhich, commenting on Great Britain's experience of j,hcm, it remarks:—"lf the recent magnificent sunsets have no direct ponnexion with the terrific windstorm that had BAVopfc our inlands from the British Channel to the Orkneys, they immediately preceded it. In popular memory,' at least, they will bo closely associated as parts of tho most re j markable series of atmospheric phenomena Avitnesscd for many,a year. Tho gorgeous and threatening procession of clouds Avas tho preludo to a tempestuous play. The heavens seemed to fdrbodo disasters, and disasters have come thick and fast. As in the vision of Apo'calypso, the sun became as sackcloth and the moon as blood, and then followed tho mighty rushing wind. Most probably it will be found that thcro is a very intimate connexion between tho unTisu'al appearance of tho heavens and the extraordinary meteorological disturbances through which avc arc passing. -Tho atmosphere having lost tone, nature is making violent efforts to restore the disturbed balance."

Every'reader of Fenimoro Cooper's novels lm« gloated with mixed feelings 61" horror and interest over his account ot tho tortures inflicted by tho Red Indians upon their victims. But to get the real delightful feeling of ( shuddering horror it is necessary to read the description of one who, by personal appearance, can tell how it feels to be scalped. " Imagine," said recently an old frontier's man, who had the experience, to the reporter of' an American contemporary, '.'.imagine someone who, hates you with tlie utmost intensity grabbing a handful of yqur hair Avhilo you aro lying prostrate and helpless, and giving it a sudden jerk upward Avith force enough almost to ioosoii'thc scalp; then, while this painful tension is not relaxed, imagino thonot parHeukirly sharp ; blade of a knifo being i'un "quickly ill a circle around your Scalp Avith a savv-Ulce inbtioii. Then let 'your imagination grasp, if ifc can, tho effect that a strong, quick j'ork on tho turf of tlie hair to release the scalp from any clinging particles that would still hold it in pbico would have' on your nervous and physical systems, mid you will havo somo idea how it feels to bo scalped."

A curious article might bo written on tho iituiHunty i'to'm wounds in action of somo generals, and the ill-fortune of others, in becoming the billet for a bullot. No commander was ever moro forward in thefight-

ing lino than Sheridan, yet lie never got a scratch. Skobeloff, who many a time went at it with his own good sword and in his white coat and on his Avhitc charger headed every charge with a recklessness that men called madness, had as complete an immunity as if he had carried tho charmed life that his soldiers ascribe, and was wounded only in tho quiet trenches by a chance bullet fired into the air a mile away. Wellington Avas but once hit, the bullet that carried away his boot-heel scarce gave him a contusion." Grant was ncvor struck; no moro was Napoleon. Of Sir Ncvillo Chamberlain again, one of the most distinguished officers of the Indian army, the saying goes that he never Avent into action without receiving a wound, and tho gallant old man has been fighting pretty steadily ever since the first Afghan war. And feir Archibald Maclain used to laughingly sny thafc ho was full of leaden bullets, and he believed that he could give an account of twenty lodgers. Bazaine was a man to whom fortune was not stingy m the matter of wounds. At Borny there camo to him the leaden reminder that ho was mortal, though this time it was but a gentle hint. Tho fragment of a shell hit him on tho left shoulder, but it had been Avell spent, and because of the protection of the epaulette gavo him but a contusion, from which he had pain for several days, especially Avhen on horseback.—Court Journal.

L.Juy sleep, good digestion, rich blood, clastic step and cheerfulness in Hop Bitters. Read and believe.

Analysis has demonstrated tho spirituous element of Wolfe's Schnapps to be absolutely pure, and tho highest medical authority sanctions its use in preference to any other preparation whero a stimulant is required—[Advt.]