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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4080, 19 August 1884, Page 2

In accordance with instructions from Government the Napier Hospital was released from quarantine to-day. The late warm rain has had a splendid effect on tho country, paddocks and gardens alike showing the benefits derived from the seasonable moisture. Amongst tlio recommendations of tho Municipal Public Works Committee is one relating to bicycles, and for compelling the drivers of those vehicles to use bells, and, at night, lamps also. Most of the bicycles used in Napier arc fitted with bells, but they are of such diminutive proportions as to be almost inaudible. Mr C. A. Fitzßoy has accepted the honorary office of secretary to the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society, Mr W. Birch

being about to proceed to England on a

visit. Tho society is to be congratulated on obtaining the services of Mr Fitzßoy, who proved himself so zealous in the cause of

acclimatisation when lie held the same office somo three years ago.

After our reporter left the Magistrate's Court j'estcrday, tlie assault case P. Frawley versus W. Ebbett was concluded. Tho defendaut was fined £5 with costs, witnesses' expenses, and solicitor's fee. P. Frawley was then charged with having used threatening language to Charles Ocean

Thomson. The offence was admitted, au His Worship imposed a fine of 10s.

Our worthy and highly respected Town

Clerk has had a compliment paid him by the Corporation naming a street Bower street. The thoroughfare is named on the map Moore street, but as there arc two Moore streets in Napier, one connecting Rattles and Edwards streets, and the other in Oncpoto, it was resolved to change the name of the former to Bower street.

Active preparations arc being made for

the production in about a fortnight's time of an entertainment described as consisting

of an exposition of " Christian Heroism," interspersed with "Patriotic Song." The lecture on " Chinese Gordon " will bo delivered by the Rev. J. J. Lewis, whilo tho musical portion of tho programme will be rendered by the choir of Trinity Church.

The Harbor Board met this afternoon, but tho business was of purely a formal nature. Tho Pilot reported that owing to the heavy sea, on tho bar ho had been unable to make soundings. The Engineer reported that during the ensuing month ho proposed to put the dredge on the slip ; that as the contract for emptying ballast punts would expire next week he recommended that new tenders should be called. Tho rcjiort also contained some minor recommendations.

Wo arc glad to notice that tho approaches to the railway station arc being filled in,

and that there is nn immediate prospect of travellers being able to get to and from tho station without having to wade through a series of mud lakes. There have been many great and much needed improvements effected at tho station lately, and, beyond some furniture in the waiting rooms, little more is wanted to bo done for the accommodation of the public within tho building. Outside, however, the old complaints reach us of the difficulty of getting away from the station at night, owing to the press of cabs and the want of a, footpath.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Prceco, R.M., the following civil cases were dealt with : — Barry v. Eparaima, claim £8 5s lid, for goods sold and delivered. Judgment by consct for £G, with costs 13s, and witnesso's expenses 4s. —Hopkiiison and Smith v. Driscoll, claim £3 7s Gd, for livery of defendant's horses. Mr Lascelles for plain - tiffs Judgment by default for amount claimed, with costs 13s, witness's expenses os, and solicitor's feo 21s.— Ambrose v. Andrews, claims £19 8s Gd for work done. Mr Lee for plaintiff. Judgment by default for tho amount claimed, with costs £1 10s, witness's expenses Bs, and solicitor's fee 21s.— If. R. Russell v. Manaena Tini, claim, on a judgment summons, for £62 ISs 4d. Mr Logan for plaintiff. This case had been adjourned for three months from the 21th Juno last. The sum of £-10 had been paid in the interim. Defendant did not appear to bo examined in obedience to the summons, and an- order was made for payment of the balance, viz., £22 18s -Id, on or before the 11th November next, or in default defendant to be committed to the Napier gaol for fourteen days.

A meeting of the directors of tho Hawke's Bay Gold Mining Association was held at Hastings on Monday afternoon. Present: Messrs Tanner (chairman), Beilby, McLeod, and Ross. A letter Avas read from Captain Russell stating that as soon as he arrived in Wellington he had given the stone entrusted to him to Dr Hector, and ho enclosed the report thereon, which slated tho stono Avas sandstone and non-auriferous. A telegram Avas also read from Dr Hector reporting upon the small quantify of metal sent to him, -which was the residue loft in the retort. He stated the specimen contained lead, tin, and a small percentage of gold, which were the impurities in the quicksilver. Mr Ross brought some specimens from Mr Harding's run, which were better looking" stone, and George reported that there Avas a largo reef of pure quartz on the rnn. The secretary stated that there Avas about £40 still left. It was decided to still further prospect the country, and the secretary was instructed to Avritc to Mr Harding enquiring upon what terms he Avould allow them to prospect

with a view to mining on his land. A vote of thanks was accorded to Captain Russell for the trouble be had taken in getting tho stono tested. The meeting was adjourned to next Tuesday, by which time George was to further prospect the reef and bring what specimens he could, and it was hoped by that time a reply would be received from Mr Harding.

The annual meeting of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia was held in Melbourne last week, when Sir H. B. Loch presented the awards. There is only one New Zealand name in the long list of certificate holders, viz. :—"William Hunter, fireman on the New Zealand Railways. Saved the life of Charles Cook, near Tua Marina, in New Zealand, on the 3rd May, 1883. Cook was lying across the rails as the train was approaching. Hunter put tho brake on immediately, jumped off the engine, and after picking himself up (the train slackening its speed), ho ran ahead of the engine and, catching hold of Cook's trousers, hauled him off the rails, thus saving his life.—Awarded a certificate of merit."

Tourists who come from the other side and visit the Lakes district for the purpose of seeing the scenery, and particularly the snow-clad hills, can have their tastes gratified to repletion at the present time (says the Southland News). On Tuesday, when the Kingston train had got in the vicinity of Eyre'Creck, thp snow, which had increased in depth up to that point, was found to be more than could be managed. The iron horse was not equal to the task of taking all the cars through, and all were left behind except that containing the passengers. On Wednesday the shunting engine was rigged up to form a snowplough, and started to clear the line, but it became fast in a heavy drift. Two locomotives having been brought into requisition, one behind and the other in front, the destination was at length reached.

Says tho Wellington Times:—The question of railway sleepers, and the timber from which they are cut, is by no moans unimportant as connected with the annual expenditure on our railways. From tho annual report on working railways dealing with the year ended the 31st of March last, we find that 121,053 sleepers of various kinds of timber were relaid during tho year. H A comparative return showing the durability of timber used for sleepers on tho Hurunui-Blufr section, and the per centage removed during the period of three years ended on the same date, is instructive as to the lasting qualities of the several descriptions. There are iti use eleven varieties of timber, viz., black pine, totara, birch, blue gum, jarrah, kauri, Oregon, redwood, manuka, puriri, and iroubark. Of these puriri, iroubark, jarrah, and redwood take tho foremost place as regards durability ; kauri, birch, and totara follow next in order of merit.

The Australasian Medical Gazette has tho following remarks : —" From correspondence which wo have received, and from newspapers sent to us from New Zealand, wo can see that the public of that colony aro already reaping the harvest from the wrong sown by the erroneous conviction of Dr Parry for manslaughter. The idea seems to have become widespread that it is perilous to a medical man to take charge of a midwifery case in which circumstances render the death of the patient probable—that should rupture of the uterus (as in his case), or one of the hundrcd-and-one chances which lead to a fatal result, happen, however unavoidably, tho medical man runs serious risk of having to stand his trial for manslaughter. This, no doubt, is a terrible evil to the profession, but still there is much greater risk and suffering to the public in consequence, and hundreds of people will pay the penalty for this sad miscarriage of justice." Referring to the recent outbreak of smallpox in London, the British Medical Journal says:—"To afford protection against smallpox to adults in the same measure as we do to children by vaccination in infancy is clearly the only effective means (apart from isolation in hospital or at home) of preventing epidemics of small-pox, and „ effect this a second vaccination should be performed soon after, or at tho age of, puberty. We have frequently instanced the staff employed in the English smallhospitals, who are periodically re-vaccinated, to show tho complete immunity from smallA pox enjoyed after re-vaccination by those engaged in nursing the sick. If the public would protect itself against small-pox in the same way that officials of small-pox hospitals do, this loathsome and dangerous disease woidd never assume the proportions wo have been accustomed to see during the past fifteen years. To prevent an epidemic of small-pox, we unheasitatingly say the only effective measure is re-vaccination." Sir William Dcs Vceux does not appear to be much more popular in Fiji, at least with a section, than his predecessor, Sir Arthur Gordon, if we may judge by the following extract from the Fiji Times : —"What good can possibly bo expected from thrusting an unwilling Governor on an unwilling people, is one of those singular enigmas the answer

to which cannot be looked for out of Downing street. What harm might ensue would quickly appear on changing the venue to New South Wales, Victoria, or New Zealand. Iv all cases the feeling would be the same, but the manifestation different. Despite this, it certainly cannot be well deliberately to create a bitter spirit of hostility between Governor and goverueuS It must militate against general progress, and therefore we regard the return of Sir

William Dcs Vocux to Fiji as a serious misfortune. It would have better paid the colony to have continued his salary and secured his absence. It would certainly have been a local application of the ' peaco-at-any-price'. policy, but even that would havo been better than the bitter feeling of mutual antipathy which will now assuredly prevail until that fortunate day arrives upon which the colony will be permanently relieved of Sir William's unwelcome presence."

The report of the Victorian Education Commission lately published showed that there are more Roman Catholic children under education in tho State schools than in the separate schools of that denomination,

and that in spite of the incessant exhortations tho clergy lose no opportunity of giving, in season and out of season. But the ease iv New South Wales is even stronger. Archbishop Vaughan brought more activity to bear on tho work of assailing the secular system than any other prelate in Australia, and these figures (writes a contemporary) show us with what> result: In 1878 there were 13,351 Catholic children attending tho non-Catholic public schools, and 970-1 attending Catholic schools. Now tho numbers are 24,870 Catholic children in tho public schools, and 9975 in tho denominational schools. This is the effect reached by so vast an expendir turo of theological eloquence and ecclesiastical influence. While the Roman Catholic children in the Church schools have barely increased, those who in defiance of tho mandates of the Church are sent to the public schools have nearly doubled. What labor, and argument, and fervour have been utterly wasted! And how conclusively docs all this show the opinion of the Catholic laity on tho "grievance" which they are alleged to suffer !

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