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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4283, 20 April 1885, Page 2

The Art Exhibition will bo open this evening, .and ;i concert w<ll bo given under (lie direction of Mr Spackinan, fit St. Andrew's Hall, Port Ahuviri. Mr Sulton, chairman of the Hawke's Bay County Conn oil, interviewed the county .solicitor, Mr Cotterill, to-d;iy with the object of ascertaining whether some by-law cannot he framed for the regulation of bicycle riding. Country reared horses are not used to bicycles, and it cannot bo suffered that people driving are to have their lives and limbs endangered for tho sake of tho pleasure of others. We arc glad to notice that tho Timaru Times refuses now to publish telegrams containing race nominations, acceptances, or weights. During tho racing season it is by no means uncommon to see in a paper three columns devoted to horses' names, and reports of races, out of seven columns in all of reading matter. A week or so back there were telegraphed to us the nominations for five events of a race meeting, in which all the horses names appeared four times, each being nominated for four events, and not intended to bo started for, probably, more than two. Mr Wybort Reeve, supported by a strong company, will commence a, dramatic tour of New Zealand at Auckland on tho 7th of May, under the management of Mr. Abbot, the'propriutor of tho Opera Houso Auckland. What might have proved a most serious, if not fatal accident, occurred yesterday on the ITavelock-road. It appears that Mr T. Tanner was driving from church to Riverslca, there being in the cirri ago Mrs Tanner and Mrs and Miss Lambert. On tho road, coming towards them, was a bicycle, at which Mr Tanner's horses shied, capsizing the carriage. Marvellous to relate, no one was .seriously injured, although thocarriago was smashed. In tho Goldsmith libel case in Wellington it was stated that the plaintiff had taken a fresh departure to muzzle an adverse sportin? writer—he had bought up the lattcr's debts. Tho case of Black v. Hart was mentioned this morning by Mr Logan who appeared for the Inspector of Nuisances. Mr Logan said an agreement had not yet been arrived at, and an adjournment was granted till tomorrow. In 1849 Julius Router established a newstransmitting agency in Paris, with all the appliances that were then available. Between Brussels and Aix-la-Chapello he formed a pigeon service, connecting it with Paris and with Berlin bj' telegraph. As tho wires extended, lie quickly followed them with agency-offices in many parts of tho Continent. When lie came to London, his progress was for a moment hold in check. The editor of the Times listened very cautiously to his proposals, but on that first occasion ended his interview by saying, "We generally find that we can do our business better than any one else can." He went to the office of the Morning Advertiser, which had then the next largest circulation to that of tho Times, and had better success. He entered into an agreement with that, and afterwards with other London journals, including the Times, and also with many commercial firms. Such is the history of the great telegraphic agency. Some time ago the police compelled a Jewish tobacconist of this town to close his premises on Sunday, though, in accordance with his own views, ho always closes on Saturday, and yet in a frequented thoroughfare yesterday several cabinet-makers were at work in tho middle of the day, and no notice was taken by the police. "Horatius," said a school-mistress in tho'Seventy-miloßushtoamno-years-oldboy with two imposing freckles on the knees of his pants, "Horatius, please form a sentence with tho word ' toward ' in it, and write the sentence on tho board." Horatius went to the blackboard, and after much scratching of head and friction of brain, printed with tho crayon, in letters that looked like a lot of half-feathered Shanghai chickens running after a piece of dough, the following sentence: ""I toward my trows era."

In Thursday's Gazette it is notified that £12,Q2G 10s Id has been paid by the Colonial Treasurer to local bodies on Native lands for the years 1882-83 and 1883-4. The Hawkc'.s Bay County is credited with receiving , £1000 5s 4d, Waipawa £.368 13s 3d, and Wairoa£242 Ss !)d.

The total number of births registered during March in the sixteen principal towns of the Colony was 4G2, as against ■J no for the previous month. The number of death* recorded in the .same towns in March was 221, ■which showed an increase of 17 over February.

The Druids in Melbourne have an annual fete, in connection with which there is an art union in which a hundred prizes are <>-ivon away, the principal one being , a freehold section and brick cottage, valued at £150. The winner this year is probably n. resident of Palmerston North, the book of tickets having been sold by members of the local Lodge. The winning , ticket is No. .09,126.

Bees occasionally select strange places for their nests. The biblical story of a swarm taking possession of the carcass of a dead lion has been equalled in Rangitikei, where the dried remains of a cow served the purpose of a hive. In the East Coast district two swarms have found comfortable quarters in the chimney of a settler, where they have accumulated a largo quantity of honey.

Ministers will re-assemble in Wellington at the end of the present month, when it will be decided when Parliament shall be called together. We (Post) append the following descriptiou of the s.s. Massilia, which it is stated in our cable messages to-day will bo at once equipped for service in Australian waters: — The Massilia is a steel screw steamship of 27-18 tons net, 4008 tons gross, and 3547 tons under deck. She is barque rigged, has seven, bulk heads, and is 420 feet long, with a beam of 45 feet 1 inch, and a depth of 2G feet 3 inches. She was built early last year at Grccnock, by Caird and Co ~ for the P. and O. -Steam Navigation Co. During the sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday (says the N.Z. Times of the 10th) His Honor Judge Richmond intimated, in answer to an application by Mr Jellicoe, that under certain circumstances, which were sot forth, the amount of a claim could not be assessed by a jury. Mr Jellicoo was proceeding to argue the matter, when His Honor said, "Mr Jellicoe, you are surely talking nonsense." Mr Jellicoe: "But Your Honor will forgive me—." His Honor: "Mr JolHooo, I cannot allow you to aro-no matters that are not arguable. I am sorrv'to say so, but if you continue to argue matters which you know nothing about 1 shall have to say that you know nothing about Court practice.'' Mr Jellicoe : "But Your Honor will forgive mo—." His Honor: " No, I will not forgive you. You are asking mo to forgive you every five minutes. You must go somewhere else for forgiveness. I cannot forgive the time of the country being taken up. You have already wasted 40 minutes and have not opened your case." The matter dropped here.

Major Tuke while riding from Raglan to Kawhia last week met with a serious accident. His horse fell and rolling over broke the Major's leg. Major Tuke whom old Hawke's Bay settlers may remember as tall and slightly built is now a very heavy man and he must have felt his fall severely. i-— Only one tender was received by the ; Porangahau Committee for the erection of section D., two miles, of the rabbit proof boundary fence, and as the price offered was deemed excessive, it is probable that the work will be pvit out privately. The committee have purchased from the Government the spare wire-netting , and staples that were at Waimata, and a further section of two miles is to be at once cleared for the extension of the fence.

According to our Auckland telegram tfyjfc Imperial Government have chartered the Shaw Savill and Albion Company's s.s. Coptic to be used as an armed cruiser on the New Zealand station. A very large number of readers must be acquainted with this fine vessel, it having been thrown open to the public on its first arrival here. The Coptic will tow the ship Northumberland to this port from Auckland and that vessel will take the frozen meat cargo that was previously destined for the Coptic.

A peculiar rule of the Hawke'sßay County Council is that a petition must be received before it can be read, which seems very much like putting the cart before the horse.

The telegraph station nearest to the riusso-Afg-han frontier is at Meshed, in Persia. It is distant from Herat 220 miles, from Gorkin ISO, from Puli Katum (where ,- the Russians have a column on the Heri- L Rud) 80, and from Panjdeh, near the of the battle, about IGO. There is a station at Samarkand, about 400 miles north-east of the Russians at Panjdeh ; another at Kerman, in Persia, 350 south-west of Herat; another at Kandahar, about 350. south-east of Herat; and another at Cabul, nearly 400 east of Herat It will be seen that tho nearest is tho station at Meshed.

Tho autipathy of tho Scotch to read sermons is well known. An old woman was once asked to 6bjeot to a presentee on tho score of his defective vision ; but sho immediately exclaimed, " Blin' ! Heaven be praised if tho bodies blin' ! Ho'll no read, at onv rate !"

The estimate of the Hawko's Bay County revenue for 18S5-S6 is as follows:—Licenses, publicans £' 55, slaughtering £270, hawkers £21, total £7-16. Rates, general for ISSS-S6 on £2,891,796, £9036 17s 3d, outstanding ISS3-S4 £16 9s 3d, outstanding 1884-85 £67 3s 6d, total £9121. Native Lands 1884-85, General Government £463 11s 7d, do 1885- ■ 86, £695 11s 10d, Crown Lands ISB4-85, V £70 4s id, do 1885-86, £105 6s 6d, total/ 1 " £13:54 17s 3d. Grants, inland Patea Road £1000, do Roads and Bridges Construction Act £2000, do now due £1755, total £4755. Registration of dogs £300, pound fees £100, grand total £16,356 17s 3d. The estimated expenditure, including , an overdraft to the Colonial Bank on March 31st, 1885, of £.)9G6 15s Gd amounts to £17,032 2s Gd. Salaries amount to £600, which is £125 less ' than formerly, which is much lower than Waipawa County and tho latter's revenue is a little lower than that of Hawke's Bay.

A bicyclist named Chissell frightened the horses in the carriage of Mr Tanner yesterday, and the occupants wero thrown out and considerably hurt, as well as the badly smashed. The bicyclist in his opiniodr should have dismounted, and at to-day's meeting of the County Council he asked if there was any way to meet the growing nuisance. The chairman said he was awaro yesterday of the accident a few minutes after it occurred, and this morning he had asked Mr Cotterell if their wasjany power to regulate such traffic by by-laws. Mr Cottcrcll'a reply was that the Council had i.o power to make such by-laws except as regards carriage lights. The Chairman added lie hoped the young fellows of the county would dismount when meeting carriages till horses got used to the bicycles as they were in town.

At the E..M. Court this morning, befoio G. A. Precce, Esq., R.M., Wm. H. Orosemaii otherwise Clifton, who made an appearance on Satnrday last at the Court, was again brought up charged with drunkenness; ho was fined £1 and costs, in default seven ( days' hard labor. —George Priest and Wil-Jky Ham Crawford, on remand, were charged with robbing Eobcrt C. Huddle of £3 12s. Mr Lascelles appeared for the defence. The evidence of the complainant was to the effect, that ho employed Priest to drive him ■ to the Ferry Hotel on Monday the 13th, about half-past seven in the evening. Hβ ■ was driven about three-quarters of a mile further than the hotel, when the cab stopped, the driver and another mau got down off the box, the driver took one or' the lamps, and both men told him to hold up his hands, , and if ho made any noise they would strike him. The prisoner Priest then searched - his vest pockets, and the prisoner Crawford searched his trousers pocket, and took from : him three one-pound notes and some silver. They then ordered him into the cab. Ho was afraid to make any resistance, and they then drove him back to the FerryHotel. "When the hotel was reached he shouted out murder and robbery so as to get assistance. They drove past the hotel and on to the bridge, ordered him out of the cab, and then drove away. Thomas Johnston, manager of the Ferry Hotel, deposed to hearing the cab go by and then return, and on the return heard a man calling out murder. He went out and saw a cab drive on to the bridge, and saw it immediately drive away, but did not stop. The complainant came in and stated ho was robbed. Ho was not drunk, but was fit to take care of himself. —Thomas Boyd corroborated the evidence of the last named witness.—Elias llobinson also aravo evidence, and then the further hearing was adjourned till late in ( _> the afternoon. ... ~*• The following letter was received from ' Mr Fannin, the rate collector for the Hawke's Bay County at to-day's meeting : —-" Sir, I have the honor to inform you that the collecting of rates for 1884-85 has resulted as follows: Amount of rates col? lectable, £GO2J lls Gd. Of this £GOO 69s 4d has been collected to d;jte, leaving £13 2s 2d outstanding. Of this sum T hope to receive within a couple of weeks £9 12s 3d. . This will reduce the uncollestcd rate to £S 10s, which is composed of small sums, varying from twopence to three and four shillings. I have much pleasure in reporting that the rates have been collected without the issue of a single summons, a fact that is creditable to the ratepayers of the Hawke's JHay County, and I beg to thank them for the ready manner in which they bavo responded to my demands." To that we need only say the result is unequalled in the colony.

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