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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4284, 21 April 1885, Page 2

The directors of the Union Steamship Company contemplate offering a winter excursion to the South Sea Islands. Should sufficient inducement offer they will despatch tho s.s. Wairarapa for a month's cruise amongst the islands of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, leaving Auckland on July 16. The faro will be £40. Not including sheep killed for local consumption, the flocks of tho Hawke's Bay district showed this last year a surplus of nearly 315,000 sheep. Of this number 90,000 wero killed and frozen, 915G weiv boiled down, and the balance were exported to the Wellington and Auckland markets. Writing on General Gordon's heroism, the Voltaire (Paris) remarked : —"Gordon may be a mystic or a fanatic, but ho is certainly (ivory inch a man. We French have not lately had much reason to love the English, but we cannot now help admiring their courage arid heriosm, energy, coolness, patriotism, and perspicacity, which are not ordinary qualities we can disdain in an adversary. Let us then salute Gordon, albeit English. Let us send to the desert and over" the walls of Khartoum, a testimonial of our sympathetic admiration." Although the Dunedin City Council refused the Naval Band permission to play in tho Gardens on Sunday, they play, and tho Mayor and Councillors go and enjoy the music. ~----*"**"""""" '"""*' ! -'"•""> ■■—.__ ~.,,., „,,,_ jWi> __ The local option poll, that was taken in the Clive licensing district, brought ono ratepayer to the booth. This single gentleman's vote has decided on behalf of tho residents in, and travellers through that district, that there shall bo no increase in the number of licensed houses. Can .anything further show the absurdity of the local option poll ? It must havo put the local body to the expense of at least £4 to obtain the ridiculous result of the polling at Clive. ___ Grace, given after wo went to press yesterday, Crawford and Priest were committed for trial, bail being allowed, each prisoner iv £200 and two sureties of £100 each. A concert will be again given this even" ing at St. Andrew's Hall. Those who took part in last night's entertainment wero: — Tho Misses Derbyshire, Kate Buchanan, Kraoft, and Kennedy ; and Messrs O. Kennedy, H. Collins, Mountfort, M. Pritchard, and C. Monteith. A curious triple wedding is reported as having taken place recently in Kentucky. The brides were three sisters, daughters of a farmer, lying at the time on his death bed. The ceremony was performed on tho porch of the house, to allow tho father to witness it through tho window. The three couples, says the report, stood in line while tho minister officiated.

The Portuguese babios have always a little hand made of red coral hung round their necks to keep off the Evil Ono.

Miss Jennie Leo made her first appearance in England since her Australian tour on Saturday, February 28th, at tho Strand Thoatre'in '-"Jo." Sho was supported by Miss Dolores Drummond, better known as Dolly Green in the colonies, a very old New Zealand favorite, in her original part of the French Maid.

Among the passengers by the last San Francisco mail steamer, we notice the name of Madame Cora and Emerson's Minstrel Troupe. Madame Cora, will be remembered as a female conjuror who did New Zealand some twelve years ago, and was ono of tho first to introduce the gift business in this colony. Billy Emerson is a well-known minstrel name in America, and ho visited Australia some ten or a dozen years ago, and no doubt will bring many speciality artists with the compauy.

A Greymouth fisherman got a queer bite lately—lie had hooked on a live kitten.

Tho Southland School Inspector in sug gesting a limitation of the period in history to be studied in schools, says, "It would bo a groat boon to get rid of tho Wars of the Roses alone."

From Queensland comes an extraordinary, but nevertheless a true story, of how the possessor of 0110 pound sterling made it £100,000. It was not a case of gambling or horse racing, but simply a purchase at an auction sale Some years back, it appears, a Mr .Tames Young Bomir became insolvent. His real estate consisted of some 300 or -100 acres in different parts of Queensland, some of them being in townships. At tho time of his insolvency the properties wero valued at £4000, and they were subject to a mortgage for £900. A few years passed away, nothing appeared to havo been done with the estate until this year, when an assignee's advertisement appeared, notifying the sale by auction of his rights in several insolvent estates, amongst others the estate of J. Wybonar. Nobody connected J. Wybonar with James Young (or J.Y.) Bonar" and so the public took no interest in the business. One shrewd individual, however, took tho trouble to enquire into the matter, found out how things stood, and purchased thcWissignce's title for £1. The property, worth £4000 at the date of the sequestration, is stated to be worth £100,000, and this property (subject to a comparatively small mortgage) Mr W. Flynn, tho shrewd or lucky individual, purchased for 2f/s. This "find" certainly beats anything fold of the early days of tho golden age' in Australia. Tho last run (W the s.s. Zealandia between Sydney and San yTrancisco was the fastest 011 record, occupying only 22 days and 19 hours, including all stoppages.

The Rev. C. Gaustad will shortly call a meeting at Norsewood to consider some important matters relating to the Lutheran CI lurch.

The Chicago Herald (America) says: — " Let us not delude ourselves with fictitious greatness. There is another country at whoso greatness we may pause for contemplation. Its area exceeds eight and a-half million square miles. The basis of its power is not land but water. Its greatness is maritime, and its coast-line is 28,500 miles long. It lies 011 both sides of the equator, and its boundaries touch the extremes of heat and cold. Its uncultivated area, which can be made to feed unborn millions without the help of the United States, covers millions of square miles. It contains ono hundred square miles of forest, which are being jealously preserved, while ours are being ruthlessly sacrificed. Its population amounts to 315,000,000 souls, including pretty nearly all the races known to man. Its revenue for government amounts to moro than a thousand 'million dollars annually, only one-fourth of which is levied in direct taxation. It has nearly a million men under' arms. It has ono policeman for every 16 squaro miles of its entire area. Its 2-16 war-vessels are all in commission, not rotting in harbors. Its merchant navy consists of 30,000 ships, manned by 270,000 sailors. It surpasses in steamers all other Powers on the globe, and nearly equals their combined total in sailing vessels! Forty-nine per cent, of the carrying power of the world is under its flag. More than half the ships' earnings from freights and passengers belong to it. Twothirds of the tonnage annually built belongs to it. Tho banks of that Empire transact one-third the business of the entire world. Its manufactures comprise one-third those of all Europe, fits enormous debt, which it uses as the most profitable mv. .--Juifnt of its own earnings," amounts to • •/;■ mno per cent, of tho wealth which it ],;-. >'.iado by its exports. Its name is Great bi.iiain. _t sends its ships to every clime ; it offers wares in every port; it asks no tax on articles offered in exchange;_ and the cargoes its ships carry backte its wharves enrich it as much as those tiny had borne away."

Captain Edwin wires at 12.15 p.m. today as follows: —" Watch barometer. Bad weather approaching between north-east and east and south. Glass further fall and much rain, and sea heavy within 12 hours."

Mr C. Rogers, travelling agent for the Government Life Association, has been removed from Taranaki to this district, where ho will be engaged in canvassing the town and country. Mr Rogers has made a name for himself as an athlete, and at New Plymouth was captain of the Fire Brigade.

At the R.M. Court, this morning, before G. A. Preece, Esq., R.M., Stephen Larkins charged with drunkenness was fined 5s and costs.

In the middle of December last, application was made for the establishment of a telephone exchange in the borough of Napier. Last Wednesday the Municipial Corporation granted permission to the Telegraph department to erect poles for tho telegraph wires, just four months after the exchange system was asked for. It is inferred thaHf it takes four months for a preliminary movement, two years will be required for the full completion of a modest request that, with ordinary energy, if instruments, poles, and telegraphists had to be imported from Europe, might have been in working order in four months.

At the R.M. Court this morning, decisions wore given for plaintiffs in tho following civil cases :—E. W. Blackwell v. P. Maloney, £1 14s, costs lis; R. Neagle v. G. Sneller, £2 18s, costs 13s, witness's expenses, 2s ; Nowrick v. Hone Moananui (Mr Carlile for plaintiff), £3 ss, costs 13s, witness's expenses, 10s.—-Fortune and Black v. J. Dawson (Mr Sheath for plaintiffs), £20 8s Sd, costs £1 10s, solicitor's fee £1 Is.

Tho average attendance at the Hawke's Bay Education Board's schools during tho past quarter has increased by ton per cent.

The latest advices from England are to tho effect that English underwriters aro charging- a war risk of 2s 6d pier cent, on vessels despatched to the colonies.

The following additional amounts havo been received by Mr G. Gillies iv aid of the Franklin fund : —Two friends at Clive, £1 ; P. F. Colledge, 10s ; H.R.H., os.

Nipier last month, with tho exception of Auckland, had tho highest death-rate of any borough in the colony. Christchurch had ttl o place of honor at the bottom.

Discussing- the chances of serious damage from the shells of a hostile cruiser, the "ilelbourno Argus writes: —"It is good irom the military as well as the sauitary etandpoint that no city is more straggling in its formation than Melbourne, that the btrcets arc wide, that parks and gardens, land private gardens abound. Our resifdenees aro spread skirmishing fashion over (many a square mile of hill and dale, and if closely packed cities such as Paris and i Strasburg escaped with comparatively littlo hurt from the sustained fire of batteries | which were constantly fed by railways in their rear, our capital might hopo for still ""Potter luck when the attack came from the comparatively easily exhausted magazines of one or two cruisers. The Communists in their madness did far more damage to Paris than the German foo. Indeed, when Yon Moltke entered tho city it was intact. The majority of tho shells which had fallen in its bounds had buried themselves iv the ground and had exploded harmlessly, and when one crashed through a house it did not follow that the inmates were hurt. No shells probably contain explosives so powerful as the machines used by tho dynamitards in London, and oven then, when the charge is specially placed so that it, may do the maximum of mischief, there is more fright than injury. To sum up the situation, the mission of artillery is to clear a road or to wreck a building, but a man-of-war has neither the guns nor the stores for the destruction of any large city—more especially a straggling city such as Melbourne, which can bo exposed only to a vertical fire.''

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