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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5156, 28 February 1888, Page 2

His Excellency the Governor arrived at Tho Spa, Taupo, on Sunday, and, leaving there tv-day, will reach Napier to-morrow. Booms havo been engaged for him at the Masonic Hotel. Amongst tho list of absentee landed proprietors owning more than 2000 acres, as per return moved for by Mr W. P. Reeves last session, are- to bo found the following: —The Duke of Manchester, Sir Robert Hay, Sir James Fergusson, Sir Edward Stafford, Sir Charles "Clifford, Sir P. A. "Wold, and Liout-Cokmel Kitchener. At tho conclusion of the presentation of prizes in St. John's schoolroom last night, a meeting was held of tho various Sunday school teachers, for the purpose of con*ndcr>"s tho advisability of forming a Teachers' Union. Artcr »omu discussion it was decided that no Union bo formed.

News -was received in town to-day of the total destruction by fire at midnight on Sunday of tho house and effects of Mr John Blair, of Pukefcitiri. No particulars aro to hand. Tho house was insured in the South British oftico for £ 150.

Mr William Hastie, manager of the Milbourne (Stokes Bros.) estate, and Mr John Tindall, of Kaikora, havo applied for a patent for an invention culled " Hastio and Tindall's patent for destroying lung-worm in sheep by fumigation."

A good many sheopfarmers will bo disappointed at hearing that Mr F, Williams' business engagements provented him from giving further exhibitions of tho working of the Wolseley shearing machine. Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., tho local agents, desired to have an exhibition at Hastings, but timo would not allow Mr Williams to stay longer in this district.

Tho results of tho examination of teachers held last month, so far as concerns teachers

iii tho Hawkb's Bay district, are as follows :—Passed for Glass D, it. P. Burt, and J. C. Wcstall. Passed for Class E. Helen B. Andrews, Constance R. Bibby, Elizabeth King, and John Williamson. Partial success recorded towards Class E. Mary L. Cooper and Phcube Ferguson. Elementary experimental » science—comHionded—John C. Westall. Tho London correspondent of tho Molboiimo Argus writes : —" The military party in Germany look to Prince William as its lender, and regards the Crown Princess with tho moat extreme aversion. Prince William is about as unhappy and unlovely a specimen of humanity as can well bo conceived. One half of his body is moro or less defective—ono of hii arms being withered. Ho has chronic inflammation of tho base of the brain, and is tortured by recurrent abscesses in both ears, which render him iutermittontly deaf, and are rapidly impairing , his hearing , altogether. His opinions aro retrograde, and his temper detestable. He gets on badly with his wife, and positively abhors his mother. His dislike of her has its root in resentment against inherited infirmities—a resentment which is, perhaps, directed against tho wrong parent, or wiiich ought in fairness to be divided between tho two ; but tho feeling , , such as it is, has been studiously fostered by Bismarck, who loses no opportunity of assailing , the hated iniluence of ' tho little Englishwoman. , *'

Tho Hons. Messrs Mitchelsou, Fisher, and Fergus will probably leave Wellington for Auckland at the end of this week.

Tho local representatives to tlio Fire Brigades' competition returned by tho quarter to nine o'clock train last evening. At the station a largo number of people had assembled, while tho other firemen formed a procession, and, headed by the Garrison Band, tho successful nion were escorted to town. Tho band accompanied tho representatives to tin; Spit Brigade station, an adjournment being made afterwards to tho London Hotel, where tho

health of tho winning teams was drunk in bumpers, and a pleasant evening was spent.

Tho total estimated population of tho colony on tho 31 at December ISS7, inclusive of Maoris was Oi.),:jSO. Exclusive of Maoris

the population is estimated sit lioo,aiil, of whom 3'Jl,.')")S aro males and 278,8015 females.

A writ wus served cm tho Wanganui Hurald Newapapcr Company yesterday at the instance of Mr (luir.ro M'Caul, executor in tho Churtii:. <..'i>j!,-_ro estate claiming £(iOO damages ; ; ::, v vd libel'in the publication of eori.tin .«,tricturus in connection with the administration, of the estate. A writ for a .similar amount was recently served upon Mr N. C, Field, tho writer of a letter in the Herald.

Commissioner Tucker, of tho Salvation Army, hus, addressed to tho Bombay Gazette a letter worthy of universal attention. .Ipropoi of Canon Taylor's attack ou foreign missions, ho dismisses tho comparative .failure of our attempt to evangelise India. Hβ says that tho wait majority of the ! 200,000,000 inhabitants of India din neither rend nor write. They must therefore bo evangelised by the living voice. As St. Paul said, they cannot hear without a preacher. But how many preachers would they need '( Let us Mipposo that one-half are children too young to need teachers' at present. The rest—l3o,ooo,ooo—would need 1,000,000 evangelists. if these evangelists were Europeans paid at the present rate they would cost £130,000,000 a year ! That is out of tho question. Suppose we tried native agents 'i At tho present rate of payment they would cost £10,000,000 a your. They also aro too dour. Mi , Tucker has found out, however, that the Hindus contribute about that amount for tho support of Hinduism. .But they give food and land, not money.

On Monday one of our country reporters (says tho Christchurch Press) niet : . 1 nwn , who at Christinas time was complaining ot being out of work i.nd running into debt lor stores for his family, but who now eamo to express his thanks for a suggestion made to him by which he had paid off his scores and had employment for somo time at a price over lO.s pur day. The hint given him was that if ho could do no bettor, lie might pick cocksfoot seed from the •■ long paddock"— the roads and lanes of tho district. Ho had been industrious enough to collect 18G">lbs

)i' sploudid seed, find had received a cheque for .477 U Od for the same.

It is understood that one result of the recent visit of t ! - tfhister JV Public Works to the We;.; G. ;m. is that 'Aw harbor works at both Greymouth and Wesfcport will bo taken over by the Government.

Particulars of a aensati.«t.v..l ( >.v;ipe from death experienced br tvo -id, ■•■>:.'■, have liet'n reported to the fWut-.r-I\,- Mings by MiStewart, Mining Tnspo'ito- at?»allarat. On January 2'.Hh t\v'< ni;i"i>i, Michael and John C.illiu.sii. -wfre sinking in the bottom of the sh.ift i>: Uie i'oung Sulioman Company's ini'io. l> Hu-at east, at a depth of 275 ft. Tho lii'.-u were an ordinary., minors' buukct, at tho bottom of which \v:k attached a " tail ropo " to entiMc them ro guide the bucket in its asi-cnt; the signal for the bucket to be raised to tho surface was given by them a.l. aoout a quarter to 7 a.m. on the day mentioned, :ind as soon as the engine started Mich;iel Gillinnn discovered that his ankle was entangle! in tho tail ropo. His brother sought to rele;is" him, but while doing so caused his own waist to be caught between tho ropn and his brother's foot, the strain of the ctiirino so tightened the ropo that it was imjx>:-siblo for the men to extricate themselves, ;u;d i;i this dreadful position they were carried to tho surface, Michael Callinan by the ankle, and John by the waist. The agony which they endured was heightened by an unfortunate incident. To warn the brakesmen that an accident had occurred the men sought to attract his attention by shouting to him as they were being_ drawn upward. He heard their cries when they were about fifty feet from tho surface, and to ascertain the nature of the occurrence at once had tho engine stopped. The two brothers were thus left dangling 200 feet from tho bottom of the shaft. One of them made an agonising appeal to the brakesman to heave up (juickly, and aa tho man fortunately recognised their imminent danger, he at ouco had them hauled to tho surface, which they roached none the worse for their experiences.

Everyone who has read the life of Benjamin Franklin remembers (says the New York correspondent of the Morning Herald) that that great man loft by will the sum of SOOOdoi each to the citieß of Boston and Philadelphia, to be loaned out in suras not exceeding iiOOdol to young , married artisans at a moderate rate of interest. At the end of 100 years part of the accumulated fund was to bo employed for any deserving public purpose. In Philadelphia, owing to bad management, the oOOOdol had only grown to 70,000d01, imd it will be allowed to keep on growing for another century. But in Boston it amounts to 3'25,000d01, and a great part of it will be expended in the purciase of a public park. Franklin estimated that each fund ought to amount to about ooo,ooodol, but it was hardly to be expected that any board of trustees would do the very best possible That the money, after a century of usefulness, should in one case bo 14 and the othor 65 times what it was at the beginning, ought to stimulate philanthropists with money to spare to copy the example of, "Poor Richard?'

Romenyi, it is slated, kas been highly amused in reading many of his obituary notices.

By an accident while gunning, when a boy in Missouri, Postmaster J. C. Uendrix, of "Brooklyn, N.Y., shot off the fingers of his right hand. In writing he holds bis pen between his thumb and the stamp of. his fist. When he was a college sophomore at Cornell, he accepted the editorship of a little foolscap-sized daily at Ithaca, in the place of the former editor, who had suddenly disappeared. Mr Hendrix composed tho

entile staff, doing the work of reporter, correspondent, acissora-wielder, and leaderwriter. In his capacity as reporter ho attended a supper of the Ancient Order of Hibernians on tb.3 evening of St. Patrick's Day. A burly-looking Irishman watched him as his pen, so quecrly held, ran nimbly along over the paper. The next day the same man brought a companion with him into the newspaper-office, and, after buying a copy of tho paper, loitered behind with his eyes fixed upon the editor, who was then scribbling away as rapidly as on the night before. Turning , to his friond, the Hibernian said, " Fath it's often I've hurd tell of thim shorthand-writers, but this is the furst time I've ivvcr sit eyes on wav of thim !" The Liverpool Journal of Commeroe states that ono of the most startling and important inventions of the day with regard to the propelling of eteam vessels is now under consideration. Should it prove successful and meet tho expectations of tho inventors it -will entirely revolutionise the whole of tho steamer service of thia country. It is alleged that one eminent firm of engineers has offered £100,000 for the patent.

"Bough on Corns."—Ask for Well's " Rough on Corns" Quick relief, comploto, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. At chemists and druggists.

" Kough on Itch."—"Hough on Itch" cares skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, tetter, salt rhqum, frosted , feet, chilblains, itch, ivy poison, barber's itch.

1000 inhabitants of Hawke's Bay arc now wearing Watches bought of us, and each ono would ■willingly give a testimonial testifying to their utmost satisfaction. Bring your watches to us and have them repaired by practical tradesmen. All work warranted for 12 months. V. Jensen and Co., the Old Shop, Emereon-strect, Napier. —[advt.]

SAVE THE SHILLINGS by purchasing your ironmongery from Webber and Wilson.

Weokly rents come quickly round, Unprepared you'ro sometimes found, Thou 'tis well to have a pound Saved by dealing at Webber aud Wilson's, Ironmongers, Emorson- street.—[advt. |

Koromiko Cordial, as a remedy for dyscntry and diarrhoea, is unequalled. ' Care should bo tuken to purchase tho original preparation as made and introduced by H. Owen, Chemist, Hastings -street Napier, as tho success of this compound has induced others to imitato it. Price, 2s Gd.—[advt.]

John M'Vay, being greatly overstocked, is oiforing saddlery and harness of all kinds, portmanteaus, Gladstone bags, &c, &c, at largely reduced prices for cash. Hasting's-streut, Napier, and at Waipukurn.u.—[adto.l