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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5322, 12 September 1888, Page 2

There was no business at the R.M. Court Ills morning.

Herr Calon's concert will take place on Wednesday next, instead of Tuesday.

On Sunday evening, the 22nd July, tho Bishop of Waiapu preached at St. Paul's Cathedral.

In South Dunedin ono of tho town councillors was nominated by two lady ratepayers. He was returned unopposed.

There is a rumor that the headquarters of the Bank of New Zealend aro before long to bo removed from Auckland to Wellington.

At the Columbia Rink this ovening the manager, Mr Gregory, will take a benefit. A capital programme has been prepared for the occasion. There will be a polo match in costume, and several other events will take place which should prove equally attractive. During the evening Sorrell's band will perform a number of selections.

Passages for Napier had been secured by the following by the Ballarat which left Loudon on the Gth. September:—Misses Wallis and E. Nelson, and Mr. H. Nelson. Mrs. Stokes has booked to leave by the Victoria on October 19th.

Tho full programme for tho entertainment to-morrow evening at Taradale in aid of tho widow and family of the late Mr Pcrcival Boar, will bo found in our advertising columns. Mr Bear did much for Taradale, and it is not likely that the people of that locality will fail those he has left behind in their hour of need.

The following are to-day's mercury readings :—Russell 50, Auckland 52, Thames 57, Cambridge 47, Tauranga 51, Taupo 45, Gisborne 49, Napier 49, New Plymouth 51, Wanganui 51, Wellington 45, Blenheim 50, Nelson IS, Westport 44 Greymouth 47, Hokitika 41, Bealy 33,' Lyttelton 10. Timaru 50. Oamcru 4S, Port Chalmers 47, Dunedin 44, Clyde 40, Queenstown 39, Balclutha 44, Invercargill 43, and Bluff 42.

It is fine weather throughout the colony to-day, with tho exception of Gisborne, where it is raining.

Tho Morning Post understands that the committee of tho Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, which has been considering the question of the relations between Church and Dissent, have reported in favor of reoogiiisingtheministry of Non-Episcopal Dissenting bodies as valid, though irregular. This (continues the Post) would appear to advocate interchange of pulpits, and other overtures to heretical and schismatic bodies, which tho Anglican Communion, or at least the Church of England, can never rightly assent to.

Some curious facte, showing that domestic animals are capable of spreading infection, are recorded in his report on the recent sustained prevalenccof diphtheria in Enfield, by Dr Bruce Low, of the Medical Department of the Loral Government Board. He incidentally stales, says the Sanitary Record, that during December 1887 and January

1888 there was a large mortality among cats, so much so that the dustmen said they had never remembered seeing so many dead cats in dust heaps before. The following incident occurred at Enfield at the time, and shows the possible connection between diphtheria in children and in cats : — A little boy was taken ill with what turned out ultimately to be fatal diphtheria. On the first day of his illness ho was sick, and the eat, which was iv the room at tho time, licked tho vomit on tho floor. In a few days (the child meanwhile having died) the auimal was noticed to bo ill, and her sufferings being so severe and so similar to those of tho dead boy, the owner destroyed her. Durinjr the early part of its illness this cat had been lot out at night in the back yard, as usual. A few days later the cat of a neighbor who lived a few doors further off was noticed to be ill. It had also been in tho back yards at night. The second animal, which, however, recovered, was tho pot and playfellow of four little girls, who, grieved at the illness of their favorite, nursed it with great care. All four girls developed diphtheria, tho mother being convinced that they got it from the cat, and, indeed, no other known source of contact with infection could be

discovered. Glasgow Ims a system of automatic telephone call boxes. There are seventy-six of the boxes scattered about the city, and every subscriber has a key to them. A non-sub-

scribcr wanting to use them must first ring up the exchange and ask if the connection ho desires can be made. If it can, he drops the fee, which is either three pennies or six, according to the distance he wants to talk, into a hole in tho box. The pennies as they fall break a oircuit and ring a bell at the central office. When the bell has rung the required number of times the central office makes the connection. At tho end of the three minutes allowed for conversation the connection is broken automatically. Tho nvorago time taken to put two persons in telephonic communication in Glasgow is thirty-five seconds, in Birmingham forty, in Liverpool thirty-two, and in Dundee twenty. This was ascertained from the results of ten calls in each town.

Tho Sydney correspondent of tha Auckland Star says :—" It is rumored that Mr P. J. Fink (of Bent, Fiuk, and Co., a verywealthy firm in Melbourne) will leave Melbourne for Now Zealand in a few days with a view of investing over one million of money on city properties in Dunedin, Wellington, and Auckland, and agricultural and pastoral lands."

Tho Melbourne Age says:—" The New Zealand fine art gallery is a very croditablo display. It is subdivided into a number of oetagoual eompartmeuts, which afford a considerable hanging space, the walls being available both internally and externally. The adits are rather narrow for a crowded day. In oils, Mr J. Douglas Moultray contributes sundry interesting views of 'Milford Sound,' which have found a purchaser; and Miss E. Kate Sperrey, of Wellington, sends some very clever Italian subjects. Mr J. Poole is well represented by his 'Land of the Moa,' 'The Bush Track,' * A Snow Storm,' and several small works. Mr J. Gibb sends ' Oyster Dredging on Stewart Island,' and ' Tho Bealcv River.' Mr L. J. ' Deathbed Scene ' shows work not uuliko that of Mr Longstaif in this colony, but his composition is very faulty. Tho principal figure, instead of being placed near the centre of the canvas, is shoved away in a corner. The middle of the picture is occupied by an expiring candle, placed in a bottle, the space to tho left of which is almost absolutely blank. Wo wonder that the commonest rules of composition aro not inculcated in tho school in which tho artist has studied. 'For Ever and For Ever,' by A. Handel Gear, is a bad picture in every sense of tho word. The water colors shown are softer and more pleasing than tho oils, some, especially those by Miss Jenny Wimpc.is and Mr John Gully, being really beautiful works."

Mr J. Allen, M.H.R., is of opinion that there are ores iv New Zealand, which, if shown at tho Melbourne Exhibition, will attract all eyes, not only from a scientific but from a commercial point of view, ores of iron and nickel which present an interest as great or greater than any other oro in the world, Not only is it q. valuable mineral itself on account uf the metallic nickel present, but scientifically it is most interesting, as tho rocks eontaininir this nickel iron alloy aro tho only kuown connecting link hetweou tho terrestrial and extra-terrestrial rocks, and they are the first signs we have of tho presence of diamonds. He believes there is overy chance of diamonds and other preoious stones being found on tho West Coast.—Otago Daily Times,

Miss Ida Lena Cooke, aged IT, daughter of tho circus proprietor, and Mr W. P. Dodge, of Now York, aged 19, who eloped together at the beginning of tho week, but were captured tit Carlisle, have succeeded again in escaping from their guardians. They wero married on Saturday, '-Ist July, forenoon, at Edinburgh, by declaration and acceptance. About ten o'clock i. party iv oubs'droyp up f:o tl,e Hheri.. Court. They pioyec'l tq be the youthful bride and bridegroom and several friends as witnesses. Sheriff ILimilton, who appeared in about half tin liour, iruvo warrant for registration, and the couple and their friends drove oil again. Tho bride, wa_ drosaed in a eluto(loloreil uo-turoo. According to tho New York Herald, Mr Dodge is travelling with a tutor. He is the sou of tho Roy- tViyicl Stuart Dodge, Now York ; tho jjT.nid_i.ii of a very v»oh «t<*u who was president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, William E. I lodge ; and ho is a relative of Congressman William Walker Phelps, whoso n0.... was before the Chicago Repv.blu-an Convention as candidate for tho Vice -. Presidency of tiio United States. Tho family is "richer thati old Oroosus," as thoy would say in America, dust before, leaving America with his tutor, young Dodgo mado himself rather foolish. Ho oaused to he inserted hi the papers ti, notlco of his marriage with his cousin, an heiresss of great beauty. The Constenu't-Qi) 'prouucC-i by _ui_ practical joi;o may be imagined. It was deemed adyi.Hbio that he should extend his acquaintance with the .yorld by i\. sojourn iv Europe,

Everybody nowadays drinks Wou'is'-

Wolfe's Scunaw-s Is superior to brandy or whisky.

To avoid till mistake, ask for Wo_.ii'-S-HN4PF6.

Spurgeon, the great English preaoher and revivalist, does not take much stock in the Salvation Army or its methods. He calls them " ultimate potash," and says that they " crackle like thorns under a pot, but soon burn out and leave a vast amount of smoke and ultimate potash."