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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5474, 13 March 1889, Page 2

At about a quarter to nine o'clock this morning Mr. Robert Holt observed the grass on tho hill opposite his sawmill to bo on firo, and he immediately despatched several of his workmen to try and extinguish tho flames. Tho grass being very dry, the fire spread rapidly, and at one time it was thought that the flames would ignite tho grass on the other sido of the fence— Mr. Oolenso's paddock. The fire bell was rung, ; tho school br-11 also clanging out tho alarm. The members of tho Fire ; Brigade" speedily "mustered, ' getting out the manual engine, whilo several firemen wero sent iv advance with the" hosereel. In the meantime, -, however, the men from Mr". Holt's mill bad succeeded in getting tlio fire under, and when the Brigade got into Carlyle street, it was soen that their services would not be required, and. they returned to the station. "The grass smouldered for some time, and Mr, Anderson, ; Mr.' Colenso's caretaker, left somo boys in charge while he procured a few buckets of water, which he threw on tho smouldering grass. Had it not beau for the ready assistance of Mr. Holt's men, tho fire would undoubtedly havo spread further, and aa there was a pretty stroug wind blowing at the time, some serious damage might have been done- The fire was canned, .it' is believed, bj* a person who passed through the paddock for tho purpose of getting a horse, and ho throw , a lighted, match info the grass after lighting his pipe.

, There will bo a rehearsal,of "The Mikado " at tho Theatre Royal this evening. Principals and chorus aro requested to bp punctually in attendance at half-past seven o'clock.

The garrison corps and band assemble at the drillshed this evening at half-past six o'clock, in review order, for Government inspection and daylight parade. There should be a good muster of the several com panics to prepare for tho Eatter encampment. As. it is necessary to know' the strength of eaoh company going into camp to provide Bijilieient tents, 4*0., it would be well if those wlib have not yet given in their names would do so at' the parade this evening. ,

Tho Wairarapa; which arrived at Auckland last evening from Sydney, is the bearer of a Bi'ipd<4 mail-

Toiday tbo temperature is warmer in tho north and colder in the south when compared with yesterday's readings. To-day Auckland is at 70, Thames 74, Gisborne 73, Napier 74, Wellington 06, Lyttelton (57, Dunedin 50, and Bluff 4S. >

At tho R.M. Court'this morning Patrick Marshall, charged with having been found drunk, was fired oa and. costs, or ,2-' hours' rnvpriMonn-eut.

Mr, M. R. Miller requests us to state that our Waipawa correspondent is iv error in referring to him as a receiver of valuations under the property tax in that district. Mr. Miller has buen at all times ready to give information to tho local valuers when asked to do so, but he holds no official appointment under tho Property Tax Commissioner.

Tho Garrison Band givo tho following programme in tho rotunda this evening :— Quick march, " Uuibiia " (Sinclair); waits-, "Fair and Faithful" (11. Round); selection, " Roberto il Diavolq " (Meyerbeer); lancers, " Horoi,c " (Marsdun); recitation and air, trombone solo, "The Death of Nelson" (Braham); Bohottiecho, "Sunbeams" (O. Bennett); waltz, "Mountain and Glon " (11. Round) ; " God Savu tho Queen."

A laugh was raised by a member of the School Committeo last night, when the consideration of applications for appointments at the sido school came' before tho meeting. The Ohairmuu was reading some very flattering testimonials from a certain applicant, aud was interrupted by a member who enquired, " Has sho sent hor photograph?" The Chairman' replied in the negative, nnd tlio members smiled. Peihaps it might bo a recommendation if applicants for school appointments were to unclose a photograph of themselves when sending their applications to School Committees.

In this dry windy weather persons cannot be too careful when using matches for lighting their pipes, or for any other pur-osafor that matter. The firo'in Mr. Colouso's paddock this morning was occasioned by some ono throwing- v match down after lighting his pipe, thinkii-g.inost likely that the match was out. If there had not been willing hands and plenty of thero, the fire would havo swnpt across tho paddock destroying Hedges tuid shubberies, and moat probably houses. It is impossible to say where the mischief would havo ended.

Won _'s Schnai'J's would not have stood a..ti-1-t of actual trial for half a century were it not un excellent ►■pirit.

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After we went to press yesterday after? noon the R_l. gave judgment in the"fc&se of T. Flannagan .v. R. ! P. Flannagan, a> claim for £20, value «f horse, saddle; ana.' bridle, alleged to havebeeh lent to ant, who never returned it. The RIM. said tho evidence Was not sufficient; three years had elapsed before tho plaintiff made any claim, and the evidence was not strong enough - ;to:'give judgmeiltfor the plaintiff, who would be non-suited with costs 12s, solicitor's fee £1 Is. The plaintiff then brought, another action against the,defendant, claiming £5 as commission for obtaining; a loan for defendant.,'.', After.hearing the ovidence of both parties the R.M. gave judgment for the amount claimed with costs,6s., Mr.' Cornford. remarked that the time a of the Court had bepn waited, as:the whole of the three.cases might hay© been embodied in one. The R.M. coincided. ,

'At a meeting, of the : oommittee of the Ruahino Prospecting Association held yesterday afternoon it was decided to sell the tools, and then wind up. A considerable amount of the shareholders'.capital, is in haiidi which will be. ; returned to them shortly, - r . '' . [ •;..:■.-•

At the meeting of-the School Committee last evening Mr. Hebden brought.up tho question of the quarterly payments for stationery—sixpence—made on the children attending the district schools. Complaints had been mado to: him by certain parents who had given their children the money to take to the school, but it appeared that on several occasions < it, had- not been handed over to the teacher, the children : spending their sixpences in confectionery. ■He thought cheeks.might be provided, so that when the money was taken to tho teacher a check could he given them to take ihome, nnd the parents would then .see •whether the sixpences had been : paid.or mot. It .was, be. thought, a Very, simple matter which the Committee might consider! Tne other members - also thought that such an arrangement would prove satisfactory; at present no returns were. made until they received the money from ■the head master. The ; Chairman - believed it would prove beneficial; they had plenty v of trainees to write out the checks:; It wasj resolved that in future the pupils be given checks on the receipt of their sixpences, so that parents will now sco for certain 'whether jtheir children pay in the quarterly fee. ; The Ladies' Roman Catholic High School Sat Nelson was completely destroyed by fire last evening shortly after 9 o'clock. Tho pupils, numbering thirteen, had just gone to bed, and there was only one light in the building, a gas jet in the corridor. The firo originated in a* room in whioh the Enpils' waTdrobek are kept, and there had een no light in that room daring the evening-.: The building was of "eoiisi_er_ble size, and was burnt down to the ground. Three pianos and a few picture's^were the 6nly things saved: The pupils were awakened by the Sister in charge "and just escaped, not having time to 'dress? It is not kntiwti whether the building was insured, as the Mother Superior iB away in Auokland. The high school was isolated, and was some distance from > the girls'' orphanage, the ohuroh, and the presbytery. A north-west ■Hnd was blowing at the time, and in a few minutes froni the outbreak tho building was enveloped in flames. The loss will be considerable, as it is known that the furniture and the pupils' effects were uninsured.

: A largo and representative public meeting was held at Wellington Inst night in connection with tho Dnnediu Exhibition ; tho Mayor in the chair. - A resolution was moved by Sir William Fitzherbert and earned, affirming that the exhibition had tfie support and sympathy of the Wellington people. A large and influential committee was apppintoJ. Subscriptions wero raised in the room towards lh« expenses oi the locrtl committee. About fifty <-uineas were subscribed. ' Mr. Twopenny addressed the meeting and expressed irrect satisfaction at the result, the meeting being in his opinion ono of tho best yet., held to further the interests of the exhibition.

; A communication from.;. Mr Joubert, manager of the exhibition, intimates that, the manufacturers of Victoria audi New, South Wales are likely to be very largely .represented. "■, ...... '~

Ono of the disappointments of modern liraos is the newspapers reporter. Ho has degenerated, into-a grammarian, a mero polisher of dull phrases. Custom forbids him to render tbo words of a speaker literally, or perhaps it should bo said that necessity does, for if every man who speaks in Parliament and on the platform were re-' ported rerbatim, the English' laiiguago would disappear. For instance, take tho ritforenco to;the Royal Park mado by a, candidate iv the neighborhood tho other evening, whioh has not been rtcordod in the reports.. This is what he said :—" To take and think that that wacant block of ground is so neglected, that when people goes there to lotht-r about, there is not a place to set on, except a lump of unmoor, or chance getting bullied wid a . wild cow, or some idea like that." He roused his supporters to enthusiasm and daring with this rally :— " I see a few of my old pals, and a few of my now 'uris here. If they throw themselves together and work thundering 'ard they will run me into the 'ouse."—Melbourne Argns.

The present Napior School Committeo will hold its last meeting next month, and tho election of a new Committeo takos place shortly' afterwards.

At 2 p.m. yesterday a strong nor'-west gale sprang up in Lyttelton. Several fences wero blown down, and a portion of the iron roof of tho "railway shed was blown off, some of the shectß of iron falling three hundred yards away. The fore top-mast of; the barque Conference was broken off twenty feet from the hend. The ketch Aparima was driven on tho rocks, but walloped off without damage. The gale moderated about 3 p.m., but rose again at v o'clock,- whon a fishing boat containing two- men named Watson and Twining capsized between tho Moles. The accident was seen, and the men were soon rescued. ■

A curious complication has arisen iv relation to the Kuinara racecourse. The Kumara Borough, Council expended £1200 of borough funds in making the racecourse on-a reserve which is not their property but simply gazetted as being. withdrawn from the goldfielda. They have also leased the reserve to the jockey club for 21 years and given various rights over.it. TJw> matter was brought beforo the Auditor-General, who had already passed £1000 of the expenditure, but is _o\v instituting a searchin--; enquiry into,the affair. It seems that the Auditor-General was a little careless in. parsing the first £1000. Ho will probably surcharge the Councillors.

What the Rangitikei Advocate says of its oWn district in the following paragraph is equally true if applied to Hawko's Bay .-— "Jt se«nis almott incredible, hut it'is nevertheless true; that it is almost impossible to buy a pound of ham or bacon in the county town of an extensive agricultural district liko Rangitikei. Stirely small industries like this aro worth the attention of farmers, unless, indeed, they be too well off to pay any attention to the profits to lie made from ham and bacon. Every yoar we hafo large quantities of'ham, and bacon imported from Canterbury, and yet the district ought to be able to produce both in abundance. It would seem as if Paln-er-stoh were quite as badly off, if not *-. orse than Marton. One of our local butchers assured us the other day that he had sent the whole of his stook of.ham and bacon to that town. Were ham and prosecuted, as it should be, on every farm, it would help considerably towards paying the? expenses of the household."

About a year ago 160,000 Scotch salmon ovtij wero liberated in the Aparima by'the Southland Acclimatisation Society, acting in donjunctioti with the Otago Society. The ova were placed in the Aparima only after very careful consideration, the opinion being held by-some that the stroam was unsuitable. All who were sceptical on the point inuf t now have their doubts set at rest, as positive proof of tho success of the Undertaking is now afforded in tho shape of a fine young salmon procured from one of the tributaries of tho Apariina by the Society's Ranger, Mr. D. Mclvay. The fish measures seven inches iv length, and weighs a quarter of a pound, while the distinguishing features of its kind ore well defined. Mr. McKay says tho ealinon ban be seen in the river in considerable numbers, and it is expected that they will go out to sea at this first flood, returning in a year's timo fine largo fish.—Southland Timos.

The trade returnsfor the year 1888 of the United Kingdom give details concerning some leading articles of import and export. Commencing with imports, wo noto that during the year tho quantity of wheat received was 57,221,000ewt. against 5,"),751,000cwt. in 1887. Russia contributed 6y322,000cwt. in 18S7, aud 21,3(38,000 cwt-in 1888; North America, :-J4,469,000 cwt. in 1887 and 10,962,000 cwt. in 1888 ; India, 8,500,0000wt. in 18S7,'nua 8,188,000 cwt, in 1888 ; Australasia* l,;M7,oo,(ki\vt. in ISB7, and 2,31,->,000,-:wt. in I&SS, &c. North America stood first iv IKS*;' Russia in 1888. The" trade in jperservod meats showed an inaxeivae, notwithstanding a falling off in imports from Australasia, from 1G7,1770wt. in 1887 to 128,201 in 1888. Fresh mutton from Australasia shows an increaso from 441,289 cwt; in 1887 to 5i3,177cwt. in 1888. To show tho largo market open in Great Britain for dairy products, we noto that iv 1888 1,0"U9,31-icwt. butter and 1,917,041cv-t. cheoso wero imported. Of apples, the total importation was 3,821,000 bushels

Iho lollow-stone Park is to tho United States what our Hot Lake district is to New Zealand. It v the wonderland of America, tyid an immense tract of country in which the geysers, mineral springs, and boiling water-holes aro wtnntod, has been reserved as a Rational Park. Tho tragic murder of hve 1-reach tourists it, «&-.virion will give a peculiar interest to tho Yellowstone Park, und, pcr-lnvps, it may induce many in search of excitement to vi«it -i country in which scalping, torture, -uid death, are included in tho risks of travel.

Tho Itangitikei Advouaio .says that 1-ir-re numbers of tdieep are being brought through from Napier for this Coast. Several nobs of three or four thousand havo passed through Bulls on their way towards Wingauui lately, and other equally largo flocks are on the road.

fe*Elii| purification of the House of Lords by fhe.dii-qualification of Peers guilty of certaintoff, nces is the object of Lord Carnarvon's bill, and should it be carried it will remove the gravest soanlal in .connection with tho Imperial Houses of Legislating. It may. perhaps, be tr.;e that tho scamps of the Peerage never put in an appearance in tho House of Lords, but (hoy haVe the ritrht to go there and vote. Probably Lord Carnarvon's measure will have a deterrent effect on tho behavior of Peers who how regard themselves and their acts as above public criticism.

Here is an extract from the report in the local newspaper of a very successful, upcountry sheep sale., There seems something queer about it, but no doubt the auctioneers could explain:—-"About 23,700 were yarded,' consisting"" of very " forward and early merino wethers in .lamb,/ and a good, sprinkling of fat lambs.'' The report goes on.to say that "for some lots competition was very.jreen." That is not to be wondered at under the circumstances.'- "'■-.:...- •> ■■■■ . .<'■ ." ■'!';

Wherever you go? always -ask; for .and obtain the celebrated Wolfe's Schnapps. .

■Wolfe's Schnapps—Keep it always in tho house and then you will have a friend in time of need. ..•'•.. .",■' «■ . ; , ■

We've got7em again, and we're glad of it.-^Another, 'shipment, of v Patent Orion Ranges, for whlcb. we are Agents for Hawke's Bay. ' These' are-' the -'best selfsetting Ranges' in 1 the _iark'et, and wo guarantee a saving of 33 per cent, in the consumption of fuel. : Send for price list to Webber and Wilson, the cheapest Ironmongers in'Napier!—[advt.*} ".{ f;' i! "' : '■.

SEARLE AND CO.'S "STOCKTAKING SALE NOW ON.-Big Reductions in all Summer Stuff. Millinery, Mowers, Feathers. Ladies'- Dust Cloaks, Under, Linen,, Prints, Zephyrs, and Ginghams, at close upon Half Price. Searle and C 6., J Hastings street.-"-»[A_v!r.]> :.; ~ -,;"..,.. ■