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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5882, 14 July 1890, Page 2

A new serial will shortly be commenced on our back page.

The Public Works Committee of the Borough Council meet this evening.

The only passengers fr.m Taupo last week were the Messrs Harber, tourists, from Australia.

It is rumored that the soiling price of coal at Newcastle. (N.S.AV.) is to be reduced by 2s per ton.

Dr. de Lisle will deliver a lecture this evening at the meeting of St. Paul's Mutual Improvement Association.

A man named Pritehard was admitted to tho Hospital yesterday afternoon from Farndon. Ho broke his leg- and put his ankle out while skylarking on Saturday night.

The Rev. Miss Carrie Bartlett has been nominated incumbent oi the town of Kalamarzoo, in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Harvard, a beauty, and a very eloquent speaker.

In four of the Alctorian Civil Service Departments—the Chief Secretary's, Lands and Survey, Law, and Treasury—42 per cent, of the officers are in receipt of salaries exceeding £300 per annum.

For the financial year ending 30th June last the duties on the estates of deceased persons contributed £400,000 to the Victorian revenue. Tho year's revenue was £342,000 iv excess of the Treasurer's estimate.

The Lyttelton Times arrives at the conclusion that the " best leader in the House is now Mr Ballance," who is clearly superior to any man on tha Government benches. Just co. And when AVanganui's chosen gets thero he is sure to be accompanied by the elect of St. Albans, for hero-worship deserves to have its reward.

At the skating rink on Saturday evening the novel race was won by E. Ewbank. There was a good attendance, and the event caused great amusement. Every evening last week the rink was well attended, and the pastime is as popular as it was two years ago. On Wednesday, under the auspices of tho Napier Football Club, there will be a rinking concert.

Typhoid has been very prevalent at Pahiatua, Hawke's Bay, for some time. The stream whioh runs through the town ia! supposed to be infected with the germs. So says an Auckland paper. There;does not happen to be a stream ia the township of Pahiatua. Might wo suggest to the Auckland press that they have quite enough to do to keep AVellington in check, without abusing Hawko's Bay.

Tho members of the Loyal Orange Lodge, No. 5, mustered strongly yesterday, when they attended in regalia the service at St. Paul's Church in the morning. They met at the Lodge-room first, then forming into a procession. At the church .eats had been reserved for them. Th« Rev. J. G. Paterson preached a lengthy and forcible sermon for the occasion, choosing as the text of his sermon " The Cross of Christ." While not dealing with the deeds of the forefathers of tho members of the Orange Lodge, in their, struggle for religious and civil liberty, the preacher urged those present to be honest and righteous iv their dealings, by which society would bo benefited, and they would obtain their reward in the hereafter. The anniversary will be celebrated this evening by a social gathering iv the Protestant Hall.

The success of the Mildura irrigation colony iv Alctoria has induced the New South Wales Legislature to take steps in the direction of irrigation. In the Assembly a Bill has been pass.dproviding for the establishment of au irrigation colony at AVentworth ou land outside the town boundaries aud abutting on the river Darling, now known as the AVontworth town common. The land to be devoted to irrigation purposes comprises 10,600 acres, and is to b6 vested in the Town Council, which will act as a trust, and ample provision is made to guard tho public iuterest. It was stated during the discu.sion on the Bili that Mildura was paralysing Wentworth, and that the measure was necessary to keep the peoplo in the colony. In the Council a Bill has been brought up to authorise tho Chaffey Bros, to acquire lauds in the district of Penrith for the purpose of establishing irrigation and water supply works there. Penrith is within forty miles of Sydney, qu tho AVcstern railway line, and lies at the foot of tho Blue Mountains, where the Nepean, a fine broaiV*_tream, flows through highly fertile plains.

Mr Bell, Southlauder, has published a fow figures showing how differential ratiug on the railways affects the Waimea district. The comparisons made of the railway rates for goods between Port Chalmers and Inv.ruargill (147 miles) aud Dunedin to Invercargill (139 miles) with these from Port Chalmers to Gore (108 miles) and Dunedin { to Gore (100 miles) show that instead of the i proportion boing direct, according to distance, as it ought to be, it is au inverse proportion, and to a most remarkable degree against the places that sro nearest to one another. To such an extent ia this principle carried that it is actually cheaper to send native coal from Stirling to Lumsden by way of Invoreargill-that is, a distanco of 139 miles-than to send it by way of Waimea,. a distance of .<- miles. The char", for the first, the longer distance, is lis Hid per t.u, and that for tho second, tho shorter _istau.e, is 14s lid. Certain classes of goods from Port Chalmers to Gore (10S miles) are charged ols 4d aud 4°s 10_ pw tou > respectively, while the same gsioiis from Port Chalmers to Inver-ean'-iU (139 miles) are charged only 25s per ton.

Wolfe's Schnapps is now and has been for many years a standard professional remedy.