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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5925, 2 September 1890, Page 2

" Political Notes " will bo found on the back page to-day.

There were eleven solicitors in attendaneo at tho R.M. Court to-day.

Dr. Caro will resume vaccination with fresh calves' lymph on Friday at 11 o'clock. Dead silence reigned at the railway station to-day ; tho place was completely deserted, except by one man who was dusting out the carriages.

This evening there will bo a coffee supper in the Weeleyan schoolroom in aid of the choir funds. A good musicial programme has beeu prepared for the occasion.

Tho next social evening in All Saints' Parish Schoolroom will bo held to-morrow at 8 p.m. There is a good programme, consisting of a variety of items, glees, recitations, readings, and a dialogue.

Our Hastings correspondent wires as follows :—" The nominations for the Council are Messrs C. A. Fitzßoy, A. J. McEwen, and C Hughes. These are therefore Councillors for tho next three years."

At tho Victorian Dog Society's show Mr J. T. E. Harrap (foiinerly well known in Napier) for bull dogs, won the championship with Jubilee, aud in the open class took first prize for his dog Jubileo Plunger.

Tho Napier 'Bus Company's initial coach service to Hastings commenced this morning, some eight or ten passengers going by that means into the country. The company's coaches will run on Tuesdays aud Fridays during the reduction of tho train service.

After tho Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday afternoon at the suggestion of Mr Coleman, it was decided to recognise the services of Mr Dean and the engineer of tbe Ahuriri in a substantial manner. There and then £30 was subscribed.

We omitted to mention yesterday iv connection >vith tho Cathedral services that, owing to tbe absence of Mr Spackman, Miss Hitohiugs presided at the organ, at morning and evening services. A voluntary by Wily, the "Lost Chord," and tho " Wedding March," wero rendered by Miss Hitchings most effectively.

Tho Union Steam Ship Company has about fifteen hundred persons in its employ, and expends in wages and Other expenses more than a quarter of a million sterling per annum. The wages paid to the men actually engaged in running the Company's fortytwo steamers may bo roughly estimated at £13,000 per mouth, and the money distributed in wasres to wharf laborers aud others

employed in loading and discharging at tho several ports is computed at not less than £6000 per month.

Our own correspondent writes :—" A first dividend of one shilling per share has been declared by the directors of the Try Fluke Company. Kuaotuna, payable ou* Friday next. We are taking steps to increase battery capacity in the Try Fluke, and adopt it to dry crushing process, which did so well with Red Mercury quartz. For this and dead work in tho mine (now low level, winze, etc.) we must, of course, reserve funds, but even so, there will be ample funds for dividends if we go ou as we ure now."

Thero was a meeting of the railway employes in the schoolroom, Clive square, last night, somo sixty men being present. The proceedings wero private, and the men, it was very evident, did not care to express their opiuions. A ballot was taken to determine the question whether a strike should take place if ordered by the Maritime Council, and was in favor of obeying the commands of the Couuc.il. The votes of tho men up the line, though sent on the prepared voting papers, were not taken, the papers being destroyed.

The Public Works Comimtteo last night agreed to recommend the Council as follows : —1. That a sub-committee consisting of Crs. Noul, Cohen, M'Vay, and Sidey be appointed to inspect the private streets lately applied for as public streets. 2. That Mr H. C. A Wuudnitu be appointed valuer to the borough. 3. That clauses 1 (Wellesley road), 2 (brick footpaths), and 6 (footpaths) of the overseer's recommendation report bo adopted, and that with Deference to clause 4 (Havelsck road) the corner of town section 15 be purchased for the sum of £10, to improve the approaches to this road, ami that the remaining clauses be deferred.

At tho R.M. Court this morning, before G. A. Preece, Esq., R.M., judgments were given for plaintiffs iv the following cases : —W. Conway v Matene Tokoru, £1 -Is, costs £ I ss. H.'irtrtdgo v. J. C.Seymour, £24. costs £1 ltis, defendant to have tho option of returniusr the articles sued for. Ruddock and Fryer v. R. Rush, 7s, coats IDs. F. Russell "v. A. Christophersen, £2 lis, costs 9s. L. Binnie v. D. .I»>!"istone (Mr Lascelies for plaintiff), ._ . -~ C j..ts £1, solicitor's feo £1 Is. M. Lascelies v. W. Murray, £2 ls 2d, costs iU. Sidey and Bain v. E. M. Symonds (Mr Dinwiddie for plaintiffs). £0 10s Id, costs 10s, solicitor 10s Od. M. Ryan v. J.Malouey £1., eosts£l io_; plaintiff's expenses 2s. "F. Algar v. T. Double (Mr Lee for plaintiff) 7s Od, costs Cm, solicitor's feo 10s 6d Ruddock and Fryer v. P. Hall, judgment summons, (Mr Humphries for plaintiffs); defendant to pay the amount (£2 17 ls) iv fourteen days, or ten days' imprisonment.

An Australian exchange writes :—Ono vessel was fixed on Thursday at Newcastle, at 2.js, for Melbourne, and tho schooner Eliza Firth, which arrived on Thursday, also iixed at a fancy prico for Auckland. Tonnatre for all intercolonial ports is greedily sought, but tho vesssls are not disposed to run the risk without receiving enormous rates. Tho Adelaide Steamship Company ou Thursday mado an offer at a high rate to Messrs Earp, Gillam, ani Co., to purchase a large stock of coal now stored at Albauy by that Company, but they refused to sell under £3 per t iii. Produce is increasing rapidly in price. During the week ending last Saturday 54.07') tons of coal was despatched from Newcastle to foreign and intercolonial ports, distributed as follows :—Victoria, 10,-J7O tons ; South America, 17,350; South Australia, 2,022; New Zealand, 9,503; Guam, 2,400; Fiji, 500; Tasmania, 1,030; Noumea, 350; Queensland, 750 tons. Wires were received in Newcastle from New Zealand offering almost any prico for vessels with coal cargoes, but none could be secured there.

In tho case of the Bank of New Zealand v. J. Cresswell (Mr tumphriesfor plaintiffs, and Mr Cresswell for himself), a claim for £30, to-day, there was a very lively scene, which at ono time looked serious. 'I he defendant objected that no proof had been given of tho dishonor of tho bill sued on. Mr Humphries then said he would put defendant in the box, to which the latter objected by saying "Must I go into the box to prove their case ?" The R.M. ruled ho must. Mr Humphries: "Did you receive notice of dishonor of the bid:'' Defendant: "I .decline to answer." The R.M. : " You aro obliged to answer." Witness: "I shall not answer." Mr Humphries: " I must insist on an answer to my question." Witness : •' I shall not answer." Mr Humphries : have a perfect right to insist." The R.M. : "If he refuses to answer ho must take the consequences. Have you received notice of dishonor or notr"* Witness: :

" Well, I do not thiuk it is right that I .hould answer the question." The R.M : "I rule it is, and you must answer. I shall treat it as contempt if you don't." Witness: "To the best of my belief I have not; that is so far a.s my recollection at the present moment serves mo." Mr Humphries: " Do you state that after your affidavit in tho Supremo Court,!-" Witness : " Ho has taken down what 1 have stilted." Judgment was jriven for plaintiff's for amount claimed with interest, .ful 17s, and ousts £1 10s.

Hero are some wholesome words from a loader in tho Melbourne Daily Telegraph ou the attitude of the the New' Zealand labor party a week or two back :—" In New Zealand a mad but deliberate attempt has beeu mado to boycott an entire town in order to i bring a single firm to submission. Lyttelton was to be ruined ; no trains must be allowed to run into it, and no ship to leave it, in order to punish Messrs Whitcombe ami Tombs. At the last moment the New Zealand unions have recognised tho fol/y and wickedness of this policy, and havo abandoned it ; but the knowledge that such • i plan has been contemplated will discredit tho public reputation of the colonies all over the civilised world." Tho Telegraph goes on to say that the attempt of the New j South Wales Sheurci*' Union to boycott non-union wool is precisely on all fours with what hud been proposed in New Zealand, and describes it as •'au illeyd conspiracy. which, if brought into the law courts, would be visited with sharp and stent punishment." It is satisfactory to learn that the managers of the labor party in Victoria tire much of the same opinion. Mr Ilaneoek one of the presidents of tho Melbourne Trades' hall, is quoted to the effect that tile Trades' .1 lull Council had not sanctioned the policy of " universal boycott," proposed by she shearers, and were not in the let-t iilce'v to sanction it. " "■'

MissGeorgio Smithson, tho well-known actress, appeared iv a new rote yesterd-v— viz., m that of •'The Defendant" at 'the h'esiucut Magistrate's Court. £ler ~.-) ;v. seiitathn of the pari, wnsdistineilv e-i-_. >!, and created a good deal of amusement!" she entered the witness box jy.ai". fully a ' \ smilingly, and lent an attentive ear to Tile legal gentlemen who qtiestioii.d her about the prosaic details of her proi'. s-.i:_ la l en." g«geinw»t_ and ii. _„_„. i,,i side. 'X iLeir qua-ics she unsworn! with _n .xtrun. politeness, quite r,i the turn, and milllUa . ",' °™. "i ,h: ' Ki ! ' ri «t<-«i-atic d.im.-»s that Miss Snuikson so often represents on tho stage. After .he hud abundantly

I satisfied the Court that she was in a very . impeounious state, the case was dismissed ; the solicitor for the plaintiff accepting tho decree of tho magistrate with a better grace than is usual under such circumstances. Subsequently the defendant's solicitor jocularly observed: " You can leave tho Court, Miss Smithson, without a stain upon your character ; " to which remark the lady deliberately replied in her best manner:

" Well, if there is a stain upon it, you have put it there, for there never was any stain on it before." Then the defendant bowed graciously and made her exit from the Court, leaving the magistrate and members of the legal profession in a high state of good humour.—Otago Daily Times.