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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5949, 30 September 1890, Page 2

" Typo " for August is to hand from the publisher, Mr K. C. Harding.

In Clivo Squiiro to-morrow evening tho City Band will give the first open-air couCOft Of tho 80H8OI1.

Last "Wednesday, according to the Auckland Star, in tho share market Try Flukes were quoted at Bs.

It is rumored at Auckland that the appointment of British Consul at Rarotouga is to be offered to Mr F. J. Moss.

Two drunks figured before Mr. G. A. Freece, K.M., at Court this morning. Robert Harfcness, for drunkenness, wae fined 10s and costs, and Thomas McManus, similarly charged, was fined 5a and costs or ■IS hours' imprisonment.

The Xapier electoral roll is now printed. It contains tho names of 2172 persona. The supplementary roll will largely add to that number. Tho Hawke's Bay roll is not yet delivered from tho printers but it contains 2507 names.

Of the caution of tho " canny " Scot the following - is a good example : —Some friends happening to he in a neighbor's house, one of tho sons, who was a fiddler, asked Sandy B. if he could play the violin. Ho got the following veiy cautious reply: "Man, I couldna just say, as I'vo never tried it!"

Plaintiffs secured judgments this morning in tho following civil cases : — J. T. Casein v. S. R. Stewart, £5 12s 7d (Mr Cresswell for plaintiff), costs 10s, solicitor's fee 10s (id. F. Russell v. W. Ford, £2 Is Sd (judgment eummons); amount to be paid forthwith, in default seven days' imprisonmeut.

The " social evening " at Taradale, in connection with All Saints' parish, that is to be hold to-morrow, at 8 p.m., iv the usual place, will ba more th.au usually attractive. In addition to tho enjoyment derived from thesu pleasant gatherings, bright moonlight tiud warm weuther will lend their charms to the walk to and friin the placo of meeting.

A Communication of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand will be held at Dunedin on October I.sth, and at Auokland on November 25th. In connection therewith, wo hive been requested by the Grand Secretary to make it known to brethren of the Musonic Order that in travelling to places to attend tho meetings of the Grand Lodge, tho Union S.S. Company grant return tickets at singlo fares, and the Railway Commissioners charge second-olass return fares for first-class tickets.

An excellent stop has been taken (says th.o Pall Mall Gazette) by the Chaiubro Syndicate of Working Goldsmiths aud Jewellers. It has founded what are called "travelling , purses," out of which an

allowance is made to capable apprentices in order to enable tlieiu to reside abroad for a certain period to learu the languages, tho commercial customs, and tho working methods of other countries. These young men will be required to send periodical reports to tho chamber, to show that they ure taking advantage duly of th.o faeilitius accorded to them.

in respouso to a circular issued from Napier, a meeting of those interested in the wine and spirit trade, brewers, cordial and aerated water makers, and publicans took placent Wellington yesterday. Very fowwero present iv tho afternoon, but at [n mooting held later in tho evening about twenty-five of thoso interested iv tho trades mentioned wore present, including delegates from Cbristchurch and Napior. Mr John Plimmor, senior, was in tho chair. Messrs M'Carthy and Kennedy, representing tho brewers, Messrs J. Jack and T. \V. Young tho wiuo merchants, Mr J. L. Bidon tiio cordial makers, and Messrs H. Sullivan (National Hotel) and J. Condin (Club Hotel) tho publicans, were weleetod a committee to draw up regulations for establishing tin association on the lines laid down by tho Napier meeting.

Last night tho Public Works Committeo agreed to recommend tho Council as follows :—l. That tho offer of Messrs 11. Williams and Sous to supply casks of cement at LSs (5d per caek be accepted. 2. Tliat nothing in future bo used within the borough for blasting but blasting powder or dynamite, except on tho site of the breakwater ; that all existing permits bo withdrawn; and that no fresh permits be issued except to such persons as produce satisfactory references as to competency. 3. That the consent of the Council bt given to litvout lloiusey road as per plan forwarded, provided that "a sum eulliciont to form tho rciail be paid as deposit, such deposit to be held by the Council until tho roadway is formed to the satisfaction of the Council.

•1. That Shakespeare terrace, Cameron road, and Milton terrace be taken ovor as public streets, and that George street be also declared a jmliliu street if tho residents contribute tho sum of iIS towards tlie expense of the work.

An amusing story was going round tow" oil Saturday. A loeul joker, travelling from one township to another, called at tim house of a relation about hnlf way, and whs persuaded to stay the night, as it whs (hen very late. Hearing that his brother was sleeping there that night, au<l had g««° to bed an" hour or so before, tho joker, when going to his bedroom, went n>, as ho thought, t.. his 1.r011.u/s bedroom jfted him Sut of bed, lai.L him on the cold floor, and hurried oil , before being discovered. On coming down to breakfast the next morning rather late, he found the family talking over tho strange occurrence of tho ni"ht—vi/., that H " ilU! l Mr6im Imd entered their room, lifted her out of bed, and laid her on the culd oilcloth, ana then vanished. Tho joker's feelings may ue better imagined than expressed. Of course be suggested that Grandmamma must have been dreaming, but ho lost no time in olcuring out direudy after breakfast. -V/t-nganui Uhrotiicly,

At the Supremo Court, Auckland, yes-tot-tl.'iy, bct'oro Mr Justine Connolly, "th;; appeal case of H. T. .Tone.-; v. \V. ii.*Atuck w;ih lu-iird. This was an appeal from a decision by Mr ]>noth, R.M. at Gisborne, by which Jones was lined twenty shilling., for having published ia the Gisborno Standard oortain telegrams belonging to tho Proas Association, of which Mr Atack in nianagur. Neither Mr Ataok nor the Press Association own or publish a newspaper in the colony, but Mr Atack had sent the telegrams in question to a number of papers, and tho question for the Court was whether under those circumstances he had • 'published" them within the meaning , of

t he Electric Lines Act, 1884, and whether ho telegrams were protected by that Act. Mr Cooper, for respondent, argued that Mr Atack, although not the publisher of a. newspaper, had "published" the telegrams in those newspaper to which he had gent them. His Honor dismissed the appeal without costs- Ho pointed out that as Mr Ataok would be liable as publisher of tho telegrams in a civil or criminal action, ho must also have tho protection o£ the Act us a publisher. Ono of tho printing presses brought out by Mr Shritnpton in tho Charlotte Jane, and used for the printing of the early numbers of the Lyttfclton Times has been presonted to tho Museum by Mr E. W. Seager. Wheu tho office of the journal was removed to Christchurch, the old press, together with a quantity of type, vras given by the proprietors to Mr Seager, who then hud chargo of Sunnyside Asylum, and it was used to print programmes of enteitaiunients got up for the patients' diversion, and other matters for their amusement. Thero was also a quantity of type given for tho uiiin purpose by Mr Soagor's brother. Wbon Mr Seager left tho Asylum, Dr. Lovingo, ">vho succeeded him, informed him that ho had no uso for tho press and its accompanying type, and sent the whole to Mr Soager, who has found a now asylum for tho old press in the rooms of the Canterbury Museum. In Dr. Haast's time, Mr Seaaror used to print many of tho labels used at the Museum, and they may be seen affixed to specimens boaring tho imprint, " Printed at tho Sunnysido Press." Mr Forbes intends to put the press to a similar use as soon as he can get it into working order.

Tho friends of Mr Moore, of the Union Bunk, will bo glad to learn that ho has boon offered the general managership of tho Bank of Now Zoaland. Tho friends of tho Bank of New Zealand will bo glad if Mr Moore decides to aocopt the offer. Mr Moore in a banker who has established a reputation for prudence, firmness, courtesy, and financial ability of 11 very high order. At Napier and Christohureh and Dunudin ha laid tho foundation of th.it reputation by a management which defied the evil days of the bad times. But it was in Melbourne, where he was transferred two or three years ago, that ho has done his best work. Mr Moore took up tho management of tho Melbourne office during tho great land boom, and steered the Bank through that most dangerous wild titno with K reat skill and success. To the Bank of New Zealand a man of his calibre is at the present time most necessary. The Bank's business bus suffered by a long course of management, which has been described in terms of the greatest severity by its own Directors in their official report to tho shareholders. Tho prudence, banking skill, financial ability, great firmness, and pleasant manners of Mr Moore would be of the greatest usefulness to tho Bank. The London Directors have shown their good senso by trying to secure his services. — N.Z. Times.

Referring to the recent South American troubles, the St. James's Budget writes :— The moral, if there is any to be drawn at this time of day, is that which some time ago we incurred some censure for urging upon tho Australians. Argentina is rathor liko New South Wales, Victoria, and Now Zealand in some respects. AH are young communities, with much taste for the good things of life, and au unbounded confidence m their own strength. To work patiently and slowly, laying up profit for a future generation, is not in their way. Tho Australian working man, liko the Buenos Ayros trader, is not prepared to wait till the country is "developed." This development would be very advantageous to his pon or grandson ; but in tho new worlds the family sentiment is not very strong, and is distinctly subordinate to the idea that every mnn ought to have as agreeable and comfortablo a lifo as he can legitimately secure. Rulers and administrators are only following tho popular instinct when they mortgage the future to make the present smooth. Hence hava Argentine financiers pledged tho lands of the country to attract French and English gold; and Melbourne an<* Sydney statesmen find well-paid work for their clamorous labor electors by superfluous "improvements," paid for out of themonoy of English depositors in the local banks. Fortunately, or unfortunately, for the buoyant politicians of these trans-oceinic countries, there is an Old World, plethoric with saved capital, only too ready to pour a golden shower into their lap. Australia and Argentina can hardly bo expected to pursue the straight path of slow und sure development of their natural resources when London and Paris are so eager to pheo in their haruls the means for drawing cheques upon futurity.

Writing- of Mr Crombio's appointment tlio Wellington correspondent of tho Lyttoltou Times says :■—Mr Crombie, tho DeputyCommissioner, having , been put into the vacancy caused by tho death of the Commissioner, there is considerable satisfaction in the place at what we all consider the legitimate course of promotion. Mr Crombie is a very capable and painstaking official; a man who, in his time, has played many parts. Amongst others, ho played the part of journalist nearly twenty years ago in Ot'igo. In those days, he was "chief reporter on the paper famous as the Otairo Guardian, when Mr Creighton, now of San Francisco fame, was editor, and after Mr Crtighton went to San Francisco to make that particular fame of his, the glory of Vincent Pyko was over the Guardian, and in that halo Mr Crombio worked hard, not for fame—that was the editor's perquisite—but for fortune, of which he acquired tho nucleus. But what nucleus ever satisfied a man of praiseworthy ambition? Mr Crombie. <'••■■>. ing that the nucleus did not no •,. Jt , with sufficient rapidity, took his talents" to a country district. The talents were, tho first shorthand man in Otago, fthd a good .sound leader-writing capacity. With these and sundry doubloons he started a brisk weekly or bi-weokly, I forget which. It was in the rising Palmerston or Waikouaiti —it ieally does not matter which, nor what tho name of the little journal was, for it had a dismal, ghastly history, ungainly, grim and gaunt, that is to say, it took away tho doubloons from poor Mr Crombie and left him with the reporting faculty and fa o leader capacity, both much sharpened by adversity. So tho indomitable owner of this equipment struggled on, and presently rising to the surface, waa hailed by a circle of admiring minds as Deputy-Commissioner of tho Property Tax Department. Now that ho has become Commissioner he will bo as much appreciated by tho general public as he was the other day by the circlo of admiring friends.

There was only ouo defended civil case heard nt tho R.M. Court tins morning, that of Hawke's Bay School Coinmisaioners v. K. F. Mortenseu. Mr Cottorill appeared for tho plaintiffs and Mr Cresswell for the defendant. This was a claim for £15, for eleven trees alleged to have been unlawfully removed by defendant during this and previous years, and converted to his own use from Motion 30, block VI., Norsowood, mi oducrttiou reserve vested in the plaintiffs. The defence was that they knew nothing whatever about iho trees, and they never converted them to their own use. Counsel for defendant said tho trees should havu been described, as tho question of value might arise, and in that case a description of the trees was very material. Mr Cotterill said tho trees taken wero eight mntui, two rimu, and one totira. Tho facts wore these. Mr H. M. Smith, who was ouo of tho Rangers of the Crown Lands department, in consequence of information received, was deputed by tho School Commissioners to examine the section in question. In the early part of Juno ho wont out to the section and found that some valuable trees had been cut down aud removed. Tho defendant possessed a mill not vorv far nit. In conversation with Mr Smith tho defendant admitted that he had taken these trees, and alleged ho had done so under a lease from tho Education Department. It would be shown that ho had no lease whatever, but thut he had a lease of h, section somo considerable distance from this. It would also be shown that tho defend ant had admitted that ha had for some time been taking these trees to his mill. \V. Parker, H. M. Smith, Jacob Sohaare, and T. MeiJiTinott gave evidence for plaintiff. For the defence it wan contended they liad a lo.itiis from tho Education Commissioners of laud almost adjoiniug rJiis reserve, and that defendant udiuitte i ho cut trees from his own lease, and not on the other. Defendant deuiud altogether that he had cut trees from tho- education reserve. John Towers, E. Erickscu, I , '- Adrian, h. Cross, and Ohas. Baines gavo evidence for the defence. After hearing counsel tho rt.M. said he was satisfied that tho evidence showed m> admission by defendant. It was not a matter of what was the actual market value of the timber, but the plaintiffs did not want it cut. Judgment would be fur i'-j I"- 1 * (;J . wltl) costs £'> 4s, witnesses' expenses £■) Ss _'d, and soljoitor'a fee £1 Is. Mr Cresswell asked tho Court to stay execution vor a mouth, us tho defendant u'nder.ool; to supply tho information as to who o.ik tho timber, so as to clear himself, and ht'ii if lie did that he would ask tho Comnissioners to refuud the amount in this use. ulr Cotterill said defendant had an ipportumty to give a reply to the Commisiouers but ho hud not done so. Execution vas stayed for two weeks.

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