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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5960, 13 October 1890, Page 2

Tho Public Works Committee of tho Borough Council will not meot till Monday week, Uβ tho Council will not meot till next week.

It is said Mr Moore hae declined to accept the position of goneral manager of the Bank of New Zealand.

We remind those interested that the Supremo Court sittings will open to-morrow morning at half-past ten o'clock.

Dr. Grimes, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chrietchurch, was amongst tho attendants at the funeral of Cardinal Newman.

Wm. Riloy, 93 years old, a veteran, who says he fought at Waterloo, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for vagranoy at Melbourne on the 25th ult.

On the 26th October the Rev. Joseph Berry, of Wellington, will conduct the jubilee services in Trinity Church, and other meetings will be held on the Monday and Tuesday following.

" Rip Van Winkle " will be produced on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The box plan is now opon, and judging by the reception of the opera lest week, those intending to be present should at once secure thoir seats.

At tho R.M. Court this morning, before Mr Preece, R.M., Robert Evison and N. Staiubury, charged with drunkenness, wore each fined 5s and costs. Joseph Leatham, tsiniilarly charged, a second offence, was also fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours' imprisonment.

Messrs Dillon's and O'Brien's escapade •will make it pretty rough for those who come after them. The word of those gentlemen is not as good aa their bond. They have bolted, and their bail has, of course, been estreated. But for the future, perhaps, bail will be refused in tho case of patriots.

The Diocesan Synod meot to-morrow, when Holy Communion will bo administered at 11 a.m., and again at 7.30 p.m. In the evening there will be full choral service, and preceding the sermon certain members of the Cathedral Chapter will be installed. The Rev. John Hobbs of Hastings will be the proachor.

The adjourned assault case of Roso v. Robo, whioh should have been heard at the R.M. Court this morning, was withdrawn. Mr Cresswell stated that the parties were now separated, and Rose would not molest his wife further. The R.M. said he was glad to hoar that an amicable settlement had been come to.

The Wellington branch of the Typographical Association has decided that the holiday in conncotion with " Deraonetration Ijuy" for employes on evening papers shall be on the 28th instant, and for morning papers the evoning of the saino day, or in other words that compositors shall not work at all on the 28th either in the day titno or at night.

Tho safe belonging to the Government

printing office was opened on Saturday. The contents, consisting of lenses and tho large camera recently imported, a largo quantity of chomicale, and a number of instruments, wero found unaffected by tho heat, decpito the fact that tho portion of the building in which the safe was built burnedfiercely for a number of hours. Poreous deoiring to be registered on tho roll of electors should be careful that their claims reach tho Registrar. Sometimes theso claims fail to roach their destination through having , been entrusted to tho care of untrustworthy people ; that is to say, people who have an object in keeping the claims back when they think that tho persona if registered would vote for the other side.

There aro attractions this evoning to suii all taatos—rolijrious, political, scientific.

und driimiitic. Tho Young Men's Christian Association hold their quarterly meeting tonight. Mr Gannon raceta the electors at

tho Gaiety Theatre, The Hnwke'e Bay Philosophical Institute invites its members to an ordinary gathering. Tho SylvoLawton Surprise Company offer an attractive programme at tbo Thcatro Eoyal.

"Timotlious" in. the Argus cays ; — Exports know that the gallery reporting , is, to say tho least, by no means bad. The member who figured as a " gorilla " had been alluded to as a guerilla, and the gentleman who was called a snivelling member had been described as a " emiling " representative. And theso changes hnd been made by tho typographor, who is often a wag, and has frequently a grasp of the position, and more courage in describing it than either orator or writer.

Tho prisco of ton guineas given by the president of tho Agricultural and Pastoral Society for tho exhibitor taking tho greatest number of prizes in all classes was won by Mr Douglas MoLean with eighteen firste, fifteen seconds, and six thirds. The nearest approach to this number was Mr J. N. Williams, with six firsts, iive seconjle, and four thirds. Mr J . N. VViiliams's prize of five guineas for tfye exhibitor faking tho greatest number of prinea in tho cattle classes was won by tho Etsv. S. Willmms with four firsts, four seconds, two thirds, and ono highly ooinnicndud. Tho next to this was Mr H. R. Russoli, with ono first, three seconds, two thirds, and two commended.

The Five O'clock Tea is v perfect Wend of teas, and tbo flavor is delicious. Davidon, Irviuo and 00., agents.

The children's festival service in connection with the session of the Diocesan Synod was held yesterday afternoon, when a large number of children and adults were present. The address was given by the Rev. 0. L. Tuke, who pointed oat the necessity of religious instruction, obedience to parents, and the regular attendance at Sunday school. The preachers at the Cathedral were the Rev. F. E. T. Simcox in the morning and the Rev. 0. Jordan in the evening.

M. Horace Poussard, who is in great vogue as a violinist in Sydney, where he played at Mr Santley's farewell concert, intends making a tour through New Zealand in tho summer. M. Poussard, who is a pupil of Alard, visited Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington more than twenty years ago, shortly after his arrival from Paris where he took the grand prix at tho Conservatoire. He is an excellent pianist as well as violinist, and will accompany Madame Burton at the Beat recitals.

The bridge loading from the Hyderabad road to the oauseway of tho Taradale road hus been widened by tho County Council, but nothing has been done to tho railway crossing, which is as narrow as ever, being

hemmed in by the cattle stops. The consequence of this is that much inconvenience was caused to-day, there being a large amount of extra traffic created by the Town and Suburban races. The inconvenience will be all the more felt to-morrow and next day, when the Napier Park races tako place.

Wo understand that a great musical treat is in store for us, as Mrs Sheath, assisted by her pupils and numerous musical frieude, intends giving an operatic concert in the Theatre Koyal on tho 10th of next month. Mrs Sheath's ability is so well known and appreciated that it is needless for ue lo predict a bumper house. The lady will bo assisted by all the loading amateurs, her pupils, and Mr Graves, a new arrival. As this is Mrs Sheath's first concert, there ought to be a large audienco, for she has done much for music in this town.

An application was made at the R.M. Court this morning by Mary Ann Allen for an. order against her son Samuel Davenport of Auckland that he should provide the complainant (his mother) with means of support. The complainant stated that she was a cripple and unable to earn a livelihood, while her husband was an invalid. She had two sons; one allowed her five shillings a wook, but the othor refused to contribute anything towards her sustenance. The R.M. made an order against tho defendant to pay five shillings a week to his mother.

Messrs Lawton and Sylvo'e clover company open this evening at the Theatre Royal. The season will only bo for two nights, as the company have given up Wednesday to the amateurs for the opera. Alf Lawton'e versatility is so well known and, he is such an old favorite that his company is euro to be well patronised. Sylvo is also known in Napier, for his remarkable performances when with the All Star Company. With two euch entertainers as Lawton and Sylro those who attend at the Theatre Royal to-night should pass an enjoyable couple of hours.

Experience, in spite of the adage, does not teach o very body. The London agent of the Press Association, apparently, gathers hi 9 news from the lowost, most soneational, and least reliable papers published in the metropolis, with tho result that day after day he has (to contradict one item or another of hie previous news. But all the eamo he sticks to his faulty sources of information, for contradictions are as numerous ao ever. The latest is that the guards at Bownuda are not decimated by fever ; only one man has died, and five are laid ap. We aro more pleased to publish the contradiction than we were to recieve the original canard.

A Chinese professor of boxing and fencing living in Hong Kongrecentlypublished, by means of placards, the following challenge. The placards were removed~t>T the polioo, after attracting much attention, and tho pugilist himself was arrested and punished : —" Having been informed that a man named Lav a Kwan, who keeps a place at Hungham, where he instructs pupils in tho art of fighting and self-defence, boasts that he has no equal in his profession, and that he is a perfect Hercules in strength, and offers an inducement in tho shape of 10 dole to any ono who has tho courage to meet him at tho manly art and bend his arm—his strength being equal to several catties—now I, Bok Lo Chun, havo travelled over many countries of tho globe, but never met a man who was so boastful and proud of his superiority in his profession. I also have some knowledge of fighting, and therofore write this and post it up, so thut all men can sco mo challenging him to meet me at the spot in front of tho Kwan Yun Temple, Hungham, at 5 p.m. this day (22d inst.), man against man, there to try with me his skill in fighting, and the result of this test will be to settle beyond a doubt who is tho best man. If this Lav Kwan refuses to come out, then he is a vain boaster and rank coward, and he must clear out of the placo altogether, for ho is only an upstart, and, whon put to the test, a baby at heart, and therefore not fit to associate with respectable men. I hope all peoplo will excuse him. Dated this 3d day of tho 3d moon.—Hok Lo Cnror."

The Rev. C. E. Beecroft, in his sermon yesterday morning at Triuity Church, reforrod to thn prawnt labor troubles, out of which ho predioted good would yet come. As a Christian minister ho had no right to constitute himself a judge in tho matter. Ho bolievod that there wero grievances whioh wanted remedying, and these grievances wore not confined to one side, but wero to be found in both parties. He was a more recent arrival in the colony than the majority of thoee whom ho was addressing, and he had seen how unskilled labor was crashed in certain parts of England. All would agree that every man had a right to bread, but in the great centres at Homo it was pitiable to behold the struggle of tho unskillod worker to obtain it, due in a great measure to the fierce competition of tho age in which we lived, and which might well cause us to ask if some of our accepted economic opinions woro true. Philanthropy was powerless to avert the impending ruin whioh seemed to be in btore for the unskilled worker; science had no remedy to offer, but he believed God would find a solution to the difficulty. Wo were passing through a transition period, but that good would be the outcome of the present struggle he did not doubt. When the contest was over means would be taken by which arbitration would stop in in futuro to prevent such a fearful waste both to capital and labor, and a healthy public opinion would be created, for at present many unconcerned in the strikes wero seriously injured and affected, which would forever forbid such another struggle being entered upon.

Lord Shannon, who has just boon recovered from the West Canadian wildernesß, is tho hero of a etraugo uneventful story. Seven years ago aa Viecount Boylo he found life in that crack corps the Rifle Brigade beyond tho means his family could afford to allow him. Hearing of tho land boom at Winnipeg ho went thoro with his brother in the hope of getting quickly rich. Tho two Boyles got hold of a Campbell, a son of tho Duke of Argyll, and set up a bank at Winnipeg which in a short tirno went where it might have boon expected to go. After that the young Viscount set off by himself through Canada, farming, trapping, hunting, fishing, enjoying life generally and working like a horse. Hβ bogan by discarding his title and ended by losing his identity. In 1887, in midwinter we conceived tho idea of crossing tho Rockies into Columbia, and in spite of the most experienced trappers set off. From that day no one ever heard of him oa tho Eastern side of tho rango. Soon after, his father dying, thoro wan hue and cry for (ho eldest son. Detectives travelled all over Canada, and traced him to tho pass in tho Rockies, nnd there had to givo him up. | Newspapers were filled with advertisements, which produced numerous answers from impostors, but none from tho ronl Simon Pure. At last, by some ucoidont, tho young man was found working away quietly raising oattlo and horses ft"d pigs on a farm ho had bought in tho depths of Columbia. " Never wroto homo," ho said.

" Always was bad correspondent. Likwl the life. Never mind whothor it paid mo or not; that's my business." Full of pluck and enterprise, and very industrious tho young man sooms to havo boon—likewise slightly occoutrio ; for which reason on hearing that he is a relative of tho great Sir Boylo Rocho of famous memory one is not surprised.—N.Z. Times.

In the course of his letter concerning Mr Dillon's methods as an Irieh agitator, which has given riso to much fierce disputation in tho Home Rulo camp, Dr. O'Dwyor, Binhop of Limerick, sayH : —" lam rot equal to a contest in Billingsgate with Mr Dillon, nor do I moan to try it. But I will toll him

I thin, that if at any timo I should find myself put into prison for a cause that I professed to believe just, I would rot there before I allowed my friends to send up a miporftble whine for my release from every end of tho country on tin; plea of health, and that if I suoakod out thus and then went off to tho Antipodes on a twolvu months' tour until tho storm blew over and my vows to defy tho Act of Parliament under which I had j been imprisoned wero forgotten, ho might call mo a dastard without fear of contradiction. If Mr Dillon, whothor ho has tho right or not, has tho power, without check or romoustranco from any one of his party, to denounce an Irish bishop as he haa do- j nouncod me, simply and solely for my | action in the exoioiso of my spiritual juris-

diction, what guarantee is thoro, should Homo Rule come, that all of us bishops shall not find our authority crippled, not by words, but by force? Are there not interests enough arrayed to tho death against Home Rulo to make it at least a matter of

common tactical prudence not to force 'he bishops in Ireland to review their position i-i relation to it ? The lawfulness or unlawfulness of the Plan of Campaign was a subject as fully within the competence of tho Holy Seetodeeide as tho validity of Henry VIU. s marriage. It wo tind Irish members of Parliament using »ff«»'V *ttJSo when they are pondoinnod, tho very language » n d arguments of tbefiretKnglwb reformers -if wo soo a repetition, co far m their limited power goes, by Mr DUlon and his friends, and tho conduct of those .englishmen who struck terror into tho body of English biohops, and ran blessed Fisher into gaol, mny we not reasonably ask 'now will it be with t>ie iudependonob of the Irish Church how will it bo with tho unfettered intercourse which we demand with Rome, when theso gentlemen are uofc only our representatives

but our masters? I commend that view of things to the consideration of serious Home Rulers, and beg of thorn not to drive us to compare the religious liberty we enjoy at present with the prospect of things under Mr Dillon as Minister of Worship.

Colonial girls are always complaining that the men don't marry. A London correspondent writes :— " The St. James's Gazette last week published a wail from a ' Mother of Five,' who does not know what to do with her ' accomplished and domesticated daughters. . Her complaint attracted the notice of 'An Australian,' who writes to the St. Jamee'e Gazette advising the good lady to emigrate, together with her dovecot, to the antipodes, and guaranteeing that in less than five years tho daughters will all be ! mistresses of comfortable homes in Australia or New Zealand. The writer has known many similar oases, and has been eye-wit-ness of tho consequences. One family of seven girls, the eldest over thirty ; another ;of four, the eldest thirty-four, are all married. In the latter caee the young ladies had resolved themselves into a maidenly sisterhood. But, moralises 'An Australian,' alas for the frailty of such vows ! There is always a demand, proceeds this writer, for well-mannered, womanly women in the whole of Australasia, except Tasmania, which has a large supply of its own. It is added that in all the cases referred to the marriages were suitable to the stations of the young ladies. Life in tho colonies, we are told in conclusion, is so much freer, easier, and pleasantor than in England, the young men marry, and maidens are given in marriage."

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