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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5967, 21 October 1890, Page 2

There was no criminal business at the R.M. Court this morning.

During , September 10.20 inches of rain fell at Inglewood, while at Balclutha the fall was only 0.43.

For the September quarter the Customs revenue received at Napier amounted to £13,536, as against £13,642 for the corresponding quarter of 1889.

Mr G. A. Preece, R.M., who left for Taupo yesterday morning, has gone on business in connection with Maori electoral matters. He returns on Friday evening , .

A report was current in Melbourne when the mail left that a leading member of a firm of estate ajrente in Melbourne had disappeared with £70,000 or £80,000 belonging to clients.

We have been requested to remind thoso taking part in the sacred cantata " Bolshnzzar's Feast" that there will bo a practice in the Wesloyaii Church this evening at 8 o'clock. The practices will take place each Tuesday night.

Tho Dunediu Exhibition authorities sent t« Napier for articles that did not belong to hero. Those were returned to tho proper quarters, while of tho Napior sewing exhibits 131 are still missing.

Wβ are requested to state that there will be a meeting- of the local committee of the Now Zealand Rifle Association on Thursday evening, at 8 p.m., at tho Criterion Hotel. A full attendance is requested.

Thfi half-yearly general meeting of the members pf the Working Men's Club will be hold in the Club Hall this evening, and tho poll for the election of committee and auditors will be taken between six and nine o'clock.

The Public Works Committee last night agreed to recommend tho Council as follows:-—" That a reply be forwarded to the Sydenham Borough Council that tho Council do not think that any good results would be obtained by tho proposed scheme of municipal fire insurance, aud therefore decline to contribute tho sum asked for."

Messrs Non-ton and Duncan, J.P.'ssat on the Bench at the R.M. Court this morning, and awarded judgment to plaintiffs in the following cases:—A. Eobortson v. James de Coster, £i> 2s 2d, (judgment summons); amount to be paid within one month, or 7 days' imprisonment. J. Aloxander v. H. Connor, £1 10s Gd (judgment summons); to be paid within a fortnight or four days' imprisonment.

Tho following itoms of Samoan news are to hand by the Wainui at Auckland : —

Many of tho natives at Samoa have struck work, demanding higher wages. They were receiving a dollar pur day, and they ask for a dollar nnd a-hnlf.— Mr. and Mre. R. L. Stevenson have arrived at Apia.—Mr. W. Blaoklock has been appointed United States Consul-Genera! at Apia.—The London Missionary Society's artnunl inoetin^ra have been held at Samoa. Tho Rev. J. Chalmers, of New Guinea, addressed several meetings of natires on missionary work.— Business is stagnant in Samoa. An attempt has been made to raise the value of tho base Chili currency there, owing to tho rise in the price of silver, but the movement is opposed.

Tho well-known thread manufacturing: firm of Messrs Coate, of Paisley, have issued a prospectus announcing the formation of a limited company to take over their bimnesa. Tho capital of the company is stated at £5,750,000, consisting , of 6 per oont. cumulative preference shares to tho amount of £2,000,000, ordinary shares to the amount of £1,750,000, and 4j per cent, debonture stock to the amount of £2,000,000. The certified profits of the concern for the past year are stated at £475,000, and theaveriige for the past seven years at £'120,000. The reason given for the conversion of the concern in that the business has grown, and is growing, to huge dimensions. Mr Archibald Ooata will be chairman of the company, and seven other members of the family will have seats on the board. Besides the extensive mills of tho firm in Paisley, they hold a preponderating interest in thread mills in Rhode Island, in Montreal, and iv Russia. Tho estimated dividend on tho ordinary share capital of tho company is 8 per oont.

It is fortunately eeldom (says tho St. James's Gazette) that a fire on so extensive a scale Eβ that which has destroyed tho town of Tokay has to be recorded. The six churches, four hotels, five schools, tho theatre, tho museum, and the municipal buildings are all gi.no, and only 13 houses stand whore 1500 porsons have hitherto lived. Ruin must now bo staring in tho face a largo proportion of these luckless people as they contemplate the remains of their former homes from their canvas tents. It may be hoped, however, that the community will recover itself in titno to gathor in tho vintage which has made tho name of Tokay famous through the world. The wish is necessarily an unselfish one, for the fame of sweet Tokay comes from reputation and not from personal acquaintance, except in very rare instances. The wholo produce of the viuo-yarde on tho Carpathian slopes goes into the Royal cellars, and seldom finds its way outside. Still, any wine morchant is prepared to supply Tokay; it may be good, but it isn't Tokay.

At tho Supremo Court this morning the case of Thomas Tanuer v. Northern Investment Company was again called on. Sir Robert Stout said lie was vory eotry to have to inform His Honor that Mr. Taiincr was still dangerously ill, and ho read a certificate signed byDrs. Linuey, Fawkuer, Ruesoll, and Innes, stating that it would not be possible for Mr Tanner to bo present in Court for at least a mouth. Tlint being , so, some day in tho middle of December might bo fixed for the hearing of tho oase, tho costs of postponement would bo paid by them. Mr Bell said it was impossible for j them to offer auy opposition, and if it wan I possible to hear tho case in December, it would bo butter to got it over. Sir Robert Stout proposed that the jury should be discharged, ao there would be no expense in drawing , another jury. Mr 801 l thought that would bo extremely inconvenient. Sir Robort Stout said perhaps his friend would tujruo to have tho trial iv Wellington. Mr Bell fluid ho hadn't time to consider that now. His Honor thought i.t would be better to discharge the jury. Counsel admitted there would bo no dispute between them as to the hoada upon which they olaiinod costa. Tho oaao was thon adjourned to tho 16th December.

Tho Sydney Daily Telegraph of the Ist inst. says:—Tho Japanese coal mines, whose development received such a groat impetus during tho last Newcastle strike, are now being fully drawn on for tho requirornencs of tho Australian continent. Two stoamers, the Charters Towers and tho Alberto, are well on their way to Melbourne with between 8000 and 9000 tons of Japanese coal for tho use of tho Victorian railways. Another steamer, tho Pathan, is bringing down over 2000 tons, and this will also probably go to one ai tho southern ports. Another largo cargo-carrier, tho Mogul, having , a capacity of over -1000 tons, is similarly commissioned to bring Japanese coal to Australia, There are other charters of which no local advice is obtainable, and

it may be safely estimated that between 15,000 and 20,000 tons of Jupanoso coal will find their way this country within a month. It is obvious that such an influx must involve a he/ivy direct aud indirect loss to theso colonies, especially to New South Wales, which has ooal at her very doors. Apart from tho loss of wages to tho miners, there in tho extra expense to which the community as a wholo is subjected, and tho largo amount of money which will have to go out of the country instead of being applied to a. legitinxwte circulation of benefit in our midst. As a contrast to tho present importation of ooal from Japan it may bo mentioned that only a few years aao coal was buing sent from Newcastle to Japan, aud the freight by sailing vessel amounted

to not less than 50s a ton. Now the Japanese niiues, which have been developed at the expense of these colonies, to a very largo extent, are being worked to the exclusion of our miners.

There was not a very large audience in the Athenosuin Hall last evening to hear the Rev. 0 Jordan's lecture ou Irish language and literature, and this was due, no doubt, to the inolement weather. The chair was occupied by the Bishop of Waiapu, who introduced tho lecturer. To those of a

literary turn of mind the lecture was interesting, ►howing as it did thn.t the auoient Irish literature included translations of classics , .! authors, histories of remote antiquity, and treatises on art, poetry, philosophy, etc., while no other race possessed such a mine of literary and historical wealth still unexplored. Mr Jordan gave his hearers capital specimens of the Irish language. Among these he recited in Irish. a brief passage from the first book of the Iliad of Homer, an early translation by an Iri.sh author, and he also gavo the English version. Time was when it was a capital crime to teach the Irish language in Ireland, but now there had been a revival of the Irish language. It might bo said that the history of ancient Erin or modern Ireland was still unwritten, but there was ample material for the compilation of a history. The lecturer referred at length to the earlier periods of Irish history, and was ! happy to say that there /as now coming to I Irolaud a classification o the people according to their various grades and ranks. We hnd to contend with a difficulty of more than ordinary kind in regard to the record of this history. Earlier chroniclers gave that cuiintry but passingnotice while recording , the events of other countries of Europe. During the Danish invasion many books were suspended altogether; in fact, they wore destroyed, and not taken away, as no manuscripts relating to Ireland had been found in the ancient records of Copenhagen, Stockholm, or any of tho northern cities. Thus Ireland, as regarded tho most ancient Uteraturo bociune quite darkened, instead of being what it should have boon, the brightest luminary in the western world. Another oiiuse of the lose of ancient literature was the Anglo-Saxon invasion, which was fatal to the vigorous resumption of the literature, while new books received a fatal check at the moat important periods of their development. Tho discovery of printing in after years made the spread of the literature of other countries eesier, while it seemed to have led to the neglect of Irish compositions. They found reference to books of which they now possessed no copies, which it was to be feared, were irrevocably lo<t. They must conclude that a language in which so many classical books were written must have been highly cultivated, as writers would not otherwise have written in the Irish language knowing the Latin tongue co well. Mr Jordan will give the eeeoncl portion of his lecture this evening.

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