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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6019, 9 December 1890, Page 2

Fourteen pupils in tho Fourth Standard at tho District School Intend to compete for the gold modal oll'eiod by the Hawke's Bay Caledonian Society.

The Wairarapa North Rabbit Board have ilwided to get tho report of two dininterested persons concerning the stops taken for the destruction of rabbits on different properties in that district,

Tho White Swan browory ie undergoing Komo improvement!), of which a lofty brick chiinnuy-staok is tho outward and visible sign. A now engine houso is boing erected, and a large new copper is to bo fixed up.

There arc between 7000 and 8000 bales of wool waiting shipment at tho Spit, aud th,e shipping iv tbo roadstead is not half equal to takiug that quantity away. Tho departure of tho Kaugitiki for Wellington to repair damages has, of course, added to the congestion.

Tho Gaiety Theatre should be crowded on Thursday evening on tho occasion of tho concert by tho District School children. Tho tickets are going off well, wlulo everythin- is being done by tonoLew and pupils tobSnutlieentartaimnent to a successful Ho. The performance will be repeated on tho following pvoulng.

Tho lueoting held iv Trinity Church hist evening was fairly well attended Mr Welsmau occupied tho chair. Addrewos on tho Homo Minion work were delivered by the Revs. 0. X Ueoorofl aud J A Taylor, whieli proved very interesting. A collection in aid of tho fund was liberally responded to.

Tho Now Zealand Horald prints i" pan.Ho! columns extracts from a p.amp^ cribbed ttivotliernittu'uwntiiifc'ti. Wo remind our reader*, solely think it uecee«j>7, tl at he OlmvloH Clark w>Mf t , "tKw Royal. Hie MibjeLi j tho entirely new X ' Kutorta uLnt." Mr Clark hae " 3 ,Cl Cto e!meters to deal with that HU ?rj l . wo may anticipate, will !,'" judtoioiwly blended. Tl o Fivo O'clock Toa is a perfect blend, ( f ' au d tbo ilavor is delicious. David- | .2 n lrWu«.ttudCo., BS eulß. J

A deputation from the Dairying Aseo- j ciation waited on the Hon. G. F. Richardson at Dunedin yesterday to solicit the assistance of the Government in sending an expert to England in charge of a shipment of cheese, so that a reliable report may be obtained as to the causes of the deterioration of cheese exported to England. The Minister promised to suppoit a scheme to the extent of £250. The remains of Johann Christoph Gluck, the great composer, were irxhumed reoentlv at the Metzleinslorf Cemetery, where they have rested sinoe 1787, and reinterred at the Central Cemetery, in the musicians corner, near those of Beethoven and Schubert, and close to the Mozart monument. The grave was in a disgraceful state. The grass mound had fallen in, and was overgrown with weeds ; the gravestone had disappeared, and only an obelisk bearing Gluck's name marked tho spot.

A middle aged man named William Bennie was charged before Mr Preece, R.M., to-day with dnmkenness and with having no lawful visible means of support. The Sergeant eaid the man had been

"knocking" about the gardene, and sleeping in outhouses near that place, while he proved a nuisance to residents in that locality. The R.M. said there wns no excuse for the defendant, aa there was plenty of work in the district. He was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labor.

While commercial machinery all over the world is readjusting itself after tho jar of the Tariff Bill, it is satisfactory (says the Pall Mall Gazette) that America itself does not; escape a share of the general inconvenience. The capitalists are well through tho crisis in the money market, but now the coi sumer is having his object-lesson in the working of economic laws. Prices in the protected trades are up. Circulars are going round from wholesale firms, placards aro making their appearance in shop window s. The Democrats see their chance, and have promptly set going the sobriquet " McKinley prices." The Republicans, who know a, dangerous election cry when they hear it, are in a highly satisfactory state of uneasiness.

We understand that Mr Sydney Hoben han it in contemplation to inaugurate at an early date a novel description of musical entertainment, or, perhaps, -we should say, lecture, illustrated by selections from the works of living great composers. We know of no better means than this to popularity high-class music. If music is to thu composer what verses, are to the poet— the expression of thought—then we can imagine that Mr Hoben, intimately aoquainted as he became at Leipsio with the Kroat masters, would be able to give a moat interesting lecture, whioh would convey valuable instruction. Mr Hoben spends the Christmas vacation in a tour round tho colony, leaving for Auckland to-day. We wish him every success.

In view of the difficulty experienced by tho general run of gas consumers in checking- their gas bills against their meter register, Mr J. L. Cloudsley, of Smithsquare Works, Westminster, has devised a cash value indicator for gas meters. This consists of a dial placed on the front of the meter and having around its edge figures, each representing 100 cubic feet of gae, from zero to 1000. Under each of these figures is the cost of the amount of gas represented by the figures at a stated prioe per 1000 ft. The quantity consumed is indicated by a pointer, which is -vorked from tho ordinary indicator of the meter, and after 1000 ft of gas have been used this is indicated on another dial within the priced one; the pointer then going on to indicate a seoond 1000, and so on. Tho dial ft made of er.rdboard, and, should the price of gas vary, the dial will have to be removed and replaced by one showing tho altered price.

A good joke told of a well-known sportsman comes down from the Moore. Guest and host wero out together after rather too exhilarating a lunch. Flushed "with tho ardor of the chase," of course, they were j«(>t about to soramble over a style, when a notice board caught their eyes, " No shouting allowed here," at the moment two splendid wing shots presented themselves. The host fired and missed. Tho guest followed, and being slightly the soberer of the two hit one, and thebird fell down just ty the tree on which the notice board was hung. Neither dared go for the bird for a quarter of an hour and both lay low till all danger, as they thought, of a keeper was pa.st. Creeping cautiously the guest secured his prize, whon, glancing at tho board, he sang out, "Sir, your name's at the bottom of this notice, how's that ?" " How's that," rejoined the host, a little clearer in tho head by this time, " Why it's my land, and I was too nervous to recognise it, that's all."

A paragraph went the rounds of the English papers to the effect that tho township of Skiddaw, in Cumberland, in all probability stood uuique in the United Kingdom as a township of one householder. It appears, however, that there are two townships occupying a similar extraordinary position in Cheshire. One of these is Birehos, in th« Kuutsford division, in which Mr John Holland, farmer, is the only occupier. He is, therefore, both guardian and overseer: he makes his otvn rates, "collects," and pays them, and looks after the completion of the Parliamentary register. Another like township is that of Wallerscote, in tho Parliamentary division of Ji-ddisbury, for which the name of Mr Thomas Moreton, farmer, appears on the Parliamentary register as the ouly occupier. This gentlemen fulfils the duties of all the public offices connected with the township, at the various Revision Courts attends with his Parliamentary voters' list, which contains simply his own name. He invariably gets his* expenses allowed, which, of course, havo to come out of his own pocket.

Plaintiffs secured judgment this morning in tho following civil cases :—N. Williams and Sons v. A. B. Thompson, of Norsewood. £-4 19s 4d, costs 9s. Same v. G. Gilberd, £3 4s, costs 63. Do Lisle and Innes v. Annie McKay, £3 3s Gd (Mr. Kennedy for plaintiffs), costs Cs. Same v. Philip Keat, £52 :>s, costs £-2 3s, solicitor's fee £111s 6d. Same v. J. N. Neno, £14 2s, oosta £\, soli' citor's feo 10s Cd. Same v. Frank OJark, £i 18a Gd, costs 7s. A. P. Sheath v. R. G. Brown, £3 3s, coats Cs. H. Williams and Sons v. A. B. Thompson, Novsewood, £3 15s 9d, costs 9s. A. X , . Sheath v. William Krause, £43 Gs

lid, costs £1 10s. T. C. Moore v. Jβ. Robinson, £4 4s (Mr Rhodes for plaintiff}, costs 9s. Sidey and Bain v. W. H. Sebley, £2 8s (Mr Dinwiddie for plaintiff), costs 6s, Oulairban v. Huui Mukue, £12 (Mr Oresswell for plaintiff, and Mr Kennedy for defendant), costs £1 10s, solicitor's fee 10s Sd ; execution stayod for three weeks. R,

Hannah and Co. v. Motray, £1 Cs Bd, judgment summons (Mr Sheath for judg* uiont creditor); amount to be paid forthwith, or seven days' imprisonment. A. Eccles v. Eeubon Hawkins, £3 19s Cd, judgment summons ; amount to be paid forthwith or ten days* imprisonment. Murray, Roberts, and Co. v. W. J. Garry, judgment summons, jCS I(3s Od (Mr Cottorill for plaintiff); amount to bo paid forthwith, in default fourteen, days' imprisonment. Do Lisle and Inaoa v. H. W. Glasson, £9 14s, judgment surnniDns, (Mr Kennedy for judgment creditors) ; judgment debtor agreed to pay £1 10a per month. In the case of A. P. Sheath v. W. Han well, 10s, plaintiff was non-suited without costs.

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