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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6034, 29 December 1890, Page 2

Mb Isaac Ho&dbn, M.P. for Keiarhley, Yorkshire, is an " absentee," who, as such, would be taxed out of his Now Zealand possessions, or made to live in the colony, if soallywag politicians had the ruling of this country. Mr Holden had the audncity to buy a thousand acres in New Zealand upon which ho has spent £10,000 on improvements. A Glasgow paper tells us that ho has lately given £1000 to the Irish Home Rule fund. He is believed to bo the richest. M P. in the House of Commons, his iDcomo being £200,000 a-year. It takes 30,000,000 sheep, or about double the number in all New Zealand, to keep his wool-combing mills going, yet at ono time bis income.was not 6s a-week, and he managed to live within ltis means. Even now his tastes are as simple as those of a clerk on 30s. He has made most of his money by inventions.

From Mr E. Lyndon we 10-irn that the rainfall at Napior last night was very nearly half an inch.

At tho Theatre Royal on Saturday night " Lost in London " was repeated. To allow of elaborate preparations for the next production there will be no performance until New Year's Night, when "Under the British Flag," a sensational piece, will be staged.

There was a splendid down pour of rain in Napior last night and to-day which must have done great work to the parched lawns aud gardens. We aro glad to notice by the weather report that in the dried up districts of the south—Timaru and Christchurch—it is raining to-day.

As a precursor of the rain storm thif afternoon thero was a fall of bail, the stones being as big as marbles. The wild disturbances of tho clouds, black and angrylooking, rushing iv different directions, had a very fine effect. There was a good deal of thunder accompanying tho rain.

The Argu. of a reoent date, referring to the.elections in this colony, stales that "a few members seemed to havo earned their election by selling themselves to a class instead of taking their staud on general political principles, or upon the consideration of the wolfaro of tho colony as a whole."

A number of picnicers who left town yesterday morning for the Kidnappers had a rough time of, it, aud two or three of them got" knocked about a bit, with the result that ono trap load did not reach town till an early hour this morning. The sea was breaking very rough at tho Kidnappers yesterday.

The Government have issued a handy little book containing the cheap excursion faros and lime-table to tho Cold Lakes, Southern Alps, and Hanmer Plains. The book also contains interesting information for tourists. Tourist excursion tickets over all tho N.Z. Government lines will be issued, available to 31st March, J 891.

Curious readers may like to know the number of turns a propeller has to make in the water to drive a steamer any length of time, say on a given long voyage. For their information it is mentioned that the Lund Line b.s. Culgoa left London on June 12, for Adelaide, Melbouruo, and Sydney, and arrived back in London on October 19, hor propeller making 8,91'2,9'S revolutions during the round voyage.

According to a cablegram in the Melbourne Telegraph, the criminal action for libel which Marks, editor of the London Financial News, brought against a woman, ended in his coinplote discomfiture. It wa* proved that he seduced and deserted hor, and afterwards robbed her in New York in

1579 ; and her counsel narrated how Marks hpid bought a farm in the Transvaal i" 1887 for £2000, which he sold tho same day as a gold mine for £50,000, leaving him a profit of £48,000.

A sad case of suicide is reported from Narrabri (N.S.W.) A young woman, the wife of a boundary-rider on Gurley station, in that district, became deranged through the loneliness of tho life /he was leading, and poisoned herself and hor infant child with strychnine. Sho left an incoherent letter, in which she stated thai t-lin wished to live happily with her husband, hut could not bear to lose him for three or four months. Tho child and the mother were found lying

on the floor when tho husband returned from work. Some entertninina- stories are told in' the current number of the Law G*z«rte <>f thu tricks by which men summoned to attend as common jurymen attempt to avoid the duty cast upon them. The writer'of an article, entitled, " Before 'he Associate," say* that one morning a little girl, whose eyes just peered,above the desk, timidly exclaimed, •' Please,'sir, father can't come ;ha can't put on his boots." The Associate asked the nervous little creature what was the matter with her parent. She hesitated ; evidently she had not been instruated further than the statement she had made, _and Jooking straight, into the Associate's twinkling eyes, she said, " Well, sir, father don't wear boots; he's got woodtn legs. I wasn't told i to say anything else, sir ; that's all."

For tbe Rifle Association meeting next; month Auckland will probably be ropre-; sented by the following:—"A" Battery: Lieutenant Haultain, Sergeant Parslow, Corporal Doughty, Bombardier Webster,, Gunners Taylor, flenderson, Buchanan (2),s Moore, J. B. Fairs. "0 " Battery : Sergeants McCallum and M. F»irs City. Guards: Sergeant Soall, Volunteers Osborne and Craig. Victorias: Major Skinner, Color-Sergeant Skinner, Volunteers Teo. Fairs, and McCarthy. Aewton Rifles : Volunteer Nutt. Royal Irish: Captaiu; Tobin and Volunteer Dormer. Onebunga Rifles : Captaiu Leahy and Volunteer Dore.i Ponsonby Navals: Petty Officers Spinley(2), Seamen Stanley and Ewen. Civilians:; W. B. White, D. Hay, F. V, Kelly, W. Thompson.

A Ohristcharch telegram under last night's date says :—" Bush and grass fires have been raging in the country districts the last few days, and a great deal of damage has been done to the grass and gmin crops. Numbers of buildings are; now in great danger. A strong nor'-wester has been blowing, and has carried tho fire with astonishing rapidity. Afire broke out on the Leeston show ground' yesterday while some sports were being held. Greats damage was done to the plantation. The womeu and children were carried to a place of safety with difficulty. The park at Rangiora was completely deitroyed' yesterday. The estimated damage is £300.' Every thing is as dry as tinder, and the weather is excessively hot, whioh adds to the danger of a fresh outbreak.

Wesleyan Methodism has just lost one of its foremost laymen in the sudden death of Mr John Napior, the "Father of Manchester Methodism." The deOeasad gentle- : man, who was in his ninetieth year, was extensively known and respected throughout Lancashire, and was head of the firm of I Napier and Goodair, ootton spinners and manufacturers. No man during the past half-century has done more to-promote the interests of Wesleyan Methodism in Manchester, and tht) distinguished position he so long filled in connection with-his own church was proof of commanding in-; flnence. He took an active interest, in-the annual oonference of the body, and was a liberal supporter of the various connexion! funds. For 30 years he was treasurer of, the Didsbury Ministerial College, and for. 20 years treasurer of the Wesleyan Ministers Auxiliary Fond. Ho also took an. active interest in various religious and philantropic movements outside his own church. He leaves two Bons, one of whom, who was formerly a Wesleyan missionary in China, is now a curato in the Church of England.

In the course of an aTticle dealing with Emm Pasha's unwillingness to leave his post when "relieved" by Stanley, the St. James's Gazette says:—"There is considersblo irony in the fact that when Mr Jephson, the reliever, di-ty, worn, and ragged, with a few naked negroes in his train, arrived in the territory of the man ho came to ' relieve,' he found himself ushered into a comfortablo bedroom, and provided with <i bath and a change of clothes: and a quiet well-dressed servant brought in his luggage, and put it down respectfully at the foot of his bed, much as if he had been at a Brighton Hotel. Naturally Emm hesitated to quit his fertile province, with his well-built stations, his houses, his hooks, his collections, his groat stores of ivory (Mr Jephson assures us that the hoard was worth more than £100,000) and his thousands of Egyptian and Soudanese followers, with their women and children, revelling in

this land of plenty, to throw himself head

long into the arms of a tattered band of European adventurers, who had crawled through the Great Forrst with a halfstarved string of native pori.-y.*'

Two individuals who celebrated 'Xmas too well on Saturday evening found themselves locked out on returning to their places of abode. Determined to have some-

thing- batter than spending the night in the onen, witfTa siflrry -sky everVhefore their gaze, they broke into* an empty x Sarreycottage. Here they mado themselves extremely comfortable, but they were destintd to be disturbed. The neighbors had heard the two breaking tho window by which they gained entrance, so tbe police were sent for, and the men were allowed to continue their slumbers at tho police station. This morning, before the R.M., John Dickson and Alfred Campbell were charged with having been found by night without lawful excuse upon premises for which Mr Banner was agent, and with doing damage to a window. They pleaded guilty, • but said thoy were under the influence of liquor at tha time, and had got locked out on Saturday night. :

They were each sentenced to forty-eight hours' imprisonment on the first charge, and for the second offence they were each fined £'A and costs, in default one month's imprisonment with hard labor.

An English correspondent says :—" The numerous friends of Mr Christie Murray are sincerely concerned by the news' which continues to reach this country of his eccentricities. It was hoped at first that his absurd and undignified entanglement with the St. Maur Company would be only tomporary —a mere passing mental aberration his next book would enable one to forget. Alas! letters from Melbourne just received announce that St. Maur had got th« novelist 'by tho wool,' and absolutely talked of convoying him to India. Mr Murray's friends in Australia wore, tbey wrote, doing their utmost to dissuade him from the plan, and it is earnestly hoped at this side tbey succeeded in doing so. I may add that, if the comrades and acquaintances who bade Mr Murray ' God speed' at the Savage dinner at tho Criterion last year could haye possibly foreseen that this was tbe manner in which he meant to distinguish himself at the Antipodes, they would havo reserved their abortive good wishes. What is there, by the *ay, in the colonial atmosphere which leads so many distinguished Englishmen who visit Australia a"d New Zealand to give themselves away? Quite a dozen names occur to me as I write of fellows who got mixed up in foolishness of ono kind or another whilst at the Antipodes.''

Tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have just purchased, at Liverpool, for their colonial trndo, a well-known barque named the City :>f a fair-sized clipper vessel, which has qtiito a history of her own. Five years ago sbe was burnt almost to the water's edge at San Francisco while under command of Captain R. Crosby, now master of the Brifi-hship Machriha'nish, at present lying in Auckland harbor. Captain Crosby was away at the timo for a few days, and when he returned to vhe city, i-eady to take charge of the City (then ship-rigged), whioh was loaded with a valuable freight of whale oil and other cargo for London, he found her completely gutted at th* docks. The mate and steward-had fired her. For this crime they roceived long terms of imprisonment in San Francisco, one receiving ton and the other fifteen years in gaol. Kventualiy the mato died in prison, though Captain Crosby had been instrumental in tretting five years taken off his sentence. Tho two men had made an accusation against tho captain, charging him with setting fire to the ship, but this was soon disproved. The old City was afterwards repaired and fitted out in splendid style, and tho Shaw-Savill Company at last owns her. It is stated (says the Lancet) that it is the iutontion of the authorities of tho Charite Hospital to plaoo 120 beds at the disposal of Professor Koch after January, for the purpose of treating patients by his germicidal method. It must be borne in mind that his researches, which have been carried on for several years, have had for their aim tbo destruction of all forms of pathogenic microbes within the body, and can by no

means be limited to tho tubercular bacillus. Tho material which he has at length discovered to have this remarkablo property is, as will be feon from tho letter of our Berlin correspondent, apparently not of tho nature of true "lymph," but contain inorganic substances, together with attenuated oul-

tures of the bacillus. It is said to be difficult aud expensive to prepare, and there is reason to fear that unless very stringent precautions be taken, less powerful agents

may bo introduced, and the true method thereby discredited. It is also declared that Professor Loyden is satisfied of the efficacy of tho treatment, whilst Professor Nothmigel of Vieuua, has expressed himsolf in very hopeful terms of tho value and imuortance

to the discovery. It is hoped that in tho course of next month Professor Kock will describe tho method beforo the Berlin Medical Society, and give full details of, his experimental observations. •**

Now and then the reporter, writes Mr Pendleton, in his recent book Newspaper Reporting in Olden Time and To-day, makes the most mirth-provoking errors. For instance, when he speaks of "Helen of Troy " as " Ellen of Troy," and reports the Earl of Carnavon assaying, " In these dayß clergymen aro expected to have the wisdom and learning of a journeyman tailor," instead of " the wisdom and learning of Jeremy Taylor." The Doan's faeo would pucker with fun when, after the debute on vestments in the Chapter Houso of We 11.Cathedral, at whioh ho s-iid, "If.some ono should feel disposed to mako m. a present of a cope with decent sleeves, I shall have no objection to wear it in the cathedral," ho found himsolf reported iv a Loudon daily as ready to conduct Divine service in a coat with, a dozen sleeves." The late

Bishop _JYaw>r no doubt laughed heartily when he read the report of h\s speech ou waifs aud strays—a speech that gave him credit for wondrous solicitude on behalf of tho homeless youth of Manchester. " We take these children out of tho streets," said his lordship, " we clothe them, we tend them, we watch over them." And the reporter of one of the morning papers made tho Bishop say of the lucky outcasts, '' V/e take th use children oat of the street, we clothe them, we tend them, we wash them.''

What' a splendid example of self-sacrifice and 'Varo'id works" Bishop Fraser must have ifivi'ti when he picked a city arab out

of thothrotnr of tho Manchester Piooadilly, took him home, and washed him! But the humor of it is eclipsed by many other slips "My brethren," remarked an eminunt divine in a, cathedral iv a Northern province, " All is yellow to the jaundioed eye;" aud the reporter transcribed it, " All is hollow to the jaunty style." "Great is Diana of the Ephesians !" once exclaimed Sir William Haroourt in one of his most emphatic political speeches; and the reporter improved tlie quotation in this novel fashion—" Great Diana, what a farce this is!"—a drastic estimate of the statesman's utterances only outdone by Mr Caine's description of him a sei-sinn or two ago as a ".political lurcher " The poetic orator who quoted tho lines, " Oh, come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven ■ yolept Eupjjrosyne." probably muttered to" him- ' self when ho turned to his own speech in the newspaper with deliarht, and read the practical reporter's rendering of the quotation—" Oh, come, thou goddess fair and free! In heaven she crept and froze her knee."

Do you drink "The Fiv6 O'olook Tea?" 'Tis the fashionable aftennoon tea of tho day ; quito pure, and a wonderful quantity consumed daily. To be obtained ot your local grocer at'2s 4d per, lb. Davidson, Irvine, and ' 0., agents.