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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6252, 14 September 1891, Page 2

Mr. W. : G.. Tustin has served a writ on Mr C. J. Hazelden,-.patent officer, claiming £1000 for libel. ~

The Rev. T. Parkinson, who has been spending a well-earned holiday in Australia, returns to Napier on Saturday, and will propably occupy tbe pulpit of Bt. Augustine's on the Sunday. , It is understood that the Government has given instructions to cut up the Kaiangaroa plains, containing about a quarter of a million acres, into seven blocks, of about 30,000 acres each, at a rental of £lper thousand acres. ■ « The ladies of Trinity Church are making great preparations for the. bazaar which is to be opened in the Theatre Royal on Thursday afternoon, at three o'clock. A large variety of goods will be.on sale, and every effort is being.'made to bring about a successful result. The Government having decided to curtail the list of officers authorised to frank letters and telegrams on public service, several clerks of Magistrates' Courts who have hitherto enjoyed that right have been notified that the privilege no longer exists so far as they are concerned. A person named Alfred McGinaty, who was arrested laßt night, while in a state-of helpless drunkenness, yvas to-day remanded by the R.M., for a .week, Sergeant Cullen stating that the man was suffering from delirium tremens. David Hunter, an elderly man, was fined five shillings and costs for a similar offenoe.The popular prices fixed for Mr H. Spackman's concert to-morrow evening should result in a large audience being present. The programme, which is published in another column, is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the concert, while there is an additional attraction in hearing Mr Prouse for the first time. Attention is directed to some advertisements in another column relative to Sister Mary Joseph's curative medioines. The advertisements speak- for themselves Many testimonials unsolicited have been sent to Sister Joseph as to the wonderful effect her medicines have had on suffering persons. Mr A. Eceles has been appointed local agent.

During the month of August 293 applications for work have been registered at the Salvation Army's Labour Bureaus in Ohristchurch, Wellington, and Dunedin. Of this number about 80 have found work in tbe districts, and 50 have been sent to the North Island for bush-falling aud road making. Sixty-eight applications have been received from employes. The Salvation Army Labour Bureau is becoming generally recognised as an important and reliable medium between capital and labor.

The Bunnythorpe correspondent of the Manawatu Times says:—"l am sorry to have to record several cases of sheep worrying around the district. In one instance a fanner had 30 ewes killed, in another 13 were worried, and on one large estate at Aorangi no lest> than 10 dogs were destroyed in one week, being found among a beautiful flock of sheep, but the most singular depredations I have heard of occurred on Mr James Lang's farm on the FieldingAshurst road. He had missed some lambs, and tracing their remains to a hollow tree found a cat and kittens regaling themselves, the lambs evidently being destroyed by the mother cat. I hear sad accounts of the do ■ ings of stoats and weasels at Apiti. It appears they are literally swarming up there, one farmer having lost nearly all his poultry through these pests."

, The ease of the Rabbit Inspector against tbe Hon. J. D. Ormond, for a breach of the Rabbit Act, was again mentioned at Court this morning. Mr Cornford said that Mr Orinond's counsel, Mr McLean, was desirous that a day should be fixed earlier than the oih October for the hearing of the case. There were raoes and show in that week, and the convenience of all parties would be suited if an earlier date could be decided upon.—Mr McLean said Mr Ormond did not wish to avail himself of the ten days' privilege allowed after the close of the session, but wished to meet the information as soon as ho had discharged his more important functions. He (Mr McLean) thought it would be more convenient if tho case could be heurd at Waipawa, as all the witnesses lived nearer there than Napier. There would, he understood, be a great many witnesses examined, and the case would occupy a considerable time.—After some discussion, tho Ist of October was fixed as the date, and Waipawa tho place, at which the uction should bo heard.

A cablegram from Shanghai, under date August 17th, to an Amerioan contemporary, says :—" There is no use disguising the fact that a most serious state of affairs exists in this country over the agitation against foreigners and others, and the combined fleets of tho Powers may be called upon at any moment to take effective action looking to'redress fur outrages by the Chinese Government At present a state of great excitement prevails at i.bo increasing tension between the Chinese Government and tho Ministers of foreign Powers. From all appearances the former is obstiniitc in its refusal to redress the injury dona foreigners durinj.. Lite recent riots.' If "the Chinese authorities do not yield to the firm dotuandß of the Ministers oi' the Powers, concerted hostile fiction upon the part of the vessels of the virions nations represented in these waters is imminent. Such is tho sfcttte of affairs that it is. now known the foreign Ministers wore compelled to inform the Cbineco Government that a- joint naval demons.'-*-tion of tin effective nature, in ■.vhicli Ih..' J-'ioiich, American, British, and German Squadrons will take part, wili be ordered in the near future unless speedy

reparation is made for tbe injuries, outrages, and abuses complained of by the Ministers of the Powers."

Sir E. Gihbs was a passenger from the Criterion Hotel, for Taupo by coach this morning.

Williamson's Juvenile Opera Company will probably open in Napier on Saturday evening. Mr L. Lohr, representing Mr Williamson, arrived from Wellington by the Tarawera yesterday, to make the necessary arrangements for the appearance of tho company here. The tour through the South Island has been a wonderfully successful one, while tha Wellington Opera House is now being filled nightly by delighted audiences. The pieces of the repertoire are " The Mikado," "LaMtisootte," and "The Pirates of Penzance," A Dunedin' contemporary says :—" The Prinoess Theatre was well filled last night by an audience that at first exhibited some indifference, but before the fall of the curtain on the final chorus the applause which had gradually increased as tbe little people warmed up to their work culminated in expressions of enthusiastic approval. All doubts born of misplaced confidence in past theatrical promises were thoroughly dispelled from tbe minds of those wh© witnessed last night's fulfilment of the present management's engagements. The'two representations of Japanese scenery painted by Mr Edmunds, of Melbourne, were masterpieces of beautj'; the drosses were magnificent in design and scrupulously exact in detail; and the remarkable success attained by the instructors of the youthful impersonators stamped every statement put forward by Mr Lohr with the hall mark of truth." Mr George McDonald, advance agent for the company, has also arrived in Napier, and was busy to-day ornamenting the advertising boards with various posters.

A San Francisco paper published the following cablegram, dated London August 18, reg.irding the stories about tbe German Emperor on his yacht:—The extraordinary story in PJSclaire of Paris about the Emperor's behavior oh the yacht Hohenzollern is universally discredited. It is merely a rehash with variations of a similar invention published by the Agence Libreaux in the Paris papers, wherein it was said the Emperor had taken personal command of the yacht, giving the most absurd orders to the crew, wearing the uniform of an admiral of

three or four different nationalities, every day drinking freely of wine, slapping a lieutenant of marines across the face so that the latter, unable to survive the disgrace,

went to his cabin and blew out his brains, and winding up with the Emperor's falling on the deck in a drunken, epileptic fit, dislocating the knee-cap and bringing on a j recurrence of the ear trouble. It was against the publication of this tissue of falsehoods, particularly that of tbe death of the Lieutenant alleged to have been caused by the Emperor's harshness; that Chancellor Yon Caprivi proposed to remonstrate with the French Government, and that fears were expressed that serious complications might result, even the withdrawal of the German Ambassador from Paris being apprehended as a mark of the Emperor's in-, dignation. As to the other features of the concoction of VMohire it is certain that the Hohenzollern was not in a dangerous position the day after leaving England, while the Empress did not see the Emperor until a week or more after the accident, when she went on board the Hohenzollern on his arrival at Kiel.

The Pall Mall Budget says:— " Are we in danger of allowing athletics too prominent a position in our Publio Schools?" Such is the question which Canon Fowler,, the Headmaster of Lincoln Grammar School, sets himself to answer in this month r B Physique. Drawing a fundamental distinction between day-schools (where athletics are probably cultivated too little) and board-ing-schools, Mr Fowler feels confident that in these latter athletics are cultivated too much. Turning 1 to the Pall Mull Gazette's " Scholarship Record," he finds that Eton, Winchester, Marlborough, and Clifton, with a:total of 2,549 boys, obtained in the last four years 152 scholarships; while the day - schools of St. Paul's, Manchester, Merchant Taylors', and Dulwich, with 2;469 boys, obtained 208 scholarships, or, roughly speaking, 25 per cent. more. And this proportion he finds to obtain throughout the list.. Yet the great boarding-schools have every advantage to start with. They have "practically unlimited incomes." They get the pick of the boys ; and the boys are entirely in their hands. To what, then, if not to excessive athleticism,, can the failure of the great boardingschools on tbe intellectual side be due ? But the failure, Mr Fowler goes on to argue, is not intellectual only. Thereis, he says— " Another side of the subject, a side which I have always considered, from long experience and observation, to be most dangerous, and that is the deterioration of character which is inevitably caused in many boys who have come to the front in games by the amount of flattery and general adulation that is bestowed upon them by their fellows, aud by the notice and favor which is often shown them by certain of the masters. I have seen boys who gave every promise of turning out thoroughly well, gradually, from pure conceit, losing their heads and becoming thoroughly spoilt. Sometimes the nonsense gets knocked out of them later on, but occasionally it sticks to them ; but, worse than this, I have seen tbe I moral character deteriorate, owing to the boundless influence that they have gained by their position, and have not known how to use aright." We hope Canon Fowler was not himself a case in point. But at any rate he admits very candidly that he. " felt greater pleasure vhen he got his ' cap ' at Rugby football than when he got a scholarship at Oxford."

Do you drink " The Five O'olock Tea?" "lis tbe fashionable afternoon tea of the day ; quite pure, and a wonderful quantity consumed daily. To be obtained of your local grocer at 2s 4d per lb. Davidson, Irvine, and Co., agents. . .. .

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