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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6258, 21 September 1891, Page 2

On our back page to-day will be found cable news and au instalment of our serial. \

The Supreme Court here opens to-morrow morning at half-past ten. The Chief Justice will preside.

Our Auckland correspondent wires that the Try Fluke mine obtained 111 ounces of gold from 208 tons quartz.

The Payne family of musicians have arrived at Auckland from Sydney, and purpose making a second tour of this colony.

It is said that the lambing throughout the South Wairarapa is beyond all anticipations. The warm weather has greatly favored the ewes, and the percentago will be larger than usual.

Owing to the continued flooded state of the Tutaekuri river, the Kuripapanga mails could not be forwarded this morning. Should the water go down, the mails will be despatched to-morrow.

The appointment of Mr Henry Oldham to be Regintrar of Brands for the Napier branding district, comprising tho Napier sub-division of the Napier sheep district, vice Mr R. C. Pasley, is Gazetted.

During the four weeks ending the loth August last, the revenue collected on tho Napier-Taranaki section of . railway was J811,589 3s 3d, as against £9810 5s lOd for the corresponding period last year.

A man who was fined at Court to-day askod for time to pay, on the ground that he had a sick wife and large family, and had not earned a shilling during the last seven days. The R.M. allowed him a week.

At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers' Association on Saturday night the report and bulancoehcet submitted showed £140 to credit for the iirst year, and 140 members on the books.

Tho steamer Tekapo, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney on Friday, brought one hundred and eight passengers for New Zealand ports, of whom forty-three saloon and thirty-six steerage passengers were for Wellington. .

The flags of tho shipping at Dunedin were at half-mast yesterday as a mark of respect to John Smith, second officer of the Mararoa, who died on Saturday. The deceased was a native of Orkney, and was 39 years of ago.

The Rev. J. Parkinson, of St. Augustine's Church, returnod from his holiday to Australia yesterday, having thoroughly enjoyed tho spoil from his labors. Mr Parkinson occupied tho pulpit in tit. Augustine's last night, when ho preached a very vigorous sermon.

Most peculiar weather was experienced in towa yesterday. The morning broke beautifully line, and many thought that tho week's heavy rain had at last ended. In the afternoon, however, there was a mild thunderstorm, while tho rain which fell in tho evening had an effect upon the attendances at tho churches.

A case of an unusual character was brought before the R..M. this morning, when a Spit resident was fined a chilling for taking two buckets of water from a stand pipe, tho property of the Corporation. Tho information was laid in consequence of complaints which had been made of late by the borough officials, and brought as a warning to tho public.

Williamson's Juvenile Opera Company arrived from Wellington by the To Auau yesterday morning. The Napier season will ho opened in the 1 hoatre Royal this evening, when " La Mascotte" will be produced. Considerable praise has been bestowed by the southern critics upon the juveniles, and it is safe to predict a crowded bouse on tho initial performance here.

Stamp duty has been paid on the following estates of deceased persons :—Jasper

Lucas Herrick (Napier), £18,863 6s 6d ; Joseph Read Dobson (Nelson), £20,119 4s sd; Francis Grellier Stedman (Christchurch), £4439 2s 4d; Richard Davidson Catohpool (Dunedin), £1494 18a sd; James Allan (Dunedin), £4182 17s 9d; John Whittaker (Dunedin), £3920 13s 3d.

The Wesleyan bazaar in the Theatre Royal was brought to a close on Saturday night. There was a good attendance, and patisfactory business was done by the stallholders. The side shows were also well patronised. The City Band played a programme of selections during the evening.

The articles remaining over will be reserved for a Christmas fair to be held in December next.

Anyone taking a walk to the top portion of White road, and proceeding to the swamp end, will observe that terrible havoc has been played with the empty houses in that locality. In some not an unbroken window will be found. Owners of houses now recognise the fact that as soon as their tenements are vacated the ■windows must be boarded, for the panes of glass cannot be resisted by those youths handy with stones.

Yesterday morning being beautifully fine, a large number of people went to the port to await the arrival of the Te Anau from

the south. Wnen returning from the big steamer, the launch Ahuriri got stuck between the piers, and it was found necessary to land the passengers on the western pier, on the wh&rf of the N.B. and HB. Freezing Company. The cabmen, who had drawn up their vehicles in the usual place, found their prospective fares alighting on the other side, so a bee line

was made for the western pier. It was near two o'clock before most of the passengers arrived in town. The Rev. J. Parkinson, of St. Augustine's Church, who arrived from Melbourne yesterday, whilst in Sydney was nearly booking his passage to Melbourne by the ill-fated steamer Gambier. It appears that he intended proceeding to Melbourne by the Gambier, but on making enquiries at the booking office he ascertained that he;could get to the Victorian capital quicker than by this vessel, and so left by another steamer. It was very lucky for him that he did, because not very long afterwards he heard i of the dreadful calamity which had befallen the stpamer in which he had purposed taking his passage. Mr Alexander Montgomery, of Sydney, whose sister was the wife of the captain of the steamer Dunmurry, which was recently reported by cable as having foundered, publishes the following extract from a letter which he received from his sister in June last : —" I have just come over to Greenock to see my husband off. Ho has taken the command of the new steamer Dunmurry, which his company intends to make the pioneer of a North American line; but though he is naturally pleased at being selected for the post, I cannot get rid of the

feeling that it will be an unlucky voyage for him and his crew. I wish, even at the risk of offending his owners, he would decline to take charge, but as I cannot give any' substantial reason for my fears he only laughs at them. God grant that they may turn out as silly as he thinks them." The humors of the Home press where India is oonoerned (writes the Times of India) are as, delightful in their way as those of the Baboo who takes to English composition. A Home journal descants in a powerfully satirical spirit upon the folly which "induces sympathy with a barbarian like the Manipur Senapati, whose civilisation is still so rudimentary that he feeds on insects." At a first glance this allusion is somewhat puzzling, but a. little patient investigation makes it nearly as clear as mud. ! Tho narrative of Signaller Williams, it appears, got slightly mangled in the course of ' being cabled Home, and the last sentence i of it came out in some of the London papers as—" Williams describes the Senaputty as a man who eats beetles all day and admires himself every five or ten minutes in a look-ing-glass." By such simple means is the innocent habit of chewing betel-nut converted into " An Extraordinary Story from Manipur." This morning a man named Alfred McGinaty, on remand, charged with being helplessly drunk ten days ago, was brought before Mr Turnbull. R.M., and dealt with. He was convicted and discharged, but ordered to pay 10s 6dcost of his maintenance in gaol. —James Tompson, alias James Troy, was charged with intoxication last night, and further with being an habitual druDkard. He pleaded guilty, and was Bentenced to three months' imprisonment (the full term), with hard labor.—Patrick Clearkin and James McEwan were also convicted and fined for drunkenness, the former having to pay five shillings and the latter double the amount. —The following were also fined five shillings and costs for various offences ;—W. Black, for allowing two cows to wander at Farndon; S. Olsen and R. North, for leaving their traps unattended; James Ellery, for driving at other than a walking pace round a corner ; and J. LeGeyt, for leaving in a street a vehicle to which no horse was attached, which action was not necessary, there not having been an accident.

Statistics show that the male population of the civilized world, is falling farther and farther behind the female. According to the last British census the exoess of women and girls over men and boys in Great Britain is about nine hundred thousand, an increase in ten years of nearly two hundred thousand. The German census of last December places the number of females about six hundred thousand above that of the malei in the United Kingdomof Prussia, or nearly three times the excess of twenty years ago. There are 1,000,000 more females than male in the German Empire. In Sweden and Norway the " weaker sex " are in the majority by 250,000, in AustriaHungary by 600,000, in Denmark by 60,000, and in all European countries they putnumber the males. In the United States, Canada, and Australia the males are in the majority, though not largely so, the estimated excess of males in America being only 1,100,000 or 1,200,000. It is plain that but for immigration, which furnishes a much greater number of men than women, the latter would soon be ;n the majority there. . There is a large preponderance now of females in New England and in some other sections of the United States, and if immigration were to materially decrease undoubtedly the surplus of males would soon disappear in the whole country. In less civilised countries, where women are lightly esteemed , it is otherwise, India having about six million more men than women, while the males largely preponderate in China. The obvious deduction is that the higher civilization is most favorable to the increase of the female sex, and this suggests the interesting question whether civilisation is doing the best thing for tho world in producing this result. A fact of hardly less interest brought out by the British census is the marked decline in the marriage rate, which has been almost steadily tending downward for nearly two decades. Meantime there has been an even more decided decline in the birth rate, so that not only is marriage decreasing, but marriages are becoming less prolific on the average. There is the same tendency in this country, prevailing chiefly among the better classes. An excess of females in a country is certain to have an unfavorable influence on the marriage rate, and the moral consequences of such a state of affairs can easily be conceived.

Do you drink " The Five O'clock Tea ?" "lis the 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.

WILSON AND NORTHE, Ironmongers, Emerson street, are selling all goods at greatly reduced prices prior to removal next week to larger premises three doors below Blythe and Co.—[Adyt.]

Trotting and Sulky Harness, from 57s set; other Harness equally cheap at John McVay's, Hastings street, Napier.—

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