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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6266, 30 September 1891, Page 2

Cable news will be found on our back page to-day.

Fifteen firms in this colony have applied for space at the Tasmanian Exhibition.

There was a fair audience at the Gaiety Theatre last evening, when the American Minstrels brought their soason to a close.

Entries for produce, poultry, dogs, &c. and for the trotting and leaping matches, at the A. and P. Society's show, close tomorrow.

Messrs Reid and Gray, implement makers, of Dunedin, will be represented by Mr William Bain (late of Sidey and Bain) at the show next week.

The Waihora, which left Wellington for Sydney yesterday afternoon, took one hundred and thirty-two passengers and the Jubilee eighty passengers.

His Honor the Chief Justice this morning made absolute the decree nixi made last session in the divorce case of Lafoley v. Lafoley. Mr Lascellea appeared in the case.

The secretary to the Harbor Board informs us that ho haß held over one thousand rate demands, in which the rate is under two shillings, till the December instalment is demanded.

The stock entries for the A. and P. Society's Show are as follows: —Sheep number 256, against 194 last year ; horses 140, compared with 142; and cattle 47, as against 52 in 1890.

The committee for the Marist Brothers' concert, to be held shortly, are drawing up a first-class programme. Tho proceeds will be devoted towards the erection of a shelter shed in the school grounds.

A writer in a Wellington contemporary, in reference to changing the name of Now Zealand to one "more euphonious, suggestive, and suitable,'' suggests the name of " Cookland as a fitting successor to New Zealand."

Tho Wellington Bakers' Union have adopted the federation scheme emanating from the trade in New South Wales, and have also agreed to allow one apprentice to two journeymen, instead of one to three as heretofore.

The Marine Department have received information from the chief lighthousekeeper at Farewell Spit that the steamer Murray, from the West Coast, had called and reported that the ketch Elizabeth is ashore at West Wanganui, north side, and that the vessel is in broken water.

The first wool of the season came from Mr Hugh Campbell's station last week, and was shipped by Messrs Williams und Kettle (limited) for London per steamer Ruapehu. This shipment will bo in time for the November sales. Twenty years ago one's breath would have been taken away at such a statement.

The Anchor Mills Lilywhite Flour is made with the newest improvements of Roller Machinery. Give it a trial.

When Ml A. Locke's name was called in the Supreme Court to-day, Mr E. H. Williams objected to Mr Locke serving on the jury, on the ground that he waß not twenty-one years of age, and therefore not liable. His Honor the Chief Justice called up Mr Locke, and asked him if he was under age, and, receiving an affirmative answer, exoused him.

Henry Wallace Bannister, a Melbourne importer, was recently severely dealt with for defrauding the Customs Department. He imported certain bales containing mats and hearthrugs by the Arcadia from London, and presented false invoices, by which the goods were undervalued to the extent of forty per cent. The Bench, holding the charge fully proved, fined the defendant £90, and £10 10s costs.

The Diocesan Synod resumed its sittings at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Considerable business was transacted. A select committee was appointed to enquire into and report upon the various means that are being adopted in this diocese for the purpose of imparting religious instruction to the young. Prayers were offered for the Bishop of Nelson", a telegram being received from Mrs Suter intimating that there was no hope for the Bishop's recovery. Various notices of motion were given.

Mr G. Mackilligin, manager of the Hastings branch of the Bank of New Zealand, was excused from serving on the special

jury to-day, on the ground that it was the half-yearly balance, and be really could not be absent from the Bank. His Honor: — "Is it important that there should be a balance on this day?" "It is, your Honor." " Very well, then ; you are excused if there is no objection to your retirement." There being none, Mr Mackilligin left the Court a happier man than when he entered it.

A court martial was held recently at Sydney on board H.M.S. Curacoa on three deserters from the Royal navy. Wm. Maden, who deserted from the Curacoa during her last commission in Australian waters, and who was arrested in New Zealand, was sentenced to nine months in gaol, and to be dismissed the service David Samuel Hall, who deserted from the Himalaya on the 3rd August, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and Wm. H. Roberts, who deserted from H. M.S. Miranda in 1885, and who was arrested last month, got twelve months in gaol. The two .'last named will not receive their ship discharges at the expiration of the sentences.

In the Supreme Court this morning, Mr R. Smith applied to be relieved from serving as a special juryman in the case of Mirbach v. Waipawa Mail, on the ground that he was a member of the Napier Fire Brigade. His Honor the Chief Justice asked Vtr Smith if ho had brought a. certificate from the Superintendent of the Brigade. Mr Smith said he had not, as he did not know it was necessary. His Honor said that it was important to members of Fire Brigades they should know that in applying to be excused from service on a jury they must produce a certificate from their Superintendent. Mr Smith was then excused and retired. Notice of the following motion has been given by Mr 8. Cam ell for the next meeting of the Napier Harbor Board:—"That

with a view of utilising the new harbor at as early a date as possible, the engineer be instructed to prepare plans and specifications to reclaim sufficient land to give accesß to the new harbor from the Napier side, as (I) it will be impossible to use the Spit side for passenger traffic with safety, during the progress of the works, and (2), it will coßt considerably less to join such approach with the Coote road end of the esplanade wall than to make the one to the foot of Shakespeare road as Bhown on the plan. Further that tho engineer be instructed to prepare plans and specifications for carrying out this work forthwith, and that application be made to the different property owners for permission to remove any dangerous portions of the cliff along the proposed line of road."

On the fascination of South Afrioa, Olive Schreiner writes in the Fortnightly:—" It is the intense blue of our skies, the vastness of our mountains, the fierceness of our rivers, the wildness of our plains, the roughness of our seas, that form the characteristic of our land. There is nothing measured, small, nor petty in South Africa. We recall once, many years ago, travelling from Port Elizabeth to Grahamstown in a post-cart with a woman just come from England. All day we had travelled up through the bush, and at midnight came out on a height where before us aa far as the eye could reach stretched the bush, without break or sign of human habitation. She began to sob; and, in reply to our questions, could only say inarticulately, " Oh, it is so terrible ! There is so much of it!" It is this "so much" for which the true South African longs when he leaves hw native land. The little lane, the pond, the cottage with roses climbing over the porch, the old woman going down the lane in her red cloak driving her cow, the parks with the boards of notices,, the little hill with the church and ruin beyond, oppress and suffocate us. Amidst the art of Florence and Venice, amid the civilisation of London and Paris, ia the crowded drawing room, surrounded by all that wealth and culture and human fellowship can supply, there come back to us remembrances of still Karoo nights, when we stood alone under the stars and heard the silence; and we return. Europe cannot satisfy us. The sharp business man, who makes money at the "fields " and goes to end his life in Europe comes back at the end of two years. You ask him why he ieturned. He looks at you in a curious way, with his head on one

side, and replies meditatively, " There's no room, you know. It's so free here." Neither can you entrap him into further explanations. South Africa is like a large fascinating woman, with regard to whom those who see her for the first time wonder at the power she exercises, and those who come close to her fall under it, and never leave her for anything smaller, because she liberates them."

Do you drink "The Five O'olook Tea?" 'Tis 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.—rADVT."|

Trotting and Sulky Harness, from 37s set; other Harness equally cheap at John McVat's, Hastings street, Napier.— [Advt.J

Whatever you may want in Household Nick Nacks, Ornaments, Vases, Obinaware, Cutlery, Brushes, Albums, Brackets, Pictures, Cruets, Looking Glasses, &c, &c, go to the Novelty Depot. Everything cheap. Terms Cash.—[advt.]

Refined Cod Liver Oil. No After-Taste. —Free from nauseous taste and smell. This season's supply just to hand in the freshest and purest condition. For Children the regular use of Cod Liver Oil with Pawish's Chemical Food cannot be over estimated, containing as they do the principal constituents of the blood and tissues. To insure getting the very best Oil and Parrish Chemical Food purchase only" that which bears the name of "H. OWEN" on the Labels. Address—Hastings Street, Napier. —[advt.l