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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9108, 8 March 1898, Page 2

The serial, "Tho Klondike Gold Mystery," is continued on the fonrth page to-day. The many friends of Mr G. D Cameron, of the Napier post office, will learn with regret that his wife died at Dunedin the other day, and will deeply sympathise with him in his sad bereavment. The Department have opened telephone offices at Teratu (Jfew Plymouth), Kiwitea (Wellington) and Aioken's (Hokitika). If pre.cnt arrangements hold, the next oonvooation of the Maeonio Grand Lodge of r*ew Zealand will be held in Napier in October next. At the Magistrate's Ooart this morning, before Mr A. Tu.nbull, 8 M., judgments were given for the plaintiSa in the following undefended oases:—B. J. X eagle v. A. Hester, £1 7s 10d, costs 6s; John T. Oak v. James B. Franklin, 8s 4d, costs 5 s Annie Hawkins v. Thomas 0. Webb, £2 12s 4<3, oosta 108; Lake Falconer v. Thome.s Teit, £7 12s, oosts £1 8s 6d In the judgment summons case, A. W. Lasoelles v. J. Sutherland, an order was made for payment of the amount dne, £7 16s 6d, forthwith, in default one week's imprisonment. Mr J. _. Hamilton left for Wanganui to-day to represent the Napier Swimming 01 ab in the Hew Zealand championship quarter mile and plunge oontests which, together with other aquatic sports are to be held there on Thursday. Mr Hamilton I swam the quarter yesterday in the White Swan baths in excellent time, some seconds below the New Zealand record, and this morning he accomplished a plunge better than anything he has previously done, A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Cricket A ssooiation was held last night. The Taradale Club applied to have their matoh with Soinde deolared a win for them owing to Scinde having refused to play at Hastings. The request was refused, the opinion of the meeting being that there had been a mis apprehension for which Soinde oould not be blamed. It was deoided that a matoh should be played on tho Beoreation Ground next Saturlay between the eleven ohoeen to play against Auokland and a tsam to bo selected by Mr B. H. Williams. The Taradale Club intimated that they were unable to continue their game against the Hastings Tradesmen and the matoh was awarded to the latter by default. Auckland r.j.ioes in the possession of a Prohibitionist Taylor cf its own. He is a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and wants to know what extent drink is responsible for the injuries and diseases which are treated in the hospital, and the cost of Euoh treatment to the ratepayer.. He has given notice of a motion to the effect that a roturn be furnished showing to a hat extent intoxicating liquor has been the oause, either direotly or indireotly, of every accident or ailment from whioh the patients suffer, the total cost of their treatment, end the total amount left unpaid. A sensational aocident happened at St. Mary's Cathedral at Bydney on the 21st ult., and was, unfortunately, attended by fatal results. For some time past workmen have been employed building the tower to top the cathedral, the materials for their use being swung up to them by a crane, a distanoe cf 120 ft. So f.r the work had been carried out without aooident, but on the morning in question the coupling of the cage employed to oarry the material to the scaffolding aloft became disconnected when it had reached a height of 70ft, Two men were riding in a oage at the time, and they, with bricks, stone, and mortar, were precipitated in a confused ma.s to the groasd. One of them, Leslie, was killed instantly, but the seoond, Drury, esoaped with a broken leg and severe contusions and cuts about the boby and faoe It is thought that ho will survive. It is somewhat »e----markable that Drury was very badly injured some months since v»hen working at the new markets in Sydney. When Zola published his letter to President Faure in reference to the Dreyfus oase, Le Jour oame out with headlines running across the whole six columns of its front page, annouooing—" Zola struck by mental aberration ! Medical Consultation." The same paper declared, with regard to Joseph Beinaoh, one of the Dreyfus ohampions, that his ancestor made his fortune by buying from German officers, on their return from the war, stocks and shares which they had stolen from Frenoh houses Another journal denounced Z.l_ in big headlines as " Zola the shameful! Flower of Pus!" and a writer described him as " A German spy, a traitor, a ooward, a monster," the article ending with the ory, "Zola to the Gallows" After this (remarks a contemporary) it is perhaps only natural that M. Zola, with his paseion for truth an J justice, should be sent to prison, while the Pa_ama and Southern Bailway misoreants oooupy the high places in tho Legislature. One of the prisoners who was tried at the Supreme Court at Dunedin, on Monday, James Middleton, gave his age when challenged at thirty-seven years. On the ohwge sheet he was, says the Otago Daily Times, oredited with being thirty-nine years old, and the sentences recorded against him (_ot oounting two short once) .how a total of thirty • six yoara' imprisonment. When oonourrent sentences and r.mis.ions for good conduct are allowed for, it is still manifest that a great portion of his life has be.n spent within prison walls; and to this sad record the ohapter just added is another term of seven years imprisonment for horsestealing.

At the Supremo Court criminal sessions, at Auoblatd yesterday, a half-oaste native named Henry Aben, and a Maori woman, Bora Kahui. pleaded guilty to breaking and entering at Kihihihi, Wai&ato, and stealing 587 rabbit skins, the property of the Government. Mr S_. T. Dufaur appeared for the woman Kahui. Aben made a statement, and Mr Liufaur asked ou behalf of Kahui that she should be admitted to pro-

; bation. Mr Clifton, Stook Inspector, said he had no reason to believe the stealing of rabbit skins, after they had been bought by ' the Government from tho natives, would be going on to a great extent, but he had he_rd rumors about it. He did not know anything about the woman. Constable Carroll said that in the lower Court Aben admitted the practice of stealing rabbit skins had been going on for some time, and the Inspector had been deceived- His Honor said ho had no doubt Aben had been stealing the rabbit skins fcom the Government, and ho had made the woman Kahui his tool. He sentenced Aben to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labor, and admitted Kora Kahui to probation for 12 months. A considerable portion of the works of tho Gore Meat Preserving Cempany, Inveroargill, was deatroyed by fire early yesterday morning, ihe oompany were to start operations for the season to-morrow. The insurances are—Standard £400, South British £400. New Zealand £350, National £200, Australian Alliance £160, and Imperial £150. Tho final for the Auoklind Lawn Tennis ohampionehip was played on the Eden and Kpßom oourts, on Saturday, before a large attendance. Xhe game resulted iv a win for H. A. Patker, who beat Hooper, the New Zealand ohampion, after a very severe match. Parker was in good form, his driving and smashing being particularly brilliant. By this victory he seouree a medal for himself, and holds the association's ohallenge oup for one year. The eooro was as follows:—Parker beat Hooper, 5_7, 6—3, 6-4, 3—6, 10-8. The Cabinet have deoided to start work at onoo at tho Springfield end of the Midland railway, _:> as to oonneot with the seotionat Otira Gorge, as requested of the Premier by a Ohriatohureh deputation a few weeks a/ro. Mr W Gavin, son of the Assistant Controller-General, who has been assistant engineer on the Otago Central railway, has been se'eoted to take oharge of the works at Springfield. Mr Lucas, who was overBeer at the railway works recently carried out at Eketahuna, is filling a similar position on the Midland line between Springfield and the Otira Gorge. Surely the days of tho faithful horso are nutnb.rod (says the Auokland Star). Such, ,it least, uin-t havo boou the leflootion of those whose business or pleasure took them to Ponsonby road on Saturday evening, when they saw a buggy coming along drawn not by a horse, but by a oyolist. There he was, sure enough, sitting astride his wheel ' between the shafts. To be sure, the paoe was somewhat slow, but it is ever thuß with a triumphal progress, and what was this, if j not a triumph of cycle over horse? And : co too. the rosy color of the cyolist's faoe may just na et-sily have been the flush of pride at his achievement aa the heat of hi_ exertions. At any rate the sight was a significant one. __v affidavit has boon forwarded by Mr J.lliooe to tho Government alleging that Philpott's trial was prejudiced by sensational reports aud photos published by the newspapers, and the jury, perhaps unoon.oioualy, shared that prejudice. Mr Jellicoo also a'loges that there were circumstances in connection with tho trial inimioal to the interests of jußtioo. Unfair latitude was given to the oounsel for the Orown, and the Judge who presided did not preserve so ! colorless an attitude as was necessary in an issue involving life or death.

Ihe N.Z. Herald's Whatawhata correspondent reports that a native medioine man named 4hau h_a established for himself a considerable practice as o ourer of the ills whioh Maori flesh ia heir to. Bis fees are said to be such as to mako his trained pale brother envious of his good fortune. They vary ao.o.d'og to rlv !v,„, !o9f> f«_,_ patients, and are said to mi-go ...ra the rnode.t £1 io. to the respectable d-juceur of £20. Ha h v.' a r „ f,pcd suoh a Plentiful golden harvest that ho has eo____„„oe? to erect a hospital. She building is to be of considerable dimenpion», and built after the manner of tho pakeha, on a site about 100 yar.s from tho I main road, a*-To Eowhai. "bottlers in the neighborhood are uneasy in their mind* over this latest evidence of the advance of their Maori brethren on the paths of European civilis-tioD. They fear, and not unnaturally, that the result will be tho oolleotion of a larsre amount of tho disease of an extensive district in their immediate neighborhood, and that infeotious diseases will spread from this centre to their families. Settlers have taken steps to ascertain whether the law would not proteot them, but are informed that as the building is being erected on Maori land there is no power to stop its erection and application to the use intended. The looal governing body, however, under its power as a Board of Health, will be able to insist that the institution when started, shall net be oonduoted in an ineanitary manner, and no doubt they will aot promptly. A preliminary meeting of citizens was hold at tho Y.M.O.A. rooms, Auckland, ?. the skin-grafting oase Baker v. Purohas. r •* There was a representative gathering, and a sub-committee was appointed to draw up an address of sympathy to Miss ISthel V Baker, to be submitted to a further meeting on Thursday, preparatory to a publio meeting on Monday next, when resolutions will be submitted for consideration and adoption' Mr Jnstioe Oonolly, in his charge to the Gracd Jury at Auckland in the charge of ohild murder against Mary Hamsbottom, said it was clear at law that if the woman knew, as she must have known, that leaving her ohild away from the so.d, and that, too, at wintertime, would oause its death, then she was jast as guilty of murder as if ehe had used violence to accomplish her purpose. However painful it must be to the gentlemen of the Grand Jury, nnder the oiroumetanoes of the oase he felt they had no option bat to send the oase for trial. A true bill was returned by the Grand Jury. No ono in the Federal Convention speaks with greater direotness or in a more outspoken manner (says the Age) than the veteran member for Tasmania, Mr Douglas; the president of tho Legislative Connoil of W that colony. Mr Douglas was born in tho k beginning of the century, and was an aotive pol-tioian in England when Lord Palmer- , Bton was learning the infant steps of Minis- ' terial responsibility somewhere in the thirties He was on one of the famous statesman's eleotion committee, and when he indulges in reminisoence, Mr Douglas is wont to speak of his " friend lord Palmerston," much to the amusement of the juvenile generation that forms the bulk of the Convention.

At a meeting of the Bailway Olassfioatioo Appeal Board at Ohristohurch yesterday morning it was stated that tho permanent wharf porters at Lyttelton, when working at night, did not reoeive overtime pay until they had by working day or night made up forty-eight hours' work a week. It was stated that the plan had been ordered by the Premier with tho object of more evenly distributing the work. The appellants stated that the pystem pressed unfairly on them, and that they were not allowed time off oa the days succeeding the nights on whioh they had to work. One said that ie had been continuously on duty from mid« night till 5 p.m. next day. Mr T. M. Fowde established his olaim to be tho senior rail* v ay guard in the colony, having been up* pointed to that capaoifcy in April, 1872. " My boy oame home from sohool ono day with his hand badly lacerated and bleeding, and suffering great pain," says Mr E. J ( Hchall, with Meyer Bros.' Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo. "I dressed the wound, and applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely. All 1 pain oeased and in a remarkable short time it healed without leaving a soar. For wounds, sprains, swellings, and rheumatism, I know of no medioine or prescription equal to it. I consider it a household necessity." For sale by A. JfcoLBS, Wholesale and Be» tail Chemist, Napier and Hastings. NEIL'S COMPOU-JD BABBAPABIL_A, for all impurities of the blood. It is also a splendid bpring Medioine to prepare the Byetem for tho heat of summer. In Large Bottles 2. 6d, at _$&__'„ Dispensary, Kmerson street, Napier. INFLUENZA at .__ INFLUEHZA has succumbed to science, and an attaok may be nipped in the bud by taking one or two aosesof AHMOJHT__TI_D TINOTUBK • >•? QUININE, whioh has proved itself an infallible oure. Bold by A. J. Wii___U£_, Pharmacist, Napier, in 1/6 and 2/6 bottles. *■ T. P. HALPIH'tf, 43, Emerson street, ia where yon will find a Colossal Clearing Bale of first-class Millinery. Drapery, and Clothing, and at Prioes that will astonish you I would 0311 special attention and invite inspection to the Prints, Dress Goods, Blouses, Ladies' and Children's Hats, Hosiery, Flowers, Bibbons, &o.; also in j the Gents' lino somo excellent value in Suits, Coats, Trousers, Sbirte, &o, &o.