TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9833, 4 August 1900, Page 8

TOWN EDITION.

\ Captain Edwin wired at 1.29 to-day : *'North-eaßt to east and south gale ; glass further fall; sea heavy; very high tides; heavy rain." At nine o'clock this morning the thermometer readings at the places mentioned were as follows : — Russeh i> (, Auckland 57, Gisborne 54, Spit 53, Wanganui 49, Wellington 50, Christcimrch 48, Bealey 29, Dunedin 47, Invercargill 36, Bluff 40. The reading in Napier at noon was 58 in the shade. The Observer states that Mr Philip Nathan, who was foreman of the ]uryin the recently heard libel case agaanst that paper at Wellington, has been provided j with an easy and well-paid billet m the , Railway Department. j The Scinde Cricket Club will hold one! oi their enjoyable socials in the Foresters Hall on Tuesday eyeniog, A committee of ladies have undertaken to supervise the arrangements for supper, and other details will receive due attention, l&e committee report an extensive sale of ticketp, and with fine weather the social should be an un doubted -s&ccess. A gentleman occupying a prominent position in S*moa writes to a relative in -inter alia, in connection with the recent cession of British interests in that Island: —"The captain of the German man-of-war which has been here some time in a very obstinate Teuton,? it ever there was one. To show you to what extent he will let his conceptions of patriotism carry him, he was complaining to the Governor that everything in Samoa is too English —not enough German about it: He said 'I go ashore and 3 find I have to speak English. Igo into a, shop and Ifind that I have to use ISnglish or American coin, and even our «wn Supreme €ourt is conducted in English. It's atrocious. I shall write home to the Kaiser.'—' Very well,'said the Governor .; ' if you think you can do better you can try your hand.' The captain said he would pretty soon make a difference, co the same afternoon he sent a squad of marines ashore, with paint and r>ainfc brushes, and what did you think they did? Why, under his direction they painted the little bridge (which is right in the middle of the town) red, white and black, the German colors. They painted the top rail like a barber's pole, only in the aforesaid colors. It is called • The Barbers Bridge' now. The Governor said ' thab man's a fool,' and «yen his Excellency found that a few English adjectives before the word ' fool' it a more forcible qualification."