Hawke's Bay Herald. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1878.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 50417, 19 April 1878, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Herald. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1878.

The constitution of the Lower House will be greatly altered in the ensuing session by the casual elections that have taken place and those that must take place. We have, first, members who have resigned — Messrs Harper, Reynolds, Stafford, Reader Wood, Kennedy, and Travers. Then there are members who are about to resign — Mr Lusk and Capt. Kenny. There are also reports about others who intend to resign, among whom we may mention Messrs Button, Burns, DeLautour, and possibly, also, Captain Russell. In place of those who have alleady resigned, Mr Moss has been elected for Parnell, Mr Green for Port Chalmers, Mr Turnbull for Timaru, and Mr Barton for Wellington. For the Cheviot seat tliere are three candidates in the field — Sir Cracroft Wilson, Mr Saunders (formerly Superintendent of Nelson), and Mr Joseph Ward, a Marlborough runholder. It is somewhat doubtful whether Mr Ward will contest the election, but if he does, he has, we believe, the best chance of the three. The Greymouth seat will be contested by Messrs Harrison and Guinness. The former is editor of the Grey River Argus ; the latter is a solicitor in good practice. In reference to the Cheviot seat, the New Zealand Herald says: — "Besides Sir J. C Wilson, there are two other possible or probable aspirants — Mr Ward, formerly member for Wairau, and Mr Alfred Saunders, of Christchurch, who was for a number of years a member of the House of Representatives, and twice Superintendent of Nelson province. The probability is that Mr Saunders will stand for the seat, in which case Mr Ward, we learn, will not come forward, as both he and Mr Saunders are supporters of the present Ministry, Sir J. C. Wilson being understood to be an Opposition candidate. Mr Saunders is an effective speaker, possessing great natural oratorical powers, and the probability is that if he contests the seat he will be successful, partly from his personal influence in the district, and partly from his effective speaking."

A large batch of papers on the subject of Working Men's [Clubs and their advantages, together with suggestions on the subject of their management, &c, issued by the " Working Men's Club and Institute Union, 150 Stand W.C," have been kindly forwarded to us for perusal by a member of the Committee of the Napier Working Men's Club, by whom they have been recently received from England. One of them, a very brief paper, which has been widely circulated and which epitomises the most valuable suggestions on the subject, we shall reprint shortly. The papers contain a good many matters well worthy of the attention of the Napier Club, though the difference of circumstances between Great Britain and New Zealand must be largely allowed for. Among the points best worth drawing attention to is the fact that among the most important objects of Working Men's Clubs at home, is, as stated, that of affording a convenient place for Friendly, Trade, Co-operative, or Provident Societies to hold their meetings. It is recommended that a room in the club should be set aside to be rented to such societies. Pianos and bagatelle boards are considered most useful adjuncts. A free and easy on Saturday nights is recommended, with the proviso that a list of the songs and recitations should be submitted to the managing committee before-hand. We observe by a foot-note to one of the papers that working men's club premises are frequently or generally exempted from local rates at home. " The local authorities," it is said, "have full power to exempt them if they see fit, which, it is to be hoped, considering the tendency of all such clubs and institutions to lessen the poor rates, as well as the excellence of their objects, the said local authorities will generally be disposed to do." We cannot say whether the local authorities here have such power or not. If they have not, of course it might be conferred on them by legislation. A lecture hall and concert room, where the members with their wives and daughters might meet once a week or so to be instructed or amused, is also thought very highly desirable. One of the papers says — " It should never be forgotten that the working classes do not ask for expensive professional talent to giye them an evening's enjoyment— that they value most the services that ' have love in them,' and that they would often delight more in the songs and recitations ot their own friends and neighbors than in those of a higher artistic quality by strangers. The wives and daughters of members ahould be admitted to all the concerts, chat meetings {conversaziones), and penny readings, whether held in the club-rooms or in the large hall. This is important."

A contemporary gives us the following interesting information: — "Though the telephone has been scarcely a year beforo the public, it has been in actual use in the city of Boston for over five months. The Telephone Dispatch Company, of which Messrs E. T. Holmes and Co. are managers, whoso principal office is at 342 Washington-street, with a branch office at 22 Charles-street, lias been for tho period named in successful operation, doing a local dispatch business generally, but illustrating by what it is doing tho capacity and possibilities of the new system. The office is in the infancy of its business as yet, bnt it is now connected with some 300 business firms and priv-ioe residences and 325 expresses. It has, in various sections of the city, already some 35 miles of wire. The telephones are put

in and connection made with the central ofiice free of charge, and the charge for the service given ranges from 3dols. to sdols. a month. Between 1100 to 1200 messages arc received at the central ofiice and transmitted daily, the largest number so far being 1250." The messages appear to be chiefly orders for parcels, &c. The despatch is very rapid. ". I n less time," it is said " than it would take for a boy to put on his coat the message is delivered at the express office, ancl a team is on the way to take up the parcel desired to be sent for transmission to its destination." It is related of a gentleman on the Back Bay that, having a party of friends to dinner, and not having a particular brand of wine he desired, he telephoned for it, and had it delivered at his houso in season for use.

The writer of the letter to the Aroha natives, advising them to hold on to a piece of land already sold to the Government, it turns out is aMr Tookey. The JV. Z. Herald says :— " Mr Tookey is, as we have said, an interpreter, holding a license from the Government which <*ives him certain rights, and which is regarded by the Maoris as making him an officer of the Government, and for one in that position to advise the natives to hold on to a certain block of land — by force, mind,— is advising them to plunge into war, unless the Government refrain from demanding fulfilment of agreements on which money has been paid. It is advising them, at all events, to an act of gross dishonesty, which must result in mischief to themselves, and will certainly greatly impede the settlement of the Thames. When these things are considered, it will be seen that Mr Tookey's conduct is censurable." It goes on to make the following extraordinarily foolish remarks: — "We hope the Government will not deprive him of his license — we disapprove of the Ministry taking the bread out of a man's mouth, — but if they take that course it can be said for them that they are doing what they can to deprive one of power to mislead the natives who has shown that he is so disposed." As if it is any concern to the public, whose interests a newspaper is supposed to guard, that " the bread should not be taken out of an official's mouth " in comparison with the necessity of guarding the natives against being fatally misled.

The following is a quotation from the criticism in the At7i.ena.umoi " Sir Gilbert Leigh":— '" Sir Gilbert Leigh,' besides being a novel, may be said to be an instructive book. It begins with an introduction describing the rise of Melbourne, and the circumstances under which the diggings ' broke out.' The scene is first laid in Victoria, and the reader is enabled to gather that life there is rather like life in the suburbs of London. He learns that to speak of ' knocking spots ' instead of making runs at cricket is bad enough slang to make a boy who uses it turn red in the face when reproved by his master, the Rev. Mr Ward. We are taken from Victoria, and plunged into the Indian mutiny, and ultimately landed safely in England. The book concludes with an appendix, headed ' The Great Pro-Consul,' containing an eulogy of Sir George Grey, which must be painful for a man to see written about him while he is still living, especially as it seems to be mainly grounded on what may or may not be a fact, that Sir George Grey had a profound contempt for his superiors and habitually refused to follow their instructions." The last remark is, of course, unfair. Whatever any political party may think of Sir George Grey now a-days, it cannot be forgotten that in the collision with the Downing-street authorities which led to his recall, the only one of which we, in New Zealand, have any personal knowledge, he was supported informally by the universal sentiment of the colonists, and informally by addresses of sympathy from both Houses. As to the over f ulsomeness of the eulogy, the Athenaeum' s criticism is one in which certainly all cultivated readers will concur.

Again, at a most critical juncture in European affairs, communication by cable is interrupted, the Port Darwin line being down at Charlotte Waters. The necessity for a second line becomes more apparent every day. We learn by telegram that there was a smart shock of earthquake at Kopua on Thursday night, about 11.50, the direction being south-east. We learn from a correspondent that an accident occurred at Onga Onga on Monday last to an old and respected settler, Mr Robert Glenny. Whilst riding an aged and favorite mare across the plains, without any warning the animal reared, plunged forward and fell dead, falling on Mr Glenny, who, being a gentleman of 75 years of age, was severely shaken and bruised. A sitting of the Native Lands Court was opened yesterday morning by Judge Heale in the Council Chamber. The principal object of holding the Court is to arrange about the subdivision of the Mangateretere block among the various grantees. The sitting yesterday was only of a formal nature, the Court being immediately after its opening adjourned to Tuesday next. A cricket match will be played to-day at Waipukurau between elevens of the Star ancl Porangahau Clubs. The following are the elevens chosen : — Porangahau : E. Bostock, G. Crosse, T. Crosse, Warren, J. Herbert, T. Herbert, 0. Herbert, W. Herbert, Humphreys, Poole, and 0. Mackersey. Star : H. Martin, J. Martin, H. Edser, Cotterill, O'Connor, Carnell, Miller, Ingpen, O'Regan, Young, and Hunt. On Wednesday evening Mr H. Roberts gave an exhibition of his skill at billiards at the Empire Hotel, Waipawa. There was a large number of spectators present, ancl judging from their frequent applause, the play was highly interesting to them. Mr Roberts first played a match, cue v. cue, with Mr Gollop, 600 up, giving his opponent 200. Both players appeared to be in good form. Roberts went off with a break of 23, ancl during the game he made some excellent scoring, his highest breaks being 66, 61, 57, 50, 35, 24, and 23, besides several others averaging about 16. His last break was 16, but he could still have gone on scoring when the marker called " game." Mr Gollop also made some good scoring, but the balls did not break so well for him as for his antagonist. Mr Gollop's only breaks worth mentioning wei*e 30 and 28. During the game Mr Roberts made 14 of the " spot" strokes, for which his brother is famous. At the termination, Mr Roberts won by 109 points. He afterwards exhibited some of his fancy hand-stroke playing, which wound up the evening's entertainment. Yesterday was the first day of the Jewish Passover. Messrs Levi, Jacobs, ancl Cohen closed their places of business. It is rumored that Mr J. Burns, M.H.R., intends shortly resigning his seat for the Roslyn district. The public tea meeting in connection with the sixth anniversary of the Froe Methodist Sunday school will take place this (Good Friday) evening. Tea will be supplied from 6 to 7.30 p.m., after which the public meeting will commence. We anticipate a full meeting. Sermons were preached on Sunday by the pastor of the Church, Rev. W. Lockwood, and collections made, amounting to £7 10s. In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before li. Beetham, Esq., R.M. , George Pulford was fined 10s, and 0s Gel costs, for having left his horse and cart unattended in Hastings-street. A cricket match will be played on the ground of the Napier Club at Taradale to-morrow, between the Hbhald and Wananga offices. The following are the teams : — Heiiald : Messrs J. Dinwiddie, Davies, Carruth, King, F. Pirani, Freeman, O'Connor, Lumsden, J. O'Regan,

Gifford, and Mullaney. Wananga : Messrs Rees, Grace, Macintosh, Bull, White, Jury, Healy, Porokoru, ancl three others whose names we have not learned. Play to commence at 1 p.m. The frequency with which advertisements from places outside the province are sent for insertion in the Herald is a good indication of the important position this district is acquiring in other colonial markets. In our present issue will be found an instance of the kind in an advertisement from Christchurch by Messi*s Adams and Sons, a firm of considerable repute as dealers in flower seeds, bulbs, &c. It will be seen that seeds, for which orders may be sent to the firm, will be forwarded freo by post. Another instance is presented in an important sale of blood stock, comprising the whole of Mr Nosworthy's valuable stud of thoroughbred horses, which is announced in our advertising columns this morning. The sale will take -place at Upper Riiccarton, Christchurch, on Thursday, the 25th April. The Neio Zealand Herald says : — " The late Bishop Selwyn attributed much of the strength which enabled him to undergo so many of the fatiguing journeys he underwent in New Zealand to the athletic training he had when an undergraduate at Cambridge. A member of St. John's College, and rowing in his college boat, he was chosen in 1829 to fill, perhaps, the hardest place that any oarsman can fill in an eight-oared race — that of seven — in the first race between the Oxford and Cambridge. This race, rowed in the year above-stated, was won by Oxford ; and it is a singular fact that no less than three men afterwards bishops pulled in it. Before the next race, which was rowed in 1836, was won, the late bishop then had graduated, having taken his degree as junior optime and first-class classic. We mention this because at that time no Cambridge undergraduate could compete for classical honors who had mot previously attained mathematical, and hence, though the late bishop's genius had decidedly a classical bent, he was obliged to obtain low honors in the one in order to obtain high honors in the other. Of the records of the race of 1829 not many reports are stilL extant ; of those which are sufficient remains to show that o.ur late bishop was 'no passenger,' one report saying 'he worked like a demon.' His son, the present Bishop of Melanesia, rowed for Cambridge as stroke in 1864 and second in 1766, rowing then with his present friend and brother missionary, the Rev. J. S. Still, of Caius College, and who in that year was the bow oar." The Rev. Archdeacon Maunsell,in his obituary sermon, related the following : — " I recollect, when I first entered upon the charge of this parish, hearing from him an incident which provides ws with the key to his tender nature. A poor man met him near this place. The man looked sorrowful and filled with trouble. His child was dying and he knew not where to take it. The Bishop got a shawl, wrapped it round the child, and carried it in his arms to the hospital. What a wonderful spirit of love for human nature and zeal in doing an act of goodness does this incident disclose !" The Thames people for several years past, says the N.Z. Herald, have made loud complaints that they could get no land upon which to settle in the Thames Valley district. The Government have been abused for not giving the miners the opportunity of settling as farmers upon the lands in the Thames district, but it would appear that there is a good deal of land in that district at present in the market, only awaiting purchasers. By the March circular of Mr M. R. Miller, of Napier, we learn that he has for sale two pieces of land in the Thames Valley. One piece contains 2000 acres of " rich agricultural" land, and the other block contains 10,00 J acres, " with a few improvements. " Both pieces are freehold. No further particulars are given, but these could be obtained by those who desired more information. These 12,000 acres freehold land would provide good farms for at least 100 miners, and if the clamor for land to settle on be genuine, here is an opportunity for at least partially satisfying the demand for freehold farms in the Thames district. The Post, says that Messrs Cooper and Bailey's Circus on Saturday evening drew together by far the largest concourse of people ever yet seen within one building in Wellington, fully 5000 persons being comfortably seated around the vast arena when the performance began, and about 1000 persons having to be turned away from the doors. The Queen gave her granddaughter, the Princess Charlotte of Prussia, on the occasion of her marriage, a pair of pearl and diamond earrings and a dress trimmed with Honiton lace, besides other presents, among which were stuffs of Scotch and Irish manufacture, and pocket-handkerchiefs embroidered in Ireland. The magnificent pageant which from tlie Quirinal to the Pantheon ended the funeral obsequies of Victor Emmanuel was marked by a singular incident. The long procession was closed by the flag of the English Baptists in Rome, bearing the inscriptions, " United Italy," and " Roma Capitale," surrounded by ten Italian Baptist ministers, headed by the Rev. James Wall. The rev. gentleman was one of the first Protestant ministers to commence ministerial labor in Rome, liaving marched into the Eternal City with the Sardinia advance guard in 1870. The Rev. Mr Pigott (Wesleyan) followed hard upon his heels, and the Presbyterians commenced operations immediately afterwards. The Northern Advocate gives the following on dit for what it is worth. We feel satisfied it has not a vestige of foundation : — " On dit that Sir George Grey will ask the sanction of the Legislature next session to sell the whole of the colonial railways. We give the rumor for what it is worth. Whether Sir George proposes to sell out of the railway business, goodwill and all, we have not heard." The assassination of * the ablest Judge on the English Bench, the Master of the Rolls, was attempted recently, but fortunately unsuccessfully, by a clergyman (believed to be insane) who had lost his case in this Court. Tho Rev. Honry John Dodwell was brought up boforo Mr Flowers, charged with firing at tho Mastor of the Rolls, and also accused by tho Court-keeper, who was tho chiof witness, of justifying himself, on tho ground that the Master of the Rolls "had did him out of two rights." This ohargo tho accused evidently felt much sovoror than tho other, which he acknowledged to bo true, and rather gloried in. But that ho, an educated man, should have boen guilty of the vulgarity of saying " had did him " was a sore grievance. Perhaps, indeed, this will be the only real punishment — the only poetical justice— which will find him. Of course, he will not be allowed to go at large, but he will not mind that. To bave been accused of bad grammar will be a much severer punishment. The following thea' rical items appear in the Christchurch Press :— " The U.S. Minstrels who, it will be recollected, wero very successful during their season here, have left Dunedin for Melbourne. Mr J. B. Steele has joined Mr Hall's company at the Queen's, in Dunedin, and Mr Lytton Sothern is playing with Mr Walton, Mr and Mrs I. F. Kcogh (Miss Marion Willis) and company at Napier. Mr George Darrell has written yet another successful play. It is called ' Tho Struggle for Freedom,' and the plot is founded on the Jacobite rebellion of '45. The piece, which is in four acts, has been played at the Royal in Sydney, and is spoken of very highly. Mrs Scott Siddons, after a successful tour in Tasmania, is now playing Mary Melrose in ' Our Boys' at the Queen's in Sydney. Miss Adelaide Bowring (Mrs J. B. Steele) is at the Victoria, where she has!" "been playing

Queen Katherine, in ' Henry V 111 .,' to Mr Creswick's Cardinal Wolsey. The Rev. Charles Clark, heralded by the indefatigable Smythe, is lecturing in Sydney, at the Masonic Hall. His first lecture, ' Westminster Abbey,' drew a crowded house." Divine service will be held on Good Friday (to-day) by the Rev. H. W. St. Hill, at St. Matthew's, Hastings, at 11 a.m. * on Sunday next, by the Rev. J. Spear, at St. Luke's, Havelock, at 11 a.m. ; at St. Matthew's, Hastings, at 3. 30 p.m. ; at St. Mark's, Clive, at 7 p.m. The Rev. A. Shepherd will (D.V.) hold Divine service on Sunday next, the 21st inst., at Havelock at 11 a.m., and at Maraekakaho at 3 p.m.

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