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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5379, 12 May 1879, Page 2

A meeting of chessplayers was held last Saturday evening, in the readingroom of the Athonmmn, for the purpose of forming a club. Mr H. C. Pirani was voted to the chair. On the motion of Mr H. Hill, seconded by Mr Day, it was resolved that a club for the promotion of the game of chess be established, and that it bo entitled the Napier Chess Club. Judge Kenny moved that a committee — ■ consisting of Messrs Hill, Pirani, Smith, Large, Liddle, Hampton, Duncan, Barr, (

__, — i . - l-j- ■ and the maver^be appointed to draw up rules, three to form a quorum. The motion, was seconded by Mr Large, and carried. ■ It was further resolved that Wednesday and Saturday evenings be fixed as the. regular club nights, and that the permission of the Athenaeum committee be requested for the use of the snioking - rooni as a place of meeting. The question of the amount of the subscription fee was discussed, but decision on the matter was postponed pending the drawing up of the rules. It was, juow- ' ever^ suggested that beyond subscription to tlio Athonceuni, a very . nominal additional payment by oach member for the expenses of the club Would be sufficient. Mr iWr was appointed secretary and treasurer, pro tern, and instructed to advertise that intending members should send in their names to him as soon as possible. The meeting was adjourned to Wednesday evening, next at 8 o'clock, and avoto, of thanks > to the chairman terminated' tho'proccodings: " The opening match of the Napier Football Club was played on Saturday afternoon, on Clivo Squaro, between sides chosen by Messrs. Boyle and Caldwell. Notwithstanding, the threatening ; aspect of the weather there was a fair muster, and the game was carried on with, great spirit, the players no doubt being encouraged by the plauditsof, the spectators, - of Whom them was not a few. Neither side obtained a goal, though several tries on both sides took place. f Now. that the season has commenced it is to be - hoped the ni embers will turn up to practice, for without constant practico they cannot hope to hold their own, and as their seasons so far have been successful, they ekotild endeavour to ensure tihat tho coming one will prove no exception to the I rule. . To lAiid at Napier from ono of the Union Company's steamers is bad enough in all conscience, but it,_ is Sybaritic luxury compared with landing (at Poverty Bay. This is a description of ' the latter from 'the Standard}—" The lifo-boat succeeded in going out. qvoi* tKp bar. ', to land ; the mails and passengers. She,, liowever> was ;. struck by a r heavy piece of timber, which has damaged her consider ably> it having split some of her planks, Tho current running out over; tho bar was so strong that it was impossible for the lifeboat to Stem itj aiid her ( passengersV ! &c. , had to bo. landeft in the . surf opposite the Waikanao bridge. I They jus'o * succeeded in taking passenger and luggage off in tho afternoon without any mishap, tho broak on tho ] beach haying subsided considerably."' There will be exhibited this evening, in .the building 1 lately occupiod by Mir; • Boylan in Hastings-street, a variety of ' mechanical representations, including Blondin crossing on a rope tho Niagara Falls, the boat race between. Trickot and Sadler, arid tho destruction <6r dome : piratical. Chinese junks and forts by British ships and gun boats. The exhibition, Wo learn, is well worth seeing. Messrs. Routlodge, Kennedy, and Co., will sell at two o'clook this afternoon, in their rooms, Tennyson-street, oleographs, paintings,' engravings, and fancy goods. Among the latter there are draught and chess boards, ■ A correspondent of the' Poverty Bay Standard,, writing under the guise of a dream, a la, BUnyan, suggests as a Remedy fox* the preseiit bank pressure v that all business men should, agree to refuse to make any endeavors to meet , their engagements and let tho banks and , their creditors do their worst. This 1 would bring them to their senses and compel them to do somethng to relieve trade; af any rato it was worth the trial." Tho correspondent of the Poverty Bay Standard is a fool. Cutting one's nose off to spito a neighbor's face is poor revenge-r-in farit, supreme folly. The rocent rains caused a large volume of water, bearing logs, &c, to flow down the Waimata river, Poverty Bay. The Standard states that as a Maori -was securing drift-wood as it floated by 5< he was knocked into tno current by a piece of timber, and would certainly have found a watery grave had not Captain Chrisp and his crew rendered him assistance, his boat fortunately being at hand at the time. • , Lieut.-Greueral Valentine Baker, better known as Colonel Baker, has published a work entitled " War in Bulgaria." After his name appears the title " Pasha, Imperial Ottoman Army." Capt. Qordon, of the Kidnappers' estate, has returned to Napier after a lengthy absence in England. Sir Julins Yogel appears to think his position as Agent-General for New Zealand compatible with that of a promoter of various public companies. learn from the London Figaro that lie is the chairman of tho Globe Railway and Tramway Company. They cried huzzah for the Zulus in the Theatre Royal of Dublin. Three hundred and nineteen of the intrepid 24th were Irish. Comment is needless. Sir Wilfred Lawson made a happy hit at the Irish malcontents in the debate on his " local option" resolutions, when he said " A man must be of some politics now unless he be a Home Ruler." Sir Wilfred's resolutions were, rejeoted by 252 votes to 164. Sir Julius Vogel's name appears on "the prospectus of Time, a new monthly London journal, as one of the contributors to the first number. The title of his article is not stated, but as the first, number of Time was announced to appear in April, we shall probably have it in the colonies by the next mail. The Waipuwa Mail learns that a company is in course of formation, to run a Hne of coaches between Palmerstdn and, the Makaretu, and that a start will be made as' soon as the necessary 'coaching plant and horses are obtained. A curious case is related in a Louisville medioal journal, showing the effects of injury to the brain. A boy, aged six years, who had always been considered ■ ag. a prodigy for intellect, received a seyore injury to tho head from tho kick of a horse. The loft side of his forehead was shattered, and the Avound extended towards the coronal suturo. He lost a good deal of blood and brains, the dura mater was lacerated, and he was totally unconscious. Two days afterwards he still lived ; but a gangrenous cerebral hernia, half as large as a gooses-egg, appeared. This was removed and the wound dressed. The total amount of brain lost was estimated at four ounces, all from the left hemisphere. About two months later he had quite recovered, and had no remembrance of what had occurred, or how ho was hurt. No change could be discovered in his mind, except a certain slowness of speech. He went to school and learned very fast, and at tho ond of the term delivered a speech which he had committed to memory. Two months later, when school began again, the boy had forgotten all he had learned, but he remembered all that he had learned previously to the infliction of the wound. He is now a young man, slow in speech ; his mind is treaqherous ; he is able to work on his farm, and is famous fox* horse-dealing 1 , which "was a characteristic of his father. The London Globe learns from St. Petersburg that the Czar has been so struck by tho terrible reverse sustained by the British arms at Isandula that he lias ordered the Etat Major to discuss the subject at one of its early sittings. His Majesty has also given instructions for a military report on tho cause of the disaster to bo prepared for him by one of the officers of the Etat Major, and a map of Zululand to be suspended in the library of the Winter Palace for his own espeoial use. The Norsewood cemetery appears to be in a disgracefully neglected condition. A , correspondent of the Waipawa Mail says |

- . — ; .,;,. , ir '" t ■" that about 32 persona have been interred | ti in the ground, and he' also states! that (J°g a have interferedwith the graves. If true, the subj eot is too horrible to con- t< template in this civilised Christian land, j Ji It ia further stated >that this shocking,, n state of things is owing to the. laches of a h certain individual who jcoUect'ed money a to fence in the cemetery, and ■who has h failed to account for the subscriptions. • j The Ashburton Mail says that , at a E meeting of the business men of that place, x lately held, a Financial ,. Association was | formed, with the object of lending money * on security to the farmers in the Ashbur- £ ton County. A deputation was appointed * to wait upon the County, Council and the ; various Boad Boards to bring before them i* the advisability of placing their credit ' J balance in that bank, which will advance « a similar amount to the Association for the purpose of relieving the depressed j state of the district. „ Y. ' A debating class and mutual improve- ;^ mont society is in course of formation at >; Waipukurau. The Mail says that "the ,' model village," as Waipukurau has been , called, certainly takes the lead of all the ; tor/nships of this district in establishing institutions .: for social and intellectual improvement. ; . .. . . Jay Gould, the American "Railway King) ' ' is, reported to have made £800, 000 by a gigantic haul in Union Pacific stock. , Ho sold on- 17th Fobruary 1.00,000 shares to a syndicate for 7,000,000' dollars, arid netted 4,000,000 dollars" by the transaction. The prico of the stock went up 9 , per cent, before the terms were known, so that the 90,000 shares Which he reserved aro worth 7,000,000 dollars. He had possessed himself of o j the w^ i 6 gtook o f the company) which is divided, into 367,623 shares. The remaining 177,623 shares aro held by about, 800 persons ia small lots. Wo tako the following from tho Aus- . tralasiait ,:-W Mr. William , Stephens, a seller of American books, at, the Fitzroy Police Court, sued Mr. William Thompson^ of ■BrunsAvidk-'street, merchant tailorj ; for £2, tho alleged price of a book sold by ■pi&intif£ to defendant. The book was entitled "The First CenturjK df America," and from the evidence given by the da|fondant it .appeared ,tfi at ?b, oirie itidntns ago the plaintiff called cm him aa a ; cAtlvass'dr, and bbtained ,an order for the . book ; but he then said it would _ contain ; steel plate engravings and be half morocco bound. It was 'several months' boforo the book was left with the defendant, and it was then left when he' was not at homo. Ho found it was not at all equal to what plaintiff had represented, as if neither' contained steel-plates' nor was half 'bound in morocco, and he there* fore refused to' pay for it. The Bench wore, of opinion that the book was, not • half ,inqrocco' , bound, as tho ' prospectus said it would bo, and Mr. Lyons! wtfo appoarod for tho defondant, offered to allow tho plaintiff to havo the case adjourned in order for him to call a book-binder to provo whether the book was half -morocco bound or not. The Bench said they were wiling for the plaintiff to have an adr, journment if ho thought proper, but if the- case went against him he would have increased costs to pay. The plaintiff then elected to have tho case decided at once, and the Bench, as they did not consider the book equal to what it had been repressntod, returned a verdict for defendant, with £2 2s. costs against plaintiff." This reminds us that the American traveller who .was hero some time ago taking orders for a directory, has not yet forwarded any copies of the work that were ordered in this district, ... The antipathy of managers to amateur actors has its parallel amongst Eoman Catholics, says "Atlas,'-' in the ■ World. High Church clergymen, who have been long revelling in " fancy, ritual" before their secession, often make a sad show when they have to take part in a real Ronjan oeroinony . One of these not long ago was standing by Bishop Ullathorne during an imposing • function, and 'was requested to put on the mitre. To the astonishment of the assembled clergy, the neophyte placed it on his own head J Dr Ullathorne rose to the level of self-pos-session required, and significantly pointing to himself said, " This head, if you please." . It is a common thing in the colonies to charge our politicians with "clogrolling," but English statesman are generally regarded as " above reproach." It is therefore somewhat startling to find a high-class journal like the Spectator saying : : — ' ( Mr Cross has for the second time proved himself, as supreme Judge,, amenable to • influence.' Our readers will remember that he stopped by a pardon proceeding against a 'Countess,' believed to belong to the Brunswiok family. , He has now released one Theodoridi, ooudomned to seven years' penal servitude, for extorting' money from an English lady in a way described by Mr Newton, the sitting magistrate, who committed him, as unusually wicked. The Home Secretary on Tuesday admitted, in reply to Mr Callan, that he had done this in consequence of an informal request from M. Musurus, and because the lady aggrieved, to whom the letters in Theodoridi's hands were surrendbredi had also asked him."