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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7174, 28 May 1885, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found an article entitled " Outcast Russia-"' About half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning a young man named Dickson was seen to rush into the surf nearly opposite the Council Chambers. Several persons z*an to the spot and pulled him put of the water, and he was afterwards taken home. Tho usual weekly meeting of the Olive-square Mutual Improvement Association will be held to-night in the vestry of Trinity Church, when elocution will occupy the attention, of mem-, bers. We are requested to state that visitors are cordially. invited; . 7. " ' ■;; 77 -The fact that the firebell yesterday i morning wis not generally ; heard/ iug*,| geets tho desirability 0 f better means p^

communication between the Spencerroad station and the central station on the Marine-parade. There is already telephone communication between the central station and the Spit station, and the brigade might usefully take into consideration the question of a telephone wire to Spencer- road. At the conclusion of the general meeting of shareholders of the Napier Park Company last evening the newly-elected board of directors met to discuss further improvements to the ground at Taradale, and to fix the date of the next directors' meeting, A comprehensive schedule of improvements was discussed, but it was decided to postpone the final decision till the next meeting, which will bo held on Wednesday, June 3rd. A drunken man walked into the water at the Spit shortly before one o'clock yosterclay morning. Upon finding himself in the water, the man clung to one of the wharf stringers near the Nayals' drill-shed, and yelled loudly for assistance. Constable Barry heard the cries, aud raised an alarm. Several residents at the Spit hastened to the spot, aod the imtnerced bacchanal was rescued. After a little attention he was taken to the lock-up, and later on was | fined at the Resident Magistrate's Court for drunkenness.

A gentleman well-known in Napier ■.card the fire- bell yesterday morning, md hurriedly dressed and proceeded to he scene of the fire. When all danger vas over, and he was about to return lome, the cold led him to attempt to nlace his hands in his trousers pockets. _iter a deal of unsuccessful fumbling, ie remarked to a friend, " Bless me. ts very remarkable, but I can't find my pockets." The friend made an examination, when it transpired that the trousers were on "hind part before." "Ah!" said the gentleman, when he learned the cause of his trouble, " I thought I felt pretty cold behind." Mr Moffitt, the night watchman, complains that persons are spreading reports calculated to convey the impression that he was not on the look-out when the fire at Mrs Morley' s broke out. We have made enquiries at the fire station, and find that Mr Moffitt was perfectly alive to his duties. The engine-keeper heard cries of " fire," and upon looking out of the window saw the ' night watchman running in the direction of the fire station, shouting as he ran, and upon reaching the station he at once rang the bell. The fact that the fire was confined to the shed in which it started is the best evidence that Mr Moffitt discovered the fire almost at the moment of its commencement. A meeting of representatives of the three Napier "Volunteer companies was held last evening in the orderly-room, Emerson- street, Sergeant Parker in the chair. The meeting was for the purpose of arranging for a Volunteer ball, and after some little discussion it was unanimously resolved to hold a ball about the middle of June. Sub-com-mittees were appointed to make the necessary incidental arrangementa, and the meeting then adjourned. We are requested to state that the representatives will meet again on Saturday next, at 8 o'clock, at the same place, and a full attendance is desired. It is now some years since a Volunteer ball was held in Napier, and the projected one should be a decided success. The first football match of this season for second fifteens will be played on the Recreation Ground on Saturday afternoon between the Napier and Union Olubs. The following players have been selected to represent the Union: — A. Fraser, Yates, Parker, Mason, Russell, G. Morrison, Langhan, Forde, Williams, Reid, Donnelly, 0. Tilley, Bunting, Richardson, and Graham. Emergencies, Corbet., Lucas, and Pirani. The team to represent the Napier Club will probably be chosen from the following : — Symonds, Lyndon, Collins, W. G. Cato, John Parker, John Rochfort,Roskruge, Richardson, Hovell, Skeet, N. Kennedy, Large, Mountfort, White, Niven, H. Newton, Peacock, R. Tylee, F. Williams, and G. Weber. The final selection, however, will greatly depend on tho form exhibited in practice. The Napier Club will play on the Recreation Ground this afternoon at 4 o'clock. All footballers are invited. Ladies will be admitted to the ground to witness the match, on Saturday free of charge. Our Waipawa correspondent writes as follows under yesterday's date : — " Captain Preece hold an evening sitting of the Court yesterday, coming up by the afternoon train from Napier for the purpose. The business* was to heari three election petitions. One petition was against the return of two members of the Ormondville Road Board, another against the recently-elected Norsewood licensing committee, and the third against the election of one member of the Waipawa Town Board. The two first cases were merely called on and adjourned. In the third case the hearing was begun, but owing to the absence of an important witness could not be proceeded with. The hearing of the two first-named petitions was adjourned till the 10th of June, and the Town Board case was adjourned till the 23rd of June. — A good many people want to know if the debating club ia really defunct. It did good service last winter in providing intellectual recreation, and if the energetic president could work up the affair again he would be doing a very good work. Perhaps he will take this hint." At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Messrs B. Lyndon and W. R. Blythe, J.P.s, Patrick Frawley was charged, on the information of Constable Barry, with drunkenness at the Spit. The offence was admitted, and a fine of 5s and costs wa. imposed and paid. — Thomas Dunn, alias Brown, was charged on the information of Detective Grace with the larceny of a silver watch, chain, knife, pocket-book, &c, the property of Samuel M'Kinnon. The evidence of prosecutor, Bernard Saeffer, Constable Foreter, and Detective Grace was taken, from which it appeared that on Monday last, in consequence of a severe attack of toothache, the prosecutor took several glasses of spirits. He lost consciousness for a time, and upon recovering missed the articles named in theinformation. Notice was given to the police, and it was then discovered that prisoner had soid the -stolen watch to the witness Saeffer, who bought it on prisoner representing that it was his own, and that he wanted to raise funds to go up country. After hearing the evidence prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to four months' hard labor. Our Wainui correspondent writes as follows under date May 25th :— " A friendly match between eights of the Wainui and Porangahau Rifle Olubs was fired here to-day, resulting in a victory for Wainui by 47 points: The distances were 200, 300, and 400 yards, five shots at each range. Porangahau scored a total of 217 points, against 264 for Wainui. The highest individual scores were those of Mr Wylie, of Wainui, who made 42, and Mr Weaver, of Porangahau, who scored a like number, Mr Franklin being close up. About twenty members of the Wainui Club also fired during the day for three prizes, the first a silver cup presented by Mr W. Speedy, the second £2 presented by the club, and the third a sum of .money raised on the ground. .Mr J. Wylie with 42 points took the cup,. Mr F. Franklin with 40 took .the second prize, and Mr. Jofm Herbert:. with' 37 Itopk. th. Tthird prize. TheTweather was dull and>7thV Wind7;very ; _iigh i; conse- ! quently some of our best shots were* <

quite out of it. —A large number of our residents left here yesterday to attend 1 the funeral of Mr H. Lambert, of Porangahau, who died on Saturday last s of inflammation of the lungs. Deceased { was quite a young man, and leaves a wife and throe children. He was a member of the district lodge oFOddfellows. \ In view of the opening of the " Silver King" season at the Theatre Royal on ( Saturday next, the following from a recent issue of the Lyttelton Times will be read with interest by playgoers : — '■ It was in November, 1882, or two years and a half ago, that Messrs Jones and Herman's celebrated play was produced at the Princess' Theatre, London. Since then its celebrity has become world-wide. " The King " still enjoys an uninterrupted reign in London and in the provinces ; he has crossed " the deep Atlantic" to become a mine of wealth, alike to authors and to managers ; Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, have seen fit to invite him to their hospitable boards, and admire him in a foreign dress ; Melbourne and Sydney went wild over him, and now •* The Silver King" has come to the ends of the earth to honor us with his presence. Never has such a royal progress been made. Briefly — ; to drop metaphor— "The Silver King" is the greatest success ever scored by the managers of the Princess Theatre.

That is saying a very great deal, when it is remembered that " IJoraariy Rye*" " Claudian," " Lights o* London," and other plays which hay© enjoyed extra- * ordinary popularity M late years, were ' produced at that same i&6me of moving . drama." The confusion of sexes in names as I applied to vessels is sometimes very ludicrous. The following despatch to Lloyds from Mauritius is a good illustration of this fact : — " Mr Jacob Von Lennep was placed in dry dock and had her bottom carefully examined. Her caulking was found to be slack, and the surveyors recommended that she be stripped and remetalled. She is now afloat again, and is waiting orders from home before proceeding with her remetalling." The following is an estimate of the losses sustained by New South Wales by the drought of last year, as given by Mr Abbot, the Minister of Mines for that colony. Comparing the figures at the beginning of 1884 a decrease was shown of 10,000 horses, 232,000 cattle, and 5,800,000 sheep. Comparing these i with the probable increases at the rate of ordinary seasons, and adding the effect upon the wool clip, the Minister estimates that the colony was poorer by s-4, 500,000 sterling than it would have been but for the drought. The Waitara correspondent of the News writes thus ; — There is now waiting for shipment 4000 sheep, 300 head of cattle, and 24 horses, and there are other droves of sheep and cattle being driven here. A large shipper waited upon Mr Maxwell the other day, having 1500 sheep to send to Waitara, and enquired what reduction he would make. He was told "None." The shipper drove them by road, costing, with paddooking aud all charges paid on board ship, £20. By rail it costs exactly £41. Oan we wonder at our railways not paying when this gross mismanagement takes place? I begin to have great faith in Mr Vaile and , his railway reform. Change of name does not apparently always bring change . of luck. A year or two ago a steamer named the Daphne capsized while being launched on the Clyde, great loss of life resulting. When she had been refitted and repaired she was fresh named the "Rose, but shortly afterwards sank in Portrush Harbor. Recovered from the bottom of the water, she hailed uuder a third name, which, however, did not prevent her going ashore on Big Cumbrae. This third disaster was not final, for she was got off, christened the lanthe, and despatched to Smyrna, but she had not apparently lost her old failing, for she struck on a rock off County Down. " JEgles," writing in the Australasian on May 2, reminds the public of the following overlooked fact : — " If a Eussian ironclad, or halt a dozen of them, entered the heads to-morrow, they would, I presume, have a perfect right to anchor in Hobson's Bay, as the nations are at peace. Upon a declaration of war they would be in a position to open fire upon Melbourne and risk the turret guns of the Cerberus. A friend of mine, who has been a naval officer, suggests the making of a port regulation — an innocent peace regulation — thatallvessels,of whatever nation,sbould (in order to prevent possible accidents from explosion) be required to discharge their powder at Queenscliffe or Nepean, under cover of the looal batteries, and ship it again on leaving the port. There seems to be sense in the suggestion, at least to the non-professional understanding. The wild beast is a little less dangerous with his teeth drawn." These remarks are worth the attention of all the colonies, for it was in precisely the way described that the Frenoh fleet got into the Mm river and destroyed the Chinese fleet, unmolested by the forts which they had passed without declaration of their warlike intention.