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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7542, 13 August 1886, Page 2

On the fourth page will Ijc found an article entitled " Birmingham Achievements." John Cuddy .was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr F. Fulton, J.P., charged with drunkenness, and was fined 5s and costs. There is an interesting, collection o^ sporting pictures in the. corridor of the Masonic Hotel, and admirers of that form of art can wile away a pleasant half-hour by a visit of inspection. The children attending the Port Presbyterian Sunday school will be treated to a little jollification to-night, in" which cake,, tea, and lollies will be important items. The Rev. J. G. Paterson will be in the chair, and other friends will help to amuse the children after tea. An adjourned meeting of the Theatre Royal Company was held at the Masonic Hotel last" evening, Mr 6. H. Swan in the chair. The meeting was a formal one, called to confirm the new regulations adopted at a recent meeting, and after this was done the proceedings terminated. The Napier Volunteer Fire Brigade met for . the usual monthly inspection last evening, Inspector VVatenvorth in command. After a trial of the plugs in the principal streets the men were inarched back to the fire station for the ordinary meeting. A quantity of formal business was transacted, and Mr R. Smith, lessee of the. Masonic Hotel, was unanimously elected an honorary member. Patriotism is not quite a lost art. When the last alarm of fire was raised in Napiei a cabman galloped his vehicle hastily np to the fire station, tied a hose reel (with no hose upon it) to his cab, and ran away with it as far as the post-office, where he was stopped. Prompt action such as this is really priceless, but the cabman, desiring to please the fire brigade by consenting to accept a modest sum as a souvenir of the gallop, generously asked foi 5s only. To his intense surprise the selfish firemen objected to this charge, and as he in his nobleness of heart refused to take aiiy less he has up to the present moment received nothing, with interest at 100 per cent, added. A meeting of ratepayers in the Taradale district was held last night in the Oddfellows' Hall, Taradale, to consider the advisableness of bringing the district under the Town Districts Act. There was a good attendance. .Several speakers addressed the meeting, the general tendency of the speeches being to the effect' that it . was desirable to constitute Taradale a town district under the Act, but there was considerable diversity of opinion expressed as to boundaries. After much discussion a resolution was carried affirming the desirableness of bringing the district under the Act, and a committee was appointed to consider the question of boundaries and other details, and to procure signatures to the requisite petition for the constitution of a town district. The committee of the Napier Park Racing Club mot at the Caledonian Hotel last evening, the president, Mr J. Close, in the chair. There was a full attendance. There, were 47 new members proposed, bringing the present membership of the club up to G4, and it was stated that numerous other applications would belaid before' the committee. It was decided to hold the first race meeting under the auspices of the club on the first of October, the programme to include seven events, to extend over ono day only. The chief event on tlie programme will be the Park Stakes of 225 soys. A sub-committee was appoiuted to' make all the necessary arrangements for the meeting, and it was decided to invite applications for the post of secretary to the club. A large quantity of routine business ' was transacted, including the appointment of office-bearers, and the meeting was then adjourned. Our Waipawa correspondent writes as follows under yesterday's date : — " The attendance at the Christy Minstrels' entertainment at Wnipuknrau last night was the largest, I am informed, that has ever been known in that town, the net proceeds amounting to £20, which will make the total receipts of the_ Westoby relief fund £100. Mr Wilding informed the audience last night that he had secured from the agents of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Shipping Company (Messrs Williams and Kettle) a passage from Lyttelton to England, by one of their steamers, for Mrs Westoby and her children, for the moderate sum of £45, which ordinarily would be three statute adult fares, and amount to £(iG. The local manager of the Union Steamship Company had also agreed to convey Mrs Westoby to Lyttelton at greatly reduced rates ; and after .fares and travelling expenses were paid, she wo:ild have, on her landing in England, a draft for £25. All concerned deserve great praise for the way they have worked this fund up. The public have responded very heartily indeed.-^-The following AVaipawa footballers have been selected to play against Porangahau to-morrow : — Hoani, Hobin, Webber, Waihuka, Milne, Guy, A. Jull, H. Jnll, Renata, Bathbone, and Clark. A good deal of interest is being displayed in this match." Lord Randolph Churchill is authority for the statement that the Protestant religion has existed in Ireland for six centuries, antedating the Reformation by almost three hundred years. An unknown man stepped up to the Rev. Mr Talmage once, and said, " Well, air, I am an evolutionist, and I want to discuss the question with you. lam also an annihilationist. I believe that when I die that will be the end of ma. " " Thank God for that!" devontly ejaculated Mr Talmage, as lie walked oil" and left the man perfecetly dazed. New York is said to be just now snllbring from such au unprecedented plague of rats that it would scorn as if Lord Mayor Whittington's time had come again. The city authorities have been forced to hold special sittings to consider how they shall deal with this suddeu increase of population. Many dwelling-houses are said to have been rendered quite uninhabitable by them. The French Academy of Medicine has recently declared that the increase _ of short-sightedness among the school children of French cities is due to the oxcesaiveinental and physical strain to which they are subjected. Furthermore, it ie declared that the school children in Germany are worse off, and that the German black letter to which Bismarck and other conservatives cling is responsible for the steady growth of the spectacle trade of the empire. . The celebrated Mdllo. Lecouvreur, of the Francais, passing through the streets at a late hour on a raw cold night, was accosted by a poor wonuin with four little children, who asked tho actress for alms. Mdlle. Lecouvreur searched her pockets and found nothing. "Wait," said she; "I will give you more than you could have hoped for." And instantly throwing oft' her mantle, she began to recite the imprecations of Caimlle with so niuch lire and energy that a crowd collected around her. She then made a collection from the audience, and gave the money to the poor woman. The longest word in the English, or rather Welsh, language, has, after a long period of oblivion, been once more exhumed. It is bgllgercywyinbyllgogerbu'llzanttvstliogogogoch. Tliis awful word of seventy-two

letters and twenty- two syllables," tho name of a village in Wales, constituted, tho subject of a lecture lately given by the Rev. J, King, M.A.; at the Museum, Berwick, in which he showed that it means : — ".Sti Mary's white hazel pool, near the tnrning pool,' near the whirlpool, very near the pool by Llantsilio, fronting the i-o'eky islet of Gogo." A gentleman wild Ufa Auckland some short time ago to reside in Wellington, thus writes respecting the .climate :— "We have had six days' line weather here, and :it. lias caused more excitement than the late eruption. There is a strong undercurrent of suspicion prevailing, however, that something dreadful in tho shape of weather is to take place 'as a counterpoise, and opinion is divided as' to whether thanksgiving shall be offered in tho churches for what we have received, or prayers to avert the apparently inevitable calamity." A meeting of the .Sutton. Goldfield Charity Trustees was held lately- The chief business on the agenda was the selection of candidates for the Poor Maidens:' Portions, a charity which has been connected with Sutton for many years past. The conditions attached to the charity are somewhat remarkable. Ench year four poor maidens are selected, each of whom must have been resident in the parish of Suttou for the last five years, and possess pood characters for honesty and morality. The candidates selected must marry during the twelve months following their application, when, if they have complied with the conditions laid down, they willreceivo the sum of £24 each. . A hundred years ago tho potato was' introduced into France, and so nighly was the tuber esteemed by Frenchmen that its introduction has been celebrated by a succession of ffitos. Thoy took place at Montdidier, in the Tonime Department ; the native town of Parmentier, who first grew potatoes in that country. In 1786 he obtained from Louis XIV. permission to cultivate the potato in the plain of the Sablons, near Paris. He i.Ka in Paris in 1813, in his 77th year, in the Itue des Amendicrs Popincomt, which in his honor lias since been Called the Itue-Parmenticr. I The ffites comprise an agricultural show, gymnastic competitions, a horse and dog show, and a congress for fixing the namesof different sorts of potatoes. Mahomet is said to have been led to put the prohibition against the use of wine in the Koran, by an accident which occurred to himself.. Passing through a village one day lie was delighted at the merriment of a ctmyd of persons enjoying themselves by drinking at a wedding party; but, being obliged to return the same way next morning, he was shocked to see the ground where they had been, drenched with blood, and, asking tho cause, he was told that the company drank to excess, and, getting into a brawl, fell to slaughtering each other.. From that day his mind was made vp — the mandate went forth from Allah that no child of the faithful should touch wine, on pain of being shut out from the joys of Paradise. A correspondent writing to the Spectator, referring to the late Lloyd Jones, thus describes an incident in his career: — "When the early Socialists first set up evening classes in Manchester, at which Lloyd Jones was one of the teachers, there came to his class a pretty factory girl, anxious to improve iieraelf. Tho pupil afterwards became his wife, and so grew up in spirit under his influence that' none who were not acquainted with the story would have suspected that the gracious matronly woman, capable of appreciating, and more or less entering into, all her husband's pursuits and tastes, had been taught by him to read at an evening school," The English Court for Crown Cases Reserved has just decided a curious point' in criminal law. One man aimed a blow' at another,' but missing him, struck. and wounded a woman. He was tried for' striking the woman, and fonnd guilty by the jury. • It was admitted that he did not intend to strike; her, and that the blowwas purely accidental. The Court sustained the conviction. Lord Coleridge explained that the prisoner " intended to do an unlawful act, and in doing it he inflicted the injury..' The intent to injure a particular person is not required." That is; the offence is made out if the assailant purposely and maliciously strikes at one person but hits another. At the recent annual diuner of. the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, Colonel Sargood said: — "With reference to the demand made by the woollen manufacturers for an increased import duty, he had recently visited New Zealand, where there ireiealsb woollen manufacturers, and he was bound to say, with all friendliness, to this colony, that the Victorian woollen manufacturers mustopen their eyes a little. Ouivwoollen manufacturers were not ;so far in the van as they ought to be, or as they might bo if they paid a little more' attention to the vast strides which had takeu.place in the machinery used in that manufacture. If they were to place in the mills the same class of machinery as he saw in New Zealand, he believed there would be no need for an increase of . duties.". The death is announced at South Shields of James Allcnder, otherwise known as the "Irish Giant." Allender measured seven feet and a half in height, and weighed 27 stone. At the time of . his decease— which took place in the workhouse—he - was 38 years of age. This gives another proof of the fact that these overgrown samples ot humanity seldom live very long; being, in spite of their massive appearance, weak as to the action of the heart, and feeble also as regards other vital functions. The giantess Ada' Swan and her husband, the giant Captain Bates, promise, however, to be an exception to the general rule. Both are, older than James Allender was when lie died,' and, so far as known, flourishing somewhere in good health, Judging from the statement lately made by an unfortunate debtor to the Official Assignee, the relations between man and wife are becoming somewhat mixed under recent domestic legislation^ He took his wife and .a yonng lady into partnership ; but; business, declining, the partnership was dissolved, and tho wife, who evidently did not believe in the " better or worse theory, cleared out South. Some £70 was spent in bringing back the truant, who however, again disappeared, taking the husband's money and a quantity of linen. Then follows this handsome, testimony to the ability of the ex-partner :" Haying now no female interested in the business, all my business disappeared, and the boarders went elsewhere," The moral of this is, that the bankrupt should look out for another partner.— Ank\tm& Herald. Bruclstrcets, a well-known commercial statistical paper published in New York, generally well informed, states that efforts fire being made to import Now Zealand frozen meat >to" California. The idea-has been • mooted by New Zealand ■'shippers,' who sent by the last steamer some samples of "their frozen mutton, which .were distributed for tasting purposes.. .At present nothing definite has been decided as to an <;.ttablisliinenfc of this trade, but it ■may, be. that the New Zealanders have for some time past had their eyes open in this connection, because their con tract for the meat service running between Now Zealand and San Francisco , specifies that 'the steamers .employed shall be fitted with refrigerating chambers. BradstrccCs thinks that it may not be long before a New Zealand meat shop becomes an accomplished fact in the city of the Golden Gate. A slim, shy, fair-haired lad with watery eyes and an unwholesome complexion. Such is Sir H. A. J. Tichborne, the " rightful heir," on whose behalf the claims of Castro, alias Orton, alias Sir Roger, wero so triumphantly resisted just fourteen years ago (said a London correspondent on 21st May. I saw the young baronet at Qardiual Manning's reception the other evening, <jnd he naturally attracted a good deal of attention. His Eminence introduced him to Lord ltipon, Lord Denbigh, Sir Charles Clifford, and other notable Catholics, and did his best to set him at ease, but the young fellow seemed hopelessly nervous and shy. He is just of age, and will have to go about a bit during tho next few weeks. . The, estates havo "been carefully "nursed" during his minority, so - that despite the heavy costs of the famous case Sir Harry is a fairly rich man. On the same even-_ ing that the "rightful heir" made his debut in London society, the luekles3 " Claimant " lectured in Carnarvon upon his troubles. The room (a, Iriend wlio hanponed to be there tells me) was only half full, and no one seemed to take much interest in the old man's rambling statement. Young "Roger," the Claimant's son, has enlisted, and his sister plays small parts in nielo-drama at the East End theatres. It is rather an odd thing that this young Roger hears ft far stronger, resemblance to the traditional Tichbrirnes , than Sir Harry. At least so people say.