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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7549, 24 September 1886, Page 2

I . < On the fourth page will be found an a'rticleentitled ; Path'etic' ! St6ry.'' f ■' ■ ; •'. | Horseowncrs are ajjaiii reminded that acceptances and : nominations ■.are-.d.ue ( by. ' 9 o'clock this evening for tho Park Racing Club's iueeting.on'thelst October. ..■■■ • , 4 i Three .inebriates will •' interview. ■.the,. Resident Magistrate this morning. '•■'. Two were arrested I ' m Napierijttye 'third, being found lying helplesslin" the middle of the . road near tlio Spit, . ' . . . . ' . ' Wo 'liave received £2 2s ih.'aid'of the ] distressed. Bartle family from Mr D. E. Davis,' of Springyale, .Ptiketapu'. ' n We Shall be hnppy to acknowledge any fur ther amounts that may be^orw^ardecb; ■ .The privileges' in connection with the Napier Park Racing Club's meeting on tlie 4th proximo, will be sold by Mr Monteith at the Caledpnian.-Hqtel to-day. In addition to the usual falls' the'auctioneer will offer two'bars and an outside luncheon bop ; th., Jm! , „,,/ ; ',;. yj ., !■„>;;■?< ■ iWeare'requested to ,draw attentwn.:to» ith'e fact 1 that the auction sale of > furniturebyMessrs.Brooking arid Sf;,' Clahy which' jwaso.coinrrieiice'd ;. yesterday, at.' Mr!'',\V". Cato's premises, will bo continued 'again tliia'niornjng'at 10,'b'elock. ~ "-'•;,,.'"',',(. ■ 'Tlie'. members of the 'Napiev. Volunteer Five Brigade held. th'eir! usual practice, last evening, there being'a very, .good' muster.' • A .'meeting was held after.wards, at which it was decided to hold the anniversary at Superintendent Wateri worth's Provincial Hotel. . . At the close, of Mr Matthew Burnett's -meeting in Clivo-snuare last evening, <sonic' disorderly. /person caused consideriable.disturbance by loud interjections of ■an offensive kind: / Later on a constable' i went down to' the square and'induced tlio ' ! people there to' depart. i It is supposed tliat" tho ill-fated Cleo- •' patra capsized at sea before drifting on to ' the rocks at Mahia. - The vessel, like ' most engaged hi the coastal timb.et trade, probably had a large deck load.' It. ia ■j high time- that the' Legislature- stopped , the dangerous practice of deck-loading on i sea-going vessels. In another will be found the acceptances ■ and. general entries for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's spring mooting, to be held at Hastings on the sth and 6th of next month. The club, the handicapper, ■ and ' the sporting' public have every reason to bo satisfied with the acceptances, which promise excellent racing for the meeting. ' '■ <J '"■''■ "Shutting up the hotels in the.Ormondville district did not act well. Sinco.tho time when tliat' was done drinking:. has anything but decreased, aud in place of licensed houses under tho control of the police, a number of sly-grog shanties have spvung into existence. A brewery has also been started, and owing to tho provisions of the LiccnsingAct in regard to brewers'' sales, does a big business.- •; ," At the ltesuleht Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr G.. A. Preece, 11. M., Annio M'Donald, alias Searell, was lined 5s , ami costs foi- drunkenness.— George Lafollcy, recently before the Court on a charge of wife desertion, was also lined 5s and costs for imbibing too freely. —Thomas Jo\vell(orJo\vett, the charge-sheet putting, it one way anil the clerk 'another) Avas similarly, charged nnd -similarly dealt, with. Wellington has its trouble with hospital patients who got drunk, so that Napier necjfl not got downhearted over the dopravily of littwke's Bay paticuts'us if they

/.were the only-, "bad lots" of the colony. JRecentlV'an inebriate was brought up at the Wellington, (Resident Magistrate's Court, ; : and. ih.Vflddition ,to • a, Una for drunkenness liad'to pay.9s fdrthe cdat"d{ an express; used to take him to the hospital when found,alhmk, and afterwards to the Court. '-„ ,/' .".■.S6nipthin.g should; be done, atoncqwitli that portion, of. the^ daniaged'sea-.wall .fronting tile* GdurtJhdjise'.-. 3 Tlie/ watt/is in .the._.nwst, ...dangerous _;condi(ion, . being cracked and bulged out, so that jit.overhang's thejjeach at; a. considerable angle, and may fall at any moment. As small children, who do not appreciate the danger of wiiat.rtheyf'do,: play under. : the over : haging wall, the best plan would be to -push' the tottering structure down at once, and ko prevent 'a serious accident. . . We have several times urged that something should be dono by the Telegraphic Department to, put the Napier office into a_ fairly- good sanitary condition, our remarks 1 having been' prompted by the fact that! several operators were successively stricken with fever.' We are induced' to return .to:>the:subject owing" to another operator iiaving to be removed to the hospital to be tended for fever. , Judging by 'the bad smells frequently experienced in and about tha offices,' it appears probable that, the illness of the operators is. due to that cause. ''■■ ■ ■■..•• Professor Woodrbffe's very entertaining and I enjoyable glass^working exhibition was well patronised 'yesterday afternoon and evening, and as on previous occasions all visitors wtue'loud in theirpraises of the entertainment and of the .clever,- works ex- ' hibited. Some of the experiments, including that in wliich.a glass that was used tcj drive a nail through a piece of wood was afterwards shattered to fragments by drop; ping a small article inside, and the' wpn-j deriul " Prince Rupert's tears," were ! watched with strained, attention. ,. The usual distributiou of artistic works in'glass alsojtook place. The exhibition Will be open again jthis evening, arid there 1 will bo anotlier matinee td-niorrb.w, ! •' ' '],', "■] ' 5 'The editor of the Auckland Ml a : rj: •pears tobegoing in for- force ofVstyle— : probably trusting that elegance will come jin time if the' m'aciiirie; does hot breaks -andjis what. may be Called " rough on. various sections of the community. Having done a kiijd'pf Indian club go-a&'-you-' please in which' Auckland loafers and larrikins- suffered considerably; the editor, of the. Bell, turned ■ his ■ attention to, the pious inhabitants of that demoralised town. ■ This is the result : — " Commend us tb~your-religious men-for,being goodhaters. It seems one, jof the remarkable compensations of ; iiaturei'that'when a religious-., man hares he hates like hell,, and, as a rule', will stop' ; ftt .nothing:" jferhaps.ftlie -editor was . not, invited., -.to the ilkst tea-fight, and. puts the oririssioii down to personal reasons'. „ .An insane person' who' lias been' kept at the! hospital "since Sunday became very , violent indeed last night, and at one time Dr Key.worth feared that, he would attack the- other patients! The ( available 'persons strong ,enough to render / assistance, could riotlrestiain, liim, ancl'a messenger had to be^ hurriedly despatched to town between 1 9 1 arid ,10 o'clock; asking, that assistance jriiglvt be sent up atbrice. " Sdr^ ■geaut-Major O'Grady.went up to the hosJ)ital with two constables, and found that le could not take! them away again, the .patient being so yioleut,' and so. likely to injure some of the .inmates of the hospital if not carefully watched. -The constables consequently stayed. a'lV'night,.occasionally haying , considerable difficulty with ■their insane charge. ■'The.a ffair . will come before the Resident Magistrate this morning. 2~'~'-< "~r'."/P-A l The Ahiateur Athletic Club's sports on the- Recreation .Ground , to-morrow should attract a large attendance of the publicj. the general'opinion among those' 0 likely to 'know " being that all the events will be keenly contested by a larger number of .competitors than on any. former occasion. 'The Railway Band- haye; kindly volunteered their services, whicli will.considerably : add ■ to ■-. this /attractiveness of . the gathering. We understand that at. first the band had some idea of in procession to -the. ground, 1 but that this, intention has been abandoned. This cantiot be from feat of. the bye-law .killed by .Captain Preece, so perhaps it may be concluded" that' processions' have lost- their ■'charm since they ceased to' lie a breach' of the law. As "..bread eaten in secret "is said to be pheasant,. it may well be that 'precessions, in spite of a; prohibition to the contrary, are sources of quite delirious joy , • and thatr,all- their seductiveness vanished i when the bottom was knocked out of the ' bye-law. At any rate' the band will not march— unless'jthey should, 'after .'seoing. tliisi" conspire to prove 'that/newspapers' are not mucli.in the prophesying line unless prediction-is saved till after .the.event. sTho 45-ton- crane ' made to the order of the Napier Harborßoiml by Messrs John Anderson.aud.Co., Christchurch; was yes--terday tested' arid' formally taken' over,, ■Tlie testing operations were'carrled out in : .this presence of a majority of. the members of the Board, Mr;J.,.Goodallj Mr'Saun- ; ders, MnGrangeri and Messrs M'Ciill and .Stumbles.. _Mr John Anderson was; also present,' haying" 'coi'ne '',tip /from ' Christ,-, 1 cliurch to witness the teking, and a-'nurhr; berof townspeople, watched 'the proceedings' with' interest. ' The' testing included liftingiandolow.ering ; two,, concrete blocks weighing together .4s -tons,! a single block weighing 32 tons bejngafterwards handled; 'The various operation's r of, lifting, turning, travelling, !&c, were, 1 all! tried, tlieapeciu-,. cations providing for- eacl\ .operation' being done withm a given time:-'- 1 -. The crane performed' its'work' in'fthe ,nlost satisfac,-' to'ry_ manner, running as'sriiriothly' as a toy, engine, and the various testing movements i were, in each. case completed in, a great deal "less' th'an the ti^ie srSecified. 5 j Mr ■Aiiderson is to be congratulated upon such an) excellenfi, -piece;' >off workrhging'. turned out by bis firm, and the Harbor ■Board upon the possession of a magnificent <cr'ahe in every respect fitted for the work .it 1 will have to perform. The. price of the ;crau i e,\Y las£1 as£ / 3025.Mw.r:, !l „ . . , .., :The annual general .meeting of members of the Napier Cricket-'Club-wns held at Mayo's,_ Empire Hotel last, evening, Mr George-Pram in >the : chair. '-' There wasa good ..attendance. The balance-sheet, showingV.£l '„16s -6d in ' hand, ;,'. and .the committee's report for the pastseason,'-• were' ■ read ■ and -. adopted. i Mr George "VVliito secured, first, honors, f<jr batting" with an' average! ', of ' 14J . runs per innings, Mr Humphries ; coming second with 13 4-11, and' Mr- Ji Martin third with 10 1-7.. . Mj George \ White also carried off the -first eleven'; bowling average, with 4J runs per wicket. For the second, eleven Swan had < the best batting average, withß| runs per .innings, and Mr J. Le Quesne. the' best : bowling . average .with 335 tuns' per. • wicket.' 1 ■ The election of; officers resulted as follows :— President,' Mr F. Logan (re-' ■ elected) ; vice-presidents, Messrs H. Mon-i teith and N. Jacobs ■ (re-elected) ; ' hon. s'ecrctaryjind treasurer, Mr George White (re-elected); committee -of lnariageinent, Messrs J. Martin, GeorgePraiij, L. Moore, George Kendall, and J.. G. Gilberd (also, officers ex officio) ; match committee, Messrs li.'. Moore,' J. Martin;; an.d .George,. White; . delegates-. to the Hawke's Bay; Cricketers' Association, Messrs George Pram and George White. Votes of thanks to retiring.officers and'the chairman terminated the meeting. There' was a very good attendance.' of ;he Napier RiHe Volunteers ' on -parade' last evening at the Government inspection of that corps, 'The rank and, filo numbered 47", sergeants 6, officers 2, and staff 1. Captain Blythe inspected the company in tlie absence of Major GarnoV. After, inspection the company was divided into four- squads, under- the command of the I sergeants, who i: ,treated.the,inon to an hour's squad marching, living arid bayonet exercises. On company formation being resumed, Staff-Sergeant. gave the ■ ,men a brief half-hoin 1 at' 'company iuovements. Wlien - the parade was • dismissed the qfricersjand-non-commissioned pflicers met at the Clarendon Hotel, where' they arrangements for the' approaching class-firing, and other subjects relating to "the corps. It was decided; to appoint Lieut.- Chicken/ as ! delegate, . to represent the Rifles on a visit of inspection to the rifle range, to act in conjunction ■with representatives from the Artillery and'Navals, : in order that' the. butts' rhsy ■ beplaced in readiness forpractice. : ! Frbm ' all accounts both the firing-points and the butts in connection with the range havo fared sadly since last season, and a speedy re-arrangement is necessary to provide, for practice during next month, in which sevral holidays occur. This will be the means of enabling Volunteers to get 'up their shooting capabilities, after their spell of rest during the winter months.We read in a Wellington paper that a policeman there recently fell into £11,000. He did hot hiirt himsolf veiy'mnch, aiid is said to bo willing to repeat Ihe'tum'blel Mr Charles ?Cliftord, a "former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, rbforring to Mr Froude's inaccuracies, after stating that " Mr Froude landed at Auckland, and visited an island on tho const, lie says :~" It was much the sauie as if Mr Froude had landed in Inverness, gone to a slioqting box pf one of the lairds in the North 'of Scotland, and had then written an account of the state of cultivation in -England and Wales. That was exactly what Mr Froude might bo said to have (ione with regard to New Zealand. 1 ' A South Australian newspaper has the following under the heading of "Yet^ Another' :— " In the Adelaide Divorce; Court another salvation amour engaged , the attention of Judge Boucaut.; A man -. -named Prior, applied for a divorce on, tho< ground of his wife's adultery with an individual Jiftined Harris, a drummer in the Karma branch of the Salvation Army. The co-rjspondent is a^youthof 10 years, while Mrs Prior is fair, fat, and forty. According to the story told, thotwo struck up an acquaiutuueo iv meetings of the

army, and Mrs Prior subse^uenUjr admitted tlie -i'-youthl, into ' her Ijedrooin'i finally they elojied-tdgethef to Melbourne tWd nionthsago;" : .-. /,"", '-.' A contemptible tiricjc was played p'll the Sydney, footballers nt Ditnedin; The men were upstairs iri Hotel, together with a number of local footballers, •niul,,\v,lien thqy,c,aniedp>vntl.iey-fpund-{hat =thpirliat% wluc'li ljadbeeii left-iii ftaittnjg'roonil, .liaiinyeeii.wilfdlly •cut to-pieces. .One ,of .tli.e.yisitors,- jgn the miscreants were, gave'them a lading, and Dr Conghtreyi yice-prMdent of the Otagt) Uiiidn, communicated "with" the police with the result that new hats Jiad .to be! provided for tlie men. Thebkample (obsorvea the Star) mado of these larrikins, 'in getting a severe hiding iv the first instance, and then having to pay. for the damage they had done,; should have a aalutary effect on them in f utuvq. •.. : . • M; P. L'Hoste, tlie French aeronaut, ' ascended at Cherbourg, 6ri July 30, in his new balloon, the Torpilleur, with the intention of; crossing the Channel to England; The balloon • was fitted with now steering'and other-gear' invented 1 by the aeronaut, which it wasiprqposed to thor-. oughly't'eat during. the trip. The Torpilleur ascended at half-past eleven, her only passengers being M.' L*H6ste hinisolf and liil. Joaepli Mangqfy• a'well-known astronomer. The. trip * was a most • successful one.: The ne^V gearans\yered admirably,' and during the:possajie!M.'L'Hoste'nian-' '■ couvred over' passing ships, and threw doipn upon them artificial tdrl)eddes,ivitli a view. ..to demonstrating tlie:,usefulness of his bak loon for warlike purposes.'•' Tlio Torpilleur was steered for Ldndon,' and a descent was :riiade near the metropolis.- The highest altitude attained was 3009 ft, and the lowest temperature.. registered' .'7.' degrees ■ centigrade.'."'; ■'•■,•'■Jl.. : •; UnitedStatesConsiilGriffin, ofSyduey, has njade some'exhaustive studies of the inhabitants of No\y Britainjiand' gives 'the •State De'partment^tHe.boriejitor his "researches, , Among'biher things he'says .'that'the inhabitants have the custom of : confining their girls in cages until they .are bid enough*to"marry;..l.Tjiis. custoiuT he saj'3, is peculiar to .tli.at. island, and .without a parallel among the other in"-: habitarits'of tile SdtitU'Seas; ; These girls'. ■ cages are vniide-of twigs of the palm tree,aud', the girls are put in them when they are only two or'three years of age. - These cages, are built inside the houses, and' .the j girls,, are' never .allowed . to' leave the! house'iunder any: circumstances', andj are'l'only, taken out of tho 'cages once a .day, to be. jvjlshed..' .The'houses "themselves are"closely,'fenced in( 'with a sprt:of wiekef lnade of reeds... Ventilation under'the circumstances is rendered difficult.^"The girls* are said to grow up strong.•and.^'healthful..in.spite of these disadvantages. . These- natives aro vely fond .of .jewellery made of shell or bone.', „-Both men 'arid' women are entirely nude,' except''a small.istvip; of .hark or, leaves around the loiris;.iThey have thick black /curly' hair,' large' flat noses,' and. , symmetrical ' bodies., ; They /"display■' a great fondness for-feathers' of gaudy .colors, with which they decorate their ' heads.'' Sometimes they wear, ;a- helmet or head-dress about • eighteen inches in height, riiade of bark and seaweed', and ornamented with shells; cats' eyes', &c. This is what " Civis''says in the Otaao Witness in reference to Sir Julius y.ogel's ,libel action against the' Wellington Evening] Preto:—'••'Our -Colonial.; Treasurer upon this,'his latest'return-to New Zealand, has .'unmistakably./fonhd. 'himself among a people wlioknow not Julius. Tho fact can no longer'be disguised. : They appeared''to"know "Sir Julius at the time of hisjmiuediate're-arriyal;—he had an extensive choice of seats,- and was returned •by a phenomenal majority-; but the bleak winds of adversity have howled about his armchair from the formation 61 the.StbutVopel coalition unto this day.-,,Asconted tariff, a semi-inipeachnient' % the Hpusej and libels galore^ have marked Jiisipre.sent tenure'-,of. office. ..But • those'vare merely, incidents/ There is nothing in the 'rejection 'of thctariff, r the' 'district.railways, .scandal, ,pr. the comments, of impetuous journalism to seriously hurt •Sir; Julius., It is. .his own;'changed:de.meanour.liefore the slin'gs'jand arro'jvs of fortune that''tolls' against him.. >Ho has attempted-:t6 flog newspapers into complaisance'with strips of legal parchment, ■ and he v has n beed, consistently in; the Hbiise.-' ITlie-case,-.i3fioi\e.m'6re»"for regret than 'condemnation/ -We 'have been governed-of ;late by., Sir Julius, and Sir Julius has been governed by his gout. ■Before' we too hastily .sneer, atithe result, leti us, in our _owni persons, i'make:'>.an a'ttompt at affairs 'with ii redhot corkscrew:.twisted well up"each ileg', : and..-half-a dozen;, orators,, of.the •W9,ketield type^ihetaphorically plucking 'at irar beards., ... ,„ •'■ '";,/,' ' ' ■"' This is the summing-up given by ono •who has made a'recent visit' in Sprain :'— .Wherever ori.e goes iri Spain the irreverence for the dead, and, as a matter of course^ ~tb.Vrecklessn.oss "of lUe,"are" "what most prominently strike a traVellor. The people seem actually to be indifferent to 'manslaughter.,. Qo.the' sligl.itest,proyocaHion blood is; shed," and the moment' T a revolver is Heardlin 1 the street, or ''o.'> shriek •from a mnrdered.man, every;door is shut, and 1' there-i is-, scurrying- of^feet ,'-in .a .direction opposite .to that in -which the. assassiu has lied. Everybody is afraid' of .being seized as the criminal. . JJbtanight during 1 the hot dry summer passes without jthe cry of -fire being raised -in a Spauish town!' ' Any\person in^ the. street at the moment'can'be pressed;.to aid.in 'extinguishing the flames.-- Bat it is rare that'anyone is'found foper/qrmthis duty,for at the first cry of fire prudent citizens • take care :to. get'under shelter., -In;the .interior; and*even in'-^the 1 larger 'cities on 'the coast, tlie cemeteries'.are in a deplorable condition., . It,.Js', hot, an? vn r cojranion. spectacle, to'-'see "ai body 'slung across a,mule, .pr even t\yo, ( boing: carried inj tHis"fasluon!:tp',tueir .last resting place; amid the heartless, often brutal, comments -ofj the bystanders, who, notwithstanding,' always doff their hats, out' of a half superstitibiis.,feeling, the 'exact '"character : .of wjiich' never'costs, them a jthqught. /These : traits refer mainly to the cbiintry folk or to townspeople of the poorer class.- They, however, represent..the Spanish.character better ■ than'the -more polished-citizens] who in Spain^as in every.other country, 1 have overlaid their natiyo manners by a 'certain veneer of ' - '