TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7479, 25 September 1895, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

Oaptain Edwin wired at 11 28 a m. today s —"East to couth and south-west gale, with rain ; glass rise soon ; eea heavy on coast; tides high." Notwithstanding the inclement weathur, the performance of •• JN-framau ,, by the Napier Philharmonic Srci-ty, in aid of tbe Children's Home, wi.l take piece as announced. it is to be hoped that the weather will not keep away any who had intended being present Apart from the worthy object for which nteinbeis are giving their services, tho work itself ia one of the best ever placed before a Napier public, and deserves a full house. The final rehearsal last night went off well, and a good performance is promised. Weather permitting , , a portion of the crew of H.M.ti. Goldfinch will prooeed to Farndon to-morrow to indulge in a game of Aseooiation football. A meeting of the T rilJ-shed Committee of the Garrison was held in the drill-hall last evening, Major Wood presiding. There was a large attendance of offioers of the I different companies. The priiioipal business was tbe appointment of a caretaker and marker for the Garrison, the choice falling on Sergeant Kobson. There were a large number of applicants, and considerable difficulty was experienced in making tho seleotion. The appointment will be a permanent one, and tbe caretaker will have full control of the hall. A range oommittee, consisting of Major Wood, Captains McCartney, Smith, and Chicken, and Lieutenants Stubbs, Berry, and Qurr, was appointed to make arrangements fur putting the Tutaekuri range in repair, LieutenantColonel Newall having condemned the shelter afforded to markers as insecure. The Rifle Club also propose to assist ia the ereotion of two additional targets on the range. Fraecis O'dhannessey, of Southland, one of the discoverers of the Golden Site reef, Wilson River, but now in Western Australia, found a, splendid reef which sold for £40,000. The powerful 20-ton quarry crane used by Messrs Pallieer and Jones for their north mole contract at Timaru has been purohased

The powerful 20-ton quarry crane used by Messrs Pallieer and Jones for their north mole contract at Timaru has been purohased by the Government for use at liyttelton, and is now in process of removal from the shed on Caroline Bay.

The " White-eyed Minstrels" of H.M.B. Goldfinoh promise their patrons a very enjoyable entertainment to-morrow night at the Theatre Koyal, for the benefit of the Children's Home The two faraioal pieces which the seamen intend staging, in addition, to the usual variety business in the first part, will make up a novel programme. The speculating pnblic evidently appreoiate what they consider a solid investment. Up to three o'olook this afternoon the number of eharea reserved for Napier in the Golden Tokatea licensed holding , , Ooromandel, placed on the market by Mr George South, were almost all subscribed. This is satisfactory, considering that several intending investors took the precaution to wire to Auckland making enquiries as to the Golden Tokatea property, the replias iv each instanoe being very satisfactory, all independent opinions. The meeting of those interested in the establishment of a Home for Friendless Women, called for this afternoon, was postponed owing to the inclemenoy of the weather. The Maraekakeho mailman leftNugont'a accommodation house as usual this morning, but found that he ooald not take the coach across, as the creek was in flood. He forded it on horseback, got a Bulky at the station, and brought down the mails. The creek is rising, and the mailman will be unable to return to-night. The Fauat Family combination, with Martyn Hagn, Lucy Fr*ser, and others, which Mr J. St. Olair is bringing on a tour of New Zealand, is to arrive in Wellington from Sydney on the 10th prox. Owing to the wet weather, Messrs Williams and Ktttle have postponed the sale of farm stock in the estate of the late A. M. Hollies, Korokipo, until Tuesday next, at 11 a.m H.M.P. Goldfinch, lying at anohor a short dietanae from the ne » breakwater wharf, is riding through the prevailing southerly gala in perfect safety, not a ripple disturbing the sutfaoe of the enclosed harbor. It is confidently asserted that vessels could how lie at the breakwater in the roughest gale, without fear of damage. Mr E. J. Ooiterill, brother of Mr W. J. Ootterill, the well-known Christohurch football referee, has been promoted to the managership of the Auckland branch of the Union Bank of Australia. Mr Cotterill was formerly on the staff of the Wellington branch of the bank. Mr Fred Fisoher, of Napier, a son of Mr A Fisoher, of Noraewood, p»id Noraewood a viait on Friday last. He rode a bike of his owe make on the 1895 pattern, with built up frame, large tubing, large ohain and wheels, the whole machine weighing 291bi. The rider took it easy on the way, and performed the journey in about ten hours— Advecate. Owing to the boisterous state of the weather, the rifle shooting match between the representatives of H.M.S. Goldfinch and the Napier Garrison, fixed to take plaoe at Havelock to-day, had to be postponed till Saturday afternoon. If, however, Captain Ash decides to leave port on that day the matoh will be fired on Friday afternoon, the teams leaving town by drags at 12.30 pm. The men on board the warship are very enthusiastio over the oontest, the following being their selection, Lieut. 13. A. Willii in oharge:— (J. Lay, &.B, A.; G. Kenny, Sergeant R.M. ; F. Bull, P. 0., litolass; R Ohappel, P. 0., Ist olaes ; J. Koae, P. 0., 2nd class; W. Orooker, L.B. ; A. JPowel, A.B ;A. Godfrey, A B.; J. Oonroy, itoker ; A. Heoklin, Private K.M. T. Maddox, marker. The oonditione of the match are ten men aside, MO and 500 yards, seven rounds at eaoh, Wimbledon scoring Lieut. Thomson, who has taken the affair iv hand, is making special arrangements for the comfort of the visitors on the ground, and at the close of the matoh the men will be driven round Hastings, Om»hu, and Taradale en route for home. Given fine weather, the outing should prove most enjoyable.

Constable Riordan, of Waipawa, reports that while passing along Euataniwha road on Saturday afternoon last, he saw a number of children rush out of an unoooupied four-roomed cottage. Hβ went into the building and on examination found a quantity of dried brambles in a oupboard, which the children had attempted to set on fire by plaoing lighted paper amongst it. On enquiry from the children, whose ages ranged from three to six years, the Constable learned that a boy named Francis Kronper, five years old, had set fire to the paper, a large quantity of matches being found in his possession. Had the building caught fire it i 3 extremely probable that a livery etsblo and butoher's shop adjoining would also have been destroyed.

General Booth, of the Salvation Army, ia due in Wellington by the b.b. Bimutaka on Tuesday, Bth Ootober. He is accompanied by Commissioner Pollard (the pioneer of Salvation Army operations in New Zealand), Colonel Lawley t an English staff officer), Major Malan (an Italian, now acting as the General's private seoretary), and StafEOaptain Heather (the General's shorthand writer). The party will be eaoorted round New Zealand by Commissioner Coombs, chief of th« Army's Australaeian wing, and Brigadier Hookie, the commanding officer in this oolony. Arrangements are now being made to give the visitors a fitting reception. In Wellington the Opera House haa been engaged for the aeries of meetings, which extend over Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the Bth, 9th, and 10th of October.

During the bueh fires in Australia, the mail driver between Nellingen and Braidwood, in New South Wales, had a most sensational experience. While he was coming up the Clyde mountains tbe scrub caught fire on either side of a narrow bush traok, and as it was impossible for him to turn hie horses he had to face the flitnes from blazing timber. He drove at breakneck speed down gullies and along the traok. On Feveral ocoasions the mailbags and luggage became ignited, but he stifled the flimes. When at last he reaohed Braid wood the hair on the horses' backs was eiuged off and bis clothes were scorched almost to tinder. A house in the Hawbosbury district, of whioh a young married lady with several small children and a girl friend were temporarily the only occupants, was threatened by an approaching bush fire. The young ladies, however, with admiriblfl presence of mind, put into immediate praotica a custom of the Ked Indians when threatened by a prairie fire. They set fire to the grass closo round the house, and the fl tines died out when they reaohed thie blackened ring.

The Melbourne Ago, dealing with a proposal to make the employment of women in licensed bars illegal, says:--"It is really absurd to ar<k that furls in bars should not turn to advantage thoic physical as well as their mental attractions 'J ho actress or singer finds in her faoe and figuro as merohandisable a stock-in-trade as her art or voioe; arid a pretty shop girl sella more fiowora and gloves than her less fortunate sister; and even the T'oorak belle bedecks and bedizens herself with as keon au eye to tho husband market as the Lotties and Totties of the bar room do to oharin an extra sixpence from the pockets of a Johnny. Tho main difference is that tb«i_ one only extrts heraelf f>B long as may r agreeable to her, while the other is oblig 1 . to attend to her wearisome duties and ti. listen with a counterfeit glee to the vacuous compliments and email talk of the silly favneants who frequent her bar rooms." First prize in the Van Diumen'a Land Bank lottery Ja blook of buildings in Hobart) was drawn by a ticket holi jointly by men named Smith and Hamilton. They havo been mates for several years, their ''mateahip" extending to their individual speculations in lotteries, race consultations, etc., and although not always together it was reoognisod between them that should one make a lucky investment the other should share in the gain. Smith bought this bank lottery ticket quite unknown to Hamilton, and might have kept his valuable prize to himself, but at onoe apprieed iiu •mate of the good fortune that hud come to them, and bared it with him.

Some trenohant remarks on the subject of the Church and the people were made in a sermon delivered at Ha wick tho other day by the Bey Dr. Marshall Lang, of Glasgow, an ex-moderator of the Ohuroh of Scotland and chairman of the Ohuroh's Commission on the beligious Education of the People (wtitea the iOdinburgh correspondent of a contemporary). Dr. Lang a aid there were 4000 structures for worship in Sootland. Fifteen years ago an able statistician calculated that 580 out of eveiy 1000 of the population ought to be simultaneously at ohurch. At the present time, however, it was computed that the proportion was under 200 per 1000. 'J hero was v serious drift in the citioa and towns In Glasgow, for instance, two-thirde of the young men were conepiouous t»y their absence at the diets of worthip. Everywhere they heard of unrest. At the same time the churches were turning their guns on one another and fighting for disestablishment and disendoTrment v instead of for the disestablishment and disendowment of the devil and his angels. This witness is true as far as it goes ; but there are other eren more important onuses accounting for church-desertion by the young men of our great cities. If things go on as they are doing, in a few years there will be hardly any young men in our city congregations.

A Beefton telegram says that at tho Wealth of Nations mine » return haa been obtained of 1250z amalgam from 144 tons, top plates.