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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3120, 28 June 1881, Page 2

A sale of Crown. Lands at Awatoto takes place in the Council Chamber, to-morrow, at 11 a.m.

The midwinter holidays for children, attending the district schools commence from to-morrow afternoon. Studies will be resumed on the Bth July.

His Honor Mr Justice Gillies sat in Chambers for a short time this morning, and the business of this circuit of the Supreme Court was then concluded.

The examinations for the Education Board's scholarships, pupil teachers' certificates, and the McLean scholarships for natives, commence on. Monday next.

Mr E. Bourgeois, late caterer of the Napier Club, has declared his inability to meet his liabilities. The wines, spirits, ale, &c, the property of the Club, will be sold by auction, to-morrow by Messrs Kennedy and Gillman.

As showing the extent to which the advantages attaching to benefit sjcieties are appreciated in Napier we have been informed that during the last two meetings of the Sir Charles Napier Court, A.0.X., upwards of £70 were paid in by the members.

Quite an exodus of visitors took place today, and no one now remains of the many who arrived here to attend the sittings of the Supreme Court. The hotels are consequently less crowded than they have been, twenty boarders having departed from the Criterion and fourteen from the Masonic by train and steamer to-day.

A contemporary states that eight ewes and a ram aro to be sent .to England in order that the Duke of Manchester " may try "to breed merinos in. England. The writer of the paragraph evidently did not know that merinos were introduced to England|by King George 111., and that from the royal flock came the first merinos to Aus> tralia.

By the City of Sydney from San Francisco copies of the revised Testament have been received in this colony. It may be interesting to note that the Lord Chancellor has expressed the opinion that the revised Testament cannot be read in the English Church until it has been recommended or authorised by some sufficiently competent authority,

Dr. Wilkins, F.R.0.5., who has gained a high colonial reputation as an oculist and aurist, was amongst the passengers by the Albion from the South to-day. Dr. Wilkins can be consulted at Messrs Barraud and Bowerman'a, chemists, Hastingp-s.irsefc.

A splendid rceteor crossed the heavens liv&t night at 7.30 p.m., in a s«uth-westerly direction. The light chrown on the earth, by this winged, messenger ol the sky was so bright as to cast shadows on the ground. For a few moments it was as though a bright moon had been chining.

The Taradale ploughing match takes placo to-morrow, in connection with which there will be a draught foal phow. The entries are numerous, and the weather being magnificent there ehould be a most successful match. The usual dinner will be held in the evening at the Greenmeadows Hotel.

At a meeting of the committee of the Acclimatisation Society, held yesterday afternoon, it was resolved to discontinue the reward offered for hawk's feet after the 9th of July. It was also decided to spend a mm of £75 on another shipment of trees from Japan, and that the Auckland Society be communicated with with a view of joining them in importing Nevada quail atid prairie hens.

The Gaiety Amateur Dramatic Club, it will be seen from advertisement in another column, intend playing " Kathleen Mavourneen" (a piece they have had for some time in rehearsel) for the benefit of th Sutherland family on Monday next. They will be assited by our local amateurs in a concert, and arrangements are pending for a special tain to run to Hastings at the conclusion of the performance. Their efforts will doubtless be crowned with suocess. *~~

The half-yearly meeting of Court Sir Charles Napier, No. 5502, A.0.F., was held last night at the Court-room, about seventy members being present. The balance-sheet for the last quarter was read, which showed the Court funds to amount to JEB9I, and 120 financial members. The following ofhcerß were elected for the ensuing six months:—Bro. H. P. Cohen, C.R.; Bro. Briden, 5.0. E.; Bro. W. A. Carnell, 8.W.; Bro. J. Gilberd, J.W.; Bro. 0. Lounds, 5.8.; Bro. A. W. L. Cottrell, J. 8.; Bro. J. Parker, Treas.; and Bro. C. Ellison, Secretary (re-elected). Bro. Taylor, the retiring 0.R., was accorded a vote of thanks, and presented with a P.O.R.'s neck ribbon and certificate.

The representation of the East Coast Eleotoral distriot will be hotly contested at the next general elections, and the eleotors willjhave plenty of candidates to choose from. Mr Allan McDonald, the present member, Mr Vesey Stewart, Mr B. M. Edgecumbe, Captain Porter, Mr W. L. Eeee, Mr J. W. Johnson, and Mr S. Locke, have all expressed their willingness to come forward at the right moment and woo the suffrages of the electors. It is not at all however, in the event of a redistribution of seats, and of Captain Russell and Mr Sutton opposing each other for the ropre* sentation of the Napier country diatriots, that Mr Locke will consent to stand in opposition to both of them, and should this be the case the chances are he would be returned at the head of the poll. The Bible in Schools Committee met yesterday in the old Council Chamber, the Biahop of Waiapu in the chair. On the motion of Mr Tanner it was resolved to call a public meeting for the purpose of incorporating the Bible in Schools Association. A snb-oommittee was appointed to draw up rules to be submitted to that meeting. The chairman read the letter that he had lately addressed to the Education Board, asking permission of that body to issue circulars to parents by means of the children attending the public schools in order to ascertain public opinion upon the subject of reading the Bible in the schools. The reply of the Board having been favorable, a motion was carried that the necessary circulars be issued to the head teachers of »he Hawke's Bay education district. A resolution reaffirming the object of the Association, and disclaiming any intention of promoting a return to denominationalism, being carried, the committee adjourned. A member of the London Stock Exchange, writing to The Times on March 21st, states : In 1875 theßritish Governmentpurchasedof the late Khedive of Egypt 176,602 Suez Canal shares at 20. At the present time the price of these shares is about 78, showing the v handsome profit of £10,242,916.

There is a singular picture in the Wanganui Exhibition •which, owing perhaps to the technical and repulsive nature of the subject, has hitherto escaped, notice. The Herald says that it seems even to have puzzled the compilers of the catalogue, for although numbered 74, and stated to be the property of Mr Joseph Annabell, it bears no name whatever. A medical man, however, will at once see what it is meant for. Two children, and a large dog, every one of the three suffering from advanced hydrocephalus (or dropsy of the brain), are standing upon the brink of a lake; and although flowers and playthings lie at the feet of the poor suffering children, it is evident from the pain depicted upon their countenances, that their thoughts are lunning upon suicide. v. A further instance of a lucky escape from the Tararua disaster has cropped up. The Bairnsdale (Victoria) paper publishes a letter written by Mr, George Barnes, of Christchurch, to his father, in the course of which he says:—" My luck in not going by the Tararua is something wonderful. I went from Christchurch to go in her, and waited all day to sail in her until twenty minutes to six in the evening, -when one of my mates here asked me to pay his fare to r Melbourne and he would come with me. I put my hand in my pocket, saying that I hpd but £6. thinking I had £15, viz., a £10 and a £5-note,—but to my surprise I had paid away the £10 note for £1 note at the bank for the draft I was taking home with me, and as I had not paid for my passage I intended coming to the Bank, seeing after the cash, and going by the next train to catch the steamer. But I was delayed so long that I missed her, lost the £10 note, and saved my life. That was the beat spent money I ever parted with since I was born. Had she gone anywhere near the time advertised, I aseuredly should have been in her. Two of my mates said she would sink as Boon as I told them ot the loss of the money."

Special meeting of the Union Eowing Club this evening at 8. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell tomorrow household furniture, &c, at 2 p.m.

Mr E. Lyndon will sell to-morrow, at the Grammar School, furniture, &c, at 11 a.m.

A concert and dramatic entertainment will be given in the Theatre Royal by the Gaiety Amateur Dramatic Club for the benefit of the Sutherland family on July 4th.

A meeting in connection with the Taradale Public Library will be held to-morrow evening.

Lost a black retriever pup,

Mr H. H. Wall notifies that Lie establishment will be closed at 6 o'clock every evening except Saturday.

Messrs H. Monteith and Co. will hold their monthly cattle sale at the Shamrock yards on the 6th July.

Messrs Kennedy and Gillman have fruit, butter, and cheese to arrive from Lyttelton.

Messrs Combs and Co advertise men a clothing in great rariety at low prices. The reward for hawk's feet will be discontinued from July 9

The annual meeting of the H.B. Acclimatisation Society will be held on July 9fch.

The general meeting of ratepayers of the Havelock Highway District will be held on the 28th July.

Mrs Trebitcock advertises as a monthly nurse. .

A first meeting of E. Bourgeois' creditors will be held on the sth of July.

Dr. Wilkins, F.R.C.S., has arrived in Napier, and can be consulted daily at Messrs Barraud and Bowerman's.

Messrs Monteith and Co. are buyers of good milling wheat. A number of new advertisements Trill be foundiuour "Wanted" column,