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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3153, 5 August 1881, Page 2

Messrs Monteith and Co. sold the West Olive and Shamrock Hotels this morning, Mr Lyndon was the purchaser at £2450. Captain W. R. Russell is expected at Napier to-morrow by the steamer Tβ Anau, and Mr Ormond leaves here for Wellington by the Rotomahana. Passengers for Sydney leaving by the Te Anau to-morrow will be transhipped into the Arawata at Auckland. It is expected that the Arawata will leave Auckland about the 9th instant. A general meeting of the members of the Napier Rifle Volunteers was held last night, when the following , officers were elected :— Mr R. W. Blythe, captain; Mr Cato, lieutenant; Mr King, sub-lieutenant. We are indebted to Mr Joseph Leonard for the following telegram :—" Gisborne, August 5. The captain of the Napier team (of footballers) has broken his leg. The match will not come off." This accident to Mr R. A. D. Mowbray will be a sad blow to his numerous friends in Napier. It will be seen by advertisement that the long-looked for sale of the Korokipo estate has been entrusted to Mr M. K. Miller. This magnificent property, consisting of 6250 acres of land, unsurpassed in quality of soil, is situated only about six miles from town, and is now being surveyed with the object of offering it to the public in agricultural and pastoral farms, varying in extent from 50 acres to 1300 acres. Jhe sale will be held in October. We have received from the publishers, Messrs Dinwiddie and Walker, a copy of a new monthly publication entitled the New Zealand Schoolmaster. The general " getup" and the printing form together a very creditable production, while the reading matter will no doubt prove of interest and value to teachers and pupils belonging to the State schools. The present number has been issued gratuitously. Owned, and presumably edited, by schoolmasters, the leading articles might have been expected to have been written grammatically, instead of presenting in many places glaring instances of slip-shod English. At the inquest at the Hospital yesterday afternoon on the body of the poor boy John Henry Cross his brother, Frank, aged eleven, deposed as follows:—He remembered Wednesday, 27th July. He and his brother were in the house, alone, their father being out rihooting and their mother at Petane. After breakfast the deceased reached to a shelf to get something, and he found two gun caps. Thore was a gun standing in one oorner of the room, and deceased said that if witnesss would fire one of the caps first he (deceased) would fire the second. The gun belonged to their father, but witness thought it had not been used this season, and they thought it was unloaded. Witness took one of the caps, and deceased handed the gun to him. He cocked it and put the cap on when the gun was between his legs, and was lifting it when the hammer was oaught by his clothes, and the gun went off. The deceased was just going into the adjoining bed-room, when witness snapped the cap, and deceased immediately fell down. Witness put down the gun and ran to pick up his brother, who said he had no use in his legs, and asked him to run for Mrs Stewart. Deceased was shot in the back with part of a ramrod. Mrs Stewart, Mrs Smith, and Mr Smith immediately went to the house, when witness told them his brother was shot, and they put witness into a cab to call for the doctor. Neither witness nor his brother knew there was anything in the gun, as the ramrod was broken short, and was concealed in the barrel. Other witnesses were called, who deposed to facts in connection with the sad affair with which our readers are already acquainted. The jury brought in a verdict of " Accidental Death."

The Poultry and Canary show to-nighfc. Mr Benjamin informs the public that he has re-opened the Blue Grum Store at Taradale with an entirely new stock. Mr M. E. Miller inserts a preliminary notice in reference to the sale of the J£orokipo and Moteo estates,

.-".■■'.•'.,. ~-■.. ,v-.-.;.,■-, ■■*■ ■ 'V^i^^H 'Messrs Monteitli and Co. will sell bo* morrow horses, produce, &c, at 1.30 p.m. The gift auction, soiree, and concert, m aid of the Catholic Chui'ch at Hastings, will take place on the lltli instant. "Walter Dewe is requested to call for letters at Mr Lee's office. Mr McLellan, an arranging debtor, will apply to the Supreme Court on the 12th . instant for a declaration of complete exeeu« tion of a deed of arrangement. Messrs Blythe and Co. invite tho publfjt , to view their windows ts-mght. *" *""y A golcl-mounted greenstone pendant haa v been lost. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.