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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 2

7>r. Reed, of Waipukurau, has been appointed a coroner within the colony. Mr George Ellis, being about to leave Napier, the resignation of his seat in the Borough Council may be expected very shortly. No candidates were nominated to-day to fill the seat in tho Municipal Counoil rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr J. Leonard. The tfducation Aot Amendment Bill, authorising tbe reading of the Bible in schools, was thrown out last night on a division by 52 to 15. It has been decided to amalgamate the Post and Telegraph Offices at Wanganui, and the ooming change appears to afford the residents there the liveliest gratification. ' Spectator' says that a few days since Mr Powell's colt Tally-ho, in trying to jump a gate, got rather badly staked under tho deep ribs, and will be thrown back in training at least a month in oonsequence. Mr E. F. Menzies announces that he has established himself in business as an accountant, general commission agent, and broker, his offices being in Emerson-street. Mr Menzies has had a long experience in business as bank agent in India, and as auditor of joint stock companies' accounts in London. Mr Menzies also purposes giving evening lessons in book-keeping and commercial arithmetic The friends and admirers of the late Mr Marcus Clark have decided to publish a memorial volume of the writings of that deceased gentleman, the work to be issued to subscribers at one guinea per copy, tbe prooeeds to bo devoted to his family. Mr Clarke was the author of " His Natural Life," and many other works well-known to readers in Australasia. Subscriptions will be received at the office of this paper. Active canvassing is going on in the Napier country districts by the partisans of the two sitting members, Mr Sutton and Captain Russell. These two gentlemen intend to oppose each other tooth and nail at the next elections, but whichever one is elected there is no intention on the part of either to support Mr Ormond. It would be a very good thing for thi? district if a third oandidate, a pronounced supporter of Mr Ormond, and of economy of administration, TfOuld come forth. It appears that one of the members of tbe Gaiety Club committee lost ten ticketß of admission to tbe recent performance in aid of the Page family. The whole of those tickets were presented at the door, and it is

to bo hoped that the persons using them will send the prico of tho tickets to the Rev. De Bordt Hovell aa conscience money. Of. course thoy will not do anything' of the kind ; but if we can ascertain the names of any of the persons who made use of those tioketa we shall have pleasure in publishing them.

A meeting of the committee of the Gaiety Amateur ))•auntie Club was held on Saturday evening, at which the balance-sheet of the recent peiforraaiice in aid of the " Page family " wan adopted, shewing that the receipts were £36 2s 6d, and the expenses £12 7s 6d, leaving a balance of £23 15s, a cheque for which was directed to be sent to the Rev. de Berdfc Hovell. A vote of thanks was pr.ssed to the proprietors of the Theatre, Messrs Ashton and Swan; for the gratuitous una of the buildingr, by whicb means the expenses were materially kept down.

The ordinary meeting.of the Napier School Committee was held last evening. Present: Messrs Dobson (in the chair), Craig, Williams, Fielder, Winter, McDougall, and McVay. A letter from the Education Bn«*_ -r as r ead informing the committee that £34 had been granted for furniture for the infant school. The secretary was instructed to direct the attention of the Board to the desirability of completing the alteration* in the school as soon as possible, in order that tbe committee might bring into force the compulsory clause of the Education "'ct. A letter from the secretary to the Bible in Schools Assooiution was read giving statistics of people in the district who are favorable to the re-introduction of Bible into the primary schools, and asking permission to distribute among the ihe ocholarH circulars for their parents with a view to arriving l at the opinion of the parents on the Biblo in Schoola question. On the motion of .Mr McDougall the request to distribute circulars in the schools was refused. Out of twenty-six applicants Mr E. Thompson was selected as oare-taker of the school. The oommittee then adjourned.

The crew of the schooner Telegraph suffered great privation during 1 the late bad weather' owing to not being able to enter the Waitara River when its onterance was Mocked by thw wreck of the p.s. Samson. The sohooner was from Kaipara, and was only provisioned for a week ; but, being out at sea ten days, without a ohanoe of reprovisioninj;, tbe crew were in a pitiable state. For three dttya nic/ were without water, and when a little rain fell they licked the deck. Attompts were made to prooure fresh water by evaporation from salt water, but without success; and the agony the men suffered was intense. The only food on board was som* pork, and that not overpood. After the Samson had been moved, and the steamers which bad been shut in the river by the wreck proceeded to tow the schooner in, the men's cry for water was almost heartrending. A bucket was hoisted on board, when pome of the men actually cried, their nerves being thoroughly unstrung through the loner privation from food and water.—Taranaki Herald.