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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3212, 15 October 1881, Page 2

The final performance of the Lydia Howarde troupe was given at the Theatre Royal last night. There was a good attendance, and the performance was a very successful one.

We have been requested by Capt. Garner to state that the annual class firing of the Artillery Volunteers will take place shortly. Members will receive notice when all arrangements are complete.

On the fourth page of this issue will he found an interesting account of the professional team of English orioketers that will shortly arrive in the colonies, with the batting and bowling averages for the past season.

We learn that the longest train that has ever arrived at the Napier station came in last evening, conveying the unsold exhibits from the Hastings show. The train consisted of 6 carnages, 33 trucks, and 1 wagon.

Monday being the anniversary of the opening of the Bank of New Zealand the branches all over the colony will be closed.

There were no less than eight cases of drunkenness at the R.M. Court to-day, all of which, with me exception, were dealt with in the usual manner. One of the defendants named Doyle appearpd in Court in a half-intoxicated state, and His Worship remanded him till Monday.

The nomination for the vacancy in the North Ward caused by the retirement of Mr Ellis from tho Municipal Council was made yesterday. Mr John Thomas Renouf was the only person nominated, and the Returning Officer notifies that he will declare Mr Renouf duly elected on Friday, the 28 th instant.

The Union Steam Ship Company have removed to their new offices at Port Ahuriri. In the old offices, small and inconvenient as they were, the public were always treated with civility and attention by the courteuos manager and his assistant, and in the handsome offices just completed there is ample accommodation and convenience for the travelling public who have business with the company.

The prospects of an exciting contest for the East Coast electorate at the coming elections are improving-. Mr Gannon has declared his intention of contesting the seat. His candidature will probably interfere with Captain Porter's chances, and may possibly take a few yotea from Mr McDonald, so that th 9 principal result of it will be to improve the probabilities of Mr Locke's return.

The following amounts were paid to day at the settling for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's recent meeting :—Mr Walters—for the Hawke's Bay Guineas £145, Maiden Plate £50, total £195. Mr DouglasHurdle Race £60. Mr Lyon—Hack hurdle Race £15. Mr M'Donald—Spring Handicap—£2ls. Mr Mason—Hack Race £15. Mr P. Martin—Flying Handicap £6t). Total, £560. We learn that the Club has. a balance in hand after the late meeting of £300, after paying for all improvements.

The district of Hawke's Bay is to be congratulated upon the almost entire absence of anything like drunkenness and rowdyism from its annual public gatherings The race meetings at Hastings and Pakowhai on Tuesday and Wednesday last were remarkable for the order and good feeling that prevailed, and the large crowd which assembled at Hastings on the second day of the show was strikingly quiet and decorous. The services of the police were Boarcely ever required in the way of keeping order, but efforts to keep the crowds out of danger from the horses during the races, and also durinsr the matohes at the water jump on the show day, were conducted with a degree of courtesy and success whioh refleots credit upon their tempers and training. The police charges at the R.M. Court during the week have been confined to a few drunks.

We again remind onr readers that the Cary Opera Company will open to-night at the Theatre Royal in the " Pirates of Penzance." Referring to the performances of this piece in Wellington the New Zealand Times says:—" The fun and delioate satire of the piece, the humorous blending of the improbable and the probable, the serious and the outrageously ridiculous, scarcely dawns upon the observer at first blush. People go home with the full impression that they have witnessed something new, striking, and original, and as they think over the night's amusement one after the other subtle points of sarcasm and infinite jest are recalled, and they enjoy the morning recollection of the performance quite as muoh as the aotual presentment, and so they come again, and the audience, the first night quietly critical, becomes the next night most demonstratively well pleased." On the fourth page will be found an interesting sketoh of the plot of the " Pirates."