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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3216, 20 October 1881, Page 2

We remind electors that any bet made on an election for the House of Representatives disqualifies the persons wagering from recording their votes, and subjeots them in addition to a penalty. An accident happened to a lad named Bedingfield on Tuesday. He was coining down a roadway near St. Mary's Church when he slipped over a cutting. He was stunned for a few seconds, but beyond a shaking and several very severe bruises it was found that he had suffered no other injury.

The provisional directors of the Recreation Ground Company have extended the time for receiving applications for shares to the end of the present month. Intending shareholders are requested to forward their applications without delay. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning John Fitzgerald was charged with obtaining the sum of £ I los from S. A. Snelling under false pretences, and pleading guilty, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. There is no foundation whatever for the report that Mr Ormond has offered to pay the election expenses of a certain member of the Bar in'this town on condition that he would oppose Mr Buchanan's candidature. The most absurd reports are constantly being started with the object of placing Mr Ormond in a false light, and for the purpose of obtaining tbe support of the Napier Liberal Association to secure the defeat of that gentleman. Sir Arthur Gordon returned from Fiji last night, just to late to bo consulted upon the propriety of knocking a little common sense into the heads of the deluded followers of Te Whiti. Sir Arthur will, probably, be much opposed to the union of Mr Bryce with the Government, and some even think that he will exercise one of his highest prerogatives and dismiss his responsible advisers. We do not think he will do anything of the sort. A correspondent asks whether it is any part of the duty of the secretary to the Hospital Committee to act as an electioneering agent ? Our correspondent thinks that any person employed to collect subscriptions for a public institution should not combine business for which be is paid with a canvass for Mr Smith and Mr Sutton; neither is he of opinion that it is quite in keeping with a charitable institution that its secretary should open " a book " on the general elections. We understand that, in consequence of the postponement of the Woodthorpe race meeting, it has been finally decided to hold the Petane meeting on the 2nd of January, 1882, instead of on tbe 29th December, as formerly proposed. The Petane Club are to be congratulated on being able to return to their oid day. The meeting is always an enjoyable one, and i(; would have been generally regretted if the fact of its being fixed for a day which was not held as a general holiday had interfered with its success. Tenders are invited for the removal of the buildings comprising the Clarendon Hotel, and for the erection of new premises. Tenders must be sent in to Mr T. R. Cooper, the architect, on or before November 7th ne_t. The plans for the new buildiner show that Mr Peddle, the proprietor, intends to spare no expense in making the Clarendon equal in every respect to the best hotel in New Zealand. This town has the reputation of offering better accommodation to visitors than any other borough in the colony, and the new Clarendon promises to add to the high character Napier already enjoys. The plans show two commercial rooms, large dining-room, private suites of apartments, billiard-room, and twenty bedrooms. The Daily Telegbaph Sheet Almanac for 1882 is now in course of preparation. This almanac has been published for six years, and has always been a popular medium for advertising with business men and others ; being issued with each copy of the Daily Telegbaph, and also with the Weekly Meectjby, it finds its way into almost every home in the provincial district. To make it additionally attractive this year the publishers propose, with the aid of the newest machinery at their disposal, to print the sheet in two or more colors. Advertisers wishing to secure prominent positions would do well to forward their favors to the office early, while those beiner waited on to prevent disappointment, should clearly understand that it is the Daily Telegraph Sheet Almanac they are advertising in, as no other medium can possibly have the wide circulation this sheet has. Regarding the demise of Mr Walter Sherwin, the Sydney Morning Herald says : — " Mr Sherwin, a vocalist, who has been before the Australian public for many years, died on the 21st September. After a successful concert season in China and Japan, Madame Carandini, with Miss Marie Carandini and Mr Sherwin, left Hongkong for Australia, and before the voyage had lasted many days Mr Sherwin was taken ill. His complaint, which was enlargement of the liver, became so serious that he had to remain for some days in Brisbane before he could gather sufficient strength to come on to Sydney, and for days before his death it was evident that there was no hope of his recovery. Mr Sherwin came to Sydney with Miss Julia Harland, Mr Farquson Smith, and Mr Linley Norman, in the year 1856. The operatic stage owes something to Mr Sherwin, who was the tenor of his time. Mr Sherwin was always business manager of the Carandini company as well as first tenor. When travelling from Ararat to Hamilton, in the tour of 1863, Mr Sherwin lost his hand through the bursting of a gun. He continued his professional career, and maintained his tenor voice to the last. Mr Cary's opera company, in their second representation of " Les Cloches de Corneville," gave another most enjoyable musical and dramatic treat to play-goers last night. Immense credit is due to Mr Cary for bringing together so strong a company of artistic talent, for without exception it is the best that has hitherto visited Napier. It is a great thing to say of a company numbering so many members, that they are all good, but this can be said with perfect truth of the ladies and gentlemen under Mr Cary's management; while, in addition to excellent voices and professional ability brought to bear in the production of opera, we have had the further treat of witnessing in their performances the perfection of stage effects in artistic grouping of figure and harmony of color. In our previous notice we have referred to the admirable manner in which " Les Cloches de Corneville " was produced, and last night nothing was wanted to make the piece a genuine success. Miss Leaf, Miss Murielle, Mr Porter, and Signor Morley, had all in turn to repeat the many beautiful gems which fell to their parts, and with which the opera abounds, while more than one chorus was deservedly encored. The " Sorcerer "is to be produced to-night, and from the reputation of this grand work of Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan it maybe safely predicted that there will be a crowded house.