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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3253, 5 December 1881, Page 2

The Municipal Public Works Committee sits this evening. Messrs Price and Innes have dissolved partnership, and a deed of arrangement has been signed by them in favor of Messrs Shannon and Banbury for the benefit of the creditors. For the future the Resident Magistrate will hold his Court at Ormondville instead of at Kopua as formerly. The first sitting of the Court at OrmondviUe will be held on the 14th instant.

There was no Church of England service at Meanee on Sunday night, and the congregation, after waiting half an hour, retired to their homes.

In addition to the list of horses entered for the Publican's Purse Handicap, Petane races, the secretary informs us that Captain Russell's nomination for his horse Sydney was received by telegram after the list had been despatched to us.

Nominations for the Hurdle Bace and Pakowhai Handicap of the Hawko's Bay Racing Club meeting, to be held on Boxing Day, will close at the Masonic Hotel on Tuesday evening, 6th inst., at 9 p.m.

The jurction of Shakespeare-road and Hastings-street presents a melancholy appearance. Messrs Price and Innes' drapery establishment is closed; the shop lately occupied by Mr Morgan, tailor, has its shutters up, and the old Clarendon Hotel is dismantled, prior to the erection of a new building.

We are requested to contradict a rumour that Mr McDougall is posting to the electors of Napier a pamphlet entitled " The publicans' claim to be compensated under the local option system." The pamphlet in question is, we understand, being issued by the Good Templars through their Napier district executive.

Mr Sutton was slightly incorrect in one of his addresses in which he said that Captain Russell had made a fortunate bargain in native lands in having bought 40,000 acres at Is 6d per acre, which he shortly afterwards sold for £20,000. The fact is Capiain Russell only bought 30,834 acrea at la lid per acre, and sold 11,762 acres for £20,583, leaving 19,072 acres for himself.

The though tlesness of children was well exemplified the other day. One of Mr J. P. Hamlin's little boys, having become the happy possessor of a brass toy cannon, loaded it with powder and shot, and then, standing in front of the muzzle, applied the light to the touch-hole, with the result of course that he received the charge in his own body. We are glad to learn that nothing more serious happened than what was remedied by picking the shot out of the youngster's skin.

It is generally understood that the temperance bodies intend giving a united vote in the present election, in which case it will prove an important factor in the result. The candidates have all been questioned on the subject of the licensing laws, and their answers have been carefully considered. We are informed on good authority that, pending Mr McSweeney's meeting l , no absolute decision bas been arrived at by the lodges, beyond a very clear understanding that their votes will not go to Mr McDougall.

Mr Gillies has, we understand, been actively engaged during several weeks past in the direction of organizing a Foresters' drum and fife band for Napier, with the result that he has now succeeded in securing the assistance of several good instrumentalists. The intention is to admit both adults and juveniles into the band, and to impart a good training to the younger members especially. We hope the movement may be successfully carried to an issue. A meeting of those interested will be held to-night at the Ei re Brigade station, Napier, at 8 o'clock. Those electoral rolls again. Mr Ormond' 8 name appears on the Napier roll and the Waipawa roll under the residential qualification. By the Act no man can live in two districts, so Mr Ormond loses a vote for the electorate he is standing for, although he has been a freeholder there for some twenty years. But this is not the only mistake; a John Laurenso .1 is put down in the Hawke's Bay roll as resident at Kopua, which is in Waipawa, and again in the Waipawa roll under the same qualification. Mr C. G. Smyth is also on two rolls under the residential qualification. Is no one responsible for all these blunders ? Under the signature of " Catholic " a correspondent .writes ■ —"A rumor wag pretty widely circulated in town 'last week that the Catholics had been instructed to give a block vote to Mr McSweeney at the coming election, tut there is not a word of truth in the statement. From what I can hear this rumor has been promulgated by Mr McSweeney himself, and I can only assure bim that if he thinks Le can coerce the Catholic vote by this procedure he is sadly mistaken. Earthermore, I can tell Mr McSweeney that the Catholics are quite competent to judge for themselves as to the merits of the best man, ar>d that the large majority do not think that he is the proper person to represent usin Parliament."

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Matthew Peterson was fined 5s or 48 hours for being drunk and incapable at Hastings on Sunday. John Browne and William Campbell were dealt with in a similar manner. Frederick Adams, for using obscene language, was fined 10s. James Watson, for leaving a horse and vehicle unattended in the streets of Napier, was fined 5s and costs. Thomas Glasson, for allowing three cows to wander on a public road in the Borough of Napier, was fined 5s and costs. In the case of Beecrof t v. Mason, assault, the defendant was fined £5 and costs, or in default one month's imprisonment. Helander v. Roper, claim £9 Is for rent, &c, judgment for £4 16s and 20sts. Roper v. Helander, claim £8 lis Bd., wages, &c.; judgment for £5, and £1 Is counsel's fee.

A narrow escape from drowning occurred this morning. Two little children, one the daughter of Mr Parker, aged about three years, and tbe other the son of Mr Sweetapple, a year or two older, wandered on to the beach, and going too close to the surf were caught by a wave and carried out to sea. Most fortunately Mr Crossman, of the Telegraph Department, was on the beach road near the Fire Brigade station, and Constable Pickering was at the Court House, and both hastened to the spot. Mr Crossman recovered the boy, and Constable Pickering, who had to swim out, saved the girl, another minute and the latter would have been drowned. The little girl was carried to Mr Wellsman's, and f he usual methods were adopted to restore animation. Dr. Spencer was sent ior, and he applied restoratives that in a short time enabled the child to be sent to her home.

Mr M'Dougall asks the electors to send him to Parliament if they think he is possessed of sufficient ability, and fairly sound on political matters. Mr M'Dougall seems to hold very uncertain views as to what is sound and what is shaky in connection with politics. The first qualifiation of a politician is to be firm in principle, courteous in manner; but, as far as we can judge, Mr M'Dougall's principles, apparently, are as variable as the wind. We have heard him speak on a conservative platform in the Protestant Hall: he shortly afterwards joined the liberals; he next hawked his literary services, and would have sold them to the highest bidder; he then left his trade, and joined a newspaper ; then deserted his old political associates, betrayed private conversation and private correspondence, and announced himself a candidate for Parliament. If that is being sound on political matters then Mr M'Dougall is as firm as a rock, but in preference let us have the shifting sands of the ocean beach. A great deal of nonsense has been talked in the Municipal Council at various times about the future centre of this town. Crs. Swan, McDougall, and deLisle, backed up by His Worship the Mayor, would have the ratepayers believe that, at some not distant date Clive Square will be more central than where the post oSice, the banks, the Court House, aud General Government offices are now situated. Everybody knows, however, that where the great public offices are there will be found the chief centre of a town. Why does not the Corporation apply for the right to build at the back of the present Government buildings ? Another plan which has been suggested is that, as the Government buildings are of wood, and very old, and the business of important departments is being carried on in them, tbe time cannot be distant when the Government will find it necessary to erect permanent offices. The plans of these

future permanent buildings might be prepared so as to include municipal offices, and the Corporation might at once build the portion intended for itself.

Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam: Aromatic Schnapps acts directly upon the urinary organs, removing all renal obstructions, and expelling all other "impedimenta." It permeates the bladder, and eradicates in- - flammation. It courses, with a gentle stimulative glow, through the alimentary canal, and by rapidly assimilating the food wo take into thesystem, acts as a safeguard against indigestion and dyspepsia. It dis-~ tributes the gastric juices where they should be most operative, and by toning the tissues fits the body for the proper performance ol its functions.—[_Adyt.]