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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3270, 24 December 1881, Page 2

On Monday next (Boxing Day), The Daily Telegraph will not be published.

We regret to learn that Mr J. H. Weaver, postmaster, Waipawa, is laid up with an attack of scarlet fever. We sincerely wish Mr Weaver a speedy recovery. The Corporation offices will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, and the Education Board and Hawke's Bay County Council offices on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

The public amusements on Boxing Day will be the races at Hastings, athletic sports at Waipawa, and Cary's Opera Juvenile Company's performance at the Theatre Royal at Napier. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Catherine Williams was put forward on remaud charged with lunacy. His Worship ordered the dismissal of the prisoner. There was no other business before the Court. We learn that at a meeting of the Gaiety Club, held last night, it was resolved to break up the club forthwith. The cause of this sudden collapse has not yet been made public, and as it would be useless for us to anticipate in the matter, we meantime leave it an open question. The Napier Cricket club will be represented by the following players in the match at Waipukurau on Tuesday next v. the Waipawa County Club : —Messrs Carnell, Edwards, Ellison, White, Gilpm, Mayo, Gilderd, H. Martin, J- Martin, Fulton, and Gibbons. The team is requested to meet at the 7.30 train on Tuesday morning. The following team has been chosen to represent the Civil Service Cricket Club in the match with the Waipawa County on the Waipukurau ground on Monday next 26th December: —Craig, Cropman, E. L. Ingpen, F. Ingpen, Ashton, Luxford, Mountier, Northcroft, Pirani, Poole, Robinson, and Wilson ; umpire, Mr C. Halliday. Ihe Artillery Band will play the following pieces in front of the engine station at 9.30 this evening:—Quick step, "Valley of Roses;" Chrismas anthem, "Hail, Promised Saviour ;" Christmas hymn, " Adeste Fideles;" fantisia, "Queen's Prize;" waltz, " Daybreak ;" polka, " Crack Shot;" schottische, " Vaudeville ;" " God Save the Queen." Members of the band are requested to meet at 8.45 o'clock. In honor of the festive season a number of our local tradesmen and hotel-keepers have taken some pains in the decoration of their several places of business, both inside and out. Bunting is also displayed from two or three of the Hastings-street houses, whilst all the shop windows are tastefully laid out with Christmns delicacies, and, in some instances, mottoes suited to the occasion. Throughout the whole forenoon the town presented a busy appearance. Mr Gillies informs us that he has been very successful, so far, in his endeavours to establish a Foresters' brass band for Napier Already subscriptions have been received or promised to the amount of about £15. Messrs John Buchanan and F. Sutton heading the list with two guineas and one guinea respectively. Those persons who may have promised subscriptions, and have not yet sent their amounts in, are respectfully invited to do so as early as possible, in order that complete arrangements for making a start may be effected.

The Fire Brigade will give a pyrotechnic exhibition in front of the engine station tonight, and to enable every one to have a good view of the display it is requested that the crowd of spectators will keep well back from the road on the open space between the station and the Court House. We trust the police will also prevent the cracker nuisance. One man was severely burnt last year by a cracker falling on his neck, and ladies' dresses are not safe from injury when boys indiscriminately throw these wretched fireworks amongst a crowd.

The subscriptions for the purpose of providing the recipients of charitable aid with a Christmas dinner were amply sufficient for the purpose. Sergeant Mahon, the almoner to the Charitable Aid Committee, expended the money in the purchase of Christmas pudding " fixings," ham, beef, butter, jams, tobacco, lemonade, and beer sufficient to give each man a couple of pints. There are only seven men and one woman in the Refuge, and after abundantly supplying their wants a little . money was lefc over to give assistance to the out-door indigent poor. Those who so kindly and promptly responded to our call will derive a pleasure from knowing that their donations hare been faithfully applied.

We are requested to state that _ the stewards of the race meeting at Hastings on Monday have arranged for the services of the Napior band, and for two totalisators. As innocent amusement, in the shape of monkey and canary sweeps, and other harmlees games formerly peculiar to race courses, is now contrary to the Act made and provided for the suppression of enjoyment, the stewards have done wisely to provide a band for the encouragement of open air dancing. As dancing is awfully wicked in the estimation of some purists, perhaps some goody-goody idiot had better move for the insertion of a clause in the Act to prohibit men from putting their arms round girls' waists during a waltz.

The 10.56 train this morning was behind time more than half-an hour on its arrival at Napier owing to the delays caused at the various stations by the goods' traffic. The train was one of the longest that has been sent along the line, the trucks being loaded with wool. At this season of the year it would not be a difficult matter to ascertain the probable quantity of wool and timber to be conveyed from the several stations, and

arrangements, we think, might be made to run a goods train so many times a week in order to overtake the traffic. It so happened to-day that tho launch was to leave with outward passengers for the Rotomahana at 11 o'clock, and, if any country settlers had come by the train to go South by the steamer, they would have lost their passages. Miss Stenson, the matron, of the Napier Hospital, has been requested by the patients, as well as by the inmates of the Refuge, to return their best thanks to the subscribers who so kindly thought of them at this Christmas time. Elixir Vitje is the classical name of that cordial that vitalizes the human frame by quickening the action of its organs, stimulating its functions, and diffusing throughout the system a healthy glow. It is a significant and expressive combination of words, pregnant with recuperative and restorative powers. It is an embodiment of the idea conveyed by Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatic Schnapps, that pleasant carminative, agreeable adjuvant, and infallible tonic, the one, true, and reliable " Elixir Vite."—[_Adyt.]

Banner and Liddle dispose of the whole of the stock of E. Gillett, storekeeper, Waipawa, on Wednesday next. The Corporation offices will be closed till 10 a.m. on Wednesday next. Ed word Gillett, of Waipawa, has filed a declaration of inability to meet his engagements. B. B. Johnson has been appointed creditors' trustee in the estate of Henry Thomas, of Waipawa. The time-table of the Petane line of W coaches is published. Leonard and Co hold a sheep and cattle sale on or about January 24, at Petane. Leonard and Co. sell race horses on Saturday, 31st instant. Fish can be procured at the Spit or in town from Martin. Neal and Close hold a special bazaar tonight. Lost a silver souvenir brooch. Stop and look at Jacobs' Christmas tables to-night. John Nicholson has become the proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, Waipawa. Beecroft and Vaughan supply refreshments at the grand stand rooms, Hastings race meeting, on Monday. Fishing excursion on board the Maori onMonday. On the petition of W.L. Rees, Puki Puki Tauhinu has been declared a bankrupt. " Look at this " is the heading of a notice inserted.