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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3486, 8 September 1882, Page 2

A report of the proceedings of the Waipawa County Council yesterday, our Wairoa correspondent's letter, and other interesting information, will be found in our fourth page to-day. There was no business before the R.M. Court to-day. Mr Saunders, the engineer of the Napier Harbor Board, is out in the Sir Donald today taking soundings of the bay on behalf of that body. At the sitting of the Central Licensing Court to-day the licenses held by Charles Helander of the Exchange Hotel, and by Jane Ferguson of the Criterion Hotel, were transferred on application to William Smith and Patrick Gorman respectively. Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R., returns from the seat of government by the Manapouri, which vessel leaves Wellington to-night. Mr Smith, the member for Waipawa, leaves on Monday overland. We have not heard anything respecting Mr Buchanan's movements. We hear that the lunatic asylum at Napier is crowded, and that the unfortunate female inmates have to be herded together at night. We also hear that there are not sufficient female attendants to adequately superintend the female patients. We give the report for what it is worth, but we are under the impression that tbere must be some foundation for what ia being so freely spoken about. A correspondent, grumbling afc the price of coal in Napier, states that in no other part of New Zealand are the wharfage dues so high as here. In Napier they amount to 2s Gd per ton on coal, but at other places special rate, are made for that commodity. In Lyttelton the dues are ls 6d per ton, and at all the other principal ports they are only a shilling The subject is one that already en<*aged°the attention of tho Harbor Board, but further consideration of the subject seems desirable. At a meeting held in the Oddfellows' Hall Waipawa, at the conclusion of the public meeting on the harbor question last ui_ht, a company was floated to take over Messrs Bridge and Bussell's flour nulls at On<*a Onga, with a view to working the business as a joint stock concern We understand it is the intention of the comp_ny to remove the buildings and machinery from their present site, and have thera erected in Waipawa, on a section adjacent to the railway line. The debate on the question, f .' Is the introduction of the cl6ture into our JJouses of Parliament desirable ?" that took place last evening between gentlemen representing the Napier and the Clive Square Mutual Improvement Associations respectively, attracted only a moderate attendance. Messrs Laws and McKay supported the RfßrmatiTe, and Messrs J. Sidey and T.

Gilpin the negative side of the question. The negative aspect was clearly the more popular one with those preient, and waa adopted on a vote by a large majority. Extensive preparations are being made in Waipawa for celebrating the anniversary of the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., which event takes place on Wednesday next. The half-yearly meeting of the district officers and lodge delegates will be held in the forenoon, and at the conclusion of the business there will be a procession of members of the order, to be succeeded by a dinner and ball. It is expeoted that tha celebration will be largely attended, and we have no doubt it will prove as successful al those of former yean, which is saying a good deal. The fire-bell was rung at one o'olook to day, and naturally caused the usual exoitement. A rush of people was made towards Holt's timber yards, and the hand engine and hose-reel were quickly run out and taken down there. It appeared that a spark from the engine had ignited the wood work beneath the iron roofing; the fire had been discovered by the hands on the premises, but their efforts failing to extinguish it the alarm was given to the lire Brigade station. The brigade very soon put the fire out, and no damage wai done. This is tho second time within tha past week or ten days that a fimilar accident has occurred at thia timber yard. We hear that the cause of the danger lies in the fact that between the rafters of the building, which are close boarded, and the iron roof there is necessarily a space in which wood dust enters and easily ignites by a spark from the engine. It is intended to strip the rcof of the boarding, so that, should a spark get between the sheets of corrugated iron, it must fall on the floor, where, being instantly seen, it would not be allowed to do any mischief. Notwithstanding the tightness of money, and the business depression that has followed the recent inclement weather in the country districts generally, Professor Moore, of the Medical Hall, Waipawa, has largely increased Lis stock, and is now offering white enamel sufficient to atop 12 teeth at ls!; scents in great variety from ls to IC_ per bottle; toilet sets 17s 6d to 355.—• [Advt.] Lord Byron's inspiration.—lt is related of the Poet, that when his Muse was chary of her divine afflatus, he would indulge in liberal potations of gin. Some of his finest flights of imagination were plumed, as it were, from out of these beakers of the ordinary Geneva (Gin). Had TTDOLPHO Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps existed in hi. day the splendor of " Childe Harold," the "Corsair," "Lara,'* and other productions might have been still more intensified.—[Advt.J