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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3497, 21 September 1882, Page 2

On our back page will be found an ably written and interesting letter in defence of the action of the Legislative Council with regard to the Land Act Amendment Bill. Abo on. tho same page are published lettsrs from our Norsewood and Ormondville correspondents. In tbo Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., C. J. Malvern pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Napier yesterday, and was fined os aud costs, including 2s for cab hire. The Hawke's Bay portion of the English mail via San Francisco—both letters and newspapers—will arrive here this evening by the overland route from Wellington, and will be delivered into the private boxes at the Post Office to-night. Mr Grubb requests us to acknowledge receipt of the following sums towards the Jack relief fund:—Mr D. Gollan, £3 3s; Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R., £2 2s; Messrs Mackersey and Son, £2 2s ; Mr E. Lyndon, £1 Is; MrT A. Caldwell, £1 Is; Mr S. Johnson, £1 Is ; Mr S. Gollan, £1 Is ; Mr John Bennett, £1 Is; Mr James Taylor, 10?. Some amusement was caused on the adjournment of the Municipal Council last night hy His Woißhip the Mayor, on the

conclusion of the reading of the string of notices of motion, saying to Cr. Margoliouth " Why was not there a notice of motion giving me three month's notice to quit?" Cr. Margoliouth replied, " Oh, you go out of office next November any way, so notice to quit wasn't wanted "

At the Waipawa Police Court yesterday before A. St. C. Inglis, Esq., J.P., John Russell, Elizabeth Russell, and Henry Maxwell, were jointly charged hy the police with the larceny of a pocket-book containing £5, the property of Mr A. McKenzie, Ormondville. The two firstnamed defendants were also charged, on two separate counts, with having used obscene language in the hearing of persona in a public place, and with threatening behavior. There was also a separate charge of threatening behavior against Maxwell. The police offered merely formal evidence, and applied for the prisoners to be remanded till Wednesday next. The Bench agreed to this course.

A young lad, the son of Mr Pocock, painter, had a narrow escape from receiving a fatal accident last evening. It appears that, while a cab was being driven up the White road, the boy hung on behind, and, by some unaccountable means, became jammed between the springs of the cab and the hind wheel. Fortunately the driver noticed the obstruction, and immediately applied the brake and stopped the vehicle, and, after some little difficulty, extricated the boy from his uncomfortable position. The little fellow must have been bruised considerably, and the only wonder is that a more serious accident did not result. This should act as a warning to children who are in the habit of hanging on behind carriages as to the danger they incur by so doing.

Afc the Public Works Committee last Monday night every councillor was under the impression that arrangements had been completed between the Corporation and the Harbor Board—by what means nobody thought to enquire—for the construction of an approach to the Port Ahuriri bridge through one of the Board's reserves. It never oceured to any one that the engineer would havn based a recommendation for a work involving the expenditure of £150 on a private conversation. It only came to the knowledge of the chairman of the Public Works Committee late yesterday afternoon that a recommendation had been made for a work that could not be undertaken till the consent of the Harbor Board had been Hence the clause in the report relating to the bridge approach had to be struck out.

The circus was crowded again last night, when an entirely new programme was presented, including some daring feats on the flying trapeze, which were neatly and cleverly performed. The "leap for life" and Mr Gillbam's four-horse act were also very much admired. Jo Kitchi, the Japanese juggler, was highly successful in his sleight of hand tricks, several of which excited no small degree of wonder amongst the audience. An amusing contretemps occurred during the evening, caused by an apparently inebriated individual who rolled into tbe ring and insisted on riding one of the horses. Considerable apprehension for the man's safety was felt and expressed by those not "in the secret,'' amongst the number of the innocents being a wellknown police constable, who promptly arrested the object of his solicitude and marched him out of the arena, where mutual explanations took plase, resulting in the immediate return of the practical joker, who proved to be no other than Mr Gillham, the equestrian. The performance concluded with the spectacular drama entitled " Dick Turpin's Ride to York," introducing the full strength of the company. Of the characters in this piece those of the Beadle of Westminster and his chivalrous son " Sammy" were perhaps the best; the latter character especially was acted with considerable humor. " Black Bess " was of course the great attraction. The death scene was highly realistic, and the animal never moved a muscle or exhibited the least signs of life until carried off at the clobo of the performance. To-night the same programme will be repeated, and we have no doubt it will draw a full house.

"To do good rather than to be conspicuous " ought to be the motto of everyone who has the welfare of his fellow man at heart. With this laudable object in view Professor Moore, of Waipawa, buys all his goods for cash, and keeps only articles of the best quality procurable in the market. Attention is respectfully directed to his present large stock of calves foot jelly, and Liebig's extract of meat, which will be disposed of at a slight advance oyer cost.—[Arm;.]

No family should be without it. For there is no dietary regimen so strict, but there sometimes oscurs an infraction of it. The most careful and abstemious will now and then have a twinge of stomachic pain, a little touch of indigestion, a colic, or cramp, a dyspeptic tendency, often superinduced by no visible or tangible cause, and in the sudden emergency, no remedy is more reliable, none more infallible, than Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.—[Advt.]