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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3507, 3 October 1882, Page 2

To-day being observed as a holiday on account of the races the town presented the melancholy appearance peculiar to euch an occasion. All the shops were closed, and scarcely a soul was to be seen in the streets. There is a rumor (says a Gisborne paper) that Mr J. D. Orunond, of Hawke's Bay, will become the purchaser of the interests of Messrs Clarke and Dobbie in the Okahutia run, and also of the stock grazing thereon. The price stated ia £13,500. The unsightly footpath in front of the Clarendon Club Hotel stands a ebance of being widened and brought round in a curve to match the opposite side of the street. Mr Peddie, when the improvement is effected, will erect a lamp-post for a gas light, which will be a public convenience. The Ashburton Mail mentions that the crops in the district are now looking splendid and healty. In the Jfethven district they are both high and strong, and there is every prospect at the present time of a bountiful harvest. The wheat crop throughout the country is in a very forward condition. The Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show commences to-morrow, but, as a rule, the first day is only interesting to judges, stewards, exhibitors, and intending buyers of sheep. There will be nothing, or next to nothing , , but sheep on the ground. The gates will be open after 11 a.m. to the public, the price of admission being ss. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writing , on August 10th, says: — " Mr (J-. M. Reed is still seen about London in connection with the East Coast Native Lands Settlement Company, in furthering whose business 1 believe he has been very successful. It is probable that he wil return to the colony shortly. His family are living at Jersey." At the time of the fire which destroyed Mr Sinclair's painter's shop ia Eraereonetreet much dissatisfaction was expressed at the manner in which the steam fire engine worked. The cause was not the fault of the engine, but wae due to some thoughtlessness that led to the saltwater well being mado a drain for stormwater. The silt that thus found its way into the well choked the auction pipe of the engine. Boucicault's domestic drama " The Willow Copse" will be performed in the Theatre Royal to-night by a number of local amateurs who have had the piece in rehearsal for a considerable time past under the able tuition of Mr W, Hodgson. Some new scenery, painted expressly for the occasion by Mr Briggs, will be used for the first time, and Mr Garry's band will be in attendance. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Hospital library fund. We are glad to observe that, from the number of entries that have been made, the flower show to be held on Thursday promises to prove a considerable attraction to visitors, and ought to be well attended. There will be about one hundred exhibits, cut flowers and vegetables being most numerously entered for competition. The special prizes are also well competed for, and altogether the show will be a welcome and pleasing addition to the various displays of the day. At the Waipawa Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before A. St. C. Inglis, Esq., J.P., a lad about 14 years of age, nacied O'Leary, who has several times suffered imprisonment for various acts of theft, was charged by the police with the larceny of a horse, saddle, and bridle, the property of Mr E. Bird, Waipawa Bush. No evidence was taken, the police asking for a remand to see if steps could be taken to get O'Leary placed in an industrial school. The Bench concurred in this, and the case was remanded for one week. The resignation of Mr W. Parker of his office of Receiver of Rates will be heard with regret by the ratepayers. Since Mr Parker has held the appointment he has brought such method and care to bear upon his office that the work attaching to it can be performed with facility and despatch. He is an officer that the Corporation can scarcely afford to lose, and we are glad to notice that the Public Works Committee have recommended to the Council that he be requested to hold his appointment to the end of the year, when, it is to be hoped, some satisfactory arrangements can bo entered into by which his services can be permanently retained. During the September quarter last there were in the Waipawa County Hospital M patients, being 17 males and 3 females, ot which 11 were discharged aa cured 2 died and 7 remain. Of those that died 1 was from acute eczema and 1 from Iterated lung and fractured ribs. Of the U that were discharged as cured 1 was chlorine, 1 injury to foot, 2 fatty degeneration, 1 injury to lip 1 fractured fibula, 1 fractured rib* 1 ulcer of leg, 1 fractured humerus , 1 alcholism structure of uretha, 1 alchohsm, 1 arsenical poisoning. Of those remaining in 1 is debility, 1 chronic desg nep, 1 rupia, 1 eczema, 1 anoemia, 1 alcholism, abscess, and phthisis. The receipts for the September quarter were £116 6s, and the expenditure £169 13s 3d. The balance to ciedit w the bank is £251 8s Bd.

The Southern Cross Petroleum Company (limited), has received its fortnightly report from the works. Since the shaft has been taken out of the hands of the late contractor, the interim working: has caused the bottom to r "o abo" t nine feet, and had buckled and carried away the sett. The manager got to worklvS hie now hands, and had cleared ill away, obtaining the original depth on Tuesday 19th. The lowest sett then about to be put in. 2ft. Cinches in depth, was commenced, and after three days work in very rapidly rising ground taking out 48 cubic yards of earth, instead of an estimated three yards, was successfully put in on Friday,

23rd. Mr Hilton states that the vefrufrom irhich the gas issues are full of-petroleum. Che difficulty in passing through this oil rearing vein has been great, but it is conlidered by him that quieter ground for linking is now reaohed. It ia curiou* to note ihat the rising bottom brought up with it an length of tube from the second lore.—P.B. Herald.

It is notified in last week'e Gazette that tie grant of £6000 in aid of public libraries W.ll be distributed on the 31st January, ISB3. All claims to be sent in according to piescribed form before the 22nd of that m>nth. Every public library maintained bj rates ■will bo entitled to share in the distribution according to its income from ratee ; and every library maintained by subscription and voluntary contributions will be entitled to share according to its income from subscriptions and voluntary contributions ; provided in either case that admission to the library if within a borough, is open to the public free of charge. The income of each library may be stated either for the year ending 31st December, 1882, or for the year ending with that" day in the year 1892 on which the annual accounts of the library were made up. The distribution will not be in proportion to the several incomes of the libraries ; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each income, and the vote of £6000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented. Tho manager of the American Coaoh Factory, Mr J. Foster, will make a fine display of carriages at the Show" *o£' Thursday. He has had eleven varities of vehicles completed for the occasion, which will certainly reflect the highest credit on their builders. Somo of the carriages present dibtinct novelties, as in a gentleman's village phaeton, a Whitechapel cart, and a four-wheel dog-cart, in the making of which the panels are of plain polished kauri, and the framework and wheels of hickory and ash. The effect is very good, while the absence of paint, we should think, will preserve the fresh appearance of the car.riages. The village phaeton is a most ueeful vehicle for the country, and only weighs 3J cwt. In addition to the above Mr Foster will show a Stanhope gig, built to the order of Dr. de Lisle, an excellent specimen of workmanship, and the first of its kind in this Dart of the colony. There are aleo for exhibition three double-seated buggies, strong handsome carriages, and a beautifully finished lady's basket phaeton, which has the merit of showing what can be done here in the way of osier growing and basket work, which latter, will bear the most favorable comparison with the imported article. The basket work is from the hands of Mr White, of Emerson street. There is also for the show what is called a buck-board waggon, a sort of racing express cart, which weighs only a little over 2 J cwt. The list of intended exhibits is completed by a two-wheel dog-cart. The whole of these carriages have been fitted with the very best materials, and the greatest care has been taken to finish them in every particular in a style that must not only do credit to the Napier American Coach Factory, but afford excellent specimens of colonial carriage building.

The Public Works Committee of the Municipal Council held their usual meetinglast evening, and decided to recommend the Council as follows: —1. That Mr Parker be requested to retain hie appointment until the end of the year, and if he refuse to do so that Mr Williams be instructed to perform the duties of receiver of rates at the end of this current month, viz., 31st of October. 2. That Mr Black be requested to commence his new duties as inspector of nuisances, overseer, inspector of hackney carriages, &c, on the Ist of November next. 3. That a select committee be appointed to inspect the whole system of the mode of keeping , the books, &c.; the committee to consist of Cr. Margoliouth and four other members of the Council, to be chosen by ballot. 4. That a reply be forwarded to Dr. Spencer that the Council regret they cannot accede to his request to form the road fronting his premises at present. 5. That the footpath fronting Mr Peddie's hotel be altered as requested by him, provided he pay half the cost thereof. 6. That the recommendation report of the overseer be adopted. 7. That the inspector of nuisances be directed to remove the obstruction in North-street forthwith. 8. That the inspector of nuisances' monthly report be adopted, and he be instructed to take the necessary legal steps to abate nuisances. 9. That the inspector of nuisances be instructed to report upon all caiea in which the provisions of clause 38 of by-law No. 3 are violated. 10. That a Bum of £50 be paid into an " Imprest Account," to be operated upon by the town clerk for the purpose of meeting any contingency that might arise between the ordinary Council meetings. 11. That a eub-coramittee be appointed to consider the advisability or otherwise of adopting the Rating Act, 1882; the committee to consist of Crs. Lee, Margoliouth, and Price, and to report to the next meeting of the Municipal Council. 12. That the vouchers for expenditure be passed and ordered to be paid.

The survey of the Otago Central railway is (according to the Mount Ida Chronicle) being rapidly pushed on. Mr Cook, C.E., and his assistants are camped on the western side of Taieri Lake, and are now pant the head of that sheet of water with their lines. Christmas will probably see the completion of their present labors. It is unlikely that much in the way of construction will be done during the present year. The appropriation of £50,000 for the coming twelve months will only about cover preliminary expenses, leaving little or nothing for contracts. Mr T. B. Low, Engineer for -the Construction Department of this Island, visited the Taieri Lake last week, and inBpected the work being done. He expressed himself as much pleased with the proposed route and the apparent probable resources of the country through which it passes.

A Plymouth correspondent cays a strange Incident ie reported in that town. One Tuesday recently a young man, residing at Devonport, called upon the editor of a local paper and begged to be informed if any ■ telegrams had been received giving the names of Englishmen killed during the day in Alexandria. He was informed that no euch message bad been received. He thereupon mentioned that during the afternoon the mother and wife of a petty officer named Revington, serving in Alexandria, had what they regarded as a token of his death. They were sitting together in their house, talking and working, when _ they" heard, or thought they heard, the voice of, the absent son and husband say " Mother three times. With foreboding upon theca, the brother was at once despatched to the nearest newspaper office, with the result indicated. The day after, however, the relatives of Mr Revington received a telegram from the Admiralty to the effect that he was shot in the streets of Alexandria on Tuesday, whilst serving on police duty.

During the spring and summer naonthe serious sickness as well as all those distressing symptona of lassitude and depression that in warm weather afflict persons residing in southern latitudes may in a very great measure be prevented by occasionally taking a dose of some Effervescing aperient such as Eno's Fruit Salts, Maltine, or Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, which correct and invigorate the entire system. To be had of T. F. Moore, chemist, &c, Waipawa, at prices within the reach of all.—[Adyt.]

The soothing syrups, and well-known carminatives, so freely given to infants to alleviate their pains and induce sleep, are known to incorporate narcotics, that are more or less dangerous. Nurses and even parents are too prone to resort to these agencies, and the result is that children addicted to their quieting uses seldom enjoy health and natural sleep and rest. Diminutive dosee of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam: Abomatic Schnapps will allay all disturbing symptoms, and tone the system to a normal condition,—[Ayr.l