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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3518, 17 October 1882, Page 2

The following weather forecast from Captain Edwin was received by Mr Wilkie, Port Ahuriri, at 1.50 p.m. to-day-.—Bad •weather approaching between north and west and south-west. Glass falling very soon. Indications bad."

We learn that Mr Andrew, photographer has consented to take photos of the interior of the Wesleyan Fancy Fayre, also groups of the lady attendants in full dress. These pictures will be prepared at once, and will be on sale at tha Theatre during tbe week of the Fayre.

We learn from a correspondent at Onga Onga that petitions to the Chief Postmaster are being largely signed in the Makaretu, Blackburn, and Onga Onga districts praying for a return to tbe old mail delivery days, the recent alteration having caused intense dissatisfaction.

At the last meeting of the Municipal Council a petition was received relative to " Jacob's Ladder," and whioh was referred to the Public Works Committee. As the latter body has aprarently made no recommendation to the Council on the subject, it may be presumed that the prayer of the petition has not been entertained.

We hear that the road contractor at Kaikora will likely get into trouble over leaving obstructions on the road all night. There have beeen ono or two narrow escapes from accident caused thereby lately, and in ono instance of a dark night a man had to get down from his cart and move a large heap of whingle befcre he could proceed further on his way.

In answer to " numerous protests" ori the pait of " indignant ratepayers," inrefeience to tho formation and ketbing of footpaths in unused thoroughfares, wo are enabled to Btate, from enquiry made, that these footpaths and kerbings were necessary to the construction of water-tables for the proper

direction of storm-water. Thus everything has its uses, though we may not be able to ■ cicjive them — T'l'.l nnny a flower is born tQ blush unseen, And v aste its sweetness on thb desert air.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, belore Captain Preece, R.M., the following civil cases were disposed of: — Torr Bros. v. King (native), claim £1 lis ; judgment for plaintiff with costs. Knowles v. S. Dransfield, claim £11 9s 6d ; adjourned in absence of plaintiff's representative. Williams v. Olsen, claim £7 10s; judgment for plaintiff, with costs, by default. Reidy v. Renouf, claim £3 6s; judgment for plaintiff, with costs and counsel's fee. Some sixteen ca«es were either adjourned or settled out of Court.

The only thing which enlivened the dullness of the proceedings at the opening of the boating season on Saturday last was a bon mot by a lady lately from England. Observing the little steamer coming round Long Point the lady asked what its name was, " Oh, that's the Leisure Hour," answered her companion. "It's slow enough to be tbe Sunday at Home !" ejaculated the lady, and by this happy piece of humor she saved the lives of a whole carriage-full of people who were at that moment contemplating suicide.

Our coming summer evenings are to be enlivened by some dramatic performances of a high order of merit. Mr Walter Reynolds, who was here with tho Pollard juvenile troupe, will be here with a firstclass company from Australia in January. In the following month Mr Fred M'Cabe will visit Napier. This well-known caterer of public amusement made his mark in London in bis ventriloquial entertainment " Begone Dull Care." Mr M'Cabe is now in Melbourne, where he is having as great a success as he made for himself at Sydney.

The fire bell cut short the entertainment at St. John's schoolroom last night. The Bishop of Waiapu was in the chair, and a portion of the programme had been got through in a sati.-factoiy manner when the alarm bell caused an immediate stampede, and we did not know whether Mr A. B. Thompson, who was in the midst of his address, or the audience was the best pleased at suoh a splendid opportunity for cutting the whole thing short. To some no doubt it was a cruel disappointment, but very few we fancy prefer an address to a street excitement.

The Public Works Committee of the Municipal Council held their usual meeting last evening and agreed to recommend the Council as follows:—1. That a copy of the municipal engineer's report on Mr Guy's letter be forwarded to that gentleman. 2. That the engineer's suggestions relative to the maintenance of roads be adopted. 3. That tbe request of the secretary of the Napier School Committee relative to the payment of rates for water supplied to tbe school cannot be granted. 4. That tbe engineer be directed to call for tenders for the carting of waterpipes. We learn that petitions to the Municipal Council are pretty closely scrutinised in order to ascertain whether the signatures bear out the text of the document. We have been told of one petition that set forth the long-suffering patience of the ratepayers signing the paper, which, on being examined, was treated very unceremoniously from the fact that many of the petitioners were not ratepayers, others were defaulters, and others again were not interested in what was asked for. It is not tbe number of signatures that give weight to a petition, but the character of what is requested.

Williamson's Opera Company, that will open here on November 20, contains amongst its members Miss Nellie and Miss Docy Stewart, who, it will be remembered, •were such favorites here when the Stewart Family were giving that excellent entertainment called " Rainbow Revels." Mr Howard Vernon, who is the proprietor of the Opera Company, visited Napier some years ago in the Alice May troupe, and whose grand baritone voice and capital acting will be remembered by many of our readers in his representation of Myles na Coppaleen in the opera of " Lily of Killarney." Mr Vernon will take the part of Bunthorn in Patience.

There was another crowded attendance at the exhibition of views of the Zulu and other recent wars last evening in the shop adjoining the Caledonian Hotel. As announced, three watches and a number of special prizes were distributed, everyone present seeming well satisfied with tho bona fides of the"affair in that respect. Tonight the exhibition will be open for the last time, when a number of fresh views illustrative of the career of the notorious " Kelly gang " will be added to the present collection. As it is the intention of the proprietors to clear out the entire remaining stock of gifts at this evening's performance a larger attendance than ever may be anticipated.

Mr Hezebeck, of the Milton road nursery garden, showed us to-day a remakably wellgrown sugar pea. The advantage of this vegetable is that the pod is as good as the pea, and some idea of how much there is to eat in one pod may be gathered from the fact that those Mr Hezeebeck left at this office measured each over six inches long and one inch and a-half across. He also left with us some samples of what can be done -with the Cape gooseberry by eulivation. The fruit was large and rich in flavor, and as the shrub can be grown anywhere, and bears nearly all the year round, it should command attention. Mr Hezebeck's garden will present a novelty next week in twelve distinct varieties of roses growing from one stock.

An adjourned meeting of the management committee of the forthcoming Fancy Fayre in connection with Clive Square Wesleyan Church was held last evening, when the following order for the opening ceremony on Monday next was agreed to :—l, musical selections by the bands ;2, Beadle to announce opening ; 3, of welcome, Rev. J. J. Lewis; 4, opening declaration by His "Worship the Mayor ; 5, May pole dance by twelve little children ; 6, deputation of committee to escort the Mayor over the building, &c. A sub-com-mittee was appointed to wait upon the district railway manager, and to arrange, if possible, for one or more special trains to be run during the week. It was arranged to issue season tickets for the Fatre (not transferable) at 4s for adults, and 2s for children under twelve. As there is a scarcity of pot plants for the flower stall, it was announced that further contributions in that particular line will be thankfully received by Mr Forrest, Carlyle-street, or any member of the committee. The meeting then adjourned to Friday evening.

Considerable alarm -was felt in town last night shortly after 9 o'clock in consequence of a briubtglare of fire being observed in the direction of the Hospital, and large crowds of people flocked to the locality indicated, believing that a serious conflagration was raging somewhere on. the hills. On arriving at Mr Ormond's gate, Napier Terrace, one was impressed with the belief that either the Hospital or military barracks was on fire, but closer inspection revealed the fact that it was only & small unoccupied cottage of three rooms in Onepoto gully that was affected. The house, ifc appears, was owned by a Scandinavian carpenter named Wilson, and the last man who had been in it was a paperhanger, who lett the place all right at 5.30 yesterday evening. There had had been fire ligh ted in the cottage since Saturday, consequently the origin of the burning is, as usual in such casep, " a mystery." Within an hour from the tim 9 the firr-t alarm was given by a neighbor tbe whole building was completely demolished, t r c scarcity of water in the vicinity defying all attempts to save the place. Both fire brigades turned out, but of course the oould do nothing. We learn that the building was insured.

Nature, reviewing a work on " Why Teeth Decay," remarks that the author affirms the cause of the decay of teeth to be tho " sohizomycetous fungus, leptothrix buccalis. We always thought so ourselves, and now tho question is, of course, placed beyond all doulfc.

The name of Mr Van Resselbnrghe, of the Royal Observatory of Brussels, may yet rank with that of Edison. He has discovered that the ordinary telegraph wire can be used for telephonic transmission, and experiments have justified the accuracy of that discovery. In like manner the inventor of " Sutrar 'Worm Cakes for Children " has proved himself a benefactor of tbe whole human race, as thousands upon thousands of parents everywhere can testify. All orders should be addressed to Professor Moore, Medisal Hall, Waipawa.—[advt.] Time is, after all, the one grand test by which everything is tried. It is at once both creative and destructive, affirmative and negative. It either confirms or it refutes, accepts or rejects, strengthens or weakens. That which passes unscathed through its ordeal validates its claims to onsideration. For years the world has accepted Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Abomatic Schnapps as the best cordial, tonic, and invigorant in its market, and its merits thus established, nothing can affect it in the way of deterioration or detraction.— [A DVT.]