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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3527, 27 October 1882, Page 2

We hear that Mr C. B. Winter has declined to accept his nomination to the vacant seat on the Education Board. The Napier District School Committee will therefore have to make another selection. Mr John Orr has leased the section latelyoccupied by Mr H. R. Gunn, timber merchant, at Port Ahuriri, abutting on to the breastwork quay. Mr Orr intends erecting on the land large stores and offices. The following weather forecast from Wellington was received by Mr Wilkie at 2 p.m. to-day:—Bad weather approaching between south-west and south and east. Glass further fall, and after sixteen hours sea heavy in the bay, and veiy heavy rain. There are twenty-one properties in the borough, the owners of which are either not known or their places of residence cannot be discovered. Summonses have been taken out against these persons, not so much for the immediate recovery of as for the purpose of attaching the rates to the properties. The Inspector of Schools has been busily employed during the week examining the Napier district school pupils for results. The examination is not yet finished. Thie will excite no surpiise when it is known that no fewer than 638 children were present on Monday morning. The school has thus just taken about four years to double its number of scholais. We are requested to acknowledge receipt of the following sums towards the Jack relief fund (collected by a neighbor) :— J. F. 0., £1 Is; J. S., 10s 6d ; a friend, 10e 6d ; M. P. and W. P., 10s ; J. M., 10s ; W. Tuckwell, 10s; J. 8., 5a ; F. W. 0., ss; D. B. W.,08 ; G. F. M., ss; M. Hyland, 5s ; J. J. 8,, os ; J. M., 5s ; D. W., ss; M. W. P. L., 5s ; J. Gray, 3a; G. J. Robinson, 3s; W. Hanwell, 2s 6d. Wβ are glad to report that the Inspector of Nuisances is energetically pursuing the duties of his office, but we are not so pleased to learn that he has to complain at all sorts of obstructions being placed in the way of carrying out his instructions from the Council. The Council is resolved, as far as in its power lies, to improve the sanatory condition of the town, and to prevent, if possible, any recurrence of the events of of last summer . To that end the Inspector has received stringent orders to do his duty, and in carrying out those instructions he should receive the hearty assistance of every resident in the borough. " A Drover" brings to our notice the fact that, while sheep can be driven from Napier to the Thames without the expenditure of a sixpence for tolls or ferries, it costs a shilling a-head to drive from Napier to Wairoa to cover those charges. While the rivers are bridged on the one road where there are no charges, the sheep have to be swum over the rivers on the other road, and a ferry toll has to be paid. Thie is a matter that calls for the prompt intervention of the Wairoa County Council. It is little short of a scandal that drovers should have to pay for the privilege of swimming their sheep across an unbridged river. At a meeting of the Napier and Spit Fire Brigade, held last night, a committee was appointed to arrange about receiving and entertaining the delegates from the different brigades composing the Fire Brigade Association, who meet here in the beginning of January next. A proposition to hold a competition during their stay was negatived, as it would take place during the busiest part of the wool season, and the members of the Spit Brigade would be too closely employed to enable them to give the necessary time to practice. A suggestion, that the Napier Brigade should get up the competition, the members of the Spit Brigade offering to assist them as far aa possible, was likewise allowed to drop. Mr G. Ellis has imported one of Barnefcfc and Forster's serated water machines, constructed on the latest and most approved design, which is now beiDg fitted up in hie brewery at Hastings. The machine is capable of manufacturing lemonade, ginger ale, soda water, seltzer, tonic water, champagne, and carara, all of which drinks, we believe it is Mr Ellis's intention to place in the market as soon as his arrangements are completed, which he expects will be about the first week in November. With the splendid water at his disposal, and the fact that all the conducting pipes of the maohine are of block tin, and the cylinders silver-lined, Mr Ellis should be able to turn out good temperance drinks of unquestionable purity, and it will be his own fault if he fails to do so. Some excitement was caused in Waipawa yesterday evening by an unmanageable cow. The animal was being driven through the township on its way to the paddock, when ifc bolted. Soon after starting it rushed a little girl, the daughter of Mr Golder, watchmaker, catching her by its horns and tossing her in the air. It next charged a little girl, the daughter of Mr Shanloy, coach builder, but the child fell down before the cow reached her, and the infuriated animal rushed into the yard attached to the postmaster's residence. The cow was allowed to stay there for some time till calmer, when it was removed. Miraculous to relate the children rushed were only superficially injured. The animal belonged to Mr Sporle, butcher, of Waipawa, and was being driven by one of his employees. The total receipts at the Olde Englyshe Fayre yesterday afternoon and evening amounted to £87, of which amount £27 were taken at the door. The games and side shows were again liberally patronised, and a Christy Minstrel performance by a few local amateus was one of the features of the evening. Some excellent music was discoursed by the Artillery band, led by Bandmaster Tancred. We were sorry to notice a growing tendency towards larrikinism on the part of a number of youths in the body of the hall, who evidently attended for no other purpose than to make a nuisance of themselves generally. It would be we'l if the committee of management took this matter strictly in hand during the remainder of the season, and summanly ejected any hoodlums who may be caught misconducting themselves or causing annoyance to those ladies and gentlemen who, at no inconsiderable amount of trouble and expense to themselves, help night after night to make the Fayre attractive. Verb sap. Interesting returns have been prepared, showing the immigration to this colony and the emigration irom it during the nrst nine months of the present year—tha. is to say, to the 30th ult. The figures are as follows :—The total number of persons arrived in New Zealand during the nine months from foreign ports was 7230, aa against 5829 departures, thus showing a net gain 1401 to the colony. The largest list of arrivals is that of Auckland, 2450; luvercargill comes next with 1907, owing no doubt to that place being the southern terminal port of the Union Steamship Company. Dunedin, with 1453, is third; Wellington, with 647, is fourth; while Lyttelton, with 5C9, stands cnly fifth. Of

the other ports the numbers are as follows: Russell, 117; Napier, 60; Greymouth, 51; Gisborne, 12 ; Hokitika, 11; Timaru, 6 ; Nelson, 3 ; Oamaru, 1. In the departures, Invercargill again, for the above-mentioned reason, comes first, with 1926; Auckland is next, with 1592; Wellington third, with. 915; Dunedin, 573, fourth; Lyttelton, 251, fifth. The other are—Russell, 281; Greymouth, 99; Napier, 82; Hokitika, 81; Nelson, 21 ; Timaru, 12 ; OHsborne, 8; Oamaru, 6; Wanganui, 10. These figures include the Chinese, of whom 14 arrived in the colony during the nine months; while 135 took their daporture. One of the most pleasant and gentle of aperients is that formed by mixing , with a glass of water a teaspoonful of citrate of magnesia, so oalled from its having been originally found in Magnesia, a city of Lydia. The medicinal qualities of magnesia, like good wine, "need no bush," and when taken in moderate doses it acts like a charm, the effects produced being gateful and invigorating. For young children fluid magnesia is highly recommended. Both compounds may be had in any quantity of Professor Moore, Medical Hall, Waipawa.—[Advt.] An aenemic condition of the system is engendered by the absence of the red corpuscles of the blood, and these being the carriers of nutriment to the body, it is essential that they should be kept up to the proper standard of health. Physicians are prone, in these cases, to administer ettob tonics as gentian, quinine, quassia, cinchona, iron, colomba, or acids, and these, being strictly medical, sometimes affeot delicate stomachs. It is here that Übolpho Wolfh's Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps comes into play and, subserving the purposes of drugs, performs the identioal offices. —[Advt.]