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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3531, 1 November 1882, Page 2

We remind the members of the Napier Artillery Volunteers that their weekly gun drill take? place this evening.

The vital statistics for the month of October registered at Napier show births 31, marriages, 7, and deaths 4.

News has been received from Auckland of the death of Mr W. E. W. Morrison, formerly master of the Napier Grammar School.

The Rev. W. ShirifT.-f, Presbyterian minister of Waipukurau, has been nominated by the Waipukurau School Committee as a candidate for the vacant seat on the Education Board.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning , , before E. Lyndon, Esq., J. P., Thomas Child?, charged with having been drunk in Napier yesterday, was fined 5s and costs, with the usual alternative. The fine waa forthcoming.

It is not generally known that, when a case is dismissed under the Licensing Act, the Magistrate must give a certificate of dismissal, setting forth the charge, and that it has been dismissed. What a wonderful piece of machinery is the Act of 1881.

The Hospital returns for the past month are as follow :—ln Hospital at last date, 22 males and 7 females ; admitted during the month, 2L males and 7 females ; discharged, 19 males and 7 females ; died, 3 males and 1 female ; remaining at date, 21 males and 6 females.

On Saturday evening last a public meeting was held at Takapau with a view to forming a public library in that township. A large number of settlers attended, with the result that a committee was formed, and a subscription list opened, those present subscribing £18, £5 os of which was given by Mr W. 0. Smith, M.H.R., and another £5 os by S. Johnston, Esq.

We are glad to fitate that an influential committee has been formed for the purpose of promoting , competition matches between the Fire Brigade Association delegates during , their visit to Napier. We are requested to notify that the first meeting of the committee will take place to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, at the engine station, for the purpose of arranging preliminaries.

A concert in aid of the Waipukurau cemetery improvement fund was held in the Town Hall, Waipukurau, on Monday evening. , There was a very large audience present, the hall being- packed. A long and varied programme was gone through, the various pieces rendered being exceedingly well received. A dance was held after the entertainment, in which ahout fifty couples took part.

The " wreck " of the " Olde Englyshe Fayre," including the scenery, was put up to auction in the Theatre at noon to-da , and realised the folio wing prices:—Scenery, £10 ; swing boat, £1; Punch and Judy show and peep show (without figures), several packing cases, &c, 4s 6d ; two set stage steps, 3s. An offer of £3 \r>s was received for the round-about, as it oands, but a reserve of £4 being placed upon the machine by the committee it was withdrawn from sale.

We think it must be quite a year ago since we announced that it was the intention of the Government to connect the Napier railway station by telephone with the Telegraph office. The necessary instruments, we believe, were procured, and that was about ail that was done. In the meantime several private firms have been able to get their town and port places of business connected by telephone because, we presume, the Government make a profit out of the transaction. But public convenience, when there is no profit to be made by attending to it, is neglested.

The Sirnonsen Opera Company are once more in New Zealand, and are now at Invercargill. Mr J. T. Smith, who was here ac their agent on their last visit to Napier, and who afterwards had a sort of run-away marriage with Miss Martina Simonsen, is si ill with the company as avant courier. Riccardi is also with them. From the criticisms in some of the Australian papers the company as a whole would not appear to be composed of all the most talented artistes in the Southern Hemisphere ; but, if they are as good as they -were -when last here, and should they visit us_ again, some pleasant evenings may be anticipated.

The Old English Fair closed last night with a sale of the balance of the goods in the stalls. It has been undoubtedly the most successful show of its kind ever held in Napier, and has fulfilled the object of its promoters. That object was the payment of the debt of Trinity Wesleyan Church, amounting to £600. In round figures the takings of the fair were £700, and the expenses £100. The greatest credit is due to the ladies and gentlemen who formed the committee for the energetic manner in which they worked, and to those others who by their gifts and gratuitous services assisted so ably in bringing the fair to such a successful and gratifying issue. Wo understand that the proprietors of Picturesque New Zealand will present gratis to subscribers every three months a magnificent cbromo-lithograph of New Zealand scenery. The first picture will be issued with part three of " Picturesque New Zealand." Part one is now on eale, and those who desire to obtain the complete set to bind up at the end of the year in book form, would do well to secure copies while the first issue, which is being rapidly bought up, ie obtainable. Some of the views of Lake scenery, to be issued with part two, are said to be superior to anything of the kind ever done in New Zealand. Mr W. F. Wilson has been appointed agent for Napier.

Tho Waipawa County Cricket Club, at its annual meeting held recently, after passing the usual statement of accounts, elected the following officers to carry on the club's business for the ensuing season :— President, Hon. H. It. Russell; vice-presi-dent, J. Mackersey, Esq. ; general committee, Messrs J. Mackersey, J. T. Carr, J. Herbert, J. E. Fulton, F. Fulton, J. Reed, H. Wilding, T. Crosse, Geoff. Potts, S. H. Gollan, and W A. Warren; match committee, Messrs J. T. Carr, F. Fulton, H. Wilding , , J. Reed, and C. Mackersey; delegates to Hawke's Bay Cricket Association, Messrs F. Fulton and J. T. Carr. It was resolved that the annual subscription to the Club be reduced to 103 6'd. After

passing a vote of thanks to the retiring officers the meeting adjourned.

We learn that Mr 0. W. Goodson, of the London Arcade, Queen-street, Auckland, will, in the course of a week or two, open a branch of his business in premises next the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's offices, Hastings-street, now being fitted up for the purpose by Mr Holt. Mr Goodson has just returned from a visit to the English and Continental markets, and having made extensive purchases of fancy goods, watches, clocks, jewellery, cutlery, stationery, &c, full .ranges of these, together with a quantity of the latest novelties, will be bent to Napier. The business will be conducted on strictly cash principle?, Mr Goodson's trade-motto being " Small Profits and Quick Returns." We have no doubt Mr Goodson will be sufficiently well patronised as to warrant him in permanently establishing himself here.

An exchange says :—" A rumour is current in Wellington that the General Assembly will not be called together next year till July, although power is only given for two months' appropriation beyond the end of the financial tarm, which closes on the 31st of March. The excuse for the delay, it is said, will be. the alterations to Parliament buildings."

The Lincolnshire farmers, says the Thames Advertiser, appear dissatisfied with their new settlement at Te Aroha, and large numbers are leaving the district to try their fortunes in other parts of the colony Two or three families returned to the Thames by the river steamers, and profess to be only too glad to get away. One lady, indeed, ia her hurry to leave forgot to bring with her some valuable property, which she will be obliged to send back for.

A correspondent of the Poverty Bay Herald says of Mr Gillice's hop plantation, near Ormond :—" The hop garden is one of the most noticeable features of the landscape. The hop poles are all up, and the luxuriant foilage of the pretty creepers shows indication of a magnificent crop. Mr Gillice himself anticipates a yield this season which will completely eclipse his crop of last season, which was thought an unprecedently good one."

The Dunedin Evening Star quotes from the Natal papers an " affecting incident " that took place during the late war. " A wounded officer was lying helpless on the ground, a Boer had his weapon raised and was just on the point of giving him the finishing stroke, when the officer in despair made the Masonic signal of distress. It was understood by the Boer, who lowered bis weapon, and, at the risk of his own life, bore his brother to a place of safety."

The Wanganui Chronicle says:—ln. the course of one of those witty and sensible " asides" with which Judge Richmond generally enlivens the dry proceedings of his court, His Honor remarked yesterday that he bometimes fancied that a man's right hand breeches-pocket, was the "ultimate seat of human consciousness." In his experience he frequently found that a drunken man was very sensitive in that region when " too far gone" to remember anything else.

The wife of a prosperous gentleman who" has lately settled in the neighbourhood of Melbourne (says the Australasian) sent to Paris for a costume by Worth for the forthcoming Melbourne Cup. The costume, which was en suite, and complete to boots, gloves, parasol, &c, arrived the other day; was unpacked, admired, and laid out in the owner's dressingroom. But having ib placed in her wardrobe Mrs G-rosgrain went into town foe the day, but having forgotten her purse, returned home sooner than she had intended. Proceeding at once to her apartment she discovered the housemaid arrayed in her new costume to the minutest particular, and posing in undisguised admiration of herself in front of the cheval glass. Naturally incensed, she remonstrsted rather sharply with Miss O'Brien for her impertinence, but she was rendered speechless by the audacious retort. " Well! you'll admit I look better in it than even you will!"

Amongst the many applicants for tbe custodianship of the Grey town Working Men's Club were some which caused considerable amusement. The Wairarapa Daily says one man was an efficient marine—which he thought sufficient recommendation. One owned a piano, and could play it well, too, an accomplishment which he evidently thought ought to " fetch " the committee. Another individual informed them that he was a first-class pilot. He must have thought the club was a wet place, and that the services of a pilot would be necessary for jovial members. But the following from (we'll say) Denis McCarthy is the best production we have seen, for some time: —" \Villington, Oktobur 18, 1882. deer Sur, —i heur you want a kustodeen in the papur. i will cum at the wages you are given, i was borned at Ballygurtheen. County Cork Ireland have bin heur 18 years cum in 1864. we have 9 childer ouldesfc wan 12 years ay age younges thre mainths. If theur is ar a pehanner in the Club my ouldest gurl can play an it as she tuk musik lessons the rest ov them are good little thins, and very amusin, and will be all at hoame with the members if tha ar at all sosiabel. let me no whin to bum up and'whethur you will meat me at the Staohun i fele sure ure plaice will suite me if you hay enny sing aongs i will alays Obleege with wan as am a Good band at it, you mite tel me wat toime you shet up and wat toime openia from Yours afektonate

Modern research in pharmacy has provided many remedies for preserving the beauty of the human hair and preventing its premature decay, and as a natural consequence not a few spurious compounds manufactured in foreign countries by disreputable persons have been foisted upon the market under the name of genuine preparations. Professor Moore's hair oil,however, stands alone on its merits, and once used is always used ; it renders the hair charmingly beautiful, and effectually prevents it from falling off. To be had-only at the Medical Hall, Waipawa.—[Advt.J

"As the needle to the pole," so does reputation steadily turn to Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Akomatic Schnapps. Every now and then some new preparation is flaunted before the public, in the shape of a wonderful anti-dyspeptic, a powerful alterative, an unfailing stimulant, or a potent invigorant, and before it has had time to gain even notoripty, it is withdrawn from the markets, a failure and a fraud. The splendid virtues of the Schiedam Schnapps, however, grow in celebrity, and the increasing demand for this incomparable cordial shows the strong hold it has taken on popular esteem. — |_Advt.]