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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3532, 2 November 1882, Page 2

Mr M. R. Miller's stock and station report will be found in our fourth page. It contains, as these periodical reports always do, a good deal of valuable and interesting information.

Mr N. Carlson has sold to Mr King section No. 1, Victoria Special Settlement, for £500 cash.

The comet is now visible at midnight, but it has lost its brightness and its size. It appeared but a faint streak of white cloud last night, kufc the moon no doubt dimmed its lustre.

Oddfollowship would seem to be flourishing in the WanganuidißtriGt. 'Accordingto the local Chronicle "tome five hundred persons, at the lowest ostimato, attended the anniversary of the Loyal Wanganui Lodge held on the 27th ultimo."

The usual meeting of the Clive Square Mutual Improvement Association will be held to-night in the vestry of Trinity Wesleyan Church. The evening will be occupied by the recitation of parodies, and we bope to see a good attendance of visitors as well as members.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning , , before Captain Preece, E.M., William Hawkes pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and waH fined 5s and costs, with the usual alternative in default. William, being impecunious, was led ofE by Constable Forster to spend forty-eight hours in durance vile upon " the hill."

We notice from a Southern exchange that, since the secession of a portion of Mr J. L. Hall's comedy company, Mr R. J. Brooks, formerly a Napier amateur, has been entrusted with Mr Hesford's late role in " Imprudence." Mr Hall is at present playing in Wellington, and will open here at the Theatre Royal on December 23rd, when it is intended to produce a Christmas pantomime.

Information has reached town thafe a sixroomed house at Porangahau, the property of Mr John Healey, was burnt to the ground at about 1.30 o'clock this morning. The building was insured for .£2OO, and the furniture for £50, both in the North British office. At the time the fire occurred Healey was away shearing at Mr Hunter's station. The origin of the fire has not transpired.

We are pleased to hear that the managers of the late Fancy Fair intend giving a picnic to those ladies and gentlemen who worked so heartily and w*>o contributed in no small degree to the general success. The " outing" will probably take place on Thursday, 9th instant, at either Greenmeadows or Farndon. It must certainly be regarded as a graoef ul act on the part of the trustees, and will no doubt be duly appreciated.

The exhibition which is to open on Monday next at the Athenseum is receiving the support that any well-directed effort to cultivate a taste for art knowledge deserves. The aim of the promoters is to present to the public view an entire epitome of the art phase of human life. Hence every object even of homeliest use in which exists complete or partial idealism, either as pure creative or representative art, simple ornamentation, or elaborate decoration, will find a place in the collection. We anticipate much benefit from the exhibition in an educational direction, for museums of art have an indirect influence on every industry to which beauty lende an additional value; they stimulate the intellectual capital of a country to achive reproduction in numberless ways that affect profoundly the character and welfare of its people. We are requested to state that the hon. sec. will collect exhibits on the hills to-morrow, and in town and port on exhibitors will have their contributions collected at the railway station on arrival of mid-day and evening trains on Friday and Saturday. Applications for space may be made at the Athenaeum, where exhibits will be taken in by the librarian.

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 ussed ; it renders the hair charmingly beautiful, and effectually prevents it from falling ofi. To be had only at the Medical Hall, Waipa wa.—[_Advt.J What the recent discoveries of Stanley, the great African explorer, are to the physical geography of the world, in value and import, as establishing the courses of the mighty river known as the Nile, is the presentation to the world of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatic Schnapps, as affecting the sanitary condition of the system, and removing from it many causes of suffering and distructiveness. Both, in their respective bearings, are of vital moment although subserving different sciences.—[Adto.]