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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3534, 4 November 1882, Page 2

A report of the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand, held afc Auckland on the 25th ultimo, will 'be found on our fourth page to-day.

The quarterly Customs returnß for the September quarter have been published. The total revenue collected was £415,868, to which the port cf Napier contributed £10,586.

The privileges of the Petane races were put up to auction to-day, and realised the following prices:—Gates, £32, Mr Gilligan; luncheon booth, £1 Is, Mr Gilletfc ; coffee and fruit stand, £2, Mr Gillett; fancy goods, 10s, Mr S. Pell; cards, £3 ss, Mr Eohinson. The grand stand privilege was withdrawn from sale.

An eclipse of the sun will occur on Saturday next, the llth instant. At Napier the first contact will take place at 9h. 6m. 21s. a.m., New Zealand statute time; and the last afc 21m. 51s. past noon. The greatest obscuration will be at about lOn. 50m., when two-thirds of the sun's diameter will be covered. The eclipse will be total across the Island of New Caledonia.

Mr E. D. Smith, who has held the position of assistant in Mr Welsman's pharmacy, Hastings-street, for about eight years past, leaves Napier on Monday next for Sydney. During his residence here Mr Smith made many friends, and we wish him every success in his future career. He will be much missed at the meetings of the Napier Mutual Improvement Association, of which he was a valued and useful member.

The rules to regulate the rifle competition for the Government prizes, 1832, are gazetted. The amount voted by Parliament for prizes was £800, and this sum has been divided pro rata among the Volunteer corps according to the nominal strength on the 30th September last, the Napier volunteers receiving tbe sum of £13 5s 6d, ±9 for the small arms, and £4 os 6d for ordinance. Each district must arrange for markers at its own expense. A committee consisting of the officer commanding and not less than two senior volunteer officers in each district, will divide the amounts set apart for their respective districts into such prizes as they may determine; the competition to be concluded before the 31st December next.

At the Waipawa Police Court yesterday, before A. St. C. Inglie, Esq., J.P., a man McDonald, rejoicing in tho aliases of "Michael," "John," and "Flash," was charged with drunkenness. The man of names admitted the offence, and was fined 10s and costs. He paid the money.—Frederick Stratford was charged with being illegally on the premises of the Imperial Hotel. From the evidence of the proprietor, Mr J. Nicholson, it appeared that Stratford had been seen on the evening of the 2nd, trying to get in one of the hotel bedrooms through the window, and was prevented. After that Stratford was found by Mr Nicholson and Constable Brosnaban in an outhouse attached to the hotel lying asleep. Prisoner admitted being on the premises but disclaimed any unlawful intentions and assured tho Bench he simply went to the place where he was found to get a sleep. His Worship accepted this view, and dismissed the case. Stratford was then charged with drunkenness at the time and place mentioned in tho former charge. Ho admitted the offence, aud was find 20s aud costs, which were paid.

Mr W- G. Motley desires to correcb a typographical error in his report of yesterday's date, acid to etate that the South Pacific Petroleum Company is to be registered under the "No Liability Act" of New South Wales, 1881. 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 alwayß ÜBed; it renders the hair charmingly beautiful, and effectually prevents it from falling off. To be had only at the Medical Hall, Waipawa. —[Adv.. J Headaches, as they are commonly termed, are as frequently a source of preplexing mystery to those whom they afflict, as to the causes thdt produce them. It requires no wonderful intelligence to compase the fact that they invariably spring from certain abnormal conditions of the system, and even when they are ascribed to rheumatic or neuralgic operations, it is well to know that those tendencies demonstrate a certain nervous derangement. Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, by its action on the nervous organism, as on the tones of the stomach, will effectually shield both from this annoying ailment. —[Advt.] .