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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3537, 8 November 1882, Page 2

To-morrow being the anniversary of the Prince of Wales' birthday the Daily Telegraph will not be published.

The United Methodist Free Church, Shakespeare road, is being dismantled, prior to removal to tho new site in Carlyle-street.

A special meeting of the Municipal Council will be held this evening- to consider certain new bye-laws relative to ce&s-pits, building regulations, &c.

A gentleman assures our morning contemporary that, last night, " he saw above the house-tops, on both sides of Hastingsstreet, what looked very much like two comets." The police are on tbe look-out for the man who struck him.

Messrs Laffoley and Son, of Napier, are the successful tenders for the erection of a fever ward in connection with the Waipawa County Hospital at Waipukurau, their price being £268 12s. Eight tenders were received by the committee.

The following weather forecast from Capt. Edwin, taken in Wellington at 11.50 a.m. to-day, was received this afternoon : — Bad weather approaching between southwest and south and south-east. Further rise of glass. Wind now southerly here.

The Petane races to-morrow are certain to attract a large number of visitors. Mr Villers has made special arrangements with respect to conveyances to and from town, and has left nothing to be desired in his house and grounds to enhance the enjoyment of holiday makers.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before E. Lyndon, Esq., J.P., William Lannigan, alias William Tobin, an old offender, pleaded guilty to having been drunk in Waghorne-sfcreet, Spit, last night, and was fined 5s and costs, with the usual alternative. The fine was paid.

There was a very fair attendance at the fine art and industrial exhibition in tho Athenteum last evening, and the visitors appeared to be thoroughly pleased with what they saw. Some of the articles shown are highly curious, and these of course attracted a large share of attention. The exhibition •will be open again to-night from 7 to 10 o'clock.

Mr Ross, one of the Napier representatives at the Rifle Association meeting, has made some good shooting. He was one of the prize-takers in the Union match ; he has won the Carbine Trophy match with a score of 78, and he is amongst the twenty highest carbine aggregates in the Nelson, Canterbury, Auckland, Wellington, and Union matches, by which he is entitled to fire in the final stage for the carbine champion belt, which came off to-day.

Mr J. Davis haa returned from Wairoa' and will meet the settlers around Hastings at Kelly's Hotel to-morrow at 7.30 p.m., for the purpose of laying before them the advantages of European flax cultivation. Mr Davis has a few shares in the Linseed Oil and Fibre Company etill to dispose of, and as the industry he is promoting is one of great importance it is to be hoped that he will receive every encouragement from the land owners of Hawke's Bay.

We understand that the committee of the late Fancy Fayre have disposed of the scenery used by them to the trustees of the Wesleyan Church, Gisborne, who purpose turning ifc to account. The price obtained is £20, the Gisborne speculators to pay all cost of transit, &c. It will be remembered that Mr T. Gilpin bought the scenery m the first instance when it was put up to auction, but ho was subsequently relieved of his " bargain " by the committee on his representing to them that his bids were mide under a misconception.

We hardly think the following from the Wanganui Chronicle is true—" The Napier Fire Brigade has invited our local firemen to take part in a competition for teams of four or five men, to take place afc the annual conference of delegates in January next. The conditions proposed aro that; there shall be a hose and reel and a hosereel and ladder competitions, with a first prize ranging from £25 to £40. There will be other events in the programme. Captain Cummins haa accepted the invitation on condition that the proposed competing teams are not too large."

The first of the present season's subscription lists to the Hospital Building Fund has just been received from Mr D. P. Balfour, and number two £2 subscribers and ten £1 ditto, with four smaller sums amounting in all to £15 ss. This augurs well for the much needed new wing. Mr Balfour, who had written for a dozen tickets, on sale or return, writes:— " I found having the tickets on hand made all the difference, try it with other stations." The secretary requests us to state that he will be only to pleased too forward, by return of post, any number on sale or return that any one will be kind enough to apply for.

A sad accident occurred afc the Spit yesterday morning to a little girl, about three years of age, the daughter of Mr Thomas Mansfield. It appears that the child had by some means got into her possession a

box cf matches, with which .he was playing- in the street near her house, when the matches ignited, setting fire to her clothes. The screams of the poor child attracted its mother, but before the 'flames were extinguished the little victim sustained serious injuries, one side of her face being badlyburned. Dr. Caro was sent for and did all in his power to alleviate the child's sufferings, but it is doubtful if she will survive the accident.

The following crossing-places between the Napier, Auckland, and Wellington districts, under the Sheep Act, 1878, have been published in the Gazette: —1. On the boundary between the Wellington and Napier sheep districts, where the coast line crosses the Waimata stream. 2. In the township of Woodville, Provincial District of Hawke'B Bay, at the junction of the main road from Masterton with the main road from the Manawatu Gorge to Napier. 3. At Te Reinga, on the boundary between the Napier and the Auckland sheep districts. 4. Where the main road from Napier to Taupo crosses the boundary of the Napier and the Auckland sheep distriots.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's report on the produce markets of this colony has the following:— Shearing has been prosecuted with vigour throughout the North Island during the past month. Many of the large sheds on the East Coaßt have already completed operations, and another month will find the bulk of the clip afloat. In the districts of Nelson, Marlborough, and North Canterbury, shearing is being pushed forward as the weather permits, but further south a start has scarcely been made, owing to the recent inclement weather. From every distrist we have good reports of the quality of the clip, " sound in staple, well grown, and light in crease," beiDg the general opinion arrived at.

It seems after all that we are not to have any Fire Brigade competitions during tho approaching visit of delegates to Napier. Our telegrams this evening inform ua that resolutions have been, passed by the Timaru and Dunedin brigades that they are unable to send teams, and perhaps it is just as well, as, at the adjourned meeting last evening of the temporary committee formed to endeavor to arrange for competitions, it was unanimously resolved " that, owing to the small attendance, and the lack of interest thereby shown, the committee be dissolved." The apathy shown in the matter is all the more to be regretted, as last night the secretary pro tern. (Mr W. E. Combs) was enabled to state that on a partial canvas only he had been promised a sum of 22 guineas for prize money.

The various Friendly Societies will meet to-ruorrow morning at 9 o'clock, and form a procession from the Fire Brigade station, preceeded by the Napier Rifle band, in the following order:—Loyal United Friends, Protestant Alliance, Hibernians, and Foresters. The procession will march down the Beach road to Edwards-street, down Hastings-street to the Post Office, where it will counter-march, turning down Emerson-street to the station, and leave by the 10.45 a.m. train for Hastings. Should the weather be favorable the fete should be well attended, and good sport may be anticipated. The amusement of the children has been provided for, arrangements having been made to use " Ye Merrye GoeRounde." The Rifle band under the conductorship of Bandmaster Garry, and the Foresters drum and fife band will enliven the proceedings with selections of music.

The weekly meeting of the Clive Square Mutual Improvement Association, was held last night. There was a good attendance of members, and several visitors were present. It was decided, that a public entertainment be given this month in Trinity schoolroom, and a committee was appointed to arrange all particulars. The subject for discussion, "Is a limited monarchy, like that ot England, the best form of government ? " was then opened in the affirmative by the Rev. J. J. Lewis, who, in an able and instructive speech, upheld the British constitution, and concluded by reading several extracts to show the hollowness of the American republic. Mr T. Laws, who opened in the negative, in a capital speech opposed a limited monarchy, like that of England, chiefly on the score of expense, shewing most clearly the large amount of money which was annually devoted to the support of formal offices and to the keeping up of the perpetual pension list. A vote being taken the affirmative was carried by a majority of two.

At the Waipawa Police Court yesterday, before Messrs Lawrence and Harding, J.P.s, Harry Douglass was charged by the police with the larceny of a pair of spurs, the property of Mr J. Reaney. Reaney and the prisoner, who were strangers to each other, were both staying at the Waipawa Hotel on Sunday last. Reaney, who had laid his spurs on the tap-room mantelpiece when he came to the hotel, missed them when he went to get them for use, and prisoner, who had ridden off before.had been seen by the landlord putting on the spurs. The latter, thinking the spurs were prisoner's own, did not say anything aboufc the matter till he heard Reaney inquiring for the lost articles, and prisoner had then leffc the hotel. Information was given to the police, with the result that prisoner was apprehended at Tamumu, and brought down to Waipawa by Constable Brosnehan. In answer to the charge prisoner admitted taking the spurs, but pleaded that he was so much under the influence of liquor at the time that he did not properly know what he was doing. He was sentenced to seven days imprisonment with hard labor.

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