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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3543, 16 November 1882, Page 2

Mesrs Kinross and Co., agents for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, have received advice from tbe head office that the Egyptian railway transit from Aden to Alexandria has been resumed. We remind our readers that the concert in aid of the library and prize fund of the Spit school takes place in Stuart's store this evening. An excellent programme has been drawn up, and a capital evening's entertainment may be expected. Mr Cotton's cabs will be at the Post Office at 7.30 p.m. to convey singers and friends to the concert.

We understand that the ironmongery business, for many years carried on by Mr F. Fuxford in Hastings-street, has been purchased by Messrs T. Sidey and Hardy. Mr Hardy has been long connected with the business, and both members of the new firm being well known and respected, a prosperous career is not only wished but may be expected for them.

At the Waipawa Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr Inglis, J.P., a woman named Alice Macfarlane was charged by the police with drunkenness. She had been found the evening before lying in a pool of mud and water in Waverly-street exposed to the rain, and was wet from the toe to the head. In consideration of Alice having been locked up all night she was discharged with a reprimand.

The English mail arrived afc Napier last night, being delivered at the Post Ofiice at about 9.30 o'clock. The mail, which consisted of 1608 letters, 2750 newspapers, 600 books, and 52 registered letters, was ail sorted last night, and, through the courtesy of the officials, holders of private boxes were enabled till past midnight to obtained their correspondence. The up-country mails were despatched by the morning train. It will be seen by advertisement elsewhere that Mr W. H. Warren will deliver an essay on the writings of the late Charles Dickens, with numerous illustrations, in St. John s schoolroom to-morrow evening, in aid of the funds of St. John's Sunday School library. Mr Warren comes here with first-cbss repute as a reader and lecturer, and a very pleasant and profitable evening's entertainment may be fairly anticipated by those who can find it convenient to hear him. The chair will be taken at 8 o'clock precisely. Mr E. W. Knowles; writing from London under date October 2, says:—" Last week the Mataura's cargo of frozen meat was put in the market, and has been sold at good prices. To-day I had a shoulder ana some chops from one of tbe sheep. The butcher told me that the mutton when he bought it was as firm as any he could wish to see, and expressed his surprise that we had such fine sheep in New Zealand. He told me that be paid 6d per lb for New Zealand mutton, and 9d for home_ grown, yet he was retailing it all at one price." In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., John Jacobs, charged with having been drunk at the Spit yesterday, pleaded guilty. The prisoner was dismissed with a caution on Sergeant Burtenshaw producing an admission order to the hospital in his favor, signed by Dr. Spencer. It was stated that, should the man be found fit to travel by Saturday, he would be sent on to Auckland on that date at the expense of the Charitable Aid Committee. [Since the above was in print we learn that Jacobs has been placed on board the Southern Cross, which sails for Auckland this day.]

A private letter from England by the last mail contains the following :—"lt is strange to find how little in use is the electric light.

In many places where it was employed ifc has disappeared, and gas has returned. The best I have seen of the electric light was at the Savoy Theatre, where, I must say, it was good. I believe ifc was Edison's; none that I have seen in America or Paris could compare with ifc. Every month, however, brings out something new in the way of electric lighting, which proves that this method of illumination must be quite in its infancy."

We learn that, weather permitting, the Artillery band have kindly consented to perform selections of music opposite the Athena-sum this evening.

The heavy rains during the p»sfc fewdays have caused a heavy fresh in the Waipawa river which last night had a strong set towards the township, and all the working gear of the contractor for the erection of the groin t© protect the approach to tho river has been washed away. That portion of the groin already erected has the effect of diverting the stream slightly towards the centre of the river bed. The contractor estimates the damage at £20. The plankedup embankment at the side of Mr Bibby's house facing the railway bridge came down during the night, carrying with ifc a quantity of earth and a fence. No other damage by the river or rain is reported.

Signor Oreste Nobili, advance business manager for the Tambour-Major Opera Company, arrived here by the Southern Cross last evening to make the necessary preliminary arrangements for opening in the Theatre Royal. )In consequence of the company being unable to conclude their season in Auckland (wh.ere they are at present doing splendid business) before the 22nd instant, and it having been arranged, to give one performance afc Gisborne en route, the opening nighfc at Napier has had to be postponed until Saturday, 25th instant. During their season here Mr Vernon's com-, pany will play t_r«© operas, namely, " hour-Major," "Patience," and "Billee Taylor," each of which will be produced with entirely new scenery and effects. The tariff haa been fixed at the lowest possible scale consistent with the expense cf the entertainment, and the number of the artistes employed in it, so as to suit the financial resources of all classes of the community.

The " Northern Concert," given at the Theatre Royal last evening in aid of the fund for providing a children's ward at the Hospital, came off in a highly creditable manner, and, considering the state of the weather, the attendance was good. If one may judge from the frequent recalls that were demanded the audience was certainly thoroughly satisfied with every feature of the entertainment, nearly all the performers b6ing encored. Messrs Holm (piano) and Sandberg (violin) gave some very fine instrumental duets, which showed considerable musical culture. Several choruses and quartettes were also rendered in pleasing style. Mrs Scuthe's Danish song was one of fche best things of the evening. Mr Holm-Langkjer and Miss Johansen were both very successful in their respective solos "Le Postilion" and "Hutten," and received rapturous applause. An excellent orchestra gave material assistance throughout, and no small credit is due to Mr HolmLangkjer, upon whom depended largely the success of the whole affair. We hope to hear our Scandinavian friends again on many future occasions.

In our report of Monday's issue of the numerous interesting objects to be seen afc the exhibition now on view afc the Athena-urn, we inadvertently omitted to mention the large model cutter-yachts lent by Mr B. Warnes, a magnificent oil painting, by Herr Lindauer, lent by Mr S. Carnell, also a fine collection of colored photographic views lent by Mr Gilberd, an artistic mantelborder by Mrs J. Martin, a charter and privy seal lent by Mr J. Hindmarsh, skins of various birds, also of a snake and an oppossum lent by Madame Politz, a fullrigged wooden ship in a common glass bottle, fche celebrated phatograph of Max's wonderful painting of Oar Saviour's head, and photos, of the Tay bridge, a beautiful model of the human anatomy and other educational apparatus, several volumes of fine art pictures, some excellent pencil studies by Mr Mountier, a cushion in wool work, a silk dress nearly two centuries old, and a hundred and one other interesting exhibits which our space will not permit us to particularise. We again recommend an inspection of this first-class collection to all who have not yet paid the exhibition a visit.

Decayed teeth are nofc unfrequently a prolific source of stomachic disorders, which often arise through the inability of the subject to properly assimilate the more solid forms of food necessary for the sustenance of the body. To preserve the teeth it is highly necessary that they should be carefully brushed night and morning so that neither acids or particles of food which destroy the enamel may attach thereto. Professor Moore, of the Waipawa Medical Hall, keeps the largest and cheapest stook of tooth, hair, and nail brushes, of any chemist in the province.—[Advt.]

The most flattering tribute to the merits of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatig Schnapps is to be found in the fact that although repeatedly pirated, and often imitated, nothing has ever been produced that even simulates this matchless preparation. All the adulterated compounds and noxious nostrums, the diluted cordials and sickly elixirs that have been foisted on the public, bear no more the shadow of a semblance to this excelling invigorant than the strongest artificial light to the great luminary of the day.—-[A_v_.J