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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3547, 21 November 1882, Page 2

It is well known that many persons who abstain from intoxicating liquors keep hotels. Some of these hotelkeepers are or were members of teetotal orders. Among some of these orders the pledge is neither to touch, taste, nor handle intoxicating liquors, yet some persons supposed etill to be members keep hotels. The question being discussed whether or not the obligation was broken by serving liquors to a customer out of a decanter, the reply from an expressman was, " Oh, no, contents unknown, as we have to take the stuff at the port! "

The following 1 civil cases were disposed of in tho Resident Magistrate's Court this morning :—J. B. Hollis v. Manaena Tini, claim £11 18s 3d; judgment for plaintiff by default with costs. N. Williams v. W. J. Nash, claim £2 15s; judgment for plaintiff by default with costs. R. L. Hatch v. Elizabeth Caldwell, claim £17 3s Gd; judgment for plaintiff for £12 2s 6d, with costs. John Mayne v. John Bullock, claim £43 lis 6d ; judgment for plaintiff with costs. Banner and Liddle v. John Young, claim £77 2s; case adjourned until Thursday. John Rolfe v. H. Neal, claim £1 10s; judgment for plaintiff by default with costs.

A public meeting in connection with the public library, Norsewood, was held in the Working Men's Club room, Norsewood, on the 28th ultimo, for tho purpose of electing a library committee for the ensuing year. Seven members were elected, after which it

was resolved that all voting in sonnection with the institution be conducted by ballot, and that no voting by proxy be allowed. Mr W. C. Smith, M.H.R., having very kindly forwarded the fullest information as to the necessary steps to be taken in order to get the library fairly established, and also a subscription of £5 to the library fund, it was resolved " That a cordial vote of thanks be tendered to Mr Smith for his subscription to the fund, and for the trouble he has kindly taken in obtaining and forwarding tbe necessary information." At a meeting of the library committee held immediately after, Mr Anders Larsen, of Whakaruatapn, was elected chairman, Mr F. W. Thompson secretary, and Mr H. P. Petersen treasurer.

By a telegram from Auckland we learn that Mr Macallum's Tambour Major Opera Company produced last night for the first time there Stephens and Solomon's operatic extravaganza " Billee Taylor " with great success. We have every reason to believe that the company's season here will be one of the most important—if not the most important—that has ever been known in Napier. The motto of Signor Nobili, the energetic business manager, he assures us, is never to announce anything but what will be produced, so that his promises may be received with every confidence. As showing how the matter has already been taken up in town we may mention that so great is the demand for seats in advance that there is every probability that all the available space in tha dress circle and orchestra stalls will be let for the Bix nights before the arrival of the company. It has been arranged to run a special train from and to Hastings in connection with Monday evening's performance, a convenience which will doubtless be fully appreciated by country residents.

It would be interesting to learn at whose instigation little children are sent into the streets to beg subscriptions for Sunday School festivals. During the spring and summer seasons scarcely a week passes but tradespeople and others are " stuck up" either out of doors or in their shops or offices hy boys and girls who would seem to have received special training to act as professional beggars for the funds of tho numerous Sunday School organisations that exist in town. We would fain believe tbat the scholars are not despatched on this mission by their respective ministers and teachers, but we fear there are only too good grounds for such supposition. Be that as it may, however, the fact remains that the practice cannot be carried on without a certain degree of danger attaching to it, and we trust, if for no other reason than that young children should be taught principles of strict independence, and be kept as distant as possible from any undue temptation to dishonesty, that parents will take the matter into serions consideration and leave clergymen and superintendents of Sunday Schools to devise some more excellent method of providing funds for these annual treats. No person, we believe, would grudge the children the wherewithal to obtain a day's pleasure, and there can be no reasonable ground for doubt but that if all the local schools amalgamated and held one grand children' afele on say New Year's Day of each year the scheme would receive liberal public support, without infantile begging having to be resorted to, and the young people would learn something of what appears to be conspicuously absent from their present gatherings—Christian unity.

The admirable properties of Vaseline render soaps in which it is incorporated indespensible in the family and fcr infants and invalids. They furnish a free and rich lather, and by their use the skin is kept healthful, smooth, and soft. Competent judges everywhere pronounce Vasaline soaps to be the beet in use. To be had in tablets, la each, of Professor Moore, Medical Hall, Waipawa.—[Advt.]

The premature decay of beauty in many of our women, and the rapid advances of age, argue an unhealthy condition of the system or a palpable neglect of their sanitary status. What is commonly known among the sex as " ennui," is nothing more or less than lassitude resulting from some defective organism or special affection. It matters not how delicate the frame, how sensitive the system, how exquisitely strung the nerves, moderate doses of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatic Schnapps will eradicate the causes and produce the most beneficial results.—[Advt.J