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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3556, 1 December 1882, Page 2

The rainfall at Napier for the past month, was 2f inches.

A slight hut prolonged shock of earthquake was experienced in Napier a few minutes after 12 o'clock last night. The vital statistics registered at Napier for the month of Novemher were as follows : —Births 28, marriages 5, and deaths 14.

The Customs revenue collected at the port of Napier during the pact month amounted to £4466 12s 2d, to which heer duty stamps contributed £229 5s 2d. At the regular monthly meeting of the Heretaunga Lodge, 1812, E.C., held at Hastings on Wednesday evening, Bro. R. Wellwood was unanimously elected W.M. for the ensuing year.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Frank Stevenson, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s and costs, with the alternative of 24 houre's imprisonment. The fine was paid. We are indebted to the Surgeon-Superin-tendent for the following Hospital returns for the past month :—lnmates at last date, 20 males and 6 females ; admitted during November, 16 males and 5 females; discharged, 16 males and 4 females; died, 1; remaining at this date, 19 males and 7. females. At the meeting to be held tiis evening in the new school-room of the Free Methodist Church, Carlyle street, commencing at 7.30 o'clock, Mrs Hampson will address the members of Christian churches. The meeting is wholly undenominational, and a full representation of each of the various bodies of Christians is invited and expected. Many will hear with regret that Sir John Hall, owing to continued ill-health, is about to resign his seat in the House and visit England. It is to be hoped that the change of scene will restore his health, and that, at the expiration of his projected visit, he will return to the colony and resume a political career that has been pregnant with useful results. Not for many years past have there been so few prisoners at the Napier gaol. There are only twenty-eeven persons incarcerated, of whom six are awaiting trial. This time last year there were between sixty and seventy prisoners. We hear that there is a similar diminution in all the prisons throughout the colony. Is this due to the gaols being rendered less pleasant places of residence since the advent of Captain HumeP Our readers will be glad to learn that, in consequence of solicitations from all quarters of Napier and district, the Tam-bour-Major Opera Company will give a second season of six nights in the Theatre Royal, commencing to-morrow. evening , , during which the operas of " TambourMajor," "Patience," " Billee Taylor," " Madame Angot," and " Fatanitza," will be produced. To-morrow evening the company will, by special request, reproduce in all its grandeur, " La Fille dv TambourMajor," which created euch a furore on its recent production here. We are requested to inform the public that, owing to the limited space available for the people desiring to hear Mrs Hampson, the committee cannot accept any responsibility for the presence of children at the evening meetings of the coming week. The stewards have therefore been directed to refuse admission to all under the age of, at least, fourteen years, and parents and guardians are requested to restrain children under their care from seeking admission. It is hoped that Mrs Hampeou will be able ere leaving Napier to have a special gathering of the younger persons, but their presence in the crowded evening assemblies is very undesirable.

The attendance at the Horticultural Society 8 Show yesterday was much larger than on the firet day. During the evening the enclosure was crowded, while numerous parties promenaded Mr Tiffen's gardens. The ferneries were lighted up, and nothing was omitted to make the visit to the grounds as pleasant as possible. The con»mittee werd untiring in their efforts, and much credit is due to both Mr Tiflfen and Mr Marsroliouth for the undoubted success that was attained. In the evening some of the exhibits were put up to auction, and realised fair prices. At a sub-committee meeting to-day it was resolved to keep the framework and canvas covering for future occasions, and by permission of Mr Tiffen the Society will be enabled to hold the next show, in February next, in the game place.

A meeting of the committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held this forenoon, Captain Russell in the chair. It was decided that, in consequence of the financial loss sustained by the Friendly Societies at the late fett, to reduce the charge made for the use of the society's ground at Hastings from £20 to £10. It was also resolved that rule V of Ground Regulations, which reads as follows, should be rescinded :—" No prize will be given in cattle, horse, or cheep classes, or in the champion classes, unless there be three or more exhibits in tne ordinary classes, and two or more exhibits in the champion classes." This effects the regulations so far that in future prizes will he given if the exhibits are thought worthy of it, though there may be only one or two exhibits in' the respective classes. The remaining business possessed no public interest.

At the Waipawa Police Court yesterday, before Mr A. St. C. Inglis, J.P., John Monahan, supposed to be a fresh arrival from the Auckland district, was charged by the police with being unlawfully on the premises of Mary Dubois, Waverley-street, on the proceeding evening. Several loafers were around the more secluded parts of the township between 10 and 12 o'clock on the night named, knocking , at the doors of houses occupied by females whose male relatives had gone by the special train to Napier that evening, and peeking admission as " friends." The police were communicated with, and one or more private persona were on the alert to catch the offenders. Shortly before 12 o'clock prisoner went to the house of Mre Dubois, asking to be admitted. The latter alarmed the immediate neighborhood by loud " cooeys," and the police and a neighbor running up the prisoner decamped, but was caught after a sharp chase by Constable Brosnahan. Prisoner urged in his defence that he went to the house in search of a mate of his, but the Bench considered the charge fully proved, and sentenced him to seven days hard labor.

Not long , after his removal from the House of Commons to the House of Lords Disraeli met a brother peer in the street, who asked him how ho liked the change. "Like it," exclaimed Disraeli, forgetting

i himself for the moment, and blundering out the truth—" Like it! I feel as if I were dead, or buried alive !" Then seeing the expression of discomfiture on the peer's face, he added hastily, with a courtly bow and an irresistible smile, " And in the land of the blessed!"

The admirable properties of Vaseline render soaps in which it is incorporated indispensible in the family and for 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, Is each, of Professor Moore, Medical Hall, Waipawa

The most trivial affection with which we are troubled is whai is comonly called colds, and yet, trifling as they are from .a superficial standpoint, they are but inductors or conductors of many dire diseases. If they do not end in pneumonia or some pulmonary oomplaints, they fall on the kidneys, and here is just the point at which Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps cornea to our Bid, and by its searching, permeating, pervasive action on these organs, restores them to their normal condition. — [Adyt.]