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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3573, 21 December 1882, Page 2

Our fourth page to-day contains a report of the proceedings of thejMunicipal Council last night, the prize lists of the Napier and Port district schools, the handicaps of the chief events to bo competed for at the Friendly Society's sports on New Year'B Day, and some racing intelligence. We call the attention of our readers to the mail notices in another column having reference to the Christmas and Boxing Day holiday to be observed by the Post Office. We have received a copy of the Hawke's Bay Almanac for 1883 from the publishers, Messrs Dinwiddie, Walker, and Co. The volume contains the general information usually to be found in works of the kind, and, being carefully compiled, is a very useful and creditable production. We have had the pleasure of inspecting at Mr T. B. Harding's, Hastings-street, one of the best selection of Christmas and New Year cards that we have seen in Napier. The latest patterns are to be found iv stock, and great care has evidently been shown in their selection. Buyers would do well to give a call and judge for themselves. In mentioning in our last issue that the morning train got " stuck " on the steep pinch of tho Te Aute hill yesterday, we inadvertently omitted from the list comprising the train a hor.ie-box and two high-side waggons. We hardly think that even with these three extra vehicles it is creditable to the department that the locomotives on our line should be unequal to the traffic. At the annual meeting of St. John's Branch, No. 93, H.A.C.8.5., last night the following persons were elected to fill the various offices for the ensuing term :—President, Bro. T. M. Murphy; vice-president, P. Malcom; treasurer, J. Moroney; secretary, J. W. St. Clair; warden, A. Gordon; guardian, H. J. Rogers ; sick visitors, A. Gordon and R. Ambrose; medical attendant, Dr. F. I. de Lisle. On Christmas and New Year's days the telegraph offices, with the exception of those which are closed on Sundays and public holidays, will be open to the public from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m., instead of during the usual Sunday hours. On Boxing Day, the 26th instant, all offices will be open from 9 to 10 a.m., and those which are open on Sundays and holidays from 7 to 8 p.m. also. On Saturday afternoon a yacht race for £20 a side is to be sailed between "Mr Northe's new yacht Comet and Mr Provia' Wave Queen. The course is from buoys moored off the pier heads round the English vessels at anchor, and from thence round the Pania buoy, and back direct to the buoys off the piers. Considerable interest is manifested in the race, as both crafts are fast sailers. The Boojum will leave the wharf at 2.15 p.m. with excursionists who wish to have a good view of the race. In another column the publisher announses the issue, in a few days, of Harding's Almanac and Directions for 1883. It is to be regretted that circumstances of an unforeseen kind should have delayed the publication of this valuable work beyond the time at which it was originally intended to appear. We are informed that no omission in its contents or retrenchment of its plan will he made, and that several new and useful features have been introduced, including a directory for the East Coast district.

The usual annual excursion to the Sounds by the Union Company's steamers this year will be made by the new steamer Tarawera, now en route from the Clyde. She will be leaving Port Chalmers about tbe 10th of February next, and will visit Preservation Inlet, Dusky Sound, Breaksea, George, Bligh, Milford, and other sounds on the West Coast. As the trip this year will occupy about ten instead of as in previous years about four days, it should offer special inducement to sporting, fishing, and sketching parties.

The two detachments of the Napier Artillery Volunteers competed for the Government ordnance prize this morning. The target, which was a cask, was moored in the bay a little over a mile from the beach in front of the Court House. Each detachment fired three shot and three shell. N . 1 detachment scored 18 points, and No. 2 16. Sergeant-major Fox acted as scorer from the look-out at the engine station. The morning was beautifully fine, and the firing was considered remarkably good. Tbe band waa in attendance, and performed on their newly imported instruments, the tones of which were much admired.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning l , before G. A. Preece, Esq., R.M., Henry Hudson, an old offender, was remanded until to-morrow on a charge of vagrancy. William Glesson, charged with being illegally on the premises of F. Pape, pleaded not guilty, and was dismissed with a caution. Thomas Davis pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 10s and costs, which were duly forthcoming. T. M. Murphy was charged with committing an assault on Saturday night last, and was ordered to pay costs of the Court and to enter into sureties to keep the peace for six months. There was no other business. Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., have kindly furnished us with the following particulars of the pure-bred Lincoln rams imported through their firm for the undermentioned gentlemen :—4O four-tooth, for Mr Roberts' station, Tautane ; 30 twotooth, Mr Hugh Campbell; 50 ditto, Mr Douglas McLean; 25 ditto, Mr J. H. Loughnan; 25 ditto, Mr T. Biihop; 1 stud ram, two-tooth, Mr T. Bishop, and 5 twotooth rams, Mr W. Saunders. The above sheep, which formed the balance of the shipment per s.s. Omapara on Wednesday, were purchased from Mr E. Meniove, of Windsor Park, Oamaru. We may mention that Mr Menlove's flock consists of 12,000 sheep, and that the average of his clip was 12Ibs. of wool per head, while bis stud ram hoggets clipped from 211ts. to 28lbs. each. The stud ram bought for Mr T. Bishop is a remarkably fine specimen pf the pure Lincoln. Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R., has received a reply from the Colonial Secretary to his letter re the Hospital, in which the following passage occurs ■—■' I consented that £1500 should be paid by Government for the additions to the Napier Hospital if a similar sum was raised by the district for the purpose. With regard to the maintenance of the Hospital the Government is liable for that, and will pay the amounts furnished of expenditure without demur, provided there is no waste, but it can scarcely, be expected to do so until tbe £1,037 lately given is expended along with any other moneys that were available for maintenance." This is exactly what we thought the Government intended to do— that is, to compel the Committee to spend all they have saved for building before the Government will advance a penny for j Maintenance. Nothing nprj? unjust can bje well conceived.

A'o a meeting of the committee of the Oamaru Caledonian Society an indignant Highlander rejected with scorn a proposal to, introduce a lawn tennis match into next year's programme,' as being far too mild a game; whereupon the facetious proposer remarked tbat a Scot was probably fonder of Lome whiskey than of Taidn tennis.

Professor Moore,. of Waipawa, ha_ jus. opened in connection with his present business a Fancy Repository, and is now showing all the latest novelties in Christmas &c, cards, concertinas, accordians, musical albums and boxes, violins, ladies gold and silver watches, docks, fancy and other stationery, inkstands, Chinese lanterns, talking dolls, and every description of toys. Every person purchasing £1 worth of (roods receives a beautiful illustrated almanac gratis. —[Advt.. The mimetic art has been in existence from time immemorial, we might almost say; and the word, although usually, may nofc be strictly and literally confined to the dramatic age. To imitate, and espeoially to imitate what is successful, is a very old habit. Liberalized iv its meaning, it not infrequently trenches on Btealing. The story of Chatterton, the boy-poet's plagiarisms, evidently began in imitation, until failure to emulate his original led him to pilfer. So those who endeavor, fruitlessly, to manufacture a coidial like Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedaj- Abomatic Schnapps, breaking down in the attempt to even simulate therenowned an ti-dyspeptic invigorant, are almost invariably tempted to pirate the article.—■[ Advt.]'