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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3578, 29 December 1882, Page 2

At a meeting of the Napior District School Committee, held last evening, it was resolved to sell by auction the building on the section, adjoining the school recently acquired for a playground, also that tenders be invited for filling in the ground and erecting a suitable fence. The number of nominations for assisted passages received by the Immigration Officer at Napier during this month of December, and which will be forwarded by the out-going mail, is 22, equal to 18 adults. The nominations include married families 2 (11 souls), single men 3, single women 4, foreigners 1 married woman and 4 children. Mr John Owens has shown us some very fine Ashleaf kidney potatoes grown in his garden it Napier from imported American seed. The specimens shown ns, which, we are informed, are in keeping with the whole of the crop, are very uniform in size, and measure each about six inches in length, while three of them weigh over a pound. The date for holding the proposed pyrotechnic display by members of the Napier Fire Brigade has been postponed from tomorrow until Thursday evening next, 4th January,Boastoenable those engaged in the various shops in town to be present. The display will take place in the recreation grounds, Carlyle-street, commencing at 8.30 p.m. A good deal of misconception appears to prevail respecting the Borough building regulations. Those regulations are still in force, and will remain so until the Governor's consent is obtained for their amendment or repeal by the Council. In the meantime persons building should bear in mind that they render themselves liable to a penalty not exceediug £5 for a breach of the regulations. The new steamer Takapuna, now about leaving England, is an addition to the Union Company's large fleet, and, being built for greater speed than ber numerous predecessors, is intended to be run as a fast express boat from Lyttelton via Wellington and New Plymouth to the Manakau, and will then connect the extreme Southern cities with Auckland in the shortest possible time by rail from the Bluff, Invercargill, Dunedin, &c. Monday being New Year's Day and a public holiday, the Post Office will be closed on that day. Mails for Wairoa, Mohaka, Motuotaraia,Wallingford,Porangah_, Wainui, Castle Point, Seventy - mile Bush, Wanganui, Wellington, ko., will close on the evening of Saturday, the 30th instant, at 8 o'clock, instead of on the morning of Monday (New Year's Day). A special delivery of correspondence will be made from the counter at this office between 7 and 8 o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the 30th instant. The Union Company's new steamship Tarawera, expeoted to arrive early next month from Glasgow, will make her first trip on an excursion from Port Chalmers to the West Coast Sounds. These annual excursions are now looked forward toby many New Zealand tourists as the trip of the colony, nnd as the Tarawera is a new boat, with all the latest improvements, we predict a most enjoyable excursion for all who avail themselves of the opportunity. Tha Tarawera will.leave Port Chalmers on or about the 10th February next. We desire to draw the attention of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club to the very incorrect report of the Boxing Day meeting at Hastings published in a local morning pnper. This incorrect report has been repeated in an up-oountry paper, and ias probably been telegraphed all over tha colony. Th. report publUbed by the Datx?

Telegeaph was correct, and should be confirmed by the Jockey Club, for the time may come when the newspapers of to-day may be referred back to for the settlement of gome wager in connection with the late races, when contradictory reports will be found, and the question may be decided by the weight of evidence, which will be all on the side of the incorrect version. It is too much to expect our morning contemporary to voluntarily oorreot its own errors. Messrs Kellar and Cunard last evening gave their third entertainment of the season at the Theatre Royal, when the various wonderful feats performed by them gave the greatest satisfaction, and elicited the hearty plaudits of all present. As we have already given a resume of the programme in our columns, it will not be neceesary to say more on the present occasion than that Mr Kellar's entertainments lose nothing by repetition, each successive performance, in fact, being more enjoyable than its predecessor. To-night the company will appear for the last time in Napier, when, in addition to the other attractions, there will be a dark seance. Those who desire to see a thoroughly good exhibition in legerdemain should not fail to avail themselves of the present opportunity, which will most probably be the last that may present itself for some time to come. The following testimonial from Major Richardson to Mr Milner Stephen respecting the latter's power to heal deafness has been handed to us for publication :—" I, Major Richardson, am 50 years of age, and have suffered for 17 years from deafness in the left ear, caused by the reports of rifle shots during the Maori war in 1865, and could hear general conversation. Having and read of Mr Milner Stephen's "• wonderful oures, 1 went to him on the 18th instant, and also on two subsequent occasions, when he restored my hearing by breathing into my ear ; and, having since taken two bottles of his magnetised water, I hope and believe that the cure is complete. After the second treatment by Mr Stephen something burst in my ear, and blood flowed out, since when I can hear very distinctly all conversation. —W. A. RiCHAEDSOsr, late Inspector A.C. Petane (near Napier), N.Z., December 29, 1882." Professor Moore, of Waipawa, has just opened in connection with his.present business a Fanoy Repository, and is now showing all the latest novelties in Christmas Ac, 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 eooda receives a beautiful illustrated almanac gratis. —[Advt.] . The miserable stuff hawked about by itinerant peddlers, and vended in the cheap shops under the name of Schnapps, is nothing but the most villainous compounds of bad gin. The article is often fetid and acrid, and taken into the stomach, not only burns the intestines, but acts with such drastic power on the bladder and kidneys as often to produce chronic inflammalion. It is a certain poison, The only true, reliable and healthy precaution, is Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatic Schnapps.— [Advt.]