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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3607, 2 February 1883, Page 2

A Native Lands Court is now being held at AVaipawa, before Judge Macdonald, and is expected to last for three weeks. In our report of the annual meeting of tho Napier Gas Company yesterday we inadvertently stated that Mr J. N. AVilson was re-elected "a director of the company. It should have been Mr J. S. AVelsman. It will be seen by the published list of subscriptions to the building fund of the Napier Hospital that during the month of January .£2lO 17s Sd has been collected, of which the sum of £22 9s was specially subscribed for a children's ward. The building trade is said to be slack in Napier, and, as a consequence, a good many carpenters are out of work. The few buildings that are on hand arc either not sufficiently advanced to absorb surplus labor, or are delayed for the want of suitable timber. At the annual meeting of householders in the Hampden school district the following were elected a School Committee for the ensuing year:—Messrs J. J. Buchanan, J. Glass, H. Moore, AY. Auld, J. Fritchely, J. Matthews, and J. Craven. At the committee meeting held after the householders' meeting, Mr James Craven was elected secretary. The appointment of chairman was postponed till a future meeting of committee. AYe have been requested by some of the residents on the AVellcsley-road to call the attention of the proper authorities to what is becoming a serious nuisance. It appears that there is some attraction iv that neighborhood for men in varying stages of intoxication, whose presence on the road disturbs the quietude of the locality, and makes it most unpleasant for way-farers. In the publication of this paragraph it is hoped by residents that cause for future complaint will cease. A good story is told of the borough nightsoil and rubbish collector. A householder overheard one of the men employed by this contractor making use of bad language in the hearing of children. The box of refuse rubbish was unusually heavy, and the man asked the children whether their father thought him an adjective cow to be expected to lift such a load. The householder complained to the Town Clerk, and that official sent for the contractor to remonstrate with him on employing a man who could bo guilty of the language imputed to him. "AVell, you see. Sir," said the contractor, '' I can't get a staif of clergymen for the work of my contract, but if 1 could I should be happy to oblige !" AYe desire to call the attention of the proper authorities to the breach of clause 29, by-law No. 1, by the contractors for the fencing and filling iv of the new playground for the district school. The whole of the footpath in front of the section has been encroached upon by the placing thereon of heaps of great lumps of rock, and last night, to make matters better, a mortar board added to the obstruction. No lamp has been lighted there for two nights running, nor has any other sign been placed there to warn the unwary that they run the risk of breaking a limb by continuing on the footpath. The cool impudence of this breach of the by-law is only equalled by the utter neglect of the authorities to enforce the borough regulations. On Monday last the district school at AVaipukurau was opened after the holidays. In the afternoon a number of prizes were distributed by the Rev. AY. Shu-riffs to those pupils" who had displayed most proficiency during the past year. The following were prize-takers : —Special prize for writing, John Charles Poole; special prize i'or arithmetic, Helen Palmer. Standard A r .—First prize, Helen Palmer; second prize, John Charles Poole; third, George Palmer. Standard IV.—First prize, John Palmer; second, Harry Horton; third, John AVinlove. Standard lII.— First prize, Amylluggins ; second, Edward Scott; third, AVilliain Sharpin and Isabella Shirriffs. Standard ll.—First prize, Arthur Bailey ; second, Frederick AVilliams ; third, AVilliam Horton. Standard I.—First prize, John Sharpin and Mary Huggins; second, Charles Brown ; third, Frederick Bliss and Lumsden Shirritt's. "Les Cloches de Cornevillc" was reproduced at the Theatre Royal last night with even greater success than attended its representation the previous evening. All the principals were favored with deserved recalls at various stages of the performance, as wero also Miss Flo Childs and '' Little Queenie Hodge " for their clever dancing at the commencement of the third act. Master E. Osmond still continues to improve in voice, aud last night received quite an ovation for his finished singing of the numbers entrusted to him. It is, perhaps, needless to say that the Baillie and Gobo shared largely"in " the honors of the evenin"-." The orchestra showed a slight improvement, though it is still deficient in strength. Those who have not yet seen the juveniles in "Les Cloches de Cornevillc" should not miss the opportunity afforded them to-night, when it wili be produced for the last time but one. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this • morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., John Rogers, an intelligent looking lad of ei---ht years, was charged, on the information of Constable Lawless, with having no means of sustenance or lawful place of abode. The constable said he knew nothing of the lad's parents personally. He had heard that his father was dead, arid that his mother was living with nome man in the AVairoa district. The been living lor several weeks past at the Kavanui_w with the natives. AVitness midorstood that lie belonged to the Roman-Catholic denomination. Oil beiii^ 1 questioned by the Court, ! Rogers .-.aid 'his father and mother were Protestants'," "11 .o former having belonged to the English Church. His mother's name was Moko. He would be nine years of age next May. His AVorship said it woidd be as well before committing the hoy to an orphanage that further enquiries should be made by tho police respecting tho religious belief of his parents, and for this purpose a remand would be granted. On AVednesday at AVaipawa a picnic was given by the ladies of the Presbyterian congregation to all the children in the township. About three hundred availed themselves of the invitation, numbers of the children being accompanied by their pa rents. Punctually at 12 o'clock the children formed into procession at the district school, and, headed by the Waipawa brass band, marched to the paddock in the bush where the picnic was to be held. On arriving there tho youngsters were regaled with bims, cake, tea, lemonade, kc. Numbers of swings were erected on the ground, aud wero avc-11 patronised. During the afternoon a great number of boys' and girls' races were run off, tho prizes being toys of various descriptions. A start homewards avus made at about G o'clock, the. youngers, on leaving the ground, giving three hearty cheers for all those who had been amusing them. Iv the evening the members of the brass band gave a social dance in the Rechabite Hall, and about forty couples "..ripped the light fantastic '' till 'j a.m. In Mr AY. G. Motley's share report, published iv another column, it will be noticed that he refers to the recovery of the "lost" eight-inch tubing at the South Pacific Company's 'works by means of a clamp and scrow-jacks. In the early part of January it was observed by Mr Weaver,

that, owing to a fault in ono of the pipes some fifty feet down, the tubing was not going down plumb. AVith the aid of a clamp and screw-jacks the whole of the tubing was lifted, and the faulty part removed. Had this simple process been known here for the lifting of pipes much of the loss sustained in sinking a good many unsuccessful artesian wells might have been saved. It is not too late to recover a quantity of piping now uselessly buried aud abadoned. At the Southern Cross Petroleum works three sets of piping were lost till, in despair of being able to drive, a shaft six feet in diameter enclosing the lot was sunk, and in that -way the pipes were recovered. This shaft is now being proceeded AA'ith pending the arrival from America of a practical borer. The Te Ore Ore natives (says the Wairarapa Daily of Tuesday last) are busily engaged preparing for the reception of Tawhiao, avlio is expected to arrive with a large folloAving in the course of a feAV days. From an exchange Aye learn that Mr John Snodgrass, who has acted as bank manager for the Bank ofNNeA r Zealand at Carterton during the last seven years, has received a similar appointment at Tauranga, and AA-ill proceed to his neAv destination during the the course of the present week. Quinine is an alkaloid found in the bark of trees belonging to the Cinchona or Peruvian bark family, and is one of tho most valuable febrifuges and antiperiodieis knoAA"ii to medical science; Avhile incorporated with iron tincture it has no equal as a tonic. Pure quinine and iron may be obtained put up in bottles of any size to suit customers at Professor Moore's Medical Hall, AVaipawa. —[Adv_l. Persons Avhose aA-ocations are sedentary and confine them indoors, are especially in need of some wholesome stimulant; we therefore confidently offer them that worldrenowned tonic, AVolfe's Schnapps.— [Advt.]