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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3615, 12 February 1883, Page 2

It will be seen by our report of the proceedings of the Hawke's Bay County Council that Mi- J. N. Williams and Mr P. Dolbcl have been elected to represent the county on the Harbor Board. Mr P. Dolbel, who was elected to a seat at the Harbor Board to-day by the Hawko'e Bay Council, is a strong advocate for a harbor for Napier, and is one of the competitors for the bonus offered by the Board for the best design. A very good deal of interest waa shown throughout the day in the 'Harbor Board elections, and a crowd of ratepayers hung around the polling place. Up tiJl 2.30 p.m. 2-10 electors had recorded their votes. The Be turning Officer will declare the result of the poll at noon to-morrow. The Hastings Presbyterian Church was opened yesterday by the Rev. D. Sidey, who preached morning and evening to large congregations. The building, capable of Keating' two hundred, has been elegantly designed by Mr Lamb., and reflects the greatest possible credit on the builder, Mr iDoiiald McLeod. The secretary of the Hastings Athemeum received information from Wellington to the effect that £102 0s 7d is the sum to be handed over to the above mentioned athenteum, the building of which will be commenced as soon as necessary arrangements can be made. The Hastings residents may congratulate themselves on shortly having a long felt want supplied. Our Wairoa correspondent telegraphs that a man named George Duncan a contractor lately residing- at Mohaka, died suddenly at the Clyde Hotel on Saturday night of aneurism of the aorta. He was brought to Wairoa from Mohaka on Friday in a peculiar state, being partially demented. Two men have been watching , * him for the last few days for fear he should injure himself. The remains were interred yesterday afternoon. There is to be seen gowing in the garden of Mr Graham, of Clive. a very fine tobacco plant that has attraeed a good deal of attention of late, especially at the hands of natives, who, we are informed, regard it with a degree of wistful solicitude that is charming to contemplate. The plant, notwithstanding that it has had the top lopped off, is four feet high, and has eleven leaves averaging each 20 inches long by 10 inches broad, sullieient to yield about a pound of manufactured tobacco. Last week we told our readers that Uic only reply Mr Sutton had got from the Government to his three letters urging the payment of the hospital accounts, so that salaries and tradesmen could bo paid, was '' letter by mail.'" The mail ciioio up on Saturday afternoon, but it bronght no letter from Mr Dick to Mr Sutton. Tho Government seem to be laying - up for themselves wealth against the meeting of Parlia-

ment. Seldom has a Ministry so persistently endeavored to convert its small majority into a miserable minority as Mr Whitaker's Cabinet has done during this recess.

> The Government, having acknowledged V" the claims of the Napier Atlienoeuni to consideration as a public reading-room, havo gTanted to that institution the sum of £69 12a from the library vote of last session. In one sense the Athenteum does not come ■within, the category of public libraries, but Mr P. Bear, the secretary, pointed out to the Minister of Education that, according to the rules of the Institute, anyone can make use of both library and reading-room by application to the custodian, and that it ■was not the fault of the committee that the Athenaeum -was uot brought under the Public Libraries Act.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., Robert Francis Shannon, on remand, was convicted of obtaining 15s in money under false pretences from Mrs Raven at the Royal Hotel, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. Alfred James, charged with having assaulted James Tuck, ""landlord of the Railway Hotel, Hastings, pleaded uot guilty. The case was adjourned by the Court to the 19th instant, a warrant to be issued meantime for the production of James MacPherson as a witness. Another information laid by the same informant charging James with a breach of the Vagrant Act, 18G9, was dismissed.

The death is announced of Mrs Craig- at the age of 75 years. Mrs Craig, who was the mother of Mrs Garry and of Mrs Newton, was the widow of Captain Craig, who settled at Petane in 1851, and was therefore one of the earliest settlers in Hawke's Bay. The deceased lady was apparently in the enjoyment of her usual health on Friday, having walked up town in the morning and paid her rates at the Town Clerk's office. On Saturday afternoon a neighbor calling at her hemse failed to g-uin admission at the front door, and so went in at the back, when she found Mrs Craig lying in the passage in a fit. Assistance was at onue procured, and the members of the family communicated with, but the deceased never recovered consciousness, and expired before G o'clock. A decision important alike to bankers and 'y~ their customers has been given recently in the Adelaide local Court. The point at issue was whether on a fraudulent alteration of a cheque the drawer or the bank should suffer the loss. The defendants, in their capacity of treasurers to the Adelaide Ai'tisans' Club, had signed a cheque for the payment of £1. In the body of the cheque space had been left sufficient for the introduction of the syllable '' teen after the word "four," and in the left-hand corner the figure 4 had been written somewhat distant from the printed £. During the transmission of the cheque to the bank by some means and by some person, how oi- by whom it was not shown, the word "four" had been altered to "fourteen" and the figure " 1 " was also placed before the figure " -1." The cheque was presented at the bank for payment, and the sum of £1-1 handed over in return. The decision of the Court was that if the cheque were carelessly drawn, allowing facilities for alteration, the drawer must lose. Are you troubled with any affection of the Liver ? If so stnd at once to Professor Moore, of the Medical Hall, Waipawa, for a box of his Podophyllin Pills. Podophyllin is the most reliable liver stimulent and alterative known within the whole range of the vegetable kingdom. Controlled and modified in action by the addition of other vegetable active principles, Professor Moore's Podophvllin Pills are perfection.— [Adtt.] Circulars and pamphlets explanatory of jts curative properties have been translated jnto all languages, and there is no portion o f the world where Wolfe's Scikcaits is n ot known and appreciated.—[Advt.]