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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3783, 30 August 1883, Page 2

Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R., returns; toNapier by tho steamer dv Sunday from AVellington. Mr A. McCartney, for many years the popular proprietor of the Urconn.ci._mvs Hotel, took possession ot Mr Barrows Caledonian Hotel last night.

A sitting of tho Supreme Court for tho despatch of business accruing under tho Debtors and Creditors Act 1870, audits Amendments, is appointed to be held on Thursday, September 13, at 2 p.m. Our AVairoa correspondent telegraphs that Mrs Joseph Powdrcll, of Turn .a, died at 2 o'clock tils morning of acute pncrperal mania, after an illness ot a waok « Much sympathy « expressed at the sad event. Dr Caro attended. ' The officer in charge of the volunteers last night, we arc certain would never have Scdfhc company for dismiss*. , and kept tl o band playing, at the foot of the Mil onr ~d had he remembered that the members o f' the Musical Society were practising in the school-room. AVhilc the band playod tho practice had, to cease.

A young boy of tho name of James O'Ncil, aged 7 years, was playing on a ladder at Mr T. Tanner's station, Petane,

yesterday, when he fell, and broke his leg above tlic ankle. Ho was conveyed last \ night from Petane to the Napier Hospital.

The Gisborne football team will arrive in Napier on Saturday, the Bth September, and will play the match as arranged the same day, returning home by tho steamer in the evening. A scratch match has been fixed for Saturday, Ist proximo, to keep the Napier players in practice.

The ordinary weekly practice of tho Musical Society was held last night in the district school. There was an excellent attendance of vocalists, but there might have been a fuller appearance of instrumentalists... The whole of the choruses were gono* through, and their rendering showed a marked improvement.

Mr J. Harding sent a keg of clay from his Mount Vernon estate to tho Clyde Pottery AVorks, Greenock, and has received four jugs made from it. Mr Harding hoped from the whiteness and quality of tho earth that it was china clay, but it turns out to be pottery clay. The report accompanying the jugs stated that the clay made very good delf, but could not stand the heat accustomed to be employed at the works.

The Napier A T olunteers paraded for inspection in front of tho Athenreum last night. There was a good muster of both companies. After inspection by Major Routlodge, the Artillery marched into Hcrschcll-street, where Captain Garner exercised the battery in company drill, the Rifles, headed by the Volunteer Band, proceeding to Clive Square, where Lieut. King put his men through company and skirmishing exercise.

The tidal wave that washed along the coast from tho Bay of Islands to Port Chalmers yesterday emitted to pay a visit to either tho Thames or to Napier. It would therefore appear to have been caused by some other volcanic disturbance than an earthquake in South America, for when an unusually heavy one occurs in the regions of the Andes strong tidal movements are experienced at every part of this coast. In 1868, when the city of Quito was destroyed, the most remarkable tidal disturbances were witnessed inside our inner harbor. [Since the above Avas in type we hear there was a slight indication of a tidal wave in the afternoon.] At a meeting of tho Athenajum committee held last evening, the follow correspondence was read:—From tho Colonial Secretary's office, consenting to supply the institution with the statutes gratis. From Mr McMillan, of Havelock, offering to present back numbers of the "Phonetic Journal," a specimen of which accompanied his letter ; accepted with thanks. From Messrs 801 l and Bradfutc, England, stating that the books ordered would be despatched by on early vessel. Tho secretary intimated that favorable replies, in most cases, had been received to his applications to newspaper proprietors in the colony for free copies of their respective journal's. It was resolved to remove the reference library to the reading-room ; to publish the bye-law_-together with the Act of Incorporation and catalogue of books forthwith; to procure copies of the Public Libraries Acts of 1869, '75 and '77 ; and to call a special meeting of the members of the body corporate at an early date for the purpose of discussing the desirability of bring the Athcnreum under tho Public Libraries Act. An account for insurance was passed for payment, and tho committee adjourned.

One of the most interesting and instructive lectures we have had the pleasure of listening to for a considerable time past was that delivered by the Rev. Mr Perry in tlic Methodist Free Church schoolroom last evening. The lecture was on "Memory," a subject with which Mr Perry showed himself to bo thoroughly conversant, and which was, moreover, treated in a happy style that 'could not fail to make it interesting. After explaining the uses aud . effect of memory, and touching upon the mode of cultivating tho faculty, the lecturer went on to give a number of practical illustrations with the view to show that by means of a system of mnemonics it is quito possible for any average person to "learn by heart," as the school children would say, in a very short space of time, some thousands of figures, dates of events, lists of disconnected words, &c. Mr Perry last evening distributed amongst the audience about 150 cards, each bearing sotno event in English history with tho date. Th. persons holding these cards were then invited to ask the lecturer in what year certain events as sot forth on tho cards held by them took place, tho answer in each instance

being correctly given by Mr Perry.

still more severe tax on memory was giving the figures denoted on another lot of tickets on the holder calling out the consecutive number of the card in his possession. But perhaps tho best test of all was learning iv their proper order a list of nearly fifty disconnected words written on a black board by the chairman, who took

his instructions as to what he should write

from the audience. This feat of memory was accomplished in live minutes, and not

only so but the lecturer was able to name ap r y word on the list on having quoted to him the number set opposite to it. A vote of thanks to the lecturer and tho chairman (Mr Saunders) coijicljided the proceedings. Every notable event notches itsej.f in the calendar of time. So in the medical world AVolfe's Schnapps signalised an epoch, and will live as long as humanity is capable of appreciating its miraculously curative powers.—[Advt. J