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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3844, 12 November 1883, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found a telegraphic summary of the news by tho San Francisco mail. The AVairoa County Council has forwarded its half annual grant of £40 to the Napier Hospital. The Polk Comedy Company open at tho Theatre Royal for a season of six nights, commencing on December 1. AVork on the railway and road bridge over tho Manawatu river, on tho road from AVoodville to Masterton, is still progressing, and has not been stopped, as was stated recently iv a local print. Tho San Francisco mail, which arrived at Auckland yesterday morning, Avill reach AVellington to-night, and tho HaAvke's Bay portion will probably boforwardod overland, and be hero on Thursday night. Tho judging of the public school children's sewing exhibits for Captain Russell's prizes Avas concluded to-day, it having occupied three days. The judges wero Mrs Captain Russell, Mrs J. D. Ormond, Mrs J. N. AVilliams, and Mrs 11. Hill. AYe hear that a portion of Mr Kinross' estate at Raukawa, consisting of GOOO acres, has been purchased by Mr Douglas McLean at £G per acre. This will make a very valuable addition to Mr McLean's Maraekakaho property, AA'hich it adjoins. It Avill bo seen by advertisement that His Worship tho Mayor has called a meeting of the burgesses for Thursday evening next, in the Council Chamber, to take into consideration the action of the Government in connection Avith the offices iioav occupied by the Corporation. Our dramatic reporter's Avatch was keeping bad time on Thursday night, for ho made it appear in our issue of Saturday that the Napier Amateur Dramatic Club's performance did not conclude till after midnight. Lengthy as the performance Avas it Avas all over before 11.45. The Lutherans of this toAvn propose to celebrate the 400 th anniversary of the birth of Dr Martin Luther on the l!)th mstrffit by a soiree in the Good Templars' Hall, AVliite road, and by a public meeting to bo held in tho Lutheran Church, Avhen several addresses will be delivered. One of tho visitors to tho Canterbury races from Napier returned as far as AVellington on Saturday by tho Manapouri. Finding that the steamer Avould be detained, he came on overland, reaching town this morning by the train from Makatoku, thus boating the Manapouri by some hou.-s. AYe hoar that the following resignations havo been forwarded to the respective committees of the school districts to which they relate: —Mr Gush, of tho AVest Clive school; Mr Biss, of the Havelock School; Mr McLeod, of tho Hastings school; and on Tuesday, the 20th instant, the Napier School Committee will have to select from amongst the applicants a successor to Mr Murray. Another accident occurred yesterday in connection with tho ill-fated boat of tho Pleiades. AVhen the boat was leaving tho ship yesterday afternoon it sheered off from the side of the vessel, leaving a gentleman Avho had been visiting Captain Settcn, and Avho was returning to shore, hanging by the arms to the rope ladder. When at last he Avas got into the boat it Avas discovered that he had dislocated his shoulder. In giving judgment in tho case of Henry August AValtcr this morning, Captain Precco said that the defendant had failed to send him the notice required by the Act of tho hours of employment in his establishment. The clause of tho Act referred to states that notices specifying the hours of employment are to be posted in each room, or factory, and His AVorship instructed Sergeant Burtenshaw to proceed against nfl those Avho havo failed to send such notice to the magistrate, as provided by IaAV. Mr Redstone, cab proprietor, having placed his hearse iv the hands of Mr T. 1.. Fuller, undertaker, for repair, the vehicle now presents quite an altered appearance. The old body, with its plain beading and plumes, Avhich, avc are informed, are quite out of fashion, has been replaced by ono of Mr Fuller's own designs. The sides havo each a largo glass panel, and the top of the body is surmounted Avith carved Avork and urns. The hoarse is now a very handsoino vehicle, and is, probably, the best of its kind in the colony. The Hon. Mr Dick, in reply to an application from the Hospital Committee, regrets that he Avould not be justifi#l m giving the sum of £300, asked for out ol the hospital vote for building*, for. the purpose of furnishing the new Avmff. Sutton has replied stating that the Committee accepted Mr Dick's decision and therefore cannot spend their bud ding fund in the purchase of furniture. Mr Sutton concluded by trusting that Mr Dick will see his way to" charge tho amount required to the maintenance fund. It may not bo generally known that rats will climb trees to rob birds nests, lho other day Mr T. Tanner, avlioav.isinterested in a brood of thrushes that had a nest in a tree in his garden, saw a largo rat coining doAvn the tree Avith every_ appearance of satisfaction depicted on his countenance. Calling some one to keep an cyo on tho rat and prevent him coming- to earth, Ml* Tanner brought his gun from the house ilinh shot the rodent. An inspection of the nc-sP shoAved that two littlo thrushes had been deprived of their heads, and that tho rest of the family had been eaten.

Tho first sailing match of the season Avas sailed in tho inner harbor on Saturday aftornoon, but OAving to the inclemency of tho weather only thrco boats camo up to scratch, the Wave Queen, Revenge, and Osprey. There Avas a strong south-oast breeze blowing, and the race between the Wave Queen and the Revenge Avas very closo. They passed the starting buoy on the first round almost together, with the Osprey some distance behind. In the second round the AVave Queen took the lead, and kept it till within half a mile of tho finishing point, when tho wind falling a little light tho Revenge managed to get to windward of her, arriving homo a minute ahead of tho AVave Queen, and Jifteen minutes ahead of the Osprey. At the inquest held at the Lunatic Asylum on Saturday afternoon before Captain Prccco, on the body of Amy Ayers, lato of Hampden, the evidence taken disclosed the fact that the accommodation at the asylum is altogether insufficient for the number of patients. Mr AY. Miller, the superintendent of the asylum, stated that there Avas sleeping accommodation for about 19 patients altogether, but that the asylum contained 30 inmates. Captain Prccco remarked that he had recently drawn the attention of the Government to tho crowded state of the asylum, and the insufficient staff provided. The p\idence of Dr. Ditchings Avas to the effect that deceased had been treated for chronic bronchitis for some months past, and died on Friday tho 9th. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes," and added a rider that the attention of the Government should be drawn to the insufficient accommodation for patients in the asylum. In tho Resident, Magistrate's Court this morning before Captain Prcece, R.M., AVilliam Gough, charged on remand Avith ' lunacy, Avas committed to the asylum.— : Lydia Laurenseii Avas brought up on a ( similar charge, but Avas dismissed.—Henry , August AValter, a tailor in Hastings-street, was charged Avitli a broach of the Employ- : ment of Females Act, in having allowed : two females in his employment to Avork ( over tho timo specified by law on tho 3rd instant. The defendant pleaded guilty, but . stilted that the girls had had a half-holiday, | aud had merely remained half-an-bour , longer on the day in question in order to j make up the time lost. Sergeant Burton- , shaw corroborated this statement by saying J that one of the girls had given the same . reason for their Avorking tho extra, halfhour. His Worship dismissed the informa- '. tion, but cautioned the defendant not_ to j allow it to occur again, as the penalty im- . posed by the Act was a heavy one. Thcro ( Avas no other business. I Not only is AVolee's Schnapps a staple . article of trade in the United States, but it ( has a large sale and enjoys a high roputu- ] tion in America, Mexico, China, Australia, , and other countries. lake the principle of f good it has some embodiment everywhere.— j TAnvT.] ;