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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3880, 24 December 1883, Page 2

Two letters, racing news, the entries and handicaps for tho Petanc sports, and our report of the cricket match at Petane on Saturday appear on the fourth page of this issue. The Daily Tklkghawi will not be published to-morrow (Christmas Day) nor on. Wednesday (Boxing Day). The offices of the solicitors of this town will lie closed until the 3rd January. On the Recreation Ground on Saturday the employes' of Mr J. McVay beat those of Mr If. Holt somewhat easily by 30 runs at cricket. In consequence of a letter received morning- from Mr W. Edwards, Captain Russell has .scratched Escopcta for the Auckland Cup. We are requested to state that, by tho payment, of one shilling and sixpence, any lad can enter for all tho events of the Juvenile Sports Committee's programme for Boxing , Day. Owing to the illness of the Very Rovd. Father Forrest there will be no Midnight Mass to-night at the Catholic Church. High Mass will be sung at 10.30 a.m. on Christmas Day. Arrangements have been made with Mr Villers for the conveyance of competitors to Pctitne for the prize firing. Coaches leave tho Criterion corner on Wednesday and Thursday mornings at 5 o'clock. Tho shop of Mr Collodge, jeweller, will be this evening , lighted up with the electric light. Tlie novelty will bo one of the most pleasing sights to bo witnessed this evening, when fill the world and his wife are sure to be in the streets. The young ladies belonging to fet. Paul's Church Bible class have presented the llev. P. H. Cornford, their teacher, with a medallion picture containing all their photographs, executed in a most artistic manner byMrS. Carncll. The following deed has been submitted to tho Trust Commissioner at Napier during - the past week for investigation, to which ho has consented to cerlii'y if not objected to in the course of the next five days :—Prom Paora Rcrepu to Hugh Campbell, conveyance and confirmation of Pekapoka, No. 2, -1:370 acres. Knowledge of geography is still in a backward stale in England. Wo were shown a. newspaper to-day, addressed in an educated handwriting, " Esq., GateshoadVilla, New Zealand, Natal." It says a good deal for the intelligence of the Postal Department that it reached its destination safely, although it has been five months on tho road. We understand that theGovcrnmenthavo offered tho Corporation tho use of tho three unoccupied rooms in the old Provincial buildings, above tho oflices in the occupation of the Education Board and Hawke's Bay County Council. Tho upstairs rooms would lie most unsuitable for Corporation offices, and the offer, we should think, will be declined with thanks. Competitors at tho Rifle Association meeting wishing to fire out of tho same rifle must send their names to the secretary by S o'clock this evening. We ai'e also requested to mention that no ammunition will be served out while the firing is going on. Members will therefore have to supply themselves before the firing commences, or duviug the breakfast and dinner hours. At tho R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., three lunatics were each remanded till tho 31st instant for medical examination, namely, Gerald O'Farrell, Martha Jane Cohb, and Frederick Jnhanson. John Burbcck, charged with stealing, on the 23rd December, a gold watch, chain, brooch, itc, to the value of £9, from Mrs Pearson, was remanded till the same date. Tho witnesses, jurymen, and others interested in tho forthcoming representation of " Trial by Jury " are evidently using every endeavor to render the performance in an efficient manner. The recent rehearsals hnve been fully attended, and havo been gone through with unusual perfection, so that we have every reason to believe that the "Trial " will prove highly satisfactory to the audience. Tin's evening the Garrison Band will render the following programme in front of the Eire Brigade station, commencing at S o'clock:—Quick stop, "The Victoria Cross;" lancers, "Merry Christmas;" waltz, "Roso of England;" mazurka, " Sweet Violets ;" polka, " Ivy Glen ;" waltz, "Leona;" galop, "Sparkling Wine;" God save tho Queen. Members of the baud are requested to muster at 7.30. The competition for Christmas dinners by members of the Napier Rifle Volunteers took place on Saturday, and passed ofl'with much spirit and evident appreciation bytho competitors. Tho following were the prixetakcrci: —Marksman's wjuad, Private Beck and Scrgls. Chicken and Eraim. Second .squad, Private Cantle, Tait, Weber, and Minnett. Third squad, Private Franklin, Bandsman Yeull, Private Williums and Campbell. Consolation, Private Langhan, Corporal Galbraith, Private Balsillie, Brown, Bandsmen Brown and Lord.

To tho Editor: Sir, —In a local published in Saturday's issue I notice in your remarks comparing tho price of gas between Napier and Oamaru that the rate of freight hero is higher. In reply I have to inform you that tho freight to Oamani is the same as paid to Napier, and that all vessels trading to that port have a return cargo at the same rate of freight, thereby making the rate of freight just double the rate of the Napier freight.—l am, Sec, J. H. Vautikr.

For Boxing Day those on pleasure bent will besorely puzzled how to make choice of where to go, so many attractions arc offered, tlint no small amount of consideration will be requisite to the boat and most interesting event ior the day. As tastes, however, vary, cadi will command its votaries On that day there will be tlio meeting of the H.B. Jockey Club, the Rifle Association's matches, the _ peculiarly ■jnvonilo sports at the recreation ground, and the Waipawa athletic sports, so that there arc enough of interesting outings to satisfy all tastes.

A paragraph appeared in a local paper the other'day complaining of the romissness of tho Clivo postmaster, and stating that a letter posted at Olive for Napier found its way to Gisborne. It was further mentioned that tlio letter was addressed to tho medical practitioner in this town, and was an urgent request for immediate attendance. An enquiry has elicited tho fact that the letter, instead of being posted at Olive, was given into tho hands of a commercial traveller to post in town. The traveller forgot all about it, and it was not until he had reached Gisbornc that he had discovered his omission, and there it was that he posted tlio letter.

With that proverbial good nature which always distinguishes the Britisher--ever looking for some one else to do his work, and unravel what to him is mysterious— three men .simultaneously started to find a reporter on Saturday evening, so that tho mystery could be unravelled as to the cause of tho crowd in front of Mr Brett's confectionery shop, as personally they were unable to find the solution. On arrival wo found that nearly the whole juveniio population of the town were either inside or outside the shop, devouring with greedy eyes and watery mouths tlio wonderful ramifications in sugar of the animal and other worlds therein exposed for sale.

Serjeant Bnrtenshaw had a heavy day s ■work yesterday. No sooner had lie heard tho intelligence that Frederick Johan.sen, who had liocn remanded to the hospital for medical treatment, though charged with lunacy, last Thursday, had escaped from that institution, than he started at once in search of the lunatic, visiting among other places the Spit, Meaneo, Clivo, andTaradalc. At 2 o'clock this morning Johan.sen walked into tho Waipawa police station, and asked for a bed, with which he was accommodated. He had walked the whole distance of 11 miles, as ho himself says, "well within himself." This morning he was remanded to the gaol for medical examination.

Notwithstanding the absence of suitable arrangements at the sacred musical concert •riven by the Garrison Bund in the Botanical Gardens yesterday a very large number of persons visited those enjoyable grounds, and a goodly sum of money was collected at the entrance gates, top entrance £8 9s !)kl, lower entrnnce £7 9s 7d, total £15 19s With such an excellent programme as that performed yesterday wo believe that a similar pleasure once a month would meet ■with a suitable response from those of the public who would not bo able to enter their names on tho lists of annual subscribers of a guinea. Where such a varied programme was so excellently rendered it seems just a little captious to select any piece for special mention, but to our thinking " Vital Spark " and tho grand "Hallelujah Chorus" were the gems, though why part of the latter was not repeated, wo did not understand.

"The Silver King,"—originally produced at tho Princess Theatre, London, •where it is still running—now being played in Melbourne, has tho strongest "cast that has been seen on tho colonial stage for inoro than a dozen years. The company includes Misses Watt - Tanner, Annie Mayor, Carrie Bilton, Mcsdames Taylor, Marcus Clarke, and Hydes. Among tho gentlemen are two or three new ".importations," and Messrs Titheradge, Arthur Garner, Gates, Stirling Whyto, Phillips, Leake, Daniels, Marshall, our oil friends Hoskins (as young as ever) and Oily Deering. The piece has had a run already of something over forty nights, and will only be withdrawn on Boxing night for the production of the usual pantomime.

A Victorian exchange gives particulars of a fatal case of snakebite which happened to a Mrs Wilkin at Balnlaba. Mrs Wilkin one morning .strolled out from the house, and passing through a grass paddock sat clown on the sward. A brown snake, disturbed by her sitting down, or perhaps pressed by the lady's hand as she reclined on the grass, fastened its deadly fangs in her wrist, inflicting two distinct wounds. From fright she fainted, and Mr Wilkin, following her within ten minutes, found her lying senseless. Recovering a little, she begged to bo carried to thn houso, and it was not till a quarter of an hour or ko after her removal that she made known the true facts. Everything was immediately done ; the wounds wore scarified and sucked to extract the poison, and a messenger was sent to Braid - wood, sixteen miles distant, for medical aid. When the doctor arrived, he at once pronounced the case hopeless, and a little later Mrs Wilkin died while unconscious.

The originator of Wolfe's Schnapps will livo long as his splendid preparation performs its marvellous cures and his recognised as a standard remedy for the ailments it undertakes to treat. —[Advt.]