SECOND EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4702, 1 September 1886, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

Eor the convenience of those attending the ball to-morrow night, Mr D. Cotton intends running his busses from Messrs Neal and Close's corner, at 8 o'clock-

We understand that Mr George Scarfe will oppose Cr. Faulknor'a re-election for the South Ward. Should Cr. Welsman retire from the Central Ward, a very probable contingency, Mr John McVay will be a candidate.

Our Waipawa correspondent wires this afternoon as follows: —"A woman named M'Allister was brought before the R.M. this morning under the Lunatics Act, and is at present under examination by Dra. Mirbach and Todd."

Perhaps one of the saddest sights in the world (says a Homo paper) is the ceremony of a lovely young girl taking the veil and burying herself alive in a convent. There lately died in Baltimore a nun of the name of Agnes Gubert, who, according to Rubenstein's testimony, possessed the richest _ and most wonderful voice e7er known within the memory of man. The operatic impresBario Sirakosch offered her in his time £10,000 for a six months' concert tour, which she, however, refused, in order to take the veil and bury herself andthe enormous fortune which was in her voioe within the gloomy walls of a convent.

Wo (Post) understand that the Government do not intend to provide further houso accommodation for marrie _ constables by erecting cottages on Crown Lands, and charging rent at a certain percentage on cost, as suggested by Mr J. C. Brown, M.H.R., on the Inst day of the session, neither is it intended to make rent allowance. The New Zealand police, it is urged aro tho best paid of any of the police forces in the colonies, and are well satisfied as a whole with the remuneration reseived.

"Puff," in the Press, writes:— "Kaleidoscope! Variety is charming! Fragments of news about Prince Alexander scattered round loose, and shifting into different patterns overy minute ! He seems to skip about pretty smartly, considering tho nature of the country ! One day he's in Russia and the next in Austria, and meanwhile he's been in Roumania and Moldavia, and now he's going to Germany and at tho same time is returning to Bulgaria! A twopenny postman's nothing to him ! Ton forget that the part of Europe he's been knocking about in is uncommonly backward ! There are no nowspapers or other means of circulating correct intelligence! Hum—and veracity is not looked upon as a cardinal virtue, is it ? Quite the contrary ! Nobody tells the truth except by accident!"

The A. and B. subdivisions of the F Battery of Artillery are reminded of the gun drill this evening, under Sergeants Parker and Robson, at the usual time and place.—LAdvt-T

A generous use of Wolfe's Schnapps will impart strength and invigorate the body.