TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5130, 28 January 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

From Mr George MeVay, the Napier u-Tcnt, we have received the Royal Insurance Company's calendar and bandy book almanac, the latter containing much information of a useful character.

The youngsters of the Makatoku Sunday School had their auuiial picnic on Friday last (yesterday), the ground lent for the occasion belonging to Mr Brabuzon, the superintendent of the school. All sorts of sports and games were improvised, and a very pleasant day was spent. Before dispersing cheers were given for the superintendent, teachers, and ladies who provided the refreshments.

A little girl belonging to Makatoku named Cox was buried yesterday (Friday), death resulting from typhus fever.

All tho sawmills in the Makatoku district are now in full swing, aud hairing stoppages through bush fires, or drought, should give a good account of themselves this month. The following arc tho mills at work ; Messrs Mathews, Webber and Co.'s (two mills), Lycett and Cross's, Lucas and Humphrey's, Westlake's, Crawford's, and H. Smith's.

Lady Ida Low, wife of Mr Malcolm Low, M.P., opened an Industrial Exhibition at Grantham lately. Lady Ida suggested that prizes should bo ofioied at the next exhibition for the best mado cottage loaf and the best cured bacon.

A shocking fatality occurred at a steam firewood factory in Liverpool on November 17, A boy named Haseltiue wub at work

when his necktie caught in a revolving shaft. Before the machinery could be stopped tlie boy's head was torn from his body.

Telegrams from Napier to Gisborne had prepared the supporters of Wi Pore for a victory iv the matter of the election potition. A large number of natives accordingly gathered to get the final nows and to celebrate the ovent by a haka. Fivo o'clook arrived aud no telegram, so messages wore wired to Napier to learn tho cause of tho silence, but no answer camo but tho jubilant cries of tlie runner boys through Gisborne streets, " Election Petition Dismissed." And then the Maoris dispersed saying, " Hemi Knrrol mako a te win."

]Mrs Kawcett Story, instructress and lecturer in domestic economy and cookery at the Technical College, and lecturer on invalid cookery at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, arrived in Napier this morning by tho Manapouri. We understand that Mrs Story purposes giving a course of lectures on tho above subjects, in which sho has taken a leading position in Australia. The press of tho neighboring colonies speak in unqualified terms of her ability.

The New Zealand Loan aud Mercantile Agency Company (limited), havo received tho following cablegram from their London office, datid yesterday • —" Tallow.—There is a rather better demand."

Bills drawn on tho Egyptian Government by General Gordon during the siege of Khartoum, amounting to £40,000, have been dishonored by the Government, which obtained a decision from the Cairo mixed tribunal in their favor. Tho holders of tho bills have commenced an action against the private estate of Geuoral Gordon for payment.

The unemployed got some profit out of the last demonstration at Trafalgar Square. So many lost their hats in the scrimmages that during tho evening there was quite a brisk sale at the rate of threepence a hat in the Strand aud tho surrounding neighborhood.

The Railroad Gazette states that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company isgradually replacing the existing iron bridges of short span on its lint s by bridges of quarrystone or brickwork. It has been found, it is said, that the iron bridges were not only a constant source of anxiety, but a continual drain upon the incomo of the company. It is urged, further, in favor of masonry bridges that, although their initial cost is greater, they inrolvo little expense afterwards for inspection and maintenance; that they sustain heavy weights much moro efficiently, and are less exposed to injury or destruction by accidents than iron or wooden lattice bridges.