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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5252, 22 June 1888, Page 2

On Monday next a new eorial entitled " A Daring Impostor," wi".l bo commenced in the Daily Teleohaph.

There was no business at tho R.M. Court this morning.

Tho contractors for tho drive in tho Muharaharu copper mine arc now in 110 feet, the driving afc present being in very hard country.

Tho second of theserios of dancosiu oonnection with tbo Leap Year Quadrille Assembly was held last night in tho Theatre Royal. A 1 though only started a short time ago, this assembly seems to havo become quite popular, judging from tho largo numbor of dancers present lust evening, aud i a vory successful seusou may bo anticipate J. Tho hall proved far too small for all those on the floor, while tho rough condition of the latter was vory severely commented upon.

A concert will bo giveu to-night at tho Spit at St. Andrew's school-room in aid of tho organ fund of tho district school, and as a capital programmo hae been prepared there should be a largo attendance of tho public.

Dr. J. H. Zukortort, tho choss pjayer whoso namo appears in our obituary, was born in Riga in 1842. In 187S he gained the first prizo at the chess tournament at Paris. Later he made a tour of tho Continent of Europe, visiting Loipzig, Dresden, Cologne, Berlin, and other chess centres, giving exhibitions of his skill as a blindfold player: In 1883 ho won the great London tournament in unprecedented style, but in 1886 ho was beaten in tho championship match with Steinitz, in America, For tbo lust seven years ho was editor of the Chess Monthly,

A social gathering , of tho members and friends of St. Augustine's Church was held in tho schoolroom last evening , . There was a very large attendance, and all present soomed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The first part of the programme was devoted to , songs and recitations,; many of which ■were : well rendered. , Then refreshments were handed round, affce\ whioh a number of games were indulged in.

The total subscriptions in Chris'tohurch to tho Norse wood relief fund amount to £223,

The literary staff of the Auckland Star presented yesterday to Mr J. M. Geddes, late chief reporter of that journal, a photographic shield prior to his departure for Wellington, he having been appointed to tho Hansard, staff.

A Southern paper says:—" The children in a certain up-country school had occasion to complain lately of the water in the school tank. The committee ordered it to be cleaned out, when among , the contents were found a dead cat, one boot, two caps, a girl's bonnet, a doll, a ball, a hymnbook, a parcel, of love-letters tied with crape, "My Love" waltz, a lady's bustle, a fifth reader, a Latin grammar, and the programme of a dance committee."

In the Supreme Court, Christchurcb, yesterday, a verdict was given for defendants in the case of Benham v. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. The action was brought to recover £3000 for damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiff's property through tho negligenco of dufendants' servants in lighting a fire at Mount Torlitse station last January, adjoining defendants' Kowni bush property.

Our own correspondent wires as follows: —"Yesterday Police Constables Brosnahan und Tronson made a raid on the premises of Adams's railway refreshment rooms, Waipukurau, seizing a quantity of liquor. The proprietor will be charged with possession and selling without a licence, I bolieve."

The Australian Times and Anglo-New Zoalandor of May 11 says:—"Bishop Sutter, of New Zealand, is at Montreal for tho purpose of trying to arrange with the Canadian Pacific Company to establish a line of mail steamers from Vancouver's Island to Australia and Now Zealand."

The rinking club hall at the roar of Messrs C. B. Hoadley and Co.'s offices, is now in excellent order, the floor and the skates being perfect. As a "local industry" that has been established byMv Roberts, it is deserving of general patronage, though, apart from that consideration altogether, it ran well stand on its own merits.

Tom Holt, late of the Warren, Sydney, and John Austin, lato of Barwon Park, Geelong, Victoria, havo each been debited with having introduced the rabbit to Australia, but tho Bulletin finds by the cargo list of the first fleet (in 1788) that five bunnies wero introduced then.

The Melbourne correspondent of the Dunedin Herald writes:—l hear privately that that well-known block known as " Monty Levy's corner," at the intersection of Collins and Etizabeth-str«ots, has been sold at over £2000 a foot. It is the very best site in Melbourne, which will account for tbo marvellous price it fetched. Tho history of one of its former owners many years ago is one of tho most curious outside the pages of romance, and is so very extraordinary that it is worth relating. This man's name was Thomas, aad for many years he remained poor and struggling.. His only son ran away from home, ana subsequently when after some years tho father found himself a rioh man, ho set to work to find and reclaim his errant but still loved ton and heir. Ho travelled about in this quest from countiy to country for j r cars, finding a clue, then losing it. Eventually he discovered tho young man, but to his horror found him a raving maniao in a lunatic asylum. This proved such a shook to tho father, that ho returned to Melbourne, built a eolitaiy house half way between IVankston and Sehnappcr Point, nnrl shut himself up iv it to the exclusion «>f the world. He look to astronomy a« a mode of recreation, and had au observatory built on to the house. In this retreat he pa3sed most of tho time, solitary nnd broken-hearted. One day be was taken ill and confined to his bed, but a week's confinement saw him recovered and eager to resume his astronomical observations. His breakfast was brought him, and he determined to got out of bed and dress after eating it. In his oagornecs ho leant towards the little tablo on which it had beeu placed, fell out of bed and broke his back. He died on the spot, and all his possessions passed to the Crown. As a curious history I think this is quite unique in Australian annals.

Tho folio wirg are to-day's mercury roadings :—lliißsell 5-1, Auckland 53, Thames 53, Cambridge 43, Tauranga 47, Taupo 41, Gieborae 42, Napier 42, New Plymouth 52, Wanganuiol, Wellington 58, Blenheim 50, Nelson 52, Westport 52, Greymnnth 47, Hokitika 47, Beuly 47, Lyttelton 50, Timaru 48, Oaraara's3, Port Chalmers 48, Dunedin 48, Clyde 42, Queenstown 43, Balclutha 37, Invoroargill 40, and Bluff 40.

There is a dangwous stiike (writes tho American correspondent of tbo Sydney Morning Herald) at tho iron works of Mr Audrew Carnegie, the author of "Triumphant Democracy." For many years Mr Carnegie has prided himself upon being , a firm Mend of the unions, and ha.s avowed his belief that i» the near futuro American production will be by means of co-operation. Only a few months ago he broke up a srroat strike of the coalminers by insisting upon an absolute surrender to tho men. Yet tho demands of tho Knights of Labor havo at last, forced oven him into revolt, and ho ie fighting with characteristic energy. Several hundred Hungarians were hronght on to take tho placo of the strikers, nnd an array of 200 Pinkerton guards has beeu hired to protect the works. Perhaps there will be bloodshed, but in any case Mr Carnegie's career as a " friond of labor " is positively closed,

Ask your medical attendant what ho thinks of Wou'k's Schnapps as a means of promoting digestion.

"I was rooommeiided to uso "Wolfe's ScHNAPrs by a medical man of largo experience, who evidently knew its value."

No complaint is more general than that of the liver, for which Womb's Schnapps ie the best antidote.

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Horso clippers in great variety at John M'Vay's. Prices from 6s Gd.—[advt.]

Kdromiko Cordial, as a remedy for dysontry and diarrhoou, is unequalled. Care should bo tukon to .purchase the original preparation as mado and introduced by H. Owou, Chemist, Hastings - streot Napier, as tho success of this compound has induced others to imitate it. Price, 2s Gd.—[abvt.l