TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5267, 10 July 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

Tho usual fortnightly meeting of tho niombors of St. John's Band of Hope will bo held in tho school-room this evening ftt half-past soven o'clock.

Wo hear that a Wellington firm intends to establish on tho Western Spit a branch of their business in connection with the manufacture of glue, size, &c, from products of the N.B. nntl H.B. Freezing Company s works.

The s.s. Suva, having met with a mishap at WeHtport, tho Maitai will take up her East Coast running. She will probably leave Wellington for hero to-morrow (Wednesday) evening.

Mr It. Gr. Graham, who has Bat for the last seven years in the Municipal Council for tho North Ward, has to-day, on medical advice, resigned his seat. Mr Graham's constituents will regret the loss of his representation, and still moro tho causo that

lias led to it. The lost cbequo advertised in our columns yesterday, has been found, and tho owner can have iton application toMrM. J.Mahoii, Secretary to the Napier Hospital.

The case of Garnham v. H. B. fieid, a claim for £50 on dishonored promissory note, was heard, at the R.M. Court this afternoon. Tho plaintiff put in the P.N., which tho Bank had handwiover to him. Tho R.M. gavo judgment for tfee amount claimed, with costs £1 10s, plaintiff , e expenses sb, and solicitor's fee £%, 2s. "£ Mr., Dick for plaintiff.

At Waipawa to-day, befois MetoTa Johnson and Ingliß, Justicge, Christy and Thomas Warren, changed with Mr Merrylees, Kaikora, were ' o»inniitte<i for trial. Tho evidouco possessed no nmoiiatory feature. They, were r 'found trying to forco the door leading from tho house into the shop without boots, hiving scaled the yard wall, and forced an ontranco through tho window. -s' ..'....'

Tho Napier Sinking Club to bo well patronised, and loveraof tho t'aoin'atlng art would do well to yivo tho floor and skates a trial. It will be seen from an advertisement in another column that an art union will bo held for two valuable Maori pictures.

The Glasgow Herald aays :—Tho first entire cargo of Kauri pine over imported into Glasgow is at present being discharged at Yorkhill Wharf ox Aurora, from Kaipara, a little port to the north-west of Auckland. This limber is alone found in extonsivo forests in tho North Island of New Zealand. Tho trees grow " tall and grand." The largest known specimcu measures 72 feot in circumference and 80 feet to the branches, and is aged about 2,000 years. The wood appears to be nearly faultier being free from knots and strakes. Tho sizes landed hore confirm tho stories of "mammoth" Kauri pine trees. We have seen one plank at Yorkhill 15 i'eot long, 9 indies thick, and <!.!■ feet wido ! Wider planks could bo sent i/tkoy were needed.

It may not bo known to tho raugcra of tho Acclimatisation Sorioty that, the Tutitekuri river, below McaneCj is (jwavming with youii"- carp, and that tho children are amusing themselves by catching thorn wholesale with nets. Wo dare say that liny carp is us nice as whitebait, but it is a pity that tho fish should bo wholly destroyed.

Captain Edwin wires as follows at 2.10 pm. to-day :—" North to west and Southwest galo and more rain. GlaS3 further fall, and riso after twelve hours from now, with very cold weather."