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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5684, 18 November 1889, Page 2

The outsido booth at the Wellington races was leased by Mr Shout. The Public Works Committee of the Borough Council meet this evening. Tho Rotomahana, which arrived at the Bluil' yestorday from Hobart, is the bearer of a Briudisi mail. Tue Rev. C. E. Beecroft will shortly lecture on " Windsor Castle" iv aid of tho fund* for the erection of a Wesleyan church at Olive. Mc-srs Sampson, Low, and Co. announce for October " Through Island and Atolls of the South Pacific," by F. J. Moss, M.H.E., New Zealand. On Wednesday rind Thursday " lolanthe" will bo again staged by the amateurs. Wo hear that the next opera to be put in rehearsal ia " Dorothy." As Messrs Williamson, Garner, and Musgroye aro supposed to have, the colonial rights for that piece, it is quite possible another selection will have to be made. The Mrs Parnell mentioned in our cablegrams as boing destitute is tho mother of the Irish leader. She is an American lady, and resides in the United States. It is quito recently that tho Pall Mall Gazette furnished its readers with her portrait, and gave an account of her life, which certainly did not leave any other impression but that she was in very wealthy circumstances. t

It is said that on the arrival of the Ilermadec settlers at their destination, and when the schooner Dunedin had discharged their stores, &c, it was discovered that the nails had been left behind. The qualified surgeon had been thought of, the piano had not been forgotten, and timber for dwelling houses had been brought, but the useful nail, alas, was nowhere.

We have much pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of a handsomely bound, itnd admirably printed and illustrated volume from the Government Printer, "The Forest Flora of New Zealand" by Professor T. Kirk, F.L.S., late Chief Conservator of State Forests to the Government. This is a most valuable work, and can take its place side by side with Sir "Walter Buller's " Book of New Zealand Birds."

Our Waipawa correspondent writes as follows :—" It is rumored here Cr. O. Hall will be a candidate on Wednesday for the Mayoralty of Woodville. — The weather during the last few days has been very unseasonable. Excessive cold rain has stopped all shearing for the present. It is equally bad for the sheep waiting with unusually heavy coats to be shorn, and those who have just passed through the operation."

Brown-Sequard has a rival. He is a Hungarian physician. It is stated that he has compounded a fluid by the injection of which the vitality of senile persons is raised to an extraordinary degree. According to a Buda-Pesth newspaper, experiments have been made on some inmates of a convict prison, and the results obtained are said to bo highly satisfactory. But what if they turn out differently ? What will become of the convicts ?

We notice that tho Spit drill-shed is being shifted to its now site at the foot of the Ceoto road, but instead of facing the sea, it is to be poked at the back of a stable shanty that has so long disfigured that end of the Marine Parade. It was understood that Mr Ormond had securod for the Volunteers the sea frontage, and tho only explanation wo have heard for the change is that the frontage may some day be wanted as a landing place for a cable !

The Garrison Band will play the following programme of selections at the show to-night:—Quickstep, " Fond Memories" (Frost); fantasia, " Balmoral" (Mareden); polka, " Cinderella" (Harris) ; overture, " Excelsior" (Round); valt-e, " Hands and Hearts" (Round); glee, "Fill the Shining Goblet" (Frost) ; schottische, " Cynthia" (Scholes); galop, "My Polly's" (Howard). Members are requested to muster at the band-room at 7 o'clock in undress uniform.

Everything points towards a large attendiiriCG at tti© flower show tnis even* ing. Tho Garrison Band will enliven the proceedings during the evening. The moist weather has kept the out blooms wonderfully fresh, and somo of the stands have been replenished from a large basket of flowers thoughtfully sent by Mr G. fteid, gardener to Mr J. D. Ormond. From tho same source is oxhibited a fine bunch of English honeysuckle. Mr W. H. Wilson, of the Spit, also sends blooms of carnations and chrysanthemum. Mr H. J. Gilberd, oi Taradale, displays a grand collection of roses.

An extract from an Australian paper that we published recently stated that English woollen manufacturers were sending out their buyers to these colonies to buy direct from the growers. Mr G. Kettlewell, of Christohurch, is the agent for Mr J. Reddihough, of Bradford, and he is buying largely for that manufacturer, "Wβ know of one Hawke's Bay clip of over 40,000 sheep that his been purchased for B|d per lb., all round, cash, delivered at Wellington. Mr A. F. Lowe, of Meanee, is Mr Kettlowell's agent in Hawke's Bay.

A serious explosion occurred in Shields harbor on October 3. A wherry, laden with gunpowder and cartridges for the Italian warship Piomonte, was lying at Jarrovv, when slack fire occurred aboard, causing the gunpowder and cartridges to explode. One man was blown to pieces, and two othero were seriously injured. In reference to the explosion, Sir W. G. Armstrong and Co. state that it is difficult to assign a cause for tho accident, as every precaution was taken, and tho men employed had been constantly in the same work, and were all well skilled in it.

A letter appeared in the Daily Telkgiuph last week signed " A Poor Girl," in which it was suggested that tho Amateur Operatic Society iniulit at their two next performance." lower the prices of admission to enable " poor girls " to see " lolanthe," aa it would be tho last chanco they would have of witnessing- any of Gilbert and Sullivan'fi operas for some years. It will be .seen by advertisement that the management have brought down the prices to 3*, 2s and Iβ, and we hope to see tho Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday next crowded from lloor to ceilinsr by " poor girls," and their friends and sweethearts.

There was a little bit of trouble over tho burial of Ah Yack. The grave bad been dug some short time before the funeral procession arrived and the heavy rain put a considerable quantity of water in the hole. Some of the water wu.s baled out, but when the coffin was lowered and the earth put in a slush was formed, and tho coflin kept rising up. At last two Chinamen stood on the case containing- tho remains of their countryman, the grave was properly filled in, and Ah Tack was at rest. Lot us liope ho was not kept waiting at the gates of Paradise till a committee could be got together to decide whether he should be admitted or sent back from whence he came. The deceased's friends were at the cemetery yesterday in the performance of religious rites.

The East Sussox News of September 23, has the following : —For the wife of a military captain, the sistor-in-law of one of the bravest and most noble of England's generals, and the aunt of a baronet of the realm, to keep a public house and eventually die among total strangers, almost in a stato of penury, deaf and blind, is an event of such rare occurrence that it merits some special notice. The varied positions mentioned were all filled by Mrs Sarah Havelock, who died parly in the present week at Crawley Down. She appears never to have held communication with the members of the branch or the family holding the baronetcy, conferred in the honor of her husband's brother, General Havolock. The hero of Lucknow died ouly two days' before a grateful country substantially recognised Ids vast services, but his death did not close his famo or bury his name, and the title intended for him was passed on to the nearest relative. The late Mrs Haveloek was left a widow—her husband being killed in battle—-I.) years ago, and with the aid of a small pension granted by the British Legion of Spain and tho help of local friends, she managed to maintain herself and bring up two children, Her death wipes away an interesting link with the past.

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