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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5962, 15 October 1890, Page 2

The Supremo Court did not sit to-day, whioh was convenient for those who desired to attend tho races.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Mr. Lyndon, J.P., John Murphy, charged with drunkenness, was lined os and costs or 24 hours' imprisonment.

The Land Board should have hold the usual monthly meeting to-day, but the meeting lapsed. The Crown Lands Oom___ic_er is at present in t_.e .Poverty "B_.y district.

From a sinirle strawberry farm at Orpington, England, the proprietor got 500 tons of fruit, an amount which oven at twopence a pound represents a turnover of more than £9000.

The railway authorities hero havo a largo stock of wood on hand whioh was bought for fuel for the locomotives, but as they have now plenty of coal, and dry weather coming on, not moro more wood will bo burned than oan be helped.

The nasty gale that was blowing to-day caused large numbers of hat chases. Hats were flying in all directions in town this morning-, and persons who had never been known to run half-a-dozen yards before, oovered a hundred in very fast time after their head covering.

After we went to press yesterday afternoon furthor evidence was taken in the chargo of false protenocs agaitiHt Willoughby Brassoy, solicitor. The jury returhod a verdict of not guilty, nnd tho accused was discharged. This concluded the criminal calendar.

There is a law iv New York whioh prohibits lads under sixteen years ol age from smoking in public under pain of a fine of not less than £2, and not exceeding £4. It would be a good thing for a large number of boys in Napier if there were a similar law hore.

It is scarcely necessary necessary to remind our readers of the fact that "Rip Vau Winkle" will be agaiu staged at tho Theatro Royal this evening As only two performances are to be given, to-night and to-morrow evening, thoso who have not yet witnessed tho opera should avail themselvos of tho opportunity.

What can the Waipawa Mail mean by the following paragraph, published yesterday P "Oily Gammon was on the stump last night at Napier, but his swavity failed co procure him a very encouraging reception. The outlook is not promising for him. Coaching Titmouso would pay better."

To-morrow morning, at tho Supreme Court, the Chief Justice will hear the appeal in the matter of Nordloij! v. Ormond. A Maori will caso is set down for Friday, Martin Moke v. Arapeta Meha. Bankruptcy business will bo taken on Saturday morning. Tho case of Thos. Tanner v. Northern Investment Company will bo heard on Monday.

Hansard seldom repays tha labor of reading it, but at times iv rooting amongst tho dry leaves you unearth a pearl of price. Horo is ouo:—Mr. T. Mackenzie noticed £2000 for tracks to Western Sounds iv Otago. After tho support he hud blindly given tho Government he had hoped that the Minister would have said £260,000; and further, that he intended to have a route selected by a qualified engineer and veterinary surgeon, so that the monoy would bo well expended and that travelling live stock might ba attended to.—Mr. Fergus said it would bo done.

s Mr Stephen Cole Moule, of Prebbletcn, i who died recently, bequeathed the bulk of ) his property to the Ashburton Old Men's t Homo, on the following conditions :—£soo I per annum to be paid to his widow till her . death or marriage ; £150 por annum to his i till death, and tha balance of the income from tho proparty to bo set apart for the . Homo, but not paid over till the marriage or death of his widow aud the death of his [ son, whon the income, of tho wholo estate is i to go to the maintenance of tho Home i provided that the Government grant i annually £1 for evory £1 up to £500 ot the i income. Tho estate is sworn at under i £12,000, and is yiolding £150° P er annum. A correspondent kindly sendsi us (Lyttelton Times) tho following :-A Scotch paper says it has been supplied with a pattern of church scat-rent slip, which is quite a novelty in its way; printed in skeleton form, it runs as follows:— " To sitting due at Whitsunday, £-• To sittings duo at Martinmas, £—. Collector for Deacon s Court. Psalm xciv., v. 8." Turning to the passage referred to, tho defaulting seat-holder is met with the somewhat alarming interrogation:—" Understand, yo brutish among the people, aud ye fools, when will ye bo wine." Though seat-rent collectors, like others, may sometimes be provoked to use vernacular more forcible than polite, wo can hardly behove that church-goers deserve such a hurled at them indiscriminately, but. j refet . to regard the psadmie rgeronce „ a J » the copy,, or piobaly < £ perversity i pnn^Mhat P wo_hy,tf/vin ff a twist to the 1 for, , the V .a the numerals tha chapter, and turning to Psalm xi'vi 'V 8, tho.effect is remarkable, for the houe»t worshipper will then be encouraged . tho Lord tho glory duo unto : gfcXo * "ring an o_en« 6 ~ «** «»*> »>* I bin pourts"—which most probably is the \ passage intended. The live O'Clock Tea is Perfection. *> Davidson, Irvine, aud Co., agents. 1

There was another thin house at the Theatre Royal last night, when the SylvoLawton Company gave their concluding performance. No doubt the long and successful ruu of " Rip Van Winkle" has had a bad effect on the success of the clever little Sylvo-Lawton Company, which is to be regretted, for they are deserving of better support. Sylvo again went through his wonderful balancing and juggling feats, and was warmly applauded. Mdlle. Corina also brought down the house with her slack-wire performance, while Mr Alf Lawton and Miss Spencer afforded no _d of amusement in their specialties, the former in his negro sketches, and the lattor especially in her masher songs and sailor's hornpipe. The performance ooncluded with a farce.

Instances are often cited of the keen competition so prevalent throughout this country, but our Australian cousins now indulge in business tactics which happily dp not obtain in England. ' At Rookwood, the cemetery adjoining Sydney, visitors no sooner enter the city of the dead than they are pestered by the minions of monumental masons with " Try our latest in head-stoves: a perfect fit guaranteed ; this style £b only, angels extra; bankrupt sale of columns and cenotaphs now on;" or, " Monuments and vaults Buppliod on time payment." This derogatory and unseemly practice has at last roused the ire of the Sydney press, and an effort is now being made to preveut such wanton desecration of the cemetery grounds. To tout for tomb-stones shows a taste, or want of taste, almost on a par with a notice once adopted by a London undertaker who advertised, " Why lead a miserable life when for 30s you may be buried comfort- | ably ?"— Pall Mall Budget.

Yesterday afternoon tho Synod assembled; in St. John's pchooboom. Present—The Bishop of Waiapu (president), Dean Hovell, Archdeacons W. L. Williams and S. Williams ; Canons St. Hill, Fox and Webb; the Revs. J. C. Eccles, F. Simcox, E. Robertshaw, J. Hobbs, F. Spencer, O. Dean, 0. Tuke, W. Welsh, J. Knipe, 0. Jordan, J. Parkinson, and A. E. Williams, Captain Preece, and Messrs J. B. Fielder, E. Webb, F.W. Williams, A. St. Hill, H. Twigg, R. P. Williams, W. Ellison, R. C. I Pasley, J. Bradley,'». K. Newton, and T. Tanner. Apologies for absence were read from the Revs. _.' J. Willis, G. _aunsell, W. W. Goodyear, H. W. Williams, E. Jannings, J. Townseud, (through sickness), Colonel Dowell, V.C., and CaptainH. Keir, R.N. The following gentlemen were elected members of the Synod for this session only :—Mr T. Morrison, for Waiapu; Mr J. Hindmarsh, for Maketu; Mr N. King, for Rotorua ; Mr H. Owen, for Tokomaru ; Capt. A. Davidson, for Wairoa. The annual choral service was held in the evening. Archdeacons W. L. Williams and S. Williams and the Roy. A. S. Webb were installed aa Canons of the Cathedral Chapter. The Rev. J. Hobbs preached the sermon, taking for his text " There was a man there who had a withered hand."

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