TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6144, 9 May 1891, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The Union S.S. Company advertise the lust launch for the s.s. Waihora to leave at 7 p.m. to-morrow. A special meeting of the Napier District School Committee is called for Tuesday evening next. The secretary of the Hospital begs to acknowledge a donation of £2 10s 6d from St Murk's Church, Clive, per favor of Mrs Pritchard. Captain Edwin wired as follows at 12.54 p.m. to-day : —" North to east and southwest #s.le after sixteen hours from now ; glass further fall." The Ormondville, Danevirke, and Woodville police stations are not now in the Hawku's Bay police district, they having been placed under the charge of Inspector Pardy, of Wanganui. Z?orty-five days after tba proclamation appears in the Gazette, between seventy and eighty thouHaud acres of land in the Poverty Bay district will be thrown open by the Hawke's Bay Lund Board for public selection under the alternative system. One of the hands of the ketch Catlin had a narrow escape from serious accident this morning. He was fixing up a tarpaulin, when he got jammed between a shoot and the vessel's rail. It was feared at firat that he was seriously injured, but he was soon able to walk about again. Mr and Mrs Raymond, of Mount St. John, Tauranga, arrived in Napier on Tuesday, having driven over in five days in a one-horse buggy. The last day's journey from Pohui is the only bad part of the road, and is very trying to the springs of a light trap. The sooner the road to Pohui is altered the better, so as to avoid the Kaiwhaka cutting and the river crossings. The firm of Messrs Sidey and Baiu has dissolved partnership, and the business will in future be carried on under the style of " Sidey andLockie." Mr Bain has been compelled to retire owing to ill health, aDd will take up his residence in the South Island, where the climate is more suitable for him. During his residence in Napier Mr Bain has made many friends, who, while regretting his departure, will wish him health and prosperity in hia new sphere of labor. This morning Mr Or. W. Williams, who for some time past has acted in the capacity of Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands here, left with his family for Invercargill, to which place he has been transferred. Mr T. Humphries, of Auckland, who takes his place, will probably not arrive here for a fortnight, it not being his inteution to leave for this place until the late Commissioner for the Westland district arrives in the northern city. If Mr Humphries is not here by next Saturday he will be unable to preside at the next Laud Board meeting. At a meeting of the Wanderers' Bicycle Club, which was held last night, Mr R. D. D. McLean, president, occupying the chair, it was decided to guarantee the Recreation Ground Company the sum of £75 towards laying a cinder track on the Company's ground, to be a quarter of a mile in circumference, and sixteen feet wide. In return fnr this the Club intends to ask the Company for the use of the ground one day a year for three years free, to hold a race meeting, and also for training, purposes. We believe it is the intention of the Hawke'e B<iy Amateur Athletic Club to offer the Company a similar amount. A fire broke out at Mr S«hieming'a City Buffet at an tarly hour this morning, but it was fortunately extinguished before any cerious damage was done. One of the female lodgers had been reading in bed at a late hour last night, and must have fallen asleep without blowing out the candle. The pillow caught fire, and also some of the bedding. The cries of the lodger for help arqused another person who was sleeping in the next room, and ho succeeded in putting out the flames before they got a good hold. Those ia the habit of reading in bed till a late hour might take warning. We would draw attention to the fact that where the fire occurred was in a part of the building where, iv the event of a more serious fire, escape would have been almost impossible except by the window, and that there are no fire escapes provided for such an emergency. This matter should be attended to at once. This morning Captain Preece concluded his task of compiling the correct official census of the Hawke's Bay district. We have not room in this issue for all the figures, so we are obliged to summarise them. There are in Hawke's Bay county 8996 males, and 7782 females, total 16,77S ; half-castes, 59 ; Chinese, 32 ;* Maori wives, 7; inhabited houses 3056, uninhabited houses 200, building 7, total 3263. In Patangata county there are 1381 males and 662 females, making a total of 2043; inhabited houses 412, uninhabited houses 78, total 490. In the county of Waipawa there are 4948 males and 3922 females, making a total of 8870. There are four half-castes and eight Chinese. The inhabited houses total 1749, the uninhabited 198, in course of building 7, total 1954. In Napier borough there are 8448 peoDle, besides five Chinese. The inhabited houses number 1568, uninhabited 140, total 1708. The total number of inhabitants for the census district is 28,924, half-castes 118, Chinese 401, Maori wives 13 ; inhabited houses 5451, uninhabited 492, building 14, total 5957.