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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6242, 2 September 1891, Page 2

The Borough Council meets this evening. There will be a church parade for the local Volunteers on Sunday week.

Nominations for the annual vacancies in the Municipal Council must be made by noon to-morrow.

A ball in aid of the funds of the Napier Athenaeum will be held in the Garrison Hall on Friday, September 18th.

The quarterly meeting of Court Captain Cook, No. 5840, A.0.F., was held last night, when various routine business was transacted. The sum of £140 was taken in contributions during the quarter.

Mr J. R. Cox, M.P. for East Clare in the House of Commons, and the Irish delegate to the colonies to collect funds for the Home Rule cause, arrived yesterday at Auckland by the Wairarapa from Sydney.

At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday liucy Walden, aged 15 years, charged with larceny at Woodville, was granted twelve months' probation. The evidence showed that the prisonor was a kleptomaniac.

It is understood that tho Ministerialists are urging Mr J. W. Napier to become a candidate for the Waikato seat in the Government interest. The Liberal Association meets on Thursday to consider the situation.

There was a large attendance of members and their friends last evening at the meeting of the St. Augustine's Band of Hope. Three well-known gentletnen gave a clever minstrel entertainment, with which tho.e present were delighted.

The North Queensland Insurance Company have notified the Auckland Harbor Board that they have accepted an insurance risk of £20,000 on the Harbor Board's dredger on her passage from Auckland to Melbourne as proposed by the Board.

The Napier Hospital returns for the month of Auguut are as follows: —In Hospital at last date, 8 males, 7 females; admitted during month, 6 males, 3 females ; discharged,'s males, 7 females; died, 0; remaining- at date, 9 males, 3 females.

The Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association report having held their usual wool and skin sale this morning. There was a good attendance of buyers, and all lots sold at fair rates. For a lot of crossbred hogget skins the satisfactory price of 7fd was obtained.

In the Working Men's Club hall this evening will be given the fifth entertainment of the series. Those taking the characters in thb conudy of '• Checkmate" have been rehearsing tho piece assiduously, and a good performance may be counted on by those who attend. Members are invited to bring their friends.

Our Dancvirke correspondent writes under yesterday's date:—" Mr C. Pedersen has disposed of his land to Mr I'arrigan at a satisfactory price.—The hounds meet at Woodville to-morrow, and here on the 16th for the last meet of the season. On the evening of that day a ball will be held, as a fitting wind up.—A rumor is current that the Tamaki block is to be cut up and sold at an early date. If this is true, it will be a good thing for Danevirke."

On tho footpath by the waterworks is a pipe which projects above the path, and is very objectionable to pedestrians who are obliged to take that route. A correspondent suggests that the Road Overseer should take a walk round that way, and see for himself, not only the pipe, but also the huge boulders which are protruding on the same footpath. Our correspondent adds tbat the other evening a resident severely sprained his ankle through kicking against this same pipe.

John Ford, a fish hawker, whose death by hanging at Parnell was reported in our telegrams yesterday, left tbe following letter addressed to his wife :—" My dear wife,— When you get this note I will bo no more. Poverty and ill-health have caused me to commit the rash act. I tried to work yesterday, but could not. I have brought trouble enough on you. That landlady said I was at work, and I was not I have brought you just Is Gd ia eight weeks. So good-bye, and God bless you. May God have mercy on me."

During August the Customs revenue collected in the colony amounted to £155,032. The principal ports contributed as follows : —Dunedin, £4*1,494; -Auckland, £35,532; Wellington, £28,197; Lyttelton, £57,377. The amount collected for the five months of the financial year is £051,106, being £11,522 above the estimate for that period. The beer duty collected last month was £3955. Auckland contributed £894, Dunedin £838, Christchurch £753, and Wellington £458. The total for the five mouths of tho year is £20,645, which is £5354 below the Treasurer's estimate.

According to a return prcsentctl to tho Victorian Assembly, no lower than 109 accidents aro known to hay. occurred on the Victorian railways for the nineteen mouths ended July 31 through the untimely opening of railway carriage doors whilst trains were in motion. One hundred and five were cases iv whi,ih passengers incautiously stepped iv or out of tho truiu iv motion, and in thi' largo majority of these tho injuries were slight. In tho remaining four cases tho passengers fell out through the doors opening between tbe stations. Fifteen eases were reported during tbe same period in which tho passengers wero_ crushed or otherwise, injured while closing the carriage doors at the railway platforms, mainly duo V.o inoiiutiousness. The total cuirip._sati.im paid by tho Government m connection with such accidents was £870, whilst law costs amounted to £186. The cost of repairing damaged doors for the „„inu period was £257.

Ask your Grocer for the Lily white Brand of Anchor Roller Mill Hour. It is the beat iv the Market.

Mr. Selby occupied the chair at a meeting of butchers hold last evening. The proposed Slaughter-house Bill was discussed at length and the meeting was unanimous iv passing the following resolution:—"That the Napier butchers entirely agree with the resolution passed at the meeting of the Christchurch butchers, viz , that the proposed Slaughterhouse Bill would be entirely unworkable, and that the member for Napier be asked to do his best to prevent the Bill being passed into law "

The Bruce County Council passed a resolution yesterday protesting against tbe increase of the honorarium to members of tho House, and also against the taxation proposals, especially the graduated tax. It was also decided to communicate with Mr J. W. Thomson, M.H.R., asking him to convey to Mr John Bryce the Council*! deepest sympathy with him owing to the unfair treatment he had received at the hands of a majority of the House, and regretting that the colony should be deprived of his services at a time when men of his stamp could ill be spared.

The N.S.W. Pastoralista' Union explains that, as far as it is concerned, the position brought about by the conference is as follows :—No further supplies of shearing labor will be brought into the GOlony from outside. Work, however, will have to be found for some fifty shearers now on their way to Sydney from New Zealand, and pens will have to be reserved for the men engaged in Sydney during the past week under the pastoralists' agreement. It will

further be necessary to provide shearing for those who have been guaranteed four or six months' continuous work under the pastoralists' agreement. With these exceptions no distinction will be made between union and non-union men.

"Woomera" in the Australasian, writ.s:—

" Apropos of that article on the curiosities of reporting a correspondent sends me the following (I always get a correspondent to send me anything that I cannot swear to myself): —In the early days of Western Australia there was only one shorthand reporter in tbe colony, and he fell into evil ways and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Before the sentence expired the annualsession of the Legislature commenced, and there was no one to report the proceedings. The Executive decided to remit the remainder of the sentence on condition that the erring reporter would Hansard them. He rose to the occasion, and refused to leave prison unless a substantial honorarium was granted him, and he got it."

From Fiji a correspondent writes:—"A cricket match between two native teams, one belonging to Loma Loma, the other hailing from the island of Nairjau, came off at the abovenamed town a few days since, and from a local correspondent's report the natives appear to have displayed good allround form, the match lasting the whole day, and fair scores being made ou each

side. A novel feature of the day's amusement was an interchange of present*. Before the commencement of the match the

visitors presented two canoes, with all necessary gear, paddles, mat sails, &c.; several lalies (native drums), yagona bowls, mats, large rolls of native cloth (tappa), sinnet fishing nets, &c. At the conclusion of the game the hosts responded by presenting European prints, shirts, soap, women's dresses, kerosene, and other sundries, the exchanges being worth from £50 to £60 on each side."

The Napier School Committee met last night, when there were present—Messrs J. G. Gilberd (chair), S. Spence, C. H. Edwards, J. B. Fielder, M. Hebden, and J. Griffin.—Leave of absence was granted Mr T. Sidey.—A letter was read from Mr J. C. Fowler with regard to the chastise-

ment of his boy by one of the pupil

teachers. The letter was referred to the head - master for a report. —Mr C. Heslin wrote stating that he could not resume duties until Mr Faram's period of engagement had expired, and that would not be until the lßt October. When that time arrived he would be again able to take his position. It was decided to write to the Board, askiug them to re-instate Mr Heslin as third master, —Mr Thomsou advised that the average attendance at the main school had been 836, and Miss Gouldiog, mistress of the side school, wrote that the highest attendance at her school had been 190 — A number of school requisites were ordered to be procured.—Messrs S. Spence and C. H. Edwards were appointed a Visiting Committe, and the meeting adjourned.

The death of a Chinese miner named Lee Ah Foon at Melbourne recalls a sad story. Ah Foon was a miner who had worked long aud industriously up the country, on the goldfields, or portions of them, abandoned as unpayable by Europeans, and though frequently unable to earn more than tbe barest pittance, he at times was a little more succesnf ul, and at last was able to look forward confidently to tbe day when he would have gathered together sufficient money to enable him to return to his native land and spend his last few years in restful contentment ana happiness. But disease overtook him, and though stoical as most Chinese are, he was obliged to come to Melbourne to consult with three of hia own countrymen skilled in herbal remedies. He tried their powers, but they could do him no good, and alone, quite forsaken by his own fellows, he died from the ravages of cancer of the pancreas. In his clothes when examined at the Morgue was found what remained of his little store of wealth — twenty-one sovereigns and one five and one single pound note.

Do you drink " The Five O'clock Tea ?" 'Tis the fashionable afternoon tea of the day ; quite pure, and a wonderful quantity consumed daily. To bo obtained of your local grocer at 2s 4d per lb. Davidson, Irvine, and Co., agents.

Trotting and Sulky Harness, from 57s set; other Harness equally cheap at John McVay's, Hastings street, Napier.— [Advt.J A. H. WILSON, Ironmonger, intends moving to larger premises next month, and

in the meantime all goods will be sold at very low prices. Heavy goods, such as Stoves, Grates, Ovens, Fenders, &c, will be

sold exceptionally cheap to clear.—[ADyT.

Refined Cod Liver Oil. No After-Taste. —Free from nauseous taste and smell. This season's supply just to hand in the freshest aud purest condition. For Children the regular use of Cod JUiver Oil with Pawish's Chemical Food oannot be over estimated, containing as they do the principal constituents of the blood and tissues. To insure getting the very best Oil and Parrish Chemical Food purchase only that which bears the name of " H. OWEN " on the Labels. Address—Hastings Street, Napier. —[advt.l