TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6294, 2 November 1891, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The Public Works Committee of the Borough Council will meet thia evening at the usual hour.

There will be no practice for the Choral Society to-morrow evening, owing to the rehearsal of the oratorio at the Theatre .Boyal.

Inspector Emerson left Hamilton on 'Wednesday on a visit of inspection to the several police stations under his charge on 'the East Coast.

There are likely to be more cases brought against brewers in the Cambridge and Hamilton districts by Customs officer .JTackman, who is at present in that neighborhood.

The following are the Napier Hospital returns for October:—ln hospital at last date, 8 males, 5 females; admitted during month, 21 males, 5 females; discharged, 10 males, 3 females; died, 1 male, 1 female ; remaining at date, 18 males, 6 females.

On a defendant beicg charged at Court to-day with neglecting to register a dog, he said the dog wae dead The R.M. said he wae not charged with neglecting to register a dead dog but a live one, whereat the defendant smiled and the case proceeded.

The president of the Central Board of "Military Examinations notifies that Lieut. Colbourne, of the East Coast Hussars, Lfeut. Kennedy, of tho F Battery, and SubLieufc. Rudman, of the Naval Cadets, have passed their military examinations with •credit.

Mr J- Crowlsy, who has for some time maet been in the office of Messrs Murray, jjoberts, an d Co., Spit, was on Saturday with a gold locket by his fellow i -vi&nieii. Mr Orowley joins Mr W. H. X - -rkine at Danevirke, with whom he has \ into partnership, enterev.

'••jaiion of our readers is drawn to The ati .^ a j n Messrs Baker and the altera. re the salo of Tabuteau s l TOe tionß. The auction will Uppw Mobaka , November sth, at two be held on Thursu Wednesday, November o'clock, and not on . tctiged> • ■ 4th, as previously ad\ _, . „ %mq Co. on SaturMessrs P. A, Herman epnnection wit h day sold the privileges in , Mr the Town and Suburban , wg Hotel Oalaghan, of the Greenmeau „ Mr secured the publican's booth for-. Mj , ' Eyan the race books ior £8 l&s, . Orchard the fruit stall for 10s. About forty of the local Volunteers 7 leave by the express train on Friday mornioirfor Wellington, in order to take part m the military tournament at that place. Ihe N avals, Artillery, aud Bifles will be repre- \ -aented by twelve men each- The men will * go into camp at the Hutt racecourse. The final rehearsal of Ihe oratorio, •' The Captives of Babylon" will take place in the Theatre Royal to-morrow night, when a full attendance is de,ired. The solo parts have been distributed amongst the * oUow : •injr ■singers :—Soprani, Misses Wylhe and Mayaon ; alti, Mra Prime and Miss Mayson; tenori, Messrs 'Pollock and Nicholl; bassi, Messrs Aplin and Martin. -Wβ regret to learn that Captain Sutherland, of the N.Z Shipping Company s ship Piako, has met with an accident, llie Piako loaded at the Bluff, and while going On board the vessel at nitfht, tbe_ gangway having got removed from its position, Laptain Sutherland fell on to the deck, breaking / a l*g just above the ankle. The captain is now in the hospital at Invercargill, the ship laving left in charge of another master. :At the R.M. Court to-day a lad named Albert Gray, sevou of age, was b«r°-ed witli stealiuj? a bridlo from B. J. S, ''eliean, valued at* £3. The Sergeant t " W that tbe lud wus getting into evil and only this other day tho boy got a vW I » f> t bo'-.r t). v 8"«nu mean* or other, and $fi\ cither W" got helplessly drunk. The ' Vitw' ■ iljo.wued ''^ x to-morrow, arruDKem wts.to'be' made iv the meantime ;.s to tho lJu V* ** tBrB «« utroL .. j appsarcd before tho E.M. .r.-rSbruiu pleaded guilty to a phargo l ,rete " C ti-h "«■' '■*&«< mdii »?»1«^ : Mb» l!ldlJS nal KoiUy. bat 00,,,°. XT;cd a had ne,_b fe ,n plentiful, and l.« b-a four oliWtva at to keep.

He expected some money shortly, however, and under the. circumstances the R.M. adjourned the oase for a month.—James Kowo, whose martied life has been singularly unfortunate, appeared to chow cause why ho should not contribute towards the support of a child of his sent to the Industrial School. He stated his present position to the Court, and Mr Turnbull made a small order of 3s 6d per week, to be paid monthly.

At Court this morning a first offender, oharged with intoxication on Saturday night, was dismissed with a caution by Mr Turnbull, R M.—W. L. White defended a summons which set forth that he had broken one of the borongh by-laws by leaving a case of goods on the footpath in front of his shop in Emerson street, thereby causing an obstruction. A quantity of evidence was heard, and Mr Lascelles pointed out that the offence with which Mr White was charged having committed was an every-day occurrence in Napier; all shopkeepers did it. The R.M. said he could not get away from the by-law, and fined defendant a nominal amount—half-a-orown and costs. —George Neale pleaded not guilty to neglecting to register a dog, giving the excuse that the animal was dead. As he had been aeked to register it before it died, and did not do so, the R.M. said it was hard that he should pay for a dead dog, but he would have to impose a fine of five thilings and costs, and order that the amount of the registration fee be paid.

A woman of easy virtue, named Annie M'Kay, was this rooming charged at the R.M. Court with being the keeper of a house of ill-fame in Wellesley road. Mr Lascelles appeared for the woman, and pleaded guilty under extenuating circumstances. He said she had a large family to keep, and had no means of keeping them. Her husband was absent from the colony, and she was endeavoring to obtain support from him, but had not so far been successful. Under the circumstances she had no other means of obtaining a livelihood. Sergt. Cullen said this was defendant's third appearance before the Court, and he wouldaskthe Court to impose the full penalty, as a warning to her and others who had adopted her mode of living. She had a daughter whom she had brought up to the same style of life, and there was another girl now growing up who would probably follow in her mother's and sister's footsteps. Detective Grace gave evidence? and stated the house was frequented by the worst of characters. Mr Turnbull fined the defendant £5 and costs.—Jane MoKay, daughter of the last defendant, was fined £2 and costs for being an inmate of a bad 'house.—Nellie Collins, whose second appearance it was, did not appear to answer a charge of being the keeper of a house of bad repute, but was fined only £3, it being her second appearance.—Sarah Bowe, for being an inmate of the same house, was mulcted in a penalty of £2 and costs.—Mr Lascelles appearsd for all the defendants, and in the case of the last two women he said they intended, leaving the town, and asked that nominal penalties be imposed. .

The talented Payne Family for whom Mr Fred Dawson is advance agent, will open a short season of two nights in the Theatre Royal, Napier commencing , on Monday, November 9th. The visit of the Family on their laet occasion is btill accooiated with pleasant recollections. Their motto, "popular music at popular prices," has been the great feature of their wonderful nuccess. Speaking of the Payne Family, a contemporary cays :—"The thorough enjoyment en the part of the Payne family's skilful but unpretentious entertainments ; the applause, the smiles, the odd tears seen by unaccustomed eyes, and the frantic re-demand for almost every number, were sufficient proofs, even to the cynic, that though people affect an admiration for lofty music they do not understand, yet when they are treated to music they do comprehend, all the affectation and flummery vanish for the moment, and they become natural and therefore happy. When we saw a truculent M.H.R. laughing till his fat sides must have ached, and noted the tear, evoked by memory, steal down tho nose of a severe sawmiller of our acquaintance, as the Paynes sang, with exquisite expression, "No one like mother," we gathered an opinion that even an M.H.R. may be almost a human being, and that the severity of a successful sawmiller might only be the mask that hid a kind heart and an undimmed affection for the best friend on earth a man can have—his mother. Pure in tone, honest, unaffectedly bright and gay, rendering sweet and often fine music wilh all the unpretentiousness of amateurs in the charmed circle of their own home, tuneful as larks, comely in appearance, and modest as daisies, the Payne Family are a credit to golden Ballarat and themselves, and their performance is one from which everyone wno attends will depurt happier and wiser."