TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6375, 10 February 1892, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The Wairarapa, which arrived at Port Chalmers this moriiiug from Australian ports, is the bearer of an English mail.

The thermometer at Napier at nine o'olock this morniog registered 07 in the shade. Auokland was the hoHest placo with 71 and Bealy the coldest with 43.

From Lake Taupo comes the news that the tourist traffic has shown a marked falling off this season, and hotelkecpers are not looking as happy as they usually do at this period of the year.

The following passengers arrived by coach from Taupo last night aud put up at tbe Criterion Hotel: —Mr and Mrs Shrimpton ; Mr and Mrs Hall; Messrs Fearning, Fleming, and Mair.

Mrs Muuro, the victim of the horrible tragedy at Tauranga, is, we learn, the daughter of Mr Freeman, an old resident of Mapier, aud sister to Messrs B , G., and A. Freeman. Mrs Munro (then Miss Emm* Freeman) for many years lived in this district.

The sudden death of Mrs de Lisle from heart disease to-day came as a shock to residents in town who were loth to believe that so great a sorrow had fallen on Dr. de Lisle. The news was confirmed later on in tho day, and nothing but heartfelt sorrow was expu-ssed fur ihe husband and son in their great loss.

One of the well-known figures at the Spit, Mr ii. Critter, of rI.M. Customs, is shortly to be removed to Dunedin, after about twenty years' service at the port. A more conscientious officer it will be difficult to find in the service, and his many friends at the Spit will miss his familiar figure very much.

A private wire received this morning in Napier by Mrs Muuro's relatives states that the little boy reported dead in our telegrams through the Press Association is still alive, as is al-o Mrs Muuro. No further particulars are lo hand.

The contractors for tho breakwater are .'oitig lo have a big blast to-morrow afieriioou at five o'i'.lu-k. The charge has been put it; at abut one hundred feet from the top of the bluff near the breakwater, where it "may havo been noticed there has been a tent. The charge is one ton and a-half of gunpowder. The blast is expec?ed to bring down between nine aud ten thousand cubic yards of material.

The health officer, with a Customs officer and the pilot, visited the ship denator this morniuir, and found no sickness whatever on board. Ihe lever at Rio was of a mild description when the yessel left there. The -Senator laid ail the time at the ballast ground, and with the exception of one man being ill for two hours and one for one day, there has been no sickness on board the ship. The Senator was admitted to pratique and will at once c-mmeuee to discharge ballast.

Mr A. S. B. Forster, Clerk of the R.M. Court, Napier, has compiled an alphabetical index to " The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882," and the amendments thereof, and to " Tbe Criminal Evidence Act, 1889." This is a most useful work, and Mr Forster has been highly complimented upon it by the members of the legal profession here, and by those Justices of the Peace who have seen it. Mr Forster has been urged to have the compilation printed, and should he do so every lawyer in the colony, every Magistrate's Court, and every Justice, should have a copy.

The fortnightly meeting of the Council of the Free Association was held at 2 p.m. today. The secretary reported that free use was being made of tho Association's Labor Bureau, aud stated he had sent out eleven men to situations during the past fortnight, making a total of l.'J since the annual meeting, a period of five months. The subcommittee reported that £1 had been sent to a member at Woodville who had met with a slight accident, and their action was confirmed. Auothtr accident case was reported, viz, to a man who was hurt while loading frozen meat, and £4 was granted to the member. At Orakei Korako, situated thirty-three miles north of Taupo, (says a correspondent from T.upo) thore is a ngawha, or puia, which used to be geyser, but, of late years it has only just overflown tho basin, which is forty or fifty feet across. The water in this puia was always boiling. It is ou the westarn bank of the Waikato river, on tho opposite side to the alum caves. On Monday, tho '2.3 th ultimo, this large puia started throwing up the contents, together with boiling mud, like a geyser, until the crater emptied itself and then fire followed and continued for hours, aud when the fire ceased it again filled with boiling water. It gave no warning to the natives who are living around. Directly this happened they ail cleared out to the bush. When the water went up it went up in ore straight column, about three hundred feet high, and then followed the fire. The trees which were growing near its banks are burnt to a cinder. It is also reported by people coming from Tokaanu that Ruapehu and Ngaruhoe are getting hot around tbe base, tbe ground beinjj quite hot and can be felt for miles arouud, aud Ngaruhoe has b&}» smoking, more or less, for weeks.