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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6377, 12 February 1892, Page 2

The departures from thu colony during the month of January were 992 and 170S arrivals.

800ms havo bee:7! engaged at the Masonic Hotel for Lady Jersey, Lady Galloway, and Captain L.;ith, who arrive in Nfipicr by the oxprcss train on Monday evening.

A handicap isweep.stake shooting match between members of the Naval Artillery will bo held on the Tuiaekuri range tomorrow at 2 o'clock. It i.-s to V;-! hoped there will be a good muster, as the?o matches tend tov/ardy improving the members in the use of the carbine.

At the second day's ram fair at Waugauui yesterday there were 550 ruins olfured sinyly in five hours, and 509 were solii. The highufit price was received by 35r J. M. Baker, i'Vrdell, who got forty-two guineas for one ram from Mr Jj'rei Button, of Invcrcurgill.

A large number of spectators were attraoted to Clive (square lunt evening, the City Band played an exceptionally good programme of selections, " hip Van Winklo" especially meeting with much appreciation. The other pieces all gavo evidence of very careful rehearsitl. The sum of ! 9s 8d was collector! at the gates.

The imports during the quarter ended December 31 amounted to £1,G75,050, an increase of about £120,000 on the conesponding quarter last year. The exports were £1,805,418, a decrease of £430,000. Xho totals for the year were—lmports, 1891, £6,503,849 ; IS9C, £6,200,52*). Exports, 1891, £9,566,357; 1890, £9,811,720.

Mr Blythe, J.P., tat on the Bench at the R.M. Court this morning, when Thomas Duckbtt was dismissed with a caution ou a charge of drunkenness. Duckett was also charged with breaking a bucket, belonging to the New Zealand Government, for which he was fined 10s, 2a, and lamage 3s Cd, in default three days' imprisonment.

Two inquests were lieM at Neleon yesterday. In tbo case of John Eose, aged 23— whose body was found floating- ia thoMatai river with his l«gs tied and a flax rope round his neck with a loop a:< if to hold a stone—a verdict of suicide whilst of uneound mind was returned. Samuel Cloyden, a member of the .Education Board, was crossing , a small creek near his house by means of a plank when ho apparently became giddy and foil into n few inches of water. Hβ struggled to the bank but died there. Tho cause of tltath was hmirfc disease. A verdict wuh returned uecoicL ingly.

Somo momb«rs of tho Napier Garrick Club, taking advantage of the two race holidays at VVairoa, played at that place on Wednesday and Thursday (.-•jeinngs. Flint's Hall was well rilled on both occasions, and the porformiTH succeeded iti thoroughly entertaining their patrons. Th-company return to Mapier to-morrow evening.

A novel Christmas suicide is reported from Epee station, Ala. A negro tie>; a jug of whisky to his neck and deliberately drove his team of horses off n blutf 100 feet high into the Tornbigbue river. The negro had boeu a prosperous farmer, but bad crops ruined him, and rather than givo up his mortgaged horses he said he would kill both himself and them.

Sub-Superiutenilent Gilberd occupied tlv ohuir at the quarterly meeting of the Napier Fire Brigade last oveuing. It was decided to "support thu Hustings iv their action for the substitution »'l hair Wellington b-ots for b)u.-i..-n., to beounpiiii'rert at tho Christchiirch Uonfert'ws , !. >"or. mini itotison was appointed to the vile nuy on the Ooininittie.

\ y()W>i> man murui Albeit Whorton ■-'■rjciirs old, call, .i at the Ohri-i----o.!ii;;-ijii hospital on Wedi..'.-day night tiiid sti.i.'i: tliat ho was in irvr.nt piiin t.lKouirh

raiui.i iir.vxi Tipple-. Hi! wa- i(.r irrif.-iiit poisoning, liutdied'tt '.i o'clock terdav morning. An inquest whs he'd i" the tifu-rnooii, but was adjourned till Monday next for the stomach to be analysed.

The bin; blast at the breakwater bluff yesterday afternoon did not come up to >xpectationn As a blast no doubt it was right enough, but us a spectacle it was disiip'pointing. In town the shook was distinstly felt. The cliii', from the breakwater to thu point towards town, has been a good ileal shaken, and persons walking along the beiiisli would do well to keep as near the >ba as possible.

The resident Umutaoroa settlers may contrast their position now with what it might have been if Mr Hunter had been successful at la.-t election. It will b« remembered that Mr Huutur was strongly of opinion that the holdings in the Seventy-mile Bu»h weru urmeraily too small, and that special facilities should be given to the settlers to enlarge them. Instead of that, we now find the lands which these settlers might reasonably have looked forward to acquiring for that purpose, handed over to a combination of auctioneers-, grocers, life insurance agents, el hoe ijtnm on/He, as a reward for political services. — Waipawi Mail.

ill- Owen, chemist, Hastings street, has received direct, from the maker a new supply of Popsoalia, Kola Wine Bovril, Pumiline Esseuoe, Roche's Embrocation (for whooping oough), Quinine Wine, Anti-Catarrh Salts* for Hay Fever, Influenza, etc.