TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9109, 9 March 1898, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

As the retnrna of the Wellington election como in thia evening thn roanlts will be wired to the I>aii,y Tbt.hosat'H r,nd posted in tho windows of tha'offioe. Captain Xd win wired at l'i-55 p.m. today:—' , Wind between aonth east and east and north at all places during next twelve honra; barometer fall everywhere; sea hoavy on all eastern coasts ; tides high on all eastern oiaets; westerly gales, with rain, are to be expeotod at all places north of Napier." Kntertainment at ftfeanee postponed till Wednesday, 10th inst * A mebtirg of Oabmon will ba beld flt 8 30 to-night, at Criterion Hotel/ The Napier Swimming Olub'a final gala at Swan's Baths this evening should draw a record attendance, despite tho rather unpromising weather, as tho olub will present a more than usually attractive programme, ■including an exhibition of swimming by some of this year's lady pupils. The Garrison Baud will march from tho post office at 7 30, and the sports will oommenco at 8 sharp. 1.0.0. F., M.U. — Social to weloome Loyal Friendship Lodge, Thursday, 10th Maroh, 8 p m , at Napier Lodge-room. Tiokets, Is * We understand that a meeting of the licensed victuallers of Napier will be held shortly to consider the question of Sunday trading Meesra Tnrnbull (ohairman), HoKay, and 'Whittington, members of the Waipawa Liosnsing Committee, met at the Napier Courthouse to-day and granted a temporary transfer of the license of the Wanatead Hotel from M. Moloney to B. Boott. Messrs Dalgety and Co 's London office cables as follows:—"March sales, list of arrivals is closed. Total available, inolnding old atooks, 223,G00 bales." The Governor will officially visit Napier on the 30th inst. The previous announcement that he would be here on the 24th wa? erroneous, a mistake having been made in the telegram sent to the Mayer. Mr Geo. Gardner, late of Timarn, and now of Ohristohuroh, is advertised topreaoh in the little hall alongside the Orange Hall in White Boad, both to-night at half past seven, and again on Sunday night at seven o'olook. We understand that Mr Gardner is making bnt a short stay in Napier. " Hovis'' bread, which has made such a vo#ua for itself in the Old Couatry, is now being manufactured in Napier by Mr KobertEon, of Hastings street Be forwaried yesterday to this offioo a loaf of "Hovis"for experimental purposes, and it wae duly submitted to the test of a few good healthy appetites. %he general verdiot is that " Hovis " is a splendid wholemeal bread, of delicate fUvor, and easily digestible.

A lecture will be delivered to-morrow evening in the Free Methodist schoolroom (behind the Balvatian Army Batraoks) by Mr J. Piper, Deputy High Chief Buler in New Zealand of the Independent Order of Beohabites. His subjeot will ba " The Origin, Objeots, and Comparisons of Friendly fcSooieties.* ,

After we went to press yesterday a defended oivil case, Henry Nelson v. James Hawthorne, was heard and decided by Mr A. Tntnbnll, B.M. The plaintiff sued to recover £3 10s for damages done to a fence and shed by the defendant's cart. It ap • pesred that the oart, with ahorse harnessed thereto, was on the top of a hill when first the traces and then the shaft bolt gave may The cart, heavily ladeD, ran swiftly down the hill, and smashed into the fenoo and shed The defeaoe was that Ihe ooonrrenoe had been purely accidental and quite unavoidable, but hie . Worship considered that it had been due to deftotive harness, and gave judgment for the amount olaimed, ■with coats £2 19s Mr Stock appeared for the plainiifr, and Mr Dinwiddie for the defendant,

Tho belfof that the Premier's publio meetings bear the palm for lengthiness was partly shattered dating the hearing of the Maori libel action, Ellison v. Taiaroa, at Ohiistchuroh, when a witness deposed that a meeting of Maori electors at Temaka, held on November 12 and 13, 1596, and addressed by Mr B. Taiaroa, lasted from 8 in the evening to half-past 2 next morniag. It is no wondor (remarks the Lyttelton Times} that some of the audience, as the witness said, went away to sleep. Mr Taiaroa, jan , afterwards explained that, so far as ho was oonoerned, the proceedings were not so yery lengthy, as the meeting did not really begin $ntil halfpast 9, the oounter attraotion of a circus having proved too strong for some cf the electors.

It is intended to float a oompany to work petroleum wells which have been discovered pn the Cheviot estate. It appears, aooording to the correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, that Mr Martin Flaherty, who has had experience of oil wells einoe 1870, suspected the existenoe of oil on Cheviot some time ago, and, afier prospecting, on January 26 he found cil on the Seaward Bange about a mile and a-half from M'Kenzie township He afterwards found two other spots about seven miles apart, with oil showing, and he is satisfied that all tas ojl proceeds from the same source. The disooveror sent samples to the Government analyst and the Mines department, and Mr Skey reports 4 "These are almost absolutely oolorl«g3, and appear to ba of light oharaotor. They are undoubtedly first-olaes quality; in faot almost too good to be named petroleum One distillation of this oil should, b/ tat iog off the very lightest oils, adapt it for ordinary use in kewaono lamps as a good illuminant."