TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9822, 23 July 1900, Page 8

TOWN EDITION.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.16 to-day : —“ Strong westerly winds after sixteen hours from now; glass fall; weather warmer.”

Addition to telephone exchange list {Hastings branch): No. 1, Railway station, Station street.

The Wanganui Borough Council have decided to erect a plague hospital at once *f©n the rifle range. The Government hear half the expense. Tn order to avoid clashing with the concert organised by the Napier section of the W.C.T.U., to take place in the Athenaeum on Wednesday evening, the promoters of the open-air band concert announced for that date have decided to postpone their entertainment till the -following evening.

The Tarawera, from Sydney, which arrived at Auckland this morning, is the feearer of a Brindisi mail.

At nine o’clock this morning the thermometer readings at the places mentioned were as follows : Russell 60, Auckland 55, Gisborne 50, Spit 53, Wanganui 51, Wellington 53, Christchurch 53, Bealey 42, Dunedin 55, Invercargill 47, Bluff 48. The reading in Napier at 9 a.m. was 53 in the shade.

The committee of the Wanderers Bicvjle Club confidently anticipate that their second social of the present - season, *x> be held in the Foresters’ Hall tomorrow night, will prove still more suc- ' -cessful than the first. Mrs Condon will supply refreshments, and all the other atrangements for the comfort of dancers ■will receive ths attention of the committee. A large number of tickets have been disposed of, and intending patrons who have not yet secured their tickets can obtain them from members of the comjnittee, or from Messrs Eagleton and Freedman.

It is expected that in accordance with the request of a large number of the inhabitants of Waipawa, the new Minister -of Lands (Mr Duncan) will shortly deliver an address at Waipawa, upon the land policy of the Goa ernment. Energetic business effort has now taken the form of an offer of free return tickets "to Napier from the country districts. That is something far ahead of the trading stamp. It might be advantageous for the business community to carry the idea further, by combining to arrange for excursion trains at stated intervals. With regard to the four centres the Government put on such trains, but since they will not do it for Napier we might fall back upon self-reliance. Lieutenant Collett, in a letter to his relatives in Waipawa, written at Albany, states that the Ormazan encountered very rough weather and thirteen horses were lost during the passage. He mentions that the accommodation was good on board. He and Lieutenant Hovell were the guests of the Albany Club during their brief stay in that city. Sergeant Black, ol the Napier police, received a telegram from Wellington on Friday stating that his wife wa3 dangerously ill, and left for that city on Saturday morning. To-day the sad news reached town that Mrs Black died on Saturday, probably before her husband reached her. The deepest sympathy will be felt for the sergeant in his great affliction.

The Wanaanui Chronicle savs that Mr LeslieMcHardy, son of the late Mr A. McHardy, of Palmerston North, has notified the secretary of the Wanganui Caledonian Society that it is his intention to present, the society with a lifesize portrait of his late faiher and also donate £5 yearly to the funds of (he .society, to be used as a special prize at *he annual sports gathering. Mr Leslie McHardy is making a similarly generous contribution to the Hawke’s Bay Society, the late Mr McHardy, sen., having been an old and valued member of b *th societies.

At the conclusion of the business at the Christchurch City Police Court last Thursday, Mr J. C. Sopp, addressing O’Brien (who succeeds In- \ jsßector McGovern in charge of the Napier Police District), said it ivas, probably, ... the last time they would meet in their •official capacity, and the Bench thought it only right to say they had been always very pleased at the gentlemanly and fair in yyhffih Sub-Inspector O'Brien •had conducted hid cases in the Cou,tt. The Bench congratulated Lim upon his promotion, and he had their bsst wishes •for his future welfare and success. SubInspector O’Brien, in reply, said he thanked their Worships very much in- • deed for their expressions of gratification at his promotion, aud also lor their acknowledgment of the manner in which he had conducted his cases during the time they had known him. He had always done his best to act in a fair and straightforward manner, and he intended to do so in future. While conducting his cases before their Worships he had found them amongst the fairest and most painstaking magistrates that occupied that Bench! He again desired to thank them for their expressions of goodwill.