NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 11, 8 May 1896, Page 3

NAPIER NOTES.

[From Ocr Own Cokkespoxdemt.]

THE NATIVE IRISHMAN

The entertainment in the Working Men's Club on Wednesday niglit was a complete success from every standpoint, the hall being packed to the doors. Mr Collins and his youngsters in their burlesque kept the audience intensely amused, and the songs, recitations, and music were exceptionally good. One gentleman favoured the audience with"an Irish comic song —and very well lie sang it. But I would take this opportunity to explain to those who have never seen the Irishman upon his native soil that as a rule he does not roam around seeking some one's Wood. Neither does he devote his energies to smashing McSorley's skull, dancing at Flannigan's wake, or at O'Hooligan's christenings. Nor » does he usually devote his leasure to making illegitimate love to Sullivan's •wife, thereby incurring that gentleman's displeasure. It is to be deplored that Irishmen dressing themselves in impossible costumes will spring and shriek and whoop for half an hour at a strecth on a stage, presenting to the contemptuous laughter of an audience a mixture of a lunatic, a savage, and a drivelling drunken idiot as a representation of the national character. Why do I speak so feelingly ? Oh well, you see, I—l—well, I've been there.

A DP.UNK. Before Mr Turnbull, this morning, a man named Duncan Orr was charged with being drank in Tennyson-street yesterday. As he appeared to be suturing from the effects of drink the S.M. granted Sergeant Donovan's appiication for a week's remand in order that the prisoner might receive medical treatment. Orr has been eonfined in a lunatic asylum and released som time ago.

RAUKEKA BLOCK. The ballot for sections in the Rnurcka Block was held in the Old Council Chambers, Napier, yesterday. Messrs Pitt and Whibley were scrutineers and Mr Commissioner Humphries presided. The following is the result of the ballot Section 1, 21 acres 3 roods 20 perches half-yearly rental £ls 17s Gd, Henry Lane, Haveloc-k. Twenty-five applicants.

Section 2. 21 acres 2 roods 20 perches half-yearly rental £lB 7s Gd, C'. F. Wall, Maharahara. Fourteen applicants. Section 3, 17 acres half-yearly rental £l2 12s, Mrs Eliza McGill, Papakura. Twenty-six applicants. ' Section -1, 17 acres half-yearly rental £l2 8s Gd, John Christy, Shakespeare road, Napier. Seventeen applicants.

Sections -1, 17 acres 3 roods 1G perches, half-yearly rental £l2 llsGd, Jeremiah Conway, Petane. Twenty applicants.

Section G, 1G acres 2 roods G perches half-yearly rental £lO 8s Gd, A. F. Jarman, France-road, Napier. Twenty-six applicants. Section 7, 13 acres 3 roods 21 perches half-yearly rental £lO 17s, Miss Rose Madden, Napier. Twenty applicants. Section 8, 10 acres half-yearly rental £0 Is Gd, Patrick Clarkin, Napier, Thirty-one applicants.

Seetion 11, li acres 2 roods S3 perches half-yearly rental €lO 15s, 11. J. Wall, Hastings. Twenty-two applicants. Section 12, 7 acres 1 rood 1 perch half-yearly rent, £5 8s Cd, John Wellwood, Hastings. Twenty - two applicants. Section 13, S acres half-yearly rental £5 17s, Mrs E. M. Cox, Hastings. Nineteen applicants. Section 11, 15 acres 1 rood 85 perches, half-yearly rental I'lo 3s. Johanna Lynn, Hastings. Thirteen applicants.

Section 15, 8 acres half-yearly rental, £5 18s, Walter White, Waipawa. Nineteen applicants.

Section 1(5, 7 acres 8 roods 31 perches half-yearly rental £5 Ks fid. John Donnelly, Lon glands. Fifteen applicants. Section 17, 8 acres 2 roods 6 perches half-yearly rental, £5 4s, Jane A. T. Wellwood (wife of R. Wellwood.) Seventeen applicants.

Section 18, 8 acres 2 roods 3G perches half-yearly rental] £l4 lis, N. R. Wellwood, Hastings. Fifteen applicants. Section 20, 40 acres 3 roods 22 perches half-yearly rental £l7 2s, S. J. Wellwood, Hastings. Thirty seven applicants.