NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 15, 13 May 1896, Page 3

NAPIER NOTES.

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Xapiek, This Day. It does not require the gift of prophecy in any extraordinary degree to predict an accident sooner or later to persons passing underneath the bluff to and from the breakwater. Now and again, particularly after heavy rains, loose material slips from the brow, and comes rumbling down some 300 ft, to the imminent danger of public life and limb. Quite recently a large stone, weighing nearly half a hundredweight, came crashing from the summit, hurling itself against the wall on the opposite side of the road. Fortunately on that occasion no one -was hurt, but some day I dread a big slip, and then . The Rev. W. Colenzo of this city has made a princely offer to Napier and the Province of Hawke's Bay of no less than £I,OOO towards the establishing of a Museum and Public Library in Napier, and a free site for building purposes. He {promises to further increase this donation by another £I,OOO if Messrs -John Harding and D. McLean will each contribute £SOO towards the same object, which, with a further £I,OOO to be raised by subscription throughout the province will bring the amount to £-1,000, the sum he calculates necessary for carrying out his project. It is certainly a disgrace that an important city like this, the centre of a wealthy and populous district, should be without a public library. Our present Museum is very scantily supplied with specimens, but I am given to understand that should a proper home be provided a number of gentleman intend handing over Maori and other curios, representing the work of a lifetime, to the Museum authorities.