NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 83, 1 August 1896, Page 3

NAPIER NOTES.

[Fbom Oce Own Correspondent.]

Napier, August 1. The Gaiety Girl Company are booked to leave for North by the Waihora. Last night the weather was against anyone turning out, but there was a good attendance notwithstanding. "In Town " is an improvement on the first production, but no scope is given to musical talent. The first act is all Mr Laurie and the second act all Mrs Laurie, but it must be said that the pair are real exponents of the comedian's art. The unanimous opinion about the company is that they are at a disadvantage in interpreting pieces hardly taking enough on the colonial stage, and that their efforts in comic opera are greatly in advance of their appearance in musical comedy. The weather all yesterday was decidedly objectionable, and the rain fell in torrents. Low lying places were again under water, 'and rheumatism found many victims. At Petane on Thursday - last the body of a newly born infant was found in the pit of a closet on the premises of Andrew Hood, carpenter. Information was at once given to the police, and an inquest on the body was held last evening. The evidence of Dr. Bermau was to the effect that the body was that of a newly-born, full-term male child in an advanced state of decomposition. The child had breathed after being born. He had examined a girl named Mary Anderson, sixteen years of age, and had found that she had been recently confined. The evidence of Andrew Hood and his daughter was taken, the latter stating that before leaving, a fortnight previous, the girl Mary Anderson had been unwell and the night previous to her departure she was in and out of the house. On the following morning when she got up she fainted in front of the fire and the kettle fell over and scalded her arm. The jury, after a short retirement, returned a verdict that the child had been bom in the closet and afterwards suffocated. The annual meeting of the Napier Park Racing Club will be held on the 14tli inst, J3y the way, I hear that there is some talk of there being a probability of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club being asked at their next meeting to consider the question of moving their headquarters to your town. Your citizens are decidedly dilatory in this matter, and have evidently come to look upon the question in a hopeless manner. What is to prevent Hastings having a branch office, where business might be transacted, especially during iM§ racing season ? Numbets of your readers are anxious to learn who is the Liberal candidate to be announced shortly. Rumor hath it that he comes from Napier.