NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 113, 5 September 1896, Page 3

NAPIER NOTES.

[From Ocb Own Correspondent.] Napiee, September 5. Rain, and yet more rain ! It teemed down the whloe of last night, and towards midnight many of the low-lying thorough fares were impassable, owing to a number of drains being completely blocked thus throwing the water on to the thoroughfares. This morning the downpour had abated and the water got away. All the low-lying lands around Awatoio are flooded to a considerable height and the water has encroached into some of the houses on the edge of the lagoon. So far as I can hear, however, the damage done has been slight. At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural Society yesterday a letter was read from the Otago A. and P. Society suggesting a stallion tax. The suggestion was well received, and £lO was named as the sum which should be paid by horseowners. The ground being so terribly wet today it will be impossible to play the semi-final football match, Napier v. Pirates, round which considerable local interest centres. The fact is to be regretted the more that the game would have bten valuable for forms sake to several players who will be engaged in the representative match Hawke's Bay v. Otago next Thursday. Sir Seabright of the local Post Office has been selected as the officer in charge of the San Francisco mail this trip. The duties are purely nominal and the trip is usually a most enjoyable one. It is to be hoped that Mr Seabright will experience no exception to the rule. A most elaborate bracelet has been made by Mr C'la'ke. a local jeweller, to be competed for at the Hawke's Bay Plumpton Coursing Club's next meeting. A meeting of creditors in the estate of Maurice Sjheehan, baker, Waipawa, was held yesterday. The bankrupt, under examination, said he went into partnership in a bakery at "Waipawa eleven or twelve years ago with Mr Fletcher of Waipawa. Shortly afterwards he bought Fletcher out for £2OO, £9O in cash and the rest on deferred payment. He had never made a balance-sheet during the time he was in the business, which was apparently now quite on hap-hazard principles. He blamed the mismanagement of his wife for his troubles (like a certain biblical patriarch you will remember Mr Editor), and said she had failed to keep a proper account of transactions. He admitted having kept two ledgers, one of which he had " kept up his sleeve." Mrs Sbeehan was a creditor for £BO, which she had derived out of the business and placed in a building SO'iety. He further admitted that Newman, who had been working for him, and whom he owed £6O in wages, had taken a shop and that he (a bankrupt) was working for him as a journeyman baker. The creditors rather resented this arrangement under the circumstances and expressed themselves as indignant. It transpired that no response had been received to an advertisement for the purchase of book debts in the estate. Eventually Mr Cranby, one of the creditors, offered £l3O For the assets which was accepted, and the meeting adjourned.