NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 119, 12 September 1896, Page 3

NAPIER NOTES.

[Fnou Our O vx Correspondent.] Napier, September I'2. The Rugby Union ball last night was a decorous and somewhat sombre affair, claw-hammers boing in the ascendant, though some of the dresses worn by the ladies were very ta- teful and pretty. Several officers of 11.M.5. Ringdove were present, and seemed to be having a jolly good time of it. A feature cf the gathering was the presence of a number of Maori guests attiw«i principally in native costume. Napier cyclists are going to open their season next Saturday with a grand parade, and a dash into the country in which it is expected upwards of a hundred cyclists will take part. The riders will start from the band rotunda at 2.80 and after a parade through the principal streets will make Awato:o, branching off to Meauee, where a halt will be made for afternoon tea provided by the "Wanderers C'lub, and will then go on through Taradale and return to the starting point about five in the evening—a veryagreeable little programme. It is unlikely that the Junior Club orators will accept the challenge of their Hastings friends to debate Prohibition as suggested. It is thought that some more profitable subject could easily be chosen. Constable Routledge of Taradale effected a clever capture in Napier yesterday. The man Clay sentenced in his absence, on summons, to fourteen days' imprisonment by the Hastings Bench was promenading one of the Napier streets as large as life when Routledge " spotted" him. He saw the constable and bolted, but could not get away from the Taradale guardian. He was turned once, wrenched three times, and then secured, and taken to the lockup. The Napier horses are in good fettle just now judging by 1 the manner in which they start off on the slightest provocation and strike out for the far horizon. I told you yesterday about the Mayor's smash up. Well, on the same day Mr W. Profitt, the wellknown bookmaker, had a smash-up in which he was thrown out and badly knocked about, the wheel of his buggy passing over his body, and yesterday Mrs (Dr.) Moore had a similar experience. The horse which she was driving shed his winkers and then set out for home, but coming into contact with a tree the buggy was broken in half and Mrs Moore was thrown out, but happily uninjured.