NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 128, 23 September 1896, Page 2

NAPIER NOTES.

[Fbom Our Own Correspondent.] Napier, September 22, Louisa Cameron alias Mitchell was sentenced to four months imprisonment in gaol for being a vagrant. She had just finished a sentence and said she had looked for work and could not "find any. The police said she had been loitering about the streets. The senttnce would seem to have been an excessive one, and "the necessity for gaoling a woman who has just finished a sentence without giving her a chance to turn over a new leaf is an undoubted weakness of the system. During the proceedings of the Diocesan Synod yesterday an opportunity was taken by the Rev Mr Eccles, of Woodville, to present Archbishop Williams and the Rev Dean Hovell with life-size paintings of themselves from the brash of Herr Lindauer, of Woodville. By request of the recipients the pictures will be hung in the " Synod Hall of the Diocese. Mr Paterson, a visitor from Kansas, discoursed on Prohibition in the Methodist schoolroom last night, and stated most emphatically that no law, was more vigorously enforced and observed than was the prohibition of liquor measure of Kansas. At the Diocesan Synod yesterday, the Rev. J. Hobbs moved, " That his Lordship the Bishop be respectfully requested to select the qualities of wine for use in the administration of the Holy Communion throughout the diocese." A lively discussion ensued, and the motion was lost by a large majority. Rev. J. Hobbs also moved that a day be set apart for sermons on " Gambling " through the diocese. His own parish at Hastings was turned into a pandemonum by reason of this vice at certain seasons of the year. Several other persons having spoken the resolution was carred unanimously. As a result of a motion by Rev. T. I. Wills it was resolved that this Synod re-affirms that the liquor traffic ought to be abolished by the vote of the people.