NAPIER.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 3

NAPIER.

/|2y Telegraph.-—Own Correspondent.) Friday. 8.30 p.m. News has been received that Mr Frank Glover, an old Napier boy, who joined Thornevcroft’s Horse, in toouth Africa, has been mentioned in Lord Roberts’s despatches. Another Napier trooper, Mr A. W. Thomson, formerly third master at the Napier High School, has been promoted to be Aoting-Sergeant-Major in a Victorian Contingent, and is going up for a commission. A fire occurred at Maharahara about, two o’clock this morning, when a five" roomed house belonging to Mr A. G. Monk was totally destroyed. Mr Monk was away on some land h© has at Ngapaeruru at the time, and Mrs Monk, with three children, were alone,in the house. In saving the children Mrs Monk got severely burned.The death i s reported from Gwolo Hospital. Rhodesia, of Mr F. R. Duncan, brother to Mr Russell Duncan. He was some years ago a surveyor in Na* Pl The country settlers ara dissatisfied with their representation on the Napier Harbour Board, and the member, tor the several electorates of Napier,Hawke s Bav and Waipawa are to be reouestccl to ask the Government to so amend the constitution of the Board that the representation will be more in proportion to the ratable values of the different parts of the district, regard being had to the fact that Napier properties pay doub.e the rate in the £1 to that paid by country properties.