NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3266, 13 August 1895, Page 3

NAPIER NEWS.

3 (OWN OOftffESPONDENT.) * _ Yesterday. - References were made .at several; of the local chnrcnes yeßterday~to the Chines© outrages, and the “/Dead March n played in memoriam. Father Grogan preached a powerfal sermon at the Catholic Church last even ing on'the proposed union of the Churches. After explaining at length the.cause of "the separation, he referred to the question at issue. Two conditions imposed by the. English- Church were that their ministers be recognised as duly ordained, and that the vow to celibacy be waived-. Those, however, ceuld uot be accepted by the Catholics, and until the members of the English Church were prepared to abandon those conditions, the union conld not take place. -John McGninpess, an employe -.of Mr W. B. Blythe, was this morning charged before Mr Turnbull, 8.M., with the theft of certain articles of clothing of the value of £4 108. From the evidence it appeared (hat the accused had only held his situa tion for a fortnight, having obtained it by - means of excellent.. testimonials. Through some failing, however, be* abused his new trust, and at once loßt his position and .character. He was remanded for a week to enable the Probation Officer to report. Two eeafiaen belonging to the schooner Rio, named Frank Neilson and William Qarndgan, appeared tp answer- a ohargeof stealing two overcoats from the Clarendon Hotel. The robbery was most barefaced. Neilson walked into the .hotel, took a coat from a the passage and brohght it out to his mate. He then returned for another for himself, and the pair then took a bus and drove to the Spit. The telephone was brought into use with the result that the perpetrators of the theft were-in ousfcody within half an hour They were remanded till to-morrow, when {hey will pleacLguilty. At the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board to-day the honorarium of Mr S. Johnson, Almoner for the Waipawa District, was increased from £25 to £SO per annum. His report showed that during-the. month a total of 248 rations had been issued by'him. During the same period 160 rations were issued in Napier to 40 applicants. A discussion .on. the treatment of cancer patients took place at the Hospital Board meeting, .this afternoon, consequent on some’remarks appearing in the Telegraph. In the article in question it was stated that three patients suffering from cancer were being treated in the Refuge, and this led Mr Williams to ask Dr Sweet as to the-practice prevailing in other colonies. The reply was that in New South Wales cancer patients were always sent to an institution for incurables, and were never treated at -the hospital unless an operation wbuld be beneficial and was necessary.

The tJ.SS. Co’s Flora had a tripp of 28 hdUts up ffoni Wellington,' arriving in the roadstead at 10 p.m. on Saturday. She met the. full force of the gale, and it took her thirteen hours to round Cape Palliser/ _ The meetings-of-the Rugby Union aro becoming interesting. To night eighteen delegatee ‘•atfseinbled for the purpose of elCfcting a successor to Mr Sainsbuiy, who .resigned his position on the selection committee, on account of the strictures passed upon the committee as a whole. Messrs Macfarlane andTooby, two members of the Caledonian club were nominrted, and the meeting divided with the result.that e voting was equal. Mr Sainsbury refused to give hin casting vote and vacated in favor of Dr Bernau (who had already voted-one way), and a number of delegates left the Toom in protest. The supporters of Macfsrlaue remained and he was cfuly elected. •••••- -