NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 4134, 27 November 1900, Page 3

NAPIER NEWS.

[Own Correspondent.] Napier, Yesterday. AfUr a six months’ tour through America, France, England and Australia, Superintendent Gilberd, of the Fire Brigade, returned to Napier by the s.s. Moura well satisfied with his trip, and looking in the best of health. He will, in due course, forward a report to the Government as to the means and methods of fire extinction in use elsewhere, and the knowledge which he has acquired during his travels will no doubt prove of very great value. to the local brigade. Trooper Heiftord, who returned from South Africa on Friday evening, was to-night the guest of the Rifles, his old company, at a social gathering at the Criterion Hotel. During the course of the evening he was presented with a gold medal, suitably inscribed, as a token of the appreciation in which he is held by the corps. The gathering was of an extremely enjoyable nature. The news of the death of Mrs Samuel Williams, wife of the Ven. Archdeacon Williams, was received here with feelings of the deepest and most sincere regret. The old lady was well liked by those whose pleasure it had been to meet her, and the suddenness of her death came as a very severe blow to her relatives and intimate friends. Reference was made to the sad event at the Cathedral service last evening, and the “ Dead March ” from “ Saul ” was played on the organ. Saturday’s senior cricket was not productive of anything phenomenal. In the unfinished match, United A v. United B. the latter resuming their second innings, carried their score to 157. Requiring 127 to win the A team went in and when play ceased had lost 5 wickets for 76, so that the game stands at a very interesting stage.—ln the Soinde-County match the former team carried their unfinished score to 110, giving them a lead of 25 on their opponents. County in their second

effort have made 105 for the loss of 6 wickets. Very good all round entries have been received by the Wanderers’ Bicycle Club for their sports on Wednesday week, and the meeting promises to be one of the moat successful held here for some years. There was a brisk demand for cattle at Messrs Williams and Kettle’s sale today. Prices ruled high. A consignment of no lass that five tons of mutton birds arrived at the Christchurch railway station on Tuesday from Riverton, having come direct from the mutton-bird islands. The person to whom they wore consigned was a young lady, who was at her wits’ end to know what to do with them. In despair she appealed to the railway officials, who promptly advised her to sell them, and she decided to take the advice. These birds, which sell at about 9d per pair, are said by a Christchurch paper to be considered by some persons preferable to spring chicken.