NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5085, 19 March 1907, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

(Own Correspondent) Napier, YesterdijH It is reported that jewellery toH value of £IOO was stolen from i Jdl room at the Provincial Hotel 12 and 2 p.m. one day Ust week. mediately the theft was discovered®} formation was given to the police, have made careful investigation, eveflj searching the property of all Hi boarders, but no trace of the articles has been found. The was the property of Miss daughter of the licensee. Steady rain has fallen since o’c'ock last night, and shows do abatement. If it oontinues it the grape crop, the season for in full swing. Fire gutted a six • roomed I owned and occupied by Mr M. CfutpMl in Carlyle-street on Saturday There was no one in the house | time, all the family had gone The building was insured for £2so®} * the furniture for £2OO, in the Lojfcl and Lancashire office. ) What are likely to prove the ) games in the First Grade Cricket pionship were commenced on j Scinde B, in the match against 4 A, were all disposed of for 43, batsman getting into double y The A’s responded with 165, of ! Fulton made 60 by attractive criJH 3 In their second innings the B’b hkvtflf 1 wickets down for 67.—1 n the Uiifflß Hastings match the former , and the latter have two wickets dH for 55.

Shooting in a match on the Rifle Club’s range, on Saturday, a®> Balfour, from scratch, rang on score of 100—32 at 200yds, 34 at and 34 at 600yds. The death of the late Yen. Williams was the subject of m&Dy ences in the local churches At the Napier Cathedral the Canon Mayne at both services tou|H upon the loss the Churoh had through the death of the late ifl® deacon, and referred to the character and sturdy faith that < his long aud valuable life. Tbs iiflP were specially selected for the and the “ Dead March ” was playecßj! At St. Augustine’s the Rev cHK Tuke at both servioes reviewed tbBB work of the late Arohdeaoon. At Trinity Methodist Churob ®r oongregation passed a silent volHg oondolenee with the bereaved famiiflß