NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5118, 8 June 1907, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

[Own Correspondent] Hapikb, Y.it.rd,, If we are to judge from the re PoB tho Queen Violoria Fuod oommitt* lei.ted at the anoual meeting ; j fi organisation this afternoon, th. n UB L of individuals iu this part of the • who have Open as day for melting charity, is rather limited. The Quesn Vu, Fund is used exclusively for chariu! pin poses, to relieve the neces.itjj those who have fallen on evil time.. whose pride trill not allow them to. plicate the Charitable Aid Board ? report Bet forth that during the * £156 5s had been disbursed in an inoreaso of about £3O on lut , sura. On the other hand the volunt rubscriptione fell from £sl to £2S r which meant a corresponding deorJ in tho Government subsidy, aDd t year was ended with a balano. , t o of £22 18s 7d as against £l3O 17, , twelve months previously. In no , the adoption of the report and b«|j sheet, Canon Mayne said it was ead a! mg, and more so when one reflooteda the past year had been one of the D prosperous on reoord. He hoped a next year *8 report would »howadif m state of things. The Mayor cordh joined in this hope and suggeitsd, holding of an entertaiument to u tho objects of the fund more on. nently before the public. Mrs Cole, was re-elected president, Mrs J l# t secretary, and Miss Sidey treasurer A brighter picture than that set m the above paragraph is furnished tbo way iu which the publio haverespo. ed to the Telegraph’s appeal on beh.ll 0. Arthur Pearson’s Fresh Air ft, designed to give London slum child, a day iu tbo oouutry. Already Dw £BO has been subscribed iu small a big help being given last night hi entertainment promoted by the g w O. Lawry, at which the oolleotiontom £8 3s. It is expeoted that the fund, cap the century ere the dojis, 4 arrives. - B A hardened crimioal, by name M'Ouskor, alias M'Ciuakey, wai up ” to-day for nine months for M mitting a grossly indecent aot and! assaulting a little girl. There are three nomiuationi forg vacant seat on the Harbour Boitf, Messrs W. J. MGrath, F. G. Smith,* Capt. Tonkin. T-ho two last-named k split the mercantile and Bbipping« and Mr M'Grath should get in beta them. (By Telegraph) Napikb, This MoLnchlan has challenged Dij run at Napitr, within 20 days, fond wager of £SO and a purse of £75, * the distances of 100, 130, and2ooyn The Wharf Labourers’ Union wok to support Mr Slater’s nomination the workers’ representative on the Ai tratiou Court. Twenty-four oases are set dow| hearing at the Arbitration Court, Nap