NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5119, 11 June 1907, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

[Own Correspondent.] Napier, Yesterday.

9he Charitable Aid Board to-day received a cheque for £IOO from Mr G. P. Donnelly towards tho cost of establishing a library at the Parke Island Home. Mr Donnelly promised this donation at tho opening of the Home. The police of late have manifested some vigilance in the detection of lampless cyclists, with the result that a batch of seven offenders made their bow at Court to-day and were mulct in a penalty of 2s 6d and costs.

It is Etated that the Hawke’s Bay Laundry Co. has closed down temporarily, and negotiations are on foot for tho sale of the business as a geing concern to a private person. We hear people rave about the “ yellow agony,” yet these same individuals have no compunction about sending their washing to a Chinese laundry or buying their fruit from Celestials.

A shop at Taradale owned and occupied by Mr Jeffaries was totally destroyed by fire about 7 o’clock last evening. There was no insurance. Au exceptionally severe frost was experienced here last night, and there is another one to-night. A few such visi tations will do the world of good in ridding the ground of garden pests, and inoidontully perhaps settle the fruit fly scare.