NAPIER NEWS,

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5120, 13 June 1907, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS,

[Own Correspondent.]

Napier, Yesterday.

The Chamber of Commerce at their quarterly meeting to-day resolved to request tho members for the district to urge on tho Government the need for providing telephonic communication between Napier and Daunevirko. The cost of a new set of wires is the main argu merit of the Department agaiust the innovation.

The following is a list of the criminal casos so far sot down for hearing at the Supremo Court session opening on the 24th inst Edward Pointon, theft, Napier; John Smith and James Francis Maxwell, breaking and entering at Mohaka with intent to commit a crime; William Charles Williams, alias George Harper, false pretences, Napier; Joseph Marten, stealing horse, saddle and bridle, Nuhaka; Thomas Perry Peddle, assault, Pohu*; William Arthur Brock and Charles John Bartlett, breaking, ertering and theft, Port Ahuriri; Hugh bpiors and John Thompson, attempting to steal a watch and chain, Napier ; Earl Roberts, Charles Kluver, Harry Allison and Wiiliam Edward Robinson, carnally knowing a female under 15 years of ago at Hastings; David Charles Thorley, unlawfully wounding with intent, causing actual bodily harm, Hastings ; Henry Arrow, plaoing a spring gun in his garden at Waipawa with intent to inflict serious bodily harm on any person coming in contact therewith.

The kiddies at the Napier Main School yesterday raisod £9 4s lid towards Mr C. A. Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund. A most interesting lecture on “The climate of Napier as compared with those of the Old World health resorts” wa3 given by Dr Kennedy at tho Athenaeum Hall. The doctor, who fills the position of Government meteorologist in this district, is an enthusiast in the

science, nnd the budget of very valuAi r formation contained in bis mJiir, mu"t have entailed muoh burning 0 J i? midnight oil. The leeturer prored oo* elusively, by authenticated figurei J, diagrams, that the climate of N, * ooraparee more than favourably those of the much-boomed Nice, y,.,. cia, Naplee and other well known in the Northern Ifemi.phero, l n |, r T Napier has in its climate an asset tt value of whioh is beyond calculation j* E. B. d. Recognising that Dr Kennedy leo ure will furnish a capital advsrii, moot for the town the Mayor inteodaT have it printed in pamphlet form distributed broadcast. As a secondary, but no Use j, teresting subjeot, Dr. Kenned, ?' scribed the new observatory now ing completion at Maanee and tk handsome 9 inch refractor reoatt] received. It says muoh for tho Jj nnd enthusiasm of tha rev. g tot | man when he has been able to oolW tho funds for this work, with the ex« tion of about £2OO, without one pu u, appeal.

The adjourned inquest on the bed of Alice Caroline Simpson, a y;.,,,' married woman who died reoently , held yesterday afternoon, but failed !* throw muoh light on the mystery, j. 0 report of the Government Analyst it,J that he bad found traces of a stroi blistering Bubstance, whioh was J email for positive identification, bin from its marked blistering properties it was probably cantharidin. Further deuce taken foiled to clear up tk myßtery aa to the presence of the ini' ant in the body and the jury returned a verdict that death was due to inljw, motion of the stomach, accelerated i, some irritant, but how euch irriJ was obtained there was no evidoDosi, shew. [By Telegraph.] Napier, This day MoLaohlan has accepted Day’s 1,.,,, challenge to run 130,175, and 300 yards at Auckland, for £6O a-aide, and be a forwarding his deposit of £25.