NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5246, 14 April 1908, Page 3

NAPIER NEWS.

[Own Correspondent.] Napier, Yesterday Ifb oa*® °* Nurte Brown ooenpied a ■ prominent placs at to day’* moet0{ tbe Hospital Tru»t«ev The Slnosn, Mr Cranby, reported tli.it the KJltioD of Nurse Brown’s services not be conducive to harmoDy at HIT institution— either the matron or B! nurse would have to go. He theronaked Nurse Brown to take thr«e Hootbi’ leave of absence on full [ ay, .BJiftbe Board did not agree to pay j, 0 would pay it himself. Nurse would not agree to this course K|bs consulted Messrs Cresswell and who wrote to him setting out Bourse's logal position. He referred W | et { er to Messrs Saiuebury, Logan Willi* mß > who advised that under W 24 of tbe Hospital it was quite BLnstsnt for the Board, if they thought onrse should bo dismissed, to give Bt month’s notice. Ho thought they B, D ld abide by this advice and he Nurse Brown be given Bi month’s notice, as from May Ist.” BL r »oras ducussion the motion was Bdsd by five to two. Bit »Urgoly ®ttended meeting held at B Moore’s, it was decided to form a Btcich Club in Napier. Bne railway line in the viciuity of road was the scene of a Bckiog accident on Saturday night. B, 10.45 p.rn. train from town to the Brt ran into our 1 101,808 straying on B line. Two were butchered to such BexteDt that they had to be shot, a Brd " ss badly gashed but there are Bdm that it will recover, while the Brtb was drowned in crossing the Br. The horsos wore the property of who arn doing road contracting Brkon the Wharo-o maraenui reserve, m (heir loss will be a heavy one. Bi young man naraod Alfred Harrison Bi to-day fined £lO for using obscene Bgnaga to his father, and on a charge B— lilting liia parent was bound over Bkwp the peace. Bin elderly man named William Magill Bi to-day committed for trial on a Brgs of indscoutly assaulting a male. evidence was of a revolting character. K very pleasing statement was proBted at to-day’s meeting of the Btke’s Bay County Council by tho Birman. This showed that the year Bcommeucod with a debit of £IO,OOB B sd, and rates wore levied with the Kct of reducing this balance at the ■ of the year by £OOOO, in addition to all unfinished works. The Hc( limed at has been more than Bcbed, for at tho end of the year which on March 81st last, tho account of being in debit in the sum of it in credit in the sum of lGs 2d, and as all works that on baud have been completed ■ the liabilities tc he carried foiwurd coming year are Ibsb than the as- ■ the position is a good one. NaturB thi chairman was warmly congratuHd at the very satisfactory position and on the motion of Mr >n a hearty vote of thanks waß Mr Crosse. B'riok Oulton, aged 25, met his death tragic manner yesterday afternoon. Htb two others he had been shooting on the Watchman, an island in inner harbour. When descending hill to return to his boat he slipped the trigger of hia gun, the blowing off tho top of his head. inquest was held this afternoon, Hin i verdict of “accidentally killed” returned. District Shield competed for by the local bowling clubs has Hi year been won by the Bluff Hill third with 5, and Groeufourth with 4.