NAPIER NEWS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5249, 21 April 1908, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

[Own Correspondent.] Napier, Yesterday

Easter has well maintained ita reputetion for the oapriciousneai of its weather. Good Friday was beautifully fine but a ohange came o’er the soena about midday on Saturday, and the Carnival aports were got off under conditiona the reverse of enjoyable, while the football match Wangauui Pirates v. Ahuriri (won by the former) was played in semi-dark-ness. Yesterday rain teemed down in a fashion that boded ill Tor Easter Monday arrangements. The outlook this morning was, however, a trifle brighter, aud a big crowd left by the early traiui to attend the Waipukurau raoes. In the sodden state of the Recreation Ground the Carnival Committee daemsd it advisable to postpone the children's sports indefinitely, while the fireworks display which was to have taken plaos this evening, was postponed till to-mor-row night.

There will probably be a contest for the Mayoralty, it being understood tbit Mr W. J. M'Grath, will run Mr J. Vigor Brown for the seat. At a meeting of the W.O.T.U. a resolution was passed regretting that the British Government have not made mors effort to help China to throw off the slavery of the opium traffic.

The Hawks’s Bay Highland Pip# Band have deoided to enter for the proposed contest to be held at Wangauui next year.