NAPIER NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 20 August 1913, Page 9

NAPIER NOTES.

(By Teleirraph.—Special OorTeepondent.) Napier, August 19.

At yesterday's meeting of the Napier Harbour Board, notice was given to move at the next, meoting of the board to consider a scheme enabling the public to lend the lioard small sums of money to tho 'total of .£SOOO or JG6OOO.

A man named William Taylor Devlin, who had become quite a well-known figure at tho Napier Magistrate's Court, appeared again yesterday to answer a fifth charge of insobriety during tho last six months, and was sent to Roto Koa for a term of twelve months.

In the final for the Rugby football schoolboys' championship, played yesterday, Napier Main School defeated High School by 11 to nil. Arthur Clark, a High School old boy, Who went to Edinburgh University abouit three years ago to study medicine, lias passed his third year's examination, obtaining honours in several subjects. An agitation is on foot in Hastings to get a public hospital established there. A four-roomeil cottage at Napier South, occupied by Mr. "Sandy" Campbell, was totally destroyed by liro at 8.30 last night. Tho occupior's war medals and kilts were tho only things saved. During the past month tho Harbour Board have used gelignite at the entrance to tho harbour to facilitate dredging experiments, and have been so successful that tho practice is to be continued.