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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3064, 22 April 1881, Page 2

We have to apologise for the omission of nearly two columns of advertisements from our last ißsue, a course rendered unavoidable by a pressure of important intelligence and late advertisements. In to-day's paper tbe business notices of Mr M. R. Miller, Mr T. K. Newton, and others, which usually appear in our third page, will be found in the fourth page.

In reference to the paragraph in last night's issue concerning the delay in discharging the Ringarooma's cargo, we are requested to state that the delay was unavoidable. Although the steamer arrived in the roadstead early on Saturday, the lighters were not finished loading until 3 p.m., an hour at which it was too late to discharge that day. Monday was a public holiday; Tuesday was wet, and in the interests of consignees the goods were kept in the lighters. Had there been any sort of covered wharf or shed provided by the Harbor Board there would have been no delay through rain. Receiving sheds are available for unloading lighters, &c, at every other port in the colony, but here nothing is done by the Board for the accommodation of imported free goods.

A very pleasant gathering took place last night at the Masonic Hotel, the occasion being a supper given by the officers of the Volunteer Fire Police to the members of the company and a few others. Amongst the guests were His Worship the Mayor, Chief Fire Inspector Kemsley, Superintendent Spence, N.F.8., and Superintendent Wilkie, S.F.B. An excellent supper was provided, to which every justice having been done, Captain Balfour proposed the usual loyal toast. Lieutenant Wilson, who occupied the vice-chair, proposed the toast of the " Mayor and Corporation." His Worship, in responding, briefly referred to the street improvements that had been effected within the last few years, and be then proposed the toast of the « Napier Volunteer Fire Police." This was suitably acknowledged by Captain Balfour, who afterwards ca led upon the company to drink "health, wealth, and prosperity to their late secretary, Mr Howard, who was about to leave this colony for Fiji. Captain Balfour testified to the services rendered by Mr Howard and attributed to them the successful footing upon which the Volunteer Fire Police then stood. Mr Howard having responded, the following toasts were given in rapid succession —"The Fire Brigades ;" " The Chief Fire' Inspector ;" "The Insurance Companies ;" " The Ladies;" "The Press;' « Our Host and Hostess." Several songs were sung during the evening, and the company separated at 11.30 p.m., well pleased with what had been a most successful and agreeable party.

Whitelaw has been dismissed from the Civil Service of the colony, and applications are called far a resident medical superintendent for the Wellington Asylum.

Mass will be 6t>lebrated by the Rev. E. Rsiginer next Sunday at Havelook at 11 a.m.

The Presbytery of Hawke's Bay h?_ called the Rev. William Sheriff, M.A., tf Blenheim, to the pastoral charge of the parish of Waipukurau, in the room of tie Rev. R. Fraser, resigned.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this . morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Efl_., ' R.M., John Howard was charged with being drunk, and fined 6s and costs, or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labour.

In consequenoe of the length of our report of Mr Orinond'B speech we have been obliged to cut down to the smallest limits our report of the supper given by the officers of the Napier Volunteer Fire Police to the members of the company.

In the Wairarapa the root-cropß have suffered severely from the long drought. Ifc is said that in some oases the potato crop will hardly equal the seed sown, and the turnips have " been devoured by inseots which have been unusually numerous this year.

The first train to town this morning broke down between the Te Aute and Paki Paki stations. One of the engine springs had broken, and a delay of fifteen or twenty minutes occurred before the engine could be fixed up to proceed as far as Paki Paki. The train was forty minutes late in arriving at Napier.

The starting of evening newspapers in New Zealand does not appear to be a very safe or profitable means of investing one'g money at the present time. We notioe that a meeting of the shareholders in the Telegraph, an evening paper started at Chnstchurch some months ago, is oonvened r for the purpose of considering a resolution to wind up the company and appoint a liquidator.

The Treasurer's estimate for the Hallway Department for the past financial year was £950,000, expenditure £564,000. Tbe N.Z. Times learns that these estimates will not be sustained, but, so far as actual profit is concerned, the result will not he far out; for although the receipts will fall short so will the expenditure, thanks to the savings and economies that have been effected, and hence the difference between the profit estimated and the profit realised, will be trifling.

The stirring incidents so vividly depicted in the Diorama of the Amerioan War, now beinsr exhibited at the Theatre Royal, will never loee their interest. Laßt night there was a crowded house, and the large audience repeatedly Bhowed their appreciation of the capital entertainment provided. Lieut. Herman ventriloquism was as amnsing and mirth-provoking as ever. A more than usually liberal distribution of gifts formed* * a great feature of the evening; the ohief prize, a suite of furniture, fell to the lot of Mrs Binnie, and a tea and coffee servioe to Master Thomas Arnold. A suite of furniture will be the ohief prize again this evening. The passengers on the sailing vessel! which have come from the Sandwich Islands recently communicate the intelligence that Honolulu is now in a terrible oondition. A short time ago the brig Cassandra in that port from Canton with 600 Chinamen on board, and a liberal supply of smallpox patients. The disease spread rapidly, and now the port is pest-ridden. The authorities are using extraordinary precautions to prevent the further spreading of the disease, but the sanitary oondition of the city is such as to render the taßk an extremely difficult one, and the white residents are leaving as rapidly as they can secure accommodation. There is not a sewer in Honolulu, and it is said that there are hundreds of vaults which have not been cleaned for 20 years or more. All infeoted houses are quarantined, so that persona cannot pass in or out, but all the roads and paths leading out of the city are also olosely guarded, so that no one can leave for the interior or enter from the rural dietriots, Communication between one island' and another in the group is also strictly prohibited. The mail steamers will not take anything on board except the mails, remaining outside the reef to receive ; them. The yellow flag is a common feature in every part of the city. Newly-infected houses are turning up every day. It is said that the arrivals of Mongolians at the islands are so numerous that in a few years - they will outnumber the native population. The native women are being appropriated by the Chinamen. Many of the sugar plantations are heavily mortgaged, and some of them, it is believed, will have to go to the wall. Chinese are already maturing plans for the purchase of these estates, and a Chinese landed proprietary is not an unlikely possibility of the future.

The diorama of the American war at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. Mrs Neill's popular concert at St. John'a school-room to-night at 8. Mr J. T. Cassin advertises a larg<» ■ assortment of crockery, glassware, &0., a_Q__j groceries. Messrs Dye Bros, have just landed choice Indian teas. Proofs of debt in the estate of P. W. C. Sturm to be sent in to Mr Henry Lascelles by the 28th instant, The Banks will be closed to-morrow. Messrs Monteith and Co.'s sale of horses, &c, to-morrow at 1.30 p.m. Adjourned meeting of Gymnasium Club at Protestant Hall this evening. Messrs Price and Innes advertise a list of their gifts for distribution on the 31st of December next. . .-• "* Messrs Banner and Liddle will sell on Monday next furniture, _c. : Messrs Wright and Co. have just opened 22 cases of Singers' sewing machines. Messrs Combs and Co. have received an* other shipment of new goods. Tenders wanted for painting and paperhanging. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.