The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1881.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3081, 12 May 1881, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1881.

Mass will be celebrated by the Rev. E, Reignier in Clive next Sunday at 11 a.m.

We are glad to hear that young Mr Ingpen has been reinstated in his appointment at the Napier railway station from which he had been most arbitrarily dismissed by Mr W. J. Miller, the late manager. It is said that the Freemasons of Hawke's Bay propose celebrating the Festival of St. John by a joint lodge ball at the Theatre Royal, on or about June 24. The last ball of the kind was, we think, four years ago, which was a grand success. Nearly all the benefit that was derived by the country from the late rain was destroyed by the parching gale on Tuesday. Hills that on Monday had put on a bright mantel of green were on Wednesday morning looking destitute of verdure. Mr H. Hill, Inspector of Schools returned unexpectedly to town this morning from Poverty Bay. He left Gisborne on horseback on Tuesday morning, reached Wairoa that night and arriving at Mohaka yesterday at noon, came on to Napier in the j steamer Maori. Notwithstanding that at the commencement of the season birds were reported to be plentiful, no big bags have yet been made. The fact is pheasants are by no means plentiful in the open country, and many weary miles have to be gone over before a shot can be had. Our Waipawa correspondent telegraphs as follows :—ln the Magistrate's Court today, before A. St. Clair Inglis, Esq., J.P., James Woodward, a publican, was charged by the police with lunacy, and was remanded for eight days, to Napier. It appears that Woodward has been drinking hard lately, and, in consequence, is supposed to be suffering from delirium. It is said that Mr W. J. Miller, the late railway traffic manager, received at his notice of suspension an order to proceed to Wellington, where an enquiry would be held into certain charges brought against him with respect to his management. Mr Miller went on board the steamer ostensibly to go to Wellington, but as ho never reported himself there bo the department it is presumed he proceeded straight to Melbourne. We (Wairoa Guardian) are glad to hear the inland road to Poverty Bay is to have something done to it at last, and not before its time. Mr G. J. Winter, the Cook County Engineer, came through as far as Te Reinga a short time ago, to inspect the portion of the road in Cook County. The part between Whenuakura and Te Reinga has long been in a dangerous state, and if left a little longer would seen have become impassable. The bridge at the Reinga across the Kaitarahae Creek is also in rather a dilapidated condition, the handrails being broken down in several places. Ahipene Tamaiti Mate, of Wairoa, is a very careful man. He is at present on a visit to the Thames. Before leaving he packed up everything of his own (and perhaps a little belonging to others) and placed them carefully in his whata, or storehouse. By some mysterious means this whata has been burnt to the ground, and Ahipene is as nearly ruined as a Maori can be. The fire is blamed either on " Robert the Devil or old Pakeha. Now Ahipene is a Scripture reader, and his father ha 3 the credit of being a very strong wizard; between the two of them it will be hard if the culprit is not discovered. A circular has been issued from the Under-Secretary's office to heads of departments by which it appears that Ministers in Cabinet assembled have resolved to establish a sort of " stock book " with regard to Civil Servants. Our bucolic Government have determined to have a strict register kept by all heads of departments of public servant?, names, ages, " brands, " etc., which is also to combine a sort of police record of illnesses, absence from office, and the like. Fancy how hard worked must Ministers be when they can solemnly deliberate at a Cabinet meeting upon a petty piece of nonsense such as the above. The Nuhaka natives have spread a report that Henare Tomoana did not coincide with Fenata Kawepo and Paora Kaiwhata in giving the Ohoho case against them. This report has so disturbed the Whakaki and Kahu natives that quite a number arrived this morning per s.s. Result in order to enquire from Tomoana as to its truth or otherwise. They express themselves as being quite able to wipe out the Nuhaka men altogether, and as the Nuhaka men consider that they are the stronger party the simplest and most expeditious way of settling the affair would be to let them have their own way in the matter. Quite a scare was caused at Kopua yesterday by the supposed loss of Mr John Knight. Mr Knight on Tuesday, having borrowed a gun, went into the bush to have some pigeon shooting, saying he would be back in time to catch the afternoon train. Night came and he did not return. On Wednesday search parties, both European and Maori, turned out, firing guns, &c., but no success was met with. A gentleman from Kopua by train yesterday afternoon learned on his arrival at Takapau that Mr Knight had spent the previous evening there, and had not been lost at all. A telegram was at once sent to Kopua, which relieved the people there of a most painful impression.