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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3087, 19 May 1881, Page 2

As showing the mildness of the season strawberries are to be seen in Mr Prebbles' fruiterer's shop, Hastings-street. These strawberries were grown in Napier by Mr Frost. Applications for the office of Municipal Receiver of Rates are invited in our advertising columns. From all we hear there are likely to be numerous candidates for the situation. Lieut. Hermann will give his ventriloquial entertainment in the school-room, Taradale, this evening. The entertainment is a most interesting one, and is to be accompanied by a distribution of valuable gifts. The following deed has been submitted to the Trust Commissioner for consideration :—Deed conveying 423 acres, the shares of Ibakara and Ihaka Tupurupuru in the Waikareao block, to Henry Robert Russell, dated March 23. Mr G. E. Sainsbury solicitor for applicants. Captain Garrard, of the Tararua, was well known to have been a powerful swimmer, and it was thought rather strange that he had not made an attempt to save himself. When his body was washed ashore the limbs were found entangled in kelp, and it is surmised that this prevented him from reaching land. We have received a letter from a correspondent Rigning himself " W.," on the Tararua disant3r. "W. " deplores the discussion that bas arisen on Mr Sidey's sermon; he takes " Pe^can" to task, and censures Mr Sidey for answering " charges tbe Devil prefers against him." As " W." hopes there will be no more correspondence on the subject, we have thought it best to consign his effusion to the waste paper basket. Mr F. W. C. Sturm has issued a new catalogue of trees, plants, seeds, &c, contained in his nursery, and a very extensive and well-assorted stock it appears to be. In his introduction to the catalogue Mr Sturm thanks his many horticultural friends for the liberal support they have accorded him in the past, and announces very considerable additions to his stock. The catalogue is issued in pamphlet form, and is well arranged and clearly printed. A barrel of tar, that had been left for two days in the roadway of Hastings-street in front of Messrs Newton and Co.'s premises, nearly caused a serious accident last night. As Mr Manoy was riding along his horee shied at the barrel, and almost succeeded in unseating him. Sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander, and the Corporation should be the first to see that its own obstructions are removed before proceeding against others for blocking up thoroughfares. The man Robert Laird, who was recently turned out of the Hospital as a nuisance to the nurses, has been wandering about the streets for the last few days in a state of destitution, and last night slept out in the open air. He is suffering from bronchitis. Application was made on his behalf to the Charitable Aid Committee that be might be given quarters at the Old Men's Refuge, but this was refused him, and he has been taken charge of by the police as a gaol hospital patient. Our Waipawa correspondent writes us as follows:—The public library concert at Waipawa took place this evening (Wednesday), and was a thorough success in every respect. Songs were given by the following :—Mesdames Strudwiok, Ingleton, and Brandon, Miss Jones, and Messrs Shanly, Wilding, Tilley, Fraser, and Wilson. Most of the singers were encored, and all deserved the enthusiastic applause accorded to them. The accompaniments were played by Messrs Flood and C. Harding. An overture by tho same gentlemen from "11 Tancredi" was rendered in magnificent Btyle. On the whole the entertainment was the most successful we have had at Waipawa for some considerable time,

Mass will be celebrated by tho'Rev. E. Seignier next Sunday at Havelock at 11 a.m.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Kobert Laird was charged with vagrancy, and sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labor. His Worship desired it to be known that the accused was not sentenced for any crime he had committed; it appeared that he had been diHoharged from the hospital, but was in such an infirm state of health that he was quite unable to earn his living. The only course open to the police was to charge him with vagrancy, so that he might be taken care of.

The following have promised speoial prizes for the sports to be held in Clive Square on the Queen's birthday :—Messrs Neai and Olose, Large and Townley, Price and Inne«, McLeod Br -s., Garrett Bros., H. H. Wall, S. E. Cooper, H. Williams, Leonard and Co., Selig and Edwards, N. Jacobs, Manoy and Co., R. T. Smyrhe GRuddock and Fryer, Blytheand Co., Hooper, and Langley and Newman. In addition to these special prizes money has been subscribed, which will bring up the total value to about £4,5 up to the present time. No doubt much more will yet be subscribed, which will enable the committee to increase considerably the money prizes. We are in receipt of a recent copy of " The Life Boat," the journal of the British National Life Boat Institution, and although its contents are oonfined to a record of tbe work of that instil ution, and matters connected therewith, it is full of interest to the general reader. The number of instances mentioned in which human life has been saved through tha instrumentality of the boats and servants of the institution, during the closing months of last year, form a stirring and noble record. A. perusal of th 9 contents of this magazine bo soon after the fearful disaster attending the wreck of the Tararua intensifies the regret we feel that thera is not a similar institution in existance in this colony, with, boats stationed on portions of the coast so dangerous to coastiug vessels as the point on which the ill-fated Tararaa struck. On our fourth page will be found a thrilling account of the rescue, by a life boat, of a portion of the crew of the Indian Chief, which left Middlesborough for Yokohama about tbe 2nd of January last, and was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands about four days afterwards. The story is told by the mateof the ship, and is a tale of suffering and rescue such as is rarely met with. The Juvenile Pinafore Company open tomorrow night, and they are pretty certain to have a crowded house to great their first performance here. It is a fact that the "Pinafore" has never been done justioe to on the Napier stage, and we are therefore glad that the juveniles bring with them a reputation of producing this celebrated comio opera in better style than any company of adults that have performed either in Australia or New Zealand. The opening of the opera is thus described by an Tnvercargill contemporary:—The scene" on. deck" as the curtain rolled up, after a grand orchestral crash, was at once animated and realistic. Every member of the juvenile crew was apparently hard at work scrubbing, polishing, pulling, hauling, or belaying—a busier looking lot it would be difficult to find out of a beehive. It became at once evident that so far at the " business" of the opera was concerned, it would be beyond comparison brisker than that of the excellent adult company by which it was looally performed a few months ago. As the several leading personages came on it became further evident that vocally and dramatically the juveniles were to be superior in some important respects to their predecessors. Company drill of the Artillery Volunteers at the Protestant Hall this evening at 7.30. Anniversary ball of the Napier Lodge, 1.0.0. F., at the Theatre Royal, this evening. S. John's winter reading this evening at 8. Applications for the office of receiver of rates to the Corporation are invited. Tenders are again invited for the purchase of Corporation sections on the reclaimed land. Tho prizes to be given at the sports on the Queen's birthday are now notified. All debts owing to Messrs. Cornish and Co., Meanee, will be sued for after the 21st instant. A sale of Crown lands at Awatoto is notified. Mr Fuszard, of the Hawke's Bay Furnishing Warehouse, Hastings-street, has a large stock of furniture, &c. Mes3i*s Monteith and Co. will sell on Saturday at the Repository horses, produce, &c. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.