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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3136, 16 July 1881, Page 2

There was a clean sheet at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

The quarterly sittings of the District Court at Gisborne will commence on Monday.

The district schools under the Hawke's Bay Education Board opnn on Monday next. The Naoier Trust Boys' School also opens on that day.

What next? It is currently reported that Mr Wilding will oppose Mr Ormond for the representation of the Clive district at the next elections.

In consequence of the rain the proposed football match on Clive Square did not take place to-day. It is to be hoped that an opportunity will be taken to let the team chosen to play at Waipawa next Saturday have a thoroughly good practice together on some afternoon during next week.

By the mail from Wellington we have resolved No. 8 of Hansard, containing the proceedings of the General Assembly to the 7th instant Considering the press of work thrown upon the Government printing office during the session, Mr Didsbury, the Government printer, must be complimented upon the expedition shown in the issue of Hansard.

It will be seen that the chain which fenced in the northern portion of C live Square has been removed for the convenience of the footballers. The post and chain fence was put up by the old Napier Cricket Club, and has up to the present time restrained foot passengers from making a broad track across the square, which in damp weather would probably have become a muddy road, and spoilt that portion of the square for the purposes of cricket practice or football. It is to be hoped that the Corporation will now see their way to put up a top rail sufficiently high as not to interfere seriously with the footballers, but which will have the effect of keeping the Btream of foot crossing the square.

The Napier district infant school, in Clive Squase, that has just been completed by the contractor, Mr J. Renouf, at a cost of over £1100, is a commodious building, measuring 76 feet by 50 feet. It is entered by a lobby having a double entrance, fitted with hooks for the children's hats and bonnets. To the right there is a door leading into the main schoolroom, 54 feet by 24 feet, having desks and forms for the accommodation of ninety-six scholars. This room is subdivided into three compartments by curtains hanging from iron rods extending from the wall plates. The other side of the building is occupied by two class-rooms, the united dimensions of which are equal to the extent of the main room. The ceilings of the several rooms are lofty, and are in panel, with distempered borders. The whole building is of provincial grown timber; the desks, forms, and doors being of polished ritnu. The work reflects much credit on the contractor, who seems to have taken every pains to afford the highest satisfaction. The building was designed by arid erected under the supervision of the architect to the Education Board, Mr W. A. Dugleby.

It is not pleasant to know that builders in Napier can obtain sawn timber cheaper from Manawatu than they can from tbe Seventy-mile Bush. Mr T. Peddie, who is abuut to build a handsome hotel on the site of the Clarendon, is now visiting the Manawatu district, and in one of the papers published at Palmerston we notice his advertisement inviting tenders for the supply of 100,000 feet of building timber. In a letter to a friend in Napier, Mr Peddie says that, while timber is cheaper at the mills than at Hawke's Bay, the cost of railway freight to Eoxton, and shipping, and all other charges from there to Napier, do not come higher than the railway carriage from the Seventy-mile Bush into town. Account for it as we may, there stands the fact that timber can be taken by rail some twenty miles, shipped, and after a voyage of 300 miles, landed here at a lower rate than what timber can be brought from within our own district by train the comparatively short distance of sixty miles. There is something radically wrong in our railway freights when this is the case, and it exposes a state of things that, did the railways belong to a private company, would not be allowed to exist a day after such a blunder was discovered.

It will be seen from the English cablegrams that the House of Commons has reached the consideration of clause 26 in the Irißh Land Bill. This clause is for the purpose of promoting emigration to Canada and other British colonies, and has been condemned by both the Press and the Priesthood in Ireland. The clause reads as follows:—"The Land Commission may from time to time, with the concurrence of the Treasury, enter into agreements with any person or body of persons having authority to contract on behalf of the Dominion of Canada, or of any province thereof, or on behalf of any British colony or dependency, or any State or other district in such dominion, province, colony, or dependency, or on behalf of any publio company or other

public body with whose constitution and security the Land Commission may be satisfied, for th.6 advance by the Commission by way of loan, out of the moneys in their hands, of such sums as the Commission may think it desirable to expend in promoting emigration from Ireland. Such agreements shall contain such provisions relative to tbe mode of the application of the loans and the securing and repayment thereof to tha Commission, and for other purposes, as the Commission, with the concurrence of the Treasury, approve. Such loans shall he made repayable within the periods and at the rate of interest within and at which advances by the Board of Works for the purpose of the reclamation or improvement of land are directed by this Act to be made repayable."

The Parliamentary correspondent of the Otago Daily Times gives the following information respecting the political position: —An Auckland member who is a staunch supporter of the Government, expressed the view to me in conversation to-day that there were in reality four parties in the House— viz., the Ministerial, the so-called Middle or Local Government party (headed by Mr Ormond), the pure Greyite section, and a species of Opposition " corner" party represented by Messrs Ballance, Montgomery, Stewart, Gisborne, {and others. Numberi two and three of these sections would not be strong enough to defeat the Government, and it would take alt three combined to effect this—a contingency in the last degree improbable. Ministers, in short, are absolutely safe against all chances, until after the general elections at all events.

Bazaar at the Theatre Royal this evening at 7 ; the Rifle Band in attendance. Mr E. Lyndon will sell on Monday next a billiard table, furniture, &c, at ] 1 a.m. Tenders for cleaning the storm water sewer must be sent in to the Municipal Engineer by Monday next. The Napier Distinct School re-ope_B on Monday. The annual meeting of members of the Athenanim will be held on the 22nd instant, A meeting of the Hawke's Bay, L.0.L., No. 5, will be held on Monday evening. Messrs Ruddock and Fryer have a large consignment of ranges and cooking stoves, etc., to arrive. Mr T. It. Newton has on hand boots. Messrs Neal and Close request their cus» tomers to shop early as they close their establishment at 9 o'clock to-night. Mrs Skipage wants employment as a monthly nurse. Lost a purse containing ckeque and money.

DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW.

The Rev. E. Reignier will celebrate Mass at Havelock at 11 a.m. At S. John's Church, at 11 a.m. morning prayer, sermon, and celebration of Holy Communion j at 3 p.m., baptisms and churchings 5 and 7 p.m., evening prayer and sermon. By the Rev. R. S. Bunn, at Trinity Church, Clive Square, at 11 a.m., at 3 p.m (special children's service), and at 7 p.m. By the Rev. S. Spear, at Puketapu at II a.m. (Holy Communion), and at Meanee at 6.30 p.m. By the Bishop of Waiapu, at Taradale at 3 p.m, By the Rev. W. Nichol, at Havelock at 11 a.m., and at Maraekakaho at 3 p.m. By Rev. J. C. Eccles, at St. Peter's, Waipawa, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. By Rev. F. H. Long, at St. Mary's, Waipukurau, at 11 a.m., and Onga Onga at 3 p.m. By Rev. W. Shirriffs, at Waipukurau at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and Tamumu at 3 p.m. By Mr W. O. Robb, at Patangata at 11 a.m., Kaikora at 3 p.m., and Waipawa at 7 p.m. By Rev. E. Barnett, at Mr Moore's, Kaikora, at 11 a.m., and at the Methodist Church, Waipawa, at 7 p.m.