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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3148, 30 July 1881, Page 2

Judge Kenny returned from Gisborne in the liotorua this morning. Mr J. D. Ormond was among the passengers by the Rotomahana this morning. The vital statistics for the month of July, as registered at tho Napier office, are as follow : —Births, 37; marriages, 6; deaths, When the schooner Silver Cloud was brought inside and berthed yesterday she was drawing lift. 4in. aft, and lift. 2in. forward, and not, as has been fatated, 10ft. 2in. By the latesb English papers to hand we perceive that the various exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition are put very prominently before the public, and as usual there is no end to tho prize-takers, all claiming first honors. Mr Maloney, who was second officer of the Tararua when that ill-fated vessel was wrecked, has been appointed master of the Union Company's steam tender Boojum, and arrived from the South this morning to enter upon his new duties. We have seen some most magnificent specimens of potato grown by Mr P. O'Shannesy, of the Meanee. They are "Hobarts," and in size and quality have rarely been equalled in this district. We understand the If acres sown by Mr O'Shannesy produced 35 tons. Several members of the General Assembly have left Wellington, there being nothing to detain them at the seat of government. The estimates have not been brought down ; the Redistribution of Seats Bill is not ready for presentation to Parliament, and the Ministerial measures on local government will not come before the House, if at all, for ten days. The home for aged Catholic clergymen at Meanee was opened yesterday in the handsome villa residence that has just been coin - pleledon the Mission estate. The home will accommodate twenty gentlemen, and is most handsomely furnished and luxurously fitted up, and everything done to render comfortable the declining years of those who have " fought the good fight" in the prime of life. In consequence of the quarantine restriotion at Auckland the Union Company have withdrawn their regular fortnightly

Bfceamer to Sydney. A steamer has, however, been put on to run between Auckland and -iyiluey, but the timo-table is uncertain, owing «o the restrictions referred to. Fas-* pongers for New South VVales will therefore hoe to take their chance of catching the connecting steamer to Sydney. Father Seauseau has been appointed principal of the Meanee Mission vice Father Reighier, who for the last thirty V, years has held that position. Father Reignier will take special charge of the "* Hastings and Wairoa districts. Father Seauzeau was remarkably successful in the Blenheim district, where he has left many churches and schools to mark the enerey that characterised his mission in. that part of the colony. At the annual mgetihg of the ratepayers of the Havelock Eoad Hoard district, the following were elected wardens for the ensuing year : —Messrs W. A. Oouper, J. Boyle, T. GHlpin, R. Bader, and J. 0. Taylor. A resolution was passed in favor of a sixpenny rate being struck. Aiter considerable discussion it was resolved to throw away a portion of the ratepayers 1 money in advertising ia a paper which is not the Provincial Gazette. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the meeting to a close. It is said that Messrs Seed and Batkin'a report on the Civil Service is not ready to be laid on the table of the House, and Ministers think it might be injudicious to make it public. Why P Does it exhibit gross maladministration, or incapacity of individual officers? If it recommends the dismissal of officers, it is unfair to them that they are not afforded the longest poSsiblo notic9j that they may have plenty of time to seek other employment, We may be sure of this, that the report does not recommend the discharge or the disrating of Batkin and Seed, whoso departments went on just as well without them as they do when they are in charge. The Wellington Post says:—The genial captain of the Stella was very thorough in. his examination of the submarine volcano he has been exploring recently. After testing, in various other ways, the water which came bubbling up at the scene of the turbance, he proceeded to Swallow a quantity. Those on board at the time that they never saw the worthy skipper's face assume so utterly dissatisfied an expression as he rushed off with a splutter to seek " the seclusion that a cabin grants. The chief steward quiokly had an antidote ready, or it is impossible to say what the consequences might have been. The oaptain even now shudders when he thinks of the noisome draft, and says that if that is the sort of soda-water they keep " down below " he intends to be more regular in his religious observances in future. A meeting of the provisional directors of the East Coast Native Land Settlement Company was held on Wednesday last at Wellington, the Hon. W. H. Reynolds presiding, The appointment of Messrs J. M. Dargaville, J. Friar Clarke, Allan Macdonald, J. B. Poynter, 0. A. De Lautour, J. 8. M. Thompson, Wireme Pere, and Major Ropata as managing directors, to hold office for twelve months, was approved. Paora Paroa, native chief from East Coast, attended, and stated that he and his people cordially agreed to the formation of the company. He added that there were large blocks of land on the East Coast available for the purposes of the oompany, and particularised many, the owners of whioh he said were ready to transfer to the company at once. It was resolved, on the motion of Mr Bastings, seoonded by Mr J. S. M. Thompson, " That the lists of applications for shares should close at the various branches of the Colonial Bank, and at all the brokers' offices, on Saturday, .?Oth August, and that advertisements be inserted accordingly." It may be just as well for Hawke's Bay electors to bear in mind that, had Mr Sutton and Captain Russell voted with Mr Ormond on the local government question, the re« suit of the division, would have been a tie. As it was, the Government side had 41 the Opposition 39, so it will be seen ... that if the two Napier members had remained loyal to Mr Ormond the result would have been as stated. And it should be further borne in mind that the best qualification Captain Russell and Mr Sutton possessed in the estimation of their party at the last elections was that they would work in harmony with Mr Ormond. It is said, with what truth we do not know, that Oaptain Russell supported the Government with a distant view to a seat in the Legislative Council, and that Mr Button's vote was due to a personal affair between himself and Mr Ormond. Whatever the excuse they may make they will have great difficulty in showing that the lame and impotent proposals of the Government ■ would have tended in the slightest degree to further the liberal views generally entertained on the question of local government. Tenders for No 6 contract sewerage works, for works in Paradise road, and for repairing Beach road, must be sent in by noon on ' Monday. Messrs Kennedy and Gillman will sell on Monday assorted fruit, at 2 p.m. Mr Lyndon will sell on Monday the stock-in-trade of J. H. Grocott, a debtor, at 11 a.m. The Hawke's Bay County rates are due on Monday next. Tenders for metalling the Omahu road close on Monday next at 5 p.m. The members of the Loyal Napier Lodge, 1.0.0.]?., M.U., are requested to attend the funeral of their late Brother, S. Page, to« morrow. Messrs Banner and Liddle hold a sale of produce, fruit, &c, on Tuesday next, and on — Thursday sell a consignment of forest and fruit trees. Mr H. C. Wilson, dentist, has returned to town. The official notice of the resignation of Ci*. Leonard of his seat in the Borough Council is inserted, and the nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy is fixed by the returning officer, Mr Cullen, for Wednesday, August ' 10. The poll, if necessary, will be taken on Friday, August 19. Messrs Neal and Close want the public to shop with them before nine o'clock to-night. The ladies of S. John's congregation are requested to meet on Monday afternoon for the purpose of making choir surplices. All persons having claims against the Union S.S. Company for damages sustained in the Boojum-Sir Donald collision, must - render them in detail to Mr Lascelles by 3 p.m. on Monday next. The dissolution of partnership subsisting between Messrs Selig and Edwards, of Hastings-street, is announced. Messrs Blythe and Co.'s advertisements have been changed. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.