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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3152, 4 August 1881, Page 2

If all who sent articles to the late Dunedin exhibition had .been as much deceived, and treated as uncourteously as a Hawke's Bay exhibitor has been, we think we should not hear much more of that tort of show in this colony. Regarding the Dunedin exhibition as something more than a mere collection of articles for the advertising of the wares of tbe loeul tradespeople, Mr H. C. Wilson, the wellknown dentist surgeon of this town, proposed to himseir to. exhibit a specimen of hi; mfichanical skill in dentistry. Before, hfiwijver, taking any steps ;n the matter, for the manufacture of the articles would involve both thus and money, he sent the following telegram to the secretary of the exhibition: - «' Napier, April 26, 1881. > To G. Grant, Secretary Dunedin Exhibition. Will there be any medals or certificates of merit awarded. I would not go t(s expense and trouble otherwise. Answer paid. Henry C. Wilson." To this telegram Mr Grant replied—" Certainly certificates of merit. Probably also medals. Matter under consideration." With this as an incentive, Mr Wilson manufactured a complete set of teeth, and other articles ; illustrating the mechanical branch of his profession. He took immense pains with this work, and went to considerable expense in order to forward an exhibit of high merit. The Dunedin exhibition was closed early in July, and having heard nothing of the case he had sent to it, Mr Wilson telegraphed on the 30th of that month as follows :—" I do not see the name of any dentist in the list of awards. Why have none been made for dentistry ? I should not have gone to the trouble and expense had you not wired to me there would be some recognition made. When will my case be returned ? Answer paid." Beceiving no answer Mr Wilson on August 2 sent another telegram requesting a reply, which drew the fo'lowing evasive answer ; —" No award given for your exhibit." Mr Wilson then telegraphed—" Was any sward made for dentistry, and to whom ?" And then came the final answer—" Jurors gave no awards for dentistry." Why no award was made we cannot pretend to say; there were three exhibitors, two of Dunedin, and Mr Wilson, and the exhibit of the latter was certainly entitled to an award. The jurors, apparently, had no difficulty in giving first, second, and third awards of merit for nearly every exhibit entered by Otago people, not even trumpery bits of worsted work escaping notice. To make matters worse Mr Wilson's case was returned to him smashed, and the broken pieces of the glass globe not being in the box, showed that the damage was done before packing.

Letters of naturalisation have been issued in favor of Gottfried Lindauer, of Napier.

The poor boy John Cross, who was accidentally shot the other day by his brother, died last night at the Hospital,

Soon after th« pieces of ramrod were extracted paralysis of the lower limbs set in, and all hopes of saving his life were .iespaircd of. An inquest was held this afternoon.

At the meeting at Wellington on Monday night, that was held to express sympathy with the Irish Land League, Sir Goorge Grey impressed upon the meeting to stick to the one great object before them, that there should be a different system of land tenure, to try and believe that the world was made for man, and not for man to labor for a few who are on the face of the earth,

The following have been finally selected as the football team to represent Napier at Gisborne on Saturday next:—Messrs J. Begg, T. Boßtotsft, H. Bostock, H. Pavis, T. Edwards, T. A. Gracie, R. Gibbons, J. R. Lanauze, R. Mowbray, G. Potts, G. Pram, H. St. Hill, R. Waterhouse, and G. Whitcombe. They will leave by the Kiwi at 9 o'clock to-night. The team is. Ptrong throughout, and although we do not indulge in tips as a rule, we say without any hesitation, that we think Napier.will win; and we sincerely hope so.

• The Poultry and Canary Association's annual show was opened this afternoon at three o'clock, an hour too late for us to give a report of it. Through the courtesy of the secretary and committee we are enabled to say that the quality of the exhibits is very superior to that of last year, the Spanish and Brahma classes being exceptionally good. The awards had ttot been made afc the time of our- visit, and we imagine that the judges must have had much difficulty in coming to a conclusion on many of the exhibits. The poultry judges are Messrs Galbraith, Franklin, andPhair; for pigeons, Messrs Beck and Youne:; and for canaries, Messrs W. Miller and Fuszard. The following is the list of entries : - Poultry 145 ; pigeons, 11; canaries 16 ; other cage birds, 2 ; eggs, 2 ; extra exhibits, 2.

The coming boating season promises to be a lively one. Tho first event of importance will be the contest wo mentioned about three weeks ago. One of the competitors has just returned from the country looking very fit; he will Certainly start the favorite, and ottght to win, if condition amounts to anything. His opponent has Changed his style of training; he is attending very carefully to his diet, and instead of collecting statistics as to the situation of the forecastle in the various vessels in port, he is now engaged in solviug a difficult problem as to the rotundity of their square sterns. May the best man win !

The H, B. Poultry and Canary Association's show at the Protestant Hall.

Messrs Wardrop and Co. have on hand and to arrive 7000 woolpacks and 3000 packages of new season's tea. The H. B. Philosophical Society will meet on Monday evening next, g The quarterly sitting of the Licensing Courts and Ngaruroro for Napier, Petane, will be holden on the 6fch September. H§A number* of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.