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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3157, 10 August 1881, Page 2

In our report in yesterday's issue of the meeting on Monday night of the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, the name of one of the newly elected members should have been Mr J. H. Brown.— and not Mr J. H. Wilson.

A letter has been received in Dunedin from Mr Conway with regard to the visit of the English team of professional cricketers to New Zealand. The tour will commence in the South early in January, the team travelling north to Auckland.

The division list on Mr Thompson's motion, given in our issue of yesterday, gave the Government a majority of six. We believe the majority for the Government was five, and it is probable that Sir George Grey's name waß omitted from the list of Noes.

We are requested to state that our informant was wrong in saying that Mr Briggs, the contractor for the dredge punts, had obtained the totara keel pieces from Mercury Bay, per schooner Orpheus. The fine totara lengths were supplied from the mills of Messrs Wilding and Bull.

An interesting article on the astronomical phenomena of 1881 will be found on our fourth page, from -which it will be seen that one of the most important of the phenomena occur on Friday next. Neptune, Jupiter, and Mercury, will be in conjunction, and Venu9 and Mars in the same condition.

The nomination of a candidate for the seat in the Municipal Council rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr J. Leonard, must be made to-morrow. We hear that Mr H. R. Gunn is likely to allow himself to be nominated, nnd we know of no one who would be more generally acceptable to the burgesses of the Spit ward.

The Napier School Committee held their usual meeting last evening. The business was unimportant. There was a general expression of dissatisfaction at the condition of the infant.school, and it was resolved to apply to the Board for a quantity of necessary furniture. Messrs Dobson and McVay were appointed a visiting committee, and several accounts were passed for payment.

We have pleasure in announcing that persons visiting; Dr Caro between the hours of 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on each Friday can be re-vaccinated free of charge.

Mata returned to New Zealaud by the Te Anau, on Tuesday, and was landed at Port Chalmers, being taken thence to Goodman's stables, at the Forbury. His ultimate destination, says the Canterbury Times, is at present uncertain, for one or two persons in Dunedin are negotiating for his purchase. In any event, he is pretty sure to take part in the Canterbury Spring Meeting. He is in very good condition and will not want a great deal of work to make him fit by November.

A meeting of a few settlers, friends of Mr Sydney Johnston, was held last Saturday, when the following gentlemen consented to act as a committee to further the election of Mr Johnson:—Messrs Gaisford, Grant, Bridge, Hamilton, and A. S Birch. It is rather amusing to think that the above old Hawke's Bay settlers are banded together to give Wellington another representative in the person of a gentleman whose whole family is bound up in the support of the most narrow-minded of Tory principles. We shall have something more to say of this committee bye-and-bye.

Tho resolution passed at a special meeting of the Municipal Council recenty, in approval of the separation of tho boiough from the county districts in its Parliamentary representation, was forwarded to Mr F. Sutton, M.H.R. Mr Sutton has addressed a letter to the town clerk acknowledging tbe receipt of a copy of the resolution, and stating that both he and his colleague, Captain Russell, will do their best when the .Redistribution of Seats Bill is before the House to give effect to the unanimous wishes of the electors of Napier in respect to this matter.

The following is a list of the Waipawa footballers chosen to contend with the Napier representatives on Saturday next : — Messrs George Potts, T. Harwood, W. Goldsmith, C. Ewen. N. Ord, J. Rhodes, H. Crosse, E. Rhodes, H. Bostock, T. Bostock, J. Bogle, A. Craig, Newman, A. Williams, and A. Smith. A special train conveying the Napier men and their friends will leave for Farndon afc 1.30 p.m. sharp. Considerable changes will be made in the team that visited Gisborne, and no doubt the smart which follows defeat will urge our men to victory on Saturday. Until we have the names of the team before us we shall refrain from any remarks upon their chances.

At a meeting of the committee of the Hawke's Bay Racing Club, held last evening, ifc was resolved to hold a spring meeting at Pakowhai on Wednesday, the 12th of October. As a number of horses will be here for the Jockey Club's meeting on the 11th, and as the first day of the Agricultural Society's show possesses little interest for the general public, a majority of the committee were of opinion that the circumstances were favourable to having a spring meeting. As will be seen from the programme published in another column, it is proposed to give £225 in added money, appropriated as follows : —Maiden Plate of £25, Handicap Hurdle Race of £40, Hack Hurdle Race of £15, Racing Club Handicap of £95, Hack Race £15, and Hawke's Bay Stakes of £40. The programme has been judiciously arranged, and if the weather is propitious* there is every probability of a most sucessful meeting.

Promenade dance by the Artillery Band to-nijrht at the Protestant Hall at 8.30. The public are requested to look out for a change in Leonard's space on Saturday next.

Impoundings at Hastings are notified. Shareholders in the Colonial Bank can obtain their warrants for dividend on application afc the office of the Napior branch. The winning numbers in the Photographic Free Art Union can be seen at Mr Robertson's in Emerson-street, and prizes obtained.

Mr R. H. Robinson having received advices of new shipments is clearing out the whole of his present stock at low prices.

The programme of tho Hawke's Bay Racing Club's spring meeting is inserted. Messrs H. Monteith and Co. hold an important sale of timber at Mr Chappel's yard, Napier railway on Wednesday next. _ Tenders are invited by the Municipal Engineer" for works required in the Borough. A reward is offered for a silver Genevtt watch which lias been lost. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column. WE REMIND ADVERTISERS That the circulation of the Daily Telegraph is about double the combined circulation of all other papers published in Hawke's Bay^ The Telegraph is the Government Gazette for Hawke's Bay ; the Gazette for all County Council, Bobottgh Council, and Habbotjb Board notices. The Telegkaph is the only medium of advertising for tenders for public works. the Tblkgbaph circulates among at,t, classes of the community, both in Town and Country.