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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3164, 19 August 1881, Page 2

We remind intending investors that the eh are list of the East Coast Land Company closes at; Mr M. B. Miller's office to-morrow. We understand that the company ia meeting , with very considerable success in the South, and the interest evidenced in the scheme at the meeting , last nighfc speaks well for its prospects in this district. Numerous complaints have recently been made of the dangerous condition of the Spit bridge during wet weather. The planking of the bridge gets into such a slippery condition after a shower that it is positively dangerous fop horses to cross it. The matter might he remedied by the authorities at; a very small cost. Unless some attention is paid to this the result will probably be a serious acoident to some equestrian or vehicle. Some very extensive improvements have been made on the Pofcane cricket ground in anticipation of the coming season. Mr Villers has had about two chains squaro carefully laid with turf, and after thorough rolling tho ground will be second to none in the district. The pleasant surroundings of Potane have made it a favourite resort of holiday makers during the summer, and now that a good crickot ground has been made within easy distance of the town, we may expect that cricket in Napier will exhibit renowed vigor. The performance by the Union Minsbrels, to be given to-night in aid of tho Football Club, should attract a large house. The names of many of our best-known amateurs aro upon thei programme, and a pleasant

variety will be given, to the performance by a negro sketch and a farce. There are a, number of expenses attending the thorough maintenance of a Football Club which would press too heavily upon many of our young friends without assistance from the public. We trust that a crowded house will welcome their efforts. To-morrow afternoou, at Farndoii, the Napier footballers will again measure their strength against a Giaborne team. The Napier team selected may be looked upon as the strongest one that could be got together in this district, ani if they are beaten Napier must,lower the flag to Gisborne in the matter of football. Our men appear confident, and we are quite sure that if they lose it will not be for lack of effort on their part. If the weather is favorable no doubt a large number of spectators will go by the special train which leaves the Napier station at 2.30 p.m. Last night the Rifle Voluuteers paraded f~r the first time under their newlpelected officers* A good muster took place. Before the corps was dismissed Captain Blythe handed to the custody of the hon. secretary the silver cup promised to the company at the late dinner, stating , that the terms of competition would be arranged on consultation with the committee. A very general wish was expressed that some steps should be taken for eeouring the permanent services of Bandmaster Bell, and arrangements were there and then initiated for attaining this object. Several new members were proposed. Standing on the platform of the Farndon railway station, all unconscious of being an offender against the law, was a cask of Something , or other that looked like beer. It was this morning ; and the local constable eyed the well-nourished proportions of this jolly receptacle of alcohol, and naturally looked for those evidences upon it to show that it had a right to be regarded as an honest article of commerce. No duty stamp was to be seen upon it, so ■with a face beaming with pleasure that constable arrested the cask of liquor. A telegram mentioning the bare faot of the seizure conveyed the startling , intelligence to the authorities in Napier, and caused a flutter in the dove cots of excise. The cask stands a branded or rather an unstamped sinner in durance vile. No one must touch it. It may contain beer, or ifc may be vinegar or dynamite. Up to the hour of going to press nothing further has transpired, tut it is understood that an additional police force will be stationed at Farndon to watch the Edinburgh brewery. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, George Clarke was to have been brought up on remand as a suspected lunatic. Mr W. Miller, as Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, appeared and informed the Court that the accused was not in a fit state to be brought to the Court; he was very weak, and appeared to him to be suffering from low fever, The accused had been brought to the Asylum on the 12th of August. He had torn his coat and bed-clothes on one occasion, but otherwise he had shown no eigns of lunacy. His Worship said that the two medical men who had examined i larke did not agree as to his oondition, Dr de Lisle being of opinion that the man's oondition arose from disease, and not from lunacy. He proposed to further remand the case to glva Dγ de Liele a further opportunity of examining the man. Dr Caro, who was present in Court, suggested that a third medical man should be allowed to examine Clarke. This had been done by the Court on a previous occasion. The man had been at the hospital some time before being sent to the Asylum, and both the resident surgeon and the head nurse said that he could not be admitted there again, as he was difficult to manage, and disturbed the other patients. His Worship said that such a practice as calling , in another medical man would be a most objectionable and dangerous one. If that course was followed the magistrate, if he so desired ifc, could send for one medical man after another until he got one to oertify that the man was a lunatic. Hβ would remand the case to enable Dr de Lisle to make a further examination. On Saturday night (says a Dunedin. paper of a recent date) the police found that one of the principal stores in the city had been left unfastened, and on entering the building they found the safe open and the caabox, also unlocked, in it containing a considerable sum of money. A constable took charge of the building until it was handed over to one of the proprietors. Nothing had been removed from the building, nor had it been broken into. It was only an instance of negligence of a kind not uncommon in this city.