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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3240, 18 November 1881, Page 2

Mr J. M. Batham leaves Napier tomorrow for his new appointment at Christchurch. Mr Batham goea South by the s'te&mer ]3totomahana. tu laiidCher column, will be found the sixtysecond report of the Bank of New South Wales. We observe that the figures on each side of the balance-sheet total nearly £15,000,000. The Government intend to remove the principal office of the Customs Department from the Spit to Napier at an early date. Wβ understand that the Collector's office will be in the rooms lately occupied by Mr S. Y. Collins. „ A private telegram states that Mr Robert Stuart has left Melbourne for Napier by the steamer Ringarooma. We regret to learn that Mr Stuart is very seriously unwell. The state of his health will quite preclude him from taking any part in public life. Mr J. D. Ormond returns to Napier this evening, after holding meetings at the settlements in the Seventy-mile Bush and Ruataniwha district, at all of which he received the most satisfactory assurances of support, and gratifying evidence of confidence. The polling for the election of a councillor for the riding of Norsewood in the Waipawa Council resulted in the defeat of Mr Wilding and the return of Mr M'Greevy. For the Porangahau riding Mr Hunter has been elected, his opponent, Mr Hirtzell, Mr Smith's nominee, only getting three votes. The secretary to the Bible in Schools Committee takea exception to a portion of our local referring to Captain Russell's attitude towards the committee and its work. He states that the committee do not aim at the compulsory reading of the Bible in schools, but only desire the establishment of locrl option in the matter. The third series of Hawke's Bay Sailing Club matches will take place in the inner harbor to-morrow afternoon. Boats belonging to ships in the harbor will take part in the contest, and the fact that a new boat, just received by one of the club members from Auckland, will compete will add another element of interest to the day's sport. A volunteer now perving on the West Coast, writing to a friend in Napier, says : —" The A.C. forces comprise a fine body of men, but the volunteers are blessed with a lot of undrilled recruits, and I am thoroughly disgusted at having to go through so much drill on their account. Some of our officers are simply frauds, and Heaven help ua volunteers if we have a brush with the natives!" The annual session of the Diocesan Synod will be held at Napier on Tuesday next, the 22nd. The opening service will be at 11 o'clock in St. John's Church; at 4 p.m. the Synod will re-assemble in St. John's schoolroom, and in the evening of the same day there will be a choral service, with a sermon by the Rev. De Berdt Hovell on behalf of the Diocesan Fund for extending the ministrations of the church to the poorer districts. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Eliza White, on remand charged with lunacy, was, on the certificate of Dr Hitchings that she was still suffering from the effects of drink, again remanded for a week. William Griffiths, on remand charged with lunacy, was, on the certificate of Dr. Hitchings, discharged. John Burns, charged with drunkenness, did not put in an appearance, and his bail was forfeited. Sir George Grey has entered upon the electioneering campaign, and issued instructions to his lieutenants. Mr Speight has received a command to oppose Mr Sheehan at the Thames, and Mr W. L. Rees got his marching orders yesterday for Newton, there to attack Mr Swanson. The more knowing ones say that if Sir George Grey cannot find better men than Messrs Speight and flees to flght such doughty champions as Sheehan and Swanson, there is little chance of him having a big following in the new Parliament. Under the heading "Commercial @omplaint," we have received the following : — Sir, —No one will deny that the Union Company deserve every credit in having such a fine fleet of steamers trading in our waters, but as one of a travelling public I object to the loose way in which their business arrangements are carried out. When, the Albion left here on her last trip for the South, I understood that if they intended her to leave here again to-morrow for the North, that she was only to go as far aa Lyttelton. This morning I find that she is postponed until Tuesday next. What I complain of is, why did they not instruct

their agent here to this effect some days ago; it simply lost me the chance of going up by the Oreti yesterday to Gisborne, and of the opportunity of proceeding by the Albion from there. My passage is paid to Auckland, therefore no loss to them, bufc it; is a serious loss and inconvenience to me in having to wait here till Tuesday next, and that apparently through carelsneess. Trusting this will reach the eye of the directory,— I am, S. de Beeb. An apothecary shop is made of the stomach by those who swallow, with avidity, every prescription commended to their lips. The result is the system is not only irretrievably ruined, but really efficacious remedies lose their virtue. If people would only exercise more judgment than credulity, and have less faith than circumspection about them, they would confide only in those measures that assert their own supremacy. They would take nothing into the system but what, like Udolpho Wolfe'b Schiedam Aeokatio Schnapps, vindicates its value by its effect.— [Adyt.]

ThePomeroy Company in "East Lynne" at the Theatre Royal to-night at 8. A private special train will leave Hastings for Napier at 7 o'clock this evening, Messrs H. Monteifch and Co. will sell tomorrow at the Horse Bazaar, horses, buggies, produce, &c, at 1.30 p.m. A six-roomed house to let in the Coote road. Messrs Dye Brothers insert a caution. Messrs H. Monteifch and Co. will hold a timber sale on the 24th instant. Mrs M. Barry notifies that she has completed extensive alterations in the Taradale House Store, and that she is now clearing out a large and varied stock to make room for fresh consignments. The schooner Frank Ghiy will sail for Westport on Monday next. Mr Lyndon holds a furniture sale on Wednesday next. Messrs Blythe and Co. want their windows seen to-morrow. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.