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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3245, 24 November 1881, Page 2

In consequence of the inclemency of the weather Mr Leonard's sale of drapery has been postponed till Saturday next at 11 o'clock. The number of sheep exported from the Napier district from June 1, 1880, to May 31, 1881, was by land 76,051, and by sea 9430. The imports for the same period were by sea 786. Thd Bishop of Nelson is expected in Napier, this evening overland from Wellingtcjjti. We understand that the Bishop of Nmson and Miss Suter are about to proceed shortly to England on a visit. We are requested to remind natives and employers of Maori labor that the polling day for the election of a member of the General Assembly for the representation of the East Coast electoral district is the Bth day of December. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., Richard Campbell was charged with being drunk and incapable at Hastings, and was fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours imprisonment with hard labour. We understand that up to the present time no assignment has been made by Mr W. H. Simpson, of Havelock, notwithstanding the resolution passed by the creditors at the third and last meeting. It is probabla that steps will he taken to force the estate into bankruptcy. The total number of sheep in the Napier, sheep district on the 31st May last, above the age of six months, was 2,0-14,746, showing an increase of 160,467 on the returns of the previous year. The number of European sheep owners is 349, owning 1,983,439, and Maori owners 37, owning 61,307 sheep. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs Price and Innes took place yesterday, when it was stated that no suitable arrangements could be made whereby the firm would be enabled to carry on business. The meeting appointed Messrs. Shannon and Banbury as trustees to liquidate the estate so soon as an assignment had been made to them. The liabilities were stated to be about £8350. (£BSO secured), and the as-ets £9510. The stock, we learn, after being valued by experts, will bo disposed of by tender at an early date. A cricket match will be played at Petane on Saturday next between elevens representing the Banks and Law of Napier and the Petane Club. The following elevens have been selected to represent the two sides:—Petane—P.Dinwiddie, Hill, Hamilton, Davis, J. Dinwiddie, Ingpen, Mullany, Gilberd, Ticehurst, Davidson, and A. M'Kinnon. Emergency, C. Villers and C.M'Kain. Banks and Law : Begg, Carnell, Thompson, Cato, Gracie, Humphries, Gibbons, Westenra, Vickerman, Banna, and Gilpin; emergency, Waterhouse and Hunter. A coach conveying the players from Napier will leave Mr Peddie's hotel at 1 p.m. The Pomeroy Company repeated "The Hunchback" last night at the Theatre Royal to a moderate house. The cast was the same as on the former representation of this piece, with the exception that Mr Holloway took the part of Master Walter instead of Mr Hoskins. The Julia of Miss Pomeroy again thoroughly enlisted the sympathy of the audience, and was received with the most hearty applause. Mr Holloway's Master Walter was a careful and successful piece of acting. The Sir Thomas Clifford of Mr Fleming was thoroughly well done, and earned the applause it received. Mr Wallace as Fathom was simply irresistable, arid kept the audience in continuous lauerbter whenever he appeared on the stage. Miss Jessie Grey as Helen was charming as usual, and her several interviews with Cousin Modus were remarkably well done. To-night Boucicault's sensational drama " Led Astray " will be produced. The concert held in the railway goods shed Kaikora in aid of the Stuhley fund was in every respect a success. The programme opened with a brilliant piano solo by Mr Winkelman. The song " Keapolitaine " was rendered in capital style by Mr Ingleton, and received an emphatic encore; in the second part he also sang " Maid of Athens." Our old friend Mr Swan gave " I am always ten minutes too late," to the great delight of the audience, and indeed he had fully exemplified the same by missing the train that evening, but to prevent disappointment had driven from Napier in his buggy; he also sang " Life in the Old Boy yet," and both were vociferously encored. The " Blue Alsatian Mountains" by Mrs Ingleton was sang in a most finished manner, and met with rounds of applause. Mr Newbold made his debut with the song "Midshipmite," which was given in good style; ho afterward sang "Take mo Home," and was loudly recalled. Mr Wilson brought the first part of the entertainment to a close with a comic song given in his usual happy manner. In the second part Mrs Ingleton sang "Far Away" with fino expression, and was enthusiastically encored. Miss Godridge sang "Maggie May" very sweetly, and was warmly recalled. Mr Anderson caused roars of laughter with his funny comic song, " Birds of the green wood tree." Messrs Moore and Watt sang with good effect, and were warmly applauded. Two duets and also the accompaniments by Mr and Mrs Flood were played in real, artistic style. '

Rather a sharp trick was lately played on a runholder not a hundred miles fromTinui, says the Wairarapa Star. With a view of getting rid of the rabbit pest as speedily as possible, he offered sixpence per head for all rabbits, dead or alive secured on his station. An expert rabbiter forthwith began to mak frequent visits to tho station fairly laden with the spoils of the chase. At length the runholder, astounded at the quantity of dead vermin brought to his door and the enormous profits of the rabbitslayer, bethought him of making enquiries, and then j to his mortification, he found that his premier rabbiter was doing a roaring trade, buying the rabbits and skins in Masterton, and. selling them at a handsome profit to his victim. Of course these operations were knocked on the head, and the rabbit-buying ceased; but the astonishment of the runholder may be imagined when the other day the unabashed rabbiter applied for employment at his shearing sheds. The genius of discovery is so aspiring in its ambition, that it never stops short of complete triumph. Its conquests are certain, its victories consummate. The crown it wears is wrested from patient labor, and wrought of the tireless efforts of energy and research. The achievement that gave to the world Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam: Aromatic Schnapps will live in the history of curative science as long as the human frame is subject to natural diseases.—[Ad vt.]