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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3251, 2 December 1881, Page 2

The outward San Francisco mail closes to-morrow at 3 p.m. at the Chief Post Office, Napier. Registered letters and money orders must be posted by 1 o'clock. There was no business before the Resident Magistrate to-day. A meeting of the Napier Hospital Committee takes place this afternoon. The Agricultural Society of Dunedin hold their annual show to-day and tomorrow. A report having been published that a settler at Papakura is missing, we have the authority of the lost gentleman for saying that he has neither strayed from his home nor been stolen away. Mr Sydney Johnston has retired from the contest for the Waipawa seat. He stated yesterday that he had no chance of election. This was of course known from the first. His retirement leaves the field to Mr Ormond and Mr Smith, between whom there will be a close struggle. Another office has been created in the appointment of Mr George Thorne as Superintendent of Agencies of the Government Life Assurance. As all returns for this department have of necessity to pass through the post office we fail to see how the promises made by the Government that economy would be kept in view are being fulfilled. " Yet another boat has been added to our local yatching fleet, Mr J. E. Provis having become the lucky possessor of the Wave Queen's boat which sailed in our last scratch match. With the addition of a suit of racing sails, this boat will in all probability prove a most formidable opponent. Why are boys permitted to enter the Theatre when that building has been hired by a candidate for the purpose of addressing electors ? Last night, a small army of boys took up their quarters at the back of the hall, with the obvious object of making a play-ground of the place, to the annoyance of everybody. When boys show their intelligence by attending a meeting, and attentively listening to the speeches, their presence affords pleasure; but when they merely attend to create a disturbance perhaps, at the instigation of older people who should know better, they ought to be summarily ejected from the building. In another column we publish a letter from Mr Henare Tomoana, the translation of which is as follows :—"I notice in your issue of November 25 an article on the address I delivered on the nomination day for candidates for the representation of the East Coast Maori electoral district, in which you make use of very objectionable language. You say the Maoris are living in the midst of filth and dirt. I request you will insert a paragraph in your paper retracting the offensive expression of which I complain, lest I weary you in the future." We spoke of the Maoris as a race, and if Mr Toruoana thinks the ordinary native viliare a model of cleanliness and sweetness he is welcome to his opinion. It is a trite and musty proverb, but a sound one, that " good wine needs no bush," so " excellence is its own reward." The immense sales that have been made, and the enormous quantities that have been used, prove that Udolpho Wolfe s Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps needs no laudatory tributes. In all cases of kidney affections, inflammation of the bladder, dyspepsia, indigestion, heart-burn, flatulency, gravel, and gout, it is simply a miraculous cure.— [Advt.]

Mr Lyndon sells bacon, hams, cheese, and tea afc his mart to-morrow at noon. • Messrs Monteith and Co. hold their usual stock and produce sale afc the Horse Bazaar to-morrow afc 1.30 p.m. Annual meeting Holiday Association in Council Chamber to-night afc 8.30.; committee mefc at 7.45. Mr Lyndon will sell suburban section No. 23, Napier, by auction on Thursday, 15th instant. Nominations for the Handicap Hurdles and the Pakowhai Handicap afc the H.B. Bacing Club's summer meeting close afc 9 p.m. on Tuesday next. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.