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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3252, 3 December 1881, Page 2

The Westport Coal Company promises to be a great success. Over 10,000 shares have been applied for in Bunedin, and over 24,000 in Melbourne.

A concert is to be given at the Port Ahuriri district school-house on Monday evening, in aid of the children's prize fund. A number of our local amateurs have kindly consented to assist, and we hope to see a bumper house, as the object is a laudable one. •

Our usual Saturday supplement to-day contains the continuation of the thrilling story of " The Mountain Guide ;" a halfcolumn of items interesting to our lady roadorDj &Tid o^ or maUor T'Vio hn.nlr j>n£jf> of the supplement is occupied by new advertisements from Messrs Blythe and Co., E. W. Knowles, 9. Fauiknor, S. Carnell, W. E. Woods, the Bonanza store, and the New Zealand Clothing Factory.

If the electoral rolls of the Napier, Hawke's Bay, and Waipawa districts are in an unsatisfactory state, they are admirably correct as compared with the East Coast roll, if all we hear be true. We are told that on that roll names of persons have been struck off improperly, the names of minors have been put on, and the names of others accepted and placed on the roll without their signatures being attached to the application forms. The Napier roll is bad enough, but it does not come up to the above.

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times furnishes the following item:—"lt is rumored among those who ought to know something on the subject, that the Union Steamship Company will soon have opposition in New Zealand waters, as the P. and O. Company are about to put on six of their vessels. It is stated that one of the Directors of the latter company has been in New Zealand for the past two months, endeavoring quietly to secure the trade of the leading merchants and importers. I give this without vouching for it in any way."

The following extract from a letter received from a gentleman on the Waimaue Plains, is published in the Auckland Herald : —" This will be a wonderful coast when once the Maori difficulty is settled— such a magnificent climate, and such an immense quantity of rich forest land to be taken up, all of which may be cleared so easily. Settlers here are already doing work on a large scale, for instance, my neighbour has already felled the whole of his 300 acres the first year ; and what with the demand for land and the general march of improvement now proceeding, I may venture the opinion (if we have no serious check) that the next five jears will see the forest cleared to the very foot of the mountain. We have a great future before us." A suggestion recently made in these columns, observes the Wanganui Herald, as to counteracting the small bird plague by the use of kerosene seems to have proved useful and successful. Mr A. Laird informs us that at his Fairfield Nursery he has found that flower and vegetable seeds, simply dipped in kerosene, will not be touched by either larks (the most destructive of the feathered tribes), linnets, or sparrows, and as a proof of this he shows a fine bed of turnips which has almost entirely escaped. The same remedy, however, will not do for tree seeds (pinus insignis and so forth) as they remain so long in the ground that the kerosene of course wears off, and the birds only take these seeds when they b«gin to sprout above the ground. For the private garden, however, kerosene will be found valuable.

A peculiar case of poisoning , from eating tutu berries and leaves occurred near Geraldine a few days ago. A little boy, a son of Mr. James Oregon, of Kakahu (says the Tiraaru Herald), was playing in a field in which bis father was at work, when he ate some of the berries and leaves of the tutu plant. This took place about mid-day. Soon afterwards the child became seriously ill, and had severe convulsive fits. He was at once taken to Dr Fish, and was under active treatment for some time, but for hours it was doubtful whether he would recover. Towards the the evening, however the fits gradually abated, and on the following day the boy seemed quite well. It is believed by some that the berries of the tutu plant are harmless, but in this instance it was clearly proved that the boy had Is swallowed the leaves.

The fountain of perpetual youth does not spring exclusively within the confines of classic story. Its fresh and living waters flow to-day from other well-heads. The weak and the debilitated have but to drink of Udolpiio Wolfe's Schiedam Aeomatio Schnapps, and soon they start to renewed vitality. It is the modern reviviiier, touching to elasticity and strength, the impaired in health and the suffering with disease.

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Neal and Closed tables to-night. Mr Lyndon holds a furniture sale on Tuesday next at 11 o'clock. The annual general meeting of the Napier Holiday Association will be held on Tuesday, 13th instant, at 8.30 p.m. W. H. Simpson having filed a deed of arrangement, a meeting of the ci-cditors will be held in the Court House on 21st instant at 11 o'clock. Collections in all the churches in Napier, and in the Counties of Hawke's Bay and Wairoa, will be taken up for the Hospital to-morrow. Mr Buchanan invites the electors to meet him in the schoolroom, Spit, on Wednesday, at 8 p.m. Mr McDougall will address the electors in the schoolroom, Spifc, to-night at 8, and the Protestant Hall on Thursday at 8 p.m. E. Qarnham has received a fresh, supply of paints, paperhangings, &c. A sale of dutiable goods will be held by order of the Commissioner of Customs, at the Spit, on Tuesday at noon. The Returning Ofucer'announces that the poll for the election of a representative for Napier will be taken on Friday, the 9th instant at the old Council Chamber. Leonard and Co. hold a cattle sale at the Farndon yards on Wednesday, 14th instant. The Town Clerk notifies that Mr P. Hargreaves has been appointed im pounder during the absence of Mr W. Willis. The programme of the Paki Paki races, to be held on Friday, December 23, is inserted. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.