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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3268, 22 December 1881, Page 2

Tho tender of the Dailt Telegraph has ap/ain been accepted by the Corporation for the publication of all Municipal and Borough Council advertisements. Wo are requested to draw attention to the announcement that the steamer Oreti leaves this port to-night at 6 o'clock, carrying passengers only for Gisborne and Auckland. We learn that Mr Roulston's hotel had a narrow escape from burning on Tuesday niarht. It seems that the fire, which originated in one of tho bedrooms, was stamped out without any alarm being given. Tbe best thanks of the ratepayers are due to <"r. Wall, and to the councillors who supported him, fov having succeeded in petting the resolution rescinded that affirmed Clive Square as the best site for the Corporation offices. Evidently a lesson in spelling would not be lost on one of the officials at the Napier Post Office. Among the outward mail notices posted up to-day is an announcement that the s.s. Oreti leaves for Gisborne and Auckland on Thusday. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M., i_ugus Leach was fined on and costs for drunkenness, and Henry Morris 10s and costs for having made use of profane language in the public street yesterday. We remind our readers of the sacred concert which takes place to-night in Sc. , Paul's Church. Judging by the choice and attractive programme presented, and its careful and vigorous rendering at rehearsal last evening, a musical treat may safely be predicted. The following are the entries and distances for the handicap at the Taradale sports:—A. F. Brown, scratch; E. Price, scratch; F. G. Gregory, 3 yards; H. Cantle, 5 yards; W. Simpson, 5 yards ; T. Murphy, 7 yards ; N. A. Barnes, 7 yards ; W. Irvine, 7yards; H.Lorrigan, 10 yards; J. Hall, 12 yards. Cr. Swan was very rough on the sheepfarmers last night. Probably in the excitement of the moment he overlooked the fact that the employees of sheepfarmers—and therefore the sheepfarmers indirectly—have been in the past, and still are, the principal factors employed in swelling the main source of Mr Swan's revenue. Is anything being done by the well-to-do and the happy to secure for the inmates of the Old Man's Refuge a little something extra to remind them of the days that have gone when they too sat with their friends around a Christmas dinner table ? And the Hospital patients, should they not be remembered ? We shall be glad to take subscriptions towards this end; and tbe smallest donations will he thankfully received and duly acknowledged. The inspection of the Artillery Volunteers took place last night. The corps paraded to the number of forty-five, under Sub-Lieutenant S. Carnell, the other officera being absent on the jury at the Supreme Court. After the inspection five new members were sworn in. The following promotions have recently been made in the Battery:—Gunner ft. C. Laws to be corporal, Gunner R Gnnlinton, W. Carnell, E. Ingpen, and T. B. Harding to be bombadiers. The eloquence of certain members of the Borough Council at the ordinary meeting held last evening waa at times so overpowering to men possessing only a moderate amount of intellect that one of the casual listeners iv the body of the Council Chamber dropped off to sleep, and judging by the broad and peaceful smiles which lighted up his face during slumber we should imagine that a series of delightful dreams had resulted from the municipal lullaby on the benches. There was no sitting of the Supreme Court to-day in consequence of counsel in the action Bank of New Zealand v. Wi Pere having mutually arranged to take the evidence in the suit at the instance of the same plaintiffs v. -Common and DeLatour as applicable to the case against Wi Pere. The special jury summoned in the latter case will not therefore be required to attend. To-morrow the last case, that of Sutherland v. Bank of New Zealand, will be taken. A " Subscriber " wishes us to suggest to the committee of the Waipawa sports the convenience it would be to many competitors if the races could be started half an hour earlier. Our correspondent is one of the competitors, Hnd he points out that the race in which he desired to take part is advertised to b6 run at 5 p.m., while the train for town leaves Waipawa at 5.10 p.m. He will therefore have to run his race one mile, dress, and catch the train, all in ten minutes, an impossible feat. A very funny man is Cr. McDougall. In reply to a toast at the Mayor's supper last night, he said it was his belief that before long there would be a party in power in the Ministry of which they would find our town member, Mr Buchanan, holding a portfolio. In spite of this belief Mr McDou_-all found it in his heart to oppose Mr Buchanan's election, and thought himself the best man of the two. Perhaps Mr McDougall believed he was to be the Premier of this coming Ministry. The election of officers at the annuil meeting of St. John's Branch, No. 93, H.A.C.8.5., last night, resulted as follows : —President, Bro. J. W. Rearden; VicePresident, Bro. James Maroney ; Secretary, Bro. J. M. St. Chiir (re-elected); Treasurer, Bro. J. Mahoney (re-elected) ; Warden, Bro. T. Hayden (re-elected); Guardian, Bro. G. E. Hunter. Owing to the large amount of business to be transacted, the election of other officers and tho installation had to be deferred till next meeting. A letter directed to England containing a ten pound Bank of England note posted at Napier, not having reached its destination, led to the discovery of other robberies at the Post OSce for which Rendle has been sentenced to six years hard labor. Efforts were made to trace the tdn pound note in England, and by the last mail tbe police received information to the effect that the note had been traced to certain music sellers in London who received it from Rendle enclosed in a letter in payment of an order for music. The election of four new members for the Hospital Committee will take place on January 9tb. We shall publish with our first issue in the new year a complete list of subscribers of one guinea and upwards for 1881, all of whom are eligible for election and competent to vote. Subscribers of one guinea al«o receive a ticket entitling them to free admission to the Hospital as patients for the next twelve months ; for a two guinea subscription and upwards two tickets are issued admitting the subscriber and any other to whom the second ticket may be given. Mr McDougall in the course of an aftersupper speech last night, admitted that if, during the recent contest in Napier for parliamentary honors, he had learnt one

thing more than another, it was this—" that it is unsafe for a man to allow his tongue too much latitude.'* H3. also ventured to affirm that & certain gentleman whoa short time since was reckoned as one of Napier's worst enemies (by some people) would be found working hard for the good of the town during tho coming session. We must congratulate Mr McDougall on this apparent increase of good sense, and express our gratification that he is profiting by the lesions of the past.

At tbe District Court this forenoon, before His Honor Judge Kenny, probate was granted, on the application of Mr Carlile, to N. E. Beamish and A. H. Wallis in the estate of Thomas Lowry, deceased. Orders of discharge in bankruptcy were granted to Edward" McNab Plank and John Lewis, with costs. Mr Laacelles appeared for both the applicants. Judgment for plaintiffs was given in the following cases, with costs, counsel's and interpreter's fees :—J. Leonard v. Ratima, £l 2; same v. Hapuka te JVahu, £59 19s; Neal and Close v. Manaine Tine, £158 19s. The costs, &0., in the three last amounted to £13 Bs, £13 13s, and £15 7s 6d respectively.

In proposing the health of the Governor at the Corporation supper last night, His Worship the Mayor said that " during the time Sir Arthur Gordon had been Governor of this colony he had acquainted himself with every part of it, and that the work Hia Excellency bad done since his arrival here was quite enough to show everyone the great interest he had taken in New Zealand." Why did not Mr Vautier add to this startling piece of intelligence a few particulars of at least one or two of the great things Sir Arthur Gordon hAs done for this " sheep-oppressed " (? sldp-op-pressed) country, either before or since his arrival amonirst us? The statement might then have been more readily discounted; meantime we cannot see it. It would seem to have become quite a recognised thing in Napier that a public supper without an alarm of fire ia incomplete, the majority of burninars here within the past few years (fortunately few in number) having ocouned under such a circumstance as we have mentioned. At a quarter to one o'clock this morning, while the Mayoral supper was in full swing, the fire bell rang out a loud alarm, the cause being a small fire, which was discovered by a constable on duty, at the rear of Mr Watt's bakery, Hastings-street. The Fire Brigade, with their appliances, were promptly upon the spot, but owing to the energy of Constable Cargill, before their arrival, the fire, which «vas confined to a small lean-to, was subdued without the services of the engines being 1 required. Had the fire not been discovered at so early a stagre of its progress, and nipped in the bud, a serious conflagration, involving much loss of property, and perhaps life, must inevitably have resulted. It is generally believed that the fire originated through a bucket of smouldering ashes left in the back yard communicating in some way with the lean-to. " Not for a day, but for all time," has been written of Shakespeare, and in the humbler and less professional walks of life are the works of men destined to live as long as life. To the truly good thing tbere is no limit of existence, even when the author dies his meritorious deeds survive him, and pass on through the endless generations that follow him. It has been years since tho world first heard of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Abosiatic Schnapps, and to-day its virtues are as fresh, and its fame as unclouded as when it first flashed into public notice..—[Advt.] Sacred concert, St. Paul's Church, this evening. H. Monteith and Co. sell on Saturday, horses, farm implements, hams, bacon, &c. The programme of the Hawke's Bay Racing Club's annual meeting at Pakowhai is published. Mr B. Lyndon, trustee in the estate of W. H. Simpson, invites tenders for the purchase of the properties. The Or*ti steams for Gisborne and Auckland at 6 p.m. to-day. Murray, Roberts and Co. have new goods just landed on sale. Accounts in the estate of Price and Innes must be paid to Cross and Smyth by January 31st. Monday being a holiday the half-yearly meeting of Court Sir Charles Napier, A.0.F., will be held to-morrow evening. Mr Miller inserts the terms on which the Rissington estate will be sold. Application will be made to the District Court on January 12th for a declaration of the complete execution of the deed of arrangement of W. H. Simpson and others. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.