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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3495, 19 September 1882, Page 2

At the Waipawa Magistrate's Court yesterday, before A. St. C. Inglis, Eeq., J.P., J. Collinara was charged by tho police with drunkenness in a public place. Accused admitted the offence, and was fined 5s and 7e costs. The usual meeting of the Clive Square Mutual Improvement Association is to be held to-night, in the vestry of the Trinity Wesleyan Church, at 8 o'clock. The evening will be occupied by readings and recitations from various members of the class. There was a pretty warm discussion at the Public Works Committee meeting last night on the subject of the Inspector ot Nuisances, which is likely to lead to a special meeting of the Council being called to consider tho whole question of existing appointments and official salaries. It will be fome satisfaction to foot-pas-sengers who have had their hands or their clothes torn to hear that that horrid nuisance, the barbed wire round the south half of Clive Square, ia to be prevented from doing further mischief by a rail that will protect persons who may be walking by the bide of the fence. The New South Walee football team's representative has telegraphed to the secretary of the Napier Football Club offering to play a match at Napier on Saturday, 30th instant, if the steamer arrangements can be made to suit. The committee of the Napier Football Club meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon to consider the terms of the offer. A special general meeting of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held this forenoon at the society's offices, Tennyson-street, when the following new members were elected:— Messrs J. H. Williams, A. Lugan, H. J. Thompson, J. McKenzie, J. I'ord, F. Peacock, R. H. MoKenzie, J. B. { Brathwaite, and H. A. Banner. Captain Prence, as Trust Commissioner, gave notice in the Eeaident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning that he would certify to the following deed submitted to him for examination if no objections thereto were lodged within the next five days : — Conveyance of undivided interest in Peka Peka block No. 1, containing 1120 acres, Teretiu Tahupa to Hugh Campbell. Many complaints having been made concerning- the foul smells issuing from the ventilating traps of the main drain,_ and knowing that, months ago, the Municipal Engineer had been authorised to abate the nuisance by means of charcoal boxes, we have made enquiries by which we learn that the boxes, on being delivered, proved to be a trifle too large to enter the drain, and that they are now being , altered. Ifc is to be hoped no time will be lost in placing these boxes in position. The General Synod of the Charch of England in New Zealand will hold its next session in April or May at Napier. The Synod is composed of three clergy and four laymen from each diocese, and there are seven dioceses in the colony. Thus we shall have an assemblage of eeven bishops, twenty-one clergymen, and twenty-eight laymen in Napier for whom hospitality must be provided, and we hear steps are already being taken to ascertain the billeting accommodation in the superior residences in the town. Mr Grubb requests us to acknowledge receipt of the following sums towards the Jack relief fund:—Mr Douglas McLean, £3 3s- Mr W. C. Smith, M.H.R., £3 3s; 8.T.C.,£l Is; Mr Wm. Tait, £1 ss; Mr Wm. Miller, £1 Is; Mr Wm. Robinson, 10h 6d- Mr John W. Reardon, 10s 6d ; Mr John Stevens, ss; Mr Thos. Tryne, ss; Mr P. McNamara, 5s ; Mr Thos. Barry, ss; Mr Thomas Rafter, ss; Mi.ss Conroy, 10e ; Mr H. Nesbitt, 10a; Mrs Christian, ss; Large and Townley and employes. £5 13s ; Mrs Captain Newman, £2.

At last something is to be done towards making a safe approach to the fort Ahuriri bridge. The Municipal Engineer's plans for this work were approved by the committee laat night, and are recommended for adoption by the Council. The proposal is to make a straight approach to the bridge by forming a road through one of the Harbor Board's reserves, and co on to the main thoroughfare connecting the Spit with Hyderabad road. The Harbor Board has consented to give the ground and also the material required for this most neceasary work.

We understand that the Municipal Engineer has been instructed to draw up a report to the Public Works Committee on the question of contract work versus day labor. There are sixteen day laborers now in the employ of the Corporation, and the report has been asked for under ' the supposition that much of the work performed by them might be more advantageously contracted for. A commencement has been made in this direction by the Public Works Committee recommending that tenders should be invited for keeping the storm water draiu clear. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., the following civil cases were disposed of : — Patterson v. Hollis, claim £21 los 6d for labor and money lent; judgment for plamtiff for £17 15s 6d with costs, plaintiff s expenses, and counsel's fee. Rearden v. Roper, judgment debt of £23 11s; an order was made that the claim be paid by weekly instalments of £1 each, together with all costs; and in default of any one payment the whole amount to become due, and the defendant to be imprisoned iv the Napier gaol for one calender month.

At a committee meeting of the Hawke'a Jm Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Seciety held 1 to-day it was agreed to let the ground to Xthe Friendly Societies Sports Committee y for the 9th November (Prince of Wales birthday) for £20, subject to the assent of the lessee of the grazing, the ground to be left in good order. Mr Douglas McLean offered a special prize of £12 12s to the winner of the greatest number of first prizes offered by the society, and a further special prize of like value for the best pair of draught horses owned by Maori competitors. The remaining business was unimportant.

The Jockey Club's privileges for the spring meeting were sold to-day by Messrs Hoadley and Lyon, and realised the following prices :—Grand stand bar, A McCartney, £41; refreshment room, Vaughan, £2; second stand bar, E. Ashton, £29 ; refreshment room, Mrs Clements, £5 10s; fancy stall, Gillett, 10s; confectionery booth, Gillett, £10; fruit stall, Prebble, £5 ; cards, Hayes, £14. After the above, the privileges of the Agricultural Society were disposed of as follows :—Publicans' booth, E. Ashton, £70; confectionery booth, Vaughan, £15 10s; second stand luncheon room, Vaughan, £3; fruit stall, Prebble, £6; fancy goods stall, Gillett, 10s ; catalogues, Ware, £18.

The Wairoa correspondent of the N.Z* Times writes as follows :-■>■" Wβ sadly want new Government buildings hero. The courthouse droops on one Bide for want of piles ; the lock-up belies its name, when a prisoner can dig his way out with his finger- Vnails (according to the lock-up keeper's evidence at a recent trial). The Post and Telegraphic Office is a miserable "den," there is absolutely no convenience provided for the public; no private letter-boxes, although from a dozen to twenty would be taken up to-morrow, were they available, and yet the Office pays, and pays well, too. The surplus of receipts over costs of maintenance for the year ending 31st March, 1881, was over £100. A similar surplus ia shown for the year ending 31st March, 1882, and yet, somehow, we can't get any extra accommodation. Places that don't pay salaries get really first-class buildings, while we get fobbed with a (relatively-epeaking) pig-stye."

The Wanganui Chronicle, referring to the increase of lunacy in that district, says :—" ' The cry is, still they come,' and the matter is certainly beginning to assume a most serious aspect, whether the fact is to be accounted for on Mr Seddon's theory of ' bad tea,' or on the more generally-accepted theory of ' bad-liquor.' Scarcely a week passes without a fresh case of lunacy, or suspected lunacy, coming before Hie Worship the Resident Magistrate for adjudication at the Wanganui Court-house, and most of these cases are the product of the Borough of Wanganui. As a matter of fact, they are drawn from all parts of the district included in the jurisdiction of Mr Ward. But, although the Borough is not responsible for the great number of lunatics annually leaving this port for safe-keeping at Wellington, yet the large number so sent from the district is a subject of so serious and melancholy a character, that it wonld be a matter for gratitude if some .light could be thrown upon the inducing cause of the prevalence of the malady. One woman was on the 12th instant committed to the Asylum, and two more are waiting to be dealt with."

" CEdipus" in the Melbourne Leader writes:—"The honors heaped upon the corpse of Charles Darwin were no doubt very gratifying, but they suggested melancholy reflections on the way in which the clergy and the aristocracy behaved towards him when alive. He was for a long time subjected to contumely, ostracism, and social martyrdom by the very classes who swelled the pageantry of his funeral. It is curious to note the brief period of time which has elapsed since he was almost universally regarded as the enemy of religion, and the libeller of all creation, and to compare the verdict of ten or twelve years ago with the way in which the leading divines vied with each ether, on the occaeion of his death, in praising him as the man Who had actually taught them to form a nobler estimate of the creative and providential power of the deity than they had ever imbibed in college or had learned from the teaching of the moafc eminent theologians. The most curious thing about the change is its suddenness. There is nothing in the record of miraculous conversions to compare with the rapidity of the diffusion of Darwinism over the whole civilised world, and the wonder is increased by the fact that the theory of evolution etrikes a blow at the cherished self conceit of mankind, and all the venerable delusions about the differences between the lords of the creation and the brutes that perish." " To do good rather than to be conspicuous " ought to be the motto of everyone who has the welfare of his fellow man i at heart. With this laudable object in view Professor Moore, of Waipawa, buys all his goods for cash, and keeps only articles of the best quality procurable in the market. Attention is respectfully directed to his present large stock of calves foot jelly, and Liebig's extract of meat, which will be disposed of at a slight advance over cost.—[Advt.] The excellence of an article is generally conceded when it enlists a host of spurious imitators. The very fact that it is firmly entrenGhed in popular esteem invites others to counterfeit it Hence, the number of imposters who have pirated even the trade» marks by which Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is distingushed, and endeavored to palm off on the public a deleterious compound in the place of the genuine invigorant.—[Advt.]