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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3520, 19 October 1882, Page 2

We are requested to acknowledge receipt of the following sums toward the Jack relief fund:—R.France, £1 Is; J. Higham, 10s.

Wβ are indebted to Mr Sutton, M.H.R., for a copy of the Rating Act, 1882, and desire to thank him for supplying the deficiency cf the Government.

The letter portion of the 'Frisco mail -will arrive at Napier overland from Wellington this evening. The newspapers, books, &c, are coming up in the eteamer Go-Ahead.

The proposed additions to the Waipukurau Hospital having proved too expensive, fresh designs have been prepared, and tenders are now called for the works in accordance with the reduced plan.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning-, befure Captain Prence, R.M., Daniel McDonald {alias Donald McDonald), on remand charged with the alleged embezzlement at Wairarapa of a sum of £62 odd, was remanded on warrant to Carterton. There was no other business.

The " military " funeral accorded to the remains of the late Colonel Lambert is likely, we hear, to lead to the reorganisation of the volunteer force in this town, the movement being undertaken by residents who have belonged to the Imperial service. We shall have something more to say on this tubject in our next issue.

It waa remarked last night of the borough councillors that, on a question of " pitching" into the church, they stood as a band of brothers—that men who never agreed upon any other subject found a common platform when a vote of censure had to be passed that to some extent reflected on the representatives of the largest religious denomination in the colony.

The Rifle Band will give an open air instrumental concert opposite the Fire Brigade station this evening, when the following programme will be performed :—Quick step, " The Merry Minstrel;" valse, "Happy and Gay;" quadrille, "Echoes from the West;" polka, "Jack Frost;" valse, " Suaette; " march, " Little Hero ; " finale, " God Save the Queen."

We are requested to mention that any persons found trespassing on the Napier recreation ground, Carlyle street, on and after this date-, will be prosecuted. This notice has been rendered necessary in consequence of certain boy?, and even grownup lads who should know better, having selected the recreation ground as a training course, to the material hurt of the young grass that has just commenced to make its appearance above the ground, and which is not yet sufficiently hardy to bear being trampled upon.

The balance (about £80) of the Boxing Day's races was last evening voted to the Hastings Athenseum. As this rase meeting was supported liberally by the people of Hastings and suburbs, the surplus could not have been better applied than in augmenting the funds of the proposed institute, which, it is hoped, will prove an agreeable retreat for many after their day's work. A meeting of trustees is to be held to-morrow for the purpose of acoepting plans, &c, for the proposed building, and we hope soon to see the work completed.

We observe in a recent Gazette that tho following branches of friendly societies have been registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1882:—Court Heretaunga, No. 6553, A.0.F.; and Lodges Meanee No. SSS2, Abbotsford No. 6025, Clive No. 6190, Hastings No. 6299, Victoria No. 6300, Tavistock No. 6342, and Woodville No. 6395, of the 1.0.0.F.—a1l situated within this provincial district. The Hawko'a Bay District of the Manchester Unity of the 1.0.0. F., situated at Napier, has also been registered under the same Act.

The following paragraph, taken from the Clutha Leader of the 13th instant, will doubtless be of interest to many of our readers who will remember the reverend gentleman referred to therein as being formerly the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at Waipawa : —" The Rev. J. U. Spsnce, Clinton, was on Wednesday last presented by his congregation with a buggy and harness. Messrs Taylor, Fife, and Golding, as representing the respective divisions of the Popotunoa congregation, viz., Wairuna, "Waiwera, and Clinton, waited on Mr Spence at the Manse and made the presentation. Mr Taylor explained that the subscribers were hard working men and women. He hoped Mr Spence would accept it in tho spirit in which it was given, and that he would be long spared to use it in carrying on the work of the congregation. The rev. gentleman replied in suitable terms. The trap is a very handsome single seated buggy made by Mr Kobin, of Dunadin, and the harness is quite in keeping with the buggy."

A meeting of the committee of the Hawke's Jockey Club was held yesterday, when a highly satisfactory balance-sheet showing the income and expenditure at the late spring meeting was submitter!, the credit balance amounting , to £350 13s 7d. The statement of assets and liabilities showed a credit balance of £438 12s, after providing for the grand stand and all other liabilities. The programmes for the Boxing Day and autumn meetings were drawn up. The former includes Christmas Handicap, mile and a quarter, 60 soys ; Maiden Plate, one mile, 50 soys ; Handicap Hurdles, two miles, 50 cove ; Hastings Handicap, two miles and a half, 150 so'vs; Hack Race, one mile, 10sovs; Consolation, one mile, 30 soys. The date for the autumn meeting was fixed for the loth and 16th March, the programme being arranged as follows: — First day—Maiden Plate, mile and a half, 60 soys ; Welter Handicap, two miles, 100 soys, 9st 71b, minimum weight; Napier Handicap, mile and three-quarters, 500 soys; Nurcery Plate, half-mile, 100 soya; Hack race, one mile, 20 soys; Railway Handicap, three-quarter mile, 125 soys. Second day—Grand Stand Handicap, two miles, 150 soys; Provincial Produce, one mile, 100 soys; Hurdle Handicap, two miles, and a half, 150 soys ; Tradesman's Handicap, mile and a half, 200 soys ; Autumn Handicap, three-quarter mile, for two and three-year-olds, 100 soys ; Consolation, one mile, 50 soys.

The American Congress have devoted 75,000 dollars for three expeditions for observing the transit of Venus. One party poes to Patagonia, another to the Cape of Good Hope, and the third to New Zealand. An international meeting is to be held in Paris next year to compare notes. The phenomenon of the transit will not occur again for 11G years. As many of our readers are doubtlees aware, New Zealand owea its existence, an a British colony, to a transit of Venus. Had not Captain Cook, in 1759, been sent out to the Southern Seas to observe how the " Goddess of Beauty " did her transiting this " great and glorious land" might have now been in possession of Dutchmen, and the world would never have been delighted with SirGeorgo Grey's brilliant orations about the salvation of the "human race." The "human race" are deeply indebted to the inamorata of poor Adenis.—Eangitikei Advocate.

Homoeopathy is the namo given to a system of medical treatment introduced bySir Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, in 1796, and now extensively practised and having many adherents in every country and clime, amongst the number being not a few medical men of high distinction. The mode of treatment is extremely simple, and no homo is complete without a supply of homoeopathic medicines. Country residents will find the largest stock in Hawke's Bay (by Marshall and other makers) of this invaluable remedy for nearly every ailment at Professor Moore's Medical Hall, Waipawa.— [Advt.l

Tho distinctive characteristics of certain preparations are asserted in their equally distinctive effects. To be able to trace the direct results of any particular ministration is to have the unqualified assurance of its operating power. Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps relieves indigestion, removes despondency, quickens the torpid condition of the most sensitive organs, throws off all the excesses of the billiary secretions, tones the system, stimulates the functions to a healthy action, and puts the machinery of the human organism in harmonious movement.—[advt.]