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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3591, 15 January 1883, Page 2

Tho Municipal Public Works Committee meet this evening at the usual hour. Letters from England state that the writers have met Mr G. H. Swan in London, and that he looks exceedingly well. No mention is made of the probable date of his return. His Excellency the Administrator of the Government has appointed Major John George Butts, New Zealand Militia, as adjutant to the volunteer forces in the Wellington, Wairarapa, and Napier Districts. The Hawke's Bay portion of the European mail via San Francisco arrived from Auckland yesterday morning, and was all sorted by 11 o'clock in the day. It consisted 0f'295-1 letters, 5627 newspapers, 518 books, and 06 registered letters. In the Resident Magistrate's Court tliis morning, before Captain Preecc, R.M., John Pringle was convicted of drunkenness for the second time, and was ordered to pay a fine of 10s and costs, or in default to be imprisoned for -IS hours with hard labor. The Poverty Bay Standard is under the impression that Napier is jealous that a young township like Gisborne "is making such rapid strides, and gradually growing into an importance Napier can never hope to attain." And they say there is no "' gas" at Gisborne. To-morrow evening the re-opening of the Free Methodist Church, recently removed to Carlyle-street will be celebrated by a soiree to be given in the schoolroom at G. 30. A public meeting will take place immediately afterwards in the church, when addresses will be delivered by delegates to the district meeting. It will be seen by advertisement elsewhere that Ben Allah, with whose fame as a ventriloquist and conjurer many of our readers arc, doubtless, already acquainted, will open here for a short season at the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening. In addition to the usual attractions the prestidigiator announces a gift distribution at the close of each performance. Messrs Hoadlcy, Lyon and Co. desire to call attention to an error they made in the description of town section No. Go, Havelock. that is amended in the advertisement in this issue of their land sale. The section ishalf-an-aerc in extent, and not a quarteracre as previously stated. The sale takes place to-morrow'at 2.30. p.m. at the wool stores of Messrs Hoadlcy, Lyon and Co. The delegate representing the Northern Fire Brigades, Mr C. Little, arrived by the steamer "from Auckland yesterday. The Southern delegates arc coming overland, and will be here to-morrow night. The conference of the Fire Brigades' Association sits on Wednesday morning- in the old Council Chamber, and the visitors will be entertained at a, banquet on Thursday at the Clarendon Club Hotel. The inner harbor seems to be swarming just now with stingaree, several of large size having been captured during tho. last few days. Yesterday a young man, while looking at one that had" just been caught and was napping about, was pierced through the thigh by the spear that terminates the tail of the fish, making a very dangerous wound. The sufferer was at once conveyed to the Hospital. Captain A. S. Birch and Mr F. Nelson arrived together- at Auckland by the 'Frisco boat. The former left for Wellington, and, spending two days there, reached Napier on Saturday. Mr Nelson waited for the steamer Ringarooma, and only got here yesterday, together with the English mail. Had our mail been forwarded via Wellington we should have had it delivered by Saturday evening, and thus saved the Post Office officials some hours of Sunday labor. We publish as an insert this evening the programme of the entertainment tendered to Mr T. R. Gilpin by the Napier amateurs. The first part consists of a ballad concert, and a glance at the names of the performers is a sufficient guarantee of its high class and pleasing nature. The second part will be a repetition of the operetta. " Red RidingHood," which was so admirably played by the school children a short time ago. Apart from tho object of the performance its merits should secure a full house. We have received a note from Mr R. S. Smythc, the agent for the celebrated war correspondent, Archibald Forbes, stating that the latter will leave Christchurch for Napier next Thursday. Mr Forbes has been drawing- very large audiences whereever he has lectured in New Zealand, and at Christchurch the Oddfellows' Hall was quite inadequate to hold the numbers of people who crowded to hear him. _ Mr Smythc says he regrets now that he did not engage the Theatre, for he has had "to turn a lot of money away "' from the doors. The most complete Almanac that has ever been published in Hawke's Bay has just been issued by 3lr R. C. Harding. _ It possesses a treble- calendar in English, Scandinavian, and Maori, besides Jewish and Ecclesiastical calendars. Attached to each month's calandar is a. variety of information of a most useful character, and a blank leaf for memoranda. Tho volume also contains an East Coast Gazetteer and Local Guide, and the fullest Hawke's Bay directory that has ever been compiled. The Almanac is very nicely printed, and the whole work reflects the highest credit upon the publisher. The following prisoners undergoing sentences of from one to seven years' imprisonment, dating from 1882, were removed from the Napier gaol to-day, and forwarded per Kiwi to Wellington, where they will be detained during the remainder of their respective terms:—Alexander Chase, convicted of forgery, two years imprisonment; Tamati Tupara, manslaughter, seven years; Antoinc Martin, horse stealing, three years ; James Conway, horse stealing-, two years; Heremia, forgery, one year; Eruara te Whatanui, hoiw: .stealing, prison breaking, and larceny, three years. The prisoners are accompanied by Warder Reardon, who has been promoted to Lyttelton gaol, whither he proceeds after handing over his present'charge at Wellington. A case of some public interest came be- ' fore the Resident Magistrate this morning. It appears that some time ago Mr King, of the Pohui public-house, was discovered taking timber from a bush on tho Kaiwaka '. run occupied by Messrs Donnelly and Sewell. Tho latter thereupon laid an information against King, and the case came before the Court to-day. Messrs Carlile and McLean appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr Lascelles for the defendant. Mr Lascelles contended that his client was act- ' ing under instructions from the road ] overseer, who, by virtue of an agreement ' between the Government and the native owners of the run, had authority to take ; timber for public works. Messrs Carlile ] and McLean contended that, though the ] circumstances of the case had subsequently ' come to tho knowledge of plaintiffs, the road overseer was bound to give notice of ' intention to enter the bush leased to them. ] They would, while agreeing to flic information being withdrawn, now communicate * with the Govcminet on the subject, in the desire to obtain notice of any future inteu-

tion to tako timber for public works, so as to hold a check upon the persons employed. We (Gisborne Herald) regret to hear that the first drive-pipe which was being put down by the South Pacific Company has been lost. The pipe has bent at some distance above the bottom of the hole. The accident is attributed to a defective collar. No great loss of time will ensue from this. The new drive-pipe wdll be at once started, and probablyin less than a fortnight we shall be able to report that a depth equal to the lost pipe has been attained. It, how r ever, appears to us that the difficulties that have been experienced by both companies arc about the same. The South Pacific had previously lost five bores ; the Southern Cross, three : the latter took to shaft sinking to release their earth-bound . tubes, and it appears that the South Pacific may have to do tho same in order to get into sound ground and recover their still more valuable material. With the concentration of special intelligence now r exercised by both Companies, "Oil or no oil" will soon be docided for New Zealand. The Wanganui Chronicle of the 12th instant gives some particulars of a whirlwind of a very violent character that is said to have visited Woodville (Seventy-mile Bush) on Wednesday last. The day, remarks our contemporary, was dull and hot, and there were no indications of wind. The atmosphere was murky with the smoke of bush fires. A light breeze sprang up about noon, and the whirlwind came upon the district in a moment, and with no notice of warning. A Wangamn gentleman was an eyewitness of the phenomenon, and he states that it literally shipped a chain's width of the bush along the Mantiwatu river, close to the Woodville township, for fully a mile. It cleared away everything iv fifteen feet circles, and wrenched up and split into matchwood the trees on its onward career. Logs of half a ton weight were lifted in the air and flung a quarter of a mile off. The whirlwind passed oil through a bush fire, and scattered the burning wood in all directions, and with a singularly striking effect. The settlers in the immediate locality cleared out of their houses, and hastily beat a retreat, some of them hiding themselves under big logs. Happily no injury to life or limb "was caused by the whirlwind, and no property was damaged or interfered with except the line of bush, and as to this it is propable that the clearance thus rapidly effected was found beneficial by the owners of the sections. The occurrence considerably startled the residents of the township of Woodville. Of themany complaints in which Ladopepthtc has shown most prompt and decided success none have been more quickly relieved than the various forms of headache, including nervous and sick headache, which distressing complaints are in nine cases out of ten, due to inactive or sluggish liver, with constipated bowels. Laotopeptine can be obtained in handy bottles, with full instructions enclosed, of Professor Moore, Waipawa.-— [ Adyt. ]