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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3593, 17 January 1883, Page 2

The sittings of the United Free Methodist district meeting were resumed yesterday, when, amongst other business, the resignation of the Rev. T. Hodgson, Auckland. Avas accepted.

The running match for £10 aside arranged between Dean and Delauey will come off on Saturday afternoon, on the recreation ground, at •'! o'clock. There is, we are in-

formed, no truth whatever in the statement that the match is "off."

At the meeting of the Municipal Council this evening the election will take place of two of the "members to represent the Corporation on the Hospital Board. The two councillors whose names have been mentioned in this connection are Messrs Lee and Margoliouth.

Mr Robert Lamb has been appointed architect to the Education Board. It is fair to state that, when Mr Lamb tendered for this appointment, he was under notice of the termination of his engagement with the Municipal Corporation on the completion of the water supply extension works.

At the Waipawa Police Court, yesterday, before A.. St. 0. Tnglis, Esq., J.P., Joseph Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. As defendant had been locked up since the day before, and there were no previous convictions against him, he was discharged with a caution. There was no other business.

The engineer to the Harbor Board has received instructions .to report upon the advisability of having the fairway buoys painted with Balmoiir's luminous paint. If this paint possesses all the merits claimed for it, it might be advantageous to paint the breastwork heads for the guidance of steam launches coming in at night.

"An Importer" wishes to draw attention to that portion of Mr Ormond's letter, read at the Harbor Board meeting yesterday, in which it is pointed out that the ordinary revenue of the Board exceeds the ordinary expenditure by £1200, including interest on the loan. "An Importer" thinks that this shows that the dues and fees charged to shippers and importers might be fairly reduced.

The complimentary concert to Mr T. R. Gilpin takes place this evening, when we hope to see a crowded house. Mr Gilpin has always lent his services on every occasion when either public or private charity required assistance, and he has richly earned the compliment now tendered him. Mr Gilpin shortly proceeds to Melbourne, where he will join' the profession to which his talents point, and in which all in Napier will wish him every success.

The first appearance in Napier of Mr Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspondent, is definitely fixed for next Monday, when he will commence his course of four lectures in tho Theatre Royal. Probably no man during the last twelve years has witnessed so many extraordinary events or interviewed so many illustrious personages, and it is consequently not suprising that wherever Mr Forbes has appeared, in the old world and in the new, and during his colonial tour, he has attracted crowded audiences.

The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, at a committee meeting yesterday, endorsed the disqualilication of William Atkins, passed upon him by the Onga Onga Racing Club. 11. will be' remembered that Atkins was accused of pulling The Laird in the Maiden Plate at the Onga Onga meeting ou the 2nd instant, and that the club then disqualified William Atkins, the jockey, John Atkins, the trainer, and The Laird for ever. The Hawke's Bay Club postponed the consideration of the disqualification of the horse and his trainer.

At Messrs Hoadley, Lyon and Co.'s land sale yesterday one of the persons present wanted to buy a section at Taradale, and another gentleman desired to acquire one at Havelock. The Havelock section was put up first, but the settler from Taradale, thinking it was the section lie wanted to buy, ran the price up to an amount that must have quite gladdened the hearts of property owners at Havelock. On finding out his mistake he was profuse in his apologies to the buyer, but, we bclievo, it is the rule amongst auctioneers, when tho money is

forthcoming, not to recognise mistakes of this kind.

At the conference of the New Zealand Fire Brigades Association, that commenced this morning, there were placed on the table for the refreshment of members such alcoholic and non-alcoholic liquids as might commend themselves to the varying tastes of the delegates. Possibly, if the same rule prevailed at all deliberative assemblies, there would be less disinclination shown by citizens to take part in public duties. Every election for a borough councillor, a synodsman, or a member of Parliament, would be hotly contested, and the colony might be able to drink itself out of debt in a very short time. The Fire Brigades in this and other matters have shown themselves true patriots.

We have been requested to sound a note of warning to all who indulge in the amusement of card playing. According to our information it would seem that some caution is necessary to be exercised in buying a pack of cards lest, unawares to both buyer and seller, a pack specially manufactured for sharpers should pass into the possession of the purchaser. The pack shown to us was gilt edged at the rounded comers, green scroll backs with gilt shading. By holding the back of the card at an angle to the light the denomination of the card is plainly pictured in the gilded shading. Honestpeople, ignorant of the ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain, might play with such a pack of cards as we have described without any suspicion that they were being cheated.

Of the many complaintsjin which Lactopepthte 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. Lactopcptinc can be obtained in handy bottles, with full instructions enclosed, of Professor Moore, Waipawa.—[Advt.]