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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3643, 16 March 1883, Page 2

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning a first offender was fined os and costs for drunkenness.

To-morroAv, being St. Patrick's Day,*~\viHY be observed as a holiday at the s'overal banking establishments in the toAA'n and district.

Mr and Mrs John Bennett lea\-e Napier on Sunday by the steamer Wairarapa, en route for England. They will take with them the hearty good "wishes of their numerous friends.

We hear that all the bookmakers, Avith one exception, lost money oA r er their transactions on yesterday's racing. Luna failing to Avin the Napier Handicap was a severe bIoAV to sonic of them.

Mrs Swan, the Avifc of Mr G. H. Swan, breathed her last at about 11 o'clock this morning. The deceased lady had been, gradually sinking- for the last ten months. The utmost sympathy -will be felt for Mr SAyan and his family."

Tho folloAving Napier team -will play the Petane Cricket Club to-morrow at Petane:— Messrs Eclwards, Praia, Gilberd, J. Martin, 11. Martin, White, Carnell, Gilpin, Anderson, Ellison, and Collins; emergency, Wake. Tho team will leave the Empire Hotel at 1 o'clock sharp.

Everything connected Avith the property tax seems to partake of the character of a conundrum. The Board of RevieAvers the other day inserted an advertisement in reference to " undermentioned places," takiug care, hoAvevor, to omit the places. Noav the error is rectified as far as the places are concerned, but if anybody can understand the advertisement now that it is corrected he deserves a prize.

The Egyptain War Gift Exhibition was again largely attended hist evening, Avheua iicav series of aicavs Avas exhibited. Titer. Avas the usual distribution of presents, a good per centage of Avhich represented many times the A-aluo of the charge for admission. The "Zoetrope," the aerial suspension act, . the phonograph, and the galvanic battery," 1 attracted a good share of attention. This evening there Avill bo another change of programme.

Dr. ScliAvarzbach is once more visiting Napier, and, as his stay will be short, those who require tho services of this distinguished specialist should make an early call. Dr. Schwarzbach complains that he cannot be expected to suffer in his reputation through patients affording him no opportunity of doing them justice. He has noAv resolved to take no neAV cases for several says before leaving Napier. As Dr. Schwarzbach stays only to the 24th instant persons wishing to j____ult him should do so at once. Gisborneßoroug-h Councillors (says the Poverty Bay Herald) never begrudge thentime, so long as they can be alknved the solace of a pipe of tobacco after ten, to discuss the Avants of the district, and it cannot be said of the past that they have been so careless about public works as to alloAV their engineer to do as he thought proper, not even to repairing- a street crossing, or getting the steps leading to the Council Chambers sanded, without first consulting them and getting a minute entered to that effect.

Mrs Gramatica, Avho has been returned for trial on the charge of having murdered Denis Quinlau at Lyell, and in Avhom much public interest is just iioav centered, is a tall, masculine Avoman, of the character known as " strong minded." Her present serious difficulty is the climax to a life _of , trouble. She and her husband (avlio died in the Westport Hospital some two years ago) liA-cd a " cat-and-dog " life for a longtime, mainly OAviim-, it is said, to the woman's drinking habits. When Gramatica died he Avilled his property at LyeU to his son, afraid that his Avife would dissipate it. Tho farm and daily Avere carried on awhile, and then leased to Mr John Reid. Since . that time Mrs Gramatica has been living "by Avashing, but has not borne a A-ery good reputation. The son Frank died six or eight months, airo, and the only surviving child, a little girl, has been kindly taken charge of by Mrs Williams, of Lyell. About five years ago Mr and Mrs Gramatica lost a daughter, a fine girl of 1-1 or 1-5, Ada by-* name, aa.io AA-as diwned before their eyes. She Avas returning home from the Nelson Convent School, and, with another person, while crossing the river opposite Lyell, in a "chair," the rope broke, precipitating them into the boiling stream beneath. Both Avere droAvncd.— Westport Times.

An English religious paper states that Father Ignatius " lately put the black veil on a sister at the English Benedictine Congregation, Avho had completed her two years' noviciate. After a very gorgeous and imposing' ceremony, the girl Avas laid on a bier, covered Avith a pall, and carried aAvay to a dark cell, Avhere she Avas to spend the rest of her life in solitude." Th priest told hi_ oavii A-ieAV of his share in the wretched transaction, in these words:— "Good people, lam cither going to perform an action of the most horrible cruelty, for Avhich I deserve that our graciousQueen should have me hung, or I am going to perform a most righteous, useful, and merciful action, in helping this youngnovice to make so tremendous a sacrifice of her life."

Country residents requiring patent or proprietary medicines, toilet requisites, fancy goods of any description, stationery, &c, Avill best consult their oavii interests by calling at Professor Moore's establishment, Waipawa, Avhere there is a large and Avell assorted stock to choose from. On hand Coutts' acetic acid, the noted cure for rheumatism, neuralgia, and all nervous complaints ; an unfailing remedy requiring out- y wsu-d application only.—fAiyvr.]

The proof of the pudding is in tho eating. If the virtues claimed for Wolfe's Schnaws Avere not to be found in the preparation, its sales AA'ould neither be so extensive nor outspread throughout the colonies.—[Adtx.J