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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3677, 27 April 1883, Page 2

AA r e are requested to state that, owing to the inclement weather now prevailing, the Volunteer Band will not perform in front of the Fire Brigade station this evening.

They have a potato in Christchureh that weighs 21b 4oz, according to the local Telegraph. Cannot some of our Hawke's Bay farmers or market gardeners beat this ?

The shooting season commences on Tuesday next, May 1. It is necessary to procure a license from the Chief Postmaster, the fee for which is 30s, for tho liberty to shoot imported game. The license to sell game is £5.

Dr. Faulkner has been appointed Public Vaccinator for the Hastings district, aud he has informed us that he will attend at the Town Hall, Hastings, on the first Monday in each month, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, to vaccinate.

Mr Ruddenklau, the Mayor of Christchurch, arrived here last night overland from AVellington. The Town Clerk aceonjpanied Mr Ruddenklau to the pumping station and upper reservoir this morning, and His Worship the Mayor showed his visitor the "lions" of the borough during the afternoon.

Messrs J. J. Buchanan, George R. G, Carlyon, W. Hastie, J. Howard, and James Matthews have been elected as members of the North Ruataniwha Road Board for tho ensuing year, and Messrs F. G. Cooper, J. F. Crane, AY, ft. Knight, G. AY. Tines, and T. Miller as members of the Danevirkc Road Board,

In,connection with the visit of the Mayor of Christchureh wo may mention that_ ho expressed his surprise at the municipal rates here being collected in two six-monthly instalments. At Christchureh they have to be paid in one sum, an arrangement that must save an immense amount of clerical labor, of stationery, and postage stamps,

In several parts of the colony, the "com. pulsory clauses" of the Education Act are being enforced. Parents are reminded that thoy°are liable to a penalty of 40s. for neglecting to send their children to a State school, unless it can be satisfactorily proved that the children are attending a private school, or that they are receiving education at home.

Mrßuchan-Hepburn, the husband of Amy Horton, has just succeeded to a baronetcy by the death of an elder brother. The lato Mr (now Sir Buehan-Hepburn) will be remembered here as the advance agent_ tor Lyon's Tourists, and more recently m a similar capacity for Miss Jemne Lees company. In this sudden transition the ups and downs of life arc fairly illustrated.

A man who gave his name as Sylvester David Egans was charged at the AVaipawa Police Court, before A. St. C. Inglis, J.P., with obtaining the sum of £3 from Mr D. Smith, lessee of the Makatoku Hotel, by means of a valueless cheque. At the request of the police the hearing of the case was adioumed till AA r eduesday next, to be dealt with by Captain Preecc, and prisoner, who seemed anxious to make a statement, was removed in custody.

The district meeting of the Hawke's Bay Foresters was held last night in Court Lord Clyde lodgo-room, AA r airoa. All the Courts in the district were represented. On tho motion of Court Lord Clyde a resolution for the presentation of a petition to tho Government asking for the actuarial examination of Courts wis carried. The delegates were afterwards entertained at dinner at the Clyde Hotel. Forty sat down, and the usual toasts, etc,, were duly honored.

In the sailing match to-morrow for Mr J. H. Abutter's cup the following will be the positions which the- boats will assume at tho starting point, the first enumerated being nearest the flagship :— AYave Queen, Revenge, Resolute, Osprey, and Comet. The boats may easily be distinguished from each other, as they arc each to fly a flag from the commercial code as follows:— Wave Queen, the letter X ; Revenge, B ; Resolute, N; Osprey, M; Comet, AY.

AYe have pleasure in directing attention to the preliminary anno uncemeut, published in another column, of the grand operatic concert which it is proposed to give on the Bth proximo in aid of tho funds for the support of the orphan children at the Napier Convent schools. The programme has been selected with great care, and no pains are being spared cither by the promoters or those ladles and gentlemen who have consented to take part to make the concert one of, if not the, moat successful that has ever been held here.

When Dr. Grabham was here last week he made an official visit of inspection to the lunatic asylum, of which he made a very good report. He says, in spite of tho "building being cramped and ill-contrived, Mr W- Miller has made the best of what should" only be a receiving-house. The

patients, of whom there arc twenty-one, namely fifteen males and six females, arc scrupulously clean, well cared for, aud comfortable looking. It is Dr. Grabhaui's opinion that thero should be one or more ejntral asylums in the colony, and that the small asylums in places like Napier should be merely receiving houses.

The Napier Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association's meeting was held in St. Paul's school-room last evening, there being a good attendance of both members and visitors. An essay on Hood was read by one of the members, and though tho essay in itself was good, tho rendering of it, somewhat spoilt the effect it would otherwise have had. At its conclusion it was freely criticised. Three pieces selected from the poet's works to illustrate his different styles were then given by other members, and called forth very favorable criticisms. The programme for the next meeting was announced to bo two essays, one on the Duke of AVcllington, and the other on Sir Francis Bacon.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Albion Lodge of Druids was held in the lodge-room, Dickens-street, last evening, when there was a large attendance of members. Several candidates having been duly initiated, and four others proposed for initiation, the Arch Druid intimated that Pro. AY. K. Bishop, District President, had called at Napier the other day on his way to AVcllington, and had held a meeting of lodge officers for a lecture and examination. The District President had expressed himself highly pleased with the progress that was being made by the Albion Lodge, also with the efficiency*that marked the conduct of lodsre affairs,*and the diligence of the offi-ccram learning their duties and carrying them out. He informed the officers that on his visit North he had opened three new lodges, and added that the Druids were making gigantic strides everywhere, and that shortly they might expect to have a Grand Lodge for New Zealand.

The sugar crop on the Maekay (Queensland) plantations is expected to yield 20,000 tons this coming season. The Mackay Planters' Association have decided to scud an agent to China to make arrangements with the Hong Kong Guild of Compradores for a supply of Chinese agricultural laborers. At a meeting of the Association the labour supply question was discussed, and the proposition to send to India for coolies was abandoned because of the opposition shown by the colonists generally to this class of labor, and the statement by Mr. Hume Black, M.L.A., that a Coolie Importation Bill was not likely to be introduced next session.