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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3728, 27 June 1883, Page 2

On our back page to-day will be found two correspondents'letters—one on "Rabbit Extermination," and the other on "The Church and the Times "—a copy of the petition from Wahanui and other Waikato natives presented in tho House yesterday, and an article headed "A Catholic High Sheriff." Mr James Lawrence has resigned his ap-* pointment as a Justice of the Peace. There was a blank charge-sheet presented in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Wo wero shown to-day a photo-litho-graphed copy of the original treaty of Waitangi, containing the signatures and marks of 534. natives. The copy is in possession of Mr S. Locko. Tho date of the treaty is £1340. evening a lecture will be delivered in \he Working Men's Club hall by Mr A. B. Thomson on "The Growth of English Liberty." The chair will be taken at 8 o'clock. Members may introduce their friends. The Municipal Council was to have sat in committee last night to consider an application in reforenco to the widening of Emer-son-street, but there being no quorum the Town Clerk adjourned tho meeting till Monday next. Professor Hugo, being unable to obtain the use of the Public Hall at Clive last night, was obliged to forego his intended lecture at that place. He lectures tomorrow evening in the Scandinavian Hall, White-road, in aid of the funds of the Scandinavian Society. To the Editor:—Sir,—Can you inform me whether the telegram received by Mr P. Bear, and which purported to come from the Governor, was a genuine message.—l am, <fee, Enquirer. [Wo believo it was not. There is a,story afloat that the telegram was a joke on the part of a Wellington professor of the tonsorial art.—Ed.] The committee of the Napier district school met last evening and opened the following tenders for the erection of a gymnasium and for levelling the playground, &c.:—Glendinning andG-riffen, £129; W. Ami .r, £140: J. Thacker, £165 ; Edser and Son, £170 15s j T. Water worth, £182 10s 6d; J. Renouf, £183 12s Gd. The tender of Messrs Glendinning and Griffon was accepted. Death has been busy in the ranks of the licensed victuallers during the last twelve months or so in this district. Last March twelve months Mr Ferguson, of tho Criterion Hotel died, and since then we have had to chronicle the death of MiRaven, of the Royal Hotel. Of tho wives of licensed victuallers Mrs Fuszard and Mrs Ashton havo passed away, and in this issue our obituary contains the namo of Mrs Barrows. It has been suggested that the pay the Napier volunteers will receive for acting as a guard of honor to the Governor should be sent to Auckland in aid of the funds subscribed thero to erect a monument in mGiiwry of tho late Major Withers. The Gisborne volunteers devoted their pay to this purpose. All ftW residents ever regarded Major Withers as a JjTapjer man, and, as he commanded tli.e volunteer and militia district here for some years, wo are certain that the above suggestion fras only to bo made for the volunteers to act upon it, A new lodge of the Loyal United Friends was ojjencd last night at Taradale, and the following wero instituted as officers for the first term :—W.M., Bro. S. Spence ; D.M., Bro. M. Jarvis ; Secretary, Bro. W. Waterhou&e; Treasurer, Bro. E. Villars; Steward, Bro. R. Bailey,; Deputy-Steward, Bro. S. Hares; I. Tyler, Bro.' J. Sanderson; O. Tyler, A. McCartney; L.A., Bro. S.. E. Anderson. The instituting officers wero : —Bro. Wundram, District Grand Registrar; Bro. Troy, Instituting Officer ; Bros. White and Hicks, Past Masters; and Bro. Moody, Worshipful Master of Lodge. ______________________■'

Our Woodville correspondent, under date of yesterday, writes as follows :—Heavy rain set in here on Sunday, and continued with but little intermission through yesterday and all night, consequently tho rivera are up bank high and still rising.—Mr Solomon Hemus, agent for the New Zealand Temperance Society, delivered a lecture last evening in the Free Methodist Church, which was filled. Mr Hemus differs very agreeably from most temperance advocates, as he does not pour out those vials of wrath and pronounce such woes upon those who get their living by tho liquor traffic, but rather lays the charge of intemperate habits at the doors of the parents of children in teaching them when very young to imbibe small quantities of alcohol for some real or imaginary complaint. Mr Hemus put the "blueribbon" on about ono hundred persons. Ho leaves by coach to-day for Napier, calling at several of the intermediate townships on tho way. Old Sores!— Many persons aro greatly troubled with old sores that they cannot succeed in healing; they try all sorts of applications, lotions, plasters, poultices, liniments, ko., kc, but all in vain—tho open wound remains Bullen and obstinate. For the only mode of healing all such sores consult Professor Moore, Medical Hull, Waipawa, and receive advice gratis.— [Advt.] Unshaken in popularity by the competition of worthless imitations and importations mendaciously represented to bo equally remedial, or to possess the same qualities. Wolfe's Schnapps will soon drive from tho field these trashy competitors.—[Advt.]