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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3732, 2 July 1883, Page 2

An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Public Works Committee will take place this evening. Dr. Forrester Matthews has removed to his lately acquired residence, Old Bank, Shakespeare road. The examinations for scholarships and of pupil teachers commenced this morning at the Napier district school. The following racehorses were sold on Saturday : —Dhudcen for £S0 ; Reform for 44 guineas, Lady Bab for 42 guineas, and The Joker for £25. We are requested to remind owners of sheep that their returns were duo on Saturday last, and if not sent in by tho 17th instant legal proceedings will be taken. Mr Solomon Hcinus, who was mentioned in our Woodville letter last week in connection with a temperance mission, will deliver one of his lectures at Waipukurau on Thursday next. The Auckland Star of Tuesday last states that Mr Dobson, late manager of the Mutual Insurance Company, has been appointed the Napier agent for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, and enters upon his duties this month. We perceive with much satisfaction that an attempt is being made to resuscitate the Napier Choral Society. An advertise • ment appears in another olumn calling a meeting for Wednesday next, at 8 p.m. in St. John's school-room. We believe that it is in the best hands, and wish every success to tho efforts to re-establish tho society. Tho European mail via San Francisco, that was due at Auckland last Monday, arrived to-day at 9.30 a.m. It left 'Frisco eight days after due date, and the steamer, apparently, has been able to make up one day of tho lost time on the run across the Pacific. The s.s. Southern Cross leaves Auckland this evening, and will bring down the Hawke's Bay portion of the mail. A meeting of the congregation of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church will be held this evening to confirm or otherwise the recommendations of the managers and ltirk session, that the Rev. Mr Ross, of the Peninsula-, Dunedin, be appointed to St. Paul's in the room QI the Rev. D. Sidey, resigned. Air Ross is personally unknown in Napier, hnHie has tho reputation of being a brilliant preacher. We learn that the South British Insurance Company has bought from the Colonial Bank the back portion of the section on which tho new bank buildings have been erected. Tho section purchased by the South British will have frontages facing Browning and Herschell streets, and it is intended to cover the whole section with offices at a cost of something like £5000. It is certainly gratifying to know that colonial institutions are in a flourishing condition, and are establishing themselves in permanent and haudsome offices in our midst. Mr Frank W. Garner commenced business to-day as accountant, land and estate, financial, and general agent, valuator and licensed broker under the Land Transfer Act, in those new offices adjoining Messrs Banner and Liddle's auction rooms, Tenny-son-street. Mr Garner's eighteen years' residence in Napier, and the position he occupied for so long a period as confidential clerk and accountant to Mr E. Lyndon, warrant the assumption that business entrusted te him y/iU be promptly attended to and give every s'atisf a'oiioi), On Friday evening last the members of St. Andrew's congregation. Port Ahuriri, met to spend a social evening and present Miss Holt, their honorary organist, with a writing desk as a mark of their esteem for her ever ready kindness and help in all matters connected with the church. Tho desk is'beautifully fitted up and suitably inscribed, and is one of the'best that could be purchased in Napier. Tea was provided by tho lady subscribers and the tables were sumptuously and elegantly laid out. After tho presentation the remaining part of the ; .evening was spent in music, singing, and games.—(Communicated). <

Some two or three months ago wo stated 1 that there was a party of prospectors follow- a ing up certain indications of gold that had I been discovered towards the western ■ boundary of this provincial district. To- ■ day we have been shown some of the quartz* that has been brought down, which, to all appearance, is gold bearing. With very rude appliances a few pounds of the stone have been crushed, and some grains of gold obtained. We are not at liberty, nor would it be advisable, to say anything more, for those who have been at the expense and trouble to ascertain the existence of gold in this province are certainly entitled to whatever reward may result from their discovery. '" The Rev. Father Lo Menant de Chesnais preached in St. Mary's Church yesterday morning and evening. There were large congregations on both occasions. In the morning the Rev. Father delivered a sermon on religious, moral, and civil obedience, reviewing and combatting many of the erroneous notions of the iiresent day regarding these important matters. In tho evening Father Le Menant took for his subject " Religious, Social, and Civil Liberty," and, in the course of an exhausivo and argumentative discourse from every aspect of tho question, showed what true liberty was, and exposed many of iEs fallacies and errors circulated by those who pose as the champions of liberty, but who he said, were in reality tyrants. The sermon was a rich treat, aud was free from thaJt religious rant and intolerance which usually characterise reverend gentlemen when dealing with subjects of this nature. His Honor Chief Justice Prendergast took his seat in the Supreme Court at 10 o'clock this morning, when the special jury caso Irvine and another v. Robjohns was called on for hearing. Mr Lee, who was . associated with Mr Lascelles for theplaintifK explained to the. Court that his learned friend who had been retained as solicitbp and leading counsel in the case was dangerously ill, and unable to leave his home. As there was no hope at present that Mr Lascelles would bo able to attend, even in the course of a day or two, he (Mr Lee) was instructed to apply for an adjournment of the suit until the next regular sittings of the Court. Air Travers, counsel for the defendant, offering no objections to the course proposed, His Honor ordered the case to stand over accordingly, and tho jurors wore discharged. The Court was then adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, whon tho perjury cases will be taken. Mr Hunt arrived at Wellington from Samoa on Thursday last, to prosecute his action in Wellington against Sir Arthur Gordon as Jex-High Commissioner. Mr Hunt claims £8000 as damages for false imprisonment; the main allegation being that, while Mr Hunt was Chief Secretary to the Minister of Lands in Samoa, he was seized by order of Sir Arthur Gordon, and forcibly deported from the island without any form or legal trial for alleged offences. It is understood that Air Shaw, M.H.R., is the counsel retained to conduct Mr Hunt'a case. Mr Hunt is a native of Samoa, and is described by those who know him as highly c intelligent. His case has some remarkable features, and promises to be a cause eclebre. '"- The death at Stewart Island of an old man, who was the last representative there of a class identified with the early days of the settlement, is reported by the Southland Times. Captain William Sherburd was one of the old Pakeha-Maori whalers who, between 1830 and 1840, settled upon the Neck, and, for their own security, among other considerations, took to themselves Maori wives. These men have left an offspring of half-castes, who, with their families, and with a sprinkling of fullblooded Maoris, now constitute the main population ■of tho Neck, having had the district parcelled out among them by the Government. 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, &c, &c, but all in vain—tho open wound remains sullen and obstinate. For the only mode of healing all such sores consult Professor Moore, Medical Hall, Waipawa, and receive advice gratis.— [Advt.] Oh ! that-men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains; Wolfe's Schnapps will produce the most exhilarating effects without clouding the brain or impairing the faculties.—[Advt.]