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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3763, 7 August 1883, Page 2

Wo understand that Mr Tom Watcrworth takes over the Provincial Hotel from Mr E. Ashton to-morrow week.

A special meeting of the Napier District School Committee will be held this evening , at 8 o'clock to consider the applications for the position of first assistant mistress.

From Meanco we learn that the owner of the hotel there, which is now closed, intends ta spend £'200 in the renovation of the house, with a view to letting it to a tenant who will make application for a license.

Wo warn bicycle riders that in law bicycles come under the term of vehicles, and consequently they arc subject to the same municipal by-laws in respect of carrying lights, and turning round street corners at a walking pace, as are cabs, carts, and carriages.

The applications for shares in the New Zealand Land Mortgage Company (limited) have been far in excess of the number allotted to the colony. We arc informed that it is just probable a second issue of shares will bo offered, the first having been only 50,000.

The Municipal Council sat in committee last night for the consideration of Mr Stewart's report on the new waterworks plant. The proceedings have not transpired, but no definite conclusion could have been arrived at, as tho Council adjourned at about 10.30 o'clock till Monday next at 7 p.m.

A correspondent suggests thai;, in order to relieve the Napier School Committee of tho responsibility of deciding whether tho school shall or shall not bo used by clergymen and others for purposes of religious instruction, a public meeting of householders be called to decide the question. If our correspondent wished to set the whole town by tho oars he could not have made a better suggestion.

The next quarterly meetings of the Licensing Commissioners will be held during the first ten days in the month of September. Wo desire to draw particular attention to this, so that steps can be taken to secure tho re-licensing of the houses at Waiuui, Wallingford, Pohui, and Meancc. Licensed houses are necessary at those places, and the greatest public inconvenience has been suffered since they have been closed.

Mr H. Williams has kindly forwarded us a copy of the new Bankruptcy Bill as amended in committee of the whole House. Tho Bill contains 23-3 sections, and consists of fifty pages of printed matter. Without our readers had copies of the Bill, or were well acquainted with its provisions, it would bo waste of time for us to notice tho numerous amendments without publishing the contents. We shall probably refer to some of the alterations that have been made on a future occasion.

The American Wav panorama was again well attended last evening. The exhibition wont smoothly.throughout, and tho lecture was thoroughly appreciated by the audience, who were frequently quite demonstrative in their approbation. A liberal gift distribution followed, the principal prizes—a handsome "■old-gilt clock under shade, and an electro tea and coffee service—falling to thelot of Mrs Miller, Carlylc street, and Mi- Hansen, Little Beach, respectively. To-night the panorama will bo again exhibited, when the leading prosonts will be a tea and coffee service, a silver w&ioh, and a clock.

Pearse's panorama •'■' Ocean jto Ocean " opened at the Oddfellows' Hall, Waij/awa, last evening to a good house. The first half of the views on tho overland route, commencing at Sandy Hook were exhibited, and were much admired by the audience In the absence of the regular lecturer the scenes were described by a local amateur who fulfilled his self-imposed duty in satisfactory stylo. Part second introduced Mr H. H. Murdoch, who provoked roars of laughter by his now famous song " Parson and Clerk." In i-espftJits.o to an encore he gave, "What do you think I think you think," and later on he again convulsed the audience with his comic rendition at that intensely doleful comic ditty, "My Love's Bead." Mr Pcnrse wing "liilil'irney" ami "Come Back to IM-in in "•ood stylo, also " Jessie's Dream " as an encore. A recitation and a comic song by Mr Mcßride were well received, tho houy being one of tho best things of tho evening. At the gift distribution which followed every visitor received a prize. Wo must not omit to mention Mr Cullimore, who presided ftt the piano in his usual able and effective style. To-morrow afternoon there will be a matinee for children at Waipawa, and on Thursday the company open at Waipukuniu.

On the cast of Tasmania (says the M'elr bourne Argus) one of the severest gales experienced for some time past prevailed on the 13th hist. It came from the west, and was accompanied with most terrific squalls, which lashed the water into sheets of spray, vtttho Junction a frightful accidentoccurrcd, whereby two women were killed. The wife and two daughters, Lucy and Adelaide, of Ambrose Harrington, a miner working at tho Anchor Tin-mining Company, left their houso at the Junction to gather ftypwood. They had proceeded only some 10 yards from the place when a tree, about 18 inches in diameter, suddenly came down, and the boughscaught Mrs Harrington and Adelaide Harrington before they could get out of the way. The other daughter Lucy, escaped with a slight hurt She immediately ran screaming to her father, who happened to be at home, and he, with Mr Stacpoole, manager of tho Anchor Alluvial Company, proceeded to tho spot. They had to cut

away the boughs to reach the women, "who were found _to be both quite dead. On ex- N animation it was .seen that the bodies were frightfully _ mutilated. The skulls of both were split in twain, the brains of the girl being about; the woman's chest was smashed in, and the girl's rig-lit leg crushed to pieces. Death must have been instantaneous. The consumption of gas by the Otto gas ongine is guaranteed to be 20 to 70 per cent, less than in any other gas engines. Mr Otto has been again obliged to com- £~ mence actions against several firms for inringements of his patents. After the actng of Otto v. Linfobd (in which Linford was defeated, ordered to pay costs, and cease manufacturing) of agents and purchasers of the Lindford engine were obliged to pay royalty. The new pattern halfhorse power nominal Otto's patent indicates up to two-horse power, is the lowest priced, most economical, and best gas engine in the market. For further particulars apply to the agent for Napier, T. J. Brassey, New Zealand Insurance Com-pany.-—[Advt.] Analysis has demonstrated the spirituous element of Wolfe's Schnapps to be absolutely pure, and the highest medical authority sanctions its use in preferenco to any other preparation where a stimulant is required.—[Advt.]