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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3808, 28 September 1883, Page 3

At the Magistrate's Court, Waipawa, yostorday, before A. >St. C. Inglis, Esq., J. P., Charles Myers was charged with being drunk and disorderly on the previous day, and was lined 5/- and costs. Mr H. Hill inspected the Wairon, .sohoo yesterday. -The attendance was larger than in any previous year, ono hundred. Last year it was eighty-six. Mr Hill examines the Frasortown school to-day. At the Wairoa II.M. Court yesterday th° police prosecuted three Maori women fo* loitering about hotels for the purpose o prostitution. These being the first cases o the kind they were dismissed with a caution - At the election held yesterday at Kaikora to return five wardens for the l'atangata Road Board the following were declared duly elected: —Messrs A. Scrimgcour, J. Lawrence, A. Dillon, T. Howard, and 11. Tod. "A Wonderful Woman," and "The Colleen Bαwn Settled lit Last," constitute the bill to be presented at the Theatre Royal to-night. At the final rehearsal held this forenoon both pieces were gone through in highly creditable style, and everything augured well for the success of the performance. We expect to see a crowded house. The lunatic asylum is getting very crowded again, there being now 11 females \ and 15 males confined in that institution. The majority of the patients, it is said, have brought upon themselves their misfortune by excessive indulgence in alcoholic Htimulants. An application will shortly bo made to the Government to remove those who are mentally afflicted from other causes.

At a meeting of the Napier Volunteer Fire Brigade, held at the station last night, Superintendent Waterworth in the chair, the following office bearers were elected for the ensuing year : —Sub-Superintendent, J. G-. Gilberd; foreman of hose-reel, W. Hartley ; foreman of manual, G-. Rob.son ; secrotary and treasurer, "VV". Bogle. Committee : T. Waterworth, J. G. Gilberd, \V. Bogle, B. V. Harding, G. Robson, and Cowlrick. The foundations for the new buildings at Tomoana in connection with moat refrigerating works are now being laid, and all preparations arc being rapidly pushed forward to commence this new industry by the beginning of the year. Wo understand that six boilers will be erected and the works be made equal to an output of ten thousand carcases a month. We hear also that negotiations have been entered into between Messrs Nelson .Bros. Company and the Shaw Saville Company for a monthly steamer to load up hero with frozen meat, commencing next February. "An exhibitor at the late Poultry Show" wants-to know why he has not received the money that was paid by the buyer for one of the birds ho exhibited. lie docs not wish to complain at not receiving the money prizes lie won, but he does think that the loss of the purchase money and of the bird as well is " a little too thin." He understands that when the bird was claimed by a buyer at the price named by the owner it was a cash transaction as between the buyer and the committee, and, less commission to the funds of the Association, he should at once have received the money. In tho Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before E. Patten, Esq., J. P., Henry O'ConnoU was charged on the information of Constable Villers with having been drunk while in charge of a horse and cart on the Mcunce-Taradalc road yesterday. The prisoner said lie had only taken two glasses of beer, and fell asleep in the cart, having been up very early in the morning. Ho had never been previously before the Court. Dismissed with a caution. Patrick Crawley, on remand charged with drunkenness, -was dismissed, the gaol surgeon having certified that he was now sufficiently recovered to be set at liberty. There was no other business. The sittings of tho Waiapu Diocesan Synod wore resumed last evening in St. John's schoolroom. Several reports were brought up and adopted. It was decided to recommend to the consideration of the General Synod the adoption of a scheme of insurance of churches and other buildings, .the property of the General Synod, the ' profits arising from which may ultimately bo applied to the purposes of the ponsion fund. The bill for altering tho boundaries of St. John's parish was passed through all its stages. By this measure the St. Andrew's district at Port Ahuriri and Petaneis separatedfrom St. John'sPai'isli, and is constituted a parochial district under tho direct supervision of the Bishop of the dioensc. This concluded tho business of the session. The annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay Rifle-Association was held last evening at the Masonic Hotel, when the report and balance-sheet for the year wore adopted. The latter showed a credit balance of £13. Several now members wore elected, and tho following wore appointed office-bearers for the year: — President, His Worship tho Mayor; Vice-presidents, Captain W. R. Russell and Mr R. Douglas M'Lcan ; Secretary, Mr Girdlestono ; Treasurer, Mr H. Williams; Committee, Messrs W. Laiug, W. Duncan, G. Pram, F. W. Williams, W. R. Blythe, and L. Galbraith. The retiring secrotary, Mr Pram, was presented ■with a handsome gold locket in recognition of his valued services during the past throe years. The remaining business was possessed of no public interest. The long service medals for presentation to members of tho Napier Volunteer Fire Brigade who have served fjvc years and over are to be seen in the window of Mr F. W. Collins' jewellery shop in Hastingsstreet. Seven of the medals are for five years' service, and the remaining five for V seven years' service, the distinction being denoted by the addition of a silver bar to the last named. The following aro the names of tho members to whom they are to be presented:—For seven years' service, Sub. Superintendent Gilberd, Branch man Yuillo, Foreman G. Robson, Ex-Superin-tendent Spence, Foreman W. Hartley ; for five ypars' service, Superintendent Waterworth, Foreman S. Starkcy, Treasurer F. \y. Garner, Branchman J. Morley, Branchman S. Holland, Engineer Hudson, and Engineer Veruou They will be presented i at the Brigado's Anniversary dhmor to take place on Thursday next at Mr Waterworth , « Provincial Hotel An adjourned meeting of persons interested in forming an organisation for fire prevention purposes in Waipawa was held last evening in the conversation room of tho public library. There was a fair attendance of the public, and considerable interest was taken in the proceedings by all present. Mr E. Harwood was voted to the chair, and after a brief introductory speech called upon Mr Ewcn to state the result of the enquiries of tho committee appointed at tho previous meeting. Mr Ewcn read an exhaustive report, drawn up by tho committee, in which jt was stated that a pressuro of water sufficient to go over the roof of any building in the Ruataniwha and Great North' roads, and tho lower part V of Keuilworth-strcct, could bo obtained by damming the natural reservoir in the recreation ground. A motion was carried to tho effect that subscriptions be solicited

towards and amount sufficient todefray the expenses of a temporary dam, in order to ascertain the quantity of water really obtainable, and Messrs Guy, Barker, and Ewen were appointed a committee to canvass the townspeople for the purpose. A motion v.a.s also carried affirming the desirability of forming a fire brigade for bucket drill and other practice, and a mumbers of persons subscribed their names as intending members. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.

The Now York Police Gazette is passing rough on the Lingards, as will be seen by the following extract from that journal: — "Speaking of poor old Lingard, nobody who knows him, howevsr much he may dislike the extraordinary meanness of his nature, can help feeling sorry for him. A more devoted, generous and faithful husband never got oven by accident into the ' professiou ' Ho has yielded to his wife's every whim and caprice.' Ho has borne her tantrums with the most wonderful patience. He has humoured all her extravagances and affections. He has almost ruined himself in trying, against Ins judgment and wishes, to make a legitimate ' star 'of her, And what hasbeen his reward ': With one consent everybody describes him as a low, vulgar, uneducated little man who can't act, and with whom a beautiful, well-born, highly educated and marvellously clever lady is utterly and cruelly misniated. Bosh ! Rubbish ! Lingard is twice as good an artist as his wife. Shu is cold, stiff, awkward, and thoroughly devoid of the true dramatic faculty. She lias a rich agreeable voice, a round pig-eyed, unamiable face, a magnificent bust and .shoulder:-, and a habit of posing herself statuesquely like a sculptor's model. Her origin certainly was not superior to Lingard's, even if it were equal to it. When he was a pound-a-week actor she was a shilling-a-night ballot girl. She could barely spell correctly when he had developed into a shrewd man of business. The angular English hand she writes is an accomplishment not more I than six years old. Her artistic pretensions of all sorts and kinds are the hollowest sham. Her pictures would make a cat laugh, and her vapourings and mysterious hints (in Avhich .she firmly believes herself that she would have been a second Mrs Siddons if she hadn't married Lingard) are the veriest nonsense in the world. No woman on tlio stage over had such opportunities, and no woman off the stage would dream of making such a fuss as she does over her own incapacity to be anything but third rate. One needn't like Lingard, as wo said before, to do him this justice." Thousands of both sexes who would shudder at the thought of tasting the adulterated liquors in common use take Wolfe's Sciinapps mcdinnally as a remedy for debility, indigestion, and like ailments. — [Advt. I