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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3877, 20 December 1883, Page 2

The Patea Mail says that Mr Edmund Gowcr, the present accountant of the Bank of Ncav South AVales, at Napier, has been appointed manager at HaAvera.

Tho usual fortnightly practice and meeting of tho Napier Firo Brigade will bo held this evening. At the latter tho delegate to represent Napier at Nelson will be appointed.

An entertainment Avillbo given at Meanee to-morroAV evening on behalf of the school prize funds. The talent :s local, and after the concert thero will be a dance. A largo audience may be anticipated.

The match committee of the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association 3'esterday afternoon decided to send a team to AA'ellington about the Bth of January, the AA r ellington players having promised to return the visit next season.

Messrs Ruddock and Fryer are about to connect their warehouse in Napier with their establishment at Hastings by telephono. The wiro has already been fixed, aud tho necessary instruments aro shortly expected to arrive.

Mr Lascelles said in Court to-day it Avas a farce that cross-examination of tho defendnnt's statement should be through tho Bench, as when cross-examination had to be diluted in that manner, and a "foxy" witness had timo to consider liis answer, tho force of cross-examination lost all its poAver.

News has been received of the destruction by firo on Tuesday evening of Mr Finlayson's house of accommodation at Moeangiangi. The fire occurred through the accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp. The house consisted of six rooms, and Avas insured in the National office for £150, and the furniture for £100.

A Avitness in the R.M. Court to-day appeared m a " clean boiled rag," being minus his coat, and in reply to His AVorship Avhy he had not got his outside Avr.-ip on, explained he had no timo to mend it, having been busy all the morning catching fish. His remissness to tho demand of a Court of Justice ivas excused.

The number of deaths that havo occurred in Napier during the eleven months ending November 30 last Avas ninety. Of this number 40 Avero infants under one year, 8 under five years, 4 under twenty years, 13 between tAvcnty and thirty years, and 25 Avere over thirty years of age. These figures do not include deaths at the hospital.

A correspondent Avishes to know whether the running match between Captain Jackson Barry and Mr O'Donoghuc is for £25 aside, or Avhether it is only for the gate money, the Avinner to receive two-thirds and the loser the balance. AA r e are not in a position to satisfy tho curiosity of our correspondent, but Aye do not think it matters to onlookers Avhat tho stakes may be.

Tho natives have been having- high times of it Avhile the Court has been sitting. Thoy have principally been boarded at the Criterion Hotel, their every wants attended to, cabs provided for their use, Avhile a Avholo string of tho usual class of camp followers was always in attendance. It is calculated that the expenses of one sido of the Mangateretere claimants will bo about £500. The Tiffcn medals presented yesterday at the High School, the workmanship of Mr Shanly, have been shoivn to us, and Aye are sure that their neat design fully justifies Mr Tiffcn in again inviting Mr Shanly to supply a design for next year. The medals on the present occasion took tho shape, if Aye may be allowed to say, of a rounded Maltese cross, aud arc both very handsome and neat. Tho programme of sports to be held on Boxing Day will bo found in our advertising columns. The programme is varied, and the novelty introduced is that "juveniles " must be either under 15 or over 50, unless they happen to be of the weaker sex, when the limitation is fixed at 40. As those aro the first " juvenile " sports that have taken place in Napier there is sure to be a large attendance to witness the contests. The female witnesses in an assault case to-day in the R.M. Court were very amusing. They'bad learned there "lessons " off A-ory pat, but iioav and again they gave utterance to the unruly member Avhere the rehearsals had been defective, and the result Avas a series of contradictions, not only of themselves, but of the other witnesses, aud in which, not only did they answer the questions asked, but gave their opinions on the merits of the case, Avhich could not bo much wondered at, as it has been the talk of the fishers for tho last fortnight.

Cr. Cohen is, perhaps, the only man in the borough Avho does not knoAV why private consumers can get gas for gas-stoves for 10s. por 1000, Avhilo the street lamps aro supplied at lis 2d per 1000. The- reason is exactly the same as that which a tradesman would give for charging less for secondhand goods than he would for brand-new articles. Gas stoves consume during the day the gas hying idlo and Avasting in the mains. If tho street lamps were only lighted during the day they could be supplied with gas at the same rate as the stoves.

Mr J. Goddard, of the Havelock Nurseries, has appointed Mr G. Scarfe, of Dickens street, his toAvn agent. To-day, at one of the windows of Mr Scarfe's shop, there was an excellent display ©f fruit and flowers, the produce of Mr Goddard's gardens. Immense gooseberries, perfectly

ripe, red and white currants, strawberries, ko., invited tho attention of passers-by, and adorned Mr Scarfe's shop front. And here we may remark that the other windovsf" displayed a splendid assortment of driel fruits just landed from London. This is tho first year that new season's fruits have been imported in time for Christmas, a fact that is due to direct steam communication with England.

The Municipal Council passed two resolutions last night in relation to its offices. One was, "That the Mayor bo authorised to hire temporary premises in which to carry on the business of the officers;" and the other Avas, " That, notwithstanding tho hiring of temporary offices, the Council will not remove from the present offices until legally ordered to do so by the Resident Magistrate." Considering that the Registrar has called for tenders for alterations of the premises, and that those alterations include the cutting of a doorway through the partition between tho Toavu Clerk's offico and tho passage, Aye rather think tho officers of the Corporation will require no other notice to go than the piercing of the wall and the sound of the carpenter's hammer.

The " Man in the Street" Avriting in tho North Otago Times, is evidently not an enthusiastic admirer of the' member for Oamaru, the energetic littlo Shrimski, who has represented that district in Parliament for several years past. Referring to the visits to Oamaru of Cabinet Ministers and others in authority, the writer says:—" On these occasions Mr Shrimski buzzes about like a fly in a bottle, and seldom subsides until the Minister escapes. I Avas present on that memorable occasion when, in the course of Sir Arthur Gordon's public entry into this town, he rushed up to that august functionary with a newspaper extra announcing the assassination of the Czar. I think you will agree with me that, on that occasion, our member Avas ' taken down a peg.' To-day Mr Shrimski distinguished himself again. While the Ministerial party was at the post offico a noteworthy incident occurred. Mr Shrimski Avas buzzing about Mr Micholson, and whiffing Aery industriously and extravagantly at a very ordinary cigar, when he AA'as heard to observe, ' Pretty building this ! Call this a public building? Ugh!' AVhereupon Mr Mitcholson urbanely replied : ' Surely, Mr Shrimski, the place is big enough for you, and you seem to be big enough for Oamaru.' Could Mark Twain havo said more ? And, if Mr Mitcholson did not say this, should he not have said it?"

The Auckland Heraid says:—" AVitliin tho past few years several natives Avho were supposed to have caused deaths by witchcraft have been murdered, and iioav Aye hear of another ease at Muriwai, on tho East Coast. If Aye remember rightly, Aye had instances at Mercury Bay and at Katikati, where old men Avho Avere supposed to havo caused deaths A\ r ore killed, but the Government did nothing, and tho natives avlio committed the murders Avere not troubled for Avhat they had done. Probably the Government Avill iioav consider that such acts should be put a stop to." >

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