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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3970, 10 April 1884, Page 2

The Daily Telegrami will not bo published to-morrow. A practice of St. John's choir will be held this evening. A largo attendance is requested. To-day, boing the first day of tho Feast of the Passover, all the Jewish establishments in town were closed. Tho Waipawa Brass Band presented Mr W. Goldsmith, who is leaving for Victoria, with a massive gold locket suitably inscribed. As additional attractions to tho Oddfellows' sports to be held atTaradale on Monday, there will be a Punch and Judy show on tho ground, and tho Napior Garrison Band will discourse sweet music at intervals. To-morrow (Good Friday) tho b.s. Bella will make a fishing excursion in tho bay, should sufficient inducement ojier, starting at 9 a.m., and returning at '6 p.ni. TJvp faro has been fixed at the moderate figure of 3s per head. • -/ Wo hear from Takapau that tho natives have again been obstructing operations at Messrs Wilding and Bull's sawmills, Kbpua; It was thought there would bo no further trouble after tho matter had been settled in the Native Lands Court.

The members of the Napier Amatour Dramatic Club will hold a special meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. A full attendance is desired. A correspondent wants to know what the matter is with the water from the high level reservoir. Its appearance is that of milk and water. If the Chamber of Commerce would interest itself in securing some permanent method of obtaining our English mails iroin Auckland by a fixed date after arrival in the colony, "the public would be able to recognise the utility of its services. At the adjourned meeting of the Union Football Club, held hist evening at the Clarendon Hotel, Mr Dobson in the chair, the bye-laws were adopted, and it was decided to open the season on Saturday, the 19th, in a match against the Petaue Uub. The secretary of the Athenaeum (Mr Poruival Bear) summoned a meeting of the committee last evening. The President, Dr. Spencer, Messrs J. Sidey (treasurer), and Harker were present, but the secretary failing to put in an appearance the meeting lapsed. A scratch football match will bo played at Petane on Saturday next, sides being chosen on the ground between the members of the Napier, Napier Union, and Petaue Clubs. Villors' coaches will leave the Clarendon Hotel at 1 p.m., returning about 6 p.m. A big muster is anticipated. The following players have been .selected to represent the Napier C.C. in their match with the Rangitikci cricket team to-morrow on the Recreation Ground :—Edwards, Gilherd, H. Martin, J. Martin, White, Pram, Humphries, Roskrugc, H. Montcith, Hill, and Grant. Wickets will be pitched at 9.30. An impression is abroad that the buildings on the education reserve at the corner of Browning and Hastings streets have to be valued in favor of the lessees at the expiration of the existing lease. Mr Parker desires us to state that that view is incorrect, as the lease does not in any way provide ti.dvaluation being given. The Fielding Star says: —"There is a pride that apes humility." When Major Atkinson went up by train on Saturday night ho occupied a " reserved " carriage in solitary grandeur at the " head of the train." When Mr Mitchelson went up last night he had a " reserved" carriage, but it was hooked on to the rear of the guard's van in the most abject manner. A man named Thomas Milgato died very suddenly at 9 o'clock last night at Clivc. At G o'clock he was found bleeding on the road by a boy named Arthur Hague. Ho was taken homo, and explained that he had fallen from his horse while drunk. Though there was a wound on tho head it is supposed that the man died from apoplexy. An inquest will be held this afternoon. A cricketing team from the Rangitikei district are now on >i visit hero, and played tho Hawko's Bay County Club to-day at Hastings. To-morrow they moot the Napier Club on tho Recreation Ground, and on the following day they play the liovers. On Monday they will try their strength with the Civ r il Service Club, and in the evening they will bo entertained at 11 dinner to bo given them at tho Clarendon Hotel. According to tho Wellington correspondent of the Daily Times it has been decided not to till up the vacancy caused by Mr 0. Wakefield's death. The duties of the Under-Scoretaryship of Mines will bo absorbed by Messrs M'Kerrow and Eliott. Mr Holdsworth, Commissioner of Crown Lands at Wellington, retires on a pension, and in future his duties will be undertaken by Mr J. W. Marchant, Chief Surveyor at Wellington. Tho following players have been selected to represent the Rovers in their match with the Rangitikei cricket team on Saturday at tho Eecreation ground: —Anderson, Buchanan, Cato C, Cato W., Fulton, Gibbons, Hunter, Nowton A., NowtonjJG., Tyloo, and Vautier. Play will start at 10 a.m. Tho Rovers will also play the H. 13. County at Hastings on Easter Monday, when players are requested to bo at the station in time to proceed by tho first train. Tho annual cricket match between the Daily Teleoeaph and Herald staffs will be playod at Petane to-morrow. The following are the teams :— Telegiuph : Coolcc, Murphy, Gifford, Scheele, A. Young, Storkey, Freeman, Beattie, Chcgwiddcn, Nicholson, and Dobson. Emergency, I'ullot. Herald : Midlany, Yates, Roydhonse, Langley, Palmer, Taylor, A. Freeman, S. Freeman, C. Young, Ashton, and McDougall. Players are requested to meet at 9.30 a.m At the R.M., Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., John Murphy, alias Hig-g-ins, -was charged with drunkenness, and, as ho has repeatedly done before, asked for a chance to leave the town. He was, notwithstanding his eloquence, mulcted in tho usual penalty of 5s and costs, or 4S hours' imprisonment with hard labor.— Thomas McEwan, who was charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, though he had no reccollection of being drunk, but perfectly remembered having been sick. Fined 5s and costs. At tho Government parade of the Artillery and Riilo Volunteers, held last night, there was a very good attendance. After parade the Artillery hold a general meeting at the Masonic Hotel, Capt. Garner in the chair. Mr Arthur McCartney was elected to fill the vacancy of a lieutenant in the Battery. The finance committee brought up a report, and recommended that fifty regulation uniforms b6 ordered through the Defence Department. Tho report was adopted by the corps. Captain Gamier notified that Aoting-tr'crgt. Pram had been promoted to the rank of Quartermaster-Sergeant. The opening soiree of the new Wesleyan Church, Hastings, which is to be held tomorrow evening, promises to bo an immense success. From the number of tickets sold it would appear as if all Hastings means to turn out and attend the celebration, and if tho weather is at all propitious a large number of tho Napier Wesleyans intend to take advantage of the special train and be present at tho soiree. The tea will bo on the table at 6 sharp, and the concert, which will be under tho presidency of Mr T. Tanner, will commence at 7.30. Wo may say that the "special" will leave Napier at 5.10 p.m., and the return fare is 3s. In consequenco of the Hospital being unincorporated, the bequests of the late Stokes Brothers and the gift of Karaitiana's trustees remain in abeyance. At the Hospital Committee meoting on Tuesday an offer was made by Mr Sheehan to tho effect that, as Karaitiana's trustee, he would pay to the hospital £100 out of the original gift of £50d, on condition that young Karaitiana be made a life governor on attaining majority, and that in the meanwhile ho (Mr Sheehan) be placed on the list of life governors. The offer was accepted. A very different version of this matter appeared in a morning paper. At the last meeting of tho Municipal Council it was resolved to defer the sale of $tamford-street until the intention of the Government should bo known as to the opening of the street which had been taken for railway purposes. _ Now that tho Government have definitely informed the Chamber of Commerce that tho top end of the street will not bo opened, we presume the Corporation will fiell tho lowor end, as applied for by Mr Colehso and Mr Eobjohns. Considering that tho Chamber of Commerce and tho Corporation were pulling in different directions in tho matter of Stamford-street, \VO aro not in tho least surprised at the determination arrived at by tho Govornmont. Wo think our rcadors must bo thoroughly tired of Booing telegrams relating to Tomlinson and Hayward's sheep dip, and to tho alleged satisfactory results arising from trials in the presence of " large numbers " of farmers. .The ''trial" that took place at Mr Douglas's station was attended by perhaps half-a-dozen persons, and the telegram sent from here prattled of " largo numbors of nhcepf armors.'' What is meant by "satisfactory results" wo are at a loss to understand ; if the dip will not kill parasites it cannot be worth anything at all, and if it does kill them it does no more than what it ought to do. There is an old proverb that says, "good wine needs no bush," and slieepfarmers will understand its application.—[Communicated.] Tho evidence for tho defence in tile caso of the liquidation of the New Zealand Pottery and Glnss Company (limited), Milton, v. J. Grubb was taken in writing Jjoforo CaptainPreoco, R.M., this morning, fo bo forwarded to Otago. The liquidator's solicitor and the defendants had agreed to Jot tho decision in this case govern tho Others, so «s to avoid expense. Tho defencewas that defendant was not liable on tho ground of misrepresentation by the pro-

visional directors in the prospectus, and a failure to carry out the terms of the prospectus on tho part of the company, and, if liable at all, only to the extent of the company's debts pro rala after realisation of assets. The misrepresentation consisted in the provisional directors never having held any shares in the company, and in representing that the property to be acquired by the company way an established and going concern. The machinery on the prospectus was represented as erected at the works and of the most approved construction and working satisfactorily, and since erection the cost of manufacturing had been considerably reduced, whereas the balance-sheet showed' it could not have been a goingconcern. Mr Pell geve eviuence to the effect that he was the broker unci from the exhibition of "delf " alleged to have been made at tho works understood at the time that it was a going concern. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commeivp committee yesterday afternoon, Mr.). G Kinross in the chair, correspondence was read from tho Railway Department in reference to the charge of threepence per bale for receiving and loading wool, pointing out that the charge was made on all colonial railways. The Customs Department wrote declining to make alteration in the c rediting of exports to the port from which they were first shipped. It was pointed out by the Chairman that the exports of wool this season to the end of March showed an export of 32,050 bales as against 28,0G2 last year to tho same date. A letter was read from Mr Maxwell declining either to move the goods shed or open Stamfordstreet, and expressing Mr Mitchelson s regret for not being better informed when he had his interview with the members of the Chamber. Several members protested warmly that tho latter part_ of tho statement was not in accordance with facts. Mr Tanner moved the following resolution : — "That tho attention of the Minister for Public Works be called to the urgent necessity for fencing the lino of railway through the Seventy-mil Bush, as stock si ray on the line where the mrves are sharp and (.lie cuttings deep, and thus render travelling dangerous, as the engine drivers arc unable to see stray stock in time to prevent an accident." The motion was carried. A few accounts were passed, and the committee adjourned. We know Hop Bitters are above ami beyond all as a nutritious tonic and curative. Read thoroughly tho It has been years since the world fii>t heard of Wolfe's Schnapps, and to-day its virtues are as fresh and its' fame as unclouded as when it first Hashed into public notice. — [Advt.]