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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3987, 2 May 1884, Page 2

Our Supplement to-morrow will contain a sermon by the Rev. J. J. Lewis, the usual instalment of our tale, Ladies' Gossip by "Edith," and "a number of interesting extracts. We hear that Mr Gow, of W a ip u kurau, has bought the horse Sir Hercules. The rainfall in Napier during the month of April, registered by Mr E. Lyndon, was less than half an inch. The Napier Amateur Dramatic Club will hold a rehearsal this evening at S o'clock. All members are requested to attend. We remind cab-owners that unless they take out their borough licenses by noon tomorrow their names will be handed over to the police. The scarcity of quail this year is by many attributed to the depredations of the hawks, and by others to the fact that the birds have taken more to the bush. Te Aute at one time yesterday, judging by the number of guns present, seemed as if there were going to be a grand volunteer review in the neighborhood.

At the meeting of the Waipawa County Council yesterday, Mr A. Gilmour was appointed road overseer at a salary of £200 per annum, with travelling expenses. At the R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Preeee, R.M., Michael Murphy, on remand charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s and costs, or 48 hours' imprisonment. . Hastings was all alive yesterday. with sportsmen on pleasure bent, and the sitting of a Native Lands Court bent on dividing the plunder, exitement was not lacking.

Mrs Mullinder has sworn an information against her husband for assault at W a ip awa yesterday, so that there will be more than civil business at the local Court on Wednesday next.

The Two Thousand Guinea Stakes, which has often given a cue to the Derby, has this year resulted in neither of the two winter favorites gaining a situation, while at this end only one of three placed horses is known as a winner. A public body dealing with a large number of contracts should have a contractors' deposit account at the bank. The absence of such an account caused half-an-hour to be wasted at the meeting of tbe Waipawa County Council yesterday. What was described as the cheapest fencing councillors had heard of for some time was offered yesterday by a man in a letter to the Waipawa County Council, when ho agreed to erect some seven wire fences, finding everything, at £68 per mile. y When sportsmen are down on their luck it is of little use bewailing. A gentleman yesterday, who was grumbling at his fate in not having secured a feather, was reminded by another that the latter formed one of three on the opening day of the season last year who were in the same predicament. It will be soon from our advertising columns that Robson's diorama will be exhibited to-night and to-morrow at Hastings. As many of the pictures are real gems, and the accompanying lecture highly interesting, we predict that the entertainment will be largely patronised, as it wgll deserves.

The Wilmott Dramatic and Burlesque Company, now playing at Wanganui, open here on the 20th of this month for a short season. Their pieces include "The Serious Family," "Hand and Glove," yPygnia* lion and Galatea," "Fortune's Frolics/ '' Withered Leaves," &c. The Wanganui press speaks highly of the company. Twelve o'clock must have come very early on Wednesday night in some districts, for by the first train yesterday morning quite a number of birds were despatched to town, that had apparently been patiently waiting on bushes for some time to be knocked down, and, judging by their state, it was high time that some of them received their despatch. At a committee meeting of .the' Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held this day, resolutions affirming the desirability of discontinuing the ballot and reducing the annual subscription to £1 were carried. The latter has to be passed again at "a committee meeting before being brought before a general meeting for approval. It was decided that the annual general meetingshould bo held on Friday, ..6th June. According to some people the Hawke's Bay Prospecting Association is going to have a high time of it before all tho agreements get signed. Whether'the association should prove a success or not, black sand.s , present in considerable quantity,, and numbers of beautiful crystals can b e got thst will cut glass, and these "Canterbury diamonds " are not of the infinitessimal size that their namesakes were, but quite large, respectable stones.

The Olive Square Mutual Improvement Association" held its usual meeting last night, with a good attendance. The debate "Is the Drama on the whole conducive to Morality" "was well opened by Mr G. White for the affirmative, and by Mr Welsman for the negative. At the conclusion a vote was taken, resulting in a majority of four for the negative. _ Next Thursday evening will be occupied with an essay on New Zealand.

The Woodville correspondent of the N.Z. Times writes:—"As I predicted in a former letter, the sale of the Crown lands in this district, which took place at Napier the other day, was an absolute failure, on account of the high upset prices. Many intending settlers have gone away again disgusted. Only about one-third of the total number of sections offered were taken up, and these, of course, tho very pick of the whole." If he had read Friday's Telegraph he must have known he was writing what was untrue.

The Railway Department as usual yesterday, when some extra; traffic might be looked for, was at fault once more. Sporting men were much incommoded on Wednesday evening, but as there was a doublo supply returning to town last night the crowding was accordingly greater. For sixteen applicants for first-class smokingcarriage, there was a half-carriage capable of seating eight persons. Though there were only sixteen nominal applicants tor tho "smoke hole," it was quite evident that many did not make any attempt to enter it, because they knew how it would be on such an occasion.

The N.Z. Times of Wednesday, says: — "The win of Favo in the Sydney Cup must have been a complete sell to the ring. A careful study of the betting market quotations for the last month or so does not reveal a single mention of his name." Perhaps this is the writer who, in writing of the Wellington meeting, said the jockey took the horse to tho front so as to have something left in him at the finish. A sell for the ring is generally when a red-hot favorite romps home, and they are hard hit, but when a horse wins whose name the bookmakers have never written it puzzles one to see where their " sell" comes in. _ It is time an alteration was made in leading New Zealand papers whose sporting writers know so little.

The first general meeting of the Hawke's Bay Teachers' Association, lately formed, takes place to-morrow, in the Napier district school, at 11 a.m. Tho Association promises to be a great success, as already over 30 teachers have paid their yearly subscription, and many more have intimated their intention of doing so. The Association, we understand, is to be at once affiliated with the New Zealand Institute, and thus the Hawke's Bay teachers will be enabled to make their voice heard at head-quarters. The proceedings to-morrjw will be interesting to members of the profession, and certainly important. The new rules have to receive the assent of the meeting, papers will be read and discussion invited. It is hoped that a branch may be established in the Poverty Bay district, and matters affecting the interests of the district teachers and their schools will form subjects of discussion.

The Ist of May was not forgotten by the aporting contingent, and the early train yesterday morning was fairly patronised by those fond of the shooting iron. Many, indeed, ' so as to be up by time had proceedod to their accustomed haunts—even if in many instances these were not the haunts of the birds—on the preceding evening. _The general result may be described as disappointing, and on all hands there were complaints of thescarcity of game. The best bag we have heard of was got at Mr Tanner's, twelve guns securing 106 birds, four of the guns being responsible for twenty brace bofore breakfast. Three well-known sports, capital shots, only got two pheasants and seven quail, between them while one lugubrious countenanced gentleman declared he had walked seven miles and only got one bird, while more than one lamented he had not got afeather. A single gun somewdiere near Waipukurau bagged fifteen ducks in the early morning. A great number of sporting men selected Te Aute as their landing place, and more than one declared it would be the last time he would visit the locality again in search of sport, though of course these resolutions are very much like tho ones made on settling night, when an outsider has romped home first for a Derby, and our book does not wear the roseate hue it did the day before when we happened to have a good bit on at a long shot on a redhot favorite, and he too good a horse to hedge on.

Clergymen, Lawyers, Editors, Bankers and Ladies need Hop Bitters daily, for nerve force. Read.

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