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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3991, 7 May 1884, Page 3

Some very high class photographs of a large rize arc at present on view in Messrs Large and Townley's windows.

The Hawke's Bay portion of the European mail, via San Francisco, will arrive at Napier overland from Wellington to-morrow evening.

The Municipal Council meets this evening. The "batttleof the plans" for tho new Corporation offices will be the most interesting part of the proceedings.

In Boaz's second Hamburg drawing the first five prizes were well scattered, going in their order as regards value to Christchurch, New Plymouth, Dunedin, Wellington, and Palmerston North.

The police, '' from information received,'' made a raid yesterday on Mrs Vaughan's premises, formerly known as the Meanee Hotel, aud brought into town some £20 worth of liquor. The matter will come before the R.M. Court on Monday.

Mr A. Jarman, who has been for some twenty years in the Crown Lands office, has received six months leave of absence, at the expiration of which, wo understand, he will leave the Government service, receivingcompensation as from the abolition of provincialism.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before MrT. K. Newton, J.P., Charles Wilson was fined 5s and costs for drunkenness. Accused, with a good Yankee drawl, asked to get off, as he had never been in the position before. The magistrate then dismissed tho case with tho usual advice not to do it again.—D. Watson, on a similar charge, met the same fate, and was also dismissed.

Mr T. J. Ryan, who has for some time past been carrying on business in this town as auctioneer and general commission agent, left Napier for the South by steamer on Sunday. Tt was not generally known till yesterday afternoon that ho Intel given up possession of his premises, so it is presumed that he has finally relinquished business here. We have not heard whether ho proposes to re-visit Napier, but we are under the impression that that was his intention.

As numerous enquiries have been mado as to the result of the sensational £1000 a side match between Buckingham and lolauthe, we may mention that the former having gone wrong the £600 forfeit has been paid to the owner of lolauthe. Tho filly ran twice at tho late A.J.C. meeting, but did not gain a winning bracket, though securing the barren honor of a place. Sports are at their wits' ends as regards making winter Derby favorites, though Bargo, Phil Athol (a descendant of the chestnut English Derby winner), and Garfield seem to have most supporters, though why the second named ■hould be mentioned is a mystery, seeing he has never sported silk yet.

By a quibble, that we imagine would not be allowed to hold good in the case of private persons, the Corporation intends to build its new offices in defiance of the borough building regulations. The by-law permits a building to be erected, in No. 1 district, having its external walls of stone, brick, cement, iron, or other incombustible materials, but the street fronts of shops or other premises may be of wood. The Corporation offices will occupy a corner bounded by Tennyson and Herschell streets and the Marine Parade, and it is claimed by the Council that the new building will thus have three street .fronts ! If the plan of the offices was of tasty design, and really did present a frontage to each street, nobody could object, but the plan recommended for adoption presents only one front, with nnmistakeable sides and back. Moreover the by-law was passed solely in the interests of buildings designed for shops.

A certain American litterateur —Mr H. W. Ellis —was recently imprisoned pending the hearing of a charge brought against him by an hotel proprietress, and whilst in duress he completed a most successful fiveact play. In spite of this he is now suing for $5000 damages for false imprisonment. It seems an open question whether his prosecutrix is not x-ather deserving- of some pecuniary recompense for tho service unwittingly rendered him.

Tho late Mr Dutton Cook in his book "On tho stage" rakes up some queer reminiscences of physically deformed actors. Foote, it is known, lost his leg by an accident. Ho wrote his comedy of '' The Lame Lover" to introduce his false leg to the public, and as Sir Luke Limp, in a vein of Rabelaisian pleasantry, dwelt upon the advantages which attended the sacrifice : " A leg ! a redundancy ; a mere nothing at all! Man is from nature an extravagant creature. In my opinion we might all bo full as well as we are with but half the things we havo." George Vandenhoff mentions his dismay in finding in his lago a man with a sleeve containing a simulated arm. In Anthony Pasquin's " Life of Edwin " mention is made of an actor with a paralysed arm and a glass eye, who used to play Richard 111. Mr Iva Aldridge, tho African Roscius, was a black. The late Mr Buckstone in his later years was quite deaf, and learned from the movement of the lips when his cuo arrived. Elliston, and many an actor before and since, squinted. On ono occasion the hero of the tragedy of " CEdipus " was performed at Drury Lane by a man totally blind, and in a Staffordshire company the heroes of tragedy and the lovers of comedy wero all played by an actor similarly afflicted.

Cattle in portions of Queensland, owing to drought, are quoted at £1 per head.

J. L. Hall purposes visiting New Zealand shortly. Captain Gingah is sure of a warm reception.

Favo, the winner of the last Sydney Cup, was triven away in exchange for a hack a few months ago.

Tho only genuine letter of the poet Burns in the colony has been purchased for £10 by the Canterbury Caledonian Society.

The Stuart Ministry has received a hard knock in the election of Mr Watson, Treasurer in tho late Administration, who defeated Mr Want,'the Ministerial candidate, and a very popular man, by a considerable majority for Gundagai. Efforts arc being made to get Colonel Baker, who was discharged from the army for an assault and attempted criminal assault on a young lady in a railway carriage, reinstated. It is to bo hoped that the attempt will not be successful. Had tho distinguished officer committed such an assault in the colonies his back would have been manipulated by the public fiagellator, as he well deserved.

In the course of an important discussion which took place between Sir Ronald Martin, Mr Solly, Dr. Ranking, and other scientific physicians, the following important results were arrived at respecting smoking: (1) That the habit is only prejudicial when carried to excess; (2) that tobacco is innocuous as compared with alcohol, and in no case worse than tea, and by the side of high living, contrasts most favourably.

Don't use stimulants, but nature's brain and nerve food—Hop Bitters. Sec.

Persons who suffer from sleeplessness. _ If in lieu of opiates those who suffer from insomnia would make a judicious use of Wolfe's Schnapps, they would soon fall into the way of this nocturnal balm.— [Advt.]