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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4035, 27 June 1884, Page 2

On our back page to-day will bo found some particulars of yesterday's racing. Our Supplement to-morrow will contain a sermon by tho Rev. T. F. Jones, the usual instalment of our tale, " Ladies' Gossip," and a number of interesting' extracts. To-day the schools break up for the midwinter holidays. Father Reignier requests us to state that there will be no Mass at Meanee noxt Sunday. ... Mr Pearson, the member for Ashley, wants' the members' railway passes abolished, and so do tho electors generally. ■■ Mr W. C. Smith, in our to-day's issue, announces his intention of seeking re-elec-tion at the hands of tho electors of Waipawa. There was no buiiness at the R.M. Court this morning, which speaks well for the behavior of the inhabitants at yesterday's races. How is it that no entertainment in Napier can ever be commenced punctually ? This ocourred last night, and really there should be some definite time fixed for a mixed entertainment closing, last night's lecture not terminating till within a few minutes, of midnight.

The Rev. Alexander Shepherd will (D.V.) preach in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Waipukurau, on Sunday, in the morning at 11 o'clock, and in the evening at 7.

The first load of frozen mutton was put on board the steamer Bombay this morning, v . the Weka returning to the Spit at 10.30 o'clock after discharging into that vessel. >

The members of the Napier Amateur Dramatic Club hold their weekly rehearsal this evening at 8 o'clock, when the programme for the next performance, which is to be given shortly, will be gone through.

On Wednesday evening next the prizes won at the meeting of the Taradale Rifle Club, held on the 24th May last, will be presented at the Oddfellows' Hall, Taradale. The jn-izes will be on view on Saturday evening in the window of Mr Bradley, saddler, Taradale.

Our cablegrams yesterday reported the arrival at Loudon of the ship Oamaru from Lyttelton, which left that port on April 4. It will be remembered that the ship Turakina left Napier on April 2, so we may expect to hear shortly of the reception in London of the first .cargo of frozen mutton from this port.

We were in error yesterday in stating it was a cab that knocked a woman over on Wednesday afternoon. It was a private buggy. The cab-drivers as a rule are very careful drivers, and in j usticd to them it is but right that we should exonerate them from any charge of disobeying the by-law regulating driving round street corners.

Our country edition yesterday should have contained tho result of the Steeplechase, but the fault laid with the telegraph department. Immediately after the race our reporter forwarded two telegrams one an urgent with the result, and the second an ordinary press message with the detaila of the running, the latter arrived first £_V the office.

Our nagging grandmotherly contemporary must have a high opinion of the Napier artillery men when it says '' a battery of artillery might haro fired up and down Hastings-street without injuring a human being." The Corporation laborers wore at work, and if the battery could not have succeeded in injuring one of them— well, the shooters must be good.

The following are the entries for the • ploughing match which took place at Hastings to-day too late for us to report the results. Class A., Messrs U. Gray, and H. Pulford. Class 8., Messrs J. Ramsay and G. Frost. Class C, Messrs T. Ramsay, R. Gutherstone, J. Connor, W. Pepper, J. Hennessy, A. Monk, C. Angus, and Tiroai. Class D,Mr W. Ramsay. Some excellent work was being done when our reporter left, the ground also being in good condition. The Manawatu Standard says: : —"The Wellington Spiritualists undertake to give a block vote at the next general election and claim 100 votes. Mr J. C. Harrig, of the morning paper, ie a bright and shining light among the body, whose intellectual calibre can thus be accurately estimated. . Itissaid his addresses are occasions of great after? mirth among the membors, who enjey the*fun of elevating him to the highest pitch of solf-conceit with his own wonderful attainments." A football match between tho second fifteens of the Napier and Union Clubs will be played on the Recreation Ground tomorrow afternoon,, play to commence at 2.30. The following comprise the teams :— Napier: Qito W., Finch, Fulton, Hunter, Kennedy CD., Kennedy A., Lamb, Lascelles, Mouutfort, Newton, Ouidaillo, Pora, Miller, Tylee, White; emergency, Robjohns and Liddle. Union: Wolfe, Collins, Hamlin, Niven, Dennan, Fraser A., Leslie, Graham, Cat-gill, Parker, Morrison J., Arthurson, Robinson, Williams, Ashton J.; emergency, M'Kay, Yates, Lowe. Passengers by the train last evening which left Hastings at 5.45 were considerably disturbed on nearing Tomoana by hearing the whistle of the engine repeatedly blown, and finally the train being pulled up. Enquiry elicited the fact that a horso was on the rails. This morning we learn that Constable Lawless proceeded to the spotlater on, and found a draught mare standing with the near hind leg aud off fore leg cut off, and tho bones protruding through tho skin. He promptly destroyed the animal, but was unable to learn who its owner was. The same train last year was also stopped by horses being on the line. —■ J Says the Tablet:—"A great defect in the Electoral Act seems to be that, hi the event of a qualified voter's moving from one district into another, a month must elapse before the registrar is authorised to transfer his name upon the roll, and consequently he remains disfranchised for that period. There can be no reason for any such vexatious and possibly injurious delay, aud the matter should be amended immediately. It is excessively ridiculous that an elector should lose his vote merely because he moves from one street into another, conveying all his household goods with him, and continuing as responsible as before, or perhaps even becoming more so."

There was a large attendance last evening at the entertainment in aid of the Convent s.hools,"in the Theatre Royal, His Worship the Mayor occupying tho chair, the Rev. .Father Dcs Chcanais delivering two lectures, one on Rationalism, and the other on Secularism. The matter of the lectures was excellent judged from a conservative point of view, but the lecturer was placed at a great disadvantage owing to his want of command over the English language, and tho peculiarities of his pronounciatiou, but notwithstanding these drawbacks he seemed greatly to interest his hearers. Pie urged his audience not to be led away by such nice sounding words as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Interspersed with the lecture a concert was given. The first item was an overture, "The Caliph of Bagdad" (Boildicu), given with great precision by the members of the Orchestral Society, the pianissimo and forte movements being well marked, and met with the warm appreciation of the audience. That was succeeded by the' Polka Song (Nelson) by Miss Pirani, with cornet '• obligato by Mr Garry. The violoncello solo and piano by Messrs Humphries and Spackman met with its usual fate in the hands of these accomplished artistes, and was loudly encored. A pathetic little song- " Sooner or Later" was most feelingly sung by Miss Kennedy. The singer was enthusiastically recalled, but Miss Kennedy contented herself with bowing her. acknowledgments. An unaccompanied quartette was rendered a3 such items always are in Napier, and was one of the most pleasing features of the programme. The ever welcome overture to "ITancredi" and " Pluie DOr" waltz were done full justice to by the Orchestral Society, whoso baton was skilfully wielded by Mr Stephens,-/ Miss Large sang to the satisfaction of her • audience Bishop's "Tell me my heart." Mrs Crowloy and Miss Rochfort contributed a pianoforto duet. " Grannie's Story " by Miss Ellison served to show the beauty of that young lady's lower notes. The chorus " Norma Cometh " brought the entertainment to a close.

No health with inactive livor and urinary org'ins. Take Hop Bitters. See. .

The efficacy of Wolfe's Schnapps has been spoken and written of, but it is in the individual cures consummated it finds its highest award and surest advocacy. It is, palatable, stimulative, and produces maiked">. results.—[Advt.]