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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4037, 30 June 1884, Page 2

There was no business at the R.M. Court this morningMr Lyon, the secretary of the Wellington Harbor Board, is at present on a visit to Napier. The Public Works Committee of the Borough Council meet this evening at the usual hour. The Town Clerk issued to-day licenses to nineteen hotel proprietors, and for eleven billiard rooms. The license fees amounted to £941. The Hon. Sir G. S. Whitmore, the Hon. J. N. Wilson, and Mr J. Sheehan were passengers from Wellington by the steamer Rotomahana on Saturday. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Watch barometer. Bad weather approaching between west and south and south-east. Glass further rise, and weather much colder. Eight thousand five hundred carcasses of frozen mutton have been put on board the Bombay by Messrs Nelson Bros, since Friday morning, tho last load having been despatched this afternoon.

The examination of pupil teachers and of candidates will commence to-morrow at the district school. Those who intend to offer themselves for examination are requested to be punctually in attendance at 9 a.m.

The train from Matamau for Napier on and after to-day leaves at 1.35 p.m. instead of 1.50 as formerly. This has been rendered necessary by the shunting which takes place at Makatoku, and which last week caused the particular train named to be very late in reaching Napier.

The residents along tho Wellesley road beyond the gas works have petitioned the Municipal Council in respect of the formation of that part of that thoroughfare. As it is now, a very slight rise of the lagoon water floods the road, and shuts off the communication of the residents.

It will be seen from our telegrams that tho Australians playing a good up hill game, have beaten the Gentlemen of England by 46 runs. The batting honors are fairly divided between Grace for the Gentlemen and Midwinter for the visitors, tho latter playing two good not out innings.

The Colleen, a magnificent pleasure party boat, now lying in the Heathcoto river, is for sale. She would make a capital investment for somo enterprising speculator to purchase and run her on the inner harbor. In holiday times she would be well patronised, and would prove a capital investment.

The election of a Board of River Conservators for the Taradale river district took place on Saturday at Taradale. Tno following is the result:—J. A. Napier, 60; T. Jeffares, 55 ; R. Neaglo, 55 ; J. Drummond, 53 ; G. Rymer, 53 ; S. F. Anderson, 43 ;H. Gordon, 43. The first five ware declared elected.

Considerable interest was taken in the election of the Board of River Conservators at Taradale last Saturday. Out of a little over a hundred ratepayers nearly ninety went to the polling booth and recorded their votes. There were four informal papers. The official notification of the polling, and of the first meeting of tho board to elect a chairman, can be seen in our advertising columns.

Tho 22nd of July will be election day, and on that evening, at the Theatre Royal, Professor Anderson, a son of the Wizard of the North, opens his Napier season. As a magician whenever ho has appeared in his entertainment he has been highly successful, as he achioves'all his tricks with neatness and dexterity, and claims for thorn that they aro nothing more nor less than clever deceptions.

We must congratulate residents in Taradale upon their recently completed Oddfellows' Hall. It supplies a want long felt in the district, a commodious building, detached yet centrally situated, and well adapted for public purposes. The stage has just been fitted with new scenery, the hall is well lighted, and very comfortable seats are provided in the auditorium, so that patrons of the entertainment to be held thero on Thursday next can rely upon finding a wellappointed theatre.

Four Mormon missionaries havo been living at Pakowhai pah for the last two months, and have been devoting their time to the prosecution of their calling. We hear that they have gained something like three hundred Maori converts. These missionaries are so exceedingly quiet and orderly in their manner, and so careful never to ask for contributions, that they have quite won the hearts of the natives, who declare that this new religion has the advantage of all others in that it is less expensive to support.

The Sisters of the Convent deniro through our columns to return their most sincere thanks to the public of Napier for the kindness and liberality manifested on last Thursday evening at the lecture and concert in aid of the Convent schools. The Sisters thank in a special manner all those who spared no toil to make the entertainment a pleasure and a success. They aro also xileased to remark that this kindness and good feeling are only of apart with that which they have always experienced from the people of Napier towards the success of the Convent schools.

The scientific nature of our football was illustrated on Saturday by two rather serious accidents. A gentleman, who does not wish his name to figure in type as meeting with a football accident, in stopping a player who was making a fast run with the sphere was thrown violently to the ground, and a fractured bone in the left arm was tlie result. In the other caso a lad named Chapman, playing in Clive Square, slipped and fell near one of the fencing posts, in the fall striking his head against the post, by which he sustained a severe wound on the forehead.

A considerable number of those town residents who at tho last general elections were on Messrs Buchanan, McDougall, and McSweeny's committees waited on Mr J. Sheehan on Saturday to request him to stand for the representation of Napier. Mr Buchanan, we understand, was present during a part of the interview, and was inclined to resent the proceedings. Mr Sheehan deferred his reply. Subsequently a tolerably largo meeting was held elsewhere, to which Mr Buchanan was invited, when it was agreed that that gentleman should not again seek re-election.

The Rev. De Berdt Hovell, last night at St. John's Church, gave his third lecture contrasting Christianity with the ancient religions, choosing Buddhism as his subject. The reverend gentleman gave a most interesting discourse, tho only fault of which was that it was too short. In conclusion Mr Hovell said it was impossible to do justice to the subject in the half hour to which he limited himself, but that he would be happy to afford further information to those who desired to learn more of a religion that had such a hold over the millions of India. Mr Hovell would be adding to the intellectual pleasurehe is affording his large congregation by these lectures if, in dealing with the more interesting of his subjects, he did not confine them to one discourse.

Signor Otto Hug arrived from the South ,on Saturday, and may be consulted at the Clarendon Hotel. Signor Hug, a medical clairvoyant, is, if we remember rightly, a Hungarian, though generally spoken of as being of Swiss nationality. In a stato of trance ho diagnoses disease, and while he has ai!_7l„„_ ,nucn suffering and made many cures, he does not pretend to be able to euro any apc| every disease, but in many case's'has'prbnejunped a disease incurable. That the' Signor "possesses some strange mesmeric or electric power over those who cpnsulf; h?m is evident, j though oiir reason may quarrel with diseases diagnosed by such strange means, and afterwards further treated with herbal remedies. It is within our knowledge that ho has come out triumphant in some severe tests, notably at Christchurch, whero any idea of collusion between the patients and the Signer was impossible. Wherever he goes the deserving poor are treated gratuitously on proper yoprGgentations being made.

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