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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4097, 8 September 1884, Page 2

We regret, to hear that the Rev. Father Forest remains in a very weal: condition, find is confined to his bed.

The Fisher Burlesque Company will give one performance of their popular entertainment at Taradalc to-night. The company then proceed to Taupo and the Hot Lake district.

Mr Cornford inserts a short address to the electors of the Central Ward, in which he declares his candidature for a seat m the Council. The ratepayers of that ward will be glad to have such a representative in the place of the councillor who has sat all too long in the Borough Council.

The members of the Napier Amateur Dramatic Club are announced to appear at the Hastings Town Hall next Friday evening in the comedy " Checkmate " and tho farce "Leave it to me."

In consequence of Mr Wood's unexpected summons toChristchurch, his popular lecture on " The Yorkshire Evangelists" will be delivered to-morrow evening instead of Wednesday, as previously announced.

A meeting of the members of the Petane Racing Club was held at Villers' Hotel on Saturday night, when it was decided to hold a race meeting on November 9 (Prince of Wales' birthday) Mr Haultain's resignation as secretary of the club, owing to change of residence, was accepted, and Mr. L. de Pelichet was unanimously elected in his stead.

An ugly accident occurred on Saturday to Mr J. Jones, the trainer, of Havelock.

Two letters to the Editor and a communication from "Gallery" will be found on our fourth page to-day. The letters of T. R. Cooper, Octopus No. 2, and Joshua will appear in our next.

He returned to the stable after exercising one of his horses, and while in the act of dismounting another horse kicked him twice, on the hip and on the face, inflicting a nasty wound. Jones was discovered lying insensible in the stable, and Dr. Faulkner was at once sent for. We hear that the sufferer is now progressing favorably. A correspondent draws our attention to tho fact that the local morning paper has entirely ignored the little circumstance of tho approaching municipal elections, and that especial care has been taken to omit all reference to the candidates' names. Our correspondent wishes to know whether the omission is an electioneering dodge to secure the return of Mr McDougall, or whether it is an example of carelessness. We must refer our correspondent to the newspaper office in question. Further papers on federation and annexation havo been presented to the House, from which the following information is derived. The total population of the French establishments in Oceania is 25,247 souls. In the Islands of Tahiti and Moorea there are 974 French anel descendants of French, 591 foreigners, and 449 Asiatics. Tho populatiouof New Caledonia is as follows :— Civil population, 2500; officers and their families, 1,041; freed convicts (libdrcs), 2300 ; convicts, GSOO. There are different estimates of the native population, varying j between 20,000 and 40,000. Our Wellington "special" telegraphs today as follows:—"I have just returned from the wreck of the Lastingham, where the steamer Napier made two ineffectual attempts to round Jackson's Head, but without success. On one occasion we experienced a sensation, as we tried to round the headland between the beacon on a line of reef and the ironbonnd coast itself. There was a considerable element of danger in this, as the Napier had been laid up for six months previous to this trip, and the machinery was, to put it mildly, stiff. Had anything gone wrong while we were in the breakers there would have been a sensational wreck, in which nearly all the Wellington iusuranco agents would have figured as passengers, along with five reporters." Intending passengers by the Union Steamship Company's boats would accept it as a great boon if the company would erect a signal staff at their town office. The town and port offices arc already connected by telephone, and fromthelatter can be seen the signal station on the hill. If a flag staff were erected at the town office it would be easy to send by telephone an order to hoist the required signals for public information. The departure of the . weekly steamer from Wellington is so irregular that when it is to arrive here on a Sunday it is impossible to tell when it will get in, and intending passengers are kept in a state of nervous discomfort. Owing to the growth of trees on the hills, boats coming from the North cannot be seen from the signal station, but as

they can be seen from the beach they could be signalled in town and the news telephoned to the Spit. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Captain Preece, R.M., a native named RenataTarawera was charged with a breach of the railway bye-laws. By his solicitor, Mr Moore, defendant pleaded not guilty. The prosecution offered no evidence, and the case was dismissed. Tho mistake, for it could be called nothing more, made by tho defendant arose from tho fact that some of the notices about the railway stations are not in Maori as well as in English.—Thomas Palmer, of Marumaru, and Parahi, of Bridge pah, neither of whom appeared, were convicted of having neglected to deliver during the month of Juno, 18S4, their annual shoGp returns to the Chief Sheep Inspector at Napier, and in each case a fine of £2, with costs 7s, was inflicted, with the

alternative, in default of payment, of seven day's imprisonment with hard labor.

Through the courtesy of the Reverend Mother we were accorded yesterday the rjrivilegc of an inspection of the St. Josph's girls' schools. With but one exception all tho class-rooms are small, and compared with the State schools poorly furnished. The dormitories are scrupulously clean, and well ventilated, the neat rows of soft beds, with their spotless white counterpanes, reminding one of the female ward at the Hospital before it was occupied. In the girls' school we were shown the copy-books

and drawings of the pupils, and were most agreeably surprised at the excellence of tho work. We were then taken to another building—there are six in all—in which the y Maori girls and orphans are domiciled. Lu\ < A. the class room the children were drawn-up to receive the visitors, aad their tidy wellfed appearance showed the kindness of their treatment, while the decorum of their behaviour proved that instruction in manners was a feature of the school. Their copybooks, drawing, mapping, and needlework were patterns of painstaking industry, and woulel reflect credit on any scholastic estab- ■ lishment. The refectories, laundry, anel dormitories wore next visited, and were alike remarkable for their cleanliness. On returning to the school the Maori girls were assembled round a piano, and favored the visitors with vocal music, which was very pleasingly rendered. Afterwards two young native children played a pianoforte duet in excellent time, and they were followed by one of the young lady day boarders, who played a composition with much expression of feeling-. A walk round the extensive grounds brought a most agreeable visit to a close.

Bad dreams, disturbed slocp, indigestion, stomach gas, all vanish beforo Hop Bitters. Read and ponder.

Flies and Bugs,—Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by "Rough on Rats." Fclton, G rim wade & Co., Agents, Wellington

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