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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4110, 23 September 1884, Page 2

Br, Mcnzics loft last night by the Southern Cross for Wellington. Mr Hill left town yesterday for the purpose of inspecting the schools at Hampden ami Takapau. The Napier portion of the 'Frisco mail left Auckland yesterday for Wellington. It will probably arrive hero overland on Thursday night. There arc r.lready ] 14 competitors for tho forthcoming baby show at Auckland, including eight twins. Several medical men arc to act as judges. Mr James Taylor, carpenter at desires to state that lie is not the James Taylor that signed tho petition against the Napier Harbor Bill. Wo beg to remind owners that entries and acceptances for the forthcoming races must be made to tho secretary at the Criterion Hotel this evening. According to a Napier correspondent of tho Watchman Messrs Shrimski and Barron are two leaders of tho House. Comment on. such a statement is superfluous. At the R.M. Court this morning, before Captain Precce, R.M., Agnes Williamson, on remand charged with lunacy, was further remanded till Monday next. Arrangements have been made by which colonials can send. Christmas and New Year's greetings to their friends by Bcuter's Telegram Agency by payment of ono pound.. We (Examiner) have been shown a specimen of well-defined quartz found in tho vicinity of Wopdvillc. Perhaps there is a good reef j.n t|ie range not so yciy far away,. Who will find'it r ' ' \ A case of J. Atkins v. W. 33. Edwards was proceeding at tho R.M. Court when wo went; to press. Mr Xasuullcs for plaintiff, Mr Moore for defendant. Iho case is for tho recovery of a horse valued at £80. It is whispered in the clubs that Judge Gillies is to be transferred from Dunedin. Kis" Honor Mr Justice Johnston getting Jio Nothorn Circuit, the health of the latter ■or some time past being very indifferent. ' In London lately, according to tho Homo tfews, King Tawhiao sat to Mv Sheldon, he sculptor, for a bunt in plaster, which is (i be cast in bronze and placed in the louse of Eepresentalives in New Zealand. Captain Edwin wires at 12.41 p.m. tony:—Watch barometer. Bad weather pproachingr. Heavy gale between north nd west and south-west after ten hours i'Oin now, with rain, and glass fall again Don. j The witnesses 3'rill, .Loficy, and Sergeant hirtenshaw, in the recent assault case will c bound over this afternoon to appeal , at iic next sittings of tho Supremo Court to ivo evidence agaimt Constable Wilson for erjury.

Tho extra session of Parliament held this year cost the country £25,400.

The box plan in connection ■with "Webb's Marionettes is now open at Mr. Jacobs' repository. Sxsecial trains will, we understand, bo arranged for between Napier and Hastings on at least two evenings during their stay here.

Mr Rearden acknowledges receipt of _ the following subscriptions to tho Enright fund:—G. Hunter, Porongahau £3 3s ; P. Gorman, 10s ;Mr Grindcll, 10s ; Mrs Edwards, 5s ; Thomas Shuehan, ss; Thos. Fox, 5s ; A Mother ss.

On Thursday evening the " Dr. Menzies Testimonial Fund" will close. Subscriptions may bo sent in to the secretary or to any branch of the Union Bank. Arrangements have been made to send the amount collected by telegraph order to Lyttelton.

The word subsequently proved a stumbling block to a witness in Court to-day, fur being asked what had subsequently occurred he immediately began to narrate events of the previous ten days, but was promptly pulled up by getting a free translation of the word that had upset him.

Verdicts were given for plaintiffs in the following cases at the R.M. Court this morning:—M. Ryder v. G. Snellcr, (Mr Lascelles for plaintiff), £9 12s, costs .£1 3s, solicitor's fee £1 Is; R. Noaglo v. b. J. Dryden, (Mr Lascelles for plaintiff), £3 18s sd, costs 18s, solicitor's fee £1 Is.

Tho Hastings people will be glad to learn that Carry Nelson's clover company will airaiii visit tho township during the race week, so that those who have not already witnessed the clever entertainment will have another chance of doing so, while those who have will be glad to renew their acquaintance with tho very capable performers.

The annual report of the Murine Department, which has been submitted to Parliament, shows that the cost oi 37 lighthouses for tho year was £9951. The casualties on the coast were 2G steamers, and 3G vessels stranded ; 1 steamer and 3 sailing vessels 5 steamers and 3 sailing vessels in collision. Tho total lives lost were 35. Elsewhere we publish the prospectus of the Theatre Royal Company (limited). The provisional directors should satisfy tho investing public that the company is likely to be a financial suscess. A large number of shares have been already applied for so those who purpose being shareholders should at once send in their applications. Mr Motley is the local broker for the company. People who busy themselves about the religious leanings of politicians have discovered that the Compensation Cabinet is composed of gentlemen of widely differing opinions. It is said there are two Roman Catholics (Messrs Buckley and Tole), one Jew (Sir Julius Vogel), two Freethinkers (Messrs Stout and Ballancc), one Presbyterian (Mr Reynolds), and one Episcopalian (Mr Richardson). Dr. Fisher's appointment as resident surgeon of the Napier Hospital, while a surprise to many here, was as great a surprise to the Inspector-General of Hospitals, Dr. Grabham, who knew nothing of it till yesterday. On Friday last ho wrote a letter to a member of the Hospital Committee asking him to use his influence to get the appointment for an ex-surgeon of the Wellington Hospital. Tho letter was delivered in Napier yesterday, upon which the committeeman wired for an explanation, to which ho got a reply from Dr. Crrabnam last night that he had just learned oi Dr. Fisher having been selected. Tho Darling Downs Gazette (Queensland) of Ist September says:—" Messrs T. G. Robinson and Co. passed another consignment of Now Zealand colts and fillies under the hammer on Saturday, and sold tho whole of them at prices ranging from twonty-fivo to forty-five guineas. An entire colt of grand substance, short of log, but carrying a lengthy pedigree, of pure Clydesdale origin, was, after keen competition, knocked down to Mr Harry Wear, Gtnvrie road, for seventy-eight guineas. This colt will be a very creditable acquisition to the draught stock of the district. Another argument for the Union Company running a steamer to Brisbane, as those hordes arc now shipped to Sydney, and from thence aro forwarded to the interior of Queensland.

The annual mooting , of the Union Rowin"- Club was held last night at tho ProTincial Hotel, Mr S. E. Cooper m the chair. The report was of a satisfactory character. The following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year :—President Mr T. Watorworth; vice-president, Mr S E. Cooper ; captain, T. H. Giitord ; vico-captain, Mr R. Swecptapplc; secretary and treasurer, Mr S. Speuco; auditors, Messrs S. E. Cooper and J Ross ; committee, Messrs Charlton, Mills, J. Gifford, J F Chicken, J. Ross, J. Langhan, and b. Spence. It was decided that tho club should take part at the opening of the season. MrS. E. Cooper offered trophies to be rowed for during the season. Alter the passing of some accounts the meeting adjourned.

Wednesday's Wairarapa Daily says: — We wonder who supplies our contemporary the Woodville Examiner, with its Wairarapa fictions ? Nothing can bo more absolutely false than the folio wing paragraph " The Wairarapa County Council arc moving m the matter of inducing the Government to open up the land in the Forty-mile Lush for settlement. They have, however, other pbjocts in view, and they would like to get into their own hands the money to bo spent in opening up the roads through the new blocks: This is a very ingenious idea for a body composed for a great part oi men interested in gigantic land speculations. Wo trust the Government will never admit of such a ridiculous idea, and so play into the hands of the Bectham-Buchanan clique, •who have never shown themselves the friends of the genuine settlement."

Obstructions of the kidneys and attendant organs will prove fatal if not removed by Hop Bitters. Read.

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The public and the medical profession of Australia are unanimously of opinion that Wolfe's Schnapps is the purest and best stimulant, tonic, and diuretic at present before the world.