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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4139, 28 October 1884, Page 2

The weights for the Handicaps at the. Waiiganui Spring Meeting , , and a number of interesting extracts will be found on the fourth page to-day.

Captain Preece will return from Woodvilla, where he held a court last week, this evening.

The Port Adelaide- from Lyttelton to London, whose arrival has been telegraphed, had a rather uneventful passage of 132 days.

At the meeting of creditors in the insolvent estate of J. P. Ward held yesterday, Mr Motley was appointed supervisor of the estate ; the assets are valued at £27.

A. society of Old "Blues" orßluecoat Boys is one of the recently formed institutions of Auckland. At their meetings the toasts are honoured according to Christ's Hospital rites.

It is reported (says the Marton paper) that a well-known resident of Wanganui, formerly of Rangitikei, has hastily quitted the district in company with a married woman who has left behind her an injured husband and three children.

The Timaru Herald says : —"His Honor Judge Ward is fond of girding at the Bankruptcy Act of 1883. On Monday last he said the Act seemed to have been made by cutting up the clauses of all the Bankruptcy Acts in creation, shuffling them up in a bag, and picking them out promiscuously."

J here was a large attendance last evening at the adjourned special mooting of the shareholders of the Recreation Ground Company, Mr John M'Vny in tho chair. The resolution passed at the previous meeting authorising tho directors to borrow £300 for improvement purposes wns confirmed.

The penny subscription list started yesterday on the Spit, for the purpose of procuring some life-saving apparatus to be placed on the breastwork, seems to have borne some fruit, for we learn that the harbor master has ordered some grapling hooks to bo made on account of the Harbor Board.

We learn by private telegram that the Humphry's Gully Gold Mining Company's tunnel is once more being pushed through, in good driving strata, the difficulties presented by pug leakage having been overcome. If all goes well the tunnel will be finishe d by December.

Mr Sturm has intimated to Mr Blythehis intention to give 200 trees towards the planting of Clive Square. There is a fine opening for other tradesmen to contribute of their goods in like manner to Mr Sturm, and as example is contagious we hope shortly to have to chronicle the receipt of other gifts equally useful.

We are requested to state that Mr Hayden, when asked by Chiarini how much it -would cost to clean up Clive Square, was not aware that his offer was accepted, or that any money had been left to pay for the job. In our paragraph yesterday we did not intend to imply that any offer had been made to Mr Haydon,' further than that Chiarini wanted a 30s job done for £1.

When Messrs Patteu and Kennedy took their seats at the R.M. Court this morning, though five cases were set down for hearing, not a single individual, cither interested in the cases or as a spectator of the proceedings, had put In an appearance, even the ever present policeman being absent. Of course, the result was that the cases set down for hearing were allowed to lapse.

Captain Kraeffc, the harbor-master, is having made at Riddle's blacksmith's shop at the Spit, a four-foot grappling iron with hooks, nine inches apart, along the stock. He is also having a couple of hooks made, and he has ordered a life-buoy, ropes and two long poles. With this apparatus within reach, the reproach of having no life saving appliances at the wharf will bo done away with.

A Wanganui paper writes: —" From facts mentionted yesterday at tho School Committee meeting, there would appear to be a great deal more of real poverty here than generally supposed. It appears that in some cases where children have been absent from school, it has only been on account of the utter inability of the parents to provide boots and clothing for them."

A London correspondent of the 'Frisco News Letter is very rough on the Australian cricketers while praising up the Philadelphians, and talks of their matches as international. Well as the best eighteen Philadelphia ever produced could not beat a second rate team, the writer knows but little of his subject.

At about half-past two o'clock this morning Mr J. Northo's boat building shed Western Spit was observed to be in flames. Further than that tho building contained a lot of tools, and was insured for £60 in tho National office nothing seems to be known. There was no fire-place in the building, and no surmise can be hazarded as to the origin of the fire. George Angove and Martin, the fishermen, were working for Mr Northe yesterday, and their tools have also been destroyed. It is needless to say that the insurance does not nearly cover the loss.

The ordinary Maori bailiff of the Wanganui Court being on the sick list, a substitute has been employed by him to attend the Court. This morning (Friday) the newly-appointed dignitary was told to call a native defendant, and he went outside somewhere for the purpose. As there was no signs of his returning the Clerk of the Court went after the bailiff, and found him sitting on the grass outside, evidently under the impression that as long as he had " called " the defendant it did not matter much whether the Court knew ho did not appear or not.

The body of the unfortunate seaman Michael Tall, of the schooner Enterprise, who met his death by drowning on Friday night, was recovered this morning close to the wharf. It is thought from the fact of the deceased having his pipe tightly grasped in his hand, that he must have been stunned when he fell between the wharf and the vessel. Captain Bell and the crew have been constantly grappling for the body since the accident occurred, and it must be some consolation to thorn to know that .through their efforts the body of their old mess-mate will receive Christian burial. An inquest will bo held this afternoon at the Railway Hotel.

The Melbourne press has all of a sudden been seized with a desire to have its own correspondent at the head of affairs in New Zealand, and consequently letters frequently appear in the columns of the majority of Melbourne journals dated from Wellington, and containing much information about this colony, which has every appearance of having been carefully and laboriously collated from Christchurch and Dunedin newspapers. In a late letter the Wellington correspondent of the Age says Sir William Fit?herbert introduced a bill to legalise sweepstakes on racecourses. Now it is clear that no man in Wellington is ignorant of Mr Fitzhcrbort (the son of the knight) being a member of the Hpusp of Representatives, but this veracious correspondent apparently did not know of hie existence. Every preparation has been made to ensure tho success of the instrumental and vocal concert and gift auction in aid of the building fund of the Oddfellows Hall, Taradalp. An excellent programme ot eoiiwfl, dances, and selections o) , music will be submitted, and a very hw variety of usef.il and ornamental articles for the Dutch auction will he disposed of during an interval in the concert. Arrangements have been made for the conveyance of visitors and performers to and from the hall, and if the elements prove favorable there is no doubt of a bumper house. A lull rehearsal of all the items on the programme—about twenty-four in all — will take : place on Wednesday evening, the night prior to the entertainment, "when all the ladies and gentlemen taking part in the performance are respectfully requested k> attend.

The public meeting in connection with the New Zealand Wesleyan Home Mission was held in Trinity Church last evening, Mr J. S. Welsman occupying the chair. Mr T. Laws, secretary of the local branch of the mission, read the annual report. The income last year was £2482 6s 10d, expenditure £2553 17s Sd, showing a deficiency of £71 10s 10d. Hawke's Bay contributing £30 17s last year, but this year it was anticipated the amount would be larger. . Hastings had received £10 per quarter from y the fund for the past two years, and it was probable the grant would also be continued this year. The report was adopted. Addresses were afterwards .delivered by the Revs. T. E. Jones, E. 0. Perry, W. G. Oliver (special reference being made to work among the Maoris), J. J- 'Lewis (who urged the necessity of the appointment of a political agent to im. press on the people and electors the necessity of returning men to Parliament of the highest moral and political character), and W. Stenberg (who referred to the work among the Scandinavians). A number of sacred selections were given by the choir, a collection was taken up, and the meeting was brought to a close by the Doxology.

" Rough on Rats."—Clears outran, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, inseed, skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Felton, Grimwade & Co., Agents, Wellington.

The best periodical for ladiee to take monthly and from which they will receive the greatest benefit is Hop Bitters. Read. There has never been produced a tonic or stimulant to equal Wolfe's Sciinamps ; it has maintained its hold upon popular patronage and stands alone like the one Alexander.— [advt.]