NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 112, 4 September 1896, Page 3

NAPIER NOTES.

[From Ocb Own Corbespondent.]

Napier, September 4. It is raining and miserable, and everthing is Hat, stale, and unprofitable, Mr Editor. There is no news and, no trade except in umbrellas on the deferred payment system, and when one goes outside into Hastings street and looks up and down nothing is to be seen save here and there a despondent dog or a draggle-tailed woman jumping from puddle into puddle, and a funeral row of cabs the drivers of which are mostly liinklo toe hotels sponging on the landlords and toasting liberal fares and plenty of them, in the bright days which are sure to come—if they wait long enough, .Mr Editor, I am in .mood pessimistic, and not fit for the bright and cheerful correspondent of a real live paper such as yours. There is a heavy sea running into the bay and the breakwater is getting another pounding. At the early hour of 8 o'clock this morning, however, Napier's pet while elephant still remained in xt'it/i '!>!■'. The Hawke's Bay footballers will leave to play a match against the Gisborne representatives on the 20th Inst. Colonel Newall will visit Hastings on the 10th inst. to inspect the local Rifles. No doubt, he will find them all snick and span. It is whispered that h - c'ion will be a precursor of a t from the new commandant. 1 - > the other papers in the col jny ur> f ili of advertisements from horse, Gwnei- and members of Parlia_mont. In k htse parts it seems as if ib«4h are behind the times. This you will agree with me is a very parlos state of things.