NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 129, 24 September 1896, Page 2

NAPIER NOTES.

[From Ouk Own Correspondent.] Napier, September 24. The Napier Pirate football team went out to Waipawa yesterday and defeated the locals after a good game by ten points to nil. The friends of Mr George Spratt of this town are making an effort to raise a subscription to enable him to appeal against the decision of the Chief Justice in the case Johnston y. Spratt (the celebrated will case). The local branch of the Knights of Labor has passed the following resolution :—" That the secretary be instructed to write to Mr Carnell, and convey to him the thanks of this Assembly for his past efforts in the interests of the workers, and beg to assure him of their continued support, also in their power to secure his return at the forthcoming election." A branch of the Liberty League (anti-Prohibitionists) is shortly to be formed in Napier. The principal object of the League is to secure the maintenance of the liberty of the subject as to what he shall eat and what he shall drink and the clothes that he shall put on. There will be a big crowd at the Theatre Royal to-night to listen to the debate between Rev. Hosking and Mr Fred Sutton on prohibition matters. The Synod decided last night to introduce a society of the St Andrew Brotherhood into the diocese. It was decided to appoint a committee to draw up a draft scheme for the formation of a Missionary Association. The Synod formally expressed its sense of the loss sustained by the death of Messrs Tiffen and Newton, for many years connected with the Synod and the church. The Christian Endeavorers are holding a conyentionln town just now. Your representative was not favored with a ticket of admission, but has heard that the affair was a grand success, representatives from all parts of the district attending. The following was the programme:—Morning, prayers; afternoon, a business meeting, when the secretary and treasurer's report and two papers were read, officers elected, and a motion passed deprecating the granting of a license to the Marine Parade Hotel in opposition to public opinion ; evening, grand tea attended by about 400 people, followed by a public meeting which filled the Gaiety Theatre to overflowing. Mr Mackenzie was " benefited " by the Hawke's Bay Highland Society last night in the presence of a very large audience. The programme was a good one and the financial results were better still—from a Mackenzie point of new of course. •