NAPIER NOTES.

Hastings Standard, Issue 152, 22 October 1896, Page 2

NAPIER NOTES.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Napier, October 22. Wakeful people felt a sharp shock of earthquake at 2 o'clock this morning. The anniversary of Trafalgar was celebrated yesterday by the hoisting of bunting on two pubs and the 1 So rough Council Chambers and in the evening by a band concert, nominally patriotic, but in reality to rake in the shekels. The inquest on the body of the little girl Helen Chalmers, who was fatally burned on Tuesday night, was held at the hospital yesterday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. The little one, who was aged 7 years and 9 months, was trying to shut the damper of a range. Hhe was the only child, and the unfortunate mother is nearly distracted. A plain and fancy social was held in the Gaiety Theatre last night in aid of the widow of the late T. Beattie a former employee in the Daily Telegraph office. The financial results are likely to be large. An interesting discussion on diseased meat took place in the Borough Council last night induced by a letter from Dr. De Lisle covering a copy of the report of a Royal Commission on Tuberculosis recently held in England. It was decided —That m any case where any diseased, unsound, or unwholesome meat shall be sold, or exposed for sale, within the borough, the provisions of bye-law No. 857 lie strictly enforced, and proceedings at once taken against any person so offending, and that in the meantime the said bye-law No. 857 be advertised, and public notice given that the proper officers of the Council have been instructed to enforce it should occasion arise. It was resolved also that the Works Committee should further consider the question of meat inspector, and report in one month.