NAPIER.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3357, 25 September 1879, Page 2

NAPIER.

Last night.

The Herald says : " On the assembling of the House one of the first motions tabled will be one appointing a committee to hold a. searching enquiry into the circumstances attending the now famous ♦ Ingle's telegram business.' We may say that facts are already ascertained which show that neither Mr St. Clair Inglis, of Waipawa, nor Mr Ingleton, of Katkoura, the latter who received the telegram in the first instance, were either directly or indirectly concerned in its publication." The country right through the province is looking splendid, and feed was never more abundant. Lambibg is now nearly over, and the increase has been very large, Near Kaikora and Paiangata the increase in several flocks has been 120 per cent. Further up the country from 90 to ICD per cent, has been the rulo. On the Ahuriri Plains about 75 to 80 per cent, is the average. Notwithstanding the wet weather there has, so far as we can learn, been no foot rot even on the plains. Wool is thick and of excellent quality, and if we have favorable weather for the next two months this year's clip will largely exceed that of last year. The vsdue of koromika shrub as a medicine-in cases of diarrhooa and dysentery is beginning to attract attention in Kugland, and considerable quantities of the leaves are now shipped home. The tutu, which is well known for its injurious fffects when oatun by cattle, is also being collected for the same put-pose, though in smaller quantities. » The ranges at the back of Kaikora will,, probably be prospected for co^xl shortly. Pieces of coal, and of formations similar to those found in the coal producing districts, have been washed down the lulls during tlie recout heavy rains, and it is reasonably thought these may be signs of considerable deposits of the " black diamonds."

J. 23 entries have been received for the Poultry Association's first show on Friday, among tlxein beinfj scyeral special exhibits.

Mr Joseph Chicken, wattamaker, of Wcipawa, W& in the railway train proceeding honae on Monday mornin« whea U« was stung on one leg by the Katepo spider. The pain was so intense, and Kfp Chicken felt co unwell that he got out at Waipawa, and returned to town by the next train. He went to hiij mother's house where Dr Spencer was called in. Every attention was paid to the sufferer,

and we believe he is now quickly recovering. The animal which stung him is a very small and insignificant looking spider with a black, shining body, edged with red. It is forluuately rare, and is thought to frequent only the sea-shore, being generally found in the sand. The Maoris have a great fear of the insect, and aver that its sting is fatal.

Mr Ormond intends to move at an early date for a retnrn showing; in detail the expenditure on the Napier-Kopua railway during the last two years, as he thinks that unless there has been great extravagance the money alleged in the Public Works Statement to have been spent in this provincial district cannot really have been expended. The return will be looked for with some curiosity.