NAPIER NEWS-NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 480, 15 July 1890, Page 3

NAPIER NEWS-NOTES.

(FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Napier, Saturday. Every thing down here is as dull as the proverbial ditch water, nothing of a sensational character having happened during the past six days to excite our feelings or awaken our curiosity. The rise in the price of wool at home caused joy to permeate through the hearts of local growers, the news being very welcome indeed. Quite a number of shareholders in the Try Fluke mine, in the Kuaotunu goldfields, reside in Napier, and, now that such favorable reports have been received with regard to the results of the ernsbings, they do not feel inclined to part with them. The Napier Bugby Union have decided to aend a team of footballers to Gisborne on Friday, August Ist, if that date will be a suitable one for the Gisborne Clubs. The authorities are very strict in Hawke’s Bay regarding the enforcement of the Babbit Act. If a runholder neglects to do bis best to

eradicate bnnny tbe Inspector is down on him jiise a thousand of bricks. One runho’der, ■whose second offence it was, was fined £l5 ■and costs the other day, whilst ano her was /fined £5, the circumstances being different in the two cases. MrW. J. Harker, an eccentric individual who had announced his intention of standing for Hawke’s B y' at the next election, has retired through ill health. The decision given by the R.M. in the case of the Napier Park Racing Club, claim £3O, was a perfectly just one, and met with approval in racing circles here. The facts yon are no doubt acquainted with. Captain Russell started Van Dieman for a hack race at the Park and won it, without having previously scratched him for the Wanganui Derby. The stake was paid over to Russell, bnt Gooseman, the owner of Vesper, entered a protest and he was paid the £3O also. Tbe clnb then took steps against Captain Russell for the recovery of the amount paid to him, and were successful in their suit. The Hawke’s Bay Caledonian Society is in a flourishing condition, the assets amounting to £265 over tbe liabilities. Tbe liabilities of James Mnnn, the wellknown trainer, are put down at £1792 and the assets at £2BO. the debtor attributes bis failure to bad luck during tbe last three yease, caused through bones breaking down, etc. Mt D. Gray, solicitor, has purchased the block of buildings in Emerson street and Tennyson street, and one or two cottages in Milton road, from tbe Northern Investment Company, for £6OOO. It is me intention of the Bngby Union to hold football sports in September next, winners of races to receive medals.

A man named Carter died in tbe hospital the other day from concussion of the brain, and hie relatives took the body away to Puki Puki before the police were aware of the demise of Carter. The ooroner consequently had to travel to Puki Puki to bold an inquest there, A Ferndale man, named William Cantelin, has been charged with the larceny of a letter, the property of the Postal Department, containing a cheque for £1 5a sd, sent by a clergyman to a Puketapu settler. The acoueed baa been remanded, and it is probable that a couple more eases will arise out of thia one. How the prisoner gained access to postal letters is as yet a mystery, so far as tbe publio is concerned, but the police will no doubt make the disclosure when the case comes on for hearing next week. The skating rink here ie being well patronised, the manager, J. W. D. Foley, of entertainment fame, providing attractions in ths sbaps of ladies’ and gentlemen’s races, taekmed skating, Ac. A man named Charles Jatnss McDonald, VtoiMMUyanftbdkere, epeaed * they u

Hastings Street, at which pictures of every kind could be purchased. He happened to accost the Clerk to the Inspector of Police in a bye street the other day, and offered to sell him some photos, which he showed him. After some discussion he brought out some smaller cards, which were pictures of an indecent character, and offered them at 2s 6d a packet. Just then Seru’t. Cullen came along, and the clerk gave McDonald in charge. Mr Brassey defended him in the Police Court, and contended that the majority of the pictures owned by McDonald were not obscene, and were, in fact, to be found in every Museum in the colony. Tbe accused had been brought up at Wanganui on a similar charge and dismissed. The R.M., however, did not c-eem inclined to let McDonald off, and gave him four mouths in the Napier gaol, with hard labor.