NAPIER NEWS-NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 534, 20 November 1890, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS-NOTES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Napieh, la«t night, At a meeting of the E iuoa ion B >ard' ypaterdav a letter was read from -the Poverty Bay Teachers’ Association, asking the Board to grant full bonuses thU -year. Consideration of the matter was deferred. The Ormond Committee wrote applying for repairs to the school building, and creation of conveßiencse and teaiher’a residence. The Inspector sai l the school building was old and not worth repairing. It was decided to provide the conveniences required, but to d f->r the other matters. The Railway OnmmhstQnsrg wrote refusing to grant frne passages to candidates for scholarships. The appoints ant of Mrs King as sewing mistress at Te Aral was confirmed. A very hsavy easterly sea was running In the bay last night and to-dav, and theaea rose ao high that several times 'his morning it washed over the sea wall on the marine nirade. News reached town-ahou’ 9 o’Qlook that the whip Rnngitikei was. dragging het anchors. A number of to ths Bplc, and found that the Rangrikel was much in ilia same position as the il’-fated ship Northumberland was. She bad lost one anchor, and though she had dropped & second one, she was dragging, A lifesaving apparatus was cent over to ths Petone beach in reidjness against emergeuoids, and me-mwhi'o - the Ahuriri alongside the ship, and ettde-*v«»red to tow her out, The Rimutaka attempted to assist, hut could not get near enough, as the Rangitikei was in shallow water. While the Ahuriri and Fanny were ut work tha Rtngitikei either parted or slipped her sep md anchor. However, by 10 o’clock the efforts to move the Rangitikei proved successful, and she was gradually towed well out, but she had a narrow escape,