HBH 1890 June 7 local news one Mr PUFLETT-local manager of the Union company Mr J C PORTER is at present staying at the Masonic Hotel and informs us that the New Zealand Graphic is having tremendous sales, the whole of the first orders having been fully subscribed. The Napier licensing committee met yesterday and all the applications for renewals and transfers of licenses ere granted. Inspector KIELY reported that he had no complaints to make against any of the licensed houses in the borough. On the application of Mr P GORMAN, president of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, it was agreed to allow the hotels to extinguish their outside lamps at 12.30 o'clock, as had been the practice for two years. The mission service in the Cathedral last night was well attended with a large congregation present to hear the Rev. G.C. GRUBB deliver a powerful address. Mr MILLARD will conduct a special service for children. The Grand Master of the New Zealand Constitution of Freemasons has called an emergency meeting of the members of Scinde Lodge for the purpose of electing a W.M. Under the Irish Constitution under which the Liege Scinde is working and though it has joined the New Zealand Constitution, no member can be elected to the office of W.M. three times in succession. Bro. J E PROVIS, was, however, elected for the third time last May, an impression prevailing that because the Lodge had severed its connection with the Irish constitution it could elect Bro PROVIS as the first W.M., under the NZ Constitution Received from Mr MOUNTFORT (the patentee of the "cold vacuum process" of preserving butter), a tin of butter which was sealed several months ago. It proved to be of excellent quality-far better than nine-tenths of the butter sold as fresh, though it had absolutely no salt added to it....more