HBH 1890 June 27 Local news Constable O' ROURKE, Orderly at the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court, has been appointed bailiff to the Napier Magistrate's Resident Court, and will enter upon his duties on the 1st of July. Mr Alfred Chetham-Strode whose death was announced in a recent cable message was formerly Resident Magistrate in DUNEDIN, and was a member of the New Zealand Legislature. He left the colony eight or nine years ago, but continued to take great interest in New Zealand, and had considerable investments in Otago. He was also a director of the Land and Loan Company of New Zealand, which had its head quarters in NAPIER. He was a near relative of Mr STRODE who was one of the executors of the late Prince Imperial of France, and owner of the house in which ex Emperor Napoleon and the Princess Engenie lived at Chislehurst some years after the Franco Prussian War. Hastings correspondent: -There is a prospect of lively contest for the vacant councillorship, although Dr LINNEY has retired in favor of Mr J H WILLIAMS. An alteration has been made in the order of the plays to be produced by Mr Geo. C MILN next week at the Theatre Royal.