----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller To: Elaine Mattsen Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:56 AM Subject: HB Herald, Thurs. May 28th 1891 SHIPPING NEWS: Arrivals - May 27 - Ahuriri, s.s., from coast. May 27 - Rio, three-masted schooner, Captain DUNN, from Newcastle. Departures - May 26 - Kawatiri, s.s., for Westport. May 26 - Ahuriri, s.s., for coast. May 26 - Mataiua, s.s., for Wellington. Birth - LOCKIE - At Maraekakaho, on the 26th May, the wife of Allan LOCKIE, of a son. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Messrs NEWTON and DUNCAN, J.P.'s, Patrick CROWE and James THOMPSON were each fined 5s and costs for drunkenness. Robert STIRLING, also charged with drunkenness, was fined 10s and costs. A window curtain in a house in Munroe-street, occupied by Mr CALLAGHAN, caught fire yesterday owing, it is supposed, to a spark from a portable boiler flue. Somebody rang the bell at St. Augustine's Church, and for a time there was a rush of people in that direction, but the inmates of the house soon got rid of all danger. At a meeting of the committee of the Caledonian Society, held yesterday afternoon at the Masonic Hotel, 10 pounds was voted to the widow of the late Roderick MATHESON, who was murdered at Rakamoana some time ago. A general meeting of the Napier Poultry and Canary Association was held at the Empire Hotel last evening.......The following committee was appointed:- Messrs COSGROVE, BURRIDGE, F. ORMOND, GARNER, J.W. COOK, A. ROBINSON, S.J. M'KERNON, C. PRICE, and P. PRICE. Our Woodville correspondent writes as follows under yesterday's date:- The licensing committee for the ensuing three years was elected yesterday, and consists of Messrs HALL, SYMS, STACPOOLE, CRAWFORD, and HORNE, all moderate men. The local option poll decided against increases of any kind of licenses. The five hotels are therefore considered ample for the requirements of Woodville. In fact some think that two would suffice, and that there can be no real necessity for five hotels keeping open till 11 o'clock no one will deny, since no train or coach enters or leaves the township after 6.30 p.m.