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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3960, 9 April 1883, Page 3

It is veiy probable that we shall have Mother visit from H.M.S. Nelson about the end of the month. She is to leave Sydney oa the 15th instant for Norfolk Island, and It is expected she will proceed thence to lMs port direct, At a recent meeting of the Oamam Harbour Board, during a discussion on Parliamentary practice, Mr Shrimski contradicted tbe Hon. Mr Miller in a very emphatic and gesticnlatory manner. Mr Miller thereupon rose, and addressing the chairman said: "I appeal to you, sir, for protection against Mr Shrimski. He is totimidating me. lam in bodily fear." r.pnoiski ejaculated, " You had need to te, _ Those who have a knowledge of the Physical characteristics of the two gentle*>?a will appreciate joke.

~^J unfortunate dispute haa arisen over the Senior Amateur Scullers R ace in conWoa wiih tbe Ponsonby Eegatta. The the event to Satutday last, notwithstanding which, on the Tuesday Pkmous the North Sbore crew desired the 'Jj* pulled off on that evening. the secretary's consent was asked, and, we J'e informed, was refused. Intent upon wing their own way, tbe applicants wen induced tbe captain of the Ponsonby «ew to get their boat out. The starter and Wnpite were requested to be present, and m umpire gave his decision in favour 01 North. Shore, However, all this m contrary to ihe Regatta Club's decision wa it has coLsequently been ruled "no '.-j» The North Shore crew now ""eaten legal proceedings. Seating to the first meeting of the Miration Army officers in Dunedin, the ;,fining Herald," of 2nd inst., says :— le had fondly imagined that the detachmentof the Salvation Army, whose arriyal is 'chronicled last week, had come to , WKdm on a bootless errand, but we are ,ri-ala to confess our mistake. Notwithmm that Dunedin is the city of ™Mclies and schools, of ministers, profesofnr teachers, there is a large class •ni and y°nDg men, who, for irreverent *"a unseemly conduct during the Kromance of religious worship, and jB general blackguardism, could not be mm any patt o£ the old country . We Si i Vl?led thß celebrated Victoria S te/_ l ca the New Cvt> London, long ago riirißj fiftieß," before the world was so "'Uiaedasitisto-day'; we have sat out a P^ in the Rotunda at Blackfriars, and at J°7 ot.°"ous Pavilion in the Whitechapel ,i !Tm a'l of which places the rowdiness ft, T?, aalleyry waß proverbiali But let™ ]ar"kinß there were strict obX of, timea and seasons. While Jon .m?lT tin K Bcene " was beiog played, ba fhi c heatd a Pin drop, though kl. ?• °? tbe curtain was followed by waning and cat-calls, aud general upSP#m6ng the "gods." But at the jmperanpe Hall- last night the young Solans who filled the gallery neither ■tJ_?_ifM nor lega'Tded man—they «lli ' and whiatled,' arid talked with an mii m* lo?dDes3 whil6 tlle members L ■ A ™y were speaking or prayiifcS? wey endeavoured to drown the r£ ■ Wlth"their hideous shemts. Last L?;J experience convinces us that there CW? - .the Amy t0 df>, in civilizing and cloW Ml_! IDB the well-fed, 1 not badly itbttA.* fearfully ill-taught juvenile t" poss Jjnfortanately Dunedin is proved