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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 193, 15 August 1889, Page 4

Amdngst tho outward .passengers to-day by the s.s. Waibora were Mr J. C. Firth (who goes to Lyttelton on business matters), Dr. Waddington (late of Cambridge, Waikato, who is bound for Melbourne), and Mr J. H. Witheford (for Wellington).

A middle-aged woman named Hunter sat through the Police Court proceedings this morning. When the last case was disposed of, she marched up to the Bench, and shouted, "I am in danger of my life from my husband and a constable, all because I want him to be honest." Mrs Hunter then went on to tell the Court that she had been married for 28 years, and that her husband had said that she was drunk. She produced a length of well rope, and asked the Bench if that was not a nice thing for a man to tie his wife down with. Mr Haultain, Clerk of the Court, told the woman that she would require 5s if she wanted to get a protection order. Mrs Hunter had no money, and went out of Court in an angry mood, shouting out tbat she knew the constable would lock her up for being drunk although, her character was excellent.

Wβ are informed that an appeal on behalf of Mr McCrae is likely to be made against the decision given in the case of McCrae v. the Mangere Road Board, when a verdict wa3 entered for defendants.

That ghost was on the warpath the other evening again. Just about dusk one of our prominent footballers was out for a run in the Qomain, clad in a neglige white costume. He turned a corner in hie run, and as he did so a group of youths and men caught sight of him. They did not wait to investigate him at all, but went quite' suddenly. He i 3 not at all ghost-like in his appearance either, but to anybody up Grafton Road way now a white rag is like a red rag to a bull—with a difterenc6: The red rag attracts the bull, but the white repels the residents. When our friend caught up to the Hying youths and asked them to touch him, there was some wild and sulphurous language for afew moments.

The meeting called by Mr Holland for lasfcevening, at the Grey-street firebell, did not come off. Owing to insufficient notice, very few were present, and the meeting was postponed till this evening, at 7 o'clock. Mr Holland is to propound a scheme by which the unemployed question will be for ever laid at rest. Any new light on this important subject will be gladly received.

The arrival of the steamer Hauroto from Sydney to-day places us in possession of later British and foreign cable news, the dates brought being up till laefc Saturday. Communication by cable with Sydney has not yet been restored. The superintendent of the Cable Company, Wakapuaka, !?lee»ph» for the information of the press: L"Slierard Osborne signalled trom Farowelt SpH as making for Nelson. Requires 00-il " The telegraph authorities here fromthi moneage tbab ifc will be tbreeor four davsjafc Jeaefc before cable comraunleotioncan poeefbly Ibe ro.u>red. Wβ are informea by Mr JFurbv that during the interruption of cablo oommunlcation with Australia cab egrams >nay bo lodged aj) this.Auckland tele|raph oflice, to be forwarded by (teamer for aespatch by yfire from the first port of call. ISbeqld the cable be restored before, the Seamer reaches its destination, the oablegrame will be forwarded direo.D by wire. The. fireti opportanUy o f forwarding cable, c r ame aq Vbovq will be pep Wan-arapa, feavintf Bluff tp-worrow, nb 2.30 p.m.

Mr Parncll was the recipient of addresses from the municipal bodies of Ireland, on June 1, congratulating him on the collapse of the Piggott conspiracy. In answer to the addresses, Mr Parnell said he never doubted he should be able to disprove thoso forgeries, and added: "I should have preferred to have gone to my grave with the stigma of these letters upon me —cowardly, :r.ean, and contemptible as these letters were—rather than submit my country and my countrymen to the humiliating ordeal that was forced upon us as the accompaniment of the inquiry into ihe authenticity of these letters." Mr Parnell also stated that when he demanded an inquiry in 1887, immediately after the letters were published, it was refused ; and it wae only by forcing an inquiry into everything, into every imaginable speech that was ever made, into every newspaper article that was ever written, not only in Ireland, not only in England, but in every part of the world by any Irishman whatever, that the present tribunal was constituted.

The Franklin Road Band of Hope paid a visit to the Pitt and Vincent streets Band of Hope on Monday evening, when the following programme was presented : —Piano solo, Mrs Greacen ; song, " Why do Bummer Roses Fade," Mr Hodgson ; recitation, " Bingen on the Rhine," Mr Cook; address, Mr Jack (Band of Hope Union speaker); song, "Saved from the Deep," Miss White ;"" recitation, "Little Jim," Master Merrick; duet, piano and violin, Mrs Greacen and Mr Booth ; reading, " The Celebrated Jumping Frog," Mr White; song, " To the Bush," Master Merrick ; short lecture on " The Effects of Alcohol on the Human System," Mr Bigelow.

A football match was played in the Domain yesterday afternoon, between a team belonging to the Meßsrs Hollaby's establishment and a team chosen from the other Auckland butchers. The tormer won after an. exciting game by 4 points to 1. Stevenson and McKenzie scored triea for the winners. Verran and Stuart also played well. For the losers Reid gained ix try, while Parsons, Bomber, and Tracey played a good game.

Valedictory services will be held in St. Mary's parish, Parnell, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the 16th, 17th, and 18th inst., to bid farewell to the Pvev. G. H. S. Wai pole, who is. about to leave for America. Oα to-morrow evening an addreaswilibe presented in the parish schoolat 8.30 p.m. ; on Saturday evening at 7.30 p.m. there will be a farewell musical service at the Cathedral Church, at which the suburban clergy and choirs will assist; and on Sunday there will be choral services. The late incumbent will preach a sermon to young men at the 11 o'clock service, when the " 0 " Battery, of which he was chaplain, will attend.

Ad important judgment affecting the respective positions of the Freezing Companies and shipowners in connection with the leasing of hulks was delivered at Christchurch yesterday morning by Judge Denniston. The case was one in which the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company were plaintiffs, and the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company the defendants. The plaintiffs sought the recovery of £450, for damages done to certain sheep stored in the hulk Edwin Fox, leased by the defendants to the plaintiff's, owing to the negligence of a servant of the defendants. lb was contended that the plaintiffs were stopped from bringing their action, inasmuch as the agreement botweon the parties provided that the defendants would not be responsible for lose or damage, and that the sheep should be insured, by the plaintiffs. His Honor, in an exhaustive deliverance, upheld this view, and gave judgment for the defendants.

At the inquest on the body of James Mullen', fireman, who fell down a stoke hole a few day a ago, in Wellington, the jury brought in a verdict of accidental death. .

An application was made to the Registrar of the Nelson Supreme Court yesterday, on behalf of therelatives offtinan Darned Thompson, for his committal to the Asylum as an habitual drunkard. Mr Harley, for Thompson, raised the point that the Registrar had no power to order a medical examination under the clause of the Act referring to euch cases. The Registrar has taken time to consider.