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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 213, 9 September 1890, Page 4

The Local Industries Committee at Wei. lington having disposed of the flax and dairy produce, are now occupied with wine and fruit. In wine they have tasted a large number of different samples, chiefly from Taranaki, and have generally found fault with them on account of their wanting that quality which would presumably be imparted by age. Under the heading of fruit the Committee has paid particular attention to orchard pests, but they appear inclined to keep clear of thab most destructive of grubs —the codlin moth. Some of those who have been examined so far are of opinion that the blight prevalent in New Zealand orchards, especially that which has proved so ruinous to the peach crop, might be removed by grafting on blight-proof stocks. Dr. Walker presided at the meeting of shareholders in the Pride of the Hills mine, Kuaotunu, held yesterday afternoon in Mr J. M. Cameron's office. It was decided to form the holding into a company of 50,000 at 5s each, nil paid up. The following gentlemen were elected directors :—Messrs J. Glenny, J. Hammond, G. A. Ward, P. O'Brien, J. Mays, A. Wright, and J. Phillips. Mr Cameron was appointed secretary, and Mr H-. C. Bell auditor. The Company adjoins the Jusb in Time mine, coneists of 15 acres, and starts with £400 ia hand.

The deeds transferring tho globo assets of the Bank of New Zealand to the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, are being prepared at Auckland by Mr Button, the solicitor for the Company and the Bank. On Friday last some of the deeds were stamped transferring property valued at about a million pounds, the stamp duty being over £7,000. Lewis Hunter and Cornelius O'Leary, two jurymen summoned to act at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court, failed to answer their names when called on yesterday. This morning Constable Hazlett testified to having duly served the summonses. No excuse being given for the absence of the jurors, His Honor Justice Conolly imposed a fino of 40s on each. Dr. Giles, R.M., occupied the Bench at the Police Court this morning. Two firsb offenders were fined 10s each for being drunk. One first offender on bail did not appear and was fined 20s and costs. Alfred Ashenden for a third offence was fined 40s and costs. He wished co be treated leniently, as he said he intended to go to the country, but His Worship said he must treat him as others. In the charge of perjury against John Payne, heard at the Supreme Court yesterday, the jury had great difficulty in coming to a verdict. They retired at twenty minutes past three o'clock, and it was seven minutes past eight last night before the verdict of guilty against the accused was brought in. His Honor in passing sentence said he did not look upon the present case as a grave offence in the face of the temptation to perjure which was afforded by the new Act giving a prisoner an opportunity to give evidence on his own behalf. Taking this into account, and the excellent character prisoner bore, the sentence would be that he ba admitted to probation for six months. His Honor declined to make an order for costs. John Symons for breaking into the dwelling house of Francis Cleave, in Brewer's Lane, and stealing three coats and other articles, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Sydney papera say more badgering is going on over the Sculling Championship. McLean (whom Kerup beat in a hollow fashion after thechampion'sdefeatof Matterson) is suddenly extra eager for another race with the Hawkesbury man for £200 and the championship. Kemp, who is engaged to row O'Connor for the title in America next March, and who is resting after several months' training, declines to row, which meane, probably, that McLean will have to wait until Kemp returns from America. Stanbury, however, is willing to meet McLean for any sum from £200 upwards, and if the latter can defeat him the claim for the championship will have something bona fi.de, about it. For tho firsb time for many a day some little interest is being taken in the borough elections (says our Hamilton correspondent), and no less than seven nominations have been received for the thiea vacant seats in the Council. Messrs H. Salmon, VV. F. Bell, and E. T. Davey are the retiring councillors, and are nominated for re-election together with Messrs T. Qualfcroug-b, T. Slade, T. Chappell, and Captain Reid. A keen contest is expected, and it is curious bhat three of the candidates, viz., Messrs Bell, Slade, and Chappell, are east side men, whilst Messrs Salmon, Qualtroujrh, and Davey hail from the west, tho seventh man (Captain Reid) having a place of business on both sides of tho river. A football match between Garrett Bros.' Boot Factory and the Zealandia Boot Facfory was played at Ellerslie yesterday before a numerous concourse of spectators, and although Garrett Bros, had the services of Madigan, the Zealandias scored an easy win by 12 points to 5. For the winners McKenzie, whose play was undoubtedly the feature of the match, obtained 2 tries and kicked 3 goals. A. Rhodes, Mellis, Tracy and Gerrard obtained one try each in good style. Heffernan and Hales also played well. For the losers, who played a hard game, it is needless to say Madigan played in his usual form, and obtained 2 ti-ies and kicked a goal off one. Brett also obtained a try. During the second spell, C. Madigan and Hales came into collision, and M'adigan waa very severely hurt, and unable to finish the game. A football match between the Gem of Auckland Lodge, 1.0. G.T., and Ark of Eden and Hope of Parnell combined was played at Ellerslie, the two teams leaving the Groy-street junction, headed by the Kingsland Drum and Fife Band and accompanied by two large brakes containing the sisters of the Lodges. The match ended in a win for the Ark and Hope by 6 points to nil. Tries were obtained by A. MeCullough, J. McCullough,Farrelland Duifin, the lafcter scoring his after a splendid-run. Burrows converted one try into a goal. At the conclusion of the match the customary cheers were given for the opposing teams and for the sisters, who supplied oranges by the dozen. Cheers were also given for the band, the umpires and referee. The ordinary meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday afternoon. The recommendation of the Committee of the Costley Home was adopted, to set aside two rooms at the Home as a maternity ward, and to appoint a male assistant at the' Home at £40 a year, D. Anderson to be offered the position. It was also decided to call for the services of a medical officer for the Home at £50 a year. A number of applications for admission, etc., were dealt with. A claim for maintenance by the Cook Board was referred back to. them. It was resolved, on the recommendation of the Committee appointed to inquire into the office arrangements, that the secretary shall attend personally to all applications for relief between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ; that £10 per annum be added to the visiting officer's salary, his expenses to be paid for country official visits ; and that the office assistant receive an increase of 5s por week. Tho presence in Sydney and New Zealand of some of the best known clipper shipe employed in the wool trade again raises a controversy as to what really is"the fastest passage on record. In connection ■with this matter the following perforI mances in the good old days may be of interest :—Probably the fastest sailing vessel ever launched was the Black Ball liner Lightning, 2,093 tons register, which made a passage from Melbourne to London in 63 days. The ship James Baines, also bolonging to the Black Ball line, in June, 1854, ran 420 miles in 24 hours. This is without) exception the longest distance covered in one day. The ship Royal Charter was a famous " heeler," and was the first British ship fitted with double topsail yards. Among other famous clippers of those days may be named the Challenger, Nightingale, John Bertram, Oberon, Lord of the Isles, and others. Coming to more modern times, probably the fastest passage recorded is that of the ship Maulosden, of Dundee, which ran from Glasgow to Pore Phillip Heads in 52 days. This was done in the year 1882. The maiden voyage of the ship Patriarch, in 1869, is generally regarded as the fastest passage to Sydney, while in the Melbourne trade the Thermopylae holds the blue ribbon. However, taking an average of all passages made, the familiar little Cutty Sark shows by far the best record to Australia. The staunch old Shaw-Savill ship Lady Jocelyn, 2,000 tons, with her record of 75 days Home from Lyttelton last year, is one of the bestknown fast clippers trading to this colony. The fastest long-distance voyages by sailing vessels were made by the ships Crusader, belonging to the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's line, about 12 years ago, and by the Thermopyke, of the Aberdeen line, in 1868. The former vessel performed a voyage from London to New Zealand in 65 days, and the latter a passage between London and Melbourne in 60 davn

Our Waikafco correspondent writes: ' Onr train service has been curtailed to f° ur days a week, and Wednesdays and Thursdays are to be blank days on our lines for the present. Why the railway authorities should have chosen two consecutive days on which to suspend traffic ib is hard to say, bub it will be most inconvenient for the travelling public." A meeting of shareholders in the Victoria mine, Kuaotunu, was held at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the office of Mr J. M. Cameron, when there was a large attendance. Mr J. Phillips occupied the chair. Ifc was resolved to.form the holding into a company of 50,000 shares at 5s each, nil paid up. " Mr Cameron was appointed Secretary and Mr H. C. Bell auditor. Directors were elected as follows :—Messrs A. Wright, J. Mays, B. Coleman, D. N. Watson, W. F. Barker, H. C. Hanchard and A. Frood. This mine is situated in Kuaotunu No. 2 block, and consists of 13 acres. It was formerly known as Sadgrove's. The Company starts with £650 cash in hand. Mr Birch was appointed to report on the mine for the Company. The special horse sales to be held at Cambridge on the 11th and 19th of September promise to be the largest ever yet held in Waikato, and large numbers of buyers are expected from different parts of the province and from the East and West Coasts. There will probably be a large number of young horses for sale and show, and the proceedings on the 19th will be rendered more interesting by the parade of stallions, the show of weight - carrying hacks and brood mares. It is expected that Colonel Carre will be in Waikato, and, writes our Waikato correspondent, as this gentleman is looked on as an expert in horses and horse-breeding, his presence at the Show will be most welcome, as breeders generally are eagerly seeking for information on the subject, and will be most willing to take advice from any person who is thoroughly up in such matters. The Meta Assay Furnace was on view today at the Chamber of Commerce, where the inventor, Mr Leslie W. A. McArthur, was in attendance to explain the method of working. Mr McArthur claims that his invention possesses a great advantage from the fact that it is portable, and consequently can be easily carried over mountains, and thus investigations may be proceeded with on the ground. Accompanying each "furnace is a complete manual of instructions setting out in simple language the proportions of the several fluxes, etc., requisite for the work, together with notation of the value and commercial use of each metal. Mr McArthur has been engaged by Dr. Cook to proceed on a prospecting tour through the auriferous localities in this portion of the colony. The " Northern Advocate " says : " AMr King (late of the firm of Dunningham and King, hotelkeepers, Auckland), who had been staying at the Settlers' Hotel for the past three weeks, has disappeared under circumstances which strongly point to suicide. He wenb down to the Whangarei wharf on Tuesday to fish, and just before dinner time sent his little boy who was with him back to the hotel, saying he would follow shortly, A little later he was seen pacing up and down the wharf in a rather hurried manner, looking at the water. He has nob sinco been seen. His fishing line was found on the wharf. He appears to have had no money, and while in the hotel did not drink, only having had a glass of whisky during the three weeks. Mrs Pierce has done all she can for the little boy." Though the programme of tableaux and dramatised songe which will be gone through in All Saints' Schoolroom this (Tuesday) and Thursday evenings, is an elaborate and ambitious one for amateurs, the several actors in them are said to be well equal to the demands upon them. All tastes have been considered in the long and varied programme, from the stately court beauty to the merry milkmaid, from the simple but ill-fated fishermaiden to the saintly king and almoner, from the dainty country girl to the misguided Alpine youth, from the wandering musician to the splendid dog and his tiny playmate. Music runs through the whole evening's entertainment. During the week (says our Waikato correspondent) a most interesting operation was performed at the hospital, on a Maori from Kawhia, who was suffering from hernia of long standing, aggravated recently by a further accident. The patient ' was in a most precarious condition, and it 1 was found impossible to use chloroform, an attempt being nearly fatal. The operation was, therefore, performed without, and lasted nearly two hours, the native bearing up splendidly throughout. lam glad to hear that the patient is progressing as favourably as could be expected, and, all going well, is expected to recover. If he does get all right it will have a great effect on the natives generally, who do not, as a rule, believe in pakeha doctors or medicines. From Cambridge we hear that another I old identity has passed away in the person of Mr George Walker, of Mangawhara, ab the age of 74. Mr Walker arrived in New Zealand at Wellington in the year 1840. For many years he traded with the natives in the Auckland province and dealt largely in cattle. Hβ at one time rented the flab country round Pukekura and Pukerimu, and the large gully there bears his name to this day, " Walker's Gully." He lived in the fifties at Maungatautau, and well remembered the advent of the mission stations, the trip of Colonel Chesney through the country, and was well posted up in the early history of North New Zealand. He was connected with purchases of native lands in this part of the country from the very first start, and worked for a long time for the late Mr William Buckland, of whom the old gentleman was always a great admirer. Hβ was aleo connected with the great Patetere Company, and was about the only one who absolutely made money out of the affair. He then retired to his property near Mangawhara, on the Cambridge-Tauranga Road, where he worked at farming until hia death. He was married to a Maori, and leaves two sons and a daughter and ten grandchildren. On Wednesday evening lasb ab the usual weekly meeting of the Tβ Awamutu Musical Society a very pleasant ceremony took place. Unknown to the conductor (Mr G. A. Burgess), to whom the Society is in a great measure indebted for its present state of proficiency, the members had purchased for him a very handsome baton. Ib is made of ebony, is plated with solid silver, and has engraved upon ib the name of the recipient with the initials T.A.M.S., indicative of the title of the Society. In the absence of the president (Mr Cotterill), Mr Gresham announced that he had been deputed to hand the baton to Mr Burgess, and at the same time to express, on behalf of the Society, their thorough appreciation of his untiring energy and universal courtesy as a conductor. Hβ said that Mr Buigess had never ruled them with a rod of iron, and that the Society hoped that Mr Burgess might long continue to wield the baton over them. Mr Burgess, to whom the whole proceeding was a matter of surprise, acknowledged the presentation in suitable terms and availed himself of the opportunity to express his thanks, to the Society for the way in which they had, by their constant attention, supported him in carrying out fche objects for which the Society was inaugurated, now some seventeen months since. He then expressed a hope to have " St- Cecilia " cantata on the boards during October. •• The Trial by Jury," of which the score and librettos are now on their way from Melbourne, will be taken next in succession. Both the conductor and the Society, writes our correspondent, must be congratulated upon the way in which they have pulled together, while to the musical portion of the community the advent of Mr Burgees baa been a- matter of no small advantage,

Yesterday afternoon three men called ab the Avondale Eailway Station, and stated that they had found the body of the man Robert Muir, who was reported a few daye aeo as having fallen out of a dingy whilst proceeding with bia taate to Riverhead, The information waa telephoned to the Auckland Police Station, and to-day the water police wenb up the river to secure the body. Wirth Bros.' Circus arrived last evening from its country tour. The proprietors propose to give performances in two of the suburbs before the circus finally retires to make way for the Wild West Show. The Avondale residents will have an opportunity of seeing the performance to-morrow and, Thursday evenings. The prize of £1 Is offered by the Band of Hope Union for the best temperance dialogue to be performed at the coming musical and elocutionary contest, has been awarded to "Franconia" (Mr F. Evans). The Committee is well pleased with tha contributions received. The judges were Messrs Barry, Blackman and Oswald, to whom thanks are due for the time devoted to the work. The shareholders in the Consols mine, Hape Creek, meb yesterday afternoon in the large room at the New Zealand Insurance. Buildings, when Mr VV. S. Wilson presided. It was agreed to form the holding into c company of 50,000 at 10s each, nil paid up. Messrs W. S. Wilson, L. D. Nathan, C. A. Harris, H. Thompeon, W. S. Styak and T. H. Bartley were elected directors. Mr T. A. Menzies was appointed auditor, and Mr R. McDonald Scott legal manager. This mine is situated at Hape Creek, and comprises 30 acres. Mr C. McAlpine delivered a very in» structive lecture to a good house last evening in the Foresters' Hall. Mr B. Hare presided. The subject matter was worthy of the deepest consideration. At the close of the meeting some came forward to thank the speaker for the clear way in which the various points were treated. During the lecture Mr McAlpine spoke strongly apainsb the use of tobacco and strong drink, and also of tea and coffee. Mr McAlpine leaves in a few days for the South, where he will lecture upon similar subjects. A concerb in aid of the trust fund was given last night in the schoolroom by the members of tho choir of the Pitt-street Wesleyan Church, conducted by Mr E. J.. Gatland. Professor Lambert! presided aft the organ, and Miss Buddie at the piano.: The Rev. E. Best occupied the chair. The first portion of the concerb was sacred.' The choir rendered the anthems, "Judge Me, O God," "God is Our Hope," and " The Wilderness." Miss A. J. Caley sang "Calvary,"andMrsTaylor"Kingof Kings.'* After the interval Professor Lambert played a solo on the harmonium, for which he waa encored. The choir rendered the gleea "I Asked My Fair," "Cheer Up, Com-; panions," "The Rainbow," and "Jog oa ; the Footpath Way." Miss Bamford was encored for the song " Oh, I Have Sighed to Rest Me," with guitar accompanient. The lady then favoured the audience with "The Swanee River." Mr W. F. Forbes' was likewise encored for the bass eong r " The Skipper;" Mr Johnson sang '• Man' the Life Boat;". Mr Souster, " When the Spring ;" and Mr Nicholson, " The Flying Dutchman." Mr Alfred Ellyett played selections from " The Pirates of Penzance '* as a solo on the flute, and Misses Blackburn and Marbrook took part in the vocaj duet, " The Shower of Pearls." Mre Baeyertz, the converted Jewisli evangelist, gave a Bible-reading in the Academy of Music yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance. The lecturer/ gave an interesting discourse on "The Operations of the Holy Ghost in the Believer." She gave numerous readings from' the Bible, and described her own experiences and incidents she noticed in her missionary life. In the evening she drew an even crowd, who were interested to hear how she was converted from the faith of the chosea people. She told how she had been a good believer in Judaism, but that eha married a Christian, and that it was regard for his good and consistent} life that had led her to forsake the faith of her forefathers and give her allegiance to Jesus of Nazareth—the story of Ruth and Naomi over again. His people became her people, and his Saviour her Saviour. This afternoon Mrs Baeyertz will give another Bible reading. Mra Baeyertz addresses women and girls onj Wednesday, and men and lads on Thursday! evenings, bub ehe does not touch on social questions at these discourses. :