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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 209, 4 September 1893, Page 2

The Dopartmont of Justice at Wellington has issued a reporb on the operation of the First Offenders' Probation Act for the year ending 31sb December last, which shows that the statuto is doing good work. The report states that 51 persons were placed upon probation last year as against 72 in 1891. Of these, 22 satisfactorily carried out the conditions of their licenses and were discharged ; 3 were rearrested and committed to prison, 26 still romaining under the supervision of the Probation Officers completing their respective terms of probation. Tho amounc ot costs ordered to bo paid by the various Courts before whom these offenders woro brought was £212 7s Id, of which Bum £63, 17s 7d has been actually paid, and the remainder (the greater parb of which is nob yeb due) is being paid by instalments. The approximate cost of keeping those offenders had they been sent to prison would havo been £1,260, which, together with the amount of costs actually paid, gives a saving of £1,323 17s 7d to the colony. Of the 499 persons placed on probation since the Act camo into force in October, 1886, 420 havo been discharged, 25 were re-arrested, 2 havo died and 11 oluded the vigilance of the probation officer and absconded, and 41 still remain on probation. The report concluded by stating that in all respects the Act is working most (satisfactorily, and has saved many a trivial offender from becoming a confirmed criminal. Mr James Edmiston, nob Mr P. A. Edmiston, was ono of the nominators of Mr W. Tborne for election to tho Auckland City Council on Saturday. An accident occurred early this morning to a night soil man named James Bowden. His cart was standing ab the corner of Victoria and Nelson streets when tho horso moving unexpectedly, tho wheel of the vehicle passed over his right foot and crushed it, but it is thought not seriously.

No less than nine persona, three of whom were females, appeared ab the Police Court this morning to answer the charge of having been drunk either on Saturday night or yesterday.

The Criminal Sessions of tho Suprem 9 Court wore brought to a conclusion on Saturday. The charge of indecent assaulb preferred against Oswald Francis Pilling occupied the Court all day and until halfpast eight in the evening. After we wont to press on Saturday afternoon, evidonce was called for the defence. H. W. Northcrofb, R.M., who was passing through Auckland to the Thames, deposod that he was R.M. in the Waikato district until four yoars ago. He had known Pilling for the past 21 years, and his moral character was good, undoubtedly. Witness thought accused would be the last to be guilty of an indeconfc assault upon a female. The accused gave evidence upon his own behalf. He deposed that he had been marriod nearly 4 years. Witness etopped ab the Rangiriri accommodation house on the night of the 14th of July, and retired to his room aboub 2 o'clock, lie was quite sober. Witness did nob think that the door of the room was latched, bub it was closed, and he did not open ib again that night. He remembered the landlord (Mr Reid) arousing him. He did not leave the room up till that time, nor had he visited Miss Patterson's room. He had known tho prosecutrix by the name of " Lizzie" Pattorson, and had never known her as "Sarah." Witness lived at Hamilton, and left his home on the morning of the 12th. Excepting the present case, no charge of any kind whatever had ever beon brought against him.—John Singer and Thomaß James Connolly, who wero ab the hotel on the night of the allegod assault, gave evidence.—A number of witnesses wero examined, and spoke as to the good character of accused. His Honor summed up, and ab five minubes to eight the jury retired to consider their verdicb. They reburned ab twenty minutes past eight, with a verdict of nob guilty, upon which there was quite an outburst of applauso amongst tho audience. This was promptly suppressed by tho police. The accused was then discharged.

Yesterday forenoon the annual meeting of members of tho Auckland Hebrew Congregation was hold in- the Jewish bynagogue Chambers, Prince3-Btieo_, MrL. I). Nathan presiding. The annual reporb and balance-sheet were adopbed. The recommondation for the re-engagement of Rev. S. Goldstein was adopted. The thanks of tho mooting were tendered to the members of the choir and the leader, MrH. Keesing, junr., tho school teachers, and the honorary secretary, Mr W. M. Newrnogen. The president, Mr L. D. Nathan, and treasurer, Mr T. Philips, wore re-elected, and the following as members of the Board of Management:—Messrs A. H. Nathan, F. E. Baume, H. Nashelski, L. H. New megen, and I. Alexander; auditors, Messrs S. Nathan and A. Myers; burial committee, Messrs N. Goldwater, L. H. Newmegen, and R. Wisotßki. A vote of thanks was given to the retiring officers and the chairman.

A correspondent, "Cosmopoliban," writes: " I observe in your report on tho run on tho Savings Bank you couple a Jew and a Chinaman together. Why is ib that there is that inheront love of intolerance exisbing which always desires to drag a man's religion in auestion? You do nob couple Mebhodisbs, or bhe bhousand and various forms of dissenting Christianity, with other nationalities. A man may be any religion yet an Englishman. Ib does nob look or road tolorant, bub very much like a loaven of the old race hatred, characteristic of those who would allow anybody else to live bub themselves, all for bhe love of Chrisb, who spoke and acted in a totally different manner." [Our correspondent, to make good his point, should have said: "A man may bo an Irishman or a Scobchman and yob an Englishman." Tho word "Jow," in ios primary meaning, as well as the commonly accepted signification of the term, refers to the racial distinctions of tho Hebrews, not to their religion. Every intelligent man knows that Jews, in all countries, are distinguished by their patriotism and devotion to tho State iii which their homos aro established, and of which they aro freeborn citizens, and also that they share in full measure tho national sympathies and characteristics, While this is true, their system of marriages among their own communion has preserved, in a degree unequalled by any other people, the original racial type, and has made them in reality a nation within many nations.v There is nothing more offensive, intended or implied, in saying a man is a Jew than that ho is an Englishman, an Irishman, or a Scotchman. Such phrases neither indicate whether ho is patriotic or unpatriotic, good or bad, for no country or race can lay claim to oither a monopoly or even a uniform distribution of moral virtues. "Cosmopolitan " appears,however, to have an Irishman's extreme sensitiveness with regard to hi 3 racial kindred. Such feelings are, perhaps, the natural survivals of a period when intolerant bigotry and oppression prevailed among tho rulers of men. Ib is surely a work of supererogation nowadays for anyone to write seriously informing the public that a man of Jewish birth may be a patriotic Englishman, when such i a man has held the position of Prime | Minister, and whose memory is still I cherishod by Tory patriots as thab of a | Jingo of the Jingoes.] A correspondent at Lucae's Creek wribes; as follows, on the subject of town v, country life: " Every thoughtful man muab ab some time ask himself is there nob a lack of recreation in country life, and is this lack nob tho cause of thousands flocking to tho over-crowded cities, ' Where wealth accumulates and men docay ?' Wise men say ib is so, bub whao aro thoy doing to make a permanent alteration 1 This district is withoub a hall or even a reserve for a cricket ground, and yebib is principally bhe labour of the country thab builds tho halls of tho city. Just think of it, you statesmen, who will be fishing for the country vote in a month or two. Surely something could bo done without undermining sound politics." •Yesterday impressive funeral services were held at the Beresford-street Congregational Church in memory of the late Mr D. H. Graham, who was a well-known and popular member of the Church, and also of another deceased member, the late Mrs Legge. Tho Rev. Geo. Burgess, the new pastor of the Church, conducted both morning and evening services and preached eloquent sermons. The " Dead March in Saul " was played by the organist at tho close of the morning service. In the ovening Mr Burgess preached from the text " The memory of tho just is blessed," and referred in affecting terms to the untimely death of Mr Graham and to tho many sterling qualities of the deceased, both in athletics, mental culture, every day life and religious work which had gained him the love and esteem of his acquaintances. He also eulogised the character of tho late Mrs Legge in warm tonus. Thero were crowded congregations at both services. A telegram from Dunedin states that grave fears aro entertained there regarding the recovery of Bishop Moran, tho wellknown Roman Catholic prelate, who is seriously ill. At St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday morning, the Rev. Dr. Luck, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, asked the prayers of the congregation for Bishop Moran, who he said was the great champion of Catholic education. We beg to acknowledge the sum of £5 17s 6d collected by Mr G. E. Browne from the Post Office Telegraph Department and Tolephone Exchange for the H__Uerson Fund.

Some discussion took place ab the last Committee meeting of the Auckland Agricultural .Association relative to the McNicol Memorial. Mr Philips drew attention bo certain statements that had appeared in a country paper. It was decidod to emphatically contradict the report and forward the following statement of facts :— The Waikato Committee of the McNicol Memorial first) requested the executive of the Auckland Agricultural Association to aid them in collecting for that purpose. The Committee, acting in sympathy with that request, formed a special Committee, collected subscriptions and forwarded the amount collected to the Waikato Association. There wero somo persons who collected subscriptions to be expended in another way to that proposed by the Waikato Committee, bub with this action the Auckland Agricultural Association had nothing whatever to do.

Wo have been shown what should prove to its owners during these present cold mornings a very great boon, viz,, a rapid boating bath, the patent of Messrs Fischer, of Melbourne. The contrivauce takes up no more room than an ordinary stove pipe, which, by the way, it very much rosembles, yet is so constructed that after a match is applied to its fire-place it has 40 gallons of water ready, too hot to sit in, in ten minutes. The ordinary kindling is all that is required to work this oracle. The danger of its setting (ire to the house is a practical impossibility, insomuch as a water jacket envelopes the whole of the heating apparatus. The contrivance can be fitted to any kind of bath, and is offered to the public tor a very moderate Eum. Mrs Clarke, of Carlton Gore Road, is the possessor of the only one in Auckland, and she is so pleased with it that she has signified her willingness and pleasure to sbow the same to anyone who would like to see ib.

All sensible people in making a paymenb when due, do bo pleasantly. Mr C. E. Savage, of Twyford Farm, near Raglan, evidently belongs to this pleasanb class of sensible persons, judging from the following note from him recently received ab tho " New Zealand Farmer " Office :—Enclosed please find postal note for 12s 6d, amount due for " Farmor " to end of June last, and as one of your first subscribers I cannot allow this occasion to pass withoub congratulating you upon the ever-increaßing value of the " New Zealand Farmer " as a settlers' magazine of the firsb class, useful alike to all classes of the community ; in fact, it is emphatically the rural journal of New Zealand, and is always eagerly welcomed by each subscriber and every member of his family, and I heartily wish you a vastly extended circulation.

Tho matron of the Western Kindergarten begs to acknowledge with thanks :.— Milk daily from Messrs Ambury and English, Cotterill, and Ayrshire Dairy; meat from Messrs Garrett, Shove, Gray, Cato, Salmon, Melbourne Butchery, Booth and Co-operabivo Butchery; bread, Messrs Nairn, Crowe, and Robertson; honey, a friend; parcel of clothing from Mrs Watts,. Great North Road; half-ton of coal, Mr Lovetb; and one pair of boobs, Mr Foster.

Tho Misses Albu and a number of local musicians paid a visit to the Costley Home on Saturday afternoon, and treated the old folks to a complete concert, comprising somo of the mo3t successful items previously contributed at the Albu concerts. The Misses Albucomploteiycaptivated the hearts of the old folks with their sweet singing, tho duets " I Know a Bank " and "Ye Banks and Braes " being so beautifully and touchingly renderod as to draw tears to the oyes of many of the audience. Other items were given with equal success by the Misses Albu, and it was very gratifying to observe how thoroughly the inmates seemed for the time being "to bo lifted out of their surroundings a3 it were. Laughter, mingled with tears, loud and enthusiastic applause followed not only each song bub every verse, and at the conclusion of theconcerttlieold folks obeered again and again for tho kind friends who had so thoughtfully assisted to vary the monotony of their existence. In addition to the items contributed by the Misses Albu, Herr Vaidemar Unmack gave two songs in bis best Btylo, and ho was naturally very much ploasod to find tho old people understood and thoroughly appreciated a comic song though sung in Italian. This says much for the dramatic force with which this gentleman sings. Songs were also given by Mr A. S. Reid, and clarionet solos by Mr S. Jackson, Miss Harding playing the accompaniments with her accustomed skill. Every item had a most flattering reception. Mr Cor, who presided, having made a few remarks very appropriate to the occasion, Mr Moss, manager of the Home, moved, and Dr. King seconded, a hearty vote of thanks to thoir entertainers, and the motion was carried amid much cheering. Mr Plunkett expressod tho acknowledgments of the visitors, who subsequently were shown round the Home and found everything in the very best of order.

The Newmarket Foresters assembled in full force on Friday-evening ab the Newmarket Hall, to commemorate the eighth anniversary of Court Pride of Newmarket, No. 6172. The members of Court "Victoria, and also of many other Courts were present. Bro. Wm. Jaggs, OR., occupied the chair. The toasts of the Queen and the High Court having been drunk with enthusiasm, the chairman proceeded to present Bro. Wm. Webber, tho Court Secretary, with a handsome timepiece and framed address, and in his remarks referred to Bro. Webber's long and faithful services to the Court, and he (the chairman) expressed a hope that bhe Secretary would for many years be spared to work in the interests of the Court and the Order generally. Bro. Webber responded. " Courb Victoria" was the next toast, to which Bro. J. Grasson replied, urging the members to augment their numbers. Bro. Nordon being called upon proposed "The DistricbExecutive," and in a few words toferred to the great ability displayed by the present executive. Bro. Meider, D.C.R., responded. "The Visitors," proposed by the chairman, was heartily drunk, and responded to by Bro. Robinson (of Court City of Auckland) Bros. Wilson and Nordon (Court Nil Desperandum), and Crowe (Courb Star of bhe South). Songs were given by Bros. Gillies, Honeycomb, Außcombe, Coleman, Nordon and others. A pleasanb evening was broughb to a close by the company singing " Auld Lang Syne."

A successful meeting of St. Stephen's MutuallmprovementSociety was held in the vestry on Friday ovoning. A large number of members and friends were present and the Rev. T. F. Robertson presided. The interesting question " Should the totalisator bo abolished ?" was debated with keen interest. Mr A. Hough took tho affirmative and Mr P. Dix the negative. Mr Hough's romarks were eminently sensible but somewhat ponderous. Mr Dix, on tho other hand, mado use of unpopular arguments in so attractive a manner as to elicit much applause and render his speech practically the most successful, though public opinion decided in the affirmative by a majority of five votes.

A children's fancy dress ball will be held in aid of the Ladies' Benevolent Society on Thursday, September 21st, 1893, in the Remuera Hall. A meeting will be held at Mrs Lonsdale Pritt's, Remuera, on Wednesday, September 13th, to form a commibtee, etc. It is hoped that all those ladies who are willing to help will come to tho meeting at i o'clock p.m.

Wo would remind our readers of the concert to be held in the Foresters' Hall, Newton, to-morrow ovening, in aid of the Friendly Societies' Hospital fund. Some of the best local talent having kindly consented to sasiab, we may confidently Dredicb a mosb.enjoyable evening.

Tho People's Popular Concert for next Wednesday seems likely bo prove more attractive than ever. Tho programme will include a vocal quartette, two duets and a harp solo. Madame Laura Daw, the English contralto, makes her re-appoarance, and Mr John Fuller, tho popular tonor, will also contribute several items.

Mr Harrop, builder to the Salvation Army, is ab present in Auckland superintending bhe erection of a now barracks at Pukekohe. The frame work of tho building was run up on Saturday last, and it is expected that the whole of the work will be finished to allow of the opening services to bo held on the 30th insb. The building will be 52 by 20, and will contain in addition to the main hall a junior soldiers' room 20 by 12. The floor of tho hall will seat 120 people, and tho platform another 40. Captain Cater is in command of. the Pukekohe Corps.

The Revs. Drakeß and Hindes will arrive by the Waihora from Sydney to-morrow to take up religious work in this colony. Thoy wero appointed by tho last English Conference of the Primitive Methodist Church to labour in New Zealand. One of these clergymen will take the place of the Rev. VV. S. Potter, who is aboub to tour the colony in connection with the jubilee of Primitive Methodism in New Zealand. Tho other clergyman will very likely be located ab Wesbporb, a mining centre on tho West Coast.

We have to acknowledge receipt of 10s from J.C. towards the relief fund for the Maoris flooded out at Mercer during the recori. floods. Further subscriptions are urgently required, and a list has therefore been opened at the Star Office on behalf of the Maoris.

The Auckland Ministers' Association senb the following telegram to tho Primo Minister and to Sir Robert Stout today :— " Auckland Ministers' Association protost emphatically against clause destroying usefulness of Liquor Bill half of electors to poll three-fifths majority, specially against three years' license extension."

Mr Walter Price, business manager for the Kennedy Dramatic Company, arrived by the Takapuna yesterday. The company will commence a country tour next Monday.

A most successful concerb was given on Thursday evening ab the Costloy Home, by members of the Auckland staff of bhe Bank of Now Zealand. It opened with a well executed pianoforte duet, ''Chilperic," by Messrs W. H. Brown and H. Winklemann; the sbng, "The Skipper's Flag," by Mr R. J. Hosking, was well rendered ; a qunrbette, " Banish, oh Maiden," by Messrs Maclean, Hosking, Browne, and White, and a flute solo, "Selections," by Mr It. D. Lockharb, gave greab sabisfacbion. Mr Stebbing's song, "She Wore a Wreath of Roses," with zither accompaniment, was encored. "An Evening Song," by Mr A. H. Maclean, broueht oub tho excellencies of that gentleman's voice and musical skill. " 'Pherson Swore a Feud," sung by Mr W. Cook, had, in reply bo hearby applause, to bo repeated. The quartette, " The Three Chafers," was satisfactorily rendered by Messrs Maclean, Hosking. Browne, and Whibe. A zither solo, " Selections," by Mr H. Winkelmann, was re-demanded. After the song " Tho Englishman," Mr W. H. Brown gave a comic ditty in capital stylo. Nothing could have been more beautifully executed than the vocal duet "Excelsior" by Messrs McLean and Stebbing. The ever-popular song, " Drink, Puppy Drink," sung by Mr G. Hart, with its rollicking chorus, was repeated in response to a decided call. Mr Stebbing sang in his happy stylo "The Old Brieade," and by special request Mr Winkleman gave a further solo on tho zither. After an appropriate speech by M r A. VY. Kitson, bhe entertainment closed with " Auld Lang Syne" and "God Save the Queen."

The monthly entertainment of Sb. Luke's (Remuera) Band of Hope was held on Friday evening. There was a crowded house, and the Rev. G. B. Monro presided. A diversified and interesting programme was rendered as follows :—Piano duets, Misses Atkins, Fletcher, and Johnstone; piano and violin, Misses Cameron ; recitations, by Misses Peters, Brook, Hall, Hindman, and Messrs Dinnison and Rainger; duet Misses Herd; songs, Misses Abbott and Heron, and Mr McDonald; dialogues, by Misses Hall and six girls. A speech was given by Mr Wm. Mains, and a number signed the pledge ab the close.

The model of the famous Strasburg clock continues to attract a large share of public attention, and throughout Saturday the shop in which it is exhibited was crowded to excess, lb is expected that Aucklanders will be enabled to inspect this marvellous piece of mechanism for some bime to come, as bho management contemplate remaining here for another two' months if possible."

Devotees of skating will be amply entertained ab the Columbia Rink this evening. It is tho occasion of a benefit to Professor James, the popular instructor in the arb, and an admirable programme has been prepared. Besides exhibitions of fancy and trick skating of all descriptions by Profesßor James and his pupils, spectators will view the novel sight of Professor Fausb careering on his cranium. A programme of dances has been provided, and a display of fancy skating will be given by masber B. Raynes, bhe local champion in that department of the sport.