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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 211, 5 September 1900, Page 4

Captain Edwin advises for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day: Strong west to south-west and south winds, glass rise, poor tides, weather very cold, indications for frost.

At the Police Court this morning-, before Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., Joiin Smith and Francis Gledhill, alias G. 11. Toms, were each fined £1 or 7 days' har# labour for drunkenness. On a charge of using insulting language to Constable Finnerty Giedhill was convicted and dischai'ged. Four first offending inebriates were convicted and discharged With a caution. James Johnson pleaded guilty to stealing, an axe, the property of John Sullivan, and was sentenced to one month's hard labour. William Costello and Reginald Stewart McDonald were each fined 5/ and costs 7/ for leaving vehicles unattended in the public street.

The Civil .Sittings of the Supreme Court are fixed to commence next Monday, but in all probability the criminal business will not be completed this week. Among the. ten cases set down at the civil sittings is the question as to the disposal of the surplus of the Auckland .Exhibition, three divorce cases for decree nisi, and a breach of promise case. Cases can be set down until to-morrow.

Another most attractive number of the "Graphic" makes its appearance this weelc, embodying among its pictorial features views of the Wesleynn Church.of St. John, and the Church of the Sat-red Heart, with their respective choirs; Chinese scenes, new Boer pictures, more street snapshots, two fine plates of the Otago <md Wellington representative football teams, and many other pictures.

Mr Phillips Turner, surveyor, who returned to Rotorua last week, will undertake the surveying and laying off of a shorter road through the large blocks lying between Te Puke and Rotorua. The road will go through the Rangiuru special settlement and will strike the Oi-opiVßotorua road near Ngongotaha. A distance of about nine miles will be saved.

The Mokihinui (Westport) Coal Co. has been asked to supply 7500 tons of coal, required, by the Indian Government, It is stated that the only difficulty in the way is that of obtaining suitable vessels to carry the coal. The directors of the. company are hopeful that they will be able to surmount this obstacle, and they are now iiegi|ating for a steamer with prospects Tt success.

At a meeting of the Thames Harbour Board last night a letter was read frp,m Mr James Pork, attorney for the liquidator of the New Moanataiari Gold Mining Company, forwarding the surrender of certain leases held by the company on the foreswore, with the view of having a. new lease drawn, out to consolidate the whole of the old ones. Mi-Park asked that the Board should grant the new lease for a term of 21 years, with.a right of renewal for a further 21 years, and that the rental should be £ 100 per annum instead of £127, as a.t present. It was decided to grant a fresh lease subject to a. right of renewal for 21 years, the annual upset rental, to renia>iri as before.

In the Magistrate's Court at Tau-rang-a. yesterday, Colonel Roberts, S.M., Dr. J. Baker and C. A. Clarke, acting as church. wardens of Holy Trinity Church, sued R. O. Stewart, who was last year people's church warden, for possession of the church warden's register and account books, and for a statement of vestry accounts, as the outgoing church warden. In defence it was contended that the plaintiffs should have referred the matter to the court of the Bishop of the Diocese of Waiapu, or to the Standing Committee. For the plaintiffs, it was argued that there was no evidence before the Court to show that the Bishop's Court had p.ny jurisdiction to try the case, and that the Bishop's Court could only deal with .questions of church (discipline. The Magistrate reserved his decision.,'

Yesterday morning Mr James Webber, who has been a resident of Cambridge for more than a quarter of a century, left by train for Auckland, where he intends residing in the future. He has been. Mayor of the town and; for many years was a councillor, .so it was only fitting that the municipal body should ta.Tce some notice of his departure. The Mayor and councillors attended at the railway station and. presented him with an address, thanking him for past services, and wishing him and his prosperity in the future. The address will be illuminated and then will be forwarded on. to Mr Webber.—(Cambridge Correspondent.)

At a meeting1 of the Committee of the Avondale Jockey Club held yesterday, a sum of two/guineas was voted to the tree planting- fund being raised at Avondale. A sum of one guinea was also voted to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The new story, "In White Raiment," by the well known novelist, William life Queux, which is commenced in this week's "Graphic," is dramatic in every line. A strange mystery enfolds the hero, Dr. Colkirk, in the very first chapter, and we are nil as anxious as he to hare the mystery explained. Why he should be called suddenly away" to the bedside of a young lady and offered by her father a fee' of £30,000 if he will marry her there and then: why, the moment after he is married, the father declares to the horrified doctor that the lady must die before sunset, and that he must sign her death certificate: why, while Colkirk is absent from the room the lady is apparently foully murdered: how it is that he, after beingrendered unconscious, and shipped aboard a vessel in that state, returns after a voyage and meets his wife he had last seen lying dead before his e y es _these are all questions which the story makes us ask ourselves at enc very outset, and which it promises to answer before it closes. The colonial mails of the 18tli pf August, from Melbourne, per s.s. China, were delivered in London on September Ist, two days early. The return representative match between Thames and Ohinemuri, fixed for next Saturday, has been postponed at the request of the Auckland Union, and for the benefit of the provincial football match. The privates' team in the triangular shooting match at Avondale next Saturday will consist of Privates Colson, Tobin, Kerr. Pollard, Buchanan, Penholtz, Williams, Pofiin, Warren, Shlppard, Marten and Keller. 'An interesting event in theatrical circles, the marriage of Miss Dorothy Vane and Mr Norman 11. Menzies, son of the proprietor of Menzies' Hotel, Melbourne, took place at Sydney yesterday, the ceremony being performed in the Hotel Australia. A public meeting of all interested in the extension of railway communication in the district north of Auckland will be held at 2.45 p.m. to-morroW in the City Council Chamber. His Worship the Mayor will preside, and an important proposal will be submitted. The Auckland Yacht Club hold an "At Home" at the Choral Hall to-mor-row evening at S o'clock. An excellent programme has been arranged, while special attention will be given to the decorations. Besides musical items, views of local yachts and yachtingscenes will be shown. The Club's entertainments have hitherto been confined to gentlemen, but this time a new departure has been taken, and tickets have been issued to ladies. Early this morning there passed away, at the ripe age of 74, another one 'of Auckland's old identities, in the person of Mr .Tames Halyday. The deceased gentleman was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland, and arrived in Auckland in 1850. Up to within the last |ew years he 6 carried on a furnishing and xipholstering business In Shortland and O'Connell streets. About twelve months ago Mr Halyday met with a painful accident, from which he had only lately apparently recovered, but no doubt the immediate cause of his death was due to the shock to the system which he then re-* ceived. The deceased gentleman was held in high esteem by eveiyone both for his kindly disposition and for his upright and honourable life, and it will come as a shock to his many old friends to hear of his sudden departure from their midst. • A very attractive programme has been prepared for .the concert to be given in St. Alban?s School-room, Mt. Roskill TLoad, to-morrow evening, in aid of the Church Chancel Fund.' It ■includes several items by Mr Harry Connell's Glee Club, and solos by members of the club and other vocalists. The programme is advertised in this issue. With regard to the non-issue of licenses to the tram-ca.rs, it is said that the Traffic Inspector mentioned the matter to the late Town Clerk, and received verbal instructions to make the licenses out if the Tramway Company applied for them. If they did not i they were to be in abeyance. The licenses will be issiied forthwith. The- meeting of the Auckland Presbytery was unique last evening iv that no less than three calls had to be dealt with, two of which came from Ohristchurch. The Rev. John MeKenzie, M.A., of St. James' Church, Thames, was called to St. Andrew's, Christchurch, and decided to accept the call. The Rev. Mitchell, of Hamilton, was called to St. Peter's, Christchurch, but as he recognised that the Hamilton 'Church would suffer in the event of his removal, he asked the Presbytery to decide for him. Under the circumstances >of the case, the Presbytery directed Mr Mitchell to continue in his present charge. The Waihi congregation also called the Rev. Mr Bates, wlto decided to accept the post. The September number of the "New Zealand Illustrated Magazine" is announced in another column. Articles on the "Commonwealth," by Sir Robert Stout, St. Mary's Church, and the Sailing Fleet of the N.Z.S. Co. are the leading features. An entertainment of a social character took place in St. Philip's schoolroom, St. Helier's Bay, last evening, being* a farewell tendered1 by the parishioners of St. Philip's O'luircli to Mr, Mrs and Miss Walters on the occasion of their departure from the Bay. The Chairman (Rev. C. A. B. Watson) in a short, speech expressed regret at the loss to the parish of Mr Walters and liis family, and wished them all manner of success in the future. Mr Walters suitably responded, after which a very pleasant evening was spent, songs being contributed by Mi's, Harrop,* Misses Mitchell (2), Walters; and Massey, Messrs C. Hickson, P. Watson, S. Churches,, and G. Brookfield, and a pianoforte solo by Master G. Clarke. Miss Walters has for some time past acted a.s church organist, and her depai-ture will be keenly felt. The choirmaster and members of the clioir presented her with trophies as small tokens of their appreciation of her services. At the usual quarterly meeting of the Licensing Bench for. the Waitemata district, 'held at Helensville yesterday, Captain McMahon presiding, transdiera of licenses were granted as follows: Bridge Hotel, Kaukapakapa, from B. J. Baker to Michael Lennan; Mang'awai Hotel," from PI. B. Melton to T. Brunton. In respect of the license of the Falls Hotel, Henderson, intimation was made by the police, that a conviction had been obtained against the licensee of this house. The committee decided that the license would not be renewed to the present occupant at the next annual licensing meeting, but at the same 'time it was considered that the police should not have obtained the conviction by means of the evidence of school children.

The funeral of the late Jeremiah Harrington, of the warship Porpoise, wlio was killed by a fall on Sunday morning last, took place this afternoon n't) ..O'Neill's Point Cemetery. The funeral which left Auckland by the one o'clock ferry boat- was attended by the deceased's comrades, the Garrison Band, and a number of men and officers of the Auckland Battalion. ' The ordinary quarterly meeting of the Parnell Licensing Committee, called for to-day, lapsed through the absence of business. Linoleums ancf floor cloths at low prices. Court Bros, were the successful tenderers for all the floor cloths in Daley's stock. —(Ad.) Bed drapes, beautiful range in our windows, from 19/6 upwards. —Tonson Garlick Companj\ —(Ad.) Two cases tennis shirts in Court Bros' purchase of Daley's stock, clearing at 2/11, 3/G, 3/11, 4/3, 4/6; silk do. 5/6, 7/6, 9/6.—(Ad.) . . . Reducing stock: Cash discount of 3/ in the £ on all iron bedsteads for a few days only.—Tonson Garlick Company.—(Ad.) Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for adults or children. Price. 1/.