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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 67, 20 March 1905, Page 4

Sir Joseph Ward states that there is no foundation whatever for tile rumour which has been revived that in view of the general election this year Parliament will be called together earlier than usual. It is not, he says, the intention of the Government to assemble the Legislature before the usual time. Messrs Henderson and Maefarlane, the local agents, are in receipt of cable advice stating that the mail steamer Sierra left San Francisco at 4 a.m. on Saturday, 3g' hours late, for Auckland. The steamer, which has 500 tons of cargo for this port, will be due here on Wednesday. April sth. The R-M.s. Ventura, which left Auckland on Wednesday at midnight, made a very fast run to Sydney, arriving there on Saturday evening, being about three days on the passage. An inquiry was held by the Coroner (Mr Gresliam) 'at Gleeson's Hotel on Saturday afternoon into the circumstance attending the death of Grace Bennington, a widow of 44 years of age, who had died suddenly at her residence, 'Alexandra-street, on the night of Thursday. March 16. Dr. Porter, who had made a post mortem examination, stated that death was due to acute peritonitis, and a verdict to that effect was accordingly returned by the jury. The Harbour Board at the meeting to-morrow will open and consider tenders for the wharf for a cattle landing at Okahu Point, and Mr Da ere will move at the same meeting, "That in consequence of vessels occupying the Board's docks on the 2nd January of each year, being unable to procure labour, and also merchants being unable to remove their goods on that day from the various sheds, the Board proclaim the 2nd January a holiday of the Board. 2nd January a holiday' of the Board." Constables Holmes, of Invercargill, was badly handled on Saturday night, while making an arrest for alleged petty theft in a shop in town, he being kicked and forcibly knelt upon. He managed to get a handcuff on one man. who, when subsequently arrested in bed, still wore the bracelet. Subscriptions are coming in freely for the purpose of procuring an Ashford wheeled litter to be stationed at Northeote for the conveyance to the hospital or their homes of those suffering from accidents or illness. It is hoped that those residents who have not yet done so will hand in their subscriptions to Mrs Lawrence Clow, so that the order for the litter may be given. Dr. Manuel Garcia, inventor of the laryngoscope, the valuable optical instrument which permits of examination in the region of the larynx, celebrated his 100 th birthday in London on Friday. He received countless congratulations, and - among them were messages from King ►Edward, the Emperor of Germany and King Alfonso of Spain. An outbreak of enteric fever has occurred at the Maori pa near Kawhia. Dr. Jenkins is attending the patients, and consicVrs the matter a serious one. Cases of enteric fever are also increasing a little in the city and suburbs. Three have been reported from Hobsonstreet, one from a boarding-house, while a brother and sister have been removed from a private residence, also suffering from the same disease. Another ease of enteric has been reported from Sack-ville-street, Richmond, Grey Lynn. There as 16,792 names on the electoral roll for the city of Wellington. To this should be added the number of electors on the supplementary roll, together with those claims sent in during the last few days, viz., 1445. which brings the total number of persons so far entitled to vote at the by-election up to 13,237. The Registrar of Electors (Mr Mansfield) states that comparatively few of the large number of people who failed to vote at the last general election (and who were afterwards notified that their names had been struck off and furnished with form for application for re-enrolment) have taken the trouble to re-establish their claim to vote.

The completion of the additions to and j renovation of the Children's Home. Port- j v land road, Eenruera. was on Saturday ] s celebrated by an "at home in the s institution tendered to the subscribers, t The repairs and additions to the home j j have cost £150, and the whole building f ha 3 been done up inside and not. Our j j report appears in another column. ; 1 Extensive repairs to the bridges on j l the Te Teko road, and also to the road j * itself, rendered necessary by reason of j j the damage indicted by the bursting j [ away of the bank at the entrance to the i - Tarawera river, and which, brought | ' about a fall in the Tarawera Lake of £ about ten or twelve feet, have been < completed, and the road is again open J for heavy traffic. Considerable damage 1 was done to the bridges, and the cost of 1 repairing them and re-making the road = has been large. c A discovery of gold is reported in the New Hebrides. A correspondent in the Archipelago states that according to the j information received from various ] sources it would seem that the gold deposits were to be found in large quaxiti- ] ties in the centre of the Island of Aoba. No European, he adds, has yet penctrat- ( ed to the mountainous regions oi the island. Captain Gaspard, who has had _ a long experience in the islands, says he had thoroughly explored the island of Aoba. and that he had no knowledge of - any gold deposits. Did they exist he i should certainly have known of them, ; as the natives would undoubtedly have • ! informed him of the fact. At the invitation of Captain Post, . of the New Zealand Government training ship Sparrow (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of Monday last), a number of Maorilanders assembled on board on Saturday to inspect the vessel prior to • her departure for Wellington. The vessel « had just come out of dock, and was in capital order throughout. Afternoon tea was served on deck. Mrs. Runcie, of j Wellington, presided at the tea tables and acted as hostess. The health of Mr. and Mrs. Seddon was enthusiastically ; received, and the opportunity was taken to wish success and a pleasant voyage to the captain and officers. The Sparrow sailed at noon on Monday direct for , Wellington. ( The "Lyttelton Times" states that < there is at last some prospect of the ; completion of the magnetic survey of the 1 colony, which was carried well forward • by Dr. Farr before the Government : grant was exhausted. About three months' work still remains to be done, and the Minister of Lands has promised to place £150 on the Estimates next session to defray the cost. It is a matter of some importance that the survey should be completed promptly, because the necessary instruments were borrowed from Kew Observatory, and should have been returned in June last. Dr. Farr has written to the authorities of the Observatory asking them to extend the period of the loan, so that the survey may be carried to an end. Two more accidents recently occurred in the kahikatea bush at Naumai. A • rather serious accident happened to a native named Puna, who was engaged in jacking a heavy kahikatea log. His jack handle got away from him, and he was struck across the forehead, receiving a nasty wound. He was conveyed to the Te Kopuru Hospital, where he still lies. The other accident happened to a young man named Dan Galvin, who was similarly engaged in jacking a big log in order to load the trucks on the tramway. The handle of the jack he was using also got free, and struck him a severe blow on the forearm. He is disabled, and will be laid up for ten days or a fortnight.—(Own Correspondent.) The flagship Euryalus and H.M. ships Clio, Cadmus, Mildura, Torch, and Psyche are at present at Hobart. The squadron will remain in Tasmanian waters until next month. The flagship is due in Sydney on April 19, and the other vessels will arrive some days before that date. The Katoomba is at Fremantle. and the Challenger and Phoebe are in New Zealand waters. The Pro-, metheus, which replaces the Pylades on the station, was due at Aden on Monday last, en route to Sydney. The Wallaroo and Penguin are at Sydney, and the Sparrow, which has been taken over by the New Zealand Government for training purposes, is on the way to Wellington. The Suburban Flying Club flew their second young birds' race on Saturday last from Frankton Junction, 72 miles airline. The weather was very much against the bird, and considering that they did a very good velocity. The following is the result: Vickers Bros.' S.F.C. 247, velocity 926 yds per minute, first; W. Collings' S.F.C. 220, velocity 910vds, second; E. Widdows' S.F.C. 271, velocity 875 yds, third. The special service in honour of Ireland's patron saint, held last night at St. Patrick's Cathedral, was attended by a very large congregation, including members of the city and suburban branches of the H.A.C.B. Society, who attended in regalia. In the course of an eloquent sermon, the Rev. Father Kehoe panegyrised the saint, the pontifical benediction being pronounced by Bishop Lenihan. During the service solos were sung by Madame Casier and Miss Maud Donovan while the choir gave a beautiful rendition of Benedetto's "Magnificat. Mr. H. Hiscocks presided at the organ. Harvest festival services were conducted at several of the churches in the crty and suburbs yesterday, and were attended in every instance by overflowing congregations. At St. James' PresK?p an T C vv- Ur n h ' WeUi *gton-street, the Key. X, L. Walker preached in the morning on The Harvest of Grace, Providence, and Nature," in the evening taking his subject "Sowing and Reap- "£• -During the evening service Mr. «o ~ Manmn £ sang an offertory solo, Consider the Lilies," Jackson's "Te QifT'' £** J he anthe m "Thy Barns dered by the choir. Harvest thanksgiving services were also held at the Mount Eden and the Beresford-street Congregational Churches. At the former "the service was conducted by the Rev. W Day, while at Beresford-street the sermons morning and evening were preached by the Rev. John Wilkins. At the evening service a solo was sung by Madame Chambers.. At all the churches of the Manukau Wesleyan Circuit thanksgiving services were conducted yesterday, some of the churches being very prettily decorated with sheaves of grain and fruits of the season, while the choral portions of the services were all brightly appropriate to the occasion. ..} me J* in S of the guarantors of Mr Alfred Hiil's new comic opera was held at the Chamber of Commerce on Friday afternoon last. Mr Bart. Kent was elected treasurer on behalf of the guarantors. A call of £3 per share was made for preliminary expenses. Meanwhile the chorus is in active rehearsal, and there is every promise of the opera proving a success. Road formation works are at present in progress in Sackville-street, the bridge across where the gully is dammed back being replaced by a culvert.

Inquiries into the state of the -itv water supply show Up at Mei en t V£' supply is just about denial to the consumption. With the reservoirs holdup their own, and the driest season of ih« year practically over, there need be n fear of shortage in the water supply ihit year. At Western Springs tll« $£'fij fallen four inches, but has not ™„. "* low that level. The pipe l ine from TnT rangi to Ponsonby reservoir has a cana* city of one million gallons per day but" by diverting the flow to the Western Springs pump well, which is 190 f„f below the level of Ponsonby reservoir an accelerated flow has been caused m creasing the supply to 1,300,000 gallons per day. This arrangement necessi tates all the Titirangi water beW pumped from Western Springs to lW sonby, instead of being delivered by gravitation. • The police having reason to believe that a young woman intended to leavo Auckland by steamer for Sydney this' evening, and leave her child in Auet land unprovided for, they obtained a warrant and arrested her. She was brought before Mr McCarthy at the Police Court this morning, and formally' charged and remanded. The voun» woman protested that she had no iu° tention to desert her child, and asked to be allowed out on bail. Sub-inspector Black said the accused had told some of her friends that she was saving up her money to go to her old home South Wales. His Worship said" hi could not grant bail, and the vbmi* woman, in a flood of tears, was taken away to the cells. The Auckland Prohibition and Temperance League has issued circulars drawing attention to the fact that the Auckland no-license vote has not progressed so rapidly as in other large centres. The circular states that Mr W.'j. MacDermott has been appointed Organiser for the city of Auckland, and it is proposed to have a central office. The Victoria bottling stores, MarketSquare, and the local agency for Strachan's Dunedin ale and stout; have been taken over by Messrs. Jones and Shields.' Mr. Fred. B. Smith, the religious work; director of the American Youm* Men's Christian Associations, who was tb hare conducted a mission in the colony at atid after Easter, has cabled that he will not. be able to visit New Zealand on account of illness in his family. Mr. Smith is flow in Adelaide. Australian migration returns show that 556 more coloured people left Australia than entered in 1904. The Commonwealth, in fact, lost 360 Chinamen and 412 Polynesian residents during tile year. The total coloured arrivals was 3301, and the departures 3887. ' City reservoirs are holding their own during the last of the dry weather. The store of a secret organisation, Mv-' ing its headquarters in London, and coil-' nected with the assassination of Sergiusi has been unearthed in Moscow. A public meeting will be held in St. James' Hall this evening. Mr W. Rich-! ardson will speak. The Ponsonby Association Football Club will hold a meeting in the Masonic' Hall. Newton, this evening. We understand that Mr. Wm, Chambers has definitely decided to be a candidate for the Parnell electorate at thenext general election, against allcomers. —Ad.