NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXX, Issue 4095, 11 September 1878, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per press agency.] Auckland, September 10. The Halcione has arrived with the second batch of Katikati settlers, after an uneventful passage of 102 days. A Catholic petition in favor of denominational education received 740 eignaturee of persons over fourteen years old. Wellington, September 10. Mr H. G. Masters, who for upwards of twenty years was employed in the Crown Lands office, died suddenly this morning. Dttnedin, September 10.

The reason that Mr Carruthers' name wae not referred to in a formal manner at the late banquet was through a misunderstanding as to which of the speakers was to do it. The Bey. Mr Habens, Government Inspector. of Schools for the colony, Mr O'Sullivan, Inspector tinder the Auckland Board of Education, and Mr Goyen, Inspector of Schools for Southland, are at present in Dunedin, and are making themselves acquainted with the state of educational matters in this provincial district. A few evenings ago a number of Chinese were stoned in Stafford street by Dunedin larrikins, and a leading Chinese resident has made complaints about the matter to t£e inspector of police. At a meeting of the Council this afternoon the Mayor said: —"I would like to take this opportunity of alluding to the uncalled for and unjust remarks which were made by the 1 Daily Times' on Monday with reference to my conduct in the capacity in which I acted at the banquet. I may state, in reference to the insinuations, that I did pot know how to oondnct" myself arid had no sense of the fitnesß of things, that I pass them by for what they are worth. But when the • Daily Times ' accuses mc of haying attempted to insult our Northern by referring to the claims of Sir Julius Vogel to the gratitude of the people of this colony. I utterly repudiate any. ench....intentiqn. . Ther.objeet I "had in Srpppfing the lioast was to give the of : eW * an opportunity of expressing their appreciation of the services he had rendered to the colony—not so much, ne a poli? ticiau but as a patriot. I think the remarks of the 'Daily Time*' in reference to this partioffer the elighteet diareepecb to the members of the present Government, or to any individual present." Several members of Council concurred in hie Worship's remarie. ~.. The girl Hamilton is better to-day, and will probably recover. The publication of the depositions shows there was no ground for the supposition that she had been starved. The Corporation solicitors, have advised that the' nomination of councillors for the city is legal, notwithstanding that it was supposed that the necessary notice had not been given." ' . ■~'■.,, -.■";',"' '..':"'' Thei City Council to-day voted the Mayor £300 in addition to his salary, in consequence of the unforseen expense which he has' had to inour, re opening the railway line.

[PBOM OTTB OVTS COEBB9POTDBHT.] '' '■ DmssDiir, September 10. The flrsfc hunting meeting in Otago took place at Sea View, near ITorbury, to-day, and is due to the fact of the Canterbury hounds having been brought down by rail. About 500 people, including many ladies, were present. There were two capital runs, and a good day's sport. ' Beporting on Mr T. 0. Burt's process for treating the city sewage, the City Surveyor wrote : — " This much was accomplished. The night soil was separated from the sewage water, and rendered nearly, if not quite, inodorous directly the water had been drawn off. After a short exposure to the air this same residuum was wholly (as far as I could determine) deprived of any offensive smell. This part of the process £ judge to be the most successful. The cleansing of the water, so far as its appearance •was concerned, did not- come up to my expectations. I think that sufficient time is not allowed for the operation of the chemicals, samples that I have kept for two or three days becoming quite clear, which after two or three hours' subsidence, were etill thick and discolored. The. water is in a measure clarified, and almost all obnoxious smell destroyed. Only chemical analysis can guarantee that it has been chemically cleaned, but the mechanical cleaning observable to the eye, either demands more trial or different treatment."

' The girl Hamilton is much better to-day. The police are much blamed for withholding the depositions from the Press, and prevent* ing a denial being immediately given to the absurd reports abroad concerning Mrs Owen's conduct. ,■-■:.' •.-.■:■■■ ■'. ■ ■■■.''

Mr Finn haying withdrawn hie action against Warden Stratford, the inquiry into nis conduct is to be gone on with at once. ; Mr Proudf oot has obtained permisuon to lay tram rails down on more streets.