General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 82, 3 February 1876, Page 6

General Intelligence.

The Mayor ot Wellington has called a meeting -for to day, to give a worthy reception to Sir Julius Yogel. * Lord and Lady Normanby and suite' leave Wellington for 'Auckland" about' the 15th proximo. They will probably remain North about three months.

The *** Timaru Herald ' states from an official source, that the General Assem-'. bly will meet in June. The exact date is not fixed. The ordinary prorogation proclamation will be ; gazetted immediately.

*, A curious case was heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Temuka on Friday. The guard oh the 'railway was sued for £20 damages .for turning a man out of a first-class carriage for using bad language. The rail Way authorities prosecuted the man for this offence. ; ' The civil case against the guard was dismissed, and the passenger fined £1 for using bad language in the train.

The following are the answers to reasons of dissent given in by Dr Copland in connection with the motion of Mr Russell oh the overture on instrumental music, published Am last issue : — l. That the resolution of Synod anont instrumental music was defective, 1 and might be brought into operation, while defective, which is not for edification. The motion dissented from,' instead of stultifying, the . action of the Synod, tended only to correct and; make complete that action. 2; The overture proposing, something* new, to be added to the worship of this Church required a different action on the part of the Synod than that implied' in the resolution come to, to make it the', law qf. "the Church, " 3, While the attendance was large, the resolutionJadopted.' Was carried by a minority of the members, in actual attendance. 4. More, important motion have been carried, #nd more important subjects have been considered and adjudicated upon in smaller closing meetings of Synod.

Sir Geprg-e, Grey writes to the Aiick- ■ land **" Herald ' stating that he received .' through the post a copy of an article in .* the ' Australasian ' attacking his aboli- j tion views. He says :• "The letter! which was forvyarded to' me stated that 1 ;' it was so forwarded witb the compli-. ; ments of the writer of the article, The letter was posted at Wellington, and: was in a hand. which I have before seen, [f therefore", the writer of the letter.' stated the truth, the article was written at Wellington by a dependant of the Government., .'I

It will be remembered that about a year ago a good deal of commotion was was caused in commercial; circles by the sudden disappearance of Mr Qy H, Campbell, a member of the firm, of Calvert and Campbell, Princes-street. More than one person had to deplore his hasty departure and . their loss. But in the meantime he had betaken himself to China, so that the sufferershad simply to "grin and, bear it." Now, however, he has turned up in the. Empire City, where he has 'been arrested. We last evening receiyed the following telegram "from the* Press Agency : — " Wellington, January 28, 1876. — This afternoon Detective Farrell arrested George Hyde * Campbell, late ofthe firm of Calvert ,and v Gampbell, china merchants, Princes-street, Dunedin. He is charged with forging the name of Shephard Reeves, on' the 21th February last* by altering a , bill for £41 17s 8d to £141 17s Bd. He was brought up' and .remanded till to-morrow morning, — **•* Guardian,' 29th ultimo.

Edwin Parker, a European; employed by Mr Cleghorn, of Epsom, was found on Thursday last in a clump in the busH in Auckland dead, his head fearfully smashed with a tomahawk. A fellow servant named Logan and a Maori are missing, together with deceased's coat and £30. They had a dispute the day previous about some money-, and there seems little doubt the MaOri committed the murder. It is thought probable he will make for' the King country. The police are in persuit, with the intention of stopping him. The man murdered was fearfully mutilated. The native who is believed to have murdered him was seen about, the premises at 4 in the morning. He is not yet captured.

The following list from the ( Evening Post' shows the new members of the House of Representatives :— ' Rees — Auckland East, replaces Sir J. "Yogel. Henry - Buller, replaces Q'Cohor. Stevens — Christchurch, new seat. Moorhouso— Christchurch, replaces Wakefield. . Watson — Coleridge, replaces Bluett, Larnach— Dunedin, replaces "Reynolds. Read — East Coast, replaces. Kelly. Tole — Eden, replaces Creighton, Hamlin— "Franklin, replaces May. Lusk — Franklin, replaces Buckland. Woblcock— Grey VaUey, replaces Harrison. . : Kennedy— Grey Valley, new seat. j Wakefield, jun. — Geraldine, n^w seat. . * Fisher — Heathcote.. replaces Sir C. Wilson;, j Barff — Hokitika, new seat. ''.:'" Lumsden — Invercargill replaces Cuthbertson. Aynsley— Lyttelton, replaces Webb. . > Hursthouse— Motueka, replaces C. Parker. '• Wood— Mataura, replaces Sir*.!). Bell. Douglas — Marsden, replaces Munro. - ' . ' Sharp — Nelson, replaces Luckie. Russell — Napier, new seat, Hodgkinson— Riyerten, replaces M'G-illivray. ,' Burns— Roslyn, replaces. M'Glashan.- ' y i Fitzory— Selwyn, replaces Re'eyes. : ': Rows— Thames, replaces O'Neil. Mahders— Wakatip, -replaces Pyke. Hislop— Waitaki, replaces Steward. , - Shrirnsld— Waitaki; new seat. ! Cox— Waipu,, new seat. Joyce — Wallace, replaces Basfcian. ...,'. Whitaker-— Waikato East, replac-K^^Sson. Baigent— Waimea, replaces J". Shephafd'..' , Bastings— Waikaia, replaces "Braidshaw. Macfarlahe— -Waitemata, -replaces Von "Der --*■*, Heyde*. ■ . . ■.'-..■'', * " ,'., A, De Lautovir—Mouht Ida, replaces. Mervyn. "

; The annual report of the Bay of Islands Coal Company on a year's operations,* shows a deficit of *£3652.* '".* • A coroner's jury; at AucklandJ oosh s a death ■ from * drinking .carbolic ; aqid, added a rider 1 that it be included anaong 4egally : defined poisons. The/ New Zealand Herald -'' expectsSir . Julius Yogel to . reach • Auckland about the 6th February. ; The ■" Smiler " is, to review the political.! aspect of affairs at the Blue Spur to-morrow evening; I Mr.Proudf6ot;has laid a criminal infp*smatioh against Government . em? ployes concerned, in the^ fracas, at the Railway bridge near Riverton. '.. '•" * Sir- George Grey; is very unwell.., '.'. A steamer proceeded to Itawau on the !25th ult. (says the < Evening; News ') to bringliim to town, bnt he. was not sufiiciently recovered to. come.

The ' Tuapeka Times-' says— Wild ducks promise to. be : more plentiful than usual in many parts of this district during the coming season. At Waitahuna: grey ducks, are very numerous, and numerous clutches have been hatched in many ofthe lagoons in* that neighborhood.

From a return, for the year ending 30th September last, published ih the '. Provincial Gazette/ we find tbat the total number of sheep depastured in .the Province was as follows :— On. runs, 2,360,810 ; on freehold land, 1,350; 628; on hundreds, 23,900 ] and- goldfields, 117,057*; or a gross 'total of 5;852,395i

The: Commodore on the Australasian station has* ordered the immediate departure of H.M.s. Sappho, from Auckland to Noumea. Should, no" man of war be available for the New Zealand Station*, the Commodore; will send one of the, schooner gun-boats commissioned to suppress slavery •in the South Sea Islands.

Mr Deans was successful in liberating 30,0 trout in. tbe Beaumont river and two other streams on.. the Beaumont Statiqn-.last. Tuesday. . The fisli camei from *: ;Dunedin r the, same .morning.; and were senfc,.fropi JVlilton to their, destination; with Mr, Macintosh, to whose care the Acclimatisation Society invariably commit, their valuable gifts. ■Tlje starlings liberated by ,'MJr Deans have taken up their quarters near the township.— ;.* Tuapeka Times.' . A proclamation in the ' Gfazette ' announces that after the Ist of February, no book packet ' must exceed 51bs weight, -and no pattern parcel 240z. weight. For delivery , at Or from the same post office at which the same are posted, or at or. from any other post office within the Colony, not exceeding two ounces in weight, Id ; -above two and under four ounces, 2d ; every additional ounce or fraction thereof, 2dl

We •(•* Post ') are informed that Wellington was recently visited f by an Auckland capitalist, who, having heard what = high rentals are * charged for houses in this city, thought it would be a good thing to buy a? few allotments of land and build cottages on them. On inquiry, .however, he, found that such. high prices were asked near the city thatit would be many years before he could get his money .back again. Consequently he abandoned his idea, and returned home in the Phoebe last Sunday. * „,.-

An amusing incident is related by the l Gipps Land Mercury' :— -*" A farmer, resident at Denison, on December 28, while on a stack of hay, felt a sting on- his leg, and at once -rah home declaring a snake had' bitten him. He cut the piece out with a razor, and got his son to suck the wound: for a full hour, j but feeling "none- the worse, the part excised was carefully examined, < and it was found [to contain a small portion of a Scotch thistle. The patien t was ! so chaffed by his neighbors • that We for-*---bear piling on the agony by 'giving ' his name." - '.-•*-.-■

*' Mr Taiaroa, who has recently- been re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives for Southern Maori District, was entertained by his \fridnds at the Kaik, Otago Heads, on Friday evening. Mr Seaton, the ; member for Caversham, was present, and in proposing Mr. Taiaroa's health, dwelt at some length on the advantages of Provincialism. In responding,*. Mr Taiaroa took occasion to pronounce* himself as an Abolitionist, whereat Mr. Seaton-ex-pressed surprise. It would appear 'from this that : the representative* of Caversham does not read the Guardian, otherI wise lie would have learnt that many | days ago Mr, Taiaroa expressed his i wish to be ranked as an Abolitionist in the.list of members published in ; this journal.— J Guardian.' :

As an illustration of the deep, distress which prevails amongst the laboring classe?, we may mention a circumstaticbrecently relatedto ourselves \ by I a gentleman who, resides in the interior. I "He wanted a man to assist in harvesting, and seeing one of the great unemployed ;in the -street -bf an adj acent" -town he invited him to take service with-him, offering 7si a-'day arid board. The unemployed stucu: out for 8s. j and when this was conceded he next asked, "How many glasses of grog am I to geteVery day?' ltis heedless^to, say,'^^^ that; so. far as our informant is ooncernedrthe. gentleman is still unemployed;^-<Eight^ shillings per diem, with^^„-uialii^ited r bread, i beef, and mutton, may seem a-; small thing without grog "to ; -the r " d^-wn-trodden people of Se^wlZealand" (fide Sir George iGrey,: passim) but: we think j the smqck^frp'dkea gentry /of- the; Old j; Country would -be satisned;.,withVonei fourth Vof'tlie payment;*^' Guardian;'