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Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 277, 26 November 1877, Page 2

of the audience, who used to suffer severely from the crush in the school room. There also will be two prices of tickets, 2s and Is, which it is hoped will be found a satisfactory arrangement. An excellent programme has been prepared, and as the tickets have gone off well, the concert promises to be as successful as its predecessors have been. . The s.s. Moa went out to the Heads on Saturday nigbt, taking a number of empty casks for the purpose of endeavoring to float the stranded schooner Waihopai. On arriving at the scene of the wreck, however, such a heavy sea was found to be running in from S.W. that it was not safe or practicable to make the attempt. The Moa consequently had to return to port, but will try again on the first favorable opportunity. An inquest was held at the Morgue this afternoon, before Dr. Johnston, coroner, and a jury, touching the death of Hugh Maguire, who died so suddenly on Saturday. Dr. Harding, who made the post vwrtem examination, deposed that the cause of death was from natural causes. As a butcher's cart bplonging to Mr. C. A. Spiers was going down Makara hill on Saturday last the harness broke, causing the horse to bolt. <me wheel then ran up the bank and the cart capsized, throwing the driver, Samuel Lowe," down the gully on to some large boulders. The cart was smashed to pieces. Lowe received a severe shaking and some bad bruises, but no serious injuries. The result easily might have proved fatal to the driver, as it happened in a narrow part of the road. An old man was arrested at Kuinara for stealing a Crimean shirt from a shop door. On being searched it was found that he had a sum of £690 8s in his possession. It seems he had been a hawker, and that he had made and saved this sum. Now why should a man with £690 in his pocket steal a Crimean shirt ? He must have been a kleptomaniac. This is a description of Mr. Fox's oratory during the no confidence debate, as supplied by the Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times: — "The only other remarkable speech yet made besides Mr. Ballance's was Fox's, and it was only remarkable as being iv bis old style. He shrieked, he yelled, made faces, threw his arms about, scolded and abused in his own unequalled form, and the younger members of the House, who had never seen nira make a great speech before, were considerably astonished." A musical and literary entertainment will be given in the school-room at Karori on Wednesday evening next, in aid of the St. Mary's Parsonage Fund. The local performers are practising assiduously, and several Wellington amateurs are going out to assist them ; altogether the concert promises to be a great success. We understand that a very good pro- - gramme has been arranged, and that it bids lair to equal if not to surpass the previous entertainments. The whole of the railway from Amberley down to Christchurch will be converted from the broad to the narrow gauge on 20th Dec, on which day the traffic along the line will be stopped, to enable this work to be done. The entire alteration will be made in one day, and 400 men will be employed on the work. It has been intimated to the natives of Hawke's Bay (says the Telegraph) that, after the closing of Parliament, Sir George Grey, accompanied by Mr. Sheehan, will meet them at Waipukurau and Omahu. Native runners have been sent throughout the country to get up a grand meeting, so as to give the visitors a great receptiou. The Wairarapa Standard says :—": — " The Evening Post reports that, in the event of, a dissolution, Sir George Grey will be put forward as a candidate for one of the seats for the city of Wellington in the next Parliament. We earnestly hope that he will consent to be put iv nomination, though personally we should have preferred seeing him a candidate for the representation of this district, in conjunction with a gentleman who would vote with him on all great questions of policy, which has never yet been the case since the Wairarapa has had two representatives ; as the votes of one, on all such questions, and all previous occasions, have invariably neutralised those of the other." The Wairarapa Standard thus acknowledges the receipt of samples of Nelson wine from Mr. W. Toogood, oi Featherston, who has in ' hand a consignment of the same. " The kinds | forwarded were cherade, hock, aud port. After ! quaffing the first named, we felt as if nobody owed us any money, and that we had no creditors. A bumper of the second, a pure \ delicious summer beverage, decided us to give a donation to the Indian "Famine Fund. As for the third it is far superior to wines for which we have paid or owed double .the modest price whicli Mr. Toogood demauds. ' We shall have no hesitation iv ordering some of that wine. Nelson wine 'is but half the price of logwood, and twice as nice. It ought to command a ready sale in this district." Mr. Thatcher, agent for Mr. Levy, the great cornet soloist, writes as follows to the Otago Daily Times : — '* Since the papers of this colony evidently think it incumbent on them to proclaim the fact that my principal, Levy, had to | seek the protection of the Insolvent Court of Victoria, you, who published the report as well as other papers, cannot in'^ommon fairness refuse to give a brief statement of the I causes that compelled him to do so. After I I left him in Adelaide, one A'Jison, a' theatrical agent, upon the strength of some agreement made in New York, had him served with a writ j for £500. This Allison had never met Levy, I no? done anything for him since his arrival, but had sold his interest for £750 to a Melbourne firm without expending a shilling on his account. I had engaged the Melbourno Town Hall, and incurred several hundreds of pounds liabilities there and in this colony, and in the provinces of South Australia. Levy was forced either to give bail for £500 that he would j return and answer the case, which would entail a loss of £1000, or meet the demand. So by the advice of the lawyers he paid down £240, and some £50 law .expenses. A celebrated basso who was engaged to appear in I Adelaide sent to say he could not come for a week, and Levy very justly told him to keep away altogether. He claimed £500, and took out the usual writ. Another vocalist considered herself insulted by the terms in which, her "-services were dispensed with, and she claimed £1000, having recourse to law, of course, to vindicate her reputation. Other people trumped up all sorts of ridiculous cases, and Levy's legal advisers suggested a dose of whitewash, as good gardeners whitewash the trunks of trees threatened by vermin." Mr. W. F. Hubbard, civil engineer aud architect, of this , city (says the Lyttelton Timea),who iias had large experience in fire proof construrtion, has designed an improved tile for castiug concrete walls. Several advauj tages ai*e claimed for the method of building — 1. That a wall of equal strength to that of ! brickwork can be produced at a less cost. 2. That it can be executed in much less time. 3. That with very little practice any unskilled person can build with the tilesj no striking or pointing of joists being necessary, the tiles forming their own joists. 4. That they can be painted or varnished as readily as wood work, and do net absorb so much paint. 5. That if they are used without painting they form a face impervious to the weather. 6. They are designed so as to avoid breakage in transit from one part to another. 7. That when laid they" form a very pretty rusticated joint, and are capable of being used to form cornices or skirting, string courses, &c, suitable to many buildings; also, of obtaining, by judicious arrangement, 'a very pleasing effect in 'elevation. 8. That internal plastering is unnecessary in several classes of buildings, in which case the tiles form an excellent lining. A correspondent at Carterton, under date 21st November, sends the following to the Wairarapa Register: — " I am given to understand the Carterton-Taratahi races will take place as usual on the" 22nd and 23rd January, ,1878. The committee are making great improvements in the matter of the course, and altering the sites for booths, and I believe intend to have a grand stand erected, so as to meet the convenience of the public. They anticipate hay- I 'mg t a first-class meeting. — Our Town Hall is drawing near completion, and will, I understand, be opened by a dance and ball on Boxing night. — The Marquis of Normanby Hotel has changed hands, and the new landlord has taken possession. He bids fair to prove the right man in the right place, for I believe he intends spending some £400 or £500 in making it one of the most' complete' hotels in the Wairarapa district." Avoid f excitement, dissipation, and late ;h<)urs. If you. are not naturally nervous they 'will be ap^ttolnake you so, unless you have a constitution of iron. If you are nervous, there is still greater reason to shun them. .The best remedy fpr weakness of the nerves, as well as for its almost invariable concomitant— a, deficiency of constitutional vigor — is Udolpho Wolfe's Scheidam Aromatic Schnapps, which multiplies the physical energies, promotes assimilation of the tood, and tranquflises the brain. — Advt. \