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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 405, 28 April 1879, Page 2

couple of lengths. We understand that another heat will be rowed on Tuesday evening between Roskrudge (stroke), Thompson (3), Gibbes (2), and Pollen (bow), against one of the winners of SaturdayThe following is tbe report of the Wellington Patent Slip Company, which was presented at the meeting of shareholders held this afternoon: — "The directors, in accordance with the regulations ot the company, beg to present to the shareholders the annual statement of accounts. The business of the company continues steadily to increase — the tonnage of the vessels taken up being 2075 lons in excess of last year. The Hon. John Johnston having resigned his directorship, Mr Pearce was elected in his place. The Directors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of five per cent., so soon as the subsidy is received from the Government Two of the directors (Messrs. F. A. Krull, and J. E. Natban) retire by rotation, but being eligible, offer themselves for re-election." The receipts are set down as follows : — Balance from 1877-8, £3840 14s 3d; slip dues, £1284 63 9d j subsidy, £2450; profit on repairs, &c , £250 9s ; profit on stock, £124 5s lid ; rents, &c, £8011s; total, £803 6s lid. The disbursements were : — Expenses in working slip, £1407 8s 9d; interest, £377 16' 2d; general expenses, £269 4s 2d. Total, £2054 9s Id; leaving £5975 17s lOd available for division. It is stated that an attempt will be made next session |to so amend the Debtors' and Creditors' Act that all certificated accountants in bankruptcy 6hall be done away with. A mail will be despatched by the Stad Haarlem for London, leaving Wellington by the Ladybird, on Friday next. The Bishop of Wellington held a confirmation yesterday afternoon at St. Mark's, Sussex Square, when 20 candidates from that parish and St. Peter's presented themselves to receive the apostolic rite. The Bishop delivered a very earnest and impressive address to the candidates. The Church was crowded to excess. One of the Civil cases heard at tbe Resident Magistrate's Court to-day was that in which W. Hoare sought to recover from George Harris the sum of £8 Is. The case was hoard a short time ago, and now the plaintiff wished to obtain immediate execution. Mr. Mansford declined to make any order on the ground that tho plaintiff had not given the defendant sufficient time, or in other words that he had acted rather " too smartly." It was currently reported in town this morning that a well-known Government official was dead. This occasioned considerable surprise, because only yesterday morning the gentleman referred to was in his mual state of health, and was walking on the wharf. On enquiry it was found that the rumor had been circulated by somebody who overheard one person say to another: "B's gone!" And certainly he had gone— South. The London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing underdate London, 14th March, by the Suez mail, which arrived at the Bluff this morning, gives the following interesting particulars relating to the floating- of the Victorian loan, which may be studied advantageously by New Zealand politicians :—": — " The floating of the loan at a somewhat higher price than was anticipated was due to the abundance of money, the fall of the Bank rite, and the restriction of the issue to £8,000,000 for 18 months. The written pledge given by Mr. Berry to the banks to withhold the balance of the debentures imparted confidence to the members of the Stock Exchange, who sent in tbe bulk of the subscriptions, and without whose co-operation the loan could not have been floated. All the heavy bids were under £99 ss, and it was only the small tenders that went up to £100. The announcement that interest would be paid from the Ist January, though the debentures were net to issue until the Bth of April, was equivalent to giving subscribers a rebate of 1£ per cent. A private meeting of officers of volunteer companies and members of the Choral Society was held to-day, for the purpose of considering whether it was practicable to erect a drillshed and a choral hall in one building. We understand that no definite decision was arrived at. Another meeting will be held shortly. A meeting of the creditors of David Jacobowitch was called for to-day, but there were not sufficient persons present to form a quorum. We are requested to state that the two Italians, Bilo si and Perotti, who were charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday last, with having unlawfully wounded one Nicholas Fernandez, were not arrested by Detective Brown, but that as soon as they heard that warrants were out for their apprehension they went to the Police Station and gave themselves up voluntarily. Mr. J. H. Whitelaw desires us to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of three volumes, handsomely bound, of •' African Travels" from " Sympathy" for the use of the patients at the Asylum. The Wellington Naval Brigade assemble for drill at'tuo Arcade on Tuosday evening at 7.30 sharp. The usual weekly meating of the Wellington Literary Association will be held in the St. John's Schoolroom, on Tuesday noxt, the 29th, when the president, the Rev. James Patorson, will deliver a lecture, entitled, " Lessons to be learnt from the lives of W. and R. Chambers." The meeting will be open to the public, when there will doubtless be a largo attendance. The chair will be taken at 7.30 p.m. Tho new Kaiwarra Rifle colors, which have been worked by the Misses Brandon, were presented to the corps on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The presentation was made by Miss Brandon, who made a short speech to Captain Thompson and his men. The colors were accepted by the corps, and Captain Thompson thanked the Misses Brandon for their gift. There was a good muster of volunteers, and the Artillery band was present to do honor to the occasion. Tho flag is of dark-blue silk fringed with gold, and in one corner there is a Union Jack. Hearty cheers were given for Mr. and the Misses Brandon. Tho members of the corps and the band afterwards lunched together at the Rainbow Hotel. The members of the Reform Football Club played their first match at the Basin Reserve on Saturday, in thepresence of a large number of spectators. The sides were chosen by the captain and vice-captain respectively, and the latter's teamjwon by two goals. The Secretary of the Club wishes us to deny the statement made in a morning paper that one of the players had his arm so badly injured on Saturday that he had to discontinue playing. No such accident, he states, occurred. The ninth annual meeting of the Patent Slip Company is called for this afternoon. As tbe Bishop of Wellington has arranged to hold a confirmation next Sunday afternoon at St. James's Church, Lower Hutt, it has been decided to adhere to the date originally named for laying the first stone of St. Peter's now Church. This interesting ceremony therefore will take place on Saturday afternoon next at 3 o'clock, the Bishop officiating on the occasion. A rather unusual scene occurred at the Opora House on Saturday evening. It appears that a constable in plain clothes went to the doorkeeper and said he wished to go inside the Theatre on duty- The doorkeeper remarked that ho had no authority to pass him in, whereupon, it is said, the constable attempted to force his way in, There happened to be three -Maori members of the Armed Constabulary in tbe Thoatre, and they were called upon by the doorkeeper to remdve th 9 constable. This they proceeded to do. After an exciting struggle the man was "run in" to the Manners-street lock-up, but as it was found that he was not in fault no charge was entered against him. The Maoris' explanation is that they only did .what the pakehas told them to do. A scratch football match was played in Mr. Sheehan's paddock on Saturday afternoon between teams captained by Messrs Davy and A. Campbell, respectively. About thirteen a side took part, and a capital game was the result, Davy's team eventually winning by two goals five tries to one goal. According to Inspector Mallard, of Dunedin, a young lady tailoress, in the employment of Mr. Maurice Hepoer; ot Upper York plane, ingeniously tried to shield her employer from the penal clause of tbe Bradshaw Act. On tbe Inspector paying a visit to tha establishment, about three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, recently, he found one of the girls diligently employed on a pair of trouse-s. " Why are you working at this hour V asked the officer. "Just for my own pleasure," said tbe girl with a smile. " And whose trousers have you got, my dear 1" " Only my own," was tho smart retort. Mr. Hepner explained that the girl meant she was employed on piece-work, but he was fiued notwithstanding. A settler coming into Wanganui market on j Wednesday last (says the Herald) had rather a curious experience of tho value of his produce. He brought in lambs, fowls, and eggs for sale. Tbo lambs, well grown and fairly fat, realised Is 9d each ; the fowls, 2* 6d. each; and the eggs, 3s per dozen. Female servants are still very scarce and in great demand at Masterton. Wages— Female cooks, 25s to 355 ; general servants, 12s to 18s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; waitresses, 12s to 20*; nursegirls, 8s to 10s Men plentiful in all branches of labor. Pick and shovel men, 7s to 8s per day ; farm and station hands, 20s to 255; bush- falling by contract, 30s to 50s per acre; waiters, 20s to 353; shepherds, £75 to £90; married couples, £75 to £100. Houses made of kerosene tins flattened out are yet to be seen in some parts of this colony, and doubtless many other remarkable materials have at one time or another been made use of in colonial building construction. Of all the strange edifices we have ever heard of, however, about the most curious is o&e mentioned by Bret Harte, who in his lecture at tha Crystal Palace, in the roursa of a graphic account of the growth of the city of San Francisco, described a house built of plug tobacco, partly because the owner could find no cheaper materials, and partly because it was the only immediate use to which he could convert a cargo which was in excess ef the demand !