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Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1885, Page 2

We understand that the Government — subject to Parliament approving of the colony being represented at the Colonial Exhibition, to be held in London next year — propose to appoint Dr. Yon Haast to take charge of the exhibits and act as Working Commissioner. The Agent-General will, however, be the Chief Commissioner. The taking of evidence in the Bryoe-Rusden cose will be commenced at Wanganui on the 11th instant. We deeply regret to learn, by a private telegram from Auckland, that Mr. Thomas Macffarlane is not likely to recover from the effects of the recent railway accident which he met with. Mr. Macffarlane was a partner, many years ago, in the firm of Henderson and Macffarlane, was for several sessions one of the Anckland members in the House of Representatives, and has tince been the representative in Auckland of the Court of Bankruptcy. An old settler, with a moßt useful and honourable record, Mr. Macffarlane will be greatly regretted should the fears at present entertained be realised. Frederick Myer, aged 13, has caused a great deal of uneasiness to his parents during the past few days by absenting himself from his home since the Hutt Park races on Friday. The police wore informed thia morning that tho boy, who is a son of Mr. John Henry Myer, bnilder, had returned to his parent's house. The cause of hia singular absence has not transpired. We are glad to see such interest taken in defence matters by our volunteer surgeons. Dr. Cole, Burgeon to the City Eifloa, gave an hour's drill to seven of that csrp? last night in the room kindly placed at their disposal by Captain Crowe for ambnlance work. The men were moat attentive, and really showed an aptitudo for the work apportioned to them by their surgeon. Dr. Cole had a very excellent stretcher dosigned for their use. It combines portability with Etrongth, and haa tho advantage of folding up when on march. To Mr. Farmer, of Cuba-streot, must be given great praisq for its manufacture. Within an hour the men learned how to carry and prepare their etretoher, how to lift the wound od, to know their own plaoea and duties upon the field, and how to render first aid in stopping bleedinga from various parts of the body ; also the use of bandages and the way to improvise appliancos in their absence, &o , &o. The instruction is to be continued every Wednesday evening from 8 to 9 o'clock, at the same place. Over an hour was occupied at the Magistrates' Court yesterday morning in hearing a case in which M»ry Ann M'Neil auod her husband, Alexander M'Neil, a atoreman in Messrs. Nathan & Co.'s service, for maintenance The case was reported in our last issue. The information was held to be bad, and waß dismissed. Another one, charging the husband with desertion, was immediately laid, but was not dealt with by Mr. Wardell until the afternoon. The information was laid under the 38th section of tho Destitute Persons Act, which provides that a wife who has been obligod to leave her husband's house may take proceedings against him for desertion. Mrs. M'Neil was examined at considerable length as to the relations existing between herself and her husband. She acoused him of drunkenness and gambling, and asserted that he had often assaulted her. She said that the first time he struck hor was when he heard that her mother had left her all her money, bequeathing nothing to him. The witness spoke with great volubility, and she and Mr. Jelliooe, who was appearing for the defenoo, were engaged in several possages-at-orms. His Worship held that the husband, for whom Mr. Shaw appeared, was guilty of legal desertion, and an order was aocoidingly made against him for a oontribntion of 7s 6d per week in addition to a sum of 10s weekly whioh he is paying for the support of his only child. Wo learn from a correspondent at Ohariu that the local public soliool is now olosed through the prevalence of diphtheria in the district Ono child of Mr. Haggerty'a has died with it, and others of his family are BDffflnnij from the tame disorder. The following persons have been elected as a Road Improvement Committee- for the ensuing year :— Messrs. T. Kelly, H. Bryant, Prier, and J. Kelly. Mr. F. E. Darby was unanimously elected as membor for the Road Board for this and Takapu diatriot. The seoretary of the Masterton Football Club has received a challenge from the Wanderers Football Club, Wellington, to play a match at Masterton on Queen's Birthday against tho Masterton second 15. The club, wo believe (says tho Wairarapa Star), haa accepted the challenge, and there ia no doubt Mastorton will get a good team together. ' A meeting of the members of and subfciibars to the Wellington Ladies' Christian Association will be held at the Athenseum to-morrow (Friday), for the purpose of electing from the member* of the Association the ManagicgCommitteeof the Home for Friendless Women. All members and those who have subscribed not le3s than 10a to tho funds of the Association will be entitled to vote at tho meeting. All the insurances on the stock recently destroyed at the Te Aro House fire have been paid. The delay in oortain paymonts to whioh we reforrod yesterday, relates only to insurances on the building. Mrs. Spiller's juvenile dancing class will commence on Saturday. Mr. Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of the following additional subscriptions to the Squire Barlow Fund:— J. H. Bethnne, £1 Is ; A. W. Brown, .£1 Is ; Johnston and Co., £1 Is; a Friend, 10s ; W. G. Crawford, £1; Thompson, Shannon & Co., £3 3s; United Insurance Co., JBI Is; Hamburg - Madgeburg Fire Insurance Co., £1 Is; Brunner Coal Co., £1 Is ; W. E. Waters, £1 le ; F. Allen, .£1 Is. Two very largely attended funerals occurred in Masterton to-day (says the Wairarapa Star of yesterday). The first was that of tho wifo of Mr. Thomas Parsonß, whoae somawhat sudden and untimely death has produced a widespread feeling of regret among the community. The sacond was that of the lato Wm, Hodgson Donald, one of tho Wairarapa's pioneer settlera. Both funerals were attended by settlers from all parts of the valley. Tho services in each oase were oonduoted by the Rev. W. E. Psigo. Tho Home correspondent of the Ota?o Daily Times, writing from London on the 13th March, says :— lt appears that the Government are quietly bnt vigorously buying up in London the debentures of tho Manawatu Railway Company, which seems to foreshadow the intention of taking that line over from the shareholders. Some four or five hnndred thousand pounds' worth of debentures bearing 5 per cont. for 25 years are held, and very largely , in England. Of course in the event of the line being taken over, thoEe bearing the endorsation of the oolony, as they neoessarily should, would not be then pioked np for a trifle, and they should have to run their oouree of quarter of a century, a good dividend-paying and soonre investment as debentures go now. Hence the necessity of doing it su& rota, and tho Government have taken all requisite precautions to provide against the seoret leaking out. However, tho Government are like the sex angelio, and can't keep secrets. Honce it is that debenture holders have, vulgarly speaking, smelt a rat, and I learn that the bonds feel thy. It is propoaed to establish a oheeae factoiy at Sandon, and an influential committee haa been appointed to oarry ont the project. The London correspondent of a Southern paper writeß:—" The Emigration Office haa just lost one of the moat valuable officers in the servioe of the Government of New Zealand. Mr. Thomas Short, whoso death from consumption took place on the 28th of February, had been oonneoted with the New Zealand Government Bervioo for nearly 20 years. He was six years with Mr. John Morrison, when that gentleman acted as accent to the New Zealand Government, and when tho late Dr. Featherston oime to England as first Agent-General, Mr. Short's experience and business capacities were deemed so vainablo that ho was at onca ongagedos an officer of the A gent-General's department. Mr. Short acted for the last 13 years as Chief Emigration Clerk, and hia zeal, efficiency, and trustworthiness cannot bo spoken off too highly. When it is remembered that the conduct of details involved in the shipment of 120,000 Government emigrants who have been sent to the colony through the Agent-General's department passed tnrongh his hands, some idea can be formed of the sorvicea he has Tendered in hia capaoity as a New Zealand Government Civil Servant. He always took a keen personal interest in his work — attending at the office early and late, and at times when the office was receiving 700 to 800 letters a day his pluck and perseverance in mooting the extra pressure of work conld not have been surpassed. He died a comparatively young man, his age being 39, and ha leaves behind him his wife and three children, who, I fear, are not well provided for. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Government of New Zealand will regard this case as one in whioh they will be justified in assisting to the utmost of their power. "Jacob Faithfnl," of Napier, haa forwarded U8 the results of his drawing' on the Kaikora May Day Handicap. The first prize went to a carpenter at Waipawa, the second to a bankruptcy official in Napier, and the third to a farmer at Hastings. One of the two £50 money prices comes to Wellington. The drawing waß witnessed by representatives of the local papers and by a committee of subscribers. Jaoob's" next consultation, whioh is advertised elsewhere, is on the Hawke's Bay Steepleohsao. Messrs. T. K. Macdonald & Co. will sail to-morrow, on the premises, Cambridge Terrace, by order of the Official Assignee, furniture, &o. Messrs. Loery & Campbell will sell tomorrow, fruit. Messrs. Sidey & Co. will sell to-morrow, on the premises, Pine-street, household furniture and effects. George Thomas & Co. will sell to-morrow, furniture, personal effects, crockery, Ac.