L. Hansen. Binham-street, 28th May, 1888.

Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 125, 29 May 1888, Page 3

L. Hansen. Binham-street, 28th May, 1888.

The English Derby will be run at Epsom to-morrow. The Court of Appeal is still occupied with the case of M'Donald v. Te Ara Takana and others, which was commenced on Saturday morning. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court will he held on Monday next. Mr. Chilman, who has lately been in temporary charge of the Bulls branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been selected to succeed the late Mr. Taylor as manager of the Te Aro branch. He will arrive in Wellington this week. Mr. George Baker, who has been for 15 years postmaster and telegraph agent at Mar ton, died on Sunday morning after a lingering illness. Constable Culliuane reports to Inspector Thomson that he has given up dragging for the body of Howell, the man recently drowned in the Mangatajnoko river. It is believed that the body will never be recovered. The hand of death has removed another of the Bank of New Zealand's managers, in the person of Mr. H. A. Watt, who died of consumption on board the Ruapehn on her recent voyage to Rio, en route for London. Mr. Watt, who was manager of the Christohurch branch of the Bank, was on his way Home in searoh of health, when he fell b. viotim to the 'disease from which he had been suffering for many years. Mr. Watt was a native of Elgin, and was in the service of the Royal Bank of Sootland, Aberdeen, prior to coming to this colony. His health giving way, a trip to the colonies was undertaken, and he oame out as a -passenger by the Rotorua on her maiden passage. He arrived in the colony in December, 1876, and was then in such a bad state of health that he had to be carried ashore. ' Ultimately, however, his health improved, and he entered the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland, succeeding Mr. Embling. In 1881 Mr. Watt was appointed to the important Position of manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Christchuroh. For over three years his health was fairly good, but in the autumn of 1881 it began to give way. His medical advisers suggested that he should spend the winter of that year in Auckland, and he .did so, regaining in some degree his health. He returned to Canterbury in the summer of 1884-5, and onoe morj6 settled down to work. The improvement (in his health, however, was but transitory, ana he again got worse. On the advioe of his medical adviser, he came up to Wellington about a mont^i ago and left for England in tho RnapeLu, but died before re&ohing Eio.

The Parliamentary Portraits this week are Mr. R. C. Brace, member for Bangitikei, and Mr. John Maokenzie, member for Waihemo. The likenesses are not so striking as some of the preceding ones, bat both are to a oertain extent characteristic, and the biographical sketches are good. Judgment in the civil cose of William J. Robinson, architect;, y. Mary Ann Hojaghton, in whioh the plaintiff seeks to recover £32 18s 2d for commission, services rendered, Ac, in connection with the building of a residence for the defendant in 1886, was given by Mr. H. W. Robinson, R.M., this morning. His Worship considered that the claim of the plaintiff resolved itself intotiiraa parts— for commission, for extra attendance, and for services in arranging a dispute about a party wall. As regarded the last item, the plaintiff appeared to have been offioiously interfering, and his olaim, therefore; could not be recognised; and as regarded the olaim for extra attendance, the weight of evidenoe was against it. With regard to the olaim for commission, it appeared tjhat the plaintiff had agreed to charge 4 per cent, npon not more than ,£6OO, and he had been paid £H 10s on account.- Evidence had been given to show ihat his original plans were faulty in retpect to construction of the roof and stairway, and competent architects had condemned the plans, and also the practice of having a second copy f>i the specifications, whioh was different from the original. It had been contended that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, as not having exercised competent skill, but it was evident that the building had not been erected according to the condemned Slans nor finished according to the conemned oopy of the specifications. The work had been completed, and the architects who condemned the plans, Ac. had not pasted any opinion npon the finished work. Xha Court therefore thought that the plaintiff was antjtjed to be paid for his work so far as the defendant had benefited by it. The jnstioe of the case would be met by a judgment for the plaintiff for £5 withont oosU, except as to an adjournment which had be«n granted at the request of the defendant, whioh amounted to £1 Gs. Mr. Gray acted for the plaintiff and Mr. Skerrett (iratrnoted by Mr. Edwards) for the defendant. The Maori woman Meri Eotj, aHap Mary Sharpe, who a few_weeks since attempted to take her life at Otaki by cutting her throat with a knife, was brought before Mr. Robinson, R.M., this afternoon, and charged with attempted suicide. The offence was admitted, and his Worship decided to bind over the offender to keep the peace for six months, her brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Eoaoh, a settler of Ohan, undertaking to aot as surety, in a sum of .£2O, for her good behaviour daring that period.

At the last moment the departure of the Herald for Greymouth was postponed until 12 to-night. ' About 10 o'clock this morning a young woman, named Eliza Tinney, who for gome time past hits been an inmate of the Salvation Home, wai brought to the Police Station by an officer of the Salvation Army, who stilted that he feared tho woman was mentally affected. Although she had recovered, and was receiving every care at the Home. She had lately be,en under the impression that someone was goinc? to take her life, and in consequence of this it was with the greatest difficulty that she could be got to take her food. The last few days she had altogether refused to take food, asserting that it had been poisoned. The officer therefore suggested that she should be examined by a medical officer, with a view to ascertaining what was really tha matter with her. An examhmtion was subsequently made by Dra. Tripe and Rawson, who cortifi^d to her being perfectly sane, but fouud she was suffering from general debility. Her removal to the Hospital was therefore recommended, and an order for her admission was accordingly made this afternoon by Mr. H. W. Robinson, B.M. ' Inspector Thomson has received a report from Constable Cullinane, of Pahiatua, to the effect that Greaves, the old man who had been missing from the village settlement near that township since the 25th inst., was discovered alive, but in a very weak state, in Girdwood's-road, about a mile from his home, on Sunday. When found he was in the aot of taking off his boots, and, in answer to a question, he said that he was going to bed. The old man was promptly taken back to his home, where he is receiving every attention. Mrs. Bartley, an English actress of fine abilities, who visited the United States many years ago, used to tell this story :— On the voyage across tho Atlantic she was on deck ono day, and received a ereot shock from seeing one of the ship's officers knock down ono of the cvew who was inclined to mutiny. I So much did tho sight affect her that she retreated to her cabin and did not again appear on deck until land was sighted. Then she saw at the wheel the man whom she had seen knocked on the head. With deep sympathy she asked him, "How is your head now?" "West and by north, ma'am," was the answer. Attention is directed to the sale of homehold furniture to be held by Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co. to-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, being the contents of an eight-roomed house, removed to their auction rooms for convenience of sale. The catalogue comprise 1 ! a Dumber of valuable standard works, and some rare specimens of old Engliih china and wedgewoodtrare, which should be inspected by those who hnve a liking for such bric-a-brac. Detail* appear in our advertising columns, and the furniture is now open for inspection. For eontmuanQn oi reading matter tee fourth page.