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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1897, Page 5

An alarming rumour was current to-day to the effect that the British India Steam Navigation Company's steamer Onda had run ashore at West Wanganui while on her way from Calcutta to Wellington. The rumour, however, has not the slightest foundation in fact. Mr. T. R. Fleming continued last night hfe lectures on Constitutional History at the citizenship class in connection with the Forward Movement. The subject dealt with was the development of the prerogative from the tribal and village chieftainship through the Saxon and Norman conquests of England till the end of the Plantagenet dynasty in 1399. The lecturer dealt with the question from the legislative, exeoutivej and judicial points of view, and also dealt at length with the important question of royal finances, and emphasised the value of the constitutional safeguards which distinguished the English from so many of the constitutions imitative of it. The Rearing Meg Sluicing and Hydraulic Power Company of Black Ball, Grey Valley, has been successful!}' floated, with a capital of £10,000. The capital, which has been over-subscribed, has been chiefly found by Wellington men. The auction sale of "Mr. Alfred Gilbert's furniture, &c, at Blackbridge, Lower Hutt, yesterday attracted over 300 persons. Messrs. George Thomas & Co. submitted an unreserved catalogue of over 400 lots, which were all sharply competed for. The dog-cart and mare realised £25, and a pretty six-montu:>-old foal by the trotting stallion Brooklyn was sold for £8. Mr. R. D. Miller, the Aotuary of the Mutual Life Association of Australasia, arrived by the Monowai yesterday to take temporary charge of the New Zealand Branch of the Association until a permanent successor is appointed to Mr. -Alfred Gilbert, who leayes next Tuesday for Sydney e» route for London, he having been promoted to the charge of the Mutual Life's business in the United Kingdom. ( A singular blunder was made by the Auckland police a few days ago. One evening a man entered a fishmonger's shop on Ponsonby-road, and while the proprietor's back was turned ran off with a bottle of oysters. Subsequently he went into a grocer's shop near by, under the influence of liquor, and sat down to eat his booty. The grocer's wife, her husband being away, sent for. assistance, and rather oddly, it was the aggrieved fishmonger who came in response. In the struggle that followed the thief got away, but in doing so he dropped a pocket-book bearing the name of "D. A. M'Kay," which contained a seaman's certificate of discharge from aship, in the same name. A warrant was issued for the arrest of D. A. M'Kay, and finding that there was an Archibald Daniel M'Kay employed in one of the timber .yards in the city, who had been a seaman, the police without further ado arrested this man, though he protested that he had not been out on the night in question, and that his own pocketbook would be found at home, as well as his certificate of discharge, which were from an altogether different ship from that named in the oyster-thief's papers. Nevertheless, he was taken to the lock-up, and had been in custody for some hours before the authorities discovered that a very serious mistake had been made, and released M'Kay with apologies for the injury ana indignity inflicted upon him. Two or three days afterwards the real M'Kay was arrested, and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. Yesterday, we learn from a Press Association telegram, a deputation waited upon the Minister of Justice and impressed upon him Mr. M'Kay's grievance, asking for at least the refund .of the £7 expended by him upon legal aid, but without, apparently, getting any more satisfaction than an expression of Ministerial regret for the wrongful arrest. The extraordinary part of the whole affair is that a warrant should have been issued in respect of so paltry a theft, for the value of the property stolen was only Is. It is stated that the warrant in question was signed by one of the recently-appointed Justices. Mr. M'Glashan's annual orchestral concert will take place at Thomas's Hall this evening. The programme, which' appeared in our last issue, includes a number of selections by Mr. M'Glashan's orchestra, mainly composed of his pupils and ex-pupils, a performance of Beethoven's Sonata in F for violin and piano by the concert-giver and Miss Chantrey Harris, and songs by Miss Jeanne Ramsay and others, Miss Ramsay's items including a new song written by Mr. M'Glashan entitled " The Lad that comes at E'en," now to be heard by the public for the first time. A grand concert is elsewhere announced to be held at the Skating Rink to-night, preliminary to the exhibition and sale of work which is to be opened by His Excellency the Earl of Ranfurly at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Committee olaimß the hearty support of the parents and inhabitants of the Te Aro district, as the gatherings are being organised for the benefit of the 1000 children attending the Willis and Ghuznee street schools. The Wesleyan Christian. Endeavourers, accompanied by their " Musical Crows," are to take the platform at the Salvation Army to-night, and treat the congregation to a programme of songs, &c. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Army missions. To-morrow, at 2 o'olook, Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. will sell by auction, absolutely without reserve, at their rooms, the whole of the late Mrs. Catharine Hart's extensive and valuable library, comprising upwards of 900 volumes, many of which ar& very rare and now out of print. Amongst many other celebrated books are " White's Ancient History of the Maori," " Polynesian Mythology, '' by Sir George Grey, " Maori Dictionary," Barraud's " New Zealand," " Forest Flora of New Zealand," and a splendid collection of Academy pictures, poetical works, and miscellaneous works, which should attract a large attendance ot buyers. To-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., Messrs. Harconrt and Co. will sell 1 by auction, by order of the Official Assignee in the estate of Crawford Bros, a valuable treehold property, No. 127, Taranaki-street, having a- frontage of 35ft by a depth of 178 ft lOin. On this land are erected on excellent six-roomed dwelling and shop, also substantial bakehouse and oven, erected at a cost of nearly £200. The business carried on in these premises is a, going concern, and the plant and fixtures may be purchased by treaty with the Official Assignee. To-morrow, at their new rooms, Mannersstreet, Messrs. F. Sidey & Co. hold a sale of unredeemed pledges. Messrs. A. G. Tame & Co. sell, at their rooms, to-morrow, at 1.30 o'clock, several very handsome brass-mounted bedsteads, pianos, bicycles, and a quantity of useful household furniture. For Monday, at 1.30 o'clock, they advertise a clearing sale of dairy cows, pigs, and sundries, on the premises, Karori-road.

Ahongst the many new designs in summer prints and blousings now being shown in our warehouse is a range of double-stripe prints, that has charmed every oustomer who has had the good fortune to secure a length. We have this cloth in twelve colours, and there is no chance of it becoming too common, as only a limited supply is obtainable for the .^ew Zealand market. We can assure customers that these goods are only obtainable in the full range at Te Aro House. A range that comes second in favour is tho new 'Empress bordered print, in a large variety of pretty stripes. The broad border of the same colour is worn -round the bottom of the skirt, and also as a trimming 1 for the blouse. Patterns and illustrations of tho costume and skirt will be sent free on application, and we have made arrangements in our costume department for. blouses and skirts of this pretty range to be made complete to measure for 19« 6'd at Te Aio House.— Advt.