LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1909, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS. March 23— Aorere, s.s. (3.15 p.m.), 77 tons, J"isk, from Patea. DEPARTURES. March 23— Wairau,,s.s. (1.30 p.m.), 93 tons, Vendore, for Nelson. ENTERED OUTWARDS. March 27— Arahura, s.s. (5 p.m.), 1506 tons, liamhert, for Nelson, Westport, iind Greymonth. Passengers — Saloon : For KelsonMisses Archer, Brown, Mesdames Pearce and 3 children, M'Keneie, Frnser and 3 children, Gloy, Messrs. Pike, Mafcthews, Dudley, Moleta, Crosbie. Hon. M'Kenzie. For Westport — Miss M'Dermid, Mesdames Kyle, Sloan, Messrs Pankhurst, M'Kay (2), Patterson, Heuburn, Fletcher, Ross and child, Knapp. Detective M'llveney. For Greymouth — Misses M'Kinlay (2), Wright, Haynes, Hyams, Hogg, Head, O'Halloran, M'Shane, Swcetman, Mesdames Crumpton, Meston, Moulton, Head, Cohen and child, Messrs. Gunn. M'Guigan, Mrlne, Lomas, Flintoff, Lynch, Moston, Harrison. March 27 — Mararoa, s.s. (11 p.m.), 2598 tons, Manning, for Lyttelton. Passengers : Saloon —Misses Dyer, Thompson, Fmdlay, Humphries, Knight, Skeet (2), Mesdnmes Maher, James, Price, Barraud, Woodcock and 2 children, Lambie, Cook, Hoffman and infant, Dunn, lies, Skeet, Hon. M'Kenzie, Captain Price, Mebsrs. Cohn, Hayman, Hahn, Le Cren, James, Craig, Roberts, Mackenzie, Macassey, Stapley, Ronayne, Johnston, Pearce, Butcher, Brunston, Carbott, Gibbs, Congreve, Forsyth, Turton, lies. MAPOURIKA DUE THIS EVENING. Originally timed to leave Nelson at 1 this morning for Wellington, the Mapourika did not, get away till 9.30 a.m. The vessel may accordingly be expected to arrive here about7.33 this evening. ARAWA LEFT CAPETOWN. The local agents for the Shaw-Savill Company are jn receipt of cabled intimation that the Arawa, which left London for Wellington on the sth March, sailed from Capetown in continuation of her voyage on the morning of Friday, the COth inst. THE AAIOKURA. On Tuesday the Government training ship Amokura is to leave Wellington on a training cruise on the east coast. She will be absent for about a month, and will proceed as far north as the Hauraki Gulf. THE KUMARA. The local agents for the Shaw-Savill Company advise that the cargo steamer Kumara hat been delayed a little in her loading programme, and as a consequence will not be here till Tuesday next. The vessel will airive from Napier, and after filling up and rebunkering at this port, should get away for London on the Ist April. THYRA DUE MONDAY. A telegram from Auckland advises that the Norwegian cargo steamer Thyra left there* thisJ morning for Wellinfiton. The vessel left Bunbury on the 28rd February with a shipment of jarrah for N6w Zealand. The Thyra is a steamer of 3406 tons gross register, and is in charge of Captain Neilson. INDRALEMA AND WHAKARUA. Advice has now been received thai the Tyser steamer -Indralema will be due here on Good Friday— some days earlier than previously advised. She was ■ timed to leave Sydney yesterday for Auckland. The Whakarua, of the same line, was also timed to leave Sydney yesterday for Auckland. She is due here on the oth April. MASHONA AT AUCKLAND. This morning, at 7 o'clock, the A. and A. cargo steamer Mashona arrived at Auckland after a somewhat slow passage of seven days from Sydney. The vessel brings a general cargo of American merchandise for New Zealand, and after discharge at Auckland, .will leave for Wellington. She should arrive lierc towards the end of next week. Before leaving Jor Lyttelton with remainder of London cargo the Corinthic is engaging in some loading work at this port. It is expected that she will leave for Lyttelton on Monday evening. In connection With the grounding, of ' the Nortl'ern Company's s.&. Aupori sear Opotiki, m Auckland exchange now states that the •.csfcl wro lelloated and towed into Auckland l£.bt Wednesday. The Aupori was unabb to &ieani to Auckland, as a oteam pipe broke when she grounded. It is not thought that there hab been any serious damage, although the vessel is leaking slightly. The coastal steamer Waihi \>\»e taken off I the Patent Slip this morning. She hab had , an extensive cleaning, -epamting, and over- j haul, and it is hoped to despatch her to Blenheim about the middle of next week. There was a thick growth of barnacles and marine organisms on the hull. The Union Company's collier Polierua left Greymouth at 1 a.m. to-day for Napier and Wellington. The Kaiapoi is to leave V/estpoi't io-:»cht for Wellington. A cablegram to the Maonland Steam Ship Company advises that the Lauderdale safied from Hob.vrt at midnight on Thursday for Dunedin, with a shipment of timber. The vessel should arrive on Wednesday morning, and after discharge in the south, will load for a trip up the East Coast for Auckland. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, 271h March. \ Arrived— Mashona (7 a.m.), from Sjdney. Sailed— Thyra (10 a.m.), for Wellington. To sail— Monowai (4 p.m.), jor southern ports. Passengers for Wellington — Miss Keene, Messis. Trevarthan, Prcbcott, Pale. _ „ . „ NELSON, 27th March. Sailed— Patecna (12.10 p.m.), for Wellington. NEW PLYMOUTH, 27th March. Sailed— Takapuna (noon), for Wellington. . . . . PATEA, 27th March. Arrived— Kinpaka (12.30 p.m.), from WellingFOXTON, 27th Maich. Sailrd—Qneen of the South (12.30 p.m.), for Wellington.

At Levin on the 23rd inst. there died an old pioneer, Mr. James Darragh, in his 76th year. Born at Liverpool, and educated at Manchester, the deceased gentleman, when quite a young man, sailed for Australia, arriving there about 3850. He spent some years on the Ballarat gold diggings, being amongst the first on the field when the licences were issued in September, 1851. Mr. Dai-ragh had expeiience of the riots, and the hostility between the miners and the Government which culminated in almost civil war at the siege of the Eureka Stockade, in December, 1854. Subsequently Mr. Darragh went to Sydney, but in 1859 he took ship for Dunedin, arriving there at a time when the site of the provincial city was mainly native bush and flax swamp. As one of 'the very early settlers* the deceased saw Dunedin grow around the pla<re to its present proportions. Mr. Darragh, who was a Forester of 58 years' standing, leaves a grown up family. "The question has concerned the [ minds of Judges on more than one occasion," remarked Mr. Justice Cooper, when Mr. P. W. Jackson asked for a motion of the Supreme Court to serve the copy of citation in the case of Hubbard v. Hubbard, on the respondent and co-respondent (Sackville), who are resident' in Leicestershire, England. Counsel explained that the wife, Eliza Hubbard, refused to come out and live with petitioner in Wellington. His Honour said that to make such an order would raise a question of jurisdiction. The court had no jurisdiction over either the respondent or the co-respondent, as there had been no offence of theirs within the Dominion. After some discussion as to the facts of the case, his Honour said that to his »nind it was clear that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter — there was nothing to show that the co-respondent had offended in New Zealand. The matter should be allowed to stand over, as it involved a very important constitutional question, which would probably have to be settled in the near- future. His Honour thought that the Supreme Court of New South Wales, under somewhat similar circumstances, refused to exercise jurisdiction. In the case Walker v. Walker, the wife's petition, the same question as to whether the court had any jurisdiction was again raised. The respondent was in Queensland. It was held that though the circumstances were hardly the same — here the respondent was a woman — the principle was identical. The matter was allowed to stand over. Mr. P. J. O'Regan represented petitioner. Special harvest thanksgiving services will be held at the Baptist Churoh, Vi-vian-street, to-morrow, when the Rev. J. J. North will preach in the morning on " Christ, tho First Fruits," and in the evening on "Unfinished Man."-

Mr. J. M. A'Court, whose appointment by the Wellington Crown Lands Board ceased on 21st March, is seeking re-election. Nominations cloee up to 5 p.m. on 22nd April at the Lands Office, Wellington. Blrtles, the long-distance cyclist, who is endeavouring to break the New Plymouth to Wellington record, passed through Wangamii at 10.45 a.m. to-day, and through Sanson at one o'clock, "going strong." He is due at Lamb-ton-(jnay this evening. Mr. George Frost, formerly Mayor of Melrose, and subsequently a member of the City Council, has decided to stand for election to the City, Council next month. A sitting of the Appeal Committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference is being held in Wellington to-day to consider the disqualifications recently imposed in connection with the Avondale Racing ' Club's meeting. Sir Geo. Clifford is in the chair. Delegates representing amateur sports bodies gathered in force last evening to consider the attitude of the City Council towards sport in relation to the playing grounds under the control of the municipality. The delegates hold the view that the societies and associations represented at the meeting had not received that measure of support from the council which made for the encouragement of amateur athleticism. The associated bodies, it was explained by the . chairman of the meeting, desired that permission should be given by the council to charge fgr admission to the grounds, on the maximum number of days on which there was authority to do so. The following resolution was adopted by the meeting : — "That the representatives of the various sports bodies present agree to use their best endeavours at the forthcoming election of councillors to sequre, as far as possible, the return of gentlemen who will have, in connection wfth the administration of the city reserves, a more sympathetic feeling towards the amateur sports bodies of the city of Wellington." At the Supreme Court to-day, sitting in chambers, Mr. Justice Cooper heard a motion lDy Mr. Ostlev, for plaintiffs, in the case Thomas Gerald, of Fitzgerald and others, v. Martin Kennedy and others, to vest in plaintiffs the lease of certain properties at Greymouth, claimed to be* trust properties, and held by defendants in trust for plaintiffs. The^ase had primarily been fixed for hearing at Hokitika on 15th Mai<ch, but one of the defendants, Daniel Sheedy, died the day before, the 14th. It was then- resolved that further action in the matter should be postponed till probate of deceased's will was taken out. The claim was resumed to-day, when Mr. Ostler moved as above, that the property should be disposed of. His Honour held that if he granted the motion, it would mean that the case was being tried jn the absence of one of the defendants. The case would be adjourned sine die. The question of costs, raised by Mr. Blair, would be reserved. Mr. Blair stated that Mr. Martin Kennedy offered to transfer the property to the Public Trustee, to be disposed of as he thought fit. Mr. Treadwell was present on behalf of the Public Trustee. At the Mount Cook Police Court today, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., Thomas William Clarke pleaded guilty to a chargs of being drunk virile in charge of a horse and cart in Riddiio'dstreet, and driving furiously to the imminent danger of school children. Accused was fined 40s, with the opLicn of 7 days* in gaol. Margaret Stringer, who had been drinking to excess, v.as fined 6s, wfth the option of 24 hours' imprisonment,. Henry Wallace, also guilty of drunkenness, was convicted and discharged on condition that he leases town to-day. A first offender, who had been otherwise penalised, was convicted and discharged. Sergt Lyons conducted a sale of lost propei ty at the police station to-Ua-y. The sergeant, with all the patter and wit of a piofessional - auctioneer, was successful in getting some extraordinarily good prices for valueless ai tides. He got 10s 9d for a rolled gold bangle, and 6s for a couple of nickei teapots that had evidently seen much active service in a restaurant. Old clothing was offered in abundance, and found plenty of speculative buyers. A wheelbarrow, several trunks, a few tools, and some bicycles, brought excellent prices. The tale (from the sergeant's point of view) was most satisfactory. Time-table alterations on the New Zealand railwajs are advertised in this issue.