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Evening Star, Issue 3676, 3 December 1874, Page 2

in mis instance nas taxied m its duty. | A coach has been started to compete with the railway between Napier and Havelock. Mr Redwood’s horses, Lnrline and Papapa, are announced for sale privately in Melbourne. It is now stated that Judge Harvey will not succeed Judge Wilson Gray until March or April next. The next Melbourne steamer due at the Pduff is the (’laud Hamilton, which was to leave Sandridge on the 5-h inst. The Canterbury Board of Education intend giving the head master of the Normal Schools of that Province a salary of L6OO a year, with allowances. It is stated by the ‘ New Zealand Herald’ that bis Honor "sir George Arncy will not leavo New Z 'aland before the end of March or the begin: ing 0 f April next. Since its opening, the Napier (Hawke’s Hay) railway has given a profit of L6O per week ; the receipts being L 96 per week, and the expenditure 1.36. The ‘ Herald ’ says a good many persons predicted the lino would not pay. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers ? to-day, before Mr T. '. Mansford, U.M., Messrs T. Taylor and Dr Drysdale (J. P. »), Joseph Rogers, for drunkenness, was tin d 5s or imprisonment ; John Wilson, for the a me offence, 10 i or twenty-four hours 1 o show what the San Francisco route is capable of d<-ing with first-class steamers upon it. it may be mentioned that the City of Melbourne on her last inward trip brought to Sydney replies to letters sent per Mikado —‘ e.. the course of post was brought within 100 days, which is as much as was ever achieved via Brindisi. A married woman of Napier has been sentenced by the Resident Magistrate there io pay a line of 40s, or suffer a fortnight’s imprisonment. for assaulting with a whip a girl of thirteen years of age—the daughter of an immigrant who lately arrived—who was in her service. The girl had been struck on the face as well as over the body, and one of her eyes was b ackem d. The final competition for choice of Colonial representatives by the Otago Volunteers will be commenced by the Portobello Rifles to-morrow morning. Judging by the shootinn made in the preliminary tiring, some excellent scores may be anticipated. Major Atkinson superintends the different competitions, a sufficient guarantee the regulations will be strictly carried out. At the adjourned sitting of the Port Chalmers Licensing Court, this morning, the following Commissioners were present Messrs T. A. Mansford (H.M.), Captain Thomson, Dr Drysdale, and Mr T. Taylor. The application of George Morrell for a license for the Railway Hotel was granted. The applicant explained that his absence on Tuesday was owing to illness. 1 ’ricketers will recollect Mr Saville, who played for Canterbury in the Interprovincial match in Dunedin in 18/1, A Home paper reports that recently in a match in Hertfordshire. whi'e playing with the Yorkshire eleven, Mr Savdlcmade a most extraordinary hit of 135 yards to the fall, repu ed to be the longest on record in the annals of this noble game. “The Great American Circus,” wo observe, has arrived in Auckland, for a tour in New Zealand. It is Messrs Bird, Blow, and King’s. Numerically,it is very st on-*, and it includes several members of the famous Chiavini Company and a number of Australian performers of excellent quality. The Californian Minstrels have been playing with great success in Nelson. Their last entertainment was given without blackened faces. The business done by tbe Telegraph Department during the quarter ended September 30 was :—Messages sent, 209,249, or an increase of 50,205 over the same quarter of last year. The revenue received was U3 032 18s 7d, being an increase of 1 2,198 8s 4d on the corresponding quarter, 1873. The value of General Government telegrams was L 3.051 16s I Id, exhibiting a d crease of LlO2 3s 6d on same quarter last year. The prisoner Henry Bedford, under remand for seven days pending the arrival of a constable from Victoria, was this afternoon brought before Mr Mansford, R.M., for the purpose of being remanded to Victoria. Senior Constable Cook, of Sandhurst, proved the warrant, and said that though be did not know the accused he believed him to be Bedford, after which his Worship directed that steps be taken for his due transmission to Victoria. The charge against tbe accused is that of forging a bat k cheque at Sandhurst for L 25. There was a good attendance at the Princess’s last evening, when “Camille” was played with tbe same cast as on the occasion of its first representation. “ Richelieu” will be produced to-night—Mrs Bates appearin'* as Julie de Morteraar, and Mr Bates as the Cardinal, We would call attention to the fact that Mrs Bates’s benefit, which was postponed from last week, takei place tomorrow evening, the piece selected being “ Frou-Frou,” and we consider it a very judicious selection, as the leading character is one eminently spited to this lady’s abilities. We trust there will bp a crowded house. Very little progress was made with the civil case—Anning v. Martin—arising out of the Comet action, at the Resident Magistrate’s Coiirt to-day. For the defence Mr Haggitt raised as non-suit points, amongst others, that no agency with Mr M'llroy had been proved, and if there bad bpsn an agency defendant had not ratified Mr M'ilroy’s action. After hearing Mr Barton, His Worship (Mr Bathgate) decided that there was a case to answer, and the def nee was commenced this afternoon. Nearly the whole of to-day’s sitting was taken up by legal arguments. The Melbourne ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ speaking of the existing mailhnes connecting the Colonies with England, says “ ’ijie prospects of the Californian mail service are brightening now that the Hall incubus has been shaken off, and English newspapers to the 22ud September, or of Hfty-one days' date, wsre landed in Melbourne yesterday, and might have been here two days b fore had they come straight on frein Sydmy. They were taken to .Sydney in forty seven days. Also, the mail which left Sydney on the Ist August arrived to the day in >■ ngland. It was brought across by the Eagle Company’s steamship Schiller, which made the remarkably tine passage from New York to Plymouth of nine days and four, hours. She iuid on board 163 sacks of Colonial mails.”

Hutchison v, Proctor and' Whittaker had not concluded when the District Court rose yesterday. Huni:;/ the sitting of the Rc-i----dent Magistrate’s Court to-day, hia Worship said that when the case was resumed he would hke to bear o<> nsel on the point—can a highway be obstructed by a lev.] crossing without the authority of Parlh. ment? He knew it could not be done in England, unless special provision was made by Act of Parliament, but did no; know whether it could be here, Mr Haggitt complained that the fees allowed to council in the District Court were too small, and said that, a though engaged in arguing the law points for two days, aerl the evidence no-v was not closed, all his Worship had power to grant was three guineas and amidst much laughter asked “ How are we to ive ?” Last session a petition was presented to Parliament by Haimoua Te Aoieran.e, a-.d 167 others, praying Parliament to pass a very stringent 1 w for the suppression of the drinking customs of the Mao'is I ■ was ; re seated by Mr ■ ox, to whom it ivas entrusted for the purpose by bis friend-, “who are living in sadness on account of this evil.” It sets out the evils of drinking very tersely and truly :—“ It impoverishes us ; our children are not born healthy because the parents drnk to excess, and the child sufTjrs; it muddles men’.s brains, and they iu ignorance sign important documents, and get into trouble thereby ; grog also turns the intelligent men of the Maori race into fools Again, grog is the cause of various diseases which a til ict us, \\ e are also liable to accidents, such as tumb'iug off burses aud fairing ititu the water; these things occur through drunkenness. It also ii the cause of men fighting with one another.” The' ‘ Arrow Observer ’ puts a very different complexion upon what the Q leenstown paper gives as a case of pract : cal joking. In its Police Court report appears the followiug : “Mary Bridge wai proceeded against by the police on a charge of vagraucy and having no lawful means of support. Evidence was given, showing accused had been found knorking a out with men, and that she had by some means made her way into the bedroom of owe Hans Gibson while under the influence of liquor, considerably to the annoyance of the owner. The magis trate sentenced accused lo fourteen days’ imprisonie.nt ” By all accounts, the woman is a knowing one, and of nice discrimination When sentenced, stio expressed an earnest desire to “take it out” at the Frank ton Hospital. Mr Stratford, however, failed to see the i elation between a gaol and the hospital, and Mary was relegated to the “ logs.” A n accident occurred this mo ning at the quarry, situated at Kilgour’s Point, near Sawyers Bay, by which a man named William Gibbs lost his life. It appears that the deceased and two other men, named Griffith Jones and William Hoskins, were eu,aged quarrying the face of the quarry. The decease I was at the time bold ng the drill, and Hoskins striking. Without anv warning, a mass -if stones came down, and Jones, who was working just below the other mem noticed toe fall and sung out, Hoskins being £ rtunate enough to get clear ; hut the mass of weight, about two tons, cime down all about the deceased, who was struck by some of the stones, and frightfully mutilated. Jones aud Hopkins got him out, carried him to a boat, aud brought him to Mussel Bay for me deal assistance. Dr Dryslale was immediately sent for. but life was extinct on his arrival. Deceased was a married man, about fortyeight ye <rs of age, and lived at Carey Bay. It is an oft-told tale that ladies make the best smugglers, but few would ever dream that the letter of the law could be carried to such extremes in _ Western Australia as to cause the detention of Lady Rowen and suite, for infringing the Customs Act by having tarried ashore tlnre anything stronger than cordials The King George’s Sound correspondent of the ‘ S. A. Advertiser ’ states that “the mail steamer Nubia came into harbor on the 16th ultimo, and it being a lovely day, the passengers availed themselves of the opportunity of taking a run on shore, Lady Bowen and suite among the number. On landing they met with a slight contretemps for “having provided themselves with a few edibles and the usual ‘sur nundings,’ they were accosted by that true type of the old country, the Customhouse officer, who, on being informed that there was something stronger than lemonade in their picnic baskets, immediately surrounded these quasi smugglers, aud accompanied them to the Custom-house, where, on an explanation being tendered, the party were allowed to go free. ” A new journal—new in more respects than *we has made its appearance in Sydney It is entitled the * Sunday Newsman.’ It is printed on Sunday morning, and it appears to be devoted to the cause to which Mr James Smith, of Melbourne, and Mr Frank Weston, of world wifle celebrity, have devoted themselves—to prove that Christianity is the invention of the enemy of mankind, and doing his work. In the introductory article, the editor writes Those who trade upon the tollies aud the ignorance and that feeling of awe, reverence, and wonder woven, as Tyndall says, iuto the texture of men, will find in us bitter opponents. We will not scoff at sacred things, but woe unto the hypocrites we can expose. Whenever religion sets itself in antagonism to progress and freedom we shall conscientiously strive to show that it does so, nd, unfortunately, religion, or rather the professors of it, continually are setting, aud ever have set it and themselves against the advancement of men and the glo ions progress to perfection which the human race will some day attain through science aud its teachings,” ' A e fancy we see the hand of the versatile “ Wizard Oil Prince ” in ether than the adveitiaing columns (in which be figures abundantly) of the ‘Sunday Newsman.’ There will be a meeting of the Imperial Building Society at ]Mr Brown’s office, Princes street, to-morrow evening, at seven o’clock. The letting of seats iu St. Matthew’s Church will be continued to-morrow evening. Upwards of 200 were taken up last night, and applications for some fifty more are already in. It will bo seen from our advertising columns that the Assessment Roll for the Caversham Road Board District is now ready- and will be open for the inspection of ratepayers at the house of the Clerk till the 10th iustanf. Mr Thomson, aerated waters and coulial manufacturer, has submitted samples of his manufactured goods to Dr Black, who reports the lemonade to be of good quality, and the cordials excellent aud free from injurious matter. A meeting of the provisional directors of the Albion Brewing and Malting Company was held yesterday afternoon at the offices of Messrs Webb aud Fulton. There was a fuff attendance, only three of the directors being absent. Mr H. J. Walter occupied the chair. The company’s brokers presented a list of shareholders, a a ascertained up to date, which showed the results attained to be higi.lv satisfactory. The proprietory, which already numbers nearly a hundred, is of the most varied and influential character, including a large number of hotel-keepers, publicans, and store-kespers. who may bo expected to bring business to the company. Ihe shares already actually taken up and guaranteed exceed two-thirds of the wholo number that are required, so that 1 the concern may bo said to be virtually established. It was resolved that the date of closing the share list should bo decided at the next meeting, and that it should be at an early elate. Mr Swan, the architect, who has made the. plans of alterations required in the premuep, was present, and was examined by the

directors, especially upon the point of the proa ).b expenditure involved in carrying out his “***4 that WOO woul.imiq.ly cover c. i ,r t f in fceratl< / ufi ’ antl that the CA ’ st of th « hew<r be^(^ L2 ’ ooo ‘ and off « red to inauiries ’£ q r lrcd ’ f , or the,e Some thr ioumt oon rccted Wltha view to facilitate soon as the nw»n?/ meUCement of °i >erat touß as soon as the piennses arc available.