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Evening Star, Issue 6259, 7 April 1883, Page 2

With this issue we publish a supplement containing our mail budget and a variety of matter. The New Zealand Shipping Company are erecting an office next to the Union Comgany, close to the railway station, at Port halmers. Mr James Scott has been re-appointed head-master of the Timaru public school. There were twenty-two applications for the post. Mr Alfred Crooke, B.A. and LL.M. of Cambridge, was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Williams. The only case heard at yesterday’s sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court after we went to press was that of William Mellor v. George Lozeley, in which plaintiff claimed LIOO as money lent. Judgment was given for plaintiff. William John Grant, aged sixteen years, wandered from his home at Wallacetown on March 23, and on the evening of the 3rd inst. his body was found in a creek about a mile from his parents’ house. It is supposed that he fell into the creek during an epileptic fit, to which ho was subject.

The illicit distillation cases were disposed of yesterday at Palmerston North. Joseph and Richard Peck were each fined LIOO, or six months’ imprisonment; Charles and George Peck were discharged, the evidence of Barnes being uncorroborated ; the six informations against Flyger were dismissed, and those against Malcolm withdrawn. The ‘ Churchman ’ states that the Rev. W. P. Knowles has been appointed to the temporary charge of Avonside, near Christchurch; that the Rev. Mr Stanley will shortly be placed in charge of Warrington and Seacliff j and that steps are being taken for the removal and re-erection of the old church of St, Peter’s, Caversham. Tho Trades and Labor Council held a meeting last night, when the resignation of the secretaryship by Mr C. Wakefield was accepted, and a vote of thanks was accorded to him for past services. It is intended, prior to the meeting of Parliament, to hold a series of meetings under tho auspices of the Council, in order to ascertain the opinions of the working classes on the leading questions of the day. At a recent card party at the house of a popular London dentist the counters used were false teeth. At first the ladies present seemed very sensitive about touching the little white heaps, but as the evening wore on the more false teeth each fair dame possessed the happier she seemed. When the counters were totalled up at the end of tho game there were only three more than had been originally given out. The store and residence of Mr W. H. Puddicombe, at Mount Somers, wore destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening. The premises and stock were insured for LI,OOO, but Mr Puddicombe estimates his loss at L6OO above that amount.—A four-roomed house burned down at Timaru yesterday was insured in the Victorian office for LIOO. —Connor’s wool-scouring establishment at Gore, which was burned down yesterday, was insured in the Standard office for LI 50. A concert and dance in aid of the funds of the Grange Cricket Club was held at the North Dunedin Drill-shed last night, the attendance being large. The entertainment, with one or two exceptions, was above the average given in that hall for similar purposes. The comic songs of Mr Murray and a hornpipe by Mr Bills were loudly applauded, as also was the ballad “ Killarney,” given by a young lady, who, we understand made her first appearance last night before a Dunedin audience. This item was perhaps the most appreciated piece of tho evening. Miss Turnbull, Messrs Springer, Robertson, and Woollett also contributed some acceptable pieces. During the interval the president of tho club (Mr R. L. Reynolds) presented bats to Messrs Espie, Murray, Greve, and Turnbull; and to Mr Coxhead a handsome locket in recognition of his services as secretary to tho club for the past two years. Mr Dunglinson efficiently accompanied on the piano. Mr Mundella (says ‘The World ’) is a rare instance of a working man obtaining a prominent position in the Government of his country. The father of the Vice-President of the Council was an Italian, his mother was English. He began life as a street shoeblack, graduated as an apprentice in a Nottingham factory, and from being an ingenious foreman was accepted as partner. Mr Mundella is of course self-educated, and it is in the highest degree honorable to him that he has made so much of his opportunities. In private life he is a good brother, and only recently he made a journey to Italy to discover his grandmother—a search in which he was successful. The Vice-Presi-dent is the earnest advocate of the education of the people. When he was a boy he was expelled from his school for carrying a flag in a children’s procession on the occasion of the passing of the first Reform Bill. In Banco yesterday His Honor decided against the contention of defendants’ counsel in the case of Davis v. the Public Trustee and others. Lewis v. the ‘ Southland Times ’ was an application for a new trial. The three jurors who were said to have differed from the verdict, which was for the defendants, had filed affidavits showing that they disagreed with the verdict, but defendants’ counsel urged that these affidavits could not be read, as the jurors had failed to question the correctness of the verdict when it was announced by the foreman. His Honor upheld this contention, endorsing the dictum of Mr Justice Mills in the case of Raphael v. the Bank of England, that it did not lay in the mouth of a juror, who was present and did not object to the verdict, to say afterwards that he dissented from it. Manifestly it would be an exceedingly dangerous thing to allow jurors, after a verdict had been delivered—individual members of a jury, at any rate —to say that the verdict which had been given through the mouth of their foreman in their presence in open Court was not their verdict. It seemed to him that the general principle was an important one, and that the rule was one which ought to bo rigidly adhered to, even though it might be possible that in certain cases injustice was worked. He did not say that any injustice was worked in this case; he thought that the objection was merely little ipore than a technical one. The jury, however, was not ah infallible tribunal—no tribunal is infallible—but it was tb? tribunal which tho country provided for cases of the kind, and parties must abide by the decision, even though injustice might in certain cases result. Rule discharged with costs.

The diorama of the Rusao-Turkish war will be presented at the Queen’s Theatre for the first time to-night. A largo number of presents are to bo given away. The return bowling match Dunedin Club v. Feruhill Club was played yesterday on the former’s ground, and resulted in a victory for them. At No. 1 rink the competition was unusually keen. The ‘Tuapeka Times’ learns that Mr M'Kenzie, intends to visit the district before the meeting of Parliament, m order to ascertain if dummyism is known either in the Tuapeka or Waitahuna West settlements. The proposed draughts club is meeting with much favor. At a meeting last night it was stated that there would be no dimculty in forming it, and Messrs Garden, Hay, M ‘Kenzie, and Wilson wore deputed to make preliminary arrangements. Pioneer Lodge, No. 25, P.A.F.S. meet tonight. Return railway tickets at single fares to Invercargill races Mr F, Battley addresses Sunday school teachers on Monday evening, at 7.30. The Committee of the Otago Benevolent Institution have received, per Mr W. M, Bolt, the sum of L 4 3s, being net proceeds of attendance at the meeting held by Mr Milner Stephen last Saturday, 31st March. The use of the Lyceum Hall was given gratuitously by the trustees. A largely-attended meeting was held in the Linden Schoolhouse on Thursday night, for the purpose of forming a branch lodge of the United AncientOrderof Druids, the chair being occupied by Mr Moss. P.D.P. Dr R. Stirling was elected medical officer, and Messrs Bagley and Sons chemists. The Lodge was named the Linden, and it was proposed to formally open It in a fortnight hence. Over thhty persons enrolled themselves as members.