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Evening Star, Issue 6914, 29 May 1885, Page 2

The Crown lands sale held yesterday realised LI,OOO.

There have been no petitions for adjudication as bankrupts filed during the week. The Collcetors'of Customs are appointed superintendents of quarantine at their several ports. No clue to the perpetrators of the jewellery robbery at Wellington has yet been found. The value of the goods stolen is now said to bo LBOO.

Boulton, a prisoner in the Mount Kden Gaol, who attempted suicide by opening an artery, has made another attempt on his lite by endeavoring to strangle himself. He has been removed to the Lunatic Asylum. Mr Harper received a vote of confidence from his constituents at Papanui last night. He avowed hiinsjlf a supporter of the Ministry as long as they adhered to the policy they had enunciated when taking office.

Mr Justice Williams is expected to return to Dimecliii on Tuesday. Tlic next sitting in Bankruptcy will l>e held on the Bth prox. Colonel Trimble has ;i gloomy iiloa of the future of the Colony, but his opinion is not worth much, lie told his constituents that the distress of to-day was nothing to what it would lie live yeers lif.ni'e.

Several changes pr-vious to the session of IVrlliiment ait: ahout to be made in the hu.'al te!.. g rap!i olliee. Mr B. 11-. Keys, who h».s been stationed in Dmledin for some years, K<ies to Blenheim; Messrs W. 11. 'Dominetlaiul \V. Crow join the Wellington stall', and Mr M'Nicol goes to Christchurch.

The Governor lias informed tin: Board of Governors of Canterbury College that, under present arrangements, he cannot interfere in regard to the dillieulty which lias arisen between the. Board and the University Senate about the. introduction of certain plays of Tercnee into the pass Latin course. We understand that it is intended to call out the Volunteers by an alarm one night i /■!..;.. i , ...:n !,,,,.«

out tno \ oiunteers ny an .tun 111 imc m, S hu early next week. Country corps will have to muster at appointed places and have their parade strength taken. At the appointed time forgiving the alarm the inland towns will be communicated with by telegraph. The deacons of the Congregational Church, Port Chalmers, invited the members and adherents of the Church to a social tea meeting last night. There was a numerous attendance, and after tea the chair was taken by the pastor (the Rev. W. Al. Grant), and several addresses were delivered. The choir furnished some good music, and a very pleasant evening was spent. The Home correspondent of the Auckland 'Herald' states .that shortly after the sailing of the Kaikoura from London, in .March, it was discovered that a tradesman of Cambridge had eloped with a girl in her teens, having deserted his wife and eleven children. He was recognised on board by a sailor and a passenger, who communicated with his wife's friends. The gentleman had feathered his nest before leaving. The guilty pair are believed to have landed at Auckland. The Wellington ' Tress' says it is stated, apparently on trustworthy information, that the wife of a small settler near Timaru, who has recently been in very embarrassed circumstances, has eome into a fortune of three millions sterling. When the news came, so the story goes, the husband had left his family and was trying to pick up a living among some of the islands, and the children were out in service or employed in other humble pursuits. Very pretty ; but the three millions are too much for our swallow. There arc now on this side of the grave only a few members of the heads of families who came out in the Philip Laiirg in 1848 under the Fi'ee Church of Scotland's colonisation scheme. Another gap has occurred in the already thinned ranks of these pioneer settlers by the death of Mr Andrew Dal/iel yesterday, at the ripe age of eighty years. For some time after his arrival in Otago he was employed at Mr .John Jones's settlement at Waikouaiti, and from Waikouaiti lie removed to the Halfway Bush, wiVre he has resided for over twenty-live years, iio leaves three daughters and a son, who all reside in this provincial district. The Victorian Government have paid to Major-general Scratchley their proportion of the sum to be contributed by the Australasian colonies during the current year towards the expenses incurred in connection with the annexation of part of New Guinea by Great Britain. The total sum to be so contributed was l/!.">, 000, and the respective amounts to be provided by the colonies were to he calculated on the basis of population, excepting in the ease of Fiji, whose proportion was to depend upon her revenue. Victorias proportion is L-i,<>!W 8s B<l, which is a larger amount than that which any other colony will pay.

The first instance of public cremation jti England is reported. On March '27 th<: crematory which was erected at St. John's, Woking, Surrey, was made use of for the first time for a human cremation, and the body reduced to ashes was that of Mrs Pickersgill, of Clareiieegate, London. It had been previously subjected to an autopsy. The deceased lady was well known in literary and scientific circles, and expressly stipulated in her will that her body should be cremated after death. With a view to this, she had previously become a subscriber to the Cremation Society of England, in whose crematory the last rite was performed. The "travelling chaplain to the Primate of New Zealand " has been lecuring in the Old Country, and urging the claims of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel m Foreign Parts. One paper, mentioning his interesting lecture on his own experiences, says that "he mentioned that much of his time was spent in the saddle, riding from station to station to hold services, and on such occasions lie has often had to sleep under the branches of trees. Food was difficult to obtain in the wilds of New Zealand, and he frequently had been compelled to fast for twelve hours or so, and on one occasion was witrwwi anything to eat for twenty-four hours '■'' The Wellington Press is responsible for the statement that among the petitions that will be presented to the House this* cession will be one from Mr James Caldweji asking for a fresh inquiry into his matiugeajsenfc of the Dunedin Gaol", on the grounrl tlm« the former Commission wrongfully rejected important independent evidence on behalf of Mx Caldwell, and wrongfully received suborned and perjured evidence on behalf of and prepared by Captain II nine. The petition will request that the Inspector of Prisonsshould be immediately suspended pending this inquiry, and that, on tlm allegations of Mr Caldwell being proved to the satisfaction of the Government or a Commission appointed by them, that Captain Hume should be degraded from his otlice, and be dismissed from the public service. The object is stated to be to rehabilitate Mr Caldwell's character, so as to revive and atlirm his claim to a pension. A singularly sudden death took place recently "during a football match in Moore Park at Sydney. At the inquest it transpired that John William Cahill, aged seventeen years, living with his widowed mother at Surrey Hills, was engaged in a scratch match played by the members of the Victoria House Club and their friends. He had not been playing more than three minutes, when, in running in the direction of the hall, he was observed to fall forward on his face. As he fell, one of the other players fell over him. The other player jumped up immediately and ran on, but Cahill did not rise. Thinking there was something wrong, a number of young men ran to "his assistance. When they "picked him up lie was breathing heavily, and while bring removed to Fulness's Hotel he expired. On the medical evidence, the jury returned a verdict of " Death from sanguineous apoplexy, the result of congestion of the brain and its membranes.''

Sir Arthur Klibank Uavelock, N'.C.M.G., the fGovernor-designate of Fiji, entered the Army (32nd Light Infantry) in January, 1862 ; captain, 1873 ; private secivtary and aide-de-camp to the otticnv administering the Government of Mauritius fivmi July, 1873, to January, 187-1; Acting (thief Civil Commissioner 'of Seychelles IsliMids from April, 1874, until February, IS7-"»; member of the Kxeeutive and Legislative Councils of Fiji in Mav, IS7."i ; appointed (provisionally) Colonial Secretary and Koociver-Ceneral of Fiji, September 1, 187">; President of Nevis, 1877 ; administered the Governnient of St. Lucia from .Tunc, IS7B, to August 1879 ; Chief Civil Commissioner of the'Scychelles, October, 187!); Governor of West African Settlements, 1881. In April, 1881, he was sent on a mission to Paris in conjunction with .Mr Henning, of the Colonial Olhce, to assist in negotiating the settlement of certain questions at issue between Great Britain and France in regard to territory on the west coast of Africa. Appointed H.M. Consul for 'Liberia, Decembor, 1881 ; sent on a mission to Liberia to negotiate the settlement of a coterminous boundary between Sierra Leone and Liberia, and to inquire into the claims of British subjects against the Liberal Government, March, 1882. Afterwards appointed (Governor of Sierra Leone. In 1884 he was raised to the dignity of a K.C.M.G., and the latest edition of ' Who's Who' for 1885 gives him as lGovernor of Trinidad, W.I. He is forty-one years of age.

The ' liruce Herald ' states that the l!cv. T. L. Stanley, being about to proceed to England, has resigned the incumbency of St. John's, Milton. The Appeal Court lias quashed one conviction and su'ttained the other against W. Waring Taylor, Who will be sentenced at the inixt criminal sittiiig at Wellihgtoin

The Wailahtlna Gully Snltool Committee have recommended to the Education Board MrCiniSs, of Lovell's Flat, as head teacher, and Miss Jane Robertson, of the Lawrence. High School, as mistress-, I'r Hector and MrMaekay, of the Geological Department, paid a Hying visit to the Palmerston district this week for. the purpose of ascertaining what prospect there is of a payable coallield being developed there.

During the hearing of a ease in the Wellington Police Court the plaintiff stated that he was fifty-eight years of age. Mr Wardell, looking at the copy of the marriage certificate, dated August 31, 1874, remarked " You have grown move than twenty years older during the last ten years, for 1 see you are set down here at thirty-five." The defendant at once replied that he did it so that his wife should not know how old he actually was. "But," he added, "my wife's age was put down at twenty-five, and she was far older than that. We cheated one another."

In a letter to the 'Age,' the Actuary to the Melbourne Savings' Bank says :-- ' Hardly a day passes without the papers reporting the loss of money through some foolishness or other, and it is a wonder that when so many instances come to light people continue to carry more money in their pockets than is absolutely required for current expenses. Ft is not long ago that a woman brought to this olliee a bag, say lOin by tiin, stuffed full of bnnk notes. On inquiry, it was found that she had been accumulating them for years. The previous night, however, a lire occurred next door, and so frightened the foolish woman'that the idea struck her that the savings bank would possibly relieve her of a similar scare in the future." A curious ease of alleged illegal arrest was tried at the District Court, Auckland, recently, which was a further illustration of the peculiar ways of the " heathen Chinee." It seemed that plaintiff', a man named Hogan, went into the restaurant kept by one Quoi, and ordered a supper of pork sausages and mashed potatoes. On cutting the sausages and tasting them he said they were re-heated and would not have them. The Chinaman said they were not re-heated, they were quite fresh, and offered to bet a pound on it. The bet was accepted, the two pound-notes put down on the table, and a man named Envin was chosen by both to decide the bet. Erwin gave his decision against the Chinaman, and Morgan picked up the money. Quoi said : " You shall not leave my house with the money ; I will have my money back." Morgan' stood up to go out; the Chinaman collared him, and there was a scuilfe. Quoi then cried " Police," ami the defendant, a detective named Hughes, took the plaintiff to the station, where he was told that if he did not give up the pound-note he. would he locked up. He gave the money up, but was kept in the f/iiard-room half an-hour before he was allowed to go. No charge was madeagainßt him. Me claimed LSO damages because of the illegal arrest an.l because of the injury to his character by the publicity of the arrest, being taken through the crowded streets by a detective. After hearing the evidence, plaintiff was nonsuited with costs (L.T 3s). Mr P. Fulton lectures in the Moniington Wexleyan Church on Monday evening. .Mr Hiinna's gymnastic class will give an entertainment in aid of the Benevolent Institution on the 10th July. We remind theatre-goers that the Pollard opera troupe reopen the Princess's Theatre this evening with "The Little Duke." Loft and ('o., Arcade, are holding a great clearing- sale, every article in stock being greatly reduced. See advertisement.—| Aiht.] A vocal and instrumental concert in aid of the building fund of the Church of England at Green Island will he held in the Green Island public .school this evening. Mr Maeiiudrcw, M.H.H., will address the Port Chalmers electors in the Forester*' Hall this evening at 7..'(0. lie will a!™ speak in Jackman's JfnU, Rothesay, on Thursday evening )ie\t.

The promenade concert in aid of the funds of the Naval Artillery Hand, to be held, in the Garrison Mall to-morrow evening, should attract; a large audience, as an excellent programme lias been arranged. The weekly meeting of the Trinity Church Literary Debating Society was held last evening. During the evening songs were given by Miss Landels, Mr Crawford, and Mr Hunter, and -pianoforte duetts by the Misses Begg, Duke, anil I'almcr. The contributions to the journal were very satisfactory. The Mosgiel Woollen Company have disposed of a very large lot of their ladies' dress tweed to Brown, Ewiug, and Co., who are thus enabled to offer them at less than the mill list price. The quality of these goods is now so thoroughly well known that any reduction in price Is quite exceptional. l*urchaser.s will therefore do well to inspect the goods now offered by Brown, 'JKwing, n*id Co.—| Anvr. | Robin Hood sold 13,280 shares on the Birthday in six weeks and 1,850 (special) in three days. There were in the first 748 prizes instead of 220, 518 being extra prizes of ]',s each. On the Birthday the first prize (T/J00) went to a tentmaker at Blenheim, second (L 270) to a laborer at Christchurch, third (L 135) to a Mtorema.n nt Dipton. On the Grand National tirst prize. (1/270) went to a farmer at Selwyn, second (hl!C>) to a clerk at Christchurch, Wind (LG7) to a gardener at Borirua Ferry, Wellington. On the special, first (L 208) went to a cordial manufacturer at Sotithbridge, second (TJ24) to a publican at Christchurch, third (LB3) to bricklayer at Addington. All moneys net.— [A.»vt.|