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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6235, 28 April 1882, Page 2

The box-office for seats at the perform- d] ances of the Comedy and Burlesque Com- w pany has been opened at Mr Jacobs' O1 repository. "J Mr F. Logan, who now represents Mr Sainsbury in Napier, has passed his ex- ( amination in .New Zealand law, prior to jj £ being admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the colony. Mr Logan had previously passed his English, examinations. ' a ca A poll for the election of a representative N of the middle ward in the Borough of Council will be taken to-day. Two oandi- H dates are in the field— Messrs Margoliouth I, and H. Ellison. A large poll is not Lt expected. The personal friends of each th candidate will vote, but little outside interest seems to be taken in the election, be Labor seems to be scarce here just to now. Carpenters, bricklayers, and " V 7( saddlers are at a premium, and good men in other trades are eagerly snatched up* 18 it good wages. Now Mr Saunders,- con- <•?< tractor for the railway works at Maka- thi toku, offers, through our columns, 8s per nu Jay and eighteen months' work guaran- wi teed, to fifty good pick and shovel njen. be:

In the Eesident: Magistrate's Court r esterday morning, : ; before Mr H. Eyre ■ ' \ .•-": -V lenny, R.M.j the ."police stated that ;■;■ Ddward Malley, who had been remanded : or medical exanunation, was so violent in lis behavior .that they had not brought ' '".: lira before the Court. The case was . •emanded until Saturday, and the Court idpurnecl. --/: The usual meeting of the Napier Young : Men's Mutual Improvement Association tvas held last evening* in;. St. Paul!« schooi-ropni. There was a good atteii- % ~yclanpe o£ members. An essay . on th&- - '* Rise, and Progress of Commerce v";;b£j^ more than usual merit was read I,^1 ,^ ana evoked a great deal q£ discussion as well as commendations The remainder/of tlrt>: evening was occupied with recitations. There waS not a large, attendance '^ea^;' ter'day at the meeting called for the pUr^'pose of forming a coursing club, probably "*£ : on account of the postponement. Some -• ' twenty-five sportsmen, however, signified' their intention to become members, and several sent apologies for not being able to be present. A meeting will be called v — in a few days to select afTommittee, &0., when we hope to see a good attendance of H* the lovers of the leash. : . \ "'"'"" _'-\vfi „ A Havelock correspondent writes »-»•" At a meeting of the Licensing Committed ~: held in the Mechanics' Institute to-day ') Mr Thomas Gilpin was thaniraottslyH^ r elected their chairman. I believe th9:i^ opinion of the ratepayers on 1 the' increase '" ■"-"''■ Of licenses in this district '-mil sp6n ! .})i7 taken, but from what I can gather from 1 ; the people the whole affair is, considered:;,. ' a waste of money and a piece pfVaßsurcl^ : legislation. . From what Tinof;lof'Ms* :i committee, there is not the least fear* ox I *. *--'- their increasing public-rhouses without {&■* ■'■. is absolutely necessary for the: public^ "'* convenience, but I suppose the form td^ carry v out the Act must be gone through.! /J ■:; : : The annual balance-sheet of the Napiei4i, Fire Brigade, prepared for presen^tibii^{.< to the Borough Council, shlows ;rec|ipt|^^ - (being the amount of subsidy from>the^ ; P : Corporation and insurance. pffices),-|£2^^;::;-i The expenditure includes £19,15s^d^^^P; < amount of overdraft (with interesi^wifc!^ \ '^ which the year was commenced, £98ci5|^t .••' for salaries, £42 9s 6d for clothin^|£s£fi V for expenses of delegates to TimaifupSttd^i £44 9s 5d sundry other payments/leaving^; a balance in the bank of :£29los7d. ; brigade held.a practice in Hastings-stfeetSt: - last evening with the hose-reel anti manuaL , ; , engine. There was a good- muster, ; "22^i members out of a total of 30 being^pre^f-s sent.' The high pressure s water %brked) v ' admirably, but it - was found* that -tlir^e^ s lengths of the hoge of the manual' wewi ! " quite useless, while the other twd.lengltfi|;7-»^>i Jiad five, clips on each, thus iende^ingtlie^ ; engine .ineffective. The matter* 'shOT&|/^ receive:immediate attention, as.in'icaserbf^;,a; fire occurring the manual would" be sOf)^rio service. :. ; - ;-.-,? A, ".V-S Yesterday we reprinted from , the. Neio "-^ "•: Zealand Herald a paragraph stating that r *£ .; Sir Julius Yogel had dramatised- '••Lady i; Audley's Secret." The Mw; ZeaUmfipk: Times remarks that Sir Jidms VogdH^^ wrote the dramatised version ' f of "Jjaij^ . Audley's Secret," at Dunedm^ W,lßjs3j^: when he was editor of the [Otdgb X)aiiyf,i Times, arid, therefore, long beforo""'."he^/-v became famous. in, the political, arena.^ljp^ . was immediately produced upon the stage y ;;, ; by Messrs Holt and Wolfe, and Ead an • : . exceptionally- long run. The^play^was, » •'.•':; most pronounced success, add that/tMi c^j was, not merely a local opinion, is voubhed^t; for. by the fact that it met withi egnjfl^j favor in Australia. We may mention V that "Lady Audley's Secret" was.sHC-f^' ceededby "Aurora Floyd," dramatised;:; by Mr E. T. Gillon, of Wellington; whicK v f had a run of 14 nights to splendid houses,-: This drama was put on the Melbourne ,3 r stage by Mr and Mrs Holt, when it met v with another most flattering feceptioiU^ Mr Gillon subsequently sold the copyright to Mrs Eobert Heir, who rievfer . played any other, version. Wellington';* was among the places at which she Iprbv . duced it. Shortly after his first success, - Mr Gillon 'dramatised " The 1 Captain of T "the ' Vulture," .which was . also , well received and favorably reviewed.. .About : \. the same time Mr JTarjeon produced:^ 1 , ■burlesque upon " Faust," which . was y pronounced to be exceedingly clever. itf - is noteworthy that all the three gentle-.-men whose names we have mentioned were at that time on the literary staff of ; the Otago Daily limes. In the District Court yesterday morn- ; ing, before his Honor Judge Kenny, '•'-. Murdoch M'Kenzie was called upon^to .... show cause why he should not be im-' prisoned for having disobeyed /an ex pqrtp . injunction ..issued out .of the District' k " Court on behalf of Hokomata and others, ..j. !to restrain him from cutting and removing Jcertain timber from the land of the. plaintiffs at Te Aute. Mr Lascelles, who ap-g^-peared for the defendant, contended that the whole proceeding was informal, no action having been commenced ./previous.^ t6 the' application for the/injunction having been made;. that the affidavits w ; ere improper in title; and that there was no specified allegation of title. -; He further argued that there had "been no •"' i disobedience of the injunction, and pro- % duced an afiidavit of Mr M'Kenzie stating ■ that, immediately after the receipt of the writ of injunction, on the 18th of this . month, --he" had issued orders, both personally and by his servant forbidding any further'cutting and removing of, timber; and alleging that he was not now directly or indirectly concerned in the land in question. Mr M'Lean, who appeared for the plaintiff, in reply stated that, as he had not had an opportunity of perusing Mr M'Kenzie's affidavit before Mr Lascelles- produced it in Court, he was not prepared with an answer to it. He would prefer to have the case adjourned to en- " ible him to procure rebutting affidavits. Eis Honor adjourned the case until the 3th of May, pn the understanding that, in ;he meantime, an action would be comuenced in the Supreme Court which. ,-? ivouldt probably render further proceed^! iigs^in the District Court unnecessary.- { '.- —lHaka Kapo, an adjudged bankrupt, who; }\ w&s summoned to undergo an examination : '' t is to his means of payment, did not ap- ; ; pear, and his Honor, with the concur- ■•• :ence of Mr Lascelles, adjourned the :ase sine die. The Court then adjourned, v A woman who was charged at the Dunedin Police Court, last week, with Irunkenness, had the astounding number if 112 previous convictions on record , gainst her. . ' In an Irish breach of promise case tried > t Dublin, the first love letter read by the. . ounsel, for the plaintiff commenced in : liis alarming style : — " If anyone reads : b.is except Miss Helen M'Nulty, I hold im accountable before God and Justice." The art circles of Auckland are disuieted by rumours of the mysterious isappearance of the chef d'auvre of a r ell-known artist, together with an figinal painting by one of his pupils, oth intended for the Christchurch Ex- >« ibition. The matter has been placed in le hands o£ the detectives, and it is to a hoped that the kleptomaniac may yet a discovered before it is too late. A recent arrival from Ireland thus retes his experience to the Taieri Advotie:—"l lived for about 15 years in " ew Zealand, and never got into trouble : any kind; but I took a fancy to go ome. I hadn't been there long before out of curiosity, attended a couple of md League meetings. I was arrested, rown into gaol, and kept there for three eeks. When I got out I thought the )st thing I could do was to come back New Zealand. Here I am, and I on't go Home again in a hurry. The papers for the last census (April ••- : 181) are not yet all issued. -The last azette contains : one, which informs i lt <j at the unmarried the colon v imber 185,941; husbands, 73 2GI--dowers, 4964. Unmarried females numr 140,184 i wires, 72,804 j widows,

7296. The proportions to every 100 living are, among males, 70*39 unmarried ; 27*73 husbands ;• I*BB widowers. Among females, 63 64 ' unmarried ; 33 05 wives; 341 widows. Six wives are classed as under 15 years, or of unspecified age. A gentleman wko recently travelled by rail through Canterbury overheard a settler who got in at Ashburton saying to & felldw p&ssengfer that he Had this Season obtained six thousand bushels of jirime oats off one hundred acres of Ian 1 d ; phat is to say, an average over the whole 100 acres of . 60 "bushels to the acre. These oats will realise about £1000, and thus the farmer will have obtained £10 an acre for his crops. If results like this .were general, farming would be a splendid business. The indignation which is said to be felt by some of the prisoners at Kilmainham on account of the "begging appeals" which are being made to raise funds to supply them with food, while such, largo sums are being received by the treasurer o£ the Land League, is not unnatural. It is well known that several months ago the f und.contributed mainly from America amounted to not less than £70,000; Since that time the oontributiorishave continued to flow aa freely, as ever, and the prisoners may well conceive that they have a right to ask what is done with it. If a balance-sheet were ever published, which is Hot likely, it would pfobabiy be aboiit as curious a financial document as was ever issued. A young man was charged last week at the Resident Magistrate's Court at Christchurch with having stolen a saddle, and, as the evidence showed, he really had stolen it. He was deaf, and for some reason chose to be mute. On that account he was allowed to seat himself amongst the lawyersi and, being furnished with writing materials, his trial was conducted by correspondence. At the finish he, like Mr Wegg, dropped into poetry, and this was his effort : — Tliis is a sad case, I'm hot very old ; I began my career, When that saddle I stolea ! There were four Magistrates on the bench, but, when the above was passed round, the smile was perfectly unanimous. A report of the proceedings in the recent election petition at Wanganui has been published in pamphlet form. In a preface to the report occurs the following passage — " It was not a little startling to .find Mr Justice Gillies say ins: he would not be bound by English precedents, as from his experience he knew that what would be intimidation in England would not hare the slightest effect upon electors in the colony. This substitution of an 'impression' for the law was well sustained throughout the trial. We fear it may be held that when the Court is the jury the public may not be any "more convinced of its judgment and fairness than of the fairness and judgment of ' twelve men in a box.' . Nor can Mr Justice Gillies' electioneering experiences have been very fortunate, if we may judge by the sentiment he approvingly expressed in Court — ' Anderson merely pointed out to him on which side it was his interest to vote, and they knew very well that a man's interest was the 'side he generally voted on.' The interest here was the intimation that if the elector voted for one candidate he would have ten enemies, but if he voted for the other he would only have one enemy ! "