North Otago Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1885.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3978, 1 June 1885, Page 2

North Otago Times. THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1885.

An iuf.)rmation haa bean laid againut a paßsenger by one of the trains for Bmokiny. ia a railway carriage. The caae will hi heard nexb week. Tho telegraphic wire 3at Waitaki South were broken by the fire at the Bridge hoto yehteidny morning, and in consequence tha "late messages" of papers soutti tf that place did not come through. One of the witnesses called at the licensing meeting yeßterd*y to testify to the inct <nvtn»ence experiaoced by the residents at tb«.' north end of the fr.wn through tha lirei lße °f fcne Town Belt hotel being t»kea awa» '• said when he felt inclined for a drop o' beei" of » ni g nfc ne nad to tlike i 6 nome ia a bottit in h s j^oskct. Besides the difficulty of trying to appear temparate with a bottle •tu^inv, out of one's pocket, there is aUo a spiex* of danger in tho operation— the bottle may break, or the contents be abaorbed und^r a sudden impulse o' the carrier, and the otium cum dignatatc of the fireside robbad of one of its attractions. Whether the committee had this hardship in their miuds' eye or not, or whether they were influenced by other and more weighty considerations, it might be difficult to Bay, but the licenie waa granted.

The licensing oommittee yesterday decided that the holders of pnblican'd licenßeß could put ihir street lamps out when the hotels closed for the night, at the game time expre«siog the opinion that the duty of lighting the town devolved on the town council, and not on the publicans. At tbe Land Board meeting yesterday, the following applications to capitalise were approved—/ Mulven-j, section 2. block 10, Marawhenua ; J Shine, section 7. blook ', Kurow. VV. Shaw app! ; ed to be allowed to t»ki up Beventy-five aoas of seotion 5, black 5, Kurow, ti increase hi* dif erred -payment area to 3£.) scces. — Declined. At a meeting of St Luke's bazaar entertainment committee, held on the S;h instant it was deo ; ded to give the third of the series of entertainments on Frila3', *h.B 26th instant, in the Public Hill. Tha eoteifcaiument will cooaist of miscellaneous itjms and an operotta entitled " Tho Ros» of •^avny." The net result tf tho last entertainment waa Ll2 11s 3\. A football match will take place on th« Waitaki high school ground on Saturday, 13th instant, between theTimaru ami Waitaki high -ch'iolß. The following will play for Waitaki : Full back— R. Drive- ; threequart sr hacks— Ml. Driver, Taylor, Wi!liama; hal -backs — Flemioe:, Gilchrlst ; forwards— Wilson, Gifford, Contrail, Stevenson, Sutherland, Glowed, Borrie, Menloro, and Little ; emergency — Jones. The police luve laid an information against a lad well known in the town for asing indecent language and for striking another lad. It is said the lad was associated with those who wero c >nnected with the ahip Dunedin episode. The other night about 50 larrikins asiembled near the Bhow ground in. wharf street to organise Bteps for the infiction of punlt-hmeufc upon someone or other, but they vety wisely latipfiad themselves with " organiaing " and left t.ie "steps" alone. Information waa given to the Dolice yesterday, that a boy named John Fergusßon, 12 years of age, had left hs home on the Bth instant, and had not returned. Ho is reported to hare been seen ar Richm -nd'a or Being, going in a northerly dirootion, The boy ia tall and slendor, has v fair freckled complexion, fair hair, blue eyes, ■md is wearing mole trou-ers, the kuees doid^ patched with diff<tren<s coloiecl mole Ihe lad's mother is anxious about him, and any information »b to his whereabouts ehou'd be aeut to the police. It is now and again asserted that tho police do nob give proprtr attention to the complaints made to hem wnile on duty in the streets. There may in some instan co be good reasons for this, and in others vary satisfactory excu»es may t>e advanced on behalf of the pohce. All thi*, however, could be obviated if those who havo complaints to make, or wrongs to right, were to g i to thy police office and Btate their grievances thore, if time will permit of their doing bo. It is only fair t ■> the head of the police force that thin should bo done, so that a remedy may be applied where a wrong exists. We menton ibis because we think it would result more satisfactorily to tho^e who require the services of the po.ioe. A fire, by which tho Waitaki Btidgg hotel and a stable a< j lining wei c burnt down, took place yesterday tn rning. Mr Juha-*ton, tho licenaef* of tho ho ci, says he retired to bed at 10 30. He supposes that a fire had been lef g in tho stove m the kitchen, but he did n t look to see if such was the case. Everything appeared to be safe when he went to bod . In tbe house at the time there were hia w,f*. the servant girl, and a mxa, Howns awakened by the servant during the night raising the alarm of fire. Cn examination he found the whole of the Bouth Bide of the h >use in flame*. The floab.'e win al*o in liunes. The man was throwing witeroa trin store when ho got up, to prevent the fUme^ spreading to ic. Af'erwards they all aaalated in preventing the 11 anea spreading to the st.re. The hotel furniture and stock were insured for Ll5O, and the stable for LSO, In tne Sun office. The hotel building was insured for LSI J, L3(JO beiDg in the New Zaaland office, LIC3 in the North British, and LIOO ia the Colonial office. Tho store and its content! were iasnred for LIOO, but they sustained hardly any id jury. The origia ot the fire ia not known i j Wo have baen requested to publiili the following remarks of Dr Macgregor (made at the meeting of Preahytery yesterday) on the sul'iect of the widows' and orphans' f ind. Aa we were not aware that a meeting of the Fresh ,terv waa to be held yeeterday, we c»n only publish the r«marka without any other portion of the proceedings. The following are tho rem.rk* made on the subject by Dr Micgregor : As to the wid >wb' nnd orphans' fund, there has come to hand the report of the Edinburgh actuary, Wm. Wood, Ks^., on the scho'iie submitted to him. The* report, according to synod's instruction, will be sent a" soon a<i poiaible to ministers and others. Up v the strength of the full infcmstion laid bef ire him, .\lr Wood approves r,he scheme aa in subotance nafe and sound, and not requiring -\ny guarantee beyond its own provisions and reaourcar, Ac the result vt hie wide experience, especially < f the w iking of the Scottith Free Church sohame, he recomm ndß that the grant to orphanß should be continued in to the as;e of 18 f>r boys and <;lr s alikf ; and that the proportions of the fund JiU'Cjted to widows and orphaus rPßi)O''tively shuuld be nut (as in thn Free rhureh nehemo) > 5 and L 2 "Ut of L 7, bat lA »nd LI out of L 5 Oa this huhis he finds th»t ihe fuud will Bff>rd LlO » year for ev«iy orphan, to be doubled In the event of the mother's death. Pur widowa tho grant av*ilable will be L2B a year, if ihose now {31it Dcse-mber, 1884) on the fund be p'acM i on th« footing that is to bo mnlntiined f>r others. But thoso now on the fund are receiving LGO ayosr; and if thin i h continued to them the fund will afford for oth.'r.H ■ nly L2O a year. In other words with the pre^euc rate of grant the fund is on the way to insolvency, contracting oh'itjfvtirtna beyond its rca uroea : within a limiie 1 period the amount of claim-* upon it wi'l exceed its revenue. Tn that event there will He no provision for widows md orphans wVio sha'l v t h i\e been placed on the fund before the crisi-i ; and so f-r as they are concerned the money tha"; is aniv beiii!» cjntribute t by ministers will have been loit. Tae Everting Post (Wollingbon) says that the meeting of tha policy-holders in the government insurance aa ocial,i<>R, if not quit** satisfactory to vSir J'Wiu Vojjel, was cort>inly bo as vhowing tint the pilicy hildetn are disposed to take an iritelligsnt and J'C'ive interest in the management of the institutijn, and will not be content with p'B'e°sing only a p etonce of power. Sir Ju iua Vogol apoUe for 3 few minutes over an h mr ia moving tha ad ption of the report, and, as v ual, his speech wvj a good oue in ite way, but in mnny respects it was decidedly disinganuou 1 , while uomething very mush harsher might f *irly be said of his u«ing an anonymous telegram from Inverc^rgill to discredit the resolution pa^ed by ihe meeting of policy-holders there, and to raDre«ent it aa a peraanal or political poceeding, An iaternational affair, in which the cinma of Russia were concerned, ha* Just bofn decided in their fawr at Bordeaux. Ivobe'.kof is a mere tran'c of a man, without a r ms or legs, who earns a living at fairs hy exocu'im? wonderful foits with the Temn»nts of hia limbs, a d who aivertisss himsolf on tlmt .iccount as the " Artist j Trunk," ho othe- d^y a rival trunk ap. Donel on the Boene, and gave himself out as the " True Artist L'runk." The liusoun rpgArrie<l thid as an uuprovoke-1 aggre^Bion High words ensued, and in outbreik of wonJB s*e"ied immineot. Bub ia view, one mu^t fupposo, ff tho difficulty the combitants wi.uld have had In getting at eaoh other, the diopute wa" ultimately submitted to the arbitration of the om>ular judges Each party argued that tha ether was tho aggressor, Kobelkof urged that he had been first in the field, and had bhown the way to subdue the difficulties of th« situation and to turn them to his advantage, Hia rival denied that the Russian had any right to exclude the rest uf the world, or to prevent other " tranks" coming to the front. It i» re aßturing tj know (says 'ha Pall Mall Gmeette) that the court, recognising that the

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