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New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1972, 14 September 1863, Page 2

| Militia Orders eor the Week.—The following from the Militia and Volunteer general orders {indicate the duties for the current week : | Detail for guards, picquets, and patrols from Monday to aSunday next inclusive: 5 Monday , . . Auckland Naval Volunteers. | Tuesday . . . 2nd Class Militia. ? Wednesday . . Ist Class Militia. i Thursday . . 2nd Class Militia., g Friday . . . Ist Class Militia. £ Saturday . . 2nd Class Militia. i Sunday . . . Auckland Rifle Volunteers, (except Freeman’s Bay picquet, furnished by Naval Volunteers p that evening). (■The Auckland Cavalry Volunteers and 3rd Class Militia twill furnish the usual patrols during the week. § Fire. —Yesterday, during the early part of divine pservice, the fire bells rang out loud and strong, emptying f the churches of their congregations in “ double quick,” |these being no times to be slack in hurrying to the alarm 3posts. Fortunately the immediate discovery of smoke iprevented the outburst of a blaze. The fire was in fiWebb’s brick buildings, among some of the goods belongling to Mr. Roberton, saved from the the recent Wynd-|ham-street and Queen-street conflagration. There was gonly a smouldering combustion, and that was quickty One engine was speedily on the spot, and 'sthere was a general feeling of approbation when its hose |was directed in clearing the street of the idle loiterers iwho impede the workers in cases of real emergency—“jliad Williiam Thomson and his Waikatos have charged fthe crewd they could not have accomplished a |more instantaneous dispersion. On the alarm being Sgiven Brigade-Major Paul was almost immediately preisent, when, finding that there was no necessity for serSvice, he forthwith dismissed the 200 militia and volunteers, who had assembled under arms in the Albert Barjrack square. | Lecture. —A lecture on “ The Divinity of Christ” iwas delivered last evening in the Hobson-street School |Room by Mr. W. Green. | Onehunga Volunteers. —A meeting of No. 2 ifeompany will be held this evening, at seven o’clock, at |the Onehunga Institute, for the purpose of electing an Sen sign to the company. The “Mavis.” —From our police report it will be ipcrceived that on Friday the Resident Magistrate felt it sjto be his duty to send this case to a superior court, so Sthat a jury may decide upon its merits. | Unitarian Christianity. —A lecture was delivered slast evening in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, by Mr. F. Brad31ey. The subject selected was “ The Atonement.” On |the two following Sundays the evening’s discourses are to |be “ Christ the Mediator” and “ Love to God and Man.” I Auckland Militia. —A general order has been |i-sued directing that in future the Ist and 2nd Class gist Battalion Auckland Militia will parade for drill on Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the 2nd Class Son Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at the usual ■time and place. 4 Military Funeral. —On Saturday the remains of BWm. Piddock, a private of the 40th Regiment, were Iburied with military honors. The filing party and atstendants were supplied by the men of the 70th. Deiceased was 33 years of age, and had been ill for a conisiderable period. | The New Zealand Chiefs in England. —An BEnglish paper says : —“ At the second flower show held Si a the gardens of the Royal Botanical Society, on the |3rd, the Maori chiefs, from New Zealand, with their Gv,fives, attracted general attention from the fashionable avisitors who crowded the grounds. Some of the elder srhiefs were tattooed in the most elaborate manner.” | Election for Onehunga. —An official notice, by ■the Returning Officer, J. J. Symonds, Esq., appears in Sour columns, appointing Saturday next, at 12 o’clock, for |the nomination of candidates qualified to represent the [{Electoral District of the town of Onehunga in the Proivincial Council. The poll, if necessary, will take place on Monday, the 21st inst. The Court Houses at Onehunga and Auckland are to be the polling places. | New Zealand Gazette. —A Government Gazette was issued on Saturday, the contents of which will be given in extenso in our columns to-morrow. An important notice appears relative to the appointment of a Commission for making the necessary arrangements for an Exhibition of Agricultural and Industrial Products ! and Manufactures of the Colony, and of such other countries as may in the opinion of the Commissioners be eminently calculated to be useful in the development of the Colony. The Exhibition to be held at Dunedin, SOtago. The Superintendent of each Province is authorsized to appoint local Committees for carrying out the {project. A number of Militia appointments and prolinotions are also announced as having been made by the | Importation of Slaughtered Sheep. —We notice Jthe following, which appeared in the Ballarat Star of the 1 |l2th ultimo : —“ A novel enterprise has been started by SMessrs. Snodgrass and Co., of Queen-street, Melbourne, Inamely, the exportation of slaughtered sheep to New : Zealand, where good fat sheep are worth £2 ss. each. ' ’ The first lot of fifty, as an experiment, was put on board \ the steamer Aldinga in strong wire cages on deck, in j which the sheep were strung up as in a butcher’s shop. It is calculated that the trade can be carried on for six months in the year—from March to August. The idea appears to have arisen from the fact of the steamers taking their own fresh meat, and should the experiment succeed a profitable opening will be found for some of our settlers’ surplus fat stock.” The Great Sea Serpent Again. —The existence of this extraordinary object of curiosity, if not also of terror, has received additional corroboration in the subjoined letter, which has been received in Liverpool from one of the officers of the African mail steamer Athenian: — “ Cape Palmas, May 15, 18G3.—All doubts may now be set at rest about the Great Sea Serpent. On the Gth of May the African Royal mail steamer Athenian, on her , passage from Teneriffe to Bathurst, fell in with one. 1 About 7 a.m. John Chappie, quartermaster, at the wheel, saw something floating towards the ship. He called the attention of the Rev. Mr. Smith and another passenger, who were on deck at the time, to it. On nearing the steamer it was discovered to be a huge snake, about 100 ifeet long, of a dark brown colour, head and tail out of ;water, the body slightly under. On its head was something like a mane, and the body was about the size of our j mainmast.” —London Evening Mail,

Soldiers at the Cape. —ln a regiment stationed at the Cape of Good Hope there appears to be just that kind of spirit which binds man to man, and places officer and private upon a footing that all the regulations of the service rigidly carried out would fail to accomplish. The regiment we allude to is the 10th, or North Lincolnshire loot, which, among other sources of amusement and edification, boasts a printing press and all the paraphernalia of an ofbee, and actually publishes, for private circulation, a journal entitled the North Lincolnshire Sphinx, which is edited and furnished with contributions by the officers and men of the corps. We have before us a copy of the journal, which is turned out of hand in a very creditable manner, and its contents embrace a variety of subjects, gossipy, critical, and humorous, of a character calculated to maintain the interests of both officers and men in its publication. We take it as a sign of progress that such a work is apparently so hopefully carried out, as a proof that our soldiers appreciate the pleasure appertaining to the intellectual sphere, and we heartily wish God speed to the 10th regimental press.—Portsmouth Times.

Cultivation' of Tobacco. —We copy the following from the Otago Daily Times: —“ We have lately been afforded an opportunity of inspecting a sample of tobacco manufactured in town, at the factory of Mr. John Simpson, George-strcet. We recommend lovers of the weed to try it, as we have done ; and they will be agreeably surprised and satisfied with its similarity to that generally supplied. We wish Mr. Simpson every success in his undertaking. It is calculated that about a ton of tobacco is consumed here weekly. The minimum cost of labour for preparing this for use from the raw leaf, is over £IOO. I■' such an establishment as Sir. Simpson’s prove successf.il, this money will be spent amongst our own population, and a new branch of industry opened up. Should toe opinions which we have often heard expressed by those who know the country prove to be correct, —that our land is well adapted for the cultivation of the tobacco plant,—an opportunity is now ottered our farmers of jutting this to the test, —for we believe Mr. Simpson is quite prepared to purchase from them any quantity which they may bo able to grow. Air. Simpson is also a manufacturer of snuff. If the tobacco turned out from his establishment is not so sightly as that of American manufacture, we think that, on the other hand, this latter article will be found as pleasing to the eye as to the nostrils of the purchaser.” i The “Half-Mad.” —At some time or The “ thinking mind” of the Government may be brought to bear on the lunacy question, and the erection of an asylum in some more convenient locality than the present. When that event happens (some say that the Provincial " reasurer has already confided to a near relative of his own the. preparation of the plans), the following remarks respecting a large class of persons who need temporary retirement and restraint, may be of service:—“lt has seemed to the Commissioners in Lunacy that it would be very desirable if arrangements were made for the reception in the lunatic hospitals of persons of whom (say the Commissioners) I we have reason to know that there are many,’ not insane, but who, being conscious of a want of power of self-control, or of addiction to intemperate habits, or fearing an attack or a recurrence of mental malady, but being in all respects free agents, may be desirous of residing as voluntary boarders in an institution for the care and treatment of persons of unsound mind, submitting to a modified control, and conforming to the general regulations of the hospital. These hospitals are in most cases mainly supported by endowments or annual subscriptions 5 a few are in a great measure self-support-ing. The Commissioners have just taken the opinion of Mr. Welsby upon the subject. He states that he does not find in the statutes for the regulation of registered hospitals any prohibition on such persons being admitted as inmates on the terms above suggested, and he is of opinion that they may be received accordingly, contracting alone, or jointly with others, to conform to certain regulations expressed or referred to. —London Evening Mail.