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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1901, 18 February 1870, Page 4

Foit detailed account of the officers' ball and report of the proceedings of the Magistrate's and Police Courts, see our third page. The .Native Lands Court sat on Wednesday, at fehortland. and concluded the evidence in the case of Monnatairi. Tlic decision was reserfed. A grand soiree and ball in commemoration of the first anniversary oftlie Shortland lodge of Odd Fellows' was to Have taken place last evening at Shortland.

We understand that Post-office receiving boxes are now placed on board the steamers trading to the Thames, Russell, and Tauranga, into which letters, which, are too late for the mails conveyed by these vessels, may be posted up till the hour of departure. As such letters will be delivered at the same time as those in the mails, it will obviate the necessity of resorting to the objectionable practice of intrusting letters—often of importance — to private hands. The charge for this accommodation is a two-penny stamp in addition to the postage. We find the following in the Liberte : — " The Princess Royal of Prussia, daughtor, as everybody knows, of Queen Victoria, is tlie idol of the Prussian army. In the recent manasuvres at Sturgard she covered herself with glory in charging on horseback at the head of a regiment of dragoons, of which she is Colonel, the famous Hussars de la Mort, who were J beaten in that mimic encounter. The 1 officers of the regiment, desiring to bestow some military honour upon the intrepid .•xmazon, are about to present her Koyal Highness with a sword of honour, the work of the most skilful manufacturer in Berlin. On the blade these words will be engraved in letters of gold:—' The .Dragoons of the Princess Eoyal to their Colonel.'" At the meeting of the General Committee of Management of the Hospital, on Wednesday, to appoint honorary med'cal officers for the institution, tbv following gentlemen were appointed:— Drs. Sara and Trousseau as surgeons, and Drs. Fox and Kilgour as physicians. A discussion took place as to the necessity for the gentlemen appointed being registered according to the Act in JN'cw Zealand.

Police Cottbt. —The Justices sitting in t'je Police Court yesterday -were Messrs. H. H. Turton and J. C. Chadwick. Several drunkards were punished One of them, against wiiora eight previous convictions for larceny and vagrancy were proved, was found guilty of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty, and was ordered to pay a fine of £10 and the costs, or to be imprisoned for two months with hard labor. A breach of the Impounding Act met with a fine of ss. and costs ; and a lunatic, a prisoner in Mount Kden was ordered, on medical testimony, to be removed to the Luuatic Asylum, as soon as authority to do so could be obtained .from the Colonial Secretary. This concluded the business. This morning the charge of lnrceny of tobacco from the. stores of Messrs. Cruickshank, Smart, and Co against George Bowley, of the Railway Terminus Motel, will Le investigated. The handsome case, made by M;. Loufl'crfc, in which it is intended to place the address presented to the Ven. Archdeacon Lloyd, is now completed, and tt . subscribers will have the opportunity of seeing it, with the addresses and the photograph of fc't. Paul's Church, at .Messrs. Upton's, Queen-street, where it wi 1 remain until to-morrow evening. .Shabp v. Oabey, Gilles, Hukter AST) Co.— As our remarks yesterday that the defendants' case was " thoroughly rotten," might- be construed as referring , to Messrs. Carer, Gines, Hunter and Co., we beg to state that such was not the case, as they were only the nomfrv' defendants. On enquiry we find thai' M essrs. Carey, Gilles, Hunter and Co. sold six head of cattle for Sharp, and received notice from the. Trustee inUankruptcy to retain the proceeds, he claiming the cattle as the property of Leatham, and giving indemnity. Messrs. Carey, Grilles, Hunter and Co. immediately paid the money into Court, leaving Sharp and the Trustees in Bankruptcy to show which hod the best right to i'. We learn that Ju essrs. T. and S. Morrin's flaxniiil lias < been purchased byMessrs. Campbell and Lennox. This, we uelicre, is 020 of the finest flax plants on the "Waikato, as the lease contains over eight thousand acres of flax land. Mb. C. Davis will sell this day, at twelve o'clock, the • tolls leviable at the Mount liden Koad toll-gate (next the Eden Vine Hotel), aud at the Gaol uoad chain bar, together with the royalty leviable for scoria ash, taken from the gravel pit on the Mount Eden I'eserv, for the period commencing on the Ist March proximo, and ending on the 31st December, 1870. A meetikg of the Northern Island Gold Mining Company will be held this day, at their office, Fort-street, at ten. o'clock a.m. Uesident Magistbate's Coubt. —I he Court sat yesterday until 4.15 p.m. There were a good many judgments for plaintiffs by default, some adjournments for a week, one- for i> fortnight, and then the defended, cases were taken. In the re-hearing of the case of Fernandez t. ■Mays, the evidence of Mr. Whitaker was 1 most conclusive as to the wharf (claimed by defendants as private property) being the property of the Crown, and judgment was given for plaintiff for one shilling and costs. In the suits of the North i Island Gold Mining Com puny v. Howard, .Robertson and Morrin, judgment was reserved, and then another case was disposed of. Several, there not being time to take them yesterday, were adjourned until Monday, when the Court ivill sit again at 10.30 a.m. This morning there Mill be a sitting of the District Court, when those cases not heard for want of sufficient time, on Wednesday last, will be taken. A literati's gossipper writes as follows to the Australasian : —Last month 1 told you of a little episode by Mr. Holten the the publisher; this time it is Messrs. Gassell & Co. who are the defaulters, and hnve to defend themselves against Prof. Tyndall. It appears they have taken some letters of his, written a long time ago and for a speciid purpose, and brought them out under a nesv title, making it appear that they were just written. Prof. Tyndall properly demurs to this, and insists upon showing them up, which he does to his heart's content. Publishers, it is to be feared, have not always that delicate feeling about appropriation of other works which ,they ought to huve, aud I am always glnd when somebody strong enough und independent enough can bring them to their.- proper level. 'Ihe Illustrated LondvifNcics is likely to have a formidable rival in the Graj)7»c. a new weekly paper, which is illustrated by the Hrsfc arcists. The Illustrated is a fine old institution, but long continued success has made it careless, mid now it will have to make a struggle lor improvement, and perhaps for existence, which will be beneC The°atbes that will hold £120 worth of audience at the usual rates seem to be acknowledged as the best size in London. When smaller, they cannot hold enough to pay expenses, and when large, like the Old Drury Lane, are never tilled. Auckland Institute.—A meeting of the members will take place on Monday evening next, at half-past seven o'clock. Calls, of various amounts, arc, we see, made in the Okarita, Junction, and Dawn of Hope Gold mining Companies.

Welungton-stbebt Litehaet Association.—The fifth session of the above Sooiety was opened yesterday evening, at the Toung Mien's Christian Association Booms, Wellesley-stree*-, when the introdactory' paper was read by Mr. G. M. Main, Vice-President, who took for his theme "Desultory and Systematic Reading." After,the usual discussion terminated, it was announced that the business for nest night of meeting, the 3rd pros., would be a discussion on the question, "Is ifc desirable that religiou3 instruction shoul.l form part of the curriculum in our Government schools.'' Tbudbbs for'the supply of a variety of articles chiefly "marine stores will be received by the Colonial Government until noon of the 26fch of March next.