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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2105, 24 October 1870, Page 2

We believe the legal appointments contemplated in consequence of the death of Mr. Crawford, Registrar of Deeds, hiire been made, and the departments vacated will bo taken over bj the new officers on the first of neit mouth. We understand that Mr. Theophiliu Kissling, the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, in appointed Registrar of Deeds, and Mr. King, in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, id to succeed Mr. Kissling us Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court.

Mr. William S'iana»han, the newly-elected member for Newton, thus replies to the Alliance test question :—With reference to the question raised by the documents I must confess that I have failed to soe the relevancy of their contents to the question with which we hare to deal, viz , how beet can we promote tho health, happiness, and prosperity of the people of this province ? Though a total abstainer myself, and as such naturally desirous that all should bo of this opinion, jet I am convinced that in this province it is simply impossible, to curry out the declaration of the Council, which means in plain terms, total abstinence. The information on the permissive quesLion is too crude and undigested to express an opinion thereon with certainty, referring as it, docs exclusively to a state of society, social circumstances, and a social condition, -which happily docs not exist in this province. As the demand? on my time may present any further correspondence on the anhjeet, you will pnrdou me if I offer a few suggestions which I think may bo used with profit by the D.A. of the U.IC.A., assuming as a basis " That the Alliance has really tho welfare of the community at heart." They are as follows :—lst. Let the Alliance make les.-. parade of their V.K. great notabilities and newspapers precepts. Let the members devotc themselves like practical men, and show temperate men the folly, and pecuniary and other loses which they sutler through drink. 2nd. Let them recognise the fact that with the drunkard, drink has ceased to be a vice, and hns become a necessity, a disease which should be trented medically, and let them use every means to form an hospital for the medical treatment of confirmed drunkenness. 3. Convince the youth that, drink is not only :i vice, has n) plcasifs or associations to recommend it, but is a serious loss, pecuniary and otherwise. L.'t the Alliance adopt some such means as these, nnd they will educate a healthy public opinion. Let all its efforts bo local and pi actual. Man's pas-ions cm be controlled by appealing to his reason, his pocket, and by arousing other passions. These are forces which if you wish to operate on man with success you will require to manipulate judiciously. Wi'.hout a lieulthy public opinion, you cannot stop the evils of drink, anil 1 know of no belter means of obtaining that opinion than 1 have suggested.

A benevolent lady who devotes her life to the performance of acts of charity, thus describes a visit she paid to the habitation of a person engaged in match-box making in the squalid regions of Spilalfickls and Bethniil where this business is chiefly carried on : —" In a narrow lime, ' having followed high up a totterins spiral staircase till we readied the attic, the first group of woe pale-faced match-box makers were met with. They were hired by tho woman who rented the room. The children received just three fin-things for making a gross of boxes ; the wood and paper w.-re furnished to the woman, but she had to provide paste and the firing to dry the work. She received 2Jd. per gross. Every possible spot —on t lie bed, under the bed, was strewn with the driing boms. A loaf of bread and a knife stood on the tuble, rea 1 y for tliesu little ones to be supplied with a slice in exchange for their hurJ-earned furthings. This touching scene, which my pen faiis to picture, gave a lasting impres-im of childhood's sorrows. Never a moment for school or play, but. erase-less toil from light till dark."' And when an oll'ort is made to promote the emigration of these hnlf starred but industrious " paupers" to a country whero they would find healthful α-ul remunerative employment, an outcry ia raised against "swamping tho labour market."

A special meeting of creditors to the estate of Alexander Kennedy, gentlemen, was held on Saturday, in tlie'oflice of the Provisional Trustee, for the purpose of electing a trudfee in the room of J. M. Mowbrav, resigned. On the iiioiion of Mr. John Auckland Way, it was resolri-d that Mr. Thoinns Maeflarlane be electrd trustee. Mr. Maeflurlnno represents Col Thompson, the largest creditor of the estate.

Some extremely sensible remarks on the Highway* Act will be found in a letter publishe I in our correspondence column of this morning.

The following arrests have been nuide by the police since -atunlay morning :—William Stirling, on warrant, for » ! . S iiiilt.inj» Thomas 11. Jones; Thomas Browner and John Cooper, for stealing a hum, value eighteen shillings from the shop of Messrs. Glanville nnd Kihet. Misliael 'iiim.l, in custody on a chargo' of stealing eerlain ai tides from the .Northern Hotel, will be fur her charged this morning with Mmling a pair of blankets from the s irac hotel.

Saturdiiy's Advertiser eays : —Wo aro glad to loarn that a number of gentlemen have associated themselves for (he purpose ot getting up liorse-nicea and sport.* at Uliristraaa. We believe thut m-arlj half of tho amount required has been guaranteed.

The Inspector of Miners' Rights hue, we believe, laid inlorinution agiinst Captain Goldsmith and Mr. R. Kelly for hnvin;; uaeel to proter-t ttluiiiis miners' rights thut had expired — Advertiser, Oetober 22.

By the arrival of the .St. Kildu in tho Ifanuknu we nre in possession of Wangnnni files to the 2()lh in-<t. ; the-e rontiiin nothing of interest, >in I scorn chiefly mitdo up o( erchanges of scurrilous personal abuse between the rival journals.

The tenders for tho Corornandel jetty wcro opened on Saturday last, they were in number. The lowest w.u aueepte<jf viz., Mai hew Edgar, of Tuiaru, amount £357 89. 6d.

The p 3. Puke of Edinburgh did not return fo the ThumoH en Salurttiiy earning on account of lut quarterly inapeclion. Slie will, howi'ver, 1.-ave for the Tliame* at 4.39 o'clock this afternoon.

An ns.sistant mister is required for tho Auikland ilrammir Siiluml. Tne eaUry is at the ra'e uf £150 pel , annum.

We lmve been rcq.otilod by the pol : ce bo st.iio tJinl a arey grcal. ciml i- ljinjr tit the still inn. to have bern stolen during /■atimlay evening. I'he owner o.in hiiTe it Ujjnu opplicatiou.

Weekly state of H.M. Gaol, Auckland, for the week ending October 22 : —On remand, 2 males; waiting for trial, 6 males, 1 female ; sentenced to penal servitude, 44 males ; sentenced to hard labour, 72 males, 13 females; 1 default of bail, 4 males, 2 females; debtors, 2 malas ; received during the week, 15 males, 4 females ; discharged, 10 males, 3 females, i —Total in gaol, 130 males, 16 females.

On Saturday at the Thames Police Court a charge was brought against P. 11. Downes, of a criminal assiult upon a child named Catherine Donaher. There was no eridence to support the charge, and the case was dismissed.

is given that William Swinton Laurie has filed a declarat ion of his inability to meet his engagements. —Henry Pope intends to apply on Thursday next to the Supreme Court for a declaration of the complete execution of a deed of arrangement, filed on the 2Sth September last.

A private letter from Darmstadt says :— " The arrangements for the wounded are being carried on with much vigour. At the Princess Alice's palace there is a party composed of ladies making bandages out of old soff. linen, &c. The Princess, it is said, is one of the most industrious. The ball-room is half full of stuff for making these bandages. All the day long you see men with a piece of white linen, with a red cross on, tied round their arm—the sign, I think, of St John,

which you always see on ambulance waggons on tho Continent—soliciting contributions from the inhabitant* of different necessaries for the wounded, which solicitations are liberally responded to."

The New York Turf Field, ami jorm gives a description of a sculling race at Q-lenwood Pittsburgh, on July tho 16, between Mi-s Lottie M'Alice, Miss Moggie Lew, and Miss Mary Whalin, and gives the following description of the competitors' costumes: "The young ladies, as they came down the river bank and entered ther frail crafts, looked indescribably pretty, and their quiet; and modest but determined demeanor won the highest amount of praise from all the specalore. Miss M'Alicp, a plump girl of sixteen, looked realy beautiful in her jaunty liltle red jacket and white dress. Ifer en tunic consisted of n tight-fitting scarlet jacket without sleeves, a loose dress reaching to her knees, white lights nnd high boots. Miss Lew was dressed somewhat similar, with the exception that her dress was red, and she wore a white bodice with edging."

A'"'steep" story is given in the Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, to the effect that a planter near Midway, in South Carolina, has cultivated his entire farm tins year, fo far as ploughing is concerned, with an alligator. This domesticated sihirian is described a? being unusually large, weighing about 350 lbs, and being perfectly docile. Jle is reported as working splendidly in plough harness, and being far superior to mules or hor.-es. His only failing is a difficulty he has to repress a natural peiic/iant for having a little nigger for dinner, a circumstance that may save the race of alligators generally from being broken to harness.

The Indian Territory correspondence (June 13) St. Louis limes says :—" A Mrs. Dorothy Field has been abducted by Indians from Menard County, on the San Sabu Kiver, four miles below McKavett, State of Texas, and a reward of 750 dollars in gold has been offered for her safe return to a.iy point in the Unite.l States. A Cheyenno Indian who knew the manner of her capture says : —She was on horseback, and, when surrounded by Iviowas, kept discharging a revolver, with which for n considerable time she kept her uss-iilants off, until at length she fell, having her leg broken by a bullet. In this condition they captured her, curried her a considerable dUtancc to where there whs some limber tied her to a tree, scalped her alive, and left her to die of starvation »nd her wounds. There inhuman instir.ets told them that this would be a greater torture than any they could invent."

A wounded French soldier writes thus to his mother from the-neighbourhood of Strasbourg : " We," thn wounded, " are badly oil". The nristoeraey of the country, to obtain credit for patriotism, write to the papers to say th .t. they will place seven, eight, nine, ten beds, or more, at the dispo al of the brave sokliors who defend their countrv. But we are bundled into barns, or placed in dark, ill-ventilated slab'e lofts, where eotne ignorant coii"try woman, feeding pigs, leading rows out to graze, or fattening geese for their livers, i< the sole nurse. She is awav the greater part of the timu. A dirty pail full of water is placed near us; and, the most valid of our mutilated company serves it out in tin vessels for drink, when we are thirsty. I know nut what we should do, but for the system of sheet-leud bandages, which, however, in a hard uncnmfoi table bed, are very fatiguing. Dear mother, how I lons for your soft hand, and intelligent care. But I have no right to complain. My left leg is broken with a Prussian bail, which is only a trifle compired to what held several of my fellow invalids, for we are twenty-seven in a barn. Some have their eyes shot out, some the half of their jaws carried on". There is a man beside me whose right hand is ninputu'ec], left arm and collar-bone broken, cheek laid open with a sabro cut, and chest, just above the left lung, perforated with ii Dreyeo bullet. livery time a Prussian soldier fired, a Frenchman was either killed or wounded. 13ut lam afraid that out of three score shot, on our side, only one hit. a foe. I often told you what 3 faree the target practice was at VinceniiM. A few ignorant brutes used to be picked out for rifle shooting, and the rest only allowed to Qre a few rounds from time to time."