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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4048, 3 November 1874, Page 2

Two interesting letters upon the subject of Sir George Grey's memorandum and political matters generally appear in the supplement to to-day's issue. His Honor the Chief Justice will proceed to Wellington to-morrow by the s.s. Wellington to attend the Court of Appeal. The business before the Court is, we understand, extremely light, and will not occupy raore than a week or ten days. His Honor is expected to return to Auckland by the ~6tli instant, in order to swear in the new Governor of New Zealand. We have received the November number of the Xew Zealand Presbyterian SS T eirs, the contents of which ably-edited periodical for this month are as follow " .Religion and Science ; Disestablishment in Scotland; The Great Religious Awakening; Religious Awakening in Africa ; Efforts for Revival in Sydney ; The Sabatic Institution : Death of Principal Fairbairn ; Presbyterian form of Worship; Correspondence; ChurchXews; Poetry; Treasurers' Accounts." The task of fencing in the two-acre paddock let rent free by the City Council to the Industrial Home is being carried out by the boys of the school, under the superintendence of Mr. Stickley, the master. "We learn that the subscription list towards purchasing a cow for the Home has reached within a few pounds of the probable cost of the animal. When procured, there will be abundance of green food on the grounds to sustain it. A meeting of creditors was held yesterday in the estate of William Forde. The liabilities are set down at £443 3s; assets, £90. Mr. Thomas Macfl'arlanc was appointed trustee. A meeting of creditors was also held in the estate of James McCrory. Tn this case the liabilities were set down at £.159, and the assets at £S5. The estate wi.d be administered by the provisional trustee. It is to be regretted that the Committee of Management of the Mechanics' Institute have found it necessary to issue a notice, complaining that books and papers are improperlv taken from the Reading-room. The system "is very disgraceful, and the committee are justified in declaring that the ofience is so "ross that it will, on detection, be followed by "the expulsion of the offender. Complamts are also made that periodicals belonging to the lending department are invariably not returned within the specified time, while some are not returned at all. Unless some alteration takes place, the system ot lending periodicals will be discontinued. The committee take the opportunity of reimn ding subscribers that no account is taken of serials circulated, and that evsry reliance is placed on the honor of members honestly to pertorm the implied promise to return the same within the time limited for reading. It is to be hoped that the notice referred to will have the desired effect.

Return of sick treated at tlio Provincial Hospital during the week eucling Saturday, October 31 :—Remained last return, 77 ; admitted Hiuee, 12 ; dineliarged, 12 ; died, 0; remaining, 77 (males, 05 ; females, 1-). Arrangement of casos : —Zymotic diseases, 18; constitutional, 8; local, 34 ; developmental, C ; violent, 11. Thanks are returned to Mrs. Vialou for a bundle o£ old linen; similar douatiouH will be thankfully received.

< The anniversary tea ill connection with the Primitive Methodist Sunday-school, Ed- • warder,-street, was held.-la3t 'evening.The attendance was so Targe that the tables had to be replenished twice ; altogether nearly SOO persons sat down to tea. The following are the names of the ladies who presided at the tables: —Mesdames Tinsley, Morgan, and Craig, and Misses Good, Porter, Twa-ites, Goldie, and Fronde. The meeting, which was afterwards held in the chapel, was also very numerously attended. The Rev. Mr. Tinsley took the chair. The meeting having been opened in the usual manner, the secretary was called upon to read the report, which was of a very satisfactory character. The average attendance for the past year has been—Morning: Teachers, S; scholars, 75. Afternoon : Teachers, 13; scholars, 144. The lowest attendance of scholars during the year was 15, and the highest 171. The receipts for the year were £119 6s 3d, and the expenditure was 2d in excess of the receipts. Mr. F. Battley specially addressed the Sab-bath-school teachers upon the difficulties and perplexities which beset the fulfilment of their duties, and the responsibility and reward of devoting themselves earnestly to their task. Mr. Martin and the Rev. Mr. Bunn also addressed the meeting. The members of the Tonic Sol Fa Union, under the leadership of Mr. Blomfield, rendered a number of selections of sacred music during the evening. The whole of the parts were well sustained, and the performance reflected creditably upon the members of the Union, and their instructor, who has experienced some difficulty in bringing into prominent notice the merits of the Tonic Sol Fa notation.

The information contained in the following paragraph from a Dunedin contemporary may possibly offer a worthy suggestion to the members of the Auckland Brigade. '' The Dunedin Fire Brigade have received by the Christian M'Auslaud some valuable apparatus from the establishment of Messrs. Shand, Mason and Co., engine-makers, London. The principal article is the leather smoke-jacket, to which are attached a selfacting whistle, glass eyes, and ring to receive hose, and a galvanised iron ring to receive rope, with patent line and air-pump. With this jacket fitted on him, a fireman is enabled to enter a room full of smoke. If anything goes wrong, the whistle sounds, and the firemen outside the building, by means of the rope attached to a hook on the jacket, immediately pull him out. Hitherto, entering a building when full of smoke would have been attended with great danger. The want of this jacket has been severely felt for a considerable time, and being the first imported into the colony, Captain Wain intends to give it a trial on an early date. There have also been received 120 feet of the best hose.. 400 feet patent line (with spring hook fixed), a plated silver helmet for Captain Wain, and four brass helmets for the officers. The latter are only test helmets, and should they be found preferable to "the leather ones at present in use, will supersede the latter."

There has been a good deal of speculation of late with regard to the probable visit of a Victorian team to New Zealand this season (says the Dunedin Star). Negotiations are still pending, and should these end unsatisfactorily, and the Victorian cricketers find it impossible to come, the Otago players should endeavour to play both Canterbury and Auckland this season. Our plucky confreres in the Xorth Island, who so spiritedly paid us a visit last year, will naturally expect the Otago cricketers to take the earliest possible opportunity of returning the compliment. Otago will, in any case, require to send a team to Canterbury, and it might be arranged that the team so sent should proceed to Auckland after the Canterbury match, or play Auckland first and Canterbury on the way back. Should a Victorian team come down, of course it would be out of the question to attempt to send a team to the far .North this season. State of Her Majesty's Gaol, Auckland, for the week ending October 31, 1574 : — On remand, 1 male ; awaiting trial, 3 males ; sentenced to penal servitude, '13 males ; sentenced to hard labour, 75 males, 50 l'ciaalw ; default of bail, 5 males, 1 female ; received during the week, 20 males, 4 females ; discharged duriug the week, 15 males, 5 females; total in gaol, 117 males, 31 females. Miss Aitken is at |iresent giving entertainments in Poverty Bay.

The building trade still continues active, and many allotments in the city that have stood unoccupied for years are being covered. At the corner of Cook and Grey-streets three shops are in course of erection upon the allotment leased by Mr. Stebbing from the City Council. Mr. Stebbing has transferred his lease to Mr. M. H. Busby, the Venetian blind-maker and wire-worker, of Shortland-street, who is now building on the ground. He intends letting the two shops erecting in Grey-street, and occupying the corner shop with the premises in the rear, where he will transfer his business and carry on his trade. Mr. Watson is the contractor, and the premises are expected to be completed in the course of a month. Another corner allotment being now utilised is that abutting on High and Durham-streets. Here Mr. Dempsey, contractor, has commenced to build a large two-story building for Mr. Greenway, the freeholder. The premises are intended to be let as stores. Mr. T. B. Cameron, architect, has prepared the plans, and the building is proceeding. Another piece of waste land in Durham-street West has lately been covered by Mr. Dempsey with two handsome-looking stores, built for Mr. Mackay. These premises are completed and ready "for occupation. For many years the ground on which they stand was used for storing old metal. This was long considered a great eyesore to the neighbourhood.

The seventh concert of the season, consisting of Mozart's opera "DieZauberflote," and a miscellaneous selection, will be performed this evening by the Choral Society in their fine Hall in Symonds-street. The opera, which forms the first part of the programme, and which we consider in itself a'upW; entertainment for an evening, has been very carefully prepared, and we hesitate not to say will gratify the most fastidious. The second part is composed of instrumental and vocal gems, of which we need only name the march and chorus from Wagner's " Tannhceuser," to convey an ideasf the whole. The subscribers have every reason to anticipate a great treat this evening.

Mr. Martin's last lecture of the Park Road Mutual Improvement Association's popular science course is further postponed to next Thursday evening, when it will be delivered in the Grafton Road Church.

The assessment list for the Remuera Highway District has been finally adjusted, and can be seen at Mr. S. Well's office, 129, Queen-street. The annual meeting of the Van Gold Mining Company will be held in the company's office, Crescent Chambers, Shortlandstreet, on the Oth inst., at 3 p.m.

Mr. A. Buckland's sale, at Henderson's Mill, is postponed until Monday, t-Ue 10th November, next Monday being the Cattle Show day.

Tenders are required for the purchase of the ironmongery business of Z\b\ P. A, Philips, comer of Queen and Shortlandstreets. A lecture on " Music and Psalmody mil be delivered on Friday evening next, by Mr. Theophilns Cooper, in the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms. The sale of booths at the Ellerslie sports and Cattle Show has been postponed until Thursday next. The quarterly Licensing Courts for tne Northern Districts will be held on the Ist December next, according to announcement. A public meeting of the electors of Onehunga will be held in the Choral Hall, Onehunga to-morrow evening. Creditors in the estate ot m. . hotel-keeper, arc requested to prove their debts. , c r Parties having claims in the estate of Mrs. Ann Mclntyre, of Howie k, are requested to prove their claims. . A call of 6d per share has been made in the Pride oETokatea Gold Mining Company. A call of Is per share has been made w we i Qtago Gold Mining Company.