SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6002, 11 February 1881, Page 5

SHIPPING.

. _ Sydney, February 10.. Arrived: The s.s. Wakatipu from Wellington.

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jFROJt OUR OW.s T COUKKSroXDKXT. | RUSSELL, Thursday. Mk. P. Dorax is fitting up a large tent, no as to give performances during next week at tlie regatta. {[united press ASSOCIATION'.] NEW PIjY MOUTH, Thursday. The natives recently released from prison, and brought back here, have gone again to Parihaka to attend the meeting on the 17th. Between fifty and sixty of them passed through town this morning. At the Wesleynn Sundav-sohool picnic yesterday afternoon a fatal" accident happened. A number of children were swim--ing on the branches of a fallen tree, the trunk of which was resting on the branches, when a branch broke, causing the trunk of the tree to roll over a little boy named Darcy Harold Jaekson, who was passinc, crushing him to death. A little girl named Woolcock was knocked down by the branches and severely hurt, and had her leg broken ; and a boy named Malcolm Clo.v had his thigh broken. -The tree was 30 feet- in length and 7 feet in diameter. An ia to be held. .

WTSLIJNGTON, Thursday

Several seamen of the s.s. Miinawaia, charged with striking, were severely reprimanded to-day in the Police Court, and a. nominal sentence of detention till the rising ol the Court passed. The .Magistrate repeated his determination to deal severely with those who incited the st rike or used intimid."t>ca, if brought before him. An important case was heard io-d'f v under the Stamps Act, John P. Watt and Albert Barnes being charged with a breach of the lOSth section of the Act by omitting to file with the Commissioner of Stamp:; within six months from the "ranting si letters of administration a statement in writing in respect of the property for which such administration had been granted. The counsel for the defendants admitted the ofience, which, he said, was commit in consequence of the difficulty in obtaining the necessary forma at Wungauui, where the defendants resided. Mr. Iszard, for the prosecution, did not press for a heavy penalty, this being the first ease of the kind brought before the Couit; but at the same time he wished to state that the (tofervimtn had put the Government to a great deal i i trouble and expense in the matter. I'wcl e - months had elapsed since administration wat; granted. Fined 10s each and costs.

A heavy wind yesterday blew over. ;-ml completely destroyed the camera ohscur.*. recently exhibiting here. The projected Hutt Industrial Comply (Limited) having failed to float has bo-a r abandoned, but. the factory is to be carried on on a large scale by a private firm.

CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Mr. T. W. Draper, of the- firm of Draper, Charters, and Co., a well-known resident, died suddenly this morning, of congestion of the brain. Yesterday he was in his usual health, and is said to have broken a blood vessel in the head. His life was insured kx £2000.

The new season's wheat is now com;;:." forward to Lyttelton.' * ° At the R.M. Court this morning a schoolmaster named John Williamson was sentenced to 12 months'*, hard labour , for six cases of indecent exposure. Messrs. Fovil and Cowell sell by auction on Saturday The Post, by Aiiteros, out of Foul Play's dam, and Hilda, by Albany, out of Miss Flat. . An industrial exhibition is to be held .it Ashburton on March 17. A coursing club was established at Papanui last night. OAMARU, Thursday. An inquiry was held to-day into the circumstances attending the fire at Diehl and Davidson's mill. Tiie jury returned the following verdict:—"The jury find that the Opepo Mill, belonging to Messrs. Diehl and Davidson, was burned down on the night of the 2/th of January, under very suspicious circumstances; but there is no evidence to show how the fire originated. They nave also to comment in severe terms on the unsatisfactory nature of the evidence as given by James Davidson, one of the partners of the firm." DUNEDIN, Thursday. The Dunedin yacht Zephyr has left Hobson's Ray to compete at the Hob.irt Regatta. W. D. Stewart having refused to give such apology for the statement he made regarding touting for business during the dispute with Mr. Town send MeDermott in the Police Court the other day as MeDermott will accept, an action will be commenced in the Supreme Court for £2000 damages for , slander, to give Mr. Stewart au opportunity of justifying his remarks.

The second annual bowling match, Dr.nedm v. Christchurch, was won by Dunedin by two points.

The Minister for Public Works, accompanied by Messrs. W. N. Blair (District Engineer), and Usher, visited the Otago Central Railway works to-day. The Artillery send three North Dunedin, seven City Guards, and two port 2\avr.!:' two Dunedin Navals, two Oamaru, and two Nelson to the meeting. A four-roonjed house belonging to Robert Spratt, Look-out Point, was burnt dowii yesterday. It was insured in the Hamburg and Magdeburg for £125. The Cricket Association have disqualified for twelve months W. J. Moore for His conduct in the Australian match.

An out-of-the-way little town between Petersberg and Moscow, called Torjeek, once enjoyed an extraordinary reputation for its fricasse of chicken. It was gained in this wise: An unfortunate Frenchman, Quite out-of-elbows, once passed a night at the one" little auberge that the place then boast=d He was hospitably received and kindly treated, and before setting out again on his journey, he said to his hostess, "I cannot pay you your bill, but 1 will make your fortune. ' Thereupon he showed her how to serve up a fricasse of chicken in the French style. The aubergistc had hardly made herself acquainted with the Frenchman's seorct when the Emperor Nicholas chanced to pass that way. He, too, stayed at the same little auberge, and, to his great astonishment, hie table was graced with a dish which would have done credit to the then famous Trois Freres. He praised the fricasse, the great man's praise was repeated far and wide so that the reputation of Torjeek was made once and for all; and long after the Frenchman's apt pupil was gathered to the place where good aubergistes go, the glory of the litile auberge still shone.—London Globe. A large brewer informed a friend of mine {contributor to Mark-lane Express) the other day that from one quarter of malt lie could brew a sufficient number of pints of beer to produce £9 at the rate of 2id. "cr pint. " *"