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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6052, 11 April 1881, Page 4

The trial of John Procoffi, charged with the murder of a Maori at Te Aroha, will come 011 this morning before Mr. Justice Richmond in the Supreme Court at 10 o'clock, when witnesses and jurors should be in attendance. The German war vessels Moore and Habicht will probably sail for Samoa tomorrow. A. considerable number of persons visited them yesterday, and were politelv received. The criminal case for libel brought by Mr. W. L. Rees against Mr. J. D. Wickham, of the Free Lance, will come on at the Police Court this morning. The young man drowned from the barge Pukapuka was named Charles Lombard, and was a nephew of Captain "William Lombard, well known at this port. The deceased was, we understand, a native of Dover, England' his friends there being respectable people in comfortable circumstances.

It will be remembered that about six months ago, wmle Mr. John Smith's W horsesi were exercising in the Albert Park, one of Mr. G. Johnston's «ns got his arS broken through getting in the horse's road Mr. Johnston has entered an action against Mr. Smith for the injuries received by his son, and the case comes on for hearing in the District Court to-day.- : .■-••«> A curious accident occurred in Parnell on Saturday forenoon. A horse, with a cart attached, loaded with vegetables was left standing at the corner opposite thp Roman Catholic Chapel. The animal sad denly started off down the street. One of the wheels came into collision with the verandah post of Mr. Witheford's ironmongery arid tinware shop, and brought the whole verandah to the ground. The horse and vehicle escaped uninjured, hut the owner of the horse and cart,.who was awav from it at the time, will doubtless have a little bill to pay for damages. - The many Auckland friends of Praf P «„,. Thomas Kirk, F.L.S., will be glad to S that the recent changes at the College, where he has been lecture? on Science for several years, has resulted in his promotion and pecuniary advancement He has now been appointed lecturer on Natural History to the Canterbury College of Asrrf culture, at a salary of £450 per annum amr certain fees. The appointment is a much higher one and much more lucrative than the cue recently advertised. The hi"h and well-knowu attainments of Professor Kirfe induced the Governors of the collece to secure his services. Professor Kirk before being appointed lecturer on Science in the Wellington College, was for a long time connected with the Auckland Institute and local Museum, and Secretary to the Accli matisation Society. Nothing new has transpired regarding the fire which destroyed Messrs. Ireland Brothers' tannery at Panmure. The police have been investigating the affair as there were susni cions of incendiarism, and are still pursuing their inquiries, but no suspicion attaches to any one, and so far there appears to be no reason to believe that the fire was other than , accidental. On Saturday the stone busline m which the engine and boi'er had been situated was pulled down as it was in a tottering condition. A large number of the 3kin3 which were in the pits have been saved The firm has set resolutely to work to face the difficulty before them, and no time will be lost in getting active operations started again. An ordination service took place at the morning service of St. Paul's Church yesterday. The service was conducted by the Bishop, assisted by Archdeacon Mannsell and Rev. C. M. Nelson. The gentleman ordained into deacon's orders was Mr. Hewston, a gentleman just arrived from England. He is to be appointed to the district of North Kaipara. The Bishop preached an impressive sermon, which was listened to with marked attention. Yesterday being' Palm Sunday, there were very large congregations at the respective services, especially at Vespers in St Patrick's Cathedral. The day has always been observed with great devotion by Roman Catholics, and this accounts in some measure for the above attendance. - His Grace Archbishop Steins celebrated the nine o'clock mass. There were a number of officers and men of the German warships now in harbour present. The Archbishop briefly addressed the congregation in English, and subsequently in German, to the great delight of his hearers of that nationality. At the eleven o'clock service, some Maories from Taimoro, Mangonui, attended, and these too had their prayers, hymns, &c, conducted under the guidance of Father Walter McDonald. The evening devotions had reference more immediately to the Bona Mors, or a happy death, which take place on the second Sunday of eacli month in the Cathedral. His Grace officiated, and delivered an earnest and highly instructive discourse. The choir rendered the chants suitable to the occasion in a very creditable manner. The church was appropriately draped, and the tout ensemble had a very pleasing effect. There was an unusually large number of prisoners in the cells last night. Amongst those were four on charges of drunkenness, William Kelt for being drunk and disorderly, John Wilson, under the Vagrant Act, charged with begging in Howe-street, and five sailors of the ship Oxford charged with embezzling cargo on the voyage from England. This makes a dozen of the crew now in custody for this offence. A painful accident is reported by the Rangitikei Advocate. A boy named Plunimer was, with a companion, fishing in the Makino stream. The other boy, in pulling his line out of the water, caught the hook in one of Plummer's eyes. The poor lad was taken home, and Dr. Johnston, of Fielding, was called in. The doctor found that it was impossible to remove the barbed hook without lanciag the eyeball, which was accordingly done. Of course the eyesight will be lost. Mr. R. Linn writes, in a letter in the Lyttelton Times, on New Zealand petroleum. He concludes by saying:—"Considering that New Zealand imports about £00,000 worth of petroleum annually, and if a producer might export ten times that amount, surely it is time the question of the existence of petroleum in merchantable quantities was set at rest by a thorough survey and practical test." An instance of what may happen to a land buyer in New Zealand was incidentallymentioned at the meeting" of the' Southland Waste Lands Board. While discussing au application one of the members remarked that he owned a section up-country, and he had learned recently that it was being used as a place of burial, two persons having already been interred there. This was regarded as convincing.proof that a "God's acre " was wanted in the locality mentioned, and an application for a cemetery reserve—. which had caused the remark—was granted. Resident landlordism has its advantages. To-day, at 2 o'clock, the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the South British Insurance Company will be held in the company's buildings, at the corner of Shortland and Queen streets. The operations of the half-year have been fairly successful. The Rev. Charles Pym will coinmencea series of addresses to business men to-day at 12 noon in the large hall of the New Zealand Insurance Buildings. These meetings will be continued at the same hour and place every day until Thursday. Mr. E. W. Burton, who has lately devoted a considerable amount of time to the study of prophecy, will to-night, at the meeting of the St. James's Discussion Class, predict the " Political destiny of the Australasian colonies." Mr. Burton will lift the curtain which hides the future from our eyes at 7.30 sharp. It will! be noticed on referring to our advertising columns that the Opera Company are to give a grand sacred concert on Friday evening (Good Friday.) Jn the concert the whole strength of the company will appear. The sacred concerts given by the company in the Southern ports of the colony were favourably spoken of by the local Press, and, no doubt, the one to be given on Friday night will be equal to any of its predecessors. The Victorian team of cricketers played eleven of South Australia, and won by 151 runs.

.The Rev. Mr. Byng, of Dunedin, was very :s«vere lately on those who neglect or refuse to contribute according to their means to 'the support of the Church. He said there were some who were extremely careful not .to put a fonrpenny instead of a threepennypiece into the plate, while others offered to the Lord mutilated or defaced coins that would be "shoved away at the grocer's counter and refused at the bank." They did not mind giving that which was of no value to themselves, but were not prepared to make the least self-sacrifice on account of the Church. If people cod tributed accord ing -to their means there would be no necessity to resoet to tea-meetings and such like expedients to raise funds for the work of God. No one ever heard of a tea-meeting being cot up for such a purpose as, say, the repairing of ■the Caledonian grand stand. No ; if an appeal were made for such an object one man would pat his. name down for £10, another for a couple of guineas, a third for half a sovereign, and so on. But when.it •came to a subscription for the church, instead of pounds, sixpences and threepences—many of them so knocked about as to be worthless were handed in. Such illiberality was not •creditable; it indicated an unwillingness to make a self-sacrifice such as God demanded. Mr. Doran's Variety Troupe will give an entertainment at Onehuuga on Wednesday next, and at the North Shore on Thursday. A brass band lias been engaged in order to add to the attractions of the performances. The Inspector-General of New South Wales Police reports that nearly 10 per cent, of the violent deaths in that colony last year are .attributable to intoxication. A true and authentic history of Government immigration to the Australian colonies (says the Sydney Telegraph) would astonish the public by the gross abuses that would be revealed. We speak not now merely of New •South Wale 3, but of all the colonies. Some of the abuses have been exposed. Persons coming outin otherpeople's names is aeommon -occurrence. Falsification of. age is regarded as a venial crime. A few years since in Victoria attention was publicly drawn to the fact that Lunatic and Benevolent Asylums and other charitable institutions were largely tenanted by contributions from the immigrant ships. Sir Henry Parkes himself has drawn atteution to the fact that our system of immigration was slowly but surely altering the character of the population. The same complaint was made in Victoria ten years ago. Irish people .are more disposed to emigrate than English or Scotch, and so it has come about that the former unduly preponderate in the immigration. Yesterday lorcnooti the Rev. Mr. Morley preached on the subject of "Baptism," at the Wesleyan Church, Pitt-street. He stated the arguments on the subject, which brought him to the conclusion that sprinkling was used in the early Churches. The New Zealand Times has the following respecting the case of Mr. Mills -.—"An advertisement elsewhere conveys the very satisfactory intimation of the resumption of business by Mr. E. W. Mills. It is needless on our part to do more than just allude to the circumstances of the veceut business embarrassments of Mr. Mills, and his final relief from them by order of the Supreme Court. We are sure that the Court's decision will be readily agreed to by the general publia, who have been acquainted with Mr. Mills for so many years, who have known him oiily as an upright and enterprising man of business. That he is now in a position to take a first step towards retrieving past losses will, we are convinced, be a matter for general congratulation amongst his fellowcitizens and his many friends throughout the colony. Mr. Miller, wo see, has secured his old foundry—'The Lion'—and, in conjunction with his reeeut foreman, but now partner, Mr. Cable, will carry on the foundry business under, as of yore, Mr. Cable's active superintendence. Messrs. Mills and Co. (the name of the new firm) have our hearty good wishes for their success, and we doubt "not that that -will be assured out of the much ' goodwill' of the old firm." To-day Mr. G. Lewis will hold a sale of the unredeemed pledges at the shop next to the Albert Hotel. The sale is a large one, the lots to be sold being many. . Mr. L. W. Eaton is to sell by auction tomorrow a large quantity of Hobart fruit, and a quantity of Island and Sydney oranges. . A list of defaulting shareholders in the Bismark Gold-mining Company is published in our advertising columns. Mr. W. J. O'Brien, of the New Zealand Bakery, Parnell, intimates by advertisement those desirous of hot cross buns to send in their orders not later thoii noon on Thursday, the 14th instant. There are now six dogs of various descriptions in the dog pound. Those who wish to release their pets mast apply to Mr. George Goldie, the dog registrar, at the City Council offices.