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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6097, 2 June 1881, Page 4

The adjourned meeting of the Eden County Council was to have been held last night, but it was ruled under section 12 of the Counties Act, 1576, that the Council (as the Act was not in operation) had no power to transact any business. The following resolutions were to have been proposed at the meeting by Mr. Suiter : —" That this Council of the County of Eden, respectfully requests the Government, so to alter the representation of the ridings of Grafton and Parnell, county of Eden, provincial district of Auckland, so as to allow Grafton riding (population 5S00) two representatives instead of one, and reduce the number of representatives of Paruell riding (population 3010) to one instead of two, as at present."— '' That the Eden County Council, provincial district of Auckland, respectfully requests the Government during the approaching session of Parliament, to amend the system of local self government by—lst : Abolishing the Counties Act, 1576, and any amendments thereto. 2nd :By amending the Highways Act, IS7I, and amendments thereto, creating larger districts, and extending their powers."

A letter has been received by a gentleman in Auckland from Rear - Admiral Wilson (commanding the Australian station) to the effect that the two young Princes, according to present arrangements, may be expected to arrive in. Auckland about the 2Sth instant. This programme, however, is subject to alteration in the event of H.M.S. Bacchante being ordered home or into dock for repairs. Their stay in Auckland -will not exceed five days. At tomorrow's meeting of the City Council the Mayor will probably mention what arrangements he proposes to make in connection with the reception of these young Princes. Apparently it is not the desire of their father that they should be lionised or feted in auy extravagant manner, as they can do nothing and receive no courtesy without the leave of the Admiral commanding the squadron. But in Auckland, as in Melbourne, it will no doubt be the desire of the citizens to show some special courtesies to the officers of the squadron, and especially to the young Princes.

The Inspector of Prisons completed his periodical inspection of Mount £deu gaol yesterday forenoon, and proceeds to Napier in the Te Anau this morning. We understand that much of Captain Hume's time and thought since his arrival in the colony, has been spent in preparing a scheme for placing the gaolers and their officers on a proper footing as regards pay and allowances, promotion, leave, &c. The scheme, on completion, was submitted to the Government for approval, and a sum has now been entered on the estimates carrying the recommendations into effect. AVe congratulate Captain Hume on his forethought, in considering and endeavouring to better the position of the prison warders, who at present are very hardworked and not too well paid. The Inspector is evidently of opinion that if he looks after the interest of his subordinates, they in their turn will be more attentive to their duties.

The Auckland Presbytery met yesterday, the Rev. Mr. Monro, Moderator, in the chair. There was a great deal of business of importance to the church disposed of. The Rev. McKenzie Fraser, of Geelong, was introduced and associated with the Presbytery during his stny in Auckland ; Mr. McLellaud, a student of two years in Edinburgh, was admitted to his third year's course of studies. Mr. David Norrie, son of the Rev. T. Norrie, of Papakura, was admitted as a student under the Presbytery. The principal subject of discussion was the reading of the Bible in schools. The outline of the discussion and the general proceedings will be found in another column.

A letter was \icar-Gk.neral, Very Rev H T fL y^: Archbishop the following-is an extract £* been no groat change since my last w nor can I think of going to Europe I am glad that I did not tafctK cisco steamer—such, a long iouraSri Vv~ not have been p good soon as there is question of my lelvWs 8 ney I shall let it be known. Give toy to all who are charitable enough t?Wr* me. i* io!.;

A Prcsbyterial Visitation was held u'-i evening, m St. Andrew's Cmuch Thu ■ an old practice of the Church of ScotWi? revived upon the recommendation of*! General Assembly of the PresbvW Church of New Zealand. The 2* meeting of the Presbytery 'Jsg% to the evening when the" con<4S„ is assembled. Questions are %„i I the Clerk of Presbytery, the the Presbytery being m the chair, to tS Elders and omce-bearers as to the manner in which their several duties are aiscuaJed The prescribed questions were put to tv Deacons and Elders, last night, as to the hoU ing of the Kirk Session, the reading of th» Scriptures, and the visitation of the sic* - There was a moderate attendance of t)» congragatiou. e

Our correspondent writes that a sued,* meeting of the Onehungc. Borough Council was held on Tuesday evening for a, purpose of making a by-law to provide for cleaving and keeping clear the streets and roads from all overgrowth of fences of furze, bramble, &c. After considerable discussion on the details, the various clauses were agreed to. A meeting for the final adon. tion of the by-law will be held in a month"* time.

Tenders were deposited yesterday iathe Public Works Office for the extension of tht Wkangarei railway a length of a mile and twenty-seven chains. The extension is mostly over level ground, hut the contract includes a bridge over Lime-burners' Creekof six spans twenty feet each, and a wharf 700 feet in length and thirty feet wide. Wt learn that nine Auckland tenders have been deposited, but no information can yet be obtained as to th» cost of the work.

The June number of the Church Gazette has been published. From it vre learn that everything is "going on swimmingly at the Melanesian Mission." A more than iisnally interesting collection of Diocesan intelligence appears this month, amongst Which o is a notice of the recent meeting of the Orphan Home, Parnell. The parochial intelligence columns are well filled, and an appeal by Mr. Shirley W. Hill is made on behalf of the Young Women's Institute. A portion of Rev, W. Tebbs's paper "On the Church in England," is published, and also a portion of the paper by Rev. W. Calder, "On the Sunday School." These papers: were read at the last Church meeting, Which has been held. Notices of books, Sun-day-school lessons, &c., complete the pre•ant number.

It appears that the "fire in Graham-street was first observed by Constable O'Conner, on duty on the Queen-street Wharf; he whistled to Constable Rist.of QuefiL-street, who ran to the New Zealand Insurance Buildings, roused up Mr. Pigott, who rang the fire-bell in the turret, both policemnn rushing on to the scene of the fire. It was not, they state, till they reached the horning house, that the Auckland Timber Company's mill bell began to ring. Sergeant Clarke, and Constables O'Conner, Rist, and McCormiek, aided by a number of civilians, succeeded in clearing the most of the furniture out of the building. None of it had been insured by Mr. Anderson*. An examination of the building to-day shows that in addition to the out-kitchen and adjacent apartment,, the whole of the back portion of the main building is gutted arid charred. No light has been positively thrown upon the origin of the fire. It appears that a fire had been made up outside the kitchen in the yard during the clay, for the purpose of boiling the washed clothes, and it is just possible that some sparks may havs communicated with the eoal-housc, as the fire was still smouldering at an advanced hour in tha evening.

The North Shore Ferry steamer Tainui and the schooner Christina came into collision yesterday afternoon near the railway wharf, but the damage done was trifling. The Tainui was steaming from the Shore at about six knots, and ou nearing the railway wharf the Christina was bearing down upon her close-hauled in n northerly direction, the schooner's course being south and slightly east, Apparently she was shaping for Mechanics 1 Bay, at the rate of eight or nine knots. The master: of the ferry boat, Mr. Ncill, waved his hand three times in a way calculated to indi'cjze that he desired the schooner to luff up, and at the same time turned out of his corusSf running to the eastward of the pier and inside the red buoy. The master of theCaristina, on the other hand, cried out to the steamer to stop. The schooner did not luff, but instead, it is said, put his helm hard over, and ran with a somewhat freer sheet. The result of the combined manoeuvres was that the Christina overtook the steamer,. anil struck her within two feet of the stern. The schooner's bobstay caught in the rail of the steamer, and she carried the Taiaui round as if she were a little boat. A portion, of the Tainui's rail was carried away, and some other slight injury inflicted. There were a considerable number of passengers ou the Tainui, and the event caused not a little consternation, especially amongst the ladies. An inquiry into the matter will probably be held. Both the masters have the best possible record. Mr. iseiU is an old and thoroughly reliable servant of the North Shore Ferry "Company, and is very popular with the passengers. Mr. Evanson, of the Christina, has been connected with Auckland shipping for many years. The Messrs. Oxley, in whose employ he was as a master for two or throe years, say they cannot speak too highly of him M being a careful and intelligent seaman. He never cost them a penny for extraordinary repairs. Captain Garraway, with whom he was last, was sorrv to part with him. He is a total abstainer" The p.s. Te Aroha will take up the running of the Tainui to-day to allow of her being laid up for repairs.

A private coursing match came off yesterday between Mr. H. Whelan's blk d Musket and Mr. J. Walters' r d Snider on tbe grounds of Mr. McLoughlan, of Papatoetoe, which was specially given for this occasioi', which was for £20 a-side. The match resuited in an easy victory for Mr. Walfa* dog. Mr. T. R. O'Kceffe acted as judge, with Mr. J. Fergusson as slipper, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. There were no arrests at all made by the police yesterday, and the lock-up e '3£ i t 1 had a solitary time during the night. previous night was enlivened by high S ,c . songs, sun;:, no doubt, somewhat out tune, but the vocalism broke the monoton> of the lonely watch. The " drunkards have been so steadily sent togao on long sentences, that the solitary Pf»; ce ;. men on the streets hardly find sumcieiu employment to keep them thorougmy awake. Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company vnl> make their first appearance at the Royal on Monday evening. " H-M : S. - "*" fore" will be performed. The troup « performers number nearly one hundred. A» scenery is designed and modelled by Ur. S. Willis.

A sitting of the Licensing Court will be held on Tuesday, first, at noon, when we nnderstandthat another application will be jnade for the house at Archill, now occupied as a working man's club.

Mr. Bigelow has declined Mr. Waymouth's challenge for another trial between the Made* and the Observer. This he was quite justified in doing, yet it is a pity that no further test as to the merit of the boats can be had. In the last race the Observer seemed to be holding her own with the Madge when the accident occurred, and in the previous one she was next boat to the Imp when her mast carried away.

A very iateresting exhibition of monster carrots was held at Mr. Canham's store, High-street, yesterday, and it occurred it this way.- Mr. W. J. Marks, of Epsom, and Mr. Cruickshank, of Mechanics' Bay, are both greatly interested in this species of gardening, and they challenged for an exhibition, and Mr. Canham and Mr. S. Morrin were appointed judges. Those exhibited by Mr. Marks were of the white variety, very clean in the skin, lengthy, and well proportioned, and weighing from 7|lbs. downwards. Those exhibited by Mr. Cruickshank were also white, but were more stumpy in appearance, and had warty surfaces, but were really splendid roots. The prize was awarded to Mr. Marks' exhibit.

A funeral procession by night has hitherto been an unusual circumstance on the Thames, but last evening such a scene was witnessed about 7 o'clock. Two children belonging to Mr. George Smith, of Pollen-street, having become victims to scarlatina—of which there are many cases in the borough—died yesterday morning, and in compliance with a notice from the Local Beard of Health to bury the remains within twelve hours, the funeral took place last night. There were present a large following, the cortege being preceded by one of the party carrying a lantern, which gave the procession a weird- like appearance. It is-to he sincerely hoped that the" precautionary measures being taken to prevent the" spread of- the disease will be effectual. —Thames Advertiser, June 1.

The Wesleyan body in Hamilton have decided on building a new church in Hamilton, the cost of which will be about £500, and seat some two hundred people, but do not intend to commence the building until they have £200 in hand. Subscription lists have been opened, and the clergy and others have begun an active canvas, and have already collected over £60. The sum required to make a start will doubtless be raised in a short time, as not only will the members of the Wesleyan congregation themselves, but those of other religious bodies assist in this matter, common cause in church building having always been made as a rule in Waikato.—[Hamilton Correspondent.]

Mr. W. Lyell, of Drury, not content with the narrow escape he experienced on Tuesday afternoon at the Auckland railway station by attempting to enter a railway carriage while in motion, has rushed into print with «uiy apocryphal explanation of the accident— namely, that he was seized from behind by some person, and so fell upon the landing, and thus lost his passage. As he has subjected himself to the possibility of a prosecution for a breach of the railway regulations, he would have done better to have "let sleeping dogs lie," rather than to have attempted to brazen it out.. In all probability Mr. A. V. Macdonald, the general manager, will afford him an opportunity of repeating his remarkable explanation of the accident in open Court, and of identifying his "would-be saviour," who caused him to fall on the landing, and thus lost him his passage. The Melbourne Daily Telegraph says .- — "The Coffee Tavern Company, in their report to be presented at the fifth half-yearly meeting, state that the business at No. 1 continues to produce satisfactory results, and the alterations made in "No. 2 have caused a marked improvement in the returns. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and a bonus of 2J per cent, on the amount paid-up is declared by way of reimbursing for the time that no dividend •was paid on the investments of the shareholders. Referring to the new premises to be erected, the directors state that they have secured a valuable site on the north side of Bourke-street, having 52 feet frontage by the depth of 194 feet along a right-of-way, thus giving on the west side full advantages of light and air. To occupy this site, for which a lease has been obtained for the term of forty years, they have accepted tenders from the plans of Mr. William Pitt for a tavern of full basement, with superstructure of four floors in front and five floors in rear. The cost of this building and its furniture will equal the whole of the nominal capital of the company, and the directors therefore ask power to raise the whole of the originally determined number of shares (20,000). The frontage will afford space for two good shops and entrance vestibule in the centre. The rent of the shops will materially reduce the ground rent: and after allowing for main dining room, ladies' and private dining rooms, &c, there will be 120 sleeping apartments for the accommodation of all classes. The desirability of opening "taverns in other populous parts of the city has not been lost sight of."

Settlement in the Aroha district is progressing rapidly, and the plain above the township is beginning to present a civilised appearance, being dotted over /with substantial houses, attached to which are farms that are being quickly brought into cultivation. Most of the holdings are lenced, and on each cattle are running. Mr. Roche, one of the Lincolnshire party, has taken up his residence on this block of land, set apart for him, which is a thousand acres in extent, and equal in. quality to any land in the Waikato, and is having plans prepared for a dwelling-house to cost £1500. He lias purchased two or three hundred head of young cattle in the Waikato, and placed them on the property, which ho will shortly start to fence. Mr. Roche is possessed of considerable means, and will no doubt make a very successful settler.—Thames Advertiser.

The time between San Francisco and New York over the Central Pacific Railroad has been reduced to six and a half days. The trains leave at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, instead of 8 in the morning as heretofore.

The Sydney Morning Herald says :—"The agents of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company (Messrs. Gilchrist, "Watt, and Co.) have been studying the convenience of travellers from this port to America, and have made arrangements by which a full set of American railway tickets for the principal roads in the United States and Canada may be purchased in Sydney. This provision trill be advantageous to travellers, inasmuch as it gives them an opportunity of selecting their line of travel before leaving Sydney, thereby avoiding the annoyance and delay of exchanging their order for railway tickets in San Francisco."

A* a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Health, Dr. Laivlor called the attention of the Board to the fact that there was no clause in the quarantine laws to guide him in the matter of vessels from Australia ■which stopped at Auckland and at Honolulu, the latter an infected port. Heretofore such vessels after arriving in this port after being seventeen days out, if found in good sanitarycondition, had not been quarantined, and yet they- could not have a clean bill of health, as they had taken passengers from an infected port.

Inspector Goldie has a number of dogs in the ppund_ at the present time. Some of these imprisoned animals are useful as well as valuable, but they will all be destroyed if the owners do not claim them, pay for a collar, and any other expenses that may have been incurred. Yesterday half-a-dozen offenders against the provisions of the Dog Registration Act were brought up at the Police Court, and as they were the first cases of the kind they were leniently dealt with on securing a collar for their four-footed companions. The Bench promised that those who might be subsequently brought before the Court on a similar charge would not fare so well. All who have unregistered dogs should have them registered at once or destroyed, because the law is being enforced.

Mr. H. Bastings, Secretary of the Waimea Plains Railway Company, authorises the contradiction of the statement in an Invercargill telegram yesterday that the company had stopped running to Elbows and Kingston. It is a pure fabrication.

A correspondent signing "Advance Auckland" writes :—'' If you will take a walk up Queen-street you will see in a grocer's window two large kerosene tins full of jam, one gooseberry and raspberry, with a New Zealand shingle stuck in each to ladle it out to customers. How can such industry compete with the nicely got up tins of Tasmania ? In another instance a crochetty individual induced the City Council to lay an information against a bone crusher as a nuisance. In this instauce an open public sewer runs through the bone - crusher's premises ; of conrso, according to the usual run of corpo-ratior-s, the smell cannot possibly arise from the open sewer, but must emanate from the bones. How can local industries thrive unless they are encouraged ? Money will be dear some day, then local industries will be a stand by. Now is the time to encourage them, more especially those which give the poorer classes employment."

The following is the report of the Auckland Lunatic Asylum and old Hospital Auxiliary for the week ending May 28th, 1881 : Remained last week, 241 ; admitted since, 0; discharged, 0; died, 0 ; remaining, 165 males, 76 females; total, 241. Thanks are returned to Mr. Masey Thompson, for a bcx of games, kindly given for the amusement of the patients.

A pack of twelve harriers and a racehorse, Cadogan, arrived in Lyttelton on May 25th, by the Remington, from London. The horse is consigned to Mr. G. G. Stead, and the dogs to Mr. Thomas Hamlyn, of Kingsr borough, near Timaru. All have arrived in grand condition. Cadogan is by Cremome, out of Chance by Adventurer, and ran second for the Two Thousand Guineas in 1879. He is about 15 hands high, a bay with black points.

About 14,000 eggs have already been obtained from the American brook trout at Opawa, Canterbury, and there aro still many fish to be stripped. From the healthy appearance of the eggs, Mr. Johnson anticipates a very successful hatching, notwithstanding that a large proportion are from only two-year-old fish, which have turned out to be quite aa productive as the English variety at three years old.