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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6190, 19 September 1881, Page 4

In consequence of the arrival of the matt we are compelled to hold over several letters to the editor. When the mail, which came to hand yesterday, closed in London en the 11th August, the 'following were the latest dates for the New Zealand and 4ustralian colonies, byway of San Francisco:—Melbourne 14th, Sydaey 16th, and Auckland 21st June. By way of the Suez Canal: Sydney 25th, and Melbourne 28th June. His Honor Mr. Justice Gillies has fixed Friday, the 30th instant, for hearing the claim to compensation brought by Mr. G. S_ Larkins against the Government for depriving him of water frontage. Mr. Larkins claims £600. This case presents many legal questions not yet determined by authoritative judicial decision, and will be interesting to the public. It will be a test case for others of a similar character which await the result. The assessors are Mr. A. Buckland for Government, and Mr. J. Newman for claimant. Before the Resident Magistrate (Mr.- J. E. Macdonald) on Saturday, an important case was tried, resulting in a judgment for the plaintiff by consent. The number of cattle straying on public roads have in some placesbecome a dangerons nuisance. Bulls have been known to attack travellers, and in one instance a fierce animal, with blind-board over his eyes, attacked a horse and cart and driver in the district in question. The action was one to recover damages for trespass, but the defendant said two of the cattle did not belong to him but to his brother. It was ■ stated that the roads in the Takapuna district, are much infested by wandering cattle. The particulars of the action will be found stated in another column.

The City Council will have a nice bill for damages to meet shortly, if they do not take steps to secure persons passing through Albert-street from falling over the embankment into Durham-street. Another accident occurred there on Saturday night. i.t a quarter to 10 o'clock, Mr. Chas. Williams, of Albert-street, reported to Sergeant Clarke that a man was lying injured at the foot of the embankment wall facing Durham-street. Serjeant Clarke, accompanied by Constable Collis, on proceeding to the place indicated, found an aged man named William Cam lying there, and unable to rise on account of a badly sprained ankle. He ivas at the bottom of the wall, where its height was from Sto 9 feet. Sergeant Clarke at once procured a cab, and had the old man conveyed to the hospital. The City Council, in erecting this retaining wall, had determined to raise a parapet for the protection of pedestrians, hi;* after the wall had been built another decision was arrived at, viz.,—that the parapet should be substituted by an ornamentitl iron railing. Well, neither parapet nbr railing are there at present, and the result-is two very serious accidents lave occurred. It is monstrous that no measures have yet been taken to prevent the occurrence of such accidents as these.

There was a good house at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, to witness the performance by the Lyons' Tourist Company. The various songs and dances were given with good effect, and were loudly applauded. To-night there will be an entire change of' programme, when will be produced the musical burletta, "Hash," and the sketch,. "An Hour at Seville." The Blackmore's and Home Rule battery ■will be started on Wednesday next. With a view to accommodating persons who wish to make a trip to Coromandel for~ the occasion, thep.s. Anne Milbank is announced to leave Auckland at 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, leaving Coromandel at the same hour on Wednesday night. Visitors will thus only lose one day. Messrs. A. and G. Price, ironfounders, Thames, have just completed, to the order of Mr. R. Kennan, the construction of 12 large, berdans of the most approved description. Mr. Kennan is connected with a number o£ influential Tasmanian gentlemen in a scheme which has for its object the reduction of quartz tailings upon the principle now in vogue on the Thames. The berdans were shipped per Te Anau for Hobart, via Melbourne. The fact that this order was entrusted to Messrs. Price Bros, reflects credit upon the ability and skill of the firm, and is another instance of the advancement the Thames has made In the matter of improved machinery for purposes. At the recent scholarship exrminations for the Wanganui educational district only two of the competitors for the four scholarships in Cla3s A attained the maximum of marks necessary, namely, Hugh Mclntyre and William J. Carson (son of Mr. Gilbert Carson, proprietor of the Wanganui Chronicle, and formerly of Auckland). The scholarships are of the value of £30 a-ysar. The usual meeting of the French Literary Club took place on Saturday evening, when Mr. T. Mahoney gave a short but interesting, lecture on "A Visit to the Sydney Exhibition," and M. Peltzer a reading from one of Erckman's Chatrian works.

Mr. Hanraer, the advance agent for Messrs.. Grant and Foster, has arrived on the Thames. His business on the Thames is in connection with furthering the interests of the party on arrival, the bulk of which will start from Home this month. The BostonMendelssohn'sQuintette Troupe, were passengers yesterday by the Zealandit for Sydney.

The'name 'pi Mr..C. 'O.' -McMillan, 'the chairman, of the Chamber, of Commerce,; was omitted-from the list of provisional directors of the N. Z.'and S.P.S.S.,' Company, in a paragraph in Saturday's paper. ;,:, : ~ ... The Thame3 Advertiser states :—" We had'hoped'the Thames-wouldnolonger be : subject to the dictates o£ the so-called Central Committee in election matters, but we are informed that a. local candidate for political honours has not only solicited the Assistance of the'Gentral Committee, but has written to Sir George Grey in Wellington, asking him to communicate in writing his approval of his candidature, which Sir George has politely declined to do." Our Cambridge correspondent writes : —' "Mr. W. R.'Carter, whose accident-1 wired to you on Thursday, is rapidly improving under Dr. Waddington's skillful care. The Cambridge and Piako road is a rough one where the accident took place, causing the seat to capsize, and thus throwing Mr. Carter out. It appears that three of his ribs were broken." : Sophia Burke, a well-known liahitu& of Chancery Lane, whose name appears frequently in the police records, again overstepped the bounds on Saturday, and is once again an inmate of the cells. She w&s somewhat boisterous on Saturday afternoon, and was put out of the Auckland Hotel by the waiter. To relieve her wounded feelings she sent a stone flying through the bar window, and then made off. Returning home at night she was observed by Detective Brennan, who gave chase. Sophia rushed towards the door of the Auckland Hotel, and gained an entrance before sha was captured. She became very excited, lay down on the floor and kicked, causing considerable destruction amongst the handsome pot plants with which Mr. Hamley has lined the hall. She will be charged to-day with wilful damage to property, and also under the Vagrant Act, with having no lawful visible means of support. James McGrath is in custody for using obscene language, and assaulting Constable McConnell. Francis McMahon is in for assaulting his \rife and son; and Alexander Lynch is charged with stealing a fowl, valued at ss, the property of Margaret Carroll. A very violent man named Charles Chimuon was arrested last night by Constable McConnell, for being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language. He gave a great deal of trouble to the arresting constable, McConnell, and in the struggle succeeded in destroying his uniform past redemption, but assistance was procured, and he was conveyed to the station. He will be called on to answer to the three charges to-day, and account for his extraordinary conduct.

A little girl aged four or five years, daughter of Mr. Anderson, underground boss at the Waiotahi mine, was nearly drowned from the goods wharf on Saturday. She, with several companions, were playing near the p.s. Enterprise, when she tumbled into the water. Her playmates called to Mr. Taylor, mate of the vessel, and one of the crew instantly plunged in to the rescue. And he was none too soon, as the little one's life was ebbing fast away. The following is a list of tenders received on Saturday by Mr. E. Bartley for the new Opera House :— C. Chatwaiu, f 6350 ; C. Rhodes, £5530 ; T. Constable, i^oS; Baildon and Stephenson. £5450 ; J. Heron, £5473; McConnochie and Platt, £5430; H Shailer, £5394; A. McGuire, £5340 ; G. Rhodes, £5300; J. Holland, f 5270; S. Gray, £5250; J. Currie, £5090; W. Blewden, £-1993 ; W. Philcox, £4954; J. Malcolm; £4957 ; Jones and Pollard, £4547; C. Wright, £4775. We understand that this is only the first contract. The total cost of the building will be £7000. A lecture on " Leon Gambetta, French Statesman and Patriot," will be delivered by M. H. S. F. Peltzer, at the meeting of the St. James' Class to-night. As M. Peltzer was familiarly acquainted with Gambetta while he was a young attorney ju3t struggling into practice, the lecture no doubt will be specially interesting. Mr. Henry Edward Stehr, the manager of the New Zealand Timber Company's sawmills and bashes at Whangapoua, has been arrested on several charges of embezzlement in connection with the company's affairs. The hearing of the case has been remanded to Tuesday, and no particulars have yet been made public. The anniversary services of the Wellesleystreet Baptist Church were held yesterday. The Rev.~A. W. Webb conducted the service in the morning, and preached from the S4th Psalm, verse 11—"For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory ; no good things will be withheld from them that walk uprightly." Mr. Spnrgeon preached in the evening from the passage in the Ist chapter of Mark—"lf thoa wilt thou canst make clean." There were large congregations, and the collections amounted to the sum of £26 6s 7d. The usual soiree will be held to-morrow evening (Tuesday), at 6.30, at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Mr. Jeffe lectured last evening at the Lome-street Hall on, " Can a Man Believe as he Pleases ?" The tenor of the lecture ■was a decided negative. Mr. George Brown, at the close of the lecture, put the lecturer through his faciDgs in a series of questions. At one time there threatened to be a "scene," as the rival parties cheered their respective champions. There were about one hundred persons present, of whom about half-a-dozen were ladies.

The American papers have been recording, as a telenraphic feat, the transmission on twenty-one wires of some 54.000 words— a great portion of the Revised New Testament—in seven hours. As we stated the other day, the officers of tho New Zealand Telegraphic Department hold the feat very cheaply, and can make much better practice as operators. The statement of the American Press attracted the notice of the telegraphists in the New South Wales Telegraph Department, and they state that their own operators have shown that the quadruples machinery actually in operation at present between Sydney and Melbourne is capable of 42,000 words in the same time on one wire, and that, therefore, twenty-one wires fitted with snch appliances are capable of teufold the work to that which has so much astonished tie Americans. It is stated that with multiplied machinery between Europe and Australia similar to that between Sydney and Melbourne, it would be possible to transmit in one year to Europe and back (half each way) 52,560,000 words.

A working manager for the Wanganui Gas Company is wanted. Applications have to be sent by the 30th instant. A preliminary call of two-pence is made in the Nsw Colonial Gold Mining Company, payable on or before the 10th October. Legal proceedings are to be taken against all the ratepayers in the city who aroin arrear. Mr. C. K. Jeffs (Iconoclast) will deliver his second lecture in the Ix)rne-streethall to-mprrow evening. The subject of the lecture Is " The Mosaic Account of the Creation." On the 29th instant the opening performance of the Auckland Dramatic Society is to be given in the Theatre Boyal, in aid of the Southern Kussian relief fund. This evening a meeting of those members of the A O.F. who have given in their names for the Ancient Order of Shepherds, will be held in the Alex-andra-street school-room, at half-past 8 o clock. To-day, Mr. L. W; Eaton will hold a sale of bananas and other fruit. Application is made to register the Tiki Welcome GoKT Mining Company. The nominal eatdttl of tho conpany is £7500 in sharct of 19s MCB. 1& J. &B»eewn Jβ tte manager. ',