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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6403, 26 May 1882, Page 4

The sitting of the City Council (iu committee) was held yesterday evening. The principal subject discussed, was the rival sites for the Town Hall and Corporation Buildings iu \\ ellesley-street East and the junction of Grey and Upper Queen-streets. The discussion is reported at considerable length in another column. A resolution by Mr. \Y addel that the question should be decided by a vote of the ratepayers, was agreed to, the question of lor-.n to'erect the buildings, to bt included in the decision. The Chairman of the Harbour Board has received telegrams irom the Premie-r, stating that the plans for the filling in contract for the new railway station have been approved of, and tenders for the work will be called for in a few days. The weekly sitting- of the Resident Magistrate's Court was held yesterday. The particulars will be found in another column. The det iils are not of anj' general interest. Sir William Fox, who is at present in this city on a visit, intends to leave for New Plymouth by the Government steamer Stella tomorrow. While at Xew Plymouth he will prepare his progress report on West Coast matters for presentation to Parliament. On Wednesday night a bushman named Charles Hoy was admitted into the hospital, from Waikomiti, who was suffering from severe contusions on his side, and a wound on the top of lais head. He had also some severe burns on his neck. According to his statement, while working on Saturday in the bush the limb of a tree had fallen on him, and that he lay on the spot till next morning m a state of unconsciousness, after which he crawled to iiis hut. Here .Mr. James Cantwell found him iu a deplorable condition, with his wounds undressed, and without food. After attending to the sufferers immediate wants lie had him removed to the hospital. Hoy could give no intelligible account as to how he came by the burns on liis neck. Shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday, while A. McMillan, a porter, was wheeling a load of goods of considerable weight: to Messrs. 11. -Conks and Co.'s auction mart. and was backing the hand-cart, it suddenly tilted up on account of the goods slipping "down, and he was hoisted oil his feet. In his endeavours to bring- the cart to its proper position, one of the shafts broke, and McMillan fell to the ground, and fractured bis ankle bad! v. Some gentlemen who witnessed the accident at once procured a cab, and sent the injured mau oil to the hospital in charge of Sergeant McGovcm. ° The St. Heliers Land Association have got the plan of their property, near the Tamaki, as surveyed by Mr. Hickson. lithographed. Those interested in the enterprise can now obtain a copy oi the lithographed plan from the office of the association. As a scale of prices lias been agreed upon by the directors, it would be well to bave the schedule of prices printed, so that it could accompany the plan, and thus give intendis:;.' investors all the facilities possible of know" ing what the price of each allotment is as they pass over the ground on a tour u f inspection. Yesterday afternoon -here was to be seen a very handsome set oi harness manufactured at Mr. Wiseman's establishment. IGS, Queenstreet, to the order of the Kamo pany. It lias been pronounced by competent judges the best ever seen in Auckland. Numbers of persons were aroau-.l to see the harness fitted to rlie horse. Dr. V, allis delivered a very intcresi.iiil:' lecture on "Citizenship of VVoineu" last night, at the Newton Athenauin, lato the Newton Kirk, in Kast-ssreet. It is the first of a series of popular lectures which Dr. Walk's proposes to deliver in this hall. It would appear, however, that the public are. not yet educated up tothe .lector's ideas 0,1 women's rights, and this might account ior the paucity of the attendance hist night. Dr. Walk's lias an intimate knowledge oAke arguments on this subjiiol, having several times brought it beiore the House oi' l{eprcseatatives, and he went over the whole ground 111 a very al.de manner. At the conclusion, he announced that his next lecture would be given on .Tune 1. The subject would be "Robert Burns, his Life and Poetry." Theie -uere in t:io lock-up List eveni'i-"'— two men on charges of drunkenness ; Andrew Johnston. i Vt-rs-n, larceny ; William Lee (on \varra::i!. l'cr wife desertion. A man named Andrew Johnston. <dla.< J etersen, was yesterday arrested by Detective Jones, 011 a charge oi stw-Jin" a watch h-oni Adam Nixon, oi the steamer Argyle. Lhe watch was traced by the detective to *t pawnshop where it had been pawned, and from information received Johnston was arrested. Something ought to be doue in the way of sanding the asphalt pavement irontin-'the Opc-ra House. The continual traiiiiT ha* made it as slippery as ice. Last eveninrr a boy slid a distance of six feet falling on the back of his head with considerable force. An inquest will »be held to-day at the ! Lunatic Asylum, on the body of a male patient who died there rather suddenly.

room whi h COQ k c^* I**1** Rev Mn Davis, in the absence of iL p e K £. Bree, the incumbent, through imposition, presided. Our space■ ™i& mitof an extended critique, but the e.**' was au unqualified success, ,11 the n e rfo r rt acquitting themselves crelli tablv were tacitly forbidden, owing to the lS Of the programme, the only i n *t4ee in it was broken through being inMr t rendering of "Caller Herriu »"J Jtf£ D ' s imperative re-call was demanded. Th e fof and Hamilton; song, " W^Baefc'^ Ferry,'- Mrs. Campbell; ~ on ~ Farei-eIL" Mr. Carder'; p£'nofoX £? "Amoretten Tanze, 7, Alices l : Hamilton; "The Blue Miss Henderson: vocal duet «T« ♦£ Woods," Misses Langsfonl aud Main ; ,„£* "II- ear no Foe, ■ Mr. Smith; •' The M,w " bank," Miss Fisher; •■ Sweetheart." \t Main ; "Caller Herrin," Mrs. Upton ;voS duet Mesdames Campbell and Wimbfeda Readings and recitations oi an amnsiV character were very effectively given hV Messrs Warren, Entncan, and Smith. The Ecv. Mr Dav,s moved a vote ot thanks to all Wflo had so kindly assisted in riaki* the entertainment a success, and ■■• passed by acclamation. Votes of thank were also passed to Mrs. Quick for the W of her piano, and to Captain Elliott for tht use of flags to d;:cora.te the hall It w « announced that the next of the series wo-uV j be given a month hence. A full and final rehearsal of those pep-rine to Rive the concert in aid of the O-phaS-Home is to be held on Saturday evemn" ir the Choral Hall. The Ponsonbv Cho* will practice at the Ponsonby Kail this even, ing at half-past seven o'clock. We have to hand a copy of the Aucklander, a monthly magazine, edited by member* oi the Church of England Grammar School" Pai-neh. It contains a good deal of interest'! ing information. Captain William Jackson Barry, the wellknown author and lecturer, is to deliver tsrc" lectures in the Lome-street Hall next week The lectures will be given on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The subject of these discourses will be colonial experiences—hi* trip to England and interview with the claimant to the Tiehborne (.states. AH old colonists are invited to attend. A poll of the ratppaym-s of the Karan« a . hape district will take J); ace to-day, to determine whether there shali be any increase c! publicans' licenses. The place of polling ij the Primitive Methodist school-room, Upper Pitt-street, Xewton, and *he hours of polhV from 9 a.m. to G p.m. h The young men, Walter Sayers, who was drowned from the steamer Fituai, off Mercury Bay harbour, was.it appears not a gwnd.:gger, as stated in yesterday's issue, but- a bushman who had been working at Sehaffe and Ansemie's mill. Owing to indisposition, Mr. Josiah Martin is unable to give his promised lecture tonight, the. opening one of the annual series connected with the Young Men's Christian Association. The Rev. McKenzie Frazer kindly offered to change places on the piogramme with Mr. Mars in, but the committeehave taken advantage of Sir Wiiliam Fox being in Auckland to get him to give a lecture, and he has courteously consented to do so. His lecture this evening will be descriotive of a trip to Eugland throuch America, and as he is an eloquent and forcible speaker, and endowed with much wit and humour, he is sure to be greeted with a full house. A part,\ of Maoris yesterday stopped theconstruction of the telephone" at Ho'sianga on the plea that- it was goinj: over their land. Mr. Yon Stunner, the Resident Magistrate of the district, succeeded, how-' ever, in arranging matters amicahiv. and the work is now proceeding withouc interruption. Mr. W. Lumsdeu, of the Auckland Telegraph Department, who Was transferred tcWellington at the opening of the Christchurch Exhibition, has again returned here to his old post. Several of the Southern stations have been working short-handed, and a number of the old " strikers" art gradually getting back into the ranks again. Messrs. Oppeaheimer and Co., of Auok land, have obtained no less than five awards at the Christchurch Exhibition, namely, gold medal for a splendid exhibit of kauri E;um ; gold medal for Mast, Foos, and Co.'s iron turbine wind engine; highest order of merit (silver medil) for Cleveland Steam Gauge Co.'s portable forges on the score of simplicity of construction, general usefulness, and cheapness of price ; silver aieds.l- - Mast, Foos, and Co.'s buckeye force pump; aucl silver medal for P. Moir Crane, aud Co.'s patent lubricating oil. This was the only Auckland li.-m which went to any great trouble aud expense to be represented at the Exhibition, and the above result must be satisfactory to them. On Monda}' and Tue.-d;:v the Australia:: cricketers played a match at Twickenham, j which resulted in a draw in favour of-the I Orleans Club. The Englishmen went in first, and put together 271 in their first I innings' , . Tiie following iiav the Australians j took the" willow, and were all disposed of .for lo runs. Being such a large number of runs behind their opponents, ';;nu only a twe clays' match, they followed on, and scored •240, for the loss of nh:o wickets. Murdoch kept up his reputation by puling together 107 runs (not out), aud only giving one chance. It is not surprising that the Aastra-, lians should be disp sed of for so small a I score, as the Orleans Club i≤ the. pick of I Middlesex. Some judges consider they are only second to the Gentlemen of England. Mr" 1. U. Walker, who was in Now Zealand a short time ago, was a me Tiber of the Orleans Club, and no doubt played in thismatch. Yestjrday the colonial team commenced a three days' niatcli against the county of Surrey at the Oval. It is reported that Mr. Hunt, of Shotovel fame, aud the pioneer of the Thames goldfield, has made an important discovery 01 gold- I .earing quartz iu a ne.v district between the Thames and Coromandel. Mr. Hunt) who is now residing at Coromandel, has been, out on a prospecting tour for sw.o ti:ne past Our Thames correspondent writes ou Thursday as follows :—Edward Quinlivan, whilst riding the cob iu the hurdle race yesterday, was thrown, the horse rolling oa him. Luckily no bones are broken,_!::ongh he is severely shaken and bruised, i''-' taken to the hospital, and is processing favourably. The usual monthly meeting of the Unionstreet Wesl-jyan Baud of Hope was heiii h*\ evening in the school-room. There was & very good muster of members, and a gOOO programme of songs and w^ , gone through very creditably. Mr. Kosserand others gave some suitable recitations. The following tenders have been received by Mr. H. G. Wade, architect, for tiie ■ erection of branch premises for Messrs. Reid and Gray, Duncdin, in Ciistomhousestrcet East:—John Currie, J 60S (accepted) ?■ J. J. Holland, £125; J. W. James, £if>J., Ellingham, £764; G. Rhodes, £/«">' Jones and Pollard, £777 ; H. T. £81S; T. T. Constable, £837; W- G,ll '" £870.

~- ril^rl r^m _ theWanganui papers We observe koi Schwarzbaeh tha *' a f fl lSn"Tb.e Human Eye," ft theienefit of the Wanganui Hospital, ior the ueu jiayor presidinc. Some mS Questions were put to" the lee interesting questK) > answer Qne W ™ 7 T?Schwarzbach remarked that the of them Dr. -en , b Wilkins, the front 01 9 ?n_eeve to another would never lead IffflCta. Similar experiments l a d P been made in Germany 20 years ago, but Sad been abandoned as fruitless. The trans- :!=-.="'.'■*"= human eye. TVTr-H G Wade, architect, has been appointed on behalf of the City Council, and ' Mr Keals, on behalf of the insurance comnanies to assess the damage occasioned to the Market House by the late fire. A variety of rumours having got into circulation in connection with the UsSigate the circumstances. There has been some talk of foul play in connection with t.ie Set but there is no evidence at present to justify such a conclusion. The annual social gathering of the Auckland Recreation Club will take place thw evening in the Temperance Ha\l. The programme consists of songs, dancing, games &c The feature of the evening's amusement is 'a charade founded upon a pollysyllabio WO rd which has been raked out of the debris of a Spelling Bue. In it a highly esteemed and respected local philosopher will impersonate '' Auld Clootie," a character to which he has devoted some study for months past. A correspondent at Waipn sends a long letter on the working of the Licensing Act in that district. The statements maue are important, and we recommend the subject to the notice of Sir William Fox. The district is a lar"-e one, the population exceeding SOO souls and it is stated that no other district Dossessin"- the same number is without at least one° public-house. The community is not however, a sober one. There are, our correspondent states, four notorious sly-grog shanties, which sell a large quantity of poisonous liquor. The vote wa3 lately taken whether or not there should be a hotel in the district, when there was a large majority against. Only a small number (57) voted. The interest of the sly-grog shantiea was quite sufficient, under the working of the new Licensing Act, to prevent the establishment of a hotel, and was used for that purpose. We cannot give the letter in full as some of the statements might involve libel. The matter, however, is an important one as respects the working of the Act. We understand that Mr. A. H. E. McKinney, formerly of Mahurangi, who for some time past has been a clerk in the Bank .of Xew Zealand in Wauganui, has been "transferred on promotion to the bank's establishment at vVaveriey. The directors of. the Wanganui Public Library invite applications for a loan of £400. The North Otago Sparrow Club is stated to have expended £30,000 in endeavouring to suppress the sparrow nuisance. Farther prosecutions in connection with the use of forged labels of spirits ar.o pending in Melbourne. The Auckland Weekly News, the largest paper in the colony, and illustrated in its agricultural and other columns, is tnis v,-eek full of interesting news, tiles, sketches, telegrams, and all the special features or a lust-class weekly paper. The litest Parliamentary news and political gossip will be found in its pages. Father Walter McDonald gratefully acknowledges the receipt of £20 from Mr. Gabriel Lewi3 (per favour of Herald Office), in aid of St. Mary's Orphanage, Pbnsonb/. It will be seen on reference to our advertisement columns that Messrs. Oppenheimer and Co. expect to receive, per Vanguard, from America, one Brush dynamo-electric ligbt machine, of -10COcandle power, with all requisite accessories.