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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6928, 31 January 1884, Page 4

The .Herald Monthly Summary, f< despatch by the San Francisco mail, will 1 issued on Monday. It will contain afu record of all the news of the month, and, 1 make room for the many important items, will be enlarged to fourteen' pages. TI speeches of the Hon. Mr. Whitaker, and Sir George Grey on federation, and oth important topics, will be found at length : o ur Summary. A diabolical plot lias been discovered • poison the whole of the Imperial family Russia. This appalling tragedy was to 1 effected by the connivance of the baker . the Royal Palace at Peterhoff, where tl Emperor and Empress and their children a at present residing. Stryohninc, one of tl most deadly poisons, was to be employe but fortunately the murderous conspira< was discovered in time. A abort time ago prominent Russian statesman declared th Vera Philipera, who was recently arreste was the head of the Nihilist Executive Cot mittee, and that her arrest had broken i and disbandod the Nihilists. It is clea however, from this fresh attempt to kill tl Czar, the second within a few months, th the Nihilists are a 9 active and powerful; ever. The report that the ship Simla, which w in collision with the City of Lucknow ne the Isle of Wight, had been towed in Graveaend, is contradicted. It now seems cf tain that the vessel foundered after bei: abandoned by the crew. News has been received in London frc Natal that Cetewayo, who surrendered the British authorities some months a after suffering a series of defeats at the han of one of his most powerful chiefs, Usibep succeeded in effecting his escape, but w subsequently recaptured by a military for sent in pursuit of his sable majesty. The annual meeting of the committee ai subscribers to the Masonic Hall, which w to have beeu held last night, to receive t report and statement of accounts, has be adjourned until Monday next,

■ An adjourned Bitting Magnate's Court was Lid jlSkS?*** judgment given in the case of W V X' * n<l v. H. A. Cowper, for plaintiff, for £23 In yesterday's isrie we published 1 * , gram from Chriatchuich givW thTLt, Ws " the Auckland candidate! who ££? V matriculation examiaation held li«t n tte ber. Of these the following w£J??*> the Auckland Training Carrie, Frost, Macky, and WestwoTrf * Messrs. Barton, Lippiatt, and Mcpherson* 04 The annual .meeting of the La W was held yesterday,— the Hon. Mr wS^l' 7 (President) in the chair. The official „ k,t for the year was read and adopted vi r0 " T. Wood and Jackson Palmer wer*'?*'• mously elected members. A report' of h!" proceedings will be found in another coin The annual meeting of the rjarhhm,, St. Mark's was held^esterd™^ 6 "?' the parsonage,—Archdeacon Pritt ia'tl" chair. The proceedings will be "found ported in another column, reAmong the passengers by the Takan yesterday, from Dunedin, was Air. John!? Morrison, manager of the Moagiel Wnllii Factory Company (Limited), wno is *>"« his customary yearly visit to Auckland the business of the company. The Mo woollens, we notice from the Melbon Argus, have received unqualified praise"" the report on Australian woollens fnrnUhM to the Elboeuf Chamber of Commerce b M. Henri Courmeaux, who was special] 7 sent to the Melbourne Exhibition for t'J purpose. . He declares that "every ar y cI 0 manufactured by that company U superi/ to any other Australian woollen goods 1 5, r at the Exhibition,'"' and he thinks that "th Mosgiel Factory will take first rank in t n " Australian markets over all Eurooeaa irarnr! tations." Testimony like this, from a crib> 30 competent and disinterested, must be verv gratifying to the company. Mr. Superintendent' Hughes, Auckland Fire Brigade, has received a letter from ilr Amos, President of the No. 2 Fire Bri"vi9 Association, and Mr. Robertson, Secretary thanking him and Auckland friends for the handsome and liberal manner in which the? had been treated in Auckland, that bei™ the most pleasant part of their trip. They expressed a hope of being able to return the compliment some day. We may add that Mr. Amos is captain of the Timaru Fire Brigade, and Mr. Robertson is Secretary of the Dunedin Fire Brigade. Both were at the meeting of the association at Nelson and came on to Auckland for a trip. A' poll of the ratepayers of the Epionj Highway District (under the 49th and 50th sections of the Roads and Bridges Construe. tion Act, 1532) was taken yesterday, to determine whether a special rate of one-eighth of a penny in the pound should be levied ta provide for the repayment of sums to become due to the Government in respect of a grant of £515 for works to be done on the road known as Quarry-road. Thirty-two , votes, representing a rateable value of £28,930, were recorded in favour of the proposal. Ten votes, representing a rateable value of £9400, were recorded against the proposal. The Returning Officer, Mr. W, Dinnison, declared the proposal to be oarried. In a New Zealand Gazette of the 24th January appears a list of clergymen in New Zealand authorised to celebrate marriages under the Marriage Act, 1880. Belonging to the Church of England there are 235 , officiating ministers, the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand has SI, the Roman Catholic Church 86, the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland 57, the Wesleyan •■ Methodist Society 95, the Congregational Independent 19, the Baptists 16, Primitive Methodist Connection 17, the United Methodist Free Church 11, the Lutheran Church!), the Hebrew congregation 6; six other bodies with only one clergyman each, 6 ; making a total of 638 officiating clergymen in the colony for a population of h?,!f 3 million, giving an average of about SO3 to each, ' including men, women, and children. When Mr. Richard Marsh was in prison s few days ago for an assault in default of finding sureties, he (.taw Captain Hume, tha Inspector of Prisonii, who asked him to make 1 a statement in writing of any complaints he had. This Mr. March has done. He complains that persons who are detained in default of bail are in some respects treated worse than prisoners under sentence. It ii, he. says, a common practice with' peraooj detained in default to accept the position of prisoners in order to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. Those in custody in default of ) bail are in solitary confinement for 20 hours . out of the 24. Mr. Marsh complains that I he repeatedly asked for a small extra quantity of salt, but except in two initances was 1 invariably refused. He compliments Princi- ) pal Warder Patterson for hiß consideration J and. humanity. The mutton, he states, is generally passable, but the beef is often of a very low grade. The other two meals are 1 simply disgraceful to a wealthy colony. He - suggests the use of maize meal for a change. £ Mr. Marsh says there are obstacles put ia the way of communicating with friends out- , side. When he expressed a wish to write to *■ several persons with whom he had been 3 transacting buaiuess, nothing was easier than s to choke him off by pointing to the regular tions which provided for prisoners writing one letter a month. 1 Mr. Singleton Rochfort writes re thii ' Kaihu Valley Railway Company. He states '" that he twice made inquiry at the Stamp '- Office here, and was told that the company I was not registered there. The explanation 13 that the company was registered at Wellington, aad the certificate bears the sign*l " ture of Mr. D. M. Luckie. Mr. Eochfort ■- states that he inquired at the Public Works a Office respecting Mr. Hardy, and was told a that no person of that name was employed there. The Public Works Office, we should '• think, was not the proper place to make tha * inquiry. Mr. Rochfort states that when at :- Honhanga he saw a letter from Mr. BryM 0 to Parore, stating that he had nothing to do with making a road through the village. 3 The Mount Eden Wesleyan Sunday-school ' festival was held at " Ferndale "on Regatta , Day. when the Superintendent and teachers * exerted themselves to the utmost to plew* e the scholars. Several parents and friends o . joined in the sports, which were only Bt*JM , for a short time to partake of a zeiresmtg j cup of tea and other good things. At »e " conclusion of out-door games, Mr. Garlics, c- who has been Superintendent of the school lor O fourteen years, invited the whole company to . his residence, where a very pleasant eV * aiC & '' was spent, each scholar receiving a handn somely bound and instructive book. Tnese e gifts were purchased with the voluntary court; tributions kindly subscribed by residents, , teachers, and friends. These mementos aM muoh valued by the scholars, and the amouw of pleasure afforded them in this way is ampi' reward to the donors. Another . fßature .}° the proceedings was the presentation of tp e 3r certificates of merit, awarded by » w >e committee of the Sunday-school Union II Industrial Exhibition. The Superintendent t0 stated he was proad of the Mount AIM" -. Wesleyan Sunday-school, because oat oi 11 50 schoolß who sent in exhibits, i&ey sw<» "1 third of taking the highest averages 01 of certificates from number of exhibits sent ifl. ? r Short but excellent addresses were deli**" 1 m by Messss. Battley and Hanson, bong" were also given by the Misses SchnackenDer b to and Battley, and Mr. Gilmoar, which aeof lighted the scholars, encores being demand^. ae Messrs. Randerson and Allen spoke 1 at oulogistic terms of the management ot t ie school, zeal of officers, &c. After singing °y re the whole company, and vociferous hurra ie for Superintendent, teachers, and v ! ,lM " o ' ti, refreshments were done ample justice • ;y and all left homeward bound thorougnij a pleased with their annual reunion. i>> at strange coincidence, because not es P ec !*.i d, arranged, there were amongst the £ om P"|- ra n- no less than seven gentlemen who » ip Superintendents, or ex-Superinteadents, l r, Sunday-schools, some having taken otnc he far back as forty years ago. at The report of the Sunday-school held in as connection with St. Matthew's Chu^ Panmure, for the year ending the ■> - s December last, shows that the nnrnw „ of scholars on the roll is 51, the average a ' to tendance 35. and the number of , r . There were no scholars sufficiently advan ag to be competitors for the Bishop's P rlzes " { „ s was stated there was urgent needot a teachers who were able and willing to an >m regularly and punctually in this "»P or l to work. The library contained 252 volume^ go and there are 20 subscribers. Ine rev ds stated that it was to be regretted «*" We u, school would no longer have the v»i as assistance of Mr. Matthews, sto* 0 be ce of St. John's College would for the future residing at Parnell. k nd There was a very good ; as Abbott'sOpera House last evening to wu he the amusing programme of the Loor en strels. The performance passed on successfully.

L — • . nmn at the regatta on Tuesday ThoP to e be P°id over at the club-room, Hotel, this evening at eight o'clock » t ««.)• annual soiree ia connection with Res* and Home was held at th ? S 2va R00m.., Customs-street, last Dllff : < ": His Lordship Bishop Cowie pre6TfT There was a large attendance. A ort of the P roceedin ß s will bB foUnd 1U another column. „ v sdvertisement elsewhere Mr. Larkins ~,rns thanks to the many neighbours and V-~Aq who assisted in saving his furniture A effects at the fire at Mount Eden-road, wh destroyed his residence and adjoining v • Mines Mr. Larkins does not mention "L is he feels that even if he enumerated hundred others must be omitted. All, f. "" fore who assisted will take his personal Ibwks for their ready and willing efforts on h i s behalf. fiarr's Boston Minstrels opened their Json at the Theatre Royal last evening. There was a very good attendance, particularly in the lower parts of the house. The 'gramme presented was a most varied and interesting one, and gave evident satisfaction, if one is to judge from the hearty applause ff ; t h which each part was received. The came programme will be given this evening. The first number of Labour is published this morning. It is an eight-page journal, with a supplement containing a report of the Uicht Hours' Demonstration. Labour' is ••published under the auspices and authority of the Dnnedin and Auckland Trade and Labour Councils, and is the authorised organ „few Zealand trades." In its first article it defines the position as follows :—" Our role ji the defence of the rights and interests of labour in its widest sense, and though the interests of capital and labour ou?;ht to run tide by side, and it will be our duty in every way to foster this desirable consummation, ye: should it happen that they unfortunately conflict, our place is by the side of labour." It will be seen from an advertisement in another column that fresh tenders aTe called for the timber contract of the Auckland Railway Station—no eligible tenders! <having been received. Tenders may be sentln up to noon of Wednesday, the 13th of February. There were in the lock-up last night two persons for drunkenness ; Ellen Henry, for vagrancy; and Sarah Ann Grattan, for assault on Ann Rebecca Grattan, jun. Dr. L. Sinclair, the surgical dentist, who recently arrived by the Haoroto, as will be Been by bis advertisement elsewhere, has opened offices adjacent to Firth's Mill, Oueen-street. The place is stocked with every device and improvements belonging to modern dentistry. Some of the inventions are peculiarly ingenious and unique. He leaves next week tor the Thames and Waikato and thence southwards. It is his intention to establish a central office at Wellington for the colony, and from thence Auckland will be periodically visited. Mr. F- Warwiok Gainor and Mr. W. H. Webb will give a grand popular concert on Saturday next in the Theatre Royal, assisted by Mesdames Poolay, Kilgour, Kevitt, Misses Keturah Campbell, and Clarice Brabazon, and Messrs Angelo Forrest, Kalph Hood, Pooley, and J. Hanna. Mr. \V. H. Webb will act as conductor. -Mr. Gainor is said to possess a very fine baritone voice, has been a member of Mapleson's operatic companies, and performed not only in London, but at all the leading capital cities on the continent.

Under the special Powers and Contracts Act of last Bession, the Native Land Court was directed to hold a sitting for the rehearing of the claim to the Little Barrier Island (Hauturu). The Court will be opened formally in the Police Court this morning, hat will be adjourned till Friday, when bushess will be commenced in the Resident Magistrate's Court, up-stairs. In Mr. Sbaldera's letter re the lato John Hayward, which appeared in Tuesday's Hskald, the date was omitted. It should h«Te been, "Auckland, January 26, 1854." The Oatnaru Mail, referring to the late disaster at Rarotonga, says :—" Captain Munn, one of the seven men who were lost during the late disastrous gale at Rarotonga, was well known in Oamaru shipping circles. He arrived here from Australia in the brig Anthons, and having parted with her, subsequently visited this port in the brigantine Emily. "He was about 40 years of age, and a worthy fellow." Yesterday afternoon, by the Takapuna, *re received the Wellington papers of the day before. The Thameß Advertiser, in an article on the Board of Education, says :—" In regard to officialism, there can be no doubt but chat the Auckland Education Department—from being the unpretending but practical thing which, after the passing of the present Education Act, it was—has gradually evolved Into a complex and orer-officered affair, mating work for itself through ..the "zealousness ' of its ' heads of departments,' until it fairly rivals the old Provincial Government for cost BDd cumbrousness. The Board, alio, instead of being composed of men imbued with a thorough belief in the genniness of the system they are called upon to administer—men who seek the position of members because of this belief —has of late degenerated, we are sorry to think, into a little knot, mainly consisting of individuals with ' fadß' in their heads, or of men to bigotted in all they say or do, that they can see no wisdom or even straightforwardness in the ideas or doings of their fellows." Mr. F. G. Fishenden, C.E., of the Works Department, connected with the Admiralty, is now in Sydney, on a mission concerning the naval works in progress at Garden Island and Woolloomooloo Bay. He has been commissioned by the Imperial Government to examine the plans and specifications of the proposed new naval establishment here, and to act in conjunction with the Government of New South Waleß in carrying out the arrangements necessary for the proper accommodation of the Australian squadron. The Melbourne War Cry, the organ of the Salvation Army there, has an exultant article on the army having taken the Exhibition Building for their anniversary celebration. An eDgraving of the building is given, and it is stated that at the different services on the day it was opened by the army, there were 19.000 persona present. The War Cry tays that the Exhibition Building is "the largest and most handsome building for any public demonstration to be found in the Southern World." It laments that the caterer failed in furnishing the tea on the opening, and says : —" We are sorry that so many were disappointed, and can only promise that at our next demonstration onr caterer shall show evidence of more faith by a more bountiful supply." In an article on the anniversary, a contributer says : "An army's business is to fight. If there iB no enemy, why, let your army be disbanded. If we only beat the air, we may as well have oar free-and-easys on the cushions of cozy churches. . . . This army is a huge aggressive organisation, the object of which is to overthrow the works of that great dragon, the devil, and Satan, by resolutely planting gospel dynamite." The San Francisco correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, writing to that journal on the 21st Eecember, makes the following reference to Mr. Griffin's reports upon the trade and resources of the colony :—" Several vessels have taken eoal charters, there being » coal famine just now. It would pay the Grey River and Buller coal mine owners to ship coal here during the winter months. Cargoes might be very easily placed at paying rates. But I suppose the outpu'i does not begin to meet home conaumptioc. Consul Griffin, in Auckland, has given your coal fields a grand send-off in the United States consular reports. I really do not ° ow a man who has done so much good and efficient work for the colony of New Zealand, without forgetting his responsibility to his own Government, as Consul G. W. Griffin ; and I think some steps should be taken to testify the appreciation of its inhabitants for his noble and disinterested efforts in favour of the ' Britain of the South.' " An important sale of property takes place to-day it u,e auction mart of Messrs. Vaile and "ougiM. The properties to be offered consist of "f 8 " l Pukekone, hoUBe aDd lanl * a ' Onehunga, railage and siables in Watt-street, Newton, and allot"beral COtt * Be3 ' cl »apfd-fetreet. The terms are very The ysarly meeting of the New Zealand ivT., .'. lns »rance Company is to be held this afternoon at two o'clock. A meeting in connection with the Gospel M.n l !l r . lßce Ml «i°n will be held in the Ponsonby •Mil this eYenlng. A special train will leave Auckland at twenty minutes past ten this forenoon for Onehunga, carry passengers per s.s. Takapuna. An advertisement elsewhere notifies that inert is now on view at the Newton Pottery » numiinrtio,; ". on l a of sta t«»ry recently recsired from th« "p'cc°ulUi e celebtated I**"*" sculptors Bertozri