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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue XXI, 2 April 1884, Page 4

The news from Khartoum to-day is more hopeful. General -Gordon has taken stringent measures to stamp ant,the disaffection among the Egyptian , troops and has caused two pashas to be hanged for treachery during the unsuccessful sortie on the 16th. Ee has received supplies, andic hopeful of being able 'to suppress' the-rebellion. Keporta which have-recently reached him describe the rebels to be in a- famishing condition, there _ being great scarcity of food. The Mahdi, it is reported, hapiefased to be made Sultan of SLordofau.- Itis also stated that British troops. are* daily 'expected at Khar* toum. ' ' " The rumotlrs respecting the Governorship of Viotoria are set at rest by the announcement" whicH we publish -this morning that the important appointment has been conferred' upon' Sir Henry ' Brougham Loch, K.C.8., at present one of. the Commissioners of Woirfs," Forests, and Land Revenues, the salary attached to" that office being £1200.. .Sir .Henry was for many years Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, and showed great administrative capacity. He is 57 years of age. He entered the army at the early age of seventeen, and served-with' distinction in the Indian and Crimean, campaigns. He was subsequently attached to Lord Elgin's special mission.to China in 1857 and ISSS. During the advance upon Pekin' he was taken prisoner by the Chinese, , and having been released, brought back to - England Lord Elgin's despatches, and the Convention, signed October 24, 1860, which pat aa end to hostilities in China. He is an intimate friend.of Mr. Gladstone. The R.M.s.s. City of Sydney, which left for San Francisco last evening, was the bearer of" thirty head of ,'Hereford cattle, which were shipped by the 3Tew Zealand Stud Company to San Francisco. The cattle were sent away in prime condition. - -We learn from our. London correspondent that the whole of- the machinery for the refrigerating works at Auckland was almost ready at Messrs. Haslam's works for shi]> ment, and would probably be sent forward by the British King, itvMarob. Mr. Russell has taken - great . interest in the progress of the work,- and. has poshed the makers vigorously. The machinery is stated to be the best ever turned out by them. . Captain Arijji and the officers and" cadets of the Japanese . ship 01. war, in - own-pany .with His Worship tho' Mayor, visited the College:, and-- Grammar - School yesterday forenoon, and also the Ladies' High/School. The criminal sittings of the Cirout Court, holden for'' gaol delivery, will commence this morning ; at ten o'clock, when. grand jurors petty-jurors, witnesses, and.all persons coa« earned, should be m attcnuance. ...

The: births for the : :Au<M^:ffi*«^r the month of March were 180, of which 11l the borough. Deaths, 69, ot which og were in the borough. The mortage licenses issued' were 42, of whioh _20 were solemnized in the office of the Registrar . _ The fortnightly meeting of the- Harbour Board was held yesterday. feature of interest was the resignation of the Chairman (Mr. C. B. Stone), through illhealth. Thertst of the business was of a routine character, with the exception ot the extension of the main scwer. which is to do carried in a line due north to deep water. • The manager of the Youth Opsra Company, Mr. McDonald, arrived 111 A " ckl *°f yesterday.' The company propose to open their season on Easter Monday. The company comprises about 50 members, and they nave several rioveltieß in their repet toire. We understand that a fire inquest will take place shortly to investigate atances . in connection * lth took place in the premises of Mrs. O Connell, of Wellealey-street. His Honor Mr. Justice Gillies sat in, chambers yesterday, and disposed of a large amount of formal business. The partioulars will be found in another column. Messrs. Allan Maguire, the contractor for the Freezing Works reclamations, and Emily Place'excavations, is getting together locomotives, trucks, and rails,, preparatory to making a start on his contract. ' Mr. Moss, M.H.R., has called a meeting of his constituents for Thursday evening at eight o'olock, at the Parnell Hall. John Waymonth, accountant, was nominated yesterday for the South Ward, in the place of Mr. Offer, resigned. The following persons nominated him : —Messrs. Thomas Buddie, Harkness Hamilton, Fisher, and Thomas Mason. -

■Yesterday the Queen-street Wharf presented one of tto busiest sights that ye.have seen for some time past. l At the-end of the wharf the R.M.s.s. City of Sydney was en- ' gaged taking in and putting out cargo, stores,' etc., whilst opposite to her the Union - Co.'s 3,8. Tarawera was hard at work adaing herquota to the bustle and confusion. \ At the next outer tee the ship Northumberland and barqne Loch Bredan were at work peg and peg at their cargo. Next in order came the" H.s. Rotomahana, whose steam winches kept, up all day one constant din in to run cut her'careo from Sydney with despatch. In addition to these vessels the 8.0. Penguin, Mission schooner Southern Ctoss, barque Notero, and other vessels ware also hard at work Retting their cargo in and'oat. To keep the wharf in anything like a.clear and passable condition all the tact and energy of Captain Fisher, the Deputy Harbourmaster, was brought into use, tho result being that each vessel was able to work time without annoyance to her neighbour. Passenger traffic on the wharf was not altogether clear of danger, for the constant moving to and fro of carts and trucks kept pedestrians constantly on the alert to save themselves from injury. To add to the bustle, about fire o'clock p.m. a large crowd of sightseers went down the wharfjin'the expectation of seeing the Maori l£ing aid his party away by the Tarawera at tho hour named, but they were doomed to disappointment, a3 the vessel did not sail'until eight • o'clock p.m. At that hour, however,! there was a large crowd present. ' * The Salvation Army Barracks is drawing towards completion. The building wii be formally opened on Good Friday, it hieing expected the interior work will bei:ompleted by that time, though some of the exterior work will yet remain to be done.-. A valedictory service was held at /Wellington on March 25, on the occasion ol: the departure of the Rev. Mr. Bavin for Atckland. . An incipient fire was discovered yesterlay at the side of the Occidental Hotel. • Sane of the offices in the vicinity had cleaned out a.quantity of waste paper and rubbish it a box, and left it on the ground adjacent."'A passer-by, it is presumed,' had carelessly thrown a match into the box, and 1 the contents were found smouldering away. bucket or two. of water soon extinguished tie burning mass, and put an end to all dangei. There are, it is stated, several cases of lov fever and typhoid at the present time. Thi drainage "from the cemetery gully running down the watercourse along the back oi Newton, is said to be in a bad state, and tha| some cases- of low fever have been directly ' traced to it; " We have to acknowledge the receipt of the{j annual report for the year 1883, of thej Ballarat School of Mines. This institution, appears to grow in usefulness every year. It? gives technical education on certain subjects, a knowledge of which is evidently desired by the colonists of Victoria.'' An institution of a similar character, carried on with equal vigour in our midst, would be a great boon to many.. The" statistics of attendance dur-: ing the year at the various series of lectures was 1939 students. The subjects upon which information ■ is : given are chemistry, metallurgy, and assaying, natural philosophy.: mineralogy, geology, surveying, mechanical engineering, electricity, and magnetism, telegraphy, mathematics, pharmacy," and physiology, and astronomy. .The _ lists of certificates issued since the institution show that «. knowledge of telegraphy was most generally sought. Then follow Euclid, Algebra, logarithms,trigonometry, chemistry, etc. The institution receives' an annual grant from the Victorian Government, besides "the fees paid by students, and those received for making chemical analyses, etc. The general inspection-of the Victoria Rifle Volunteers was held last evening at the Drill-shed. In the absence of Major Shepherd, the officer commanding; who "is absent in unother part of the district, the roll was called by Sergeant-Major Haslam." All the officer*, Captain Mahon, and Lieutenants Skinner and Selfe, were present, -ifter the roll-call the company was put through a" good hour's drill of skirmishing and battalion movements. The woman Mrs. Grannity, who fell out of the two-storey window of a lodging-house in Albert-street, and received such serious injuries as necessitated her removal to the Hospital, was last evening in a very critical . state. She has taken a'turn for the worse, and doubts are nofp entertained aB to her surviving. The adjourned' inquest on the fire which occurred recently in the premises of E. Wall and Co., drapers, Queen-street, will take place to-day at two o'clock; at the Clarendon Hotel, before- Dr. Philson, Coroner. Mr., Cothers, .Mr. Wall's assistant at the time of the .fire, had subsequently proceeded to Christchurch on bis own business. The inquest was adjourned to procure his attendance from- Christchurch.. 'Mr. Cothers arrived yesterday from the South. A meeting of creditors was held yesterday, in the estats, of John Gunn .Mackintosh, a builder, of Brighton-road; Remuera. The particulars will be found in another column. A meeting of oreditors was also held in the estate of Madame Bottenelli, a milliner. The -particulars will be found', in .another column. , " . About eight o'clock last night, and just before the Tarawera started fo~ Sydney, the carponter, Hector Campbell, who had apparently been drinking Tawhiao's health, managed.to fall overboard. Fortunately he missed the stringers of the wharf in going down. A cry of . " A man overboard V' upeedily - rang out, and the crowd surged up fjo ths edge of the wharf, which - led to fears lihat'the carpenter would speedily have company. One of the crew threw Campbell a rope, of which he laid hold, but was unable to fasten it round himself. A sailor 'went ■lown the stringers and fastened the. rope round Campbell's body, and he was safely hauled up. On being got to the deck he beganroundly swearing at his comrades for . making so much fuss over the matter, as be was "all right." , There were four applications sent in to the' . Harbour' Board yesterday for, the office of pilot—A. D. McGillevray, Robert Caitcheon, T. C. 8011, and John Mr. McGillevray was appointed, subject'to his passing the required,examination. ' ...... The tender of • Messrs. Praser and Tinne for pumping out Calliope Dock * reclamation at £165 Tvaa accepted by the-Harbour Board. They ■ are to charge is a day after 7 days. The tender of .Messrs. -Alison ,-Bros. (£25) was acoepted for cleaning and painting buoys. The tender, of ;Alexander. Sutherland (the only tender, £645)"f0r (Seeking and repairing eastern tee, was accepted. / ; ' : '' -We-Jearn that, on Thursday, the 14th Pebruary'last, during the-celebrated debate of a vote of censuro on the Gladstone. ' Government, in respect of their 'Egyptian policy,, Mr. Laishley and Mr. Edgar ii. Rath- " bone occupied a seat in,the special gallery of the House of Commons, reserved" only for Ambaaaadofs and diatinguished stran'gers. -

A special meeting of the City, Council was i'< lield last etfeniny to consider applications for '< the office of Clerk of. Works: There were i 36 applications.; ■ These by • processes of voting..were r;. \cqd down to four who are ' considered most eligible,: and. these four ' applicants are to bere'queatedtoattend at the regular is eft ting of tho' Counbil, tobe ' held„on Thursday evening.; The four, names' I retained.are those of Messrs. Eaiight/ Shaw '■ Ward, and Pratt. ; ' The "proceedings of the * meoting are reported in another column'.; • _An accident which was nearly attended with fatal results occurred-on the Mokau ; River on. March 24. • It appears that Mr:, Perham, tho Marine Surveyor, . with; his : party were engaged surveying the mouth of - : the Mokau River, when the boat cap. sized; and the inmates of the boat' wore immersed in the water."" ■ It; appears the boat they. were in was a small one, about ten feet long, and ii> out a wave caught her, and she was swamped and: sunk. Those who were on shore were' powerless, as they had no means ,of render-• ing them any assistance. Mr. • Pool, who conld not swim, went into the water as far as he was able, and pushed out to them a steer oar; two other men' doing the. same* thing, and on two of them Mr. Perham managed to get washed ashore.Seeing Mr. Skinner in difficulties in the water, Mr. Dugdale stripped and went in to his help, and brought him in—Mr. Skinner* having got the cramp. Mr. Perham had a narrow .escape, and .was just sinking from exhaustion when he got hold- of ~ the oars which were pußhed to him. . Mr. Flinders Hurathoc.se alao had considerable difficulty in getting ashore, owing to ; the strong current that was running out at the time. The boat afterwards drifted to sea north-. wards; •' ■' A brown colt by Musket, out of .Rosalie, - was yesterday shipped to Sydney for sale. This colt; now about eighteen months old. took the-first prize'at the late 'Agricultural Show as a yearling. We understand that. £120 was offered for the colt by Mr. Morrin before he was shipped, but the owner preferred to take his chance'of the Australian market. • - The regular meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, which should have been held yesterday, stands adjourned for a_weet, as yesterday being mail day, the members were too much engrossed with their correspondence to be able to attend. ■ It was also the first open day for shooting native game. ' . There is on view and for. disposal at our publishing office, an oil painting T on glass, of a large group of flowers, executed by Mr. Dennis, steward of the barque Looh Bredan. The group embraces several varieties of roses, lilies,* and other flowers. The contrast of shading and arrangement is very ohaste and artistic.' Mr. Dennis is a self-taught man in this branch of art, and seems to have quite a natural gift for it. If any one will take a piece of glass to him — a foot square —he will paint it over with groups of flowers in about half at hour, for a nominal figure. A grand band contest is to be held in the Town Hall, Oaraaru, on the 12th and 14th instants. The contest will be confined to all the amateur bands in tho colony. Each competing band- is to be limited; to one professional musician. The. contest is.to be held in connection with the Easter volunteer re-Hew and encampment. The prizes are £40, £35, and £10. The following mining telegrams were received from Te Aroha yesterday: —" Waiorongomai : Colonist, ! 3630z5. gold ; will get a little more from silver." " New-Find,' re-, turn 3760z5. retorted gold from amalgam; more to come from silver." - The Australasian Medical Gazette: has the following :—" A person suffering from dislocation of the hip joint, was undergoing an operation for its reduction at the Tam worth' Hospital on February 23, under chloroform; when he . died. Dr. Pratt operated, and Mr. Goodwin, ohemist,' administered the chloroform. The jury fonnd a verdict according to the facts, and relieved the operators from all blame. As there is.a paid surgeon to this Hospital —viz.; Dr. P. H. .White,- besides the honorary appointment held by Dr. Pratt, we should like some explanation's to how it was that his services were not made use of in the administration of chloroform in this case (one requiring the patient..to he.brought, under its extreme influence), instead of those of an unqualified person being accepted. As • the Coroner's jury made no remark condemning it, we presume that .there ia some satisfactory reason for this,. but if so it has not been pubj- lished." - The editor of the Medical Gazette ij-is a medical gentleman of high repute, and ' he finds fault with a chemist administering > the chloroform. What would he have said i to a case where a patient was brought under ' extreme influence without the', operating Burgeon having any assistance at all ?■• And above all we shall be curious to see what he \aya to the Auckland doctors, who declared ; ftbat they had done exactly the same thing as (Dr. Stalker in thousands, or at least hundreds of cases.

i. Weekly report of the Auckland Lunatic Asylum for the week ending 29th March, 1534 Remaining last week, 292; admitted slice, 0 ; discharged 0 ; remaining,- males, 19L; females, 95 : total, 292. ; sSome of the officers of the . Japanese war*, ship Tsukuba have called at this office in reference to tlie paragraphia Monday's issue, stating that a boy was removed from the w&rf on Sunday in a state of unconscionsnesi, and that it was believed ; he had :been taking .opium, given to him in good-natured thotghtlesanass by some of the Japanese sailers. The officers state that they have mads every enquiry, and cannot find that any, of the Tsukuba's crew have' acted as alleged; that in fact it is an offence of a very heinous character in Japan, and puhishable irith death. They are inclined to believetbat the boy was suffering from the effect'of drink, rather than opium., We may :iiy that our information was derived from';,the police, who were . under the impression at first that the boy was under the influence of drink,, but on examination it was found not to be the case,.'but that he was suffering from some narcotic,; apparently opium; A corespondent, writing from Te Awa* mutu, i iayß Much dissatisfaction :ia felt at thisead of the line, that in the new. railway time-table no provision is made for the afternoon train, which leaves.Hamilton thrice a week,|to come on , to Te Awamntn.- The expense; oE. running the. train the extra twenty Bales ought not to be taken into account, iii view of the great advantage to businessmen, who would.then be Enabled to transact tkeir business just as well in fortyeight hod'ts as they now can in seventy-two. Our residers will remember that through the enterprise of Captain McGill, the manufacturer of cheese on the factory system,-was started last summer at Waiukii. No •publicjtompany was formed, but the milk..whicjijthe -settlers could supply was received and paid for in the usual way.' Last' Saturday the manufacturer of oheese at. this factory, which is managed by Mr. jfferbert Walpole, and jknown as Walpole arid Company, was stotped for the season. Soma of the cheese are? now about four months old, and during the last few weeks some of them have found their way to Auckland, where the quality .is highly relished. We learn that over a todLind a half has already been sold in .the district where it is made, and the cheese everjwhere meets - with public favour. ' By the: s.s. Ruapehu- »• consignment was sent ip Britain, when it is to be placed in the market at Dundee. • By the British King several tons will be despatched to test the London market, so that in course of time the feeling of the home market towards the really! excellent cheese J made . at Waiukn will soon be fully known. Vffe, learn that Mr. R. Arthur, auctioneer, has been appointed tW. town aget'A' for the' supply of the Waioka cheese, and no doubt the product of- tKj factory will be in as great demand as.thePukehohe cheese. The character of the' cheese from each' place is | very much alike, theWaiuku having a slight advantage in point of a ge only. "' ' ' ' j Mr. H. Gr, Wade, architect, has received three tenders, those of • Messrs. Mill, Wood, Mason and Mcllwrath; for the erection of the Jewish but none' of. them have yet been accepted.' On Wednesday last. the Rev.-Mr. Hill who has in many ways proved- a' -good-friend' ito thoKohimarama Training School. save's most interesting mamc lantern entertainment to the children,'of that school.' The. views were: much appreciated by the young, folks, and a hearty vote of thanks was conveyed to the rev. gentlemen for his kindness,, ' :. Our Onehunga correspondent writes.:—" ." The application for a conditional license; made to the Onehunga Licensing Committee .for permission to sell at ; tbe races was made,, by Mr. Riohard .Webb, the Secretary," who', stated "that he' did so on behalf of Mr, J; Adams, of the Swan Hotol. AuckJand," : c .:;

l Mrj JoaejphiMaokay, who is ,being prosecuted by the Government' for embezzling moneys belonging -to the; - Government Insurance Department, he being an agent of that department; has published a number of telegrams which passed between-himself, Mr. G.Thorne (Superintendent, of.. Agents), Mr. jLuokie (Commissioner),, 'and .the 'Colonial Treasurer. Somo of- these telegrams are of a ■moist extraordinary character. We quote as : a specimen a telegram 'sent. by Mr." George Thome, jun„to, Mr. Mackay WellingtOD, 28-J.l-83. Urgent.—(Confidential.)— Honourable-Loader and- Walters, .Director and' Manager Viotorian Mutual, aboard express train J)unedin to-day spying with view starting N.Z. Rudd canvassed them with j;view, preventing their coming. Have few. 'bankruptcy placards and others in.all carriages. Do not canvass them, bat be the newspaper man travelling. Apply the pump ■handle judiciously. Tell them that Govern-ment-insurance agents are'thick as bees; hard enough for them, exist. Mutual agents starve, or worse ; sympathise and deprecate the'unfair, advantage Government Insurance possess; They are to be canvassed again in Bunedin by Edmonds.— Georqe Thobne, | Jan.",r - The Engineer of July 6 has a loDg account of a. new process for producing iron from magnetic ironsand, which was discovered by Dr. Siemens. The process is carried out by a rotary furnace, and the results are said to be moat satisfactory. Mr. Ritso, of the Taranaki Ironsand Company, informs - us that, along with his father, who is in London, he has secured the right to use this process. Also that negotiations have been entered into with the company now erecting works at Onehunga to amalgamate it. with the Taranaki Company. " A Parent" writes: —" Yon ask in a late : issue ' What are we to do with our boys ? ' If common sense were to actuate all our proceedings social, moral,, and political, the question of questions could be easily solved. Boys like Knox who are regardless of home rule or parental authority are fit subjects for State interference. Keep a training ship or man-of-war for auoh lads and give them sea life for a few years, up,to the age of 21, and if that does not effect a speedy and permanent cure then look out for a better." ' The, prospectus of the North New Zealand 1 Farmers' Co-operative Association will be found in our advertisement columns to-day, together with the names of the provisional directors.