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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 4

. Lady Jervois will' be *'At Home" to-dxv from half-past three till five o'clock. At half-past four o'clock His Excellency, as ths representative of Her Majesty, will present the Order of the Bed Cross to Miss Alice Crisp, Lady Superintendent of the Auckland Hospital.

We learn from our cable messages today that Zebehr Pasha has declined ths position'of Assistant-Governor of the Soudan, which was offered him by General Gordon. In the telegram which we printed yesterday it was stated that the position offered Zebehr was that of Assistant-Governor of Khartoum. There is no further news from the Soudan. A great fire is reported to hare occurred at Kangoon. Much property ms destroyed. The Imperial Prince of Austria is on a visit to the Sultan, and has bees accorded a splendid reception. Mr. Murray Smith has written a letter to the Londca Times deprecating the use of threatening language to France in the discussion of the convict question;

The new procedure in the Supreme Court under the Judicature Act appears to involve as yet a good deal of anxiety on the part of the learned Judge and the Bar. One of the most conspicuous features of it was prominent in the Court proceedings during the last few days. In both; cases—Campbell v. New Zealand Timber Company and Alley vHickson—there was a counter-claim for Urge amonnta. The procedure, in effect, enables the Court to try "the claim and counterclaim (which is equivalent to two separate actions) at the same time. In both cases the counter-claim was the matter for inquiry, and not the original claim. In the first case the action was discontinued, andaningemws legal argument took place to show that as the claim had disappeared with'the action so the counter-claim must go with the latter. His Honor ruled that in such s cass the counter-claim' must be regarded W * separate and independent action.

As will be seen by notice in another column, those who have given orders for tw insertion of advertisements in the New-Zealander, about to be published in London, are requested to send in c°P?,. tbeir advertisements, to the care 0 J"? office, by Wednesday next. We that Mr. Beed.has met with very grea' cess in his recent canvass for advertissmeo in the South, as. well as in Auckland, an that the first number of the paper will issued in London.in the month of Jnne. Some time ago a young man named v?° died of typhoid fever of a virulent charac£> and being intestate, his personal was taken possession of by Mr. Thomas ffarlane, acting as agent for the r» • Trustee, who caused,' it is said, the °£ ce ?f_ n . clothing to be sent to Messrs. S. p ,ctl ] '*T_ and Son's ahction mart for sale. ' The j ing was purchased by Mr. John Paul, 5 _ hand clothes dealer, Wyndham-Btreet; j on hearing that their late owner had fever, he communicated with the _ san authorities, and the infected articles yesterday destroyed. The Public .o® Act provides that "Any person _ lends, sells, transmits, or exposes ? T ',. _ previous disinfection any bedding, rags, or other things which have beeci . posed to infection Irom any such duo ■ shall be liable to a penalty not £5." We understand that proceedings" be taken against Mr. Macffarlane for a 0 of the Act. " 6 A trial crashing from Mr. Hunt^_ Rotokohii is expected to reach the la*® ra about! a fortnight, and at rangemen w been made for- its treatment at tne _ taiari "battery. A track is now being with the assistance of the County. Council, : facilitate the transit of the barcel.

The regular meeting of the Board of Edu-1 cation was held yesterday. Tho-principal featureof the meeting was the correspondence with the bank'and Major Atkinson in reference to an application for an overdraft for £@000.' The application was refused by the bank. Two deputations waited on the B bard—one in reference to the enlargement of the Newmarket school and another in reference to the" Ararimn dispute. The feud between the teacher at Kihikibi and Bome'of the residents, and the vexed question of the removal of the assistant teacher of tho Grafton school occupied the attention of the Board for a considerable space, and the greater number of the country applications ad to be postponed. The proceedings are reported in another portion of this issue. The Supreme... Court. was occupied the wliole of yesterday with the trial, Alloy v. Hickson. The plaintiff, a farmer at Hikutaia,"claimed £245, money alleged to be received by tho defendant, as his agent, on the sale of certain lands in the Hikutaia district. The defendant, a well known estate agent in Auckland, offered no defence to the declaration, but-put in a counter claim for £1760 for work and labour done, money expended on behalf of the plaintiff. The services comprised surveying and dividing the estate for sale, making lithograph plans, printing, - advertising, &c. The plaintiff's claim was admitted. The jury gave the defendant £1300, less £500, which he had already received.

A public meeting wa? held yesterday evening, in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, for the purpose of establishing a Soung Women's Christian Association. Colonel Haultain occupied the chair. A provisional meeting of ladies. was formed to carry out the object of the meeting.

The Epsom Road Board met in Mr. W. S. Cochrane's yesterday. afternoon.. There was more than an ordinary amount of business to consider. First, the" formation and construction of the Quarry-road, to be executed under the " Road's and Bridges Construction Act," for which the sum applied •for by tho Board bas been granted. In the plan of the district there is a very sharp angle—a chain in length—caused by an error in the original surveys. The Board has for some time been endeavouring to arrange with the owners of the land abutting on the road, to straighten it, but without success. It was finally resolved to instruct Mr. Baber to call for. tenders in acDordance with his prepared plans. Messrs. J. and W. Brown's tender, at Is 3&d per yard for carting scoria, was accepted, subject : to -the nsual conditions. It was resolved that the Board prohibit any road being opened through private property in the district, unless. iVB width be 66 feet. The Secretary was instructed to notify to property-owners that furze encroaching on the public, roads must be at oncio removed., Messrs. Lawry and Heather, the. retiring members of the Board, have been nominated for re-election. Mr. Heather, by Messrs. A. Buckland and J. C. Seccombe ;.and Mr. Lawry, by Messrs. G. W. Owen and T. Paton.

A meeting of shareholders of the Northern Omnibus Company was held at Morningside last evening. The company has been losing money for some time past. The directors expressed dissatisfaction with the manager; the manager blamed the direotors. The directors resigned, and a new Board was appointed. The meeting was a stormy one. A report of the proceedings will be found in another column.

The Society of Arts Exhibition, to be opened on Thursday next by His Excellency the Governor, promises to be the most successful yet held. Pictures from local artists are being received in 'unusually large numbers, while those from the . South and elsewhere will be more numerous than last year. Specimens of work by the best known Southern and Auckland artists have already been received, and many more are expected. About 150 pictures were received yesterday, besides a host of other articles for exhibition. A meeting of the : committee of the society •was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of arranging various details. Those present were:—Mrs. J. M. Clark, Misses Stewart, Some, Messrs. J. Martin,-C. Blomfield, A. Martin, K. Watkins, Holland, Ball, Trevithick, Bartley, and Maokechnie (Chairman). The following pictures from the Museum have been kindly lent for exhibition:—"Dawn of- First Easter Sunday'.' (Armitage), "Sea Urchins" (Armitage), "View of Brighton" (J. Webb and C. Earl), '"'lncident' in the Franco-German War" (Louis Braun), "On the Road" (F. Putiani}, "Bavarian Peasant" (E. Harburger), " Good MorniDg" (Harry £>esHe). New Zealand scenery, especially some' of the Southern Lake scenery, is expec ted to be a strong featnre of this exhibition, In the list of prizes published in our columns yesterday a transposition occurred. The first prize to pupils of public schools for outHne drawing-from the flat was awarded to Matthew Kennedy, Wellesley-street; the second to George Whitelaw, Graf ton-road.

The anniversary services of the Wellesleystreet Baptist Sunday-school will be held tomorrow (Sunday) in the Choral HalL Mr. Spnrgeon will preach morning and evening. The Rev. Mr. Fairbrother will address the scholars in the Wellesley-street Church at three o'clock p.m. .

At a meeting of the Thames Borough Council a member refused to vote upon a resolution, and by resolution was fined Is.

- There was again' a very large attendance at Woodyear's Electric ' Circus on the reclamation- ground. .There was a great variety oE performances, several new items having been added. The performance of the Australian Blondin outside the tent continues to draw very, large crowds of people. Blondin appears for " farewell" performances to-day at half-past onep.m., and at seven p.m., his last public a'ppearance. He leaves for America by the outgoing mail, intending to cross the-Falls of Niagara on the tight rope.

Mr. George Kells writes in reply to " Citizen," who suggested that ladies should get up a petition to the Governor for the remission of the floggings to Goodward. Mr. Kells s'conts the idea, concluding thus : —"It is time ruffianism was put down,' and nothing but the lash will do it. But on this occasion I would be in favour of .remitting the flogging if the two twenty-fives are administered to ' Citizen' at one sitting."

At the nest meeting of the City Council Mr. Laßoche is to move " That the Waterworks . Engineer be instructed to lift the present four-inch pipeß in Seafield View, and Auburn-street, and replace same with six-inch pipes, with proper fire-plugs."'

Many of the subscribers -to the Orphan .Home have never visited that Institution. A favourable opportunity will be presented to see it this afternoon, , when His Excellency the .Governor is to preside at the annual meeting, which will be held in the schoolroom of the institution. • The. choir of All Saints' parish have kindly consented to sing glees, etc., and the prizes to the children will be distributed. ■

The largest yield of wheat threshed this year by Mr. -William Grey's' machine was that of (Mrs. Churches, West Tamaki, which yielded a little over fifty-two bushels to the acre. The next largest crop was that of Mr. F. Winter, of Papatoetoe, which was a little oyer forty bushels. Mr. S. C. Baird'B. paddock, facing the South-road, yielded forty bushels to the acre. These are-the heaviest crops of; local growth of which we have had any positive information.

The anniveraary services of the Parnell Wesleyan Sunday-school will take place tomorrow. The Rev. R. Bavin will preach in the' morning, the Rev. Mr. Watkin in the afternoon, and the Rev. Mr. Griffith in the eveniog. " On Tuesday a soirtSe will be help in the school-room.

We are informed that Mr, T. B. Hill has been largely and influentially requested tc contest the Waipa seat in the Liberal interest, at the next general election, and large promises' of support have been received from all parts of the electorate. Mr. Hill,: however, whilst expressing gratitude for the confidence thus shown; absolutely declines to take, for the present any active part in politics.

• 'At St. Paul's Church to-morrow the Rev. W.'fl. H. Jervois, M.A.,. is announced to preach ia the morning and the incumbent in the evening. The services will be like those on Easter .Day festival in character, as the Church provides for special Easter commemoration during the octave. The anthems to be- sung are.: "Christ Being Raised." (Sir G-. J. Elvey) and "The Lord is my Strength " (Henry Smart) ; Garrett's Service in D will also be repeated. ; The collections at all the services, including, in addition to the morning and-evening, the early Commnnign and children's_ v 6ervice at half-pa«t three p.m., aro to" be specially applied to the Home Mission of the diocese. .

. The sacramental rite of: Confirmation to be „ administered..by < Bishop : Cowie at the (Dlnvnl, T1 -- _

? ; There was again a crowded audience at the Opera House last night, when ; the great spectacular drama " Youth" was reproduced, 1 and was received with the same enthusiastic applause as on previous evenings. Indeed, it seems to gain on the public, and the more it is seen the better it is liked; ■

Two notorious larrikins, leaders, of gangs of the same'class, and who were described as public nuisances and petty thieves, were yesterday sentenced to three months' imprisonment, under the Vagrant Act, for not having sufficient lawful means of snpport.

The first concert of the. season will be. given by the'Porisonby Choral Society in the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday week, the 28th. inst., .at eight p.m. ■, Tickets are being rapidly disposed of, at which we are not sur-. prised, considering the name this society has achieved as musical caterers of a no mean order. . . : :

Says a Melbourne literary man : When Sir Julius Vogel was here'lo years ago, and Berry was the despised " Run-down Dingo " of his party, Vogel said he was the only man. But look at their cause of sympathy. While Vogel was the out-at-elbows reporter at Inglewood, Berry was the little-twopenny-halfpenny grocer at Prahran, a Melbourne suburb. No wonder then !

•We are informed that Mr. F. P. Burton and Mr. J. Poland, the winners of the first two scholarships offered by the Auckland University College were educated, the former at Wellesley-street School, and the latter at the Tuakau School.. Messrs. Worthington and O'Donoghue were the respective teachers;

Our Coromandel correspondent states that a grand ball and supper by the Oddfellows and Foresters combined,' at Waterman's Masonic Hotel, came off on Easter Monday, and was a great success. The two lodges fraternised well, and worked with the greatest harmony.. Nearly 100 ladies and' gentlemen were present, and dancing was kept np with spirit till daybreak. At abont midnight an adjournment was made to sapper, which was a sight not usually seen in Coromandel, and reflected the greatest credit - upon the host and hostess. The nsual loyal and patriotic toasts wer'e'given, and Mr. Kockliff, P.C.R., in responding to tho toast of " The Lodges, " took occasion to say that there were about 1,200,000 members of the two orders in the world, and allowing five persons to each, family, it wonld give about 6,000,000 of persons who were benefited. If such societies were more generally supported, there would be little pauperism to complain of.

The're-opening services of St. Jame's Church, Wellington-street, will take place to-morrow. Since the church 'has_ been closed it has undergone extensive repairs, and been repainted. At the morning service the Rev. T. McKenzie Fraser will preach ; .in the afternoon Mr. J. Robertson will conduct a service for the young ; and in the evening the Rev. S. McFarlane will officiate. Special collections towards defraying expenses of repairs will be made.

' Mr; H. Smith will exhibit his local and New Zealand views at Otahuhu'next Saturday. '

The opening concert and quadrille party, nnder the management of Mr. Horace Dean, is to take place to-night. This is the first of a series of Saturday night entertainments which will, we have no doubt, be very successful.

There was again a good attendance at the World' Circus in the market place last night. The performance was a repetition of that'of the previous evening. The wire rope and acrobatic performances were very cleverly executed and the bare backed riding of Miss Angelina was'greatly applauded 'on account of the daring and grace exhibited by the fearless little ;lady. The'great feature—the Liverpool Steeplechase—which concluded the performance elicited roars of applause • and laughter. The company giv<s3 its final • performance in Auokland to-night. >

The Linda Weber arrived from Timaru this - morning.

Weekly report of the Auckland Lunatic Asylum for the week ending April 12, .1884:—Remaining last week, 294; admitted since, 1; discharged 1 ; remaining, males, 200; females, 94: total, 296.

The ,' Auckland Weekly Nbws, ' the' largest, best, and moat'readable family journal in the colony, will consist this week of forty pages. Beside .being admirably illustrated,' it is characterised by the fulness of its intelligence and the variety, of its contents. Its agricultural articles are carofully. written, its country, colonial, English, and foreign news full and well selected, and its literary matter both interesting and edifying. It publishes each week sermons by the most prominent preachers of the age, serial tales by the ablest authors of the day, special articles on general topics by well informed writers, entertaining letters from its correspondents in America and England, and a large variety of instructive matter. As a weekly newspaper and family journal, the News is withont an equal. A new and powerful tale by Charles Keade, the greatest living novelist, has been commenced in the News. This week the News will contain a portrait of Mr. Henry George, the author of " Progress arid Poverty," and the great exponent of Xand Nationalisation. A: biography of Mr. George will also appear, containing many interesting particulars of his career, and of the peculiar and indeed remarkable circumstances .under which his famous book was originally published.

It will be seen on reference to our advertisement columns that Mr. a. S. Kemplay bag arrived in Auckland, and is prepared to teach what is called " Crystoleum Painting.". He has taken offices in Goodson'a Arcade. Queen<street, and 'will either supply finished paintings, give instruction in this art, or supply, the materials required to those who hare been taught- The process is said to be protected bj letters patent in London, and Mr. Kemplay is sent oat here as one of the agents of the company who have secured the patent right. .

As will be seen by advertisement in another column, the whole of the stock of Messrs. A. and J. Anderson will be sold to-day 011 their farm'at Pakaki, in the Mangere ciistrict. The ahoep of Messrs. Anderson hare long had more than a local raputation for general excellence, especially in the provincial district of Hawke's Bay, where rams from this flock have for years past realised relatively high prices, at the annual sales. The horse' stock are' reported to be young and excellent workers. The cattle are well bred and quiet. The implements are of: the most modern .kind,- and in good order; and as the whole will be sold without reserve, pricos should rule in accordance with the quality of the stock.

The Rev. J. S. Hill has kindly consented to deliver his lecture on 11 The' Tabernacle," illustrated with coloured diagrams, in the rooms of the Young Men's .Christian Association, on .Friday,ovening, the 25 th Instant. No charge will bo made for admission, but a collection will be made for the Evangelistic work carried on by the Association.

It is said that a wise son makes ■ a glad father, but he is a wiser one still that knows who his father Is.- We have examined the first four books of Euclid, but can And no solntion of the problem there. We know that a wise woman is one learned, in true domestic economy, and who consequently knows how tc make fifteen shillings go farther than a foolish woman could a pound. The Auckland Provision Company is a school for domestic economy, and To-, day some practical lessons will be given. Havln? received a large supply of best Canterbury Bacon and Cheese, we shall sell twenty per cent, below Queenstreet piices. Bight Corner Stall, City Market.—A. Bextasy, Manager.—[Advt.]