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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9436, 6 August 1889, Page 4

Further particulars of the victory g by General Grenfoll over the Der

show it to have been of a most compte: and decisive character. The Arabs fough with great gallantry, But in the end wert utterly smashed, and were driven, fiyinoia disorder and despair, into the desert, there to perish of hunger and thirst. One thousand, prisoners were taken, while, as already stated, the killed numbered fifteen hundred, a fact grimly suggestive of the deadly torrent of bullets poured into the ranks ol the enemy. The power of the Dervishe; has now been finally broken, and the British troops are returning to Cairo. The German Emperor has been received by the Queen, who greeted her imperial grandson with marked rordiality, a circumstance which has been seized upon by the German and Austrian press as indicative of England's sympathy with the triple alliance.

The only Auckland member who voted in favour of plural vofeinp , in the division on the question lasb night in the House of Representatives was Mr. J. B. Whyte, member for Waikato.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Bay of Islands Coal Company -was held yesterday. A sum of £1161 l'2s Id was shown to the credit of the profit and loss account, and this was carried forward to the current half-year's working. When moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet, Dr. Campbell paid a graceful tribute to 2vfr. Firth, who ha; retired from the board of directors of tb< company.

A sitting of the R.M. Court was held yesterday, before Dr. Giles, R.M., whenF. Houlihan sued M. Foley for £2 2s, alleged to be duo as expenses for an assault case, and which, it was claimed, the defendant promised to pay. The evidence for the plaintiff having been heard, His Worship decided that there was no case to answer. Mr. Palmer appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Tole for the defendant. In a case, Whaley v. Hunter, a claim for goods supplied, the verdict was given for the defendant.

We have to record the death of another old identity, John Harper, who died on July 28, aged 70 years. Mr. Harper left Cornwall, England, in 1842, in the barque Essex, and landed in January, 1843. After a few days he proceeded to Taranaki, working there for two years ; then he left for the Bay of Islands in the brig Albert, whenwat was going on, and the day after he ' ir ' rived Heke cut down the flagstaff. Af ter this Mr. Harper came on to Auckland, working for the Government in building the fortification walls. After visiting Adelaide he returned to Auckland, and was employed at the Kawau and Great Barrier copper mines, and spent his later years in mining and clearing his land at Pakiri. He was a member of the Loyal Fountain of Friendship Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., No. 3920, to 40 years, and left a wife, three daughters, four sons, and forty-five grandchildren w mourn their loss.

- Yesterday three brothers named Bovairdj the sons of an old settler at the Taraftk' recently deceased, were committod to tne Asylum on the testimony of Drs. Purchas. Bewes, and Davy. The history of tne family is a strange one. Both the faw>« and mother have now passed away. l' el £ were five children, two of whom nave died, and all afflicted the- same *»!» being congenital idiots. The ages_ot tne brothers are respectively 40, So, a , 31, and though otherwise well develops the head of each is about the size of that on child of three or four years of age. ; Purchas yesterday, for scientific Paposes, took measurements of the lieaa f s the unfortunate men. The trustees ot w property have thought it best to get w« , sent to the asylum where they will be cwt for, as at present there is no one » after them, the property being chargea for their maintenance. They >« v 0 . b " used to a farm life and are good wor and require nothing but plenty to eat» drink to make them perfectly happy- > ■ It is gratifying to find that there irj determination on the part of some o churches nob to incur further UeDc. enlarged vestry being necessary .« Mark% Church, Remuera, the whole> ot J necessary funds to cover the outlay subscribed before the addition was Lj menced. This has recently been compiewand is a great improvement.,-. Act» are now being taken to Ml» inb ™'£ h ing and do something towards exUngu . fe the existing debt. To accomplish hfl is intended to hold a gift f»ctaonon all 23rd of this month, and circulars gi««o. particulars have been issued.

u the meeting of the Auckland Institute I Vvenin" , Professor Thomas moved a 'lution in reference to the decease of the 1 Mr Justiop Gillies expressive of the 1 the institute had sustained thereby. I purchas, one of the oldest members of t Council, seconded the resolution, which v also spoken to by Mr. James Stewart, o of the founders of the Institute, and j Jfockochnie, an ex-president. All the „ ker.s referred in eulogistic terms to the ■ k ices rendered by the deceased judge. 'It nay be of interest to note who were p: ent at the first meeting of the Institute w n founded '21 years ago :—Messrs. T. B. i; ies F. Whitaker, R. J. Creighton, T. V jock, J. T. Mackelvio, R. McKay, J. "U Crawford, J. Ogilvie, C. Heaphy, and 1) Pnrchas. Mr. (now Sir Frederick) \\ itnkcr presided. The members of the lif Council were :—Sir Frederick Wlritakc, president; Messrs. T. B. Gillies, hon, ?e:.':ui(l treasurer ; J. H. Crawford, F. YV. rfttton, G. B. Owen, T. Peacock, and Dr. Parehas.

]ii yesterday's issue we referred to tho visit at present to Auckland of Colonel Carre, R.A., formerly of Mercer's Battery, .hiring the Waikato War. Since his de•javture from New Zealand he has seen a jood deal of service, having served in the \fTghanwtftn, Egyptian, and Soudan camKiigiis, and was present at Tel-cl-Kebir. iis purpose in coming to Auckland at he present time is to visit the scenes f the war. He states that he spent many appy days here, and having always hud sneftking affection for Auckland, it is ist possible when lie retires lie may settle ?re. Colonel L .rro has been to W.uigaui, revisiting the old battle fields on the ■'est Coast—Nukumnru, Weraroa, etc. o-day he leaves for Waikato to see Kangiri, Paterangi, and the old historic ground Orakau. At some of the places ho sited he was pained to see how little atntion had been paid to the graves of the en of the Imperial forces who had laid iwn their lives in defence of the colonists this country. Taking a lively interest his profession, he ha.s expressed himself tiling on his only available evening, on rival from Waikato on Saturday, to give lecture on "Colonial Defence,'' to our )lunteers and citizens generally. Arngements are not definitely fixed, it it is probable the lecture will given in the Masonic Hall, under e presidency of Colonel Shepherd, Ofiicer mmanding the District. He leaves by ; outgoing San Francisco mail steamer. lonel Carre has, during his stay, visited ■ Xorth Head fortifications, and is '! pleased with the works. As an r!!t?ri.-t, ho is especially well pleased Vi the guns, which are all that could be tired. During his tour in Australia he tre himself acquainted with the volunf< system of each colony, and saw the vtnteers at drill and in camp. His views oi heso matters, and on the weak and ?tig points of the system of "Colonial IHiee.''as adopted by our colonial neighbo, should be of sou-e interest to our vo'iteers and others.

-iery interesting lecture was delivered laslvening by Mr. J. A. Pond on " Xew Zeaid Fibres." He exhibited specimens of rious articles made from phormium <>:na both in the colony and one of it, aisoime specimens of paper made by Mr. rinrfrom leaves of cordyline indivisa and romphormium tendz. He expected to «hit >ome specimens of paper made from -•ew- Zealand libres by Mr. Guilfovle, cratr of the Melbourne Botanic Gardns.'nit they are in the s.s. Te Anau. (iilfoyle has succeeded in making sper from leaves of arnndo con*picua piunß grass ;" aflelia Batiksn ; car ex paidtlata." close-spiked sedge grass ;' cordyie iidivisa, " toi;" cordyline pumilio, dwatf palm lily,', from the phormiinn uix, and the bark of piltosporum crn.svi'ivsn. Of the cordyline Australia (the bbage tree), Mr. Guilfoyle says its leaves ord a large percentage of fibre, and of 'dyline Banbrii, "BankVs palm lily." he narks that it is convertible into a good ■ality of paper, and would pay well for (fcivation, yet this is a product which we ; ; destroying as fast as we can on our >"te land's.

n action comes on in the Supreme Court fie week, in which Mr. G. Macrae, settler, of'ancrere, sues the Mangere Road Board iortoOO damages, through injuries sustaiid by Mrs. Macrae by being thrown froi a buggy on the Mangere Road at nig , /, some road metal being left on the roa uaspread. He also claims £100 for mecal expenses and damage to trap. Mers. Devore and Cooper are acting for thplaintiffs. The Highway Board, it is uoirstood, intend to defend the action.

esterday afternoon General Strange, wo has returned from the Lake country, pd a visit no the Stud Company's estabInment, Sylvia Park, accompanied by (lonel Carre, R.A., Captain Morrow, and Gptain James (of the "O " battery). The hglish officers were greatly pleased with ieir visit.

An incipient fire broke out yesterday rrjrning at Parnell. about 2.30 o'clock, on pemises owned by Mr. Varnorn, of Queensteet, draper, but occupied by two ladies, thi Misses Rogers, engaged in a private sclool. It seems that they had been using Taipiri coal, and on the previous evening pit out some ashes which appeared dead in a vooden box near the scullery. Mr. He - bert Green, painter, who lives next doo-, discovered at the above hour the ashbox on fire and the flames going up the weacher board ing of the scullery, but suppressed the fire with a bucket or two of Mater. The hou=e, a nine-roomed one, was insured for £300 in the .South British, while the Misses Rogers had their furniture insured for £200 in the Royal. On the same night the dust-boxes on the wharf were found to be on fire by the night watchman, it is presumed from a similar cause, through •<u-hr:i being placed in them supposed to be dead.

There are on exhibition at the shop of Mr. Thoma-s Steadman, seedsman, Queen-street, Fome I'arrainatta oranges grown by Mr. Hayward, of Mnnurewa, nearly 20 miles south of Auckland. It has been hitherto thought they could not be grown so far south, but Mr. Hayward's trees are laden with them, and his opinion is that all that ia needed is suitable shelter trees.

A man named Win. Wilkinson, alias Wilkins, was committed yesterday for trial on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of Mr. Herbert, Hobson-street. JJis police record extends from 1878 to 1888, and no less than 1G convictions are recorded against him for larceny.

A most extraordinary case is recorded by a Sydney exchange to have occurred recently. The plaintiff, a respectable married person, went to the shop of defendant, a dentist, for the purpose of trying some teeth which she had ordered. They, how ever, did not fit, and she refused to pay for them until they had been altered. Hereupon the dentist became violent, using threats, and with the assistance of his housekeeper and servant, forcibly detained her from about 4 o'clock in the afternoon till nearly 11 o'clock at night, when she was released upon paying the money which had been demanded. The plaintiff sought to recover £500 damages for assault and slander. The jury found for plaintiff with .t'GO damages.

Proceedings are being taken by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals against a Kuiti settler. It is alleged that a truck was overloaded with pig*, and a number died in consequence in transit.

The new Railway Bill which the Vic■<oii;tn Government is under promise to introduce to Parliament during the coming session is in course of preparation. 10U'nilus are asked for in and about the metropolis, and for the country 4780/, miles are required. Under the last Railway Actthe cost of construction averaged £4000 per mile for the country and £12,000 for the town. Taking theee figures for the lines now asked for it will be seen that to '•'iirry out all that is asked for would involve an expenditure of £19,688,000 in the former case, and £1,212,000 in the latter, or a total sum of £20,900,000.

His rumoured that the member of the Auckland police force who went up to the "penitent form" at the Salvation Army barracks, on Sunday night, has been called upon for an explanation of his conduct by "is official superiors. Some time ago a circular was issued by the Commissioner of J olice warning members of the police force that they must not belong to "any reUgious societies." Through the free criticusa of the press upon that circular it was Withdrawn. The present action will be patched by the public with feelings of curiosity.

The arrest by the South Melbourne police of a wharf labourer named John Phillips has brought to light yet another of the increasingly numerous brutal assaults on wives. Phillips, who is an elderly man, occupies a cottage in Cobden-street, South Melbourne, the remaining members of the household consisting of his wife, Emily Phillips, two or three little children, and a servant, named Agnes Forbes, a girl of some 15 years of age. On Saturday night Phillips and his wife had a quarrel about some household matter, and he expressed his intention of " giving her a hiding." Accordingly, he struck her a blow on the head, which felled her to the ground, and while she lay senseless kicked her several times in the abdomen. The servant girl was in the yard at the time of the quarrel, and did not actually witness the assault, but, alarmed by the noise, she ran in in time to see Phillips dragging his wife along the passage to the bedroom. Mrs. Phillips recovered her senses after a while, and, though fearfully bruised, did not for the moment feel any ill e fleets from her husband's violence. Butnext day she was attacked with violent fits of retelling, accompanied by intense pain in the lower parts of the bod}'. Her condition gradually oecame so bad that she asked her husband to call in a doctor, but he refused to do so, on the ground that he could not afford the expense. However, when his wife to all appearance was in a dying state, lie called in Dr. Owen, who, recognising the woman's dangerous condition, thought it advisable to inform the police of the assault, and its probable consequences. Phillips was at once placed under arrest on a charge of assaulting his wife and inflicting grievous bodily harm upon her. In view of the woman's condition the police took her dying depositions.

The Brisbane Courier gives tho sad particulars of a boating accident by which two lives were lost recently at Kedclifl'e. It appears that at about 11 p.m. a wellknown aboriginal named Willie Hamilton and his wife Lizzie were out in a wimlaboab, and in endeavouring to round a reef off Redclifle Point during a rather rough sea, lost one of the oars. The boat became unmanageable, and drifted on to the reef. Willie then tried to swim and wade ashore, but, owing to the rough state of the water, he got terribly knocked about amongst the rocks and boulders. He called ont to his father, " King Johnny," for assistance, bub the old man is lame, and could only shout words of encouragement to his distressed son, who after heroic efforts in battling with the waves, shouted, "Father, it's no use; I can hold out no longer!" King Johnny reported the matter next morning, when the body of Willie was found on the beach in a terribly mutilated condition, having been cut and bruised against the rocks. A rescue party comprising the police and others went out to the boat on the reef, and found Lizzie wrapped up in blankets, but in an almost unconscious state from exposure to water and extreme cold during , the night. She was brought ashore and everything possible done to restore her, but without avail, and she died after a short period. • •

A serious accident, which nearly terminated fatally, happened to a man named Joseph Furnace, at East Maitlaud, New South Wales, through the foolish action of acquaintance, named James Chambers. It seems that Furnace was in conversation \\.:h Chambers, when the latter asked the victim of the accident if he ever had seen a Soudan sword. Furnace, replying in the negative, his companion toott up a sword, and making two or three flourishes with the weapon, at last drove the point into Furnace's thigh several inches deep, severing the main artery. Dr. S. Alcorn was immediately in attendance, and fortunately, succeeded in stopping the gaping wound from bleeding, and Furnace is now doing as well as can be expected. It is stated that the medical man was just in time, or Furnace would have died from loss of blood.

A remarkable circumstance (says the Melbourne Age of the 20th ultimo) will be noted in connection with the approaching arrival of the inward mail steamers Garonne and Britannia, both of which are at the present moment steainins between AY est Australia and Melbourne. The Orient mail steamer Garonne, which left London on the 7th of June, and brings dates to the 14th of June, has been ahnost overtaken by the P. and 0. steamer Britannia, which left a week Inter, viz., on the 14th June, bringing dates to the "21st of the same month. The Garonne reached Adelaide late yesterday afternoon, and her mails were immediately put on board a special train, which was despatched from Adelaide at 9 p.m. and will reach Melbourne to-day at 4 p.m. The Britannia, which left Albany on Thursday, is expected to reach Adelaide about 11 a.m. to-morrow. The railway authorities of South Australia have arranged to despatch her mails by a special train leaving Adelaide at midday and reaching Melbourne at 7 a.m. on Monday. As the mails of the Garonne will be landed at Melbourne to-day, too late for delivery ; they will be distributed on Monday morning along with those by the Britannia.

There has not been one fatal accident at the Bay of Islands Coal Company's mines during the past 25 years, whilst Mr. Moody has been manager

Simonsen's English and Comic Opera Company open for a season to-night at Abbott's Opera House. The opera selected as an inaugural performance is Balfe's romantic!operaof " Satanella," On Wednesday and Thursday " Les Cloches de Corneville" will be produced. The soason promises to be a very successful one.

The subsidence of the portion of Wellesley street, near the Free Library, has had the effect of closing that section of the eastern circuit of the tramway line until repairs are effected.

The police authorities have received a telegram from Constable Haddock, of Warkworth, reporting the death of Mr. William Mirehouse, licensee of the Little Omaha accommodation house. It appears he died suddenly yesterday. An inquest is to be held.

An inmate of the Asylum named George Bethel died yesterday. The usual inquest will take place.

Mr. Posseniskie, tailor, announces a large stock of coatings and tweeds now open.

The annual meeting of the Auckland West Kindergarten, to-day at 3 o'clock, at the old Industrial School.

Mr. Coad, the Cornish temperance lecturer, will commence a temperance mission at the City Hall, on Monday, the 19th instant.

A large quantity of old newspapers are for sale at the Free Library.

The annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association will he held this evening. After the members have had tea, a public entertainment will be held in the large lecture hall, which will include vocal and instrumental music, and limelight views by the Rev. J. S. Hill. Admission sixpence.