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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9404, 10 January 1894, Page 4

The fate of Captain Wilson's detachment in Matabeleland still remains uncertain, but there is little hope of its safety. A detachment of native police is reported to have been massacred by the Matabeles. A telegram published in the London papers states that a force of American marines have been landed at Honolulu, presumably for the purpose of re-instating Queen Liliuokalani. Resistance was offered, and loss of life is said to have : taken place. A plot, has been discovered in Italy, in which a number of members of Parliament are implicated. The riots in Sicily are believed to be to a large extent the work of Anarchists. The intensely cold weather prevailing in England has led to a number of persons being ■ frozen to death. It .is reported that the British navy is to be increased by the addition of five battleships.

A Sydney cablegram states that in connection with the unemployed difficulty, the Presbyterian Churches of i Sydney and suburbs are taking joint action to establish co-operative settlements. It is stated that three ministers, the Revs. Dunn, Franckleton, and Fitzgerald will shortly visit New Zealand, to make full inquiries as to the working of the co-operative settlements- The clergyman just named is without doubt our old friend the Rev. T. W. Dnan, formerly Presbyterian clergyman at Pukekohe, but now in charge of a Prebyterian Church at Newtown, Sydney. One would have thought that it would have been better to send some practical hard-headed agriculturists on 'such a mission rather than gentlemen whose ministerial work, however useful, can scarcely be said to qualify them to deal with co-operative farming settlements. ■' • :.•..;,.; .....

16 will be seen from a cablegram from Sydney, in another column, that the mall steamer Alameda has been maintaining iter reputation for. speed on her present trip from San. Francisco, Leaving the Golden Gate a day behind time, the Alameda arrived at this port fully up to contract time, notwithstanding that stays of several hours were made at Honolulu and Apia, in order to allow the passengers as much time as possible in which to do the sights,' After remaining hero for about nine hours, the steamer left for Sydney, and made such good time across that the mails landed by her were 53 hours under contract time. Captain Morse and bis officers, especially Mr. Little and his brother engineers, are to be congratulated upon such a creditable performance.

The statutory meeting of the Harbour Board will be held on Monday next), and the ordinary meeting the day following. After the Christmas holiday adjournment it had been thought that the meetings would have gone on from yesterday. But the alteration was not found convenient to many of the members, hence the reversion to the old order of things.

The ordinary general meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company will be held ab the Company's office, Queen-street, to-day (Wednesday), at two p.m.

To-day the fine four masted barque Morven will complete her loading for London, and will sail in a few days. .-. The Morven, which has been loaded by the Kew Zealand' Shipping Company, is the largest sailing vessel that has ever been loaded at this port, and on her homeward voyage should give a good account 61 herself, judging from the way in which she came along from the Cape of Good Hope to New Zealand. The vessel has suffered no delay during : the time she has been engaged in taking in cargo, and the close proximity of the wool stores of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company to the Quay-street Jetty, where the Morven has been loaded, has been found of the utmost advantage both to the ship and the companies interested in her loading.

Mr. Rolleßton, of Hikurangi, arrived in town last evening. He has brought good news which will be welcome to those who have taken up shares in the Hikurangi Coal Company. Mr- Rolleston says that the men whom Mr. Moody has at work have opened up the outcrop near the railway in the company's lands, and exposed to view a magnificent seam of coal fully nine feet thick. The seam is very hard and clean, and shows a good prospect. Mr. Moody goes to Hikurangi to night, and may be accompanied by a prominent member of the company.' ?"'.';.' ';>'...',..: '~■*'";"■•■'

The annual examination for teachers under the Auckland Board of' Education, and' candidates for ; the Junior and Senior Civil Service, was commences! the Wei-lesley-street School yesterday. ; Inspector Goodwin acted as supervisor. A • similar examination is proceeding at the Thames conducted by Inspector Crowe. The number of candidates presenting themselves in the various classes were published -in yesterday's Herald.

Complaints are becoming pretty frequent that young lads are in the habit of assembling over the entrance of the Domain tunnel, and aa the train passes underneath throwing large stones at the carriages. Yesterday afternoon as the 4.15 train from Onehunga came through- the passengers were considerably startled by hearing what sounded like boulders dropping on to the roof of the carriages. The attention of the ' police should be turned to this highly dangerous outburst of larrikinism. Another piece of larrikinism which is of a piece with- the squirting; of red ink on ladies dresses when walking in thepublio thoroughfares occurred on New Year's Day at the Caledonian sports. As the ladies passed to and fro on the green in their summer costumes, a number of hoys Bitting on the banks and on the verandah of the cricket pavilion deliberately amused themselves by seeing who could expectorate the furthest on the dresses of the ladies. Several, T ladies had their dresses w spoiled in this way. As there will be some intercolonial cricket matches in '; the Domain shortly, at which no doubt there will be a large attendance of the puble, some steps should be taken by the police authorities to detect the perpetrators of thee* vile practices, which occasion great annoyance and discomfort to ladies. >

■ We publish to-day in another column the first part of an instructive article.by Dr. Laiflhley upon " What the Recent Elections Teach. ■ - » •■; :i U] ;[- A meeting of the committee of the Franklin Agricultural Society wss held.at Pukekobe on Friday evening, January sth, Mr. C. D. Barriball in the chair. The business consisted of electing stewards, and passing the prize schedule for th« forthcoming show in February. The following gentlemen were elected stewards to carry out the arrangements, viz., Blood stock und roadsters, Messrs. F. L. Wright, A.' Madill, and T. Hamilton draught stock, Messrs. J. Roulston, jun., and I*. Ballard; lumping and riding matches, Messrs. W. Sharp and G. Russell; cattle, Messrs. Flaniean and Jones; sheep, Mr. James Potter; pigs, John Allen Esq. dairy produce, K. McCowan; fruit aid flowers, Messrs. McDonald and Hill; vegetables and seeds, Messrs. J. H. Selby and Pellow ; implements, Mr. R. Proude ; gates, Mr. Heywood Crispe. It was resolved that the Newton Band be engaged. The following members of committee were authorised to receive entries for show, viz., Mr. F. L. Wright, for Bombay; Mr. J McJNetsh, Pokeno; Mr. H. Crispe Mauku; Mr. Flanigan, Drury; and Mr. A. Madill, Tuakau.

Loud complaints are being made by masters of vessels which are moored at the various wharves at the losses which they have to put up with at the bands of the light-fingered gentry who frequent the wharves. It if. not small articles that disappear, but bags of potatoes, grain, etc. In one instance as many as 10 bags of oats disappeared off the wharf between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning. Musters and owners feel much aggrieved at being called upon to pay up for what is missing, and consider that the harbour authorities should take means to protect them against such losses.

An examination of pupil teachers under the Roman Catholic Board of Education was opened yesterday in the school of the Sisters of Mercy in Hobson-street, The examiners are. Rev. Dr. Egan and Mr. McPhersou, M. A., Inspector of Roman Catholic schools. Fourteen candidates presented themselves. The secular subjects were disposed of yesterday, and to-day will be devoted to religious knowledge. The Board of Education consists of His Lordship Bishop Luck (chairman), Dr. Kgan, and Fathers Hackett, O'Reilly, and Lenihan.

The Bishop of Waiapu, Dr. Stuarb, arrived in Auckland yesterday, to attend the meeting of the Church Missionary Society Board, and to transact other business connected with the Church. His resignation of the See of Waiapu does not take effect till the end of the present month.

A case of supposed poisoning occurred oh Sunday in Baker-street, in the family of Mr Colvin, which consists of himself and wife, and with a grown up son and daughter, and two younger children. Ib appears that the whole family took ill on Sunday evening, the symptoms being violent vomiting and purging, and Drs. Lewis! and Dawson were called in. Dr. Lewis's investigations brought out what is believed to be the true explanation of the affair. The family, on principle, avoid as much as possible Sunday cooking, and had on Saturday cooked a rhubarb pie, which was one of the dishes partaken of that day at dinner. On the Sunday the remainder was used at dinner, and as it was kept in. a close safe, near a fireplace, it it supposed the contents fermented, hence the trouble. The whole family were prostrated, and Dr. Lewis did not deem it wise to give any publicity to the facts, 80 that the people who were sick might have perfect quiet, and not be worried by neighbours coming to the house and making inquiries. Mrs. Colvin was very ill ab first, but is now improving. Mr. Thos. Colvin, a young man of 20 years of age, is said to be suffering the worst at present, but the medical men are in hopes of bringing the family all round in the course of a few days.

The annual meeting of the local Board of the Church Missionary Society was commenced yesterday under the presidency of the Most Rev. the Primate (Bishop Cowie). The proceedings were nob of a public character. ,' i. ~ - »;.»*

At a late hoar on Monday "night" Mri Wm. Piddock reported at the police station that his wife had been robbed with violence in Hobson-street at nine p.m., when passing by a vacant allotment opposite the Prince of Wales Hotel. According to Mrs. Piddock's statement she had been shopping in Karangahape Road, and was returning home with her purchases when two men jumped out on her from the above-men-tioned vacant allotment. One of the men put his hand over her month, while the other snatched away her handbag contain* ing £3 10s, and she was pushed violently to the ground. On recovering she saw the men disappear into Cook-street. She went home as soon as possible and informed her husband, who at once communicated with the police. Chief Detective Grace and Detective Chrystal have made every inquiry concerning the affair in the locality where it occurred, but are unable to get the slightest information which throws any light upon it.

A son of Mr. John Brennan, residing at Te Papapa, near Onehunga, was last evening riding a young horse, when it bolted with him. He was thrown violently to the ground, and sustained fracture and dislocation of the elbow joiut. The lad was taken home, and Dr. Erson sent for, who attended to his injuries, and he is progressing favourably.

Yesterday Mr. Power, of Te Aroha, sustained a compound fracture of the right leg by a fall from a horse. He was conveyed to Morrinsville in time to catch the down train for Auckland. On bis arrival in Auckland the ambulance was in waiting, and he was taken to the District Hospital, where he is doing as well as could be expected.

Yesterday the new yacht Viking was taken into the Auckland Graving Dock in order to have some of the lead removed from her keel, it having been found that the weight sank the yacht too deep in the water. During the day a large number of those interested in yachting took advantage of the occasion offered to view the yacht in the dock, and the opinion seems to be that when the lead is removed from the keel, she will be greatly improved, both in speed and in appearance when in the water.

The business at the Police Court yesterday morning was disposed of in about threequarters of an hour. A first offender for drunkenness, a young man of good address, was fined 5s and cost?, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment. Several cases under the Destitute Persons Act were investigated. Mr. H. W. Northcvofb, R.M., presided.

Now that the fruit is coming in again, the fruitgrowers and orchardists in the suburbs of Auckland are having their lives made a burden to them by boys goine about in gangs and systematically despoiling the orchards of fruit. Mr. O'Neill, of! O'Neill's Point, North Shore, who has suffered so much from petty depredations of this sort, states that they are again on the job at his fruit. They come in gangs in boats, and on being detected pull away. He states that not only boys but men are engaged in this nefarious pursuit, and he has ■ communicated with the police. Unless . the ■ police and the Bench stamp out this class of crime it will not be possible to grow fruit, in either tlw gardens of citizens or the orchards of suburban residents. The pilferers of grave fencing in the cemeteries are again on the warpath collecting " firewood," notwithstanding the severe example made of the offender detected at this sacrilegious work in the Jewish Cemetery. A citizen went the other day to the Symonds-street Cemetery to see the graves of bis children, and found that the gate provided to give access to the enclosure had been stolen and part of the grave railings. '~ - V> ■■■'"«"'

At the Albert-street Baths yesterday, Professor Parinell gave two free exhibitions of plain and fancy swimming. The first took place in the morning, when his audience consisted of ladies. There was a large attendance, and all present watched with considerable interest the various feats of the clever swimmer. There was a large number of gentlemen present in the afternoon at the second exhibition. The Professor went through a like performance as in the morning, his back somersaults, the sunflower feat, and pannell's porpoise stroke, eliciting loud applause. At both exhibitions he was assisted by a number of his pupils. - ■■-■• i:r-''W r: --

. tAt the Police Court yesterday morning, Mr. Sbrabhorn, an behalf of the Charitable Aid Board, applied to the Bench to have the order made on ; the previous Saturday against Thomas Henry Brittain, for the payment of £37 9*, in default three months' imprisonment, put into force.' Mr. Strathera stated that the order had been allowed to remain in abeyance, -so ' that the defendant might have afforded an opportunity of giving satisfactory security to the Board for the payment of the amount. « In company with the defendant he (Mr. Stratherri) had gone to Messrs. Hesketh and Richmond's office for the purpose of arranging matters, but daring the conversation with Mr. Clayton, the defendant) became very thirsty and left for the purpose of getting a drink. He promised 'to come down again on Monday and arrange matters, but he had nob done so. " Mr. Strathern said that during the last three weeks the defendant had gone through over £40 in Auokland. His Worship accordingly granted the warrant for arrest.

With reference to the report which appeared in our columns of the charge against an engineer in the employ of the Northern Steamship Company, we find on inquiry that the Magistrate, in dismissing the case, did not, as reported, say that he gave the accused the benefit of the doubt. He dismissed the case without in any way reflecting upon ihe defendant.

No less an authority than, the Victorian Chief Justice has been drawing attention to the growing tendency among Australians to a slovenly and disagreeable pronunciation Of the English tohgue. Addressing the Methodist Ladies' College in the Melbourne Town Hall, on Speech Day, Sir John Madden implored his hearers to " pronounce the English vowels as they were intended, and to give their noses as small a share in the process as possible." The chief solecisms committed by the young Australians are well-known, and we regret to any that they are creeping into some of our hew Zealand schools. " The average Australian youth," says the Argus, " turns a into »' and a into aow or tow. He says ' dy ' instead of ' day,' 'ieow' instead of 'oow,' and 'haowi' in place of * how.' "He thus, contrives to combine in his speech ah offensive Yankeeism, and a still more disagreeable Cockney error oi pronunciation. These practices, together with the habit of producing his voice somewhere in his nose makes his speech an affliction to the sensitive ear. It must also militate very largely against good singing. lb is impossible to produce a voice properly with such a pinched and attenuated pronunciation of the vowels, how that attention has been so pointedly directed to the matter in men a high quarter, it is hoped that all who have to do with the teaching of the young will direct careful efforts to correcting these glaring defects of style before they become a badge of national degeneration.

During the season which will close at the end of this month Pond and Co 's Enamelled Butter Package and Woodware Company, Wellesley-streeb West, will have turned out 30,000 to 4 »,000 butter boxes, a quantity of which are used in the colony bub the great bulk sent to New South Wales and Victoria. Th 3 factory is ab present running overtime. In addition to butter packages a large quantity of woodware of ail classes is turned out at the above establishment. .

Amongst the many visitors from other ports of the colony ab present residing in Auckland is Mr. T. Fitzgerald Faulkner, a musician of marked ability, and a gentleman who has had an unusually interesting career. Mr. Faulkner was born blind, and spent the early years of his life in the vicinity of Windsor, England. He came under the notice of Her Majesty the Queen when quite a child. She took him in hand, and sent him to York College at her own expense, and there he studied music for several years. He subsequently completed his musical studies under the late Sir George Elvey, whose death was quite recently announced by a cable message in this journal, and from whom Mr. Faulkner received bis first appointment. He has resided in the colony for some years, and has held the position of organist ab Trinity Church, Dunedin. He also played with very decided success at the Dunedin Exhibition. Last Sunday evening he visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, and was so pleased with the capabilities of the organ that he volunteered to give a recital, on it. The. church authorities have arranged for the recital to take place on Monday evening next. A first-class musical treat, and one altogether unique as far as Auckland is concerned, may be expected, and there will, doubtless, be a crowded attendance.

The talented Payne Family drew a crowded house last evening at the Parnell Hall, and every number on the programme was encored. To-night is positively their last appearance in the City Kail, when they will produce a full programme, specially selected from their grand repertoire of musical numbers, which will be found in full in our advertising columns. The I'ayne's give one of their popular concerts in Devon port to-morrow evening, at popular family prices.

On the occasion of Mr. George Leltch's benefit, at the Opera House on Friday evening, the New South Wales and Canterbury swimming teams will be present, while it is expected that there will be a large muster from the German warship in port, as the version of the "Libiarian" to be produced is an English translation of the German play. . ,

This evening Willow Grove Gardens, North Shore, will be en file. Dancing, illuminations, fireworks, diorama, and comicalities. will all contribute their quota of amusement, and with strawberries and cream ad lib,, the visitors should be well satisfied. .