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New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 16

The R,M.S. Aorabgi arrived at Hobart at noon on Wednesday, She may be expected in Wellington early on Sunday afternoon. A little boy named Wilfred Wilson was committed to the Burnham Industrial School yesterday by-Mr H. W. Robinson, R.M., until he shall attain the age of 15 years. Complaints are made of the insufficiency of the lights supplied to the Government carriages running. at nightoh the WellingtonManawafcu railway. A man named William Robinson was admitted to the Hospital on Wednesday suffering from severe injuries which he sustained through a fence falling on fiicq peaif. the ruins of the Opera House on, Wednesday. A man named Thomas Phillips, who has been remanded at Featherston ou a charge of being of unsound mind until tbe 18th instant, was brought by the midday train from the Wairarapa on Wednesday in charge of Constable Smith. Tfie auctioneeiv, Messrs Baker Bros. K port the sale- of additional jots pf Brooklyn, making 72 diapqaai of ip this suburb, and representing acres 0 roo.da 24i perches, sold for £3,136. 0s 3d. The firm also report’ tfie sale of an allotment in Hopper-street, 33ft by 85ft, sold on behalf oi Mr George Byne Tennyson, vcho was eharged at the Magistrate's Court last Monday with having embezzled the sum of £2 belonging to the Columhia Skating Rink Company and remanded, in order that the Probation Officer might present a report on the case, was again brought before Mr H. W. Robinson,. R.M., yesterday morning. His Worship said the Probation Officer had presented a favorable report, and he had therefore decided to place the accused under the terms of the First Offenders Act for a period of three months. ‘

Notwithstanding tho gravqanri learned discussions at the of the Philosophical Society,on Wednesday night therecreptin the spirit of cynical, wit. The President, in the 'course of his address, referred to the hydra, aa a happy animal whose limbs might ha torn asunder and its organs severed, yelj E would still have the powers o.f gfimpletA digestion. Mr Tregeay thought, 'that' must be a very happy state of .existence, and one jto be enfte.cV,*Ta live oblivious of direct jsenSAtion and to have no knowledge of neuralgia or protective tariffs, and to be able to iturn one’s self inside out was a condition : admirably suited for ordinary New Zealapcfi i politicians.

• At the meeting of thq Pfitipsopfiiea!Sooiefcy ion Wednesday, the "following new members 'were electsjdftL Messrs T. D, McDogafi, W. ,iB. Hudson, A, Boardmr-n. The President |(W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S.) gave his inlaugural addreso, in the course of which he jre viewed the work done by the Society during the past year, and gave a. histo.ry of, tfi.q. :development of the microscope, model of tbe 'first instrument knfiwfi, and j comparing it with a highly ifiusfied biiio'c.ular j manufactured by Mecsr.s Srnitfi,. and. Beck. iPapers welfi rq.as on —Eirs.t, “A new l.deserifisj by R. B r Sharpe, of tfie Britisfi ;Mußeum, and named by him, ‘‘ Apteryx BqU. i lari’ second, “.Variations of a | Moth,”-by G. "NT 1 . Htfilsop,. Specimens, w-esju | exhibited shorvrug eight ditiinqt YAriationA iof the same sppeios. At the R;acadeat Magistrate’s Court yester* dgy morning, before Mr JEf-. W- Robinson, R-M-t. a fi rs t offender for drunkennos was fined 'ss, oi; fi hours’- imprisonment. Four boys, named Francis Sandbrook, Edwin Sandbrook, Arthur Jones, aud Franeis Wells, were charged with having stolen the sum of £2 5s 6d, belonging to Mr James Cotterill, grooer, on the 13th inst. Chi-f-Datective Browne informed his Worship that the accused, with the exception of Wells, had been previously convicted of larceny. It appeared that on Wednesday morning last the accused had entered the complainant’s shop while he was absent for a few minutes, and taken the money from the till. They were subsequently arrested in the evening at the Theatre Royal. His Worship said he_ would like to hear what the of the boys had to say v them, and in order that they might attend "tlie Court, he remanded the accused until next.' morning. Vi , ~1 ! ; "

'The men of the Wellington Nayal.Artjfiery, entertained P O. Fraser, who is leatiiigriVefi liiigton, sit a smfike co icerfc "n't Tlie' Duke ot Edinburgh Hotel Wednesday night. O P. <X. Aisher (who was in the chair), in' pr9p.oti.ng, the healtlf ofP.O. Fraser, referted to the seal and Ability of that officer,’ and tfie energy, he haid ’dfisplgyeij' in eqaueation with tfie variqiifi camps. Fraser, in acknowledging theTaafst, 'expressed his high appreciation of the life honorary membership conferred, upon him by'the Battery’, and. said his, opri-. nectinn with'the corps had,, been,one of. tfie greatest pleasures of fiis life, Dfi m'ged’ th.a, men to'stick to their officers, who, fie saicfi were far superior tp those of any other cprpp, in the country, and his, bpliof fi they oonfiefiqd to sfippofit them, the Rat.-. tei;y would ipaintain its, position as the promiof cosjps pf New Zealand. The healths of Qaptaics Duncan and -Falconer and Liou. tenants Hislop and Campbell were then proposed by, C.P.O. Aisher, and drunk amid enthusiasm. Lieutenant Hislop responded on behalf of the officers, and the remainder of the evening was devoted to harmony, concluding with “Auld Lang Syne” by all hands.

Judgment for plaintiffs was given in the, following civil cases at the Resident Magiatrate’s Court yesterday morning by Mr If. W. Robinson, R. M. -.—John Merry v James Hunt, 12s, and costs, Gs ; W. F. Garratc v Walter Monkhouse, £2 10s fid and costs, fis (to be paid by instalments) | A. G, Manthel 1 v H. McClenaghan, £1 I9s fid and costs, 7s ; J. Myers v D. Simon, £l2 5s 5d and costs, £1 Ib ; TYilliani Wiggins v Charles H, Giles, £6 11s Id and costs, 11s ; Mrs A. Smith v William Gerber, £3 10s and costs, 7s. Judgment summons cases—John Findley v James Stole, £4 2s, the defendant ordered to pay

tile amount lay vyeeliiy instykinleilts 5 MiltfeVj Booth and Comphhy n Alfred W. Blake, da 6d j tilts defendant wag ordered lb p&jr the sum of £6 Ss Vithin two months, or in default 14 d£ya’imprisonment. In the oaso Sidney I). Taiwhanga v. Patrick O'Callaghan, claim £22 19s, his Worship granted a nonsuit .with costs, £2 2s.