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New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 16

By tha fire in Blenheim, referred to in our telegrams, Messrs Earll and Mackenzie estimate their loss at £BOOO,

We have to acknowledge receipt from the Secretary of the General Post-office_ of a copy of the Postal and Telegraph Guide for October.

The sale by Messrs J. H. Bethune arid Co* on Wednesday of the property known as Roseneath, Evans Bay district, attracted a large attendance. The property was eventually knocked down to Mr J. R. George for £4850.

A special general meeting of members o the Working Men’s Club was held on Wednesday. There was a large attendance, and Mr J, W. Gray, president, presided. The busi« ness was the further consideration of bylaws. Considerable progress was made, and the meeting stands adjourned till to-night at 8 o’clock.

The meeting of Te Aro ratepayers on Wednesday, was muoh warmer than those held in Thorndon, aud the attendance was large. Keen interest was shown in the speeches of the various candidates. During the evening Messrs T. K. Macdonald and George Fisher, entering the room, were promptly recognised and applauded. At the annual meeting of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club, which was held on Wednesday, a handsome model of a yacht, which has been built by R. Harman, was exhibited. The little vessel, which has been built to scale after Dixon Kemp’s model, is perfeot in every detail to the minutest particular, and was much admired by the gentlemen present. The model, which is called “La Mascotte,” will he entered for the model yacht raoe at the next regatta.

Purchasers of country improved and unimproved lands will doubtless note with considerable interest the announcement in another column of the sale, on Friday, 12th October, of properties along the Welling-' ton and Manawatu Railway Company’s line, rendered imperative, owing to the decease of Mr H. S. Palmerson, of the firm of Mossrs Palmeraon and Soott, Surveyors, &c., of Palmerston North. It will bo seen that tha catalogue comprises a large number of farm properties, township sections, in Manukau, Shannon, Palmerston North, Ashnrst, Awahuri, Masterton. The sale will be held by Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald & Co., in their new Exchange Hall, Lambton-quay.

Judgment for plaintiffs was given in the followiug civil cases at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday :—South Pacific Loan Co. v Alfred King and W. J. Tabor,, £9 18s, and costs, £2 7s; Geo. Smart v R, G. Toulson, £l3, and costs £1 6s ; Keswick and another v J. A. Allan, £2 16s 6d, and costs 6s ; John Chappie (City Rate Collector) v Wm. McLean, £5 10s sd, and costs 10s , same v George Harper, £8 ss, and costs 11s; same v Thoa. Langdon, £lB 16a lOd, and costs £1 ; same v J. Lane, £3 103, and costs 6s ; same v Owen Daly, £2 13a lOd, and costs 6d ; F. Cooper v A. B. Jackson, £2l 18s 3d, and costs £3 12s ; John Maginnity v A. B. Jackson, £3 2s, aud costs 6s ; J. J. Drowe v R. A. Butcher, £1 10s, and coats 7s. In the judgment summons case of Green and Co, v Alf.ed Bradley, claim £2 18s, an order was made for the payment of the amount on or before the 4th November, or in default, four days’ imprisonment. His Excellency the Governor has replied as follows to the address presented to him by the Diocesan Synod:—“To the Right Rev the Lord Bishop of Wellington and the Clergy and Laity of the Synod of Wellington, New Zealaud.—My Lord Bishop and Gentlemen,—l thank you heartily for your address aud tha kind sentiments therein expressed. I need scarcely assure you that it has been with the most sincere pleasure that Lady Jervois, and my family, as well as myself, have endeavoured to co operate with you in any slight degree in your noble undertaking. I cannot but reoognise that in a country like this, which has been oolouisod by Europeans less than fifty years, the Church has had great difficulties to encounter, whether amongst Natives or Europeans ; and I must not omit to notice the fact that the Right Rev the President of the Synod was one of that brave band of missionaries who first carried the Gospel to the Maori race. My Lord Bishop and Gentlemen, —I most sincerely wLli you every success in the great work that is before you. In thanking you again for your kind address, I cannot avoid a reference to the day, now not far distant, when myself and family shall leave New Zealand after six happy years of sojourn, during which we have been received with the utmost cordiality and friendliness by all classes of the community in this favoured land.—Wm. F. Drummond Jeiivois.”

The following address was presented on Wednesday by the clergy of the Wellington Diocese to the Bishop in reference to bis attainment of his sacerdotal jubilee :—“To the Right Reversnd Ootavius, by Divine permission Lord Bishop of YVellington.— We, the clergy of your Diocese, approaoh your Lordship with unfeigned congratulations that it has pleased Almighty God to allow you to complete the fiftieth year of your priesthood, and we desire to express to 1 you our sense of the service which'you'havri rendered to the ’Church as Missionary,' Arclideiioofj, and Bishop during that period. We ate mindful that there are circuriistances in your ministerial career of deep interest to the Church which are absolutely unique, inasmuoh’ as your 1 Lordship' was the hirst deacon ordained in Australia, the first priest ordained in "New Zealand, and, the first Bishop consecrated without Royal Mandate ot Letters Patent frorii the Crown. We bear in mind the many perils arid, hardships encountered by you in the early days of your missionary labour's, and, the spirit of courage arid endurance with which you mot all difficulties in spite of constant physical weakness ; arid that* there was granted to your riaiDistry abundant measure of success. We recognise that under your administration the work of the church iu the Diocese has been largely developed, and we believe that the constitutional basis upon which our Diocesan Acts have been placed is tne surest guarantee for its future welfare. In the many controversies which have affected the church iu recent times, your clergy have always .felt full confidence in your intellectual abilities gnd soundness of church principle. We assure your Lordship of our personal attachment, and trust that the Divine Blessing, which has sustained you through so long and arduous a career, may remain with you to the end,” [Here follow the names. J

I At the Magistrate’s Court yesterdey mornirig, before Mir W. H. Robinson, R.Mi, two first offenders for drunkenness were dealt with in the usual way'. For a similar offence John Kelly and Alice O’Ddnnell Were each fined ss, or in default six horiirs’ imprisonment ; and Thomas Temperly was sent to gaol for 14 days without the option of a tine. For having committed a breach of the peace by fighting on the Queen’s Wharf, John Tarr was fined 10s, or in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. A general meeting of the Philosophical Seciety was held at the Museum Wednesday. There was a fair attendance of members, and the President (Mr W. M. Maskell) occupied the chair. The President stated that Messrs R. Donaldson, C. Y. O’Connor, P. Earle; and R. Caldwell, had been elected members of the Society. He explained that the Council intended to expend a certain sum of money in procuring books, and they would be very glad to receive suggestions from members as to what books they should get. He requested the members to send in lists of their suggestions before next meeting in order that they might be considered by the Council. Papers ou * • The Fallacy of Electro-Capillary Tneory ” and “ New Zealand Desmidiese.” by W. Skey and W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S., respectively,' were taken as read. An interesting paper on “ Earthquakes and Architecture,” a reply to a similar paper by Mr Maskell, was then read by Mr Thomas Turnbull, F. R.1.8.A. . Mr E. C. Batkin, at the annual meeting of the Star Boating Club on Wednesday, stated his intention of retiring from offieeship of the Club in consequence of business engagements. The announcement evoked a regular storm of enthusiasm toward Mr Batkin, who, judging by the display of regard shown him, must be the most. popular member of tho Club. The feeling toward him found expression in a series of resolutions proposed by Mr Chapman :—(1) That Mr Batkin be elected an honorary life member of the Club. (2) That the Club desires to show it 3 appreciation of his past services on its behalf ; and (3) That it be an instruction to the com 111 it lee to devise some means to show the Club's appreciation of his services. Mr Chapman, speaking to the resolutions, said that Mr Batkin had been in the service of the Clnb for over twelve years, and that for twenty, one years he had been a member, and during that time it was impossible to recount all that ho had done for the Club. The resolutions were carried by acclamation, after which three ringing cheers were given for Mr Batkin. He responded in feeling to the compliment which had been paid to him. At the conclusion of his remarks he was again loudly applauded and cheered. A further resolution, proposed by Mr Govett, that Mr Batkin be asked to allow his photograph-to be taken, with the object of having it hung in the boathouse, was also carried.