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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 22

The Benevolent Trustees decided on Tuesday that in future all supplies for the Home bo tendered for, and that a schedule of the requirements be drawn up. It was resolved that a woman be appointed for n period of six months or longer, at a salary of .£1 per week, to visit; the recipients of relief and to report on each case. Mr Collins, who proposed this step, mentioned the good work done by the Women's Christian Association. Several cases of relief were dealt with. A young girl who had left the Salvation Army owing to a diucrenco of opinion with the captain was sent to tho Home for a week, in the meantime to look for a situation. A man partly blind asked for a passage to Dunedin. Ho was sent to the Home for a week, in the meantime the secretary to enquire as to the man’s condition.

At the meeting of the Hospital Trustees on Tuesday, accounts amounting to ,£275 wero passed for payment. The Public Works Department announced that it was intended to take water from one of tho Hospital Reserve sections for the battery near the Botanical Gardens. Tho Rev 11. Van Stavere n .suggested that they should claim compensation. The matter was left in the hands of the chairman. The liquor hill showed that during last month 28 patients consumed 158 pints of wines, spirits and malt liquors. A request from a lessee of one of the Hospital Reserve sections for eomnensafion for land taken in connection with tho formation of Kelbmmo Dark was left in the hands of the chairman.

Air John Kirkealdie, lmad of the enterprising tii m of Kirkealdie and Stains, lias secured (he site at present occupied by Mr Rcicliardt s music store, and intends to erect a building of three or four stories for the purposes of his business.

Tho Court of Appeal on Tuesday reserved judgment in the ease of Annie Moore v. Ngarino Horima and others. Tho thief Justice and Justices Denuiston and Williams then proceeded to hear the case of Bamford v. the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, an appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Conolly, who made an order directed to tho District Land Registrar at Auckland that he should register the deeds of the Maungntautari block, on the gi ound that a Crown grant had been issued without any restriction. The District Registrar refused to register tho deed, on tho ground that there had been a previous Crown grant issued with restrictions. Mr Gully appeared for the appellant, and Air Button, with him Mr Then. Cooper, for the respondents. The Court dismissed the appeal, with costs on the middle scale. The Court then adjourned until 10.30 next morning.

At the n ontbly meeting of the Board of College Governors on Tuesday, the chairman, Air J. R. Blair, said that Aliss Hamilton thought a preparatory school should ho opened at To Aro end of flic city in connection with the Girls’ High School. On the suggestion of Mr Young the chairman promised to see if the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Schoolroom could he secured, The Chairman also gave notice to move at next meeting that a preparatory school in connection with the Girls’ High School be opened at the south end of the city. It was announced that the Land Department had approved tho plan for the subdivision of the Rangitumau Block in connection with the leasing of 1700 acres by Kcbbcll Bros. The Board decided to forfeit certain sections in the Harbour district on which no r'-nts have been paid, and to offer them for sale at auction. 'J lie chairman submitted a report showing that the finances of the Board are still in a healthy condition.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Excelsior Lodge in the Choral B all on Tuesday. A.D. Bro. E. H. McCarthy, in tho chair, coiA ducted the initiation of a new member. Tho receipts for the evening amounted to ,£2O. There was a huge attendance of visiting brethren. It was decided that an official visit he paid to tlm Pacific Lodge on Thursday night.

The many friends of Air and Mrs J. Saunders will regret to learn that news was lecoived on Tuesday of the sudden death of their youiigo.*t daughter, Miss Margaret Saunders, while Hie was on a visit to Sumner.

Despite tho fact that all the vacancies in the police force have long ago been filled, the Minister for Justice still continues to he deluged with applications from men in all I/arts of the Colony, and frequently’, too, tho applications are made in ] eivon. A few days Hnce throe stalwart, strong, sinewy young men waited on the Ministed, hut Air Thompson informed them there wasnoelianeo of there being any vacancies for a considerable time, and remarking that they looked ,-Crong, healthy nn n, capable of semiring a more independent position in life than that of a policeman, asked them why they wero so anxious to join the police, to which one man, who had left a Lillet at which he was earning from 1.7 sto X I and his keep, replied that Iks a nice, cl me. easy job.”

Air Allred Gilbert, secretary for New Zealan I for the Mutual Life Association of Australasia, has received advice by cable from .Sydney that the 27th annual meeting of tho Association, which took plane on Monday last, pa-'.- - cd el!’ very successfully, the annual report ami ii ilamm-.-licet being cxeeplionaliy well received. The main features of the report are increased new business, diminished mortality claims (the lowc-t for years), maint. nance of interest, revenue, reduced expenses and inci'ea.-eii luini.i well ami safety invested.

The J.'ev George'Walterr-;, Uiiitaii.au minister, the performance of whoso Scriptural play “ Joseph of Canaan” was lately interdicted by the Lord Chamberlain's department, has returned to Sydney after a six months’ trip to England. Mr Walters states the sole objection to the licensing of the play is that, it is founded on a Biblical story. Tho idea 1 hut, the introduction of the character of Bofiphar’s wife Lad anything to do with the matter is entirely erroneous. An objection to such an incident would be certainly absurd in view of the many plays that arc licensed and produced far more objectionable than this.

A serious accident occurred at the Weraiti sawmills, near Masterton, on Tuesday morning. A troilyman named Walter Miller was engaged with his trolly, when lie fell, and the trolly passed over his body, crushing him badly. He has been admitted to the Alasterton Hospital, hut tho exact nature of his injuries is not known.