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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4229, 9 October 1874, Page 2

The revenue of the Wellington-Master ton railway for the month of September was £376 Is. lid. Passengers and parcels are credited with £337 2s. 7d;, and merchandise with £3B 19s. Id. Tenders have been called for by the Corporation, we are glad to observe, for such a survey of the City as we have long recommended should be made. They are to be sent in to the Town Clerk up to noon of the 22nd instant. The following is an approximate list of the immigrants expected to arrive by the Star- of India ;—Married couples without children : 6 laborers, 1 carpenter, 1 plasterer, 1 sailmaker. Married couples with children ; 6 laborers, 10 farm laborers, 1 cooper, 1 brickmakei, 1 ploughman, 1 gardener, 2 shepherds, 3 bricklayers, 5 bootmakers, 10 carpenters. Single men ; 12 laborers, 5 shepherds, 2 carpenter's, 2 boot-, makers, 17 farm laborers, 1 groom, 2 plasterers, I tailor, 1 blacksmith, 6 lads. Single women : II general servants, 3 housemaids, 1 nurse, 1 housekeeper, 3 cooks, 6 girls. Applications to engage these immigrants should be made to Mr. Red ward, Immigration Depot, Wellington. Any of the above immigrants who are engaged for service in the country districts of the Province will be forwarded by the Immigration Department. Speculators and investors, as well as the artisan, will have an opportunity of securing freeholds at Mr. Duncan’s rooms this day, when he will offer for sale a considerable number of allotments and acres in the City ; and eleven leasehold sections bordering upon the Botanical Reserve. These sections are admirably adapted for dwelling-houses of any class, and from their proximity to the Gardens will become a favorite site for family residences. A few sections at Palmerston, and in the Hutt Small ’Farm, township of Sandon, are also to be offered'; and now that Palmerston is to be connected with the port of Eoxton by rail, and the Wanganui coach runs through both townships, they will no doubt increase in value more rapidly than they have .yet done. If we may judge by the enormous rise in value of the Wairarapa townships they will well repay investors.

A most impudent theft is reported to have taken place at the Wellington College yesterday. An individual, not of prepossessing appearance, looked into the room of Mr. Hardy, the mathematical tutor, and asked for a direction to the master carpenter. This was given to him, but, it would appear, not used. Later in the day, Mr. Hardy missed his hat from'che usual stand, and found that the ill-favored individual had not been to the carpenter, but had been warned off the grounds by the officer in charge of the prisoners employed malting roads, &c. There is, of course, no positive proof that he took away the hat, but there remains a strong probability that he did do so. His description was taken by the officer in charge of the prisoners, and probably he will be arrested ere long. The only curiosity in the matter is that he did not take Mr. Hardy’s umbrella, hanging with the hat. When he went to the College he had on a Scotch cap, and the presumption is that he pocketed this and made away with the hat. In another column will be found the programme of the Wairarapa race meeting, which will be held on Thursday and Friday, the 10th and: 11th December. On the first day five, and on the second six, events will come off. These races were originally announced to take place in January, but it has been thought advisable to alter the date to the days now named in December, that they may be over before the work of the harvest begins. The pastoral show takes place on Wednesday, the day before the races. Both take place on the Tauherinikau racecourse.

An accident occurred on the wharf yesterday, which for n few moments seemed likely to be attended with serious consequences. The barque Ashburton is discharging heavy jarrah piles, and while one of them, that appeared somewhat larger than the bulk, was being lowered to the wharf the sling slipped and one end of the pile came down unexpectedly. While the men engaged were endeavoring to haul the end round into its place, the pile fell from the sling, coming down most awkwardly, and falling amongst the laborers. It fell upon the foot of one of the men, but fortunately did no more harm than to greatly bruise it. . At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, a sailor was charged with refusing duty on the ship Halcione, and was dismissed ■with a caution ; a woman named Hannah Mendoza was remanded on a charge of vagrancy; and Frederick Stagg, for assaulting Sophia Anderson, was fined 205., or in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. Several civil cases were also disposed of.

When the schooner May was 1 sailing down the harbor A ou her departure last Wednesday, a sudden squall swamped the boat of a waterman named Grainey, which was being towed alongside. Fortunately the owner had boarded the schooner a few minutes previously, but all the sails, masts, oars, and some clothes floated away towards the head of the bay. Should anyone pick up the missing articles, they will now be enabled to return them to the owner.

At a meeting of the New Zealand Agricul- . tural Society, held a few days ago in Auckland, the chairman —Mr, Goodfellow—drew attention to the fact that foot and mouth disease had been introduced into Victoria with imported stock. He mentioned this to the meeting in the hope that it would consider what steps should bo taken to prevent a similar mishap in this Province. He recommended that the Government be addressed oh the subject, and requested to' urge upon the inspectors the necessity of exercising extreme vigilance.' Mr. A. Martin proposed a resolution to that effect.- Mr. Calvert, V.S., seconded the motion, which was carried. The Taranald Herald states that Mr. Commissioner Parris is about to obtain twelve months’ leave of absence to visit England, and, in consideration of his long and valuable service to the Colony,' that full pay will be given him during his .absence. We do not know whether this’information is correct or not,— all we can say in the matter is that Mr. Parris has earned a holiday, and, if he desires it, the Government ought to grant it. , The Herald adds—“ Wo do not think’ the public service will suffer during his absence, as most of the vexed Native questions have been disposed of, and Natives affairs generally are in a much moro satisfactory state than they were a few years ago."

A story, found its way into circulation the other day' through tho Alexandra correspondent of tho Southern Crou, to tho effect that the steamer Go-Ahead had lately entered the little harbour of Mokau, and landed all the apparatus for a small 1 distillery, which was to be put up for a Pakeha Maori, iu tlie wild country between To Kuiti and Mokau. Payment for the machinery, it was also stated, was made iu fat cattles The story'has since been denied. • The Wairarapa , Standard says : Hutt railway at present is anything but a convenience to .the Wairarapa, whether for goods or passengers, but this will not be the case when the bridge at the Silver Stream has been erected, which will have the effect of making the'dine available for the goods traffic of this district, and of at once quadrupling the number of passengers between'this district and Wei. lington." A handsome present has been made by the Eev. Father Maguire, of Auckland,. to the Hibernian Band of that city. It consists of a complete set of new musical instruments, which cost the donor a hundred guineas.

The Gazette intimates the appointment of William Gilbert Main, Esq., J.P., as Resident Magistrate for the district of Waikato. : The Rev. Messrs. Ashwell and Stanley, en route for Auckland, have arrived from Norfolk Island at Russell, by the whaler Hunter. Dr. Hector has arrived in Auckland, after a visit of inspection to the mines of Coromandel. A newspaper, devoted to agricultural matters, is about to be commenced at Hamilton, in the Waikato. . Mr. Curtis, the Superintendent of Nelson, was to address the electors of that city last night, in the Provincial Hall, Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Thornton and “La Petite Amy,” are now at New Plymouth, where they have been received with a hearty welcome. We observe that the annual meeting of the Wellington Cricket Club will be held, on Wednesday next, the 14th iust.; at the Empire Hotel. Officers will be elected for the ensuing season, and a full attendance of member's is desired. The Auckland Southern Cross is responsible for the statement that Mr. ’T. B. Gillies is negotiating for the purchase of His Excellency’s yacht, the Blanche, with which he proposes to enter on an extensive cruise in the Pacific. The eldest son of our future Governor is the Earl of Mulgrave, who is a parochial and hard-working clergyman of the Church of England. He was one of two “missioners” who recently held a ten days’ mission in, a parish of Derbyshire. A telegram to the New Zealand Herald from Alexandra, dated : Friday last, is as follows : “Te Reinga (Manuhiri’s daughter) and her train, are . all here en route for Auckland, to meet the Native Minister on political affairs.” Aparagraph respecting liberatedminahs, magpies, pheasants, and quail, in yesterday’s issue, was accidentally placed among the items of news from Otago. The birds were released by the Acclimatisation Society of Wellington, and it is hoped they will be protected from the guns of boys and unthinking sportsmen. It is reported, says a Taranaki contemporary, that Mr. T. Kelly, M.H.R., will offer himself to the electors of the Grey and Bell district, for the vacancy made in the Provincial Council by the resignation of the Hon. Major Atldnson; and we learn that if he is elected he will join His Honor the Superintendent as a member of his Executive. If he offers himself, we have no doubt that he will be elected. The electors of the Grey and Bell seldom display much interest in the election of a single member of the Provincial Council, and as it is a dying Council, this will still further diminish the interest. As a member of the Executive, the experience of Mr. Kelly in Government contracts will be of great value to the Province. A foreigner, a recent arrival, has had a narrow escape from drowning in the Buffer. The Register of the 30th ultimo reports the incident as follows ;—“ There was a strong fresh in the river, and a man was seen floating down the current hanging on to the gunwale of a small boat. He was observed by two of the hands on board the schooner Euphrosyne, which was lying at the upper wharf. The boat cannoned against the schooner, and the man was by means of a rope got safely on board the latter. His boat was picked up before it got to the shed. How the man got into the position he was in is a mystery.”