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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4444, 17 June 1875, Page 2

We learn that the Hon. Dr. Pollen leaves Nelson for here to-morrow. His Excellency the Governor will leave on Monday. He is to he entertained at a private dinner by the gentlemen of Nelson to-night. We are indebted to Mr. Grey, of the postal department, for information that the City of Melbourne, with the homeward mails, reached San Francisco on the 6th of June, four days before contract time, being the second time this vessel has reached the port three or four days before her appointed time. The water-rate case, Corporation v. Jeffs, will probably come on for hearing to-day ; that is to say, the case was adjourned to to-day, but as Mr. Travers, the City Solicitor, will likely be engaged in the Supreme Court, the case may have to undergo another adjournment.

The Kaiwarra toll-gate appeal case—Young v. Thomson—was called at the banco sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday, but was not proceeded with. It will probably be taken to-day. Mr. Travers appears for the toll-gate keeper, Mr. Thomson, and Mr. Brandon for the appellant, Mr. Young, who contends that the Kaiwarra toll-gate is specially exempted by Ordinance from the conditions applicable to all other toll-gates in the province.

The Rev. Mr. West delivered an address last evening, in the Congregational Church, on the revival movement under Messrs. Moody and Sankey which is commanding so mucli attention at present in England. Having dwelt upon the sanction which Scripture gives to revivals, and the valuable results which had accrued to the Church, in the course of its history, from such, he adverted to the objections which are commonly urged against them as originating in fanaticism and ending in vapory excitement, and concluded by illustrating at some length the necessity which exists for appealing to the feelings as well as to the intellect, with a view to secure the action of man on social and political as well as religious questions. During the address copious extracts were read from an article that appeared in the Oonyreyationalist on Moody and Sankey, from the. pen of the Rev. R. W. Dale, of Birmingham. The fortnightly meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday, and as usual the attendance of members was small. A large amount of routine business had accumulated, and after devoting a couple of hours to the work, about half the items were got through. The great flogging case discussion did not come off, although the matter was brought before the Board officially by a letter from Mr. Mowbray, master of Thorudon school. The meeting was adjourned for a week, and next Wednesday the matter will be fully gone into, on which occasion Mr. Pilkinton is to be present and have the opportunity of stating in public his version of the affair. The question of the amount of salary to bo paid to the School Inspector is also to be settled at next meeting of the Board. The attention of football players is drawn to an advertisement appearing in our advertising columns. It is to be hoped that the players will unite for the common benefit of the whole, and allow any trifling jealousy which may exist between the clubs to disappear, in which case there is every prospect of being able to send away a team which will be a credit to Wellington. We would remind the members and friends of the Young Men’s Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society, that their usual social reunion tea and meeting takes place this evening, in the Dixon-street schoolroom. Tea at 6.30 p.m.; afterwards a meeting, presided over by the President, the Rev. W. Morloy.

Dr. Carr’s stances at the Odd Fellows’ Hall continue to draw good houses. The adjourned meeting of the City Council will be held this afternoon at four o’clock. An owner is wanted for a handsome cruetstand, which a man named Brennan, who is in custody on a charge of larceny, sold in town a day or two since. The article may be seen at the police station. The burgesses of the city are reminded that in order to ensure a continuance of their municipal privileges all general rates must be paid before Saturday, in default of which their names will be struck off the burgess list. Captain Wheeler, who recently brought out the Union Steamship Company’s vessel Hawea to Port Chalmers, was, we find by the Otago Daily Times , entertained at a dinner at the Criterion .Hotel, Dunedin, by the passengers, as was also Mr. Bannatyne, chief engineer. The Corporation nightsoil plant was yesterday valued, preparatory to being handed over to Mr. Saunders, the successful tenderer for the removal of the nightsoil of the city. The contract includes the removal of rubbish, and an official notification to the effect that Mr, Saunders is “the regular dustman” will be published in a day or two. Determined to keep pace with dame progress, “ mine host ” of the Prince of Wales Hotel— Mr. Lichtenschel —has decided to effect great improvements in his premises. Tenders ranging from £5(10 to £IOOO were opened for the performance of the work on Tuesday, and that of Messrs. Taylor and Cross, though not the lowest, was accepted, and a start will at once be made.

There are 114 immigrants’ cottages, built at provincial expense, in Otago. They are distributed as follows :—26 at Kensington ; 3 at Reidstowu ; 3 at Waiherae ; 16 in Oamaru ; 3 at Palmerston ; 4 at Waihola ; 12 at Invercargill ; 5 at Riverton ; 5 at Wallacetown ; 5 at Otantau ; 5 at Oreti Crossing ; 4 at Greytown ; and the rest at Moerald, Oamaru, and the western districts.

The Benevolent Society deputation waited upon Bishop Kedwood yesterday, and had a satisfactory interview with his Lordship regarding the question of co-operation on the part of the Komau Catholic clergy in carrying out the work of the society. The Bishop requested to be furnished with all information concerning the society’s operations,' and promised to forward a formal reply to the society in the course of a few days. Hr. Deans, the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s manager, in conjunction with Mr. A. C. Begg, lately had the hatching boxes cleared of the young charr which they contained. The number taken out was fourteen healthy ones and four deformed fish. The charr have been placed in a small pond, and there is every reason to hope that the country •will obtain some benefit from what represents the result of the large expenditure upon the Timaru’s shipment of fish eggs. A man named Brennan was yesterday afternoon received into the watchhouse on several charges of larceny, having been arrested at the Hutt. Brennan is a recent arrival in the province, having been granted a free passage from Taranaki to assist in guarding the lunatics who were received here last week ; but though he was a “new chum” he evidently has a determination not to remain long in obscurity, for on the second day of his residence here he made his bow before a Wellington Bench for having committed a disturbance in the Police Court. On the present charges he will be brought up this morning. An accident happened yesterday afternoon in Cuba-street, opposite the Imperial Hotel, which, fortunately, was unattended with any serious results. A baker's horse and cart, belonging to the Wellington Co-operative Baking Society, by some means or other found its way into the drain by the road side, which is some two feet deep. The jerk broke the harness into fragments, and entirely freed the horse from the trap. The driver was thrown out, and received a severe blow on the head ; his face and hands were also both badly lacerated. The attention of the member for the ward has been drawn to the state of the streets in this immediate neighborhood, which require some alteration to prevent a serious accident taking place. By last mail (says the Bruce Herald) a gentleman residing in Balolutha received a letter from England, which is rather a curiosity in its way, and is to him a reminder of a very unpleasant incident in his life. All will yet remember the great forgery case in which Sir John Dean Paul, of the firm of Strachan, Paul, and Bates, bankers, figured as the criminal, and was sent into penal servitude. The letter refered to was a notice of the declaration of two dividends in the estate of that firm, and that for a debt of .-£SOO the recipient could have 125., less postage, upon sending a receipt for the same. The last we have heard of the baronet was that his worthy lady had joined him in his penal abode, and had managed to secure his services as her servant.

Wo observe that a residence is being erected on Fitzherbert-terracc, College Reserve, for the Hon. John Johnston, which for its size, outward appearance, internal convenience and beauty of finish, will not have a peer in the province, we were going to say in the colony, and certainly so far as the two latter features are concerned the remark would not be far from the truth. The one idea in its design seems to have been to procure comfort, and this has been fully realised. All the principal apartments are roomy, lofty, well lighted and ventilated, and fitted up superbly with all requisites, constructed of varnished red pine. A room in the front part of the building, which we presume is intended to be converted into a drawing-room, is especially noticeable. The floor has been laid very carefully, the boards, which are of red pine, being laid with secret nails, and so contrived with a border round the edge that the whole surface appears as a huge panel highly polished. The hearth is composed of tesselated tiles, the mantelpiece of marble ; and around the room runs wainseottiug eighteen or twenty inches deep. There are bow windows, and corniced ceiling, with ceutz-e flowers. The other rooms are also of the same ornate character, and according to the use for which each is intended it is fitted with conveniences such as book oases, cheffonier or wardrobe, of the same kind of wood as that of which the other permanent fittings are constructed ; and the fireplaces, of which there is one in every room, contain register stoves, and are surrounded with marble mantelpieces. The hall and vestibule, which will be tesselated, are very spacious, and in harmony with the rich appearance that a lavish expenditure has produced in the other'parts of the house. The lower part of the structure is of the Tuscan order, the upper being more of the Italian style.. The principal entrance door is graced by a handsome portico, supported by four Tuscan columns, and at different points small elegantlooking balconies arc constructed, which will afford a wide range of view in any direction. We believe Mr. Tringham is the architect, and Messrs. Williams Bros, the builders, upon whom the building reflects the very highest credit. A better arrangement of rooms could scarcely be made, and both outside and inside the work shows that neither pains nor expense have been spared to make this one of the most desirable of residences.

By the steamer Hawea, which arrived lately in Port Chalmers from Glasgow, via the Cape, we (Daily Times) have received the Natal Mercury of the Ist ult. The Mercury is full of the proceedings in connection with the arrival of the new Governor of the colony, Sir Garnet Wolseley. In alluding to his speech, made at a largo banquet given to him on Ins arrival, [it says—Sir Garnet’s speech was loudly cheered throughout, for although it contained much plain speaking, and betrayed a good deal of misconception on the part of the speaker, it was so obviously a frank, sincere, and kindly proposed utterance, that it commended itself to the hearty reception of every person present. It is so obvious that in entering upon the administration of a strange Government upon six days’ notice, his Excellency must be liable to form conclusions more or less erroneous, that no one has resented reflections which, coming from an old acquaintance, might have excited umbrage.

Writing to the Home Agent on the sth inst. on the subject of Mr. Vogel’s proposal to utilise the Otago Home Agency for emigration purposes, the Superintendent of Otago informs Mr. Andrew that “if it involves that the identity of the Otago office, which has so longbeen connected with this province, is to be destroyed, I am unable to concur. If, however, you can see your way to the business of the colony being conducted in the Otago office, on the terms indicated, without prejudice to the interests of Otago, there can be no objection.” Mr. Andrew is instructed to point out to the Premier that it is from no antagonism to the rest of the colony that his Honor wishes to maintain the distinctive agency of Otago, and that “in point of fact it is as much in the interest of the colony as in that of Otago that this should be preserved.”