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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6434, 26 November 1881, Page 2

The final payment of three eovs. in the Hutt Park Spring Handicap must be made at the Empire Hotel on Monday evening.

The electors of the Te Aro district are reminded that Mr B. Stafford will address them at the Princess Theatre this evening. The chair will be taken at 8 o’clock.

Arguments in the case of Smyth v. the Queen (demurrer, removed), will be heard before the Court of Appeal this morning. It was decided that the Court should rise to-day at 1 o’clock.

The Engineer Corps held their usual weekly parade last evening, there being a good muster. After drill, a meeting was held to complete arrangements respecting the new uniforms, which will probably reach here by the Te Anau during the ensuing week. Captain Simpson, and Lieuts. Tait and Cell, were present at the parade.

A cricket match will be played at the Lower Hutt between an eleven of the Phcenix Club, which has recently been formed in this city, and Mr Fitzherhert's eleven. The Phoenix team leaves by the 2 p.m. train, and play will commence shortly after arrival. The following are the names of the visitors : —Armitage, Hums, Chatfield, Church, Farmer, Greatrex, Godden, Roberts, Shaw. Taylor, and Vincent.

Members of the Ancient Order of Druids will be pleased to learn that the District President (Mr W. Bishop) has received the necessary warrant from the Grand Lodge of Australia to open a Royal Arch Chapter in connection with the Society in the North Island. The inauguration ceremony will, we are informed, take place in about a fortnight hence.

The City Corporation is constructing wooden culverts over the channels at the intersections of the various streets between Lambton and Waterloo-quays. The improvements referred to, more especially when the recently-arrived-at economy of the City Corporation with respect to the extinction of the street-lamps at midnight is taken into consideration, will prove a great boon to the citizens. The following tenders were received at the Public Works Office for the permanent way extension, contract No. 2, main line to Upper Ashburton : James Cranston (Lunedin), £3667 Hs 7d, accepted, and the following declined—Jesse Coates (Palmerston South), £3949 Hs ; Stuart and Lamb (Christchurch), £3976 9s lOd ; McGrath and Co. (Christchurch), £4369 17s 2d ; John Stenson (Lyttelton), £4427 17» 4d, The only business at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr B. Hardcastle, 8.M., consisted of two charges against John, alias Frederick, Fenton, the first being one of drunkenness on the Kuiwarra-road, about 10 p.m. on the l?th instant, for which he was fined Ss ; and the second (the more serious one) of the larceoy of a bottle of gin, valued at 6s 6d, from the Shamrock Hotel, Molesworth-street. For this offence he was sent to gaol for seven days' hard labor. The Star of Wellington Lodge held its weekly session at the Athenaeum on Thursday evening, at which there was a very good attendance. Bro. A. Guise occupied the chair. Several more young men passed the usual examinations and were received as full members of the Order. The Committee appointed to attend to certain matters brought up their reports, which were read to the meeting and ordered to ba laid on the table for a week. It was announced that representatives to the Grand Lodge would be elected at the next session, when, for this object, it was h 'ped that a large attendance would be present.

At the last meeting of the Wairarapa West County Council, the Chairman (Mr O. Pharazyn) stated that the Surveyor-General of the colony, and the Chief Surveyor of the provincial district, were about to pay a visit to Mastnrton, to arrange with the County Council for the expenditure of the votes of money which had been passed during the last session of Parliament, and that they entertained a high opinion of the capabilities of the land in the neighborhood for the purposes of settlement. The question of expending a grant of £SOO on the Wangaehu Valley road was also brought up, and, judging by the tenor of the report, it is highly probable that £BOO in all will be expended in opening this highly fertile portion of the Rangitumau district.

There wan not such a large attendance at the Theatre last evening as might have been expected, the occasion being the benefit of that well-known’ public favorite, Mr Horace Bent The performance on the whole passed .off very successfully, the sped il features, such as the “Old Kentucky Home” (a negro sketch by Mr Bent), “You Don’t Say So,” and “That Rascal Antony,” eliciting roars of laughter. The performance concluded with an amusing burlesque on “ Maritana.” Miss Amy Rowe was most pleasing in her musical’ selections. To-night the company make their last appearance, as they depart for Blenheim on Monday morning. The entertainment will be entirely new, a special programme having been prepared, and no doubt it will be the means of drawing a large audience. The public will be pleased to learn that the Stewards of the Wellington Racing Club have reduced the price of admission to the course on St. Andrew’s Day—the day of the Spring Race Meeting—to one shilling, the amount hitherto' having been two shillings, and that all the other charges have also been proportionately reduced. As the return fare by train between Wellington and the Lower Hutt has been arranged on a very moderate scale, there will be little reason for complaint on account of the expense which a visit to the course involves. With better means of communication between the railway station and the course, there should be every prospect of the Wellington Racing Club Meetings becoming highly popular. It is confidently believed that this last obstacle will, ere long, be overcame by carrying a branch railway lino to the edge of the course. From a private letter received yesterday by Mr D. Asher, Manners-street, from his son Henry,'who was a passenger by the barque Malay on her last trip from this port to Sydney, we learn that a passenger named F. S. Bailey committed suicide by jumping overboard during the voyage. The man, who was formerly in the employ of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., of this city, as druggist and occasional traveller, but left the firm some two mouths' ago'owing to intemperate habits, had been drinking heavily for several days previous to his committing the act, and, iu fact, was verging on an attack of delirium tremens. On. the alarm, “ mao overboard !”. being given, a boat was smartly lowered from the Malay, and it succeeded in rescuing the body, but life was extinct, and the remains Were subsequently buried at sea. The deceased was a comparatively young man—2B years of age—of a quiet and inoffensive disposition, but somewhat, eccentric. He was unmarried.

A young woman, named Mary Breen, who appeared in the .Resident Magistrate’s Court a few weeks ago, charged with destroying a pane of glass at the house of Mr H. Blundell, where, she. was employed as general servant, was again arrested yesterday ; under circumstances which induced the police to believe that she intended destroying her life. It ap. pears the girl’s disposition is of a very excite, able nature, and ever since the disturbance which she created at Mr Blundell’s, shehas been almost beyond the control of her friends. On being taken privately before Mr Hardcastle yesterday, she was remanded for medical examination. Subsequently, on Drs, Grace and Keyworth being consulted, they certified the girl to be of unsound mind, and in accordance with the medical testimony, Messrs G. S, Cooper and Wm. Seed, J.P.’s, at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, committed her to the Lunatic Asylum. Four entries wars received last night for the Handicap Yacht Race, which is to come oS this afternoon—the Thetis, Florence. Pet, and Ariel The start, which will be flying, will take place at 2 o’clock punctually, over an imaginary line drawn between the north end of the Queen’s Wharf and the south end of the Railway Wharf. The first gun will be fired hy the starter, who will be stationed ou the Queen’s Wharf, at five minutes to 2, and the second, a starting gnn, at 3 o’clock exactly, when the yachts will-cross the line and proceed round the course, which will be round Somes Island, and either Ward’s Island or, if practicable, a boat anchored off the Pilotstation, winning over the starting line. Should the wind be southerly, Somes Island will be the first point made ; if northerly, wee -versa. The Thetis, Florence, and Pet all starting from scratch, allow the Ariel seven. minutes. Of course, any yacht crossing the line before the second gun fires must pat-about and re-cross the line. Mr W. W. Werry has kindly consented to officiate as starter, i ;. ,

The question arose in the Supreme Court yesterday as to whether the day dedicated to the titulary saint, St. Andrew, was a £ v-t day or a feast day. Air H. D. Bed, on the rising of the Court, inqu red if it was be intention of their H nors to sit on Wednes av uex', which fell unon the saint’s day mentioned. His Honor, Mr Justice Johnston, thought that, as the day was not a Government holiday, hut merely a Bank ho’iday, the Court should sit. His Honor quite innocent!? ioqnired of Air Justice Gillies if peoplefasted on rft. Andrew's Day. His Honor Air Justice Gillies shook his head and quietly smiled, leaving it an open question. Mr Bell then, somewhat apologetically, remarked that he bad not asked the question on account of any respect he might entertain of the memory of St. Andrew, but rather onaccountfor the dry in question being that appointed for the Hutt races. The Court did not quite decide whether or not a sitting would be held on Wednesday. The show windows of the various places of business are beginning to as-utne quite 'he customary brilliant holiday appearance, owi >g to the endless pretty nick nocks and more costly articles of vertu which are being dis played for the forthcoming festive Christmas season. Among others, the establishment of Mr A. B. Hislop, jewe ler, Lambton quay, :s literally glittering with London and Paris novelties, which have just been received. A new description of material which closely resembles coral, and known to the trade as celluloid, appears to be likely to come ranch into vogue, being worked up into endless varieties of negllgh and ladies’ suites. Bracelets in antique patterns, cunningly worked in “dull’’ silver an 1 gold, are displayed in most tempting profusion. Some of the prettiest and most modern conceits which attract the eye are some silver lock-.ta most artistically enamelled, upon which are exquisitely painted bouquets of flowers faithfully true to nature. Mr Hislop has just completed a handsome silver and elaborately-carved cnp to the order of the New Zealand K fla Association, which will be fired for early in the ensuing year.

Something Beal.—A recent purchase of a case of Beal Irish Crochet Antimacassars, under unusually advantageous circumstances, enables James Smith, Te Aro House, to offer some exceptionally cheap lots. When the readers of this paragraph are made acquaintel with the fact that these can be had at prices varying from one shilling to half-a-crown each, no doubt the opportunity will be eagerly embraced. Careful housekeepers and all who study the attractiveness and elegancies of their homes should at once inspect these marvels of cheapness. It would hardly be a profitable expenditure of either time or material to crochet at home antimacassars which could be bought at less than the price of the cotton at James Smith’s, Te Aro Hodse,— [Advt.] “Not for a day, but for all time,” has been written of Shakespeare, and in the humbler and less professional walks of life are the works of men destined to live as long a life. To the truly good thing there is no limit of existence, even when the author dies his meritorious deeds survive him, and pass on through the endless generations that follow him. It has been years since the world first heard of IJdolpho Wolfe’s Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, and to-day its virtues are as fresh, and its fame as unclouded as when it first flashed into public notice.