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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6694, 30 September 1882, Page 2

“Bradshaw’* Guide” for October is in circulation, with the usual commendable promptitude. It appears to have been carefully revised up to the latest possible date. Tbe “ Court Journal ” of July 22 understands that Sir William Jervoia is to succeed the Marquis of Normanby at Melbourne as Governor of Victoria.

The following volunteer appointments in the Wellington District are gazetted Masterton School Rifle Cadets, W. J. Grundy to be Captain ; Grey town School Rifle Cadets, T.Porritt to be Captain, Messrs Holliday and Co. make announcement that, owing to the recent fire at Stationers Hall, business there is for tbe present entirely suspended. It is probable that in a short time the salvaged stock will be offered for sale. The new Home for Friendless Women at Newtown was formally opened yesterday by Sir James Prendergast, Acting-Governor and Chief Justice. Very little ceremony was observed. A report of the proceedings will bo found elsewhere.

It is notified in Thursday’s “ Gazette ” that Mr Stephenson Percy Smith, Chief Surveyor of Auckland, has been appointed Assistant Surveyor-General for New Zealand, and that this appointment is to date from the Ist April, 1881—eighteen months back.

There are two cases on the list for hearing before the Supreme Court in its divorce and matrimonial causes jurisdiction next month. They are Levoiv. Levoi, motion forruleabsolute, set down for October 2 ; and Brown v. Brown and Bushford. set down for October 12, before a Judge without a jury. The “ Cologne Vinegar” brandy some time since seized by the Customs authorities at Westport—the bottles being labelled with fictitious Hennessey brands—was sold there at auction a few days ago. Tbe stuff realised 16s per dozen, and was sold to a local speenlator. A petition had previously been forwarded to the Government from Westport residents, praying that it should not be sold. A cricket match was played yesterday afternoon in Mr Johnston’s paddock, between the fifth and sixth classes of the Thorndon School, resulting in a victory for the former by two wickets and two runs. The most noticeable play wasXJpham’s bowling and R. Staples’ fielding on the sixth side, and the fielding and bowling of E. Barnett, G. Cole, H. Parsons, and B. Cook.

The sale to-day at 11 o’clock, by Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co., of prize poultry from Melbourne, will afford bird fanciers and breeders an opportunity of replenishing and renewing their stock, and it will also be a capital opportunity for those who might wish to exhibit at the forthcoming show, as the fowls to be offered here carried off several prizes in Australia, and have attracted considerable attention.

At the Athenaum on Thursday evening, in No. 9 Room, the Star of Wellington Lodge, No. 2,1.0.G.T., held its usual session, which was presided over by Bro. Dickson, W.O.T. A Committee having been appointed to make the needful arrangements for the accommodation of representatives to the Grand Lodge to be held in January, the remaining portion of the time was occupied in singing, recitations, readings, and addresses, in which a considerable number of members took part. The Mayor and City Council agreed oh Thursday evening to give their patronage to the athletic sports to be given on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday on the Basin Reserve. A preliminary notice referring to such sports appears in our advertising columns. Prizes to the value of JE7O will be given, and as the arrangements will be under the management of Mr Alexander, who has on previous similar occasions given perfect satisfaction to' the public, there is an assurance that the forthcoming event will be all that is promised. Our local peds. will, no doubt, speedily go into; active training. There was a very short sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning be-, fore Mir -H. fS.i Wardell, -R.M. No civil'cases having been set down for hearing, the wife desertion case, Mary Ann White v. John White, adjourned from ,• the previous day," was. called on again. Mr Gordon Allan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr E. Shaw for the defendant, As the plaintiff said she could not pay the necessary fees, amounting.to 7sj the case was dismissed. Mr Wardell said he was of opinion that unless the rales were amended, so as to permit of persons suing in forma pauperis, cases of hardship might arise. A counter charge of threatening language against the wife was also dismissed. ■ ■

Inquiries for complete seta of the Statutes of 1882 are being frequently made, and surprise is expressed that the printing has not yet been corap'eted. The Government Printing Office machines have, in fact, been kept constantly at work, and the assistance of private offices has been secured as far as possible. But we are told that a fortnight more will certainty be required to complete the work; The session’s Statutes will fill nearly 900 printed pages, and it is understood to be intended to issue them in two volumes. The consolidation measures will represent a considerable portion of the book's bulk, but’not the whole of the extraordinary increase. The Statutes of 1880 make ,279 pages only, and those of 1881 come within 369, as against the nearly 900 that have this year to be printed and bound. Full columns of -carefully selected and assorted matter will be found in this week's issue of the New Zealand Mail. Amongst the more prominent features is one of the best articles:we have yet-perused from the facile pen of “Eliae.” , It bristles with practical hints and suggestions. Some good things are to be - found in “Pot Pound;" “Chess” is, as usual, carefully attended to ; “ Boys and Girls” have their corner; the “Legal and Education Gazettes ” are full and varied ; and “ Spur ” rides in, hands down, with a lot of sporting news. Then, there is the general news of , the week and the world, telegraphic, and other. A supplement is published with the Mail, and we are glad to hear that the Mail has undergone permanent enlargement, and will henceforth be a twenty-six page paper,-including supplement. Mr O. W. Clayton; contractor, met with a serious accident, early yesterday morning. It will be remembered that Mr Clayton was the purchaser of the old Telegraph Office on Custom House-quay; and during the last few days a number of men have been engaged in pulling it : down , under his direction. At about. 9 o’clock i-yesterday, morning five men were engaged pulling down the., lower wall of the building facing the Quay, at the Panama-' street‘corner, and Mr. Clayton :.was, as usual, directing their operations. The men were trying to pull the wall down: with a rope, and Mr Clayton was helping them from the footpath, when the. mass, ot woodwork suddenly fell upon him. As it weighed more than' a ton; be was, of course rendered insensible. He was soon extricated and taken to the Pier Hotel, where Dr. Diver and I)r. Hutchinson attended him with; little loss of time. .When his medioal.attendants thought it safe to remove him, he was placed; on a stretcher and taken to his residence, in Collegestreet, where he now lies in aiprecarions condition, though hopes, are entertained that ha may survive. Hs is suffering - from concussion of the spine. The action cannot be satisfactorily accounted for, though it is believed by many that the rope used by a the. workmen was unequal to the strain upon it and broke, allowing the wall to fall. One or two persons who were standing near Mr Clayton bad rather narrow escapes.

The “Timara Herald” |d flights in an occasional slap at Wellington. This is the latest effusion ot the kind “We wonder what induced the /Press Association to inflict that interminable rigmarole about the Wellington Hospital on all the . papers. What do the public care about Dr. Gillen's. temper, or whether Miss Valentine was douched with cold water or hot ? The public take it for granted, of course, that the management of the Wellington Hospital, like that of the Lunatic Asylum, the College, and all other local institutions in Wellington, is, the very pick ot perfection—including the doctor's temper and the young ladies’ bathing arrangements ; and, that being the case, they certainly do not want a column of telegram to tell them so. The whole thing looks very like an audacious puff of Dr. Gillon, whoever he may be; but it may be only the result of that singular idiosyncrasy, so prevalent in Welling-., ton, which makes the people there.believe that the gossip of the hour on the beach is the topic of excited interest from-ohe'end of .New Zealand to the other. Three lines, to say that the inquiry, was concluded and nobody was to blame, would' have been more than sufficient to satisfy the cariosity of .the pnblic outside of Wellington as to the "Hospital scandal, or whatever it was.”

At the sitting of the Supreme Court in bankruptcy on Tuesday, Wiliam Adams and George Gillard will apply for their final orders of discharge.

Mr Hodgson, the dispenser at the Hospital, has sent in his resignation since the publication of the report of tbe late Hospital Inquiry Committee. In his letter he states that be considers it necessary on bis part to take tbe step, seeing that the inquiry had led to no practical result. Mr Juhn Sheehan, M.H.R. for the Thames District, left Wellington, by the s.s. Te Anau, last night. From Napier he will probably proceed overland to Cambridge. Mr Sbeehan’s departure from Wellington has been delayed for more tban a fortnight by serious illness, and his many friends will be glad to hear that be is now convalescent.

The Sydney footballers passed through Wellington once more yesterday, and, as before, they conquered. A most interesting game was played. Wellington kept the ball near their opponents’ goal almost throughout, but -when such rushes as that with which Walker, better known as “ Jumbo,’’ credited himself are brought to bear, there is really no advantage in this. The visitors left by tbe Te Anau for Auckland e» route for their homes, amid the cheers of the numerous friends which they made during their short visits. As we have already announced, the Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club will to-night repeat their performance of “ Partners for Life.” The comedy will bear repetition, and no doubt all the characters will have improved through the practice gained by the first representation. We hope the ladies will do their utmost to make themselves heard, as there is no doubt they can do with ease. A Saturday night audience is sure to be exacting in this respect, and, though well meaning, proves at times a somewhat too candid critic. The piece has been excellently well mounted, and with all the care and study lavished on its production it would have been a pity it the performance had been limited to on* solitary representation, and that, in some respect, was a tentative one. The club deserve another bumper house. There are many advantages connected with the possession of a seat in the House of Representatives, One of these is that an honorable member enjoys immunity from the attentions of those officers of the law whose duty it is to deliver what are facetiously tetmed “ bits of blue paper.” This immunity from civil process extends, we believe, for ten days after the close of a session. Therefore, the patriotic legislators whose soul burns with a desire to reform the XTpper House, to revolutionise the land laws, to remodel the tariff, or to “ rannily ” look after himself, can set the city by-laws at defiance, and treat the mandates of municipal bodies with contempt. In a few days we, shall probably hear something about a friend of the people who has tried to use the streets of the city as a cattle run. The London “Evening Standard” says : “A correspondent writes to the ‘United Service Gazette ’ to the effect that there should be five regiments of Guards—the EnglishGuards, the Soots Guards, the Irish Guards, the Colonial Guards, and the Indian Guards. ‘ The English (Grenadier) and Scots Guards,’ he adds, ‘exist; the Coldstreams could be transformed into the Irish, and our colonial and Indian fellow-subjects would only be too ready to contribute a regiment each. Is not the suggestion worth consideration ?. It moat undoubtedly is ; hut it needs to be put into more practical shape. A colonial regiment of guards could he easily recruited, and to sanction the organisation of such a force would be hailed as a gracions tribute to the patriotism of our fellow-countrymen in Australia, tbe Cape, and Canada, and would be in a sense a new riveting of the bonds of connection with , the Home land. As regards India, the idea is beset with some obstacles, mainly of climate and race ; bnt a battalion of Native troops might he brought by rotation, and as a sort of premium on good conduct, for service in London, much as the Turoos were in Paris under the Second Empire.”

Have you seen it ? The Mantle Department at Te Aro House is quite an Exhibition in its way. There are hundreds of Yisites, Dolmans, and Jackets to select from, in all sizes, every prevailing shape, and in quite a plethora of materials. Ladies’ Cashmere Jackets, trimmed with Chenille fringe, Spanish lace, and jet passementerie, from 13s 6d to 67s 6d. Handsome Yisites in Broohe silk, trimmed with lace and jet passementerie, from 29s 6d to L 4 4s. Broche silk Dolmans, richly trimmed with Chenille lacs and passementerie, from 67s 6d to L 7 7s. A bewildering profusion of Ladies’ Capes in Broche satin, sioilienne, and the new brocaded grenadine, from 7s 6d t 0.755. Tn the Costume Department, aye the fashionable Nun’s veiling, in pretty wool beiges, in lovely shades of plain satteens, iu zephyr cloths, in choice pompadour satteens, in black grenadines, in Madras muslins, and Madras lace. Inspect without delay the Exhib.tion at Te Aro House.— [Adtt. Improved Sheep Shears. —As an article of the seasonable kind for the approaching shearing time, we draw particular attention to Marshall's Patent Double-Bow Sheep Shears. These patent elastic Sheep Shears are manufactured from the best cast steel, and by new and special machinery, which secures the important advantage of working steel at a lower heat, and dispensing with the uncertain process of welding. The blades being 1 hammered and tempered in a superior manner, are warranted to carry an edge equal to the best made razors. The bows are double and firmly rivetted, thereby combining the greatest strength with the greatest elasticity. They are lighter, stronger, more compact and easier in the grip than any shear hitherto invented. They two seasons ago introduced into Australia, and many t thou3ands of dozens have already been placed without a single complaint about their quality. As many as 3000 sheep have been shorn on the Darling with one pair; of these shears, and it is quite a common thing for 1500 to 2000 sheep to be turned off a single Eair. Mr Scott, of Bathurst, who took the rst prize at the Sydney International Exhibition, gives his opinion of the Marshall’s Shears as follows “ I find them second to none ; I would advise all shearers to use them, as I can shear 120 a-day with these shears with more ease than I can 100 with most shears. I have had eighteen years’ experience, and can recommend them as really good, the grip small and lively.” To meet the requirements of all classes of shearers, each half-dozen parcels contain shears of at least three different strengths of hows. To those who have not yet used these shears, we would suggest that they write to Messrs Robert Gardner and Co., Wholesale and Retail Ironmongers, Lambton-quay, Wellington, who are agents for the makers, and they will cheerfully supply, post free, particulars of prices and numbers.— (Advt.

S3}lT 18 REQORDEDTN ANCIENT HISTORY OP ONE Polybbs, that he could tell (or at least assumed to say) how every battle Alexander lost might have' been won. But this was beyohd the scope of human power. The highest genius of generalship sometimes fails, under the force of adventitious circumstances. Doubtless thousands have striven to utilise the Juniper berry, and there may be knowing ones, who, like Polybus, might undertake to say how' its essence could be best extracted; But nothing has ever been produced like Udolpho Wolpe’s Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. It stand alone, like the one Alexander.— [AdvtJ] 1 Thames Street Industries, by Percy Russell.—This Illustrated Pamphlet on Perfumery, &c., published at 6d., may be had gratia from any Chemist in the world, or John Gosnell and Co;, London.— [A’dvt.] ; ’ “ L 1 .-.-. !