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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6695, 2 October 1882, Page 2

The Hoa, W. Rolleston returned, per Wanaka, from the South yesterday.

The Supreme Court criminal sittings will commence at 10 o’clock this morning. The Oamaru Woollen Factory Company have secured a machinery plant at Home at a cost of £8985.

Poole v. Campbell and another has been added to the list of civil cases for trial at the civil sittings of the Supreme Court to be held this week.

The “ Hawke’s Bay Herald ” definitely states that the Williamson “ Tambour Major ” Opera Bouffa Company will open at Napier on the 20th November next.

Last evening Mr O. W. Clayton was reported as much easier, though on Saturday he appeared to suffer acutely from the effects of his recent accident. It will be many weeks before he will be able to actnally attend to business.

A dastardly case of assassination has been brought under our notice. On Friday morning Dante Gamanozi, fisherman, who lives in Douglas Wallace-street, found that his horse had been stabbed three times in the neck. The animal was quite dead. The referee for the local Naval Brigade in Wanganui (Mr Remington) telegraphs that the Brigade in that town, in its match against this city, fired at 200, 300, and 400 yards, instead of at 200, 300, and 500 yards, as specified in the challenge.

Purchasers of furniture will note that this morning at 11 o’clock Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co. sell at the residence on Terrace, lately occupied by Captain Edwin, two doors above the Synagogue, the whole of the household furniture and effects. The list comprises a number of articles, particulars of which appear in another column. Consequent on increased inquiry for goldmining investments, Messrs Williamson and Co,, brokers, announce their intention for the future of posting in their windows daily, at 4 o’clock p.m., closing prices of the principal claims ; showing also buyers and sellers’ quotations, with sales. Special prominence will be given to Terawhiti and Reefton stocks.

. James Gordon Bennett’s wealth and bis sensible lavishness have made the curious desirous of knowing what the true condition of his financial resources is. We learn from an authority that he is worth over £1,200,000, and there is no one to spend it on but himself. The “ Herald,” which is wholly his, is more valuable now than ever before. He is said to ba.ve refused an offer of £BOO,OOO for it.

■ Hia Honor Mr Justice Johnston, who returned from Australia by the Te Anan on Thursday, resumed his duties on Friday at and disposed of a .loug list of Chamber and bankruptcy business. Mr Joynt, on behalf of the bar, congratulated his Honor upon his improved health and safe return, and Mr Justice Johnston suitably replied. The Christchurch “Press,’ notes as a singular fatality that within sixteen years the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board has lost the services of six of its surveyors by death whilst they were in the employ of the Board, namely, Captain Fuller, Mr Thornly, Mr Ro-e, Mr J. Taafe, Mr C. J. Chapman, and Mr C. G. Chapman, the last named three gentlemen within two years.

A new source of municipal revenue has been opened up at Auckland. The “ Herald ” says the proposal of Mr Goldie, the Sanitary Inspector, to sell the dogs impounded, by auction, instead of drowning them, has proved a financial success. The animals realised at auction 4s each, on the average, which, after paying auctioneer’s charges, will leave a surplus to go to the municipal chest. The purchasers have also to register their purchases, or run the risk of seeing them again impounded. Mr ,W. T. L. Travers, with his wife and two children, was driving along Lambton-qaay on Saturday, in a chaise drawn by two horses, when one of the animals commenced to kick, and got its hind leg over the bar. Both horses then began to plunge violently, and it required the assistance of several bystanders to hold them while the occupants of the vehicle were taken out. Fortunately, very little harm was done, but the escape from injury was a narrow one.

Oar Wairoa (East Coast) correspondant, under date 28th September, writes that the weather there of late has been exceptionally warm and dry. The high winds prevalent on the equinoctial gales have superinduced quite an early summer, with hot, dry winds, and rain is already wanted before the young grass gets dried up. There are great inquiries for land in that neighborhood, and every indication is apparent that the district, so long neglected by capitalists, is about to take a more forward place than has hitherto been accorded it. Prospectus mongers at Home offer some tempting baits to a confiding public. An exchange contains an advertisement of a gold mine which, on paper, is a veritable El Dorado. It is called the Victoria, and is situate only thirty miles from El Callao mine, which has returned over three million pounds sterling worth of gold. The samples from the Victoria are said to show 1220 z to the ton. Calculating 2£oz only, the mine will produce £2,050,000, and every ounce of gold in excess of that average means the addition of a million to the revenue. And all this is offered in 200,000 shares of £1 each. Mrs Mary Ann White, who brought a charge of desertion against her husband the other day, and indignantly denied the insinuation that she was in the habit of drowning her sorrows in the flowing bowl, was arrested on Saturday night for drunkenness and using obscene language. On Sunday morning Mrs White appeared to be unwell, and made the cells re-echo with her groans. The sympathetic Sergeant Anderson at once paid her a visit, and was informed by Mrs White that she was in such a critical condition that the attention of some person of her own sex was absolutely necessary. The officer, who is a family man, at once sent for Dr. Collins, who was soon able to report that the fair prisoner had been what is vulgarly called “ taking a rise ” out of those who had her in custody. Mrs White was quite well last night, and will appear at the Police Court this morning. Wanganui, remarks the “Chronicle,” may have, rightfully or wrongfully, a reputation of aberration of intellect—though in this respect the town is the scapegoat for the sins of a very wide district—but as a law-abiding place, free from criminal or serious litigation, it has no equals in the colony. Juries are summoned for the District Court, but their services are not required at one sitting in twelve ; and even when the more serious Supreme Court sessions take place there is generally great cry and little wool, the expensive and ponderous legal machinery of New Zealand being put in force in a manner and for a purpose suggestive of breaking a butterfly on a wheel. As for the Resident Magistrate’s Court, it has of late been a scene of almost pastoral simplicity—Magistrate, clerk, police, and reporters generally gazing at one another in vain search of something to do. And to crown all the the arcadian innocence, tb« handiwork of nature plays its part, by decorating the parapet of the Courthouse, over the public entrance, with a grass plot of the most rnrul and refreshing description. Probably the grass seeds were conveyed to this pinnacle of greatness by the minahs and sparrows, and the soil by the wind, but in any case It is impossible to gaze on the portico of the Supreme Court without a feeling of sublime contentment.

Messrs J. H. Bethnne and Co. bold an important sale to-day at their rooms. They will offer capital city sections on favorable and unreserved terms ; and, also, after the land sale is over, a choice lot of plants in beautiful foliage.

We regret exceedingly to hear that Captain Fairchild, at present in command of the s.s, Stella, in port at the Bluff, is dangerously ill, and by latest advices was in an exceedingly critical state. Nothing is at present known as to the immediate movements of the Stella. The Government steamer Hiaemoa went South yesterday. She had on board some few Southern members of the House of Representatives, and their travelling companions, who had gone North to recuperate after the labors of the session. The steamer will bring back from Lyttelton soma thirty long-sentenced prisoners, who will he employed on the Mount Cook Gaol works.

There was a very short sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, before Mr H. S. Wardell. E. Walsh, who did not appear to his bail, was fined 40s for having been drunk while in charge of a horse and cart on Lambton-quay, and £1 of his bail money was ordered to be forfeited. Kate Hughes, a young woman, was fined ss, with the alteraative of 24 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness, and 20s, with the alternative of a week's imprisonment, for making use of obscene language. Mr Sleainger, the well-known veterinary surgeon and specialist, announces his return to Wellington to receive orders and make arrangements for the further sale of his medicines, including balsam and cough syrup, at the present season very much in request. Amid the multitude of patent medicines—some good, many bad, and others indifferent, of late introduced to the public of the colonies—it is difficult, indeed, to say what is or is not deserving of public favor, but as regards Mr Sleeinger’s preparations there can be no doubt at all. He has perfected medicines which fulfil all that is claimed for them, whether applied to the human system, er to the animals whose constitutions he has for years made his special study.

In the “Leader” “Atticus” writes: “ Really and truly, Victoria will have to take second place. We are doing our best under Sir Bryan O Logblen and Mr Bent, but the supporters of Sir Henry Parkes still leave us far behind. A leading Sydney solicitor in the public court has given it. as his opinion that a certain deceased squatter could not have been in bis right mind at the time when be made his will, because he gave no power to his trustees to arrange for the dummying of his rune. This solicitor declared on his oath that be had never seen a squatter's will drawn in this way. He said farther that, ‘in all the wills he had ever drawn' for squatters, he never knew a clause omitted providing for dummying.’’ A very sudden death occurred in Tinaknriroad on Saturday, The deceased, a Mrs Nevill, has for some time past been acting as housekeeper for her brother, Mr Wilson, draper, at his residence opposite the Karori Hotel. At half-past 8 o’clock on Saturday morning he found her lying in the passage and complaining of being very sick. He gave her some water, and she vomited freely, and then lay down on the sofa, where she went to sleep. At 3 p.m. she had not awakened, and, Mr Wilson becoming alarmed, went for assistance, but two hours later she was found to be dead. The deceased woman was a short time ago under the care of Dr. Keyworth for apoplexy, bat, as be has declined to give a certificate of death, an inquest will probably be held to-day, Mrs Nevill was a sister of Mr Robert Wilson, late editor of the “ Otago Witness,” who was burned with his wife and four children at the fire in the Octagon, Dunedin, about three years ago.

“ Siver Pen,” the San Francisco lady correspondent of the “ New Zealand Herald," tells the following tale of ghastly ornaments ; “ The morbid taste that some people have for the horrible has been largely demonstrated in Washington, from which place a friend of mine has lately come. He tells me that there is the greatest excitement over the hide of Guiteau, and also the coffin and the rope which hong him. At the present moment the skeleton of the assassin swings gracefully over the backbone of his victim in the museum ; the coffin has been cut up into small pieces, and distributed among hundreds of people whose passion is bric-a-brac, and the rope has been similarly distributed. But the worst, the very worst, and most disgusting part of the business is that the skin of the malefactor is also doled out to admirers of such trophies, and is actually being made into ornaments to append to watch chains, &c., while the screws of the coffin are worn ad charms by the officers of the gaol.” The Amateur Dramatic Club repeated its performance of “ Partners for Life,” in aid of the funds of the Artillery Baud, at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. There was a very good house. The various characters were again taken in a manner which reflected great credit, although it must bo admitted that the representation, as a whole, lacked a good deal of spirit Mr Morris Fox’s “ Major Billinger,” Mr Boon’s “Tom Gilroy,” and Mr S. Benson’s “ Muggles," were, however, exceptions ; indeed, the latter appeared to sustain the life of the plot on his own shoulders. Nothing but careful study of words as well as character could have enabled him to infuse the intense humor, supported by ignorance, which he presented. Without the “ Muggles ” the play would have fallen flat. The Artillery Band again formed a most efficient orchestra. We are pleased to find that the Club has been so successful ic one more of its performances tor the purpose of supporting a deserving cause.

We understand considerable progress has recently been made in the negotiations for the purchase of the Mangatainako Block, in the Forty-mile Bush. A number of the leading Native owners who have hitherto held aloof, have now accepted the advance payment which was offered them by the Government, and it is confidently anticipated that all the Natives who are interested will come down and formally agree to accept the offer which has been made to them. The main difficulty which has been experienced existed in the fact that the chief owners derive a steady annual income from other lands, and were therefore indifferent as to whether they sold the block or not. As they own other property in the neighborhood, they have probably come to the conclusion that they will reap further benefits from havioga portion of their present property settled by a European population. The block contains 68,000 acres, and is the very pick of the Forty-mile Bush. A portion of it contains totara bush, which cannot be surpassed in any part of the colony, while a considerable area has already been made available by the main trank road.

Says “Silver Pen” :—“No. 25,517 is the ticket number of a trank which was checked from across the Bay to San Francisco recently, and anent which the chief of police was telegraphed. It was a trunk having an evil odour, and foul play was suspected, the bearers of said trunk being two heathen Chinamen. On the arrival of the steamer, the police captured the unsavoury box, and, having opened it, disclosed to view the dead body of a Mongol, so terrible in its aspect that the gaping crowd fell back in horror. The body was bent up, almost double, the head jammed down on the chest, and the whole body frightfully distorted and swollen, the skin scaly and dry, while large cracks appeared like deep cuts all over the disgusting-looking form. The head and face bad a raw and skinned appearance. Nothing more terrible could be seen. Though foul play was suspected, it turned out to be a most loathsome case of leprosy of the worst kind. The body was smuggled over for burial to avoid freight, and checked as an ordinary trunk. Just think of living in an atmosphere where such a filthy and terrible pest is rampant ; and these horrible cases of leprosy are cropping up every day.”

Have you seen it ? The Mantle Department at Te Aro House is quite an Exhibition in its way. There are hundred* of Visites, 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 Visites in Broche 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, sicilienne, and the new brocaded grenadine, from 7s 6d to 755. In the Costume Department, are the fashionable Nun’s veiling, in pretty wool beiges, in lovely shades of plain satteens, in zephyr cloths, in choice pompadour satteens, in black grenadines, in Madras muslins, and Madras lace. Inspect without delay the Exhibition at Te Abo 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 Sheaes. 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 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 we-e two seasons ago introduced into Australia, and many (thousands of dozens ha\ e already been placed without a single complaint about their quality. As many as 30C0 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 pair. Mr Scott, of Bathurst, who took the first 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-dozeu parcels contain shears of at least three different strengths of bows. 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-ciuay, Wellington, who are agents for the makers, and they will cheerfully supply, post free, particulars of prices and numbers.— [Advt. There are certain affections which, although not classified in the same category, are relieved by the same agencies. They may spring from different causes, but are affected by the same results. Thus gout, gravel, acute ; or chronic rheumatism, dropsy, flatulence, colic, pains of the stomach and bowels, whether in adults or in infants, cases of urinary, bladder, or renal obstruction, dyspepsia, general debility, sluggish circulation of the blood, malassimilation of the food, and vital exhaustion, are all relieved, and almost invariably cured' by Udolpho Wolfe’s Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.—[Advt.] 2 Thames Street Industries, by Percy Russell,—This Illustrated Pamphlet on Perfumery, &c., published at fid,, may be had gratia from any Chemist in the world, or John Gosnell and Co., London.— [Advt.]