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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 7154, 30 April 1884, Page 2

Some interesting sporting items will be found on our fourth page. Bishop and Mrs Hadfield will leave Wei' liogton on their trip Home by the s.s. Hawea, sailing at 2 p.m. to-day. They join the s.s. Tongariro at Lyttelton. The Telegraph Department, according to our Petone correspondent, have erected a pole in the very centre of the road. It is anticipated that the District Road Board will take action with regard to the matter, unless the services of the coroner anticipate the proposed agitation of the local body. It is announced that in consequence of the stock having been sold to Messrs Scott Bros the bazaar at St. George’s Hall will close on Saturday next. Wholesale prices as before will be charged, and no doubt many will take advantage to secure a bargain before, the opportunity is lost. In connection with the above, Messrs Scott Bros, desire us to state that their only reason for not continuing the bazaar, is that they do not wish it in any way to clash with their present wholesale basinets.

Professor Anderson repeated hie programme of conjuring at the Theatre Royal last night to another good house, bis very clever feats gaining hearty applause. Mrs Anderson is, not excepting Miss Heller, the most successful thought-reader who has ever appeared here. Amongst the names of notable persons written by the audience last night and repeated by Mrs Anderson, who was blindfolded, were Sir James Paget, Robin Hood, Judas Maccabeus, Paddy McOafferty, Dizzy, and Tom. The performance will be repeated this evening. 41 Anglo-Australian ” in the European Mail writes “ A depot for the sale of New Zealand muttou has been opened in Thamesstreet, London, and in and about London the retail batchers are at last beginning to avow that the meat may be worth retailing. Many of those of whom I formerly made inquiries used to assure me that I should find only water for gravy, not knowing, of coarse, who I was ; and some of them appeared to labor under the absurd idea that the carcasses were soaked in water and then frozen bard. Happily, all this nonsense and resultant prejudice is rapidly exploding, and the popularisation of the mutton proceeds rapidly."

Councillor Petherick, undaunted by past reverses, has given notice that be will move to-morrow, at the usual meeting of the Council :—l, That the leave of the council given to the City Valuer on the 24th April, 1879, be rescinded, and that no outside employment of any kind be permitted by this council to any permanent or annually-paid servant engaged, but the whole of the services of tbe valuer be given to tbe duties of the requirements of tbe ratepayers. 2. That the leave granted on 24th April, 1879, to A, G. Johnson to act as Relieviog Officer temporarily, at a salary of £SO per annum, be rescinded, to be paid by tbe Benevolent Institute, this council not now having the duties of the Benevolent Institution under charge.

A young man named George Purdy met with a very nasty accident yesterday at tho Lower Hutt. Mr Purdy went in Dixon’s gingerbeer van with the driver, Mr Shakes, for company's sake, and when near M'lutosh’s hotel a part of the harness broke, which caused the horse, which ia not a very amiable one, to kick out viciously, striking Purdy on the leg, causing a frightful gash. Had be not thrown himself back clear of the second kick, be mast have been killed on the spot. The hoof of the horse completely smashed a tin that was on the van at the back of where Purdy was sitting. Dr. Wilford bound up the leg, and despatched the patient to the Wellington Hospital at once, where be arrived about 8 p.m. The cart is considerably damaged.

Perhaps no larger import trade is transacted in New Zealand than that of tbe hardware imports, and therefore we gladly jyint a circular referring to the value of the hardware imported into New Zealand, as also-ita distribution among the principal ports of the colony. Tbe returns show that tbe merchants of the capital are gradually,but moat assuredly, increasing their business, and, not content with their provincial business, are poshing ahead, and are, by their ramifications throughout the colony, acquiring new and extensive connections. It may again be remarked that the exports of 1883 show a marked decline in the quantity of goods imported. This is due, not so much to a falling off in demand, as a reaction from the largo over importation iu 1882. Tbo return will be found on one fourth page.

The Kev, H. H. Jervois, the. son of His Excellency the Governor, sailed for England yesterday per the outward San Francisco mail boat.

About twenty members of the Athletic Football Club took part in dribbling practice yesterday afternoon. The practice days of this club are Tuesdays and Thursdays. The newly - formed , Lodge Aorangi, 8.U.0.0.F., is meeting with great success. It numbers already over thirty members, and ten more are to be proposed at the meeting at the Athenceum this evening.

Th*» following gentlemen have been elected members of the Wellington District Hoad Board :—Mr G. Jones, No. 2 Subdivision j Mr D. Speedy, No. 3 Subdivision; Mr G. Perkins, No. 6 Subdivision. Dr. Newman’s committee is requested to meet at the central committee room, Charlottestreet, at 8 o’clock, Mr Bunny’s committee will likewise meet at the cdmrilittee rooms, Grey-atreefc, this evening, at half-past o o’clock;

The Salvation Army would appear to be having a good time at Masterton, Lieut. Kear, in taking leave of hia flock, is reported by a Maaterton paper to have said that he bad registered sixty.tbree converts during bis stay in the town;

The police received a telegram from Mr Scadden of Maaterton', claiming the child who was found in the streets by Dr Kemp, and so liberally eared for by that gentleman. The little one was accordingly forwarded home by the late through train. By our telegraphic shipping It will be seen that the Marquis of Normanby, Lady Normauby, and suite reached Auckland yesterday by the mail steamer from Sydney, the distinguished party being through passengers to England per the outgoing San Francisco mailboat. As the message is silent upon Lady Normanby's health, it may be reasonably inferred that her ladyship is now convalescent. Telegraphic news from Australia states that Professor Miller, the colonial champion athlete, has broken his ankle while wrestling with Donald Dinnie. Apart from the inconvenience and pain attached to the accident, Miller’s many supporters will regret it, as interfering with the Miller-SulHvan “knock-log-out match. Clarence Whistler, an American wrestler, has recently challenged Miller, and this match, too, will necessarily have to be postponed.

The frozen meat trade continues astonishingly active. A correspondent in the Hawkcj Bay Herald complains that 20,000 sheep were bought in that district by the Gear Meat Company, and shipped from Wellington instead of Napier, la the year ending 31st March, 1883, the exports of frozen meat were valued at £27,762, whilst in the year ended 31st March, 1881, the amount shipped was worth £183,223. ' English advices say that the low prices of meat ruling during the early part of the winter were caused by its mildness, and the consequent abundant supply of Home-grown meat.

At the meeting of the Benevolent Society, held yesterday, the Rev. Mr West, speaking in connection with the committee’s schedule of relief, said that it was not fair to say that the committee dealt out their relief with regimen l tal rigor. The rations'they gave were a fair supply, and he was not aware of any of the recipients of relief grumbling. The relieving officer said that complaints had only been made in one or two cases, and in tbess it was where the complainera wanted something beyond the usual rations. The ordinary ration order was as follows :—llb of bread, lib of potatoes, Jib of meat (without bone), Joz of tea, and Joz of sugar per diem. The chrysanthemum show of 1 the Wellington Horticultural Society will take place at the Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday next. A large variety of prizes, amongst others being the “Elise trophy,” for preserves, which was not awarded at the last show, are on the list. Intending exhibitors are requested to deliver their exhibits at the Athenaeum before 10 o.m. on the day of the show. Any exhibits received later than the hour mentioned will not be considered in the distribution of prizes. This rale has of late years nob been very strictly enforced, but it is the intention of the committee to adhere to it rigidly on this occasion. There is no limit to seme people’s, self-con-iideace, and in many instances this sort of arrogance verges into an obtrusive offensive* ness which is the reverse of delightful. It came out in the hearing of a case at the Besident Magistrate’s Court yesterday that an individual, who called himself a physiognomist, had, on the occasion of the loss of a pound note, undertaken to detect the thief merely by diagnosing his appearance. This sort of thing may be all very well in theory, bnt when it comes to be pat in practice it is apt to become dangerous, and to end in a misunderstanding between the diagnotor and the diagnosed. This happened in connection with the case heard yesterday, and resulted in the physiognomist being bound over to keep the peace.

It is understood that the harbor works at New Plymouth are now progressing very favorably. The breakwater has now been run out so far that steamers like the Wanaka can, in moderately fine weather, lie alongside, and ship cargo and passengers, thus avoiding the necessity of using surf boats. The breakwater is also of great advantage in shipping cattle. From the paddocks leading on to the breakwater the cattle are put in cloved trucks in pairs, and then run down to the ship’s side and hoisted on board. When the works are completed vessels of ordinary size will be enabled to come in and take in cargo at any time, and it is to be Jxoped that then no more such delays will occur as on the occasion of the last inward San Francisco mail, when the whole colony south of Taranaki was needlessly kept waiting for fourteen hours for their Home correspondence. It is now definitely settled that the offices of the Customhouse are to be removed into the new Post-ofiice buildings, with the exception of the shipping office, which will remain in the Provincial Buildings, and be situated in the room now used as a ** long room,” It will be cut off from the rest of the building by a glazed partition, and will, in addition, have a separate entrance from Customhousequay, which is now being made. The remainder of the department will be accommodated in four large rooms on the first floor of Jhe southern wing of the Post-office. These rooms were are first intended for the use of the Postmaster-General, but as he prefers to remain in the Government Buildings on account of his other duties, these rooms are available. Orders for the fittings were given some time back, but owing to the contractor being engaged in fitting up the Post-office, the work has been somewhat delayed, and instead of moving on the Ist of May, as was at first expected, the department will have to wait another three weeks. In order to avoid, as far as possible, any inconvenience arising through the separation of the department, the Shipping Office will be connected with the chief office by telephone; The rooms now occupied by the Customhouse will be made use of by the Stamp Office, which at present occupies hired premises in the Steam Shipping Buildings,

The ordinary weekly meeting of the committee of the Benevolent Society was held yesterday afternoon, when there were present Messrs Allen (iu the chair), J. E. Smith, Powles, McKenzie, B. Smith, Banks, Revs Hinton, Oliver, and West, and the Hon. G. M, Waterhouse. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. A case came before the committee where the husband was in the hospital with a broken arm, and the wife (near her confinement), bad no means of support, her husband not being likely to be able to work for six weeks. It was decided to pay rent, and supply rations for a month. The relieving officer reported having received £5 from Mrs Richmond in aid of the society’s funds. The sub-commitUo appointed to revise the list of persons on tbe books of the institution, with a view to reducing expenditure, reported as follows ; “The committee beg to report that they have gone very carefully through all the cases, and find that there are on the books at the present time 96 cases, consisting of aged men and women (maimed and blind in some cases), widows and orphans, and deserted wives and children, and one or two cases in which tbe head of the family is working out the cost of the keep by daily labor. There are 46 persons, some of whom, through old age and sickness (one or two of them being about 80 years of age), are not able to work, while others of the number are in a similar condition through sickness alone. There are 10 men on the books unable to work through old age. sickness, and blindness, and one who is now workout the cost of his board and lodging at manual labor. Five blind persons (male and female) are included in the list of the 93 above stated. Iu addition to the 96 cases above mentioned, and which represent the heads of families, there ia a large number of >oung children bring maintained by the institution, the majority of whom attend schools in the city. Alter going through the list as above stated, the committee beg to report that they recommend certain reductions.’’ The report was adopted, and the committee rose.

A.billiard match was played at the Oxford Hotel last night between Corbett two Wellington player?, the latter conceding 350 points in 1000, Tim match was played in three hours and five minutes, the highest break being made by Shiptoni who scored 42 (11 spot strokes), -Corbett reached the, 1000 when his opponent’s score stood at 804, and won the match.

We have much pleasure in calling attention to the advertisement of Mr W. A. Gardner in another column. Mr Gardner is one of those lute officials of the Civil. Service who have suffered by the reductions made in departments, and he has now embarked on his own account as a professional accountant, land, and estate agent In offices on the Quay, opposite Panama street. We wish him much success.

The preparations making at out arsenals (writes the European Mail) to relieve Tokur are such as would be made if we were going to be engaged in a big war! The base of operations .will no doubt be Trinkatat or Suakim, fiat, judging from the present temper of Osman pigna,.tbe Mahdi’s chief general^, who has declared—as many Kaffir chiefs have done before him—that be will not cease operations lintil be has driven the English into the sea, no pne would be grestly surprised to hear that he has anticipated the advent of our troops by falling upon Tokar, the more especially as he has been disappointed in what he regarded, after the defeat of the “ army ” under General Baker, as an easy conquest of Suakim. It is singular hew history repeats itself. Lord Raglan rested after surmounting the heights of Alma, while there was not a man in Sebastopol to defend it. Osman Digna hesitated when an advance on Suakim would have made him master of the town. It would bo a sad commentary, therefore, upon inaction, if the troops we are sending ofit should illustrate the old proverb of marching up a hill only to come down again. It certainly was a M thrilling incident which occurred the other day at Chicago, when a large African lion got loose, and took a look at things in general. An American contemporary describes the affair in painful detail, and if its readers were not “ harrowed, 1 * they ought to hdve been. When the ferocious monster sprang from its cige, 11 a dreadful panic fell upon the little audience,” who saved themselves, hdwever, by climbing to the top of the hyenas’ cages. But the lion did not concern itself with either the public or the hyenas. Seeing a noble Shetland pony, it pounceduponthe poor creature,”and sinking its teeth into the neck of the animal, it drank Its blood to the last drop, and then .tore the unhappy carcass into fragments.” Almost needlessly, it is further stated that “ the cries of the ill-fated animal were frightful but brief.” Being wearied of its pretty play, the lion lay down, and quietly suffered itself to be bperated upon by two keepers with sponges saturated with chloroform tied at the ends of long sticks. In a few minutes the “ ruthless monarch of the forest ” was reduced to a fit condition for a dentist to extract its “ ravenous teeth.”

“ Boohu-paiba.”—Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, . Bladder, and Urinary Diseases. Druggists.—The N.Z. Drug Co. fa As shines a good deed in a naughty world, stands out amidst the mass of trashy specifics and deleterious concoctions, the pure, unadulterated, palatable preparation known as Wolfe’s Schnapps. 23 Catabuh Op The Bladder.—Stinging irritation, infiamation, alt Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by “ Buohu-paiba.”—The N.Z. Drug Co. [o Those old people whose blood has become thin and steps feeble are praising Hop Bitters for the good they have done them. See.