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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7222, 18 July 1884, Page 2

Mr H, F. Fraser will address the electors of Te Aro iu the Arcade this evening at eight o’clock.

Tbe total number of births in the City of Wellington during the month of June, 1884, was 78 ; the number of deaths 17- Of the deaths 9 were males, 8 females. The causes of death were : 1 zymotic disease, 2 constitutional, 13 local, and 1 violent. At last night’s meeting of tho City Council an application was received from Mr J, Saunders for the loan for a few days of the centrifugal water pump now used by him at Wainuiomata, It was resolved to gr.mt the application, a charge of 15s per day being made for the use of the pump. The total number of persons who ai-lved in the colony during the quarter ended June 30, 1884, was 4080, the number of departures being 2880. Of the arrivals 2116 were from the United Kingdom, and of the departures 256 were for the United Kingdom. The arrivals at tho port of Wellington for that period were 904 and tho departures 536, The proceedings instituted against Mr Jacobowitcb, tailor, of Courteuay-place, by the New Zealand Leather Company for calls on shares in the corporation, have been withdrawn by Mr Wilberfoas, the acting secretary of tbe company. It; has been discovered that the defendant to the suit never at any time held any shares in the company. The European Mail of May SOth says : Notwithstanding the bankruptcy of Messrs James Brogden and Sons, and the extended absence of Mr Alexander Brogden, M.P., in New Zealand, the Wedneabury Liberal Federation have decided to again bring forward their old member as the Liberal candidate for the borough in the event of a dissolution taking place within the next twelve months.

.The Hon. tbe Postmaster-General, iu the absence of tbe Colonial Secretary, has appointed a board to inquire into certain charges preferred against Dr Leviuge, tho medical officer in charge Of the Mount View Lunatic Asylum, by one of the female attendants, The board, which consists of Mr H. S, Wardell, R.M., Dr Johnston, J.P., and Mr Mackay, the principal of tbe Wellington College, will hold the inquiry to-day at the asylum at 2 o’clock. The proceeding* will be conducted in private.

The total quantity of gold entered for exportation from New Zealand from Ist April, 1857, to 30th June, 1834, was 10,439,310 ounces, of the value of £40,926,343. Tbe produce for that period iu the various districts, in ounces, was as follows :—Auckland, 1,414,788 ; Wellington, 141 ; Marlborough, 52,834 ; Nelson, 1,635,700 ; West Coast, 2,999,275 ; Canterbury, 3 ; Otago, 4,336,629. During the quaitcr ending 30th June, 1884, the total quantity entered for exportation was 54,696 ounces, of the value of £219,269. The total quantity exported from New Zealand during the half-year ended SOth June, 1884, was 116,977 ounces, of the value of £468,848, against 123,368 ounces, of the value of £494,002, exported during the corresponding period of the previous year. A vote of 135,000 marks has been unanimously granted by the German Parliament to the doctors who have risked their lives in their brave an! thorough investigation of tbe causes from which the cholera is supposed to spring, and that, too, in its most unhealthy hotbeds among tbe swamps of India, The leader of tbe Cholera Committee, Dr. Koch, is to receive 100,000 marks (about £5,000), and the remainder will be divided between his two assistants aud the analytical chemist who accompanied the party. They have bad a special audience with the Emperor, and were lately at a dinner given on their account by Herr von Minister of the Interior. Germany has in former years suffered much and frequently from visitations of the cholera ; it is therefore easy to comprehend with what feelings of gratitude aud thankfulness anyone must regarded who can really help to ward off tho inroads of the disease-

An entertainment of a novel, amusing, and highly instructive character, rejoicing in the euphonious designation of tho Great Stereopticon was produced last evening at tho Athenmuin Hall. The attendance was extremely good, the room being comfortably filled by an attentive and thoroughly appreciative audience Th« views shown were far and away better painted and more clearly and sharply defined than is usual in shows of this deecriplion, and consisted of scenes of London, Edinburgh, aud other parts of Scotland. Some very beautiful statuary was also shown, and also a scries of mirth provoking comic figures. At tho conclusion oMhe programme a large number of useful and in many instances valuable, gift* were distributed amongst tho'. audience by tbe management. The entertainment will be repeated this evening for the last time. A boy named Arthur Ambrose Pope was presented with the clock ; and the silver watch and chain fell to a gentleman named W. J» Batt, of Palmerston North.

“ Anglo-Australian,” in the European Mail, says : The anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was the occasion of a very interesting ceremony, the Patron’s medal being then given to Dr Julius \ on Haaat, in consideration of hie systematic explorations of the islands of New Zealand, in the course of which he ascertained by the way the altitude of no fewer than 130 stations, and collected materials for a map on scale of four inches to the mile, the valuable MS. of which he ha* presented to the Hoy a I Geographical Society. The m-.dal was bostowed, too, for his numerous public ilnni l , whi-h have so largely cmitributcd to mir knowledge of the Britain of the South. Lord Aberdan* was in the chair, and the actual pre-cutatiuu was made by Sir F. 1). Bell, who delivered an exceedingly appropriate address. I may mention, by the way, that in the work, “ Now Zealand, its Physical Geography, Geology, and Natural History,*’ by Dr. Ferdinand Von Hocbstetter (Stuttgart : J. G. Cotta), there ip, in the preface, a special reference to Dr. Haast’s explorations of Auckland and Nelson, and it is there ou record that Dr, Julius Von Haast hag contributed very greatly to extend and consolidate a true knowledge of South Now Zealand by his travels in the Alpine regions of the Southern Eland. Specially iu chapter xxi. Dr. Yon Hocbstetter bears high testimony to the very great value of Dr. Julius You Haast’e explorations, conducted as long ago as 1801, when he sought the sources of the Hangituta, aud, in the "following year, undertook the task of exploring fully the bead waters of the Waitaki.

Wo hear that Mr Price has instructed hit solicitor, Mr Travers, to accept service of the writ issued against him at the instance of Mr George Fisher. Mr Price means to fight, be rays.

At the meeting of the City Council last evening a letter was read from the residents in Oriental Bay, protesting against the proposed slip in the locality, and pointing out that it had been promised that the water frontage should be reserved for an esplanade. The matter was referred to the Works Committee.

The Silverton (New South Wales) mines still continue to give enormous yields. The Argus correspondent writes :—Several rich finds have been made lately, notably Nolan’s at the Soakage, the assays of which have turned out over 20,0000 zof silver. About 1500 people are on the field.- which extends over a distance of 50 miles.

On September 12, 1803, a man nafiied Samuels was being executed in Sydney for stealing a desk. At the first drop the cord broke in the middle, aud the criminal fell flat ; on the second the rope came undone at the fastening, and again fell to the ground ; aud at the third time the rope snapped off thort. The gaoler, taking compassion on the unfortunate wretch, stayed the proceedings and represented the case to the Governor, A reprieve was g» anted. At the Whitby Police Court recently, a person described as the Rev Thomas Fenna Hodgskinson, M.A., D.D., was charged with begging, also with having acted as a pedlar without a license. The case against the prisoner was that he went to the house of the vicar of Sneaton, and represented that he bad started a school in Whitby, but that as he bad but few pupils he was badly off, and asked for assistance. He also offered for sale a dictionary, which tho vicar purchased for 4s. Prisoner also went to tho mother of one of the local magistrates, to whom he made similar representations, and who gave him 4s or sf», and he then got drunk with the money. He was fined 5a for peddling without a license, the other charge being overlooked. The unusual spectacle of a church being sold by auction will shortly be witnessed in the neighborhood of Clapham, near London, The vendor, it is understood purchase 1 the edifice as part of a large estate, and after spending a considerable amount of money in its restoration, redecoration, and fittings, he offered it as a free gift to the ecclesiastical authorities, endowed with a thousand pounds and a sinking fund for repairs, upou condition that he should retain tho right of preferment. This suggestion was not complied with, and tho building, which Is unconsecrated, having been formerly the private chapel of the Olapham Grammar School, is to be put up for sale to the highest bidder, to be used for any purpose to which some enterprising individual may chose to put it. The special correspondent of the Melbourne Argus thus delivers himself on the subject of the unlovely Fijian drink. “ kava —• u lt is no secret that this drink is prepare! by chewing the yangona root, adding water to the residuum, which is spat from the mouth of the chewer into a bowl, and then strained. All this we were prepared for, but we were quite unprepared for the drinking ceremony, The guests sit down in a row. There were a number of natives present—in our case those, who had done the chewing for ua. They had been masticating like cows chewing the cud for half an hour before. You could hear the crunch of the root till it gradually dissolved Into pulp, and then there was a sound in each mouth like a sucker, followed by the ejection of the solid root, swelled to twice Us original size by the lingual secretions of the operator. We ought not to have known this, but our curiosity was too much for us, so that when we faced the ordeal of tasting the delectable stuff nothing but the assurance that we would mortally offend our hospitable host and hostess brought the courage of each to the sticking place.” The New Zealand Mail published this week is, like its predecessors, an interesting budget of reading matter, containing lots of news aud a variety of information on all sorts of subjects. The interest that centres in the approaching general elections is' the cause of a very full quota of political pages ; and a noticeable feature in this department is a complete list of all the candidates for election, with notes on their political tendencies. The sporting editor contributes an interesting page, and the agriculturist is to the fore with useful items. The ladies’ page is interesting, an! as useful as ever, and a multitude of miscellaneous items fill up an exceedingly good issue.

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