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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7342, 5 December 1884, Page 2

The 8,3. Rotorua brought up the To Anau's English and Australian mails yesterday morn* ing.

The Licensing Committee meetings for the present quarter are concluded, there being bo business for transaction by the Cook and To Aro benches.

Acceptances for the Wellington Gold Cup, to be run for at the W.J.C. Summer Meeting, are due *u the 20th inafc., and final payments must be made by the 17th of January, A Maori was arrested last evening on the charge of breaking into the Brunner Coal Company’s office on Wednesday night. He will be brought before the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning.

The Garrison Amateur Dramatic Club has banded £25 to the Benevolent Society, as the result of the recent performance. The club, we understand, has another performance in active preparation, which will be given in aid of the funds of the hospital. The piece* selected lor the occasion are “Heroes” and “Sea Bathing at Home,’’ The Star Cricket Club will place the following teams in the field to play in the Junior and Senior Cup matches, commencing on Saturday ;—Senior Cup—Surrey 0.0. v. Stars: Messrs Brown, Dryden, Dod. Gocder, Hawthorne, Luke, Nicholls, Pope, Prideaux, Roberts, and Twist. Junior Oup—Midland C.C, v. Stars (second eleven) : Rev W, Baum* ber, Messrs Chisholm, Chat win, Dixon, R, Gi oder, Lawrence, Remington, Richards, 0. Sanderson, H. Smith, J. H. Smith,

Tbe quarterly meeting of the Thorndon Licensing Committee was held yesterday, at the Council Chambers, there being present Messrs Allen (in tbe chair), Richardson, O’Meara, and Fisher, The only business for tran»action was an application by Joseph Cole to transfer the license of the Karori Hotel to* Thomas Urwin. Sergeant-Major Goodall, who represented tbe police, offered no objection to the application, explaining that necessary repairs bad been effected. The ap* plication was granted, and the Bench rose.

With reference to tbe reports of a new Arctic expedition, a Copenhagen correspondent to an English paper is authorised to state that Mr Game), of Copenhagen, has offered to send his st amship, the Dijmphara, on a second expedition to the Arctio regions, via Franz Josefaland, subject to the condition that the Danish Government wijl as a moral acknowledgement of their interest in the ex* pedition grant a certain sum of money, however email* towards the expedition under.the same chief, Lieutenant Novgaard, of tbe Royal Danish Navy, to whom the crew of the Warna owed their rescue.

Hi» Worship Mr Wardell, R.M., yesterday morning delivered a reserved judgment in the case in which the city contractors sued a man named John Barrett for removing refuse from the Star Hotel without obtaining the sanction of the City Corporation, Mr Wardell said that tbe refuse referred to, according to tbe evidence taken at tbs bearing of the case, was not offensive matter, but merely sour, and' did not come under tbe designation of nightsoil. For this reason he should dismiss the information. His Worship added that after the Ist of January next, according to the Police Offences Amendment Act, which on that day came into force, such an act as had been committed by tbe defendant would be punishable.

The rainfall for Wellington district for tbe mouth of November, just received by Dr Hector, is aa follows :—The Observatory, Wellington, total full 4'2B3in on 13 days, max. fall 2*33ta on 7th ; at Reservoir, 4*3oin on 13 days, max. 1 87m on 7th ; Pefcone, s*72ia on 12 days, max. 2 32i0 on 7tb; Wainuiomata, lisim on 13 days, max. 4‘6sin ou 7th ; Upprr Hutt, s*3lia. on 9 days, max. I*sl on 7th ; Summit, 9*43ia on 16 days, mux. 2'9Bin on 7th ; Featberaton, 6‘44in on 10 days, max.2*46in on 6th; Dry River, near Martinborough, 4'47in on 14 days, max. 2’Cin on 7th ; Master-ton, 4 54in on 11 days, max. 1 74in on 7tb ; Makara, 3‘22in on 11 days, max. 1 42in on 7tb.

Tbe following patents have been applied for :—For an invention for transforming nightsoil into a manure, to be called 41 QUeenin’s patent nightsoil manure 11 (W. Queenin, of Parnell, Auckland) * for a fencing brace or suspender (B. S. Lees, of Oamarn); for improvements in brickmaking machines (being a communication from George Edwin Richardson, of Adelaide, South Australia) (R. T. Dobbte, temporarily residing at Collinsstreet West, Melbourne) ; for an improved band-hoe, to be called “ Smith’s despatch hoe” (G, Smith, of Greymoutb) ; for 44 The Bodley rotary reversible steam-engine” (G. Bodley, of Dunedin) ; for automatic rotary door-hinges, to be known as “Excelsior rotary hinge" (W. B. Bunt, of Dunedin). According to recent statistics, there has been a great increase in the consumption of liquor ia the United States, and one far outstripping tbe growth of population. In 1810 tbe number of gallons of liquor consumed was 71,000.000, and how the number has gone up since is shown In the following figures 1850, 94,000,000 gallons ; 1860. 202,000,000 ; 1870, 293,000.000 ; 1880, 606,000,000 ; and 1883, 655,000,000. That ia while the population has only trebled during tbe last forty years, the consumption of liquor has increased by almost tenfold, and tbe amount of money expended in its purchase shows a still greater proportional increase. Tbe annual expenditure for liquor in the United States now exceeds 500.000.000d0l or £160,000,000. This la not very encouraging in the face ot temperance work now going on in : tbe States.

Ti.o inoMMy moling of tho Building Society (1573) will be bel l this evening.

A geucrxl mee*?n? of toe R-gaVa Club takes pUc j this evening at the Pier Hotel at 3 o’clock. The attention of volunteers of all corps is directed to dietric' orders published in another column. The racehorses Welcome Jack, Sou-wester, aud Clarence were shipped by the Te Anau, which left Lyttelton for Northern porta yesterday.

Mr F. H, Fraser has bem induced to come forwird as a candidate for election on the Central Board of the New Zealand Life In nuance Association. The Hou. the Minister for Public Works, Major George, M.U.K, and Maj >r Oautley, H.K., are passengers by the 8 ff. To Anau, which arrives here from Lyttelton this morning. Amongst the Coptic’s passengers who arrived from the South per Ui’.orua yesterday was Mr Thomas Gale, who has been absent from the colony daring the past ten months on a business tour.

The public are reminded that payments under the Pioperty Tax Act, 18S4, which fall due upon the 22 id can be made at the money order counter of the Chief Post Office, Wellington. Tins should prove a great convenience to persons interested. A telegram from Dunedin states that Mr E. Wakefield has resigned the editorship of the Timaru Herald, a journal with whicu he has been connected for many year*, and that Mr Triggs, Lite of our evening contemporary, the Post, has been appointed to the vacant office. A most extraordinary instance in wlrch a married woman served her husband with a summons for debt cropped up yesterday in the Resident Magistrate’s Court. The defendant did not appear, but the summons was returned with the endorsement that the summons had been served by the defendant’s wife, Mr Warded, R.M., of course accepted the service as correct.

We are authorised to state that the following names omitted from the gazetted list have been added to the Exhibition Committee, and will appear in the next Gazette, viz.:—Mr J. W. Smith, vice-president, Working Men’s Club ; J. L. Kimbell, trustee, Working Men’s Club ; Mr J. A. N, Salmon, secretary, and Messrs H. S. Chessman aud C. Nees, members of the said club. The name of Councillor H. J. Williams has also been added. In connection with life assurance, we would direct general attention to an announcement in another column relating to the Equitable Life Assurance Society of toe United States, The New Zealand directorate contains names well known throughout the colony, and the advantages offered by the company, as briefly enumerated in the advertisement, are mob as to warrant careful consideration. Mr W. A. Thomson is manager.

At the meeting of the City Council last evening, a letter was received from a resident iu Upper Willis-street, complaining of certain nuisances caused by the flow of sud«, &c„ into his yard. The Town Cleric explained that Mr Guthrie, the person committing the nuisance complained of bad been communicated with, and Air Guthrie had asked for an interview with the council. The whole matter was referred to the Public Works Committee.

The Glenbervie cutting difficulty is slowly but surely approaching solution. At the council meeting last evening it was resolved that the seal of the Corporation be affixed to the deed with the English cemetery trustees in reference to the matter. Councillor New* man asked whether any arrangement had been come to with the management of the Jewish cemetery. The Town Clerk replied that the deed was not yet executed, but the terms had been finally arranged. A cricket match will be played on Saturday next at Newtown Park between teams representing the New Zealand Times and the Government Printing Office, The following are the Players : New Zealand Times— Blick, France (2), Grigg, Grey, Gyles, Kiluer, O’Shea, Robinson, Silvlns, Thornton ; emergencies, Little, Mason, McCaull, Government Printing Office—Burns, Easton, Gage, Hare, Keefe, McGirr, Muuutier (2), Osborne, Par. kioßon, Pegden. Play will commence at 2.30 sharp. Sir John Hall, replying to the welcome aocorded him in the Hororata district, on his return, said since be had left them be had travelled a great deal in various countries both new and old, but in all his wanderings he had not seen any country in which, if he had bis choice to make again, he would desire to live in preference to New Zealand. (Cheers.) He was sorry to say, however, that, owing to family arrangements, his present return was not a final one. In about a year hence, if all went well, he looked forward to returning once more with Lady Hall and his family to take up bis abode amongst those neighbors whom he had learned to esteem so thoroughly. 44 Clouds " was well patronised la*t erai lug, and the performance throughout was again thoroughly successful. Mrs Lswis was very well received, and frequently applauded ; and Mr Hoyte, as Ralph Randall, played his part carefully and well. Walter Randall was ren* dered by Mr Douglas in a masterly manner. Mr St, Lawrence’s Fred Town was the comedy part of the piece, and, as such, was highly appreciated. Mr Haygartb, as Billy Buddies, being also very successful. A feature of the performance was the incidental music, which was admirably performed by the orchestra under Mr H, Weinberg, This evening Masks and Faces ” will be pro* duced, with Mrs Lewis as Peg Woffington. Referring to the swindler whose doings at the Hutt race-meeting were recorded in these columns a day or two ago, the Lyttelton Times says :—“ It is a most extraordinary thing to notice how people, in spite of repeated warnings, persist in allowing themselves to be gulled. The swindler who was chased out of the Christchurch show grounds on two different occasions has turned up at Wellington, where he has been repeating his trick of selling pound notes forless'than twenty shilling*, and afterwards palming off dummy watches on the crowd gathered at the races. The pranks this man has played have been telegraphed all over the colony, and attention repeatedly called to his proceedings in the newspapers, yet he seems to have no difficulty in finding victims wherever bo goes, The public appiar to have taken things in good humor at the Hutt course, and so there wai no display of the revolver this time.” Rather a peculiar ease, involving a consider* able amount of cross swearing, cropped up at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, when a boardinghouse* keeper named Mrs McGuire sued Patrick McLaughlin, a subcontractor, fjr the sum of £2O, goods sold, and £BO for damages sustained by illegal detention. From the evidence it appeared that on 2nd September last the complainant purchased a lot of groceries in town, which she took eut to Paikakariki, where she stored them in a stable adjoining the hotel. The merchandise was seized by Mr Greville, the manager for Messrs Walcotts* store adjacent to the hotel, In satisfaction of a debt Mrs McGuire is alleged to have owed the firm, and a double lock was placed on the door, which the complainant broke with an axe. She then packed the goods to McLaughlin's boardinghouse on the railway. Her story to the Bench, in which she was corroborated by her son, a lad of 14, and a packer, was that she did not sell the goods, nor any portion of them, but bad merely left them in defendant’s charge for storage. She admitted, however, that she did borrow £3 from defendant. Subsequently, and on going for the good-i, defendant asserted that be had purch sed £7 worth of the stores. He tendered her £4, and offered to return her the balance of the good*, which she declined to receive. The defendant’s assertion was that bo bad bought the goods from plaintiff, amounting to £7, and that be had paid h-r £2 on account, and had subsequently paid the balance, £4,^to her.then solicitor, who had given a receipt, but without prejudice. The Bench made an order for the amount paid, and ordered the balance of tbe stores to be given np to tbe plaintiff.

The New Zealand Mail, published this morning, is an admirable specimen of a really first-class family newspaper It is characterised by the diversity of its articles, and the discrimination used in the choice of matter for its many pages. Under every beading set apart for special information are items calculated to exactly suit the taste of those intended to be reached, while for general readers the whole journal will be found most entertaining and useful. Madame Eliae, wilting for the Ladies* Column, has an article on what was observed at Island Bay which cannot fail to be instructive and amusing to the fair readers of the Mail. 44 Asiuodeus ’* also contributes random shots in bis customary humorous veis.

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