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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 7492, 2 June 1885, Page 2

Tho Hon. J. A. Tola has beeu ci nfiued to hi* reudenco for several days, suffering from -he* Sects of a severe cold. He was much better yesterday, •The President of the Union Debating Society announces that the meeting of* tho Union exiled foe Wednesday next haa been adjourned for a week, A mao, who gave his name os Mi chell, was arrested last evening, near Barrett’s Hotel, for bc-iyg drunk while in charge of a hor*e. He will be brought up at the Resident Magic* trate’a Court this morning. We have received a copy of Mr W. K.. Bishop’s Monthly Tlme-tabie and Diary for the present month. It is a hondy little re* fereuce book for travellers and others, giving particulars ftboUb all means of conveyance, and containing convenient directories, Ac, The report of the Committee of the Wellington Ladies’ Christian Association for the year 1884-85 has been published in pamphlet form. It includes the repoits of ti e Homo for Friendless Women, at Newtown, and of the Female i\efuge in Nairn* street.

The Australasian Medic il Gazette for May 15, in addition to a number of technical articles,has one on the proposed legislation with regard to charitable institutions in Nptv Zealand. There is also correspondence respecting the difference between the Auckland Hospital Committee and Dr Bond, and the Christchurch Hospital inquiry. A little child had a narrow escape from bein» run over in Manners-street yesterday. A dray was being driven along the street, and tho horses were within a yard of the child when a bystander with great presence of mind, rushed across the road and dcagged the little one away, luckily averting what might have been a very serious accident. The poll for the elto.ion of two auditors for the city was held yesterday, at the Council Chambers. Considerable interest was taken in the election, and a great deal of canvassing was carried on. Shortly after 6 o’clock the result of the poll was declared as follows : —H. M. Lyon, 291 ; W. Widdop, 283 ; AV. Bishop, jun., 203 ; W. Hester, 122. Messrs Lyon and Widd*p are therefore elected.

The detachment of the artillery connected with the Armed Constabulary, numbering 25 commenced mounting the guns at Kaiwarra yesterday. Sergeant-Major Silver, a very competent officer, is in charge of the detachment Tho framework for the 64*pounders is not yet ready to receive the guns at Point Gordon. All the defence works at Ha’awell Point have been completed. Messrs Bock and Cousins, printers, engravers, an 1 lithographers, have removed from to the premises lately occupied by Mr J. Mackay, in Braadon-jtreet, next the Central Fire Brigade Sta im. A new brick building for the machlna-room has just been built, and a concrete bed ha< been put down for the machinery. A ga*-en.»uie and all tho latent improved machinery will b> used by the firm, who turn out all kind* cf work ia a very creditable manner.

There are two or three ca?ee of boautifa wedding-cake ornaments on view at Mr J Goclber’rf, Cuba-atreet, The flowers, leaves and gronpingof figures aro very arri tically done, an I aro really worthy of the co’eDrated firm (Volckman and Co, London) which has brought that class of work to such a stag© of perfection. The goods were consigned to the late Hr Peter Laing, who used to get orders from all parts of the North Island for wedding cakes. Mr Giber’s collect! u is certainly well worth a visit.

We would remind our rea-’ers of the musical treat provided for this evening in the Atheu. team Hall, when Mr Rob.rt Farkeri assisted by several leading amateurs, will deliver (->7 desire) his lecture on “ The Life and Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,’* HU Excellency Sir William Jervoi* will preside, and there shonld be a large gathering at this opening of the winter session entertainmoots provided by the Young Men*® v hristian Association, for the intellectual an!'social enjoyment of its members and the public.

M.r Arthur Bell, whose skill in fortifying Auckland is so highly spoken of, is fourth son of Sir Dillon Bell, Agent-General for the Colony. He is an old Pressman, having been atone time engaged on the literary staff of the Wellington Independent. He was educated at Christ College, Christchurch, and took the first scholarship of £76 offered by the New Zealand University. In fact, he was the only competitor who carried off that honor the year that be competed for the scholarship.. He is a pupil of Sir John Hawkehawe, one of the moat eminent engineers in Great Britain. Colonials will be pleased .to hear that Mr Bell was born in the Colony, The business arrangements for the Booth mission, which commences on Thursday, are being .carried out in a moat energetic manner and no effort is being spared to make the mission as successful as those which have been held in other centres. Last evening a prayer meeting was held in the Wesley Church Schoolroom in connection with the mission, and at the Executive meeting subsequently, a few preliminaries were arranged. ,At tie choir practice, which was held in the Reohabite Hall, there were over a hundred persons present, representing most of the Churches of Wellington, Mr Mackintosh conducted, and a moat successful practice was held.. We have much pleasure in diawing attension to the concert, advertised in this issue, to be given on Tuesday, th* 9-h in-tant, in aid of the funds of the Orchestral Association. We understand the cantata “ Hero and Leander ” will bo rendered on this occasion by the Harmonic Club. This work was performed recently at the Club’s private concert, and met with much, approval, a desire being expressed on all hands that it should be repeated. Bsing quite new, it has not been sung, in Wellington previously to the occasion referred to, and we congratulate the general public on an opportunity of hearing a work which we learn, on goad authority, bears mark of true musical genia-*. The concert will be under the direc tion of Mr B. Parker, which will be a guarantee of its excellence. The School of Instruction for Officers in the late Militia list commenced yesterday morning, but Mr Quick was the only person who put in an appearance. Mr Bethany who, like Mr Quick, formerly held the rank of captain, has signified his intention of going through the course of instruction, Mr Drake, ex-captain of the Nelsm Naval?, will also attend, and three or four other officers are expected from the South, Tha hours set apart for drill are 7.30 Vid 8.30 a.ra. ; 9.80 and 10.30 a.m. ; and 3to 4 p.m daily. It is not necessary that all es-offioera should go through the course, for if they feel qualified may apply to be examined. The Board, consisting of Lieutenant Colonel Pearce, Major Butts, and Captain Coleman, will hold an examination at the end of each month. Tha course of instruction will extend over a period of three months, and examinations will take place at all the principal centres in the Colony. Very few replications have so far been received from the officers whose commissions were revokedj

TTp to a late bpnr-last nfght there were no fAttber ‘discoveries ofc the mUsing wa c’us and jewellery. The adjourned sitting of the Compensation Court will be held this morning, when the cases commenced at last Thursday’s tilting will bj continued.

A water-pipe burst in Pipitea Point last evening, and flooded the fetreet and footpath for a considerable distance. Men were working by lamplight to repair the damage. Several of the street-crossings,.are now in course of renewal, many of the old blocks having become quite sunken* The timber to be used ia the new crcsdoga is a flue sample of totara.

An accident happened td a i&an named Inez at Paikar.arihi ob Saturday through a slip Iq, 6 .cutting on which he was working, lie ba« bten brought to the Hospital, and ia severely injured. The Rev T, L. S*aaley, who has been incumbent of St John's Church, Milton, for the past four years, has sent iu bis resignation. The Bruce Herald states th\t he I* about to proceed to England.

No Uccnssi afd now granted lb the tfor<ewool district in Hawke’s Bay, yet th© Napier Telegraph states that all accounts agree that more liquor is consume I now in’the Noroe-vood licensing district than when licenses were granted to public-houses. Residents in the neighborhood of Fifaher* bert-terrftco complain that a horse is frequently tethered on the toadwAy id that locality* and that on dark nights it is rather dangerous to go dawn by the asphalt© crossing ItAding Into Thorudon-quay, The footpath along Thorndonquay wants looking after. There are large stone* cropping up every yard or two from Pipitea Point to the Junction Brewery. A woikmm with a pick and hammer could do the neossaary repairs in half a day. The footpath ia u.?ed by a large number of people. On Saturday, Me-wa Frauds Sidey and Co, sold a small shop and dtvelling-house, together with the freehold on which it atood, for £225. 'the land has a frontage of 30ft to Riid fordstreet, by a depth of 112 ft. There was a largo attendance at the sale, and the bidding was brisk. The price wa* considered satisfactory. The upward tendency in all kinds •£ city property is very noticeable.

The Australasian noticed ai a curious incident of the recent war scare, the withdrawal of sums of money from Building Societies, Saving Banks, and ordinary Banks, under the belief that the money would be safer in some place of concealment. It is curious (says our contemporary) as illustrating a survival of, or rather a relape© to, the hoarding instinct which it was thought that advanced civilisation bad nearly eradicated. The Auckland Star says that soma interesting specimens of ancient Maori carved slabs have been received from Tauranga, The slabs are part of a pah which existed ■ near Mricetu, One is said to be 159 years and the other over seventy years of age. All contain full-length figure*, each most skilfully carved, and one is remarkable, representing an animal with the body of a large fish and the head of a man. The pah from which these were taken has been destroyed over sixty year*, and hence the olabi are or peculiar value.

The sympathy exposed by colonists at Home with Lord Rosebery in tho bereavement be has just sustained, by the death of hi* younger brother, will (<*aya a Home paper) be fully shared by his Lordship's numerous friends in Australasia. Colonel Primrose was one of the most popular officers on Lord Wolseley’s staff, and his deith ut Abu - Fatmeh will bo severely felt by his brother officers in Egypt. This, it may be mentioned, was his campaign, he having resigned the post of Military Attache to the British Embassy in Vienna in September last in order to accompany Lord Wolaeley to Egypt. The Dunedin Herald says that when a charge of theft against a bitch of small boys was being beard at the Police Court, one of the parents displayed an amount of disrespect to tho Bench which, but for great forbearance •on the part of Mr Carew, R.M., would probably have got him into trouble. At the outset he asserted that only the smallest of the boys bad been brought up, and that the Court would be convicting babies next. Mr Carew at once checked this bold criticism of the administration of justice ; but the man was not to be so easily quietened, for when bis Worship intimated that the parents were to punish the boys, be ejaculated in a sneering tone, u Have wo to show marks of violence ?” Mr Carew, who by this time had had his patience sorely tried, gave the man a smart rebuke for hie impertinences.

Of all the boons -which England can confer upon India (says the Pall Mall Budget), lady doctors are, probably, the most needed. It is to Be hoped, therefore, that the Medical Women for India Association will receive a liberal support from adiscrimiaating public. This Society ollects funds for bringing out lady doctors tc India, starts dispensaries, and is at present, building a luge hospital at Bombay, which is superintended by women, and open ti female patient* only. The Grand Medical College of India has thrown its doors open to female students, and tha Bombay University has admitted all female student* to compete for degrees on the same term* as male students. The good work was originated by Mr Kettridge, an American resident in Bombay, and Mr Sorabji Shaparji, a 'Parsed gentleman. Dr Edith Pechey, the first Englishwoman doctor in India, had nine patients on the Brat day she arrived ac Bombay, in December, 1883. Before a fortnight bad passed there were 800, and the average number has ever since then remained 10'J a day. As “ there is work for twenty lady doctors at Bombay alone,” although at the London School for Medicine, in Henriettastreet, two-thirds of the students are preparing for India, the demand will not soon be supplied. Mr Qaicke, an ex-Invercargillite, who has been stationed at Suakim for some time, writing under date March 15 to the Southland Times, says The majority of the Indian troops are tall,..well-built.men. They have had. several men killed at night, but have retaliated with such vengeance that they will not allow friendly tribesmen in the vicinity of their camp. They nearly killed one of them one morning after a midnight visit from the enemy. They say the friendly Natives are only spies, and- from what baa transpired recently in the British, camp it would appear that the suspicions of the Indian mei are not only well founded but that these fallows often take part In the night attacks on the lines. A day or two back ono of these so-called friendly men met a Sikh trooper outside of the camp and asked him why he fought against his religion, His answer was prompt and, decisive.' Drawing the long, sharp koifo these troopers wear in their belts he ripped bis questioner open. His - judgment *and execution were rapid ; hts ’argument being that no friendly-disposed Native would have asked each a question. There was another similar case, the insult offered being] greater. An Arab spat in. the face of an Indian trooper, who killed him instantly. The Indian troops will not allow the Natives—friendly rr otherwise—near the camp, and they are right. These fellows prowl about all day without arms, see all they can, and come down at night and kill those who have befriended them.”

The performance given by the Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club at the Theatre Royal last night, in aid of the widows and orphans of the men who were lately drowned in 'he harbor, attracted a very large audience, all parts of the house being equally well patronised. The members of the G*ub were assisted by Mrs and Miss Hart, who helped very materially to ensure the sucoeis of the entertainment.. In PalgraveSimpson aud Herman Merivalo’s comedy * 4 Alone,’ Mr O. R. Bailey’s pourtrayal of the blind Colonel Challice was something more than a mero amateur effort : the part was ably eustatued throughout. Mr W. D. Lyon,-in the character of Stt atton Strawtes, the nephew of the enlonel, and Mr Cecil F. Keyworth, as Dr Micklethwaite, the colonel’s medical adviser, had parts which suited them, and they did full justice to the authors, every point being well brought out. Mrs Hart, as Mrs Thornton, a charming good-natured widow in search of a husband, with an alphabetical list of bodily ailments, was all that could -have been desired by the most critical of playgoers ; whilst Maud Trevor (Miss Hart) and her lover (Bertie Cameron) sustained their respective characters very well. The farce, “Mr Joffios’- Latchkey,* 1 followed. Mr A. H. Marshall's Mr Joffins was a fine specimen of r Hicklng, drunken acting, and he well deserved the applause bestowed upon him. The part of Mr Sloggs was rather different in style to' that of Stratton Strawles, but was quite as ably performed by Mr W. D. Lyon. It is almost needless to add that Mrs Hart gave an excellent impersonation of Mrs Sloggs, and that Miss Hart made up very well in El zabeth Ann, tbe maid-servant. The entertainment was thoroughly enjoyed, and will be the means of adding very considerably t) the fund fer which it was given. The members of tho Club, and their energetic bon. secretary, Mr Cecil F. Keyworth, dt serve hearty congratulations for the way la which everything was carried oat.

St. Patrick’s College was formallv ] yesterday by tu© president, Rev Dr Watters.' There were about 25 pupils present. Boarders. are expected during the week from Dunedin, Timaru, and other places. The Bay of Plenty Times says that a brisk trade eeetns to be doing just now in Maori curios. A couple of bullock drays arrived in town last week with relics of former generations iu the shape of hideous faces and figures in Native artistic aty’e from Makotu, The relics seem very old indeed. The following tenders have been received at the Public Works Office for the Matakitaki horse bridge Contract i—Accepted—M. M. Dixon, Wake-field, £720, Declined—-Rrit and Adamson, Mu chisou, £716 ; John J. Nolan, Westport, £9OO ; Cochrane and Oxley, Resftoo, £913 ; Mace and Bassett,. Belgrove, £943, Informal—Johnson and Grieve, Reefton, £1239.

Fires have been rather numerous on the West Coast during the past month, and Mr G, H. Scries, who went up on behalf of the Insurance Association to adjrt-t the accounts, must have had rather a busy time of it. The total b ssea during May were about £17,400, made up as follows :—Patea, £ISOO ; New Plymouth, £12.000 ; Lepperton, £250 ; Opuaake, £2500 ; Norm mby, £IOO ; Otaki, £1250. There were alio one or two smaller tires. It ia not at all improbable that Courtney’s bail ling in New Plymouth, where the Are originated which caused sUch destruction’; Pruasera Hotel, Ojvauake’; and Smith’s store, Otaki, will be rebuilt by the Insurance Companies.

Melbourne would appear to be in a prosperous cmditioo. The gossipy correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes “For all this war enthu-iasra we do not neglect our domestic aff drs. Moreover, we never were more prosperous. A revolution of City property has just taken place, and it has' resulted in an increase of £IO,OOO to the municipal income. Building is going on more actively than ever, and brick* cannot be made fast enough. The public bull lings are all to be enlarged or completed, and there i* even talk of AoUbiug the Parliament Houses. Tho contract for the extension of the Post Office ia said to be signed, and that for Princes Bridge certainly is. Th© Episcopalian Cathedral ia to be finished wholly instead of only partially. Sanguine people believe that the new railway station will be begun soon. New churches are springing up all over Melbourne and the suburbs, and the new front of the Athenaeum is to be commence! next week. The ground is being cleared for a new theatre in Exhibition-street, and the oli Princess would have been taken down preparatory to the erection of a new theatre on th 1 * same site, but that the leaie of the hotel portion baa some weeks to run, and the proprietor will not move out. In the suburb* whole streets are in progress. Tramways are being laid down on the principal lines of road, and, although they have not yet began to break up the highways within the contour of the city proper, they soon will, Pe pie talk quite cheerfully of a war tax. Fighting, they say, is expensive, and we cannot build forte and ships, and equip armies for nothing. The question is asked, Will it be an income tax ? We hope not. Nobady likes direct taxation. An income tax la of necessity inquisitorial. Cue resents the official insolence which c impels a man to say how much a year be earns.”

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