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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8009, 14 February 1887, Page 2

A good many complaints have been made lately in various parts of the Colony against the Kynook ammunition. On Saturday last, however, the City' Hides, using that ammunition, made some excellent scores, particulars of which will be found under the heading “Volunteers,”

Sporting Motes, by “Martini,” will ba found on the fourth page. The adjourned meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Demetri Garbee, fishmonger, lapsed again on Saturday for want of a quorum. A man named Richard Clark was arrested on Saturday evening for being drank in a railway carriage and breaking one of the carriage windows.

The reading-room of the Athenaeum has been placed at the disposal oi the members of the Presbyterian General Assembly now Bitting in Wellington.

It is said that a well-known resident of Palmerston North tendered for the execution of Calfrey and Penn at £3 per head, but his offer was not accepted. The Spit Fire Brigade of Napier are through passengers on board the Mararoa, on their way South to take part in the Fire Brigade contest at Dunedin. An organ recital will be given at St. Paul’s Church this evening in aid of the church fund. The members of the choir will take part in a number of vocal solos and concerted pieces. A man named John Le Cross was taken in charge on the racecourse at the Hutt on Saturday for making use of obscene laugunge. He will be brought before the Court this morning.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Messrs MoTavish, Tatum and Co.’s Wellington Town and Country Register, which contains a long list of city, suburban, and rural properties for sale.

Sir William Fitzherbert will be a passenger to-day by the s.s, Mararoa, which leaves forj Melbourne, via the Southern ports. He will complete his journey to England by the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s line. The Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club will give a private performance of Tom Taylor’s celebrated comedy “Overland Route,” at the Theatre Royal in about six weeks’ time. Some excellent scenery is now being painted for the comedy by Mr J. Briggs. The only business at the Resident Magistrate’s Court uu Saturday was the granting of a prohibition order against W. H. Colville, a chemist’s assistant. The application was made by Colville’s wife, and the order applies to all licensed houses with n the city boundaries.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Messrs Williamson and Co.’e Share Report and Investors’ Guide for the 12th iuat. It contains full particulars of tbe market price now and twelve months ago, of shares in all the principal joint-stack companies connected with the Colony, and much other useful information in handy form. The local in Saturday’s issue respecting the departure for England of a late member of the firm of Kirkcaldio and Stains put the names wrongly. It is Mr Staius, not Mr Kirkoaldie, who is going to leave the Colony, while his absence will beau unmistakable loss. We cannot afford to lose such men. The business of the tirm will be pushed, as usual, by energetic Mr Kirkoaldie. The order of business for to-day’s sitting of the Presbyterian General Assembly is as follows ; —Morning adjourned debate on the Widow and Orphans Fund, report on training of students, report of Examining Board, report on scholarships, report of Committee on Education. Evening— Church Extension Committee’s report, report of Church Property Trustees, report on temperance.

Messrs Wrigglesworth and Biuus, photographers, Willis-street, announce that they have made a considerable reduction in their scale of charges. Until further notice cabinetsized photographs can be had at the very reasonable sum of 20s. Considering the reputation which Messrs Wrigglesworth and Biuns have acquired in the art they will no doubt receive numerous orders and be well patronised. The library of the Athenians was reopened on Saturday, having been closed for a week or two while the work of re-catalogu-ing and classifying the books was carried on. In order to preserve the order of the catalogue members will in future not be permitted to walk about the library and take books from the shelves. Catalogues are placed on tables just inside the door, and the librarian will take from the shelves any book which may be wanted. At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a fire occurred in the Botanic Gardens, about 50 yards from the gardener’s house. ' For. tunately assistance was obtainable, and- the dames were got under before any damage had been done to the trees or shrubs. It is supposed that the fire was caused by a spark from a pipe, far Sergeant Whelan, who had passed tbe spot where it broke out only a few minutes before, saw no boys about who would be likely to get into mischief and start a fire. ''

A hoy named Henry William, whose parents reside at Newtown, met with an accident at Karaka Bay, near the Pilot Station, yesterday morning. The boy, in company with several other lads.t had gone out to the bay after karaka berries, and while climbing a tree missed his hold and fell heavily to the ground, breaking his collar-bone by the fall. One of his mates went to the Pilot Station and informed Pilot Holmes of the occurrence, who took the injured boy off to the steamer Mana, which happened to be near at the time. The boy Was brought to town by the steamer and takeu to the Hospital. Another heat of the Star Boating Club’s senior pairs was pulled off on Saturday afternoon, and resulted in a win by about a length for Messrs Field and E, L. Barnes against Messrs Copeland and Buoholz. In the Club’s junior sculls. Cooper beat Ellison and Bendall beat Reader by about a length each, and in the same race Rylance beat Kennedy easily. A heat of the junior double senile was also rowed, in which Hasell and G. Hutchinson beat Bathune and D. Tripe by about five lengths. The course for the senior pairs was from Point Jerningham to fhe Te Aro Baths, and for the other races from Thomas’ Point to a point off the Clyde, quay Hotel. Mr Wip, Fitz Gerald acted as judge, and Mr R. S, McGqwap as starter in all the events. Another boating accident occurred at Napier on Saturday afternoon, and it is thought three persons have lost their lives. Captain Edie, of the steamer Mararoa, informs ns that while his vessel was lying in the offing he saw a sailing boat containing three persons capsize. There were several boats sailing about in pretty close proximity at the time of the aooident, or Captain Edie would have lowered one of his own. He watched tRe accident through his glasses, and gives it at his opinion that; the three unfortunate occupants were drowned, as be never saw them rise to the surface after once going under the water. The boat was an open one, and was sailing at the time ; and being struok by a sadden squall, heeled over and filled before those on board could get her righted. ' Several of the ministers attending the ses. siou of the Presbyterian General Assembly now sitting in Wellington, preached at the various Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Methodist Churches in the city yesterday. At St John’s the Rev W. Douglas, M.A., of Hokitika, preached in the morning, and the Rev J. G. Paterson, of Napier, in the evening. Both gentlemen gave interesting sermons to large congregations. The Rev J. 6. Paterson conducted the service nt St Andrew’s in the forenoon, and the Rev R. Erwin, of Christchurch, in the evening. This place of worship was also well attended on both occasions. A special collection was made at the evening service in aid of the Sunday School. ‘' Services in the : country districts were also conducted by members of the Assembly.

Daring the hearing of the charge against Dr Connolly, of Wanganui, Mrs Pope, the woman alleged to have been assaulted, deposed, in cross-examination, that she had lived with Mr Pope in Wellington about eighteen months or two years before he .married her. After she had declined to answer any farther questions put by Mr Hutchison, she admitted she had been a barmaid at various hotel's in Wellington ; that at the age of 17 she was known as a woman pf ill-fame .by the name of Kate Howard, in Wellington ; that she went to Hokitika to reform, and led an immoral life on the West Roast, afterward coming to Wanganui, where she mot Mr Pope; went to Wellington and led an immoral life there till Mr Pope asked her to give it up ; was known as Mrs Pope from 1881 before they were married, The superiority of truth over fiction in the way of sensationalism is demonstrated by a story told in the telegraphic news published this morning. An absconding American cashier has found foothold at Raratonga, where the Island Queen has installed him as a favorite, and, it is believed,, will not surrender him to the Yankee detective who is how at Tahiti, on the track of the cashier. As the matter stands at present it is an extremely romantic one, worthy the immortalising pen of'Mayne Reid or “Percy B. St.' .(qhiijf It wil| be interestiqg to (ffiaerye the movements of the 'cute detective from America, who is very much worse off than was his countryman Mr Flotsam of “The World” celebrity, since the latter had before him a certainty of triumph in deference to established precedent upon the conclusion of a play.

A woman named Honors O’Donnell was committed to the Mount View Lunatic Asylum on Saturday as being of unsound mind.

An English paper relates the following adventure of five little boys who were remanded at Dunstable on a charge of stealing from shop-doors. It seemed that the person who had supplied the lads with dinner had by mistake left the key in the door of the cell, and the youngest boy, who is very small and thin, managed to squeeze himself through the aperture by which food is handed to prisoners, and then unlocked the door for bis companions. Their escape was quite un. noticed, and was not discovered until some time afterward. When it was found that they had decamped Superintendent George drove off in a conveyance in the direo. tion of St. Albans, while two other officers and a number of local Volunteers dispersed in various directions in search of the runaways. Meanwhile the boys had made their way to Skimpot Farm, just outside the town. Here they observed a number of fowls running about, and catching one they wrung its neck, and took it to the mistress at the farmhouse, informing her that they found it on the railway run over by a train. Praising their honesty and believing their tale, the woman regaled the yonug scapegraces with tea, and presented them with sixpence. They then proceeded in the direction of Houghton Regis, bat near that place they were observed by Policesergeant Addington, who chased them for a considerable distance till he lost sight of them in Chiltern-road, The lads, determined not to be caught, quietly returned to town, and the surprise of the superintendent’s wife may be imagined when, on answering a knock at the station door, she found the runaways before her. They told her that they had been “ out for a run, and had comp back to tea,” When her husband returned late in the evening, be was not a little astonished to hear that the boys of whom he had been in quest “ were at home,” and had been in bed for hours.

Poverty and Suffering. —“l wasdragged down with debt, poverty, and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring, which did them no good. X was completely discouraged, until one year ago, by the advioe of my pastor, I procured Hop Bitters and commenced their use, and in one mouth we were all well, and none of us have seen a sick day since ; aud I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families well a year with American Co.’s Hop Bitters tor less than one doctor’s visit will cost. X know it.” —A Working Man. Read. X