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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8446, 23 July 1888, Page 4

Owing to pressure on our space this morning the article on Wellington pulpits is held over.

A mail for Europe, via Brindisi (due in London, September 10,), closes at the Postoffice to-day at 2.20 p.m.

Captain Todd, late of the steamer Suva, which was lately wrecked at Westport, arrived here yesterday morning by the Mahinapua. There is very little improvement in the condition of the youth Morris, who was seriously injured by a gun accident on. Wednesday last. A man named Joseph Brannigan was arrested yesterday on a charge of using obscene language in Manners-street. He will be charged with the offence at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. The funeral of the late Mr Henry Anderson, journalist, took place yesterday, and was well attended, a goodly number of the deceased’s friends following his remains to their last resting-place. He was interred in the public cemetery. The Rev James Paterson conducted the service at the grave.

A slight mishap occurred to one of Messrs Cobb and Co.’s omnibuses on Saturday afternoon in Adelaide-road. Just after turning into Adelaide-road from Riddiford-street one of the back wheels of the vehicle came off. There were of passengers on the omnibus, but'no one was injured. “lolanthe” was repeated at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, before another crowded house. The opera was performed with great success, and at the end of the first act the principals were called before the curtain. The Society has decided to give two additional performances this week, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The steamer Mana returned from the Waikanae beach yesterday. The Pleiono is reported to be still high and dry, she not having ahifted to any appreciable extent during the past few days. The vessel has her fore and aft canvas set, with the object of assisting her to get off. The position of the ship will probably be Improved during the week. M. C. Tringham, J.P., presided at the Resideut Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. A first offender, for being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart, was fined 5s and coats, or in default, 21 hours’ imprisonment. Wm. Nelson was charged with drunkenness and also with damaging Constable McCarthy’s uniform. Por the first offence he was fined ss, and for the second £l, or three days’ imprisonment in default of payment of the tines. This was all the business. On Saturday afternoon a horse and cart engaged on the reclamation alongside the Wellington Rowing Club’s boatshed were precipitated into the water, in consequence, no doubt, of the horse having been taken too near the water. After iv good deal of trouble, by the united efforts of a number of bystanders and the crews of one or two boats, the harness was slipped off, and the horse scrambled on |to the little peninsula not much the worse for his wash. Subsequently, the cart was triumphantly dragged ashore. We need hardly remind those of our readers who arc purchasers of household furniture and effects that the residence of the Hon Randall Johnson will open to-day from 12 o’clock to afford those who wish to do so an opportunity of inspecting tho household furniture to bo sold at auction to-morrow. Messrs T, Kennedy Macdonald and Co., tho auctioneers, have issued tho detailed catalogues of the furniture, which are now obtainable at their offices, Nos. 1 and 3 Manners-street, or at tho residence, Fits-herbert-terrace.

In our advertising columns W 3 publish this morning the programme of the annual Caledonian concert, winch is to be held in the Theatre Royal on Friday evening, 27th current. The coming concert promises to bo quite equal to former ones given by the Society. Mr Wilson, we notice, is to sing, and is also to play in the orchestra. Miss Martin, who is so well and favorably kuowu in Christchurch, makes her first appearance in Wellington on this occasion, and is to sing one of her songs, “Caller herrin,” in character. Miss Hutchinson, of Wellington, is also to contribute her services. Other well-known names are Inolnded iu the programme. The orchestra, which has been under capital training, will add to the success of the concert.

The Wanaka was due to arrive at an early hour this morning with the Saa Francisco mail on board. The list of special prizes and cups given by the Wellington Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association appears in our advertising columns this morning. It is understood that Mr Jellicoe has been retained by MrG. Fisher, the Italian Consul, to move for a habeas corpus on behalf of Gasparini. It is rumored that the Italian residents of the town are collecting money for his defence. Mr Chapman has not yet taken any steps in the matter of a habeas corpus for the prisoner Cary. An inquest was hold at the Hospital on Saturday before the District Coroner on the body of an old man named John Smith, who died at the institution on Friday. The medical evidence showed that death was caused by inflammation of the brain. The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes. The weather yesterday was very wintry. There were rain clouds hanging about all the morning, and the first showers came down a little after mid-day. In the afternoon the wind was very strong, and in the evening heavy rain fell till nearly’ midnight. The wind was from the north-west. The barometer fell steadily throughout the day’, but rose slightly after midnight. The Fancy’ Dress Carnival at the Columbia Skating Rink takes place this evening, when skating will commence at 7.30. The judging will take place at S. 15, and the awards made known at 9 sharp, when the grand march takes place. In the latter part of the evening a quarter of a mile race go-as-you-please will be run, and the winner will be presented with oue of the largest medals ever offered for a skating prize in this Colony. The medal is of silver and enamel of various colors, and will no doubt be largely contested for. Wo are requested to state that the reserved seats will not bo kept after 8.30 p.m. Several of the members of the “lolanthe ” company, who are skaters, will appear during the evening in their costumes.

The fifth annual ball of the Wellington Naval Artillery is announced to pa held in the Volunteer Orillahed on Friday, 17th August. Those who were present at the last annual ball of this carps will have pleasant recollections of the manner in which everything connected therewith was carried out. It is, we are informed, the intention of the company to make the coming event a greater success than any of its predecessors, and active preparations are being made to attain that end. The following are the members of the ball committee : —Captain Duncan, Lieu, tenants Hislop and Campbell, Surgeon Gillen, Chief Petty Officers Aisher and Armstrong, Potty Officers Moran, Taylor, Meek, and Mundle, Leading Seamen Davenport and Parsons, Seamen Hare, Keegan, Martin, Rabe, Robinson, and Woodger. Petty Officer Palethorpa acts as treasurer and Seaman McCurdy, thc_ Battery secretary, as secretary to the Committee. Burroughs, Wellcome and Co, ,thcmanufaoturing chemists, of London, have long been noted for the variety and excellence of their many preparations for the conservation and restoration of health. Tho names of their pharmaceutical preparations are almost legion, but to a few of them only can with certainty be attributed high remedial properties. But all have uses, if only to gratify the senses by exquisite perfume and pleasant taste and artistic appearance, for the “get-up” is as much studied in medicine and cosmetics and palliatives nowadays as in other things, and to equally good purpose. We were much impressed by this when viewing a remarkably pretty little box full of extracts and solutions and other things submitted to us by Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., of this city. The box and its contents came from the establishment of Messrs Burroughs and Wellcome, and is attractive enough to absolutely develop an appetite for codliver oil, extract of malt, Hazeline, Strophantbus and other things in it, the sources and uses of which are set forth in a variety of well-printed pamphlets. Messrs Kempthorne and Co., are agents for Burroughs and Wellcome, and all the preparations of the latter can be obtained from them.

We wonder whether it has ever occurred to our magnates, our men of commercial position, our mercantile princes, that they are under a heavy debt of obligation to the Colony in which they are making and amassing their wealth, and whether they should not as a return in every way encourage local industries, than which there is none better than is to be found in the tailoring department at Te Aro Home.

We can make a suit that shall be equal to anything turned out by a London West-end tailor, equal in quality, equal in finish, equal in fit-nay, we might say, superior in the last-named particular. The human form with the lapse of time change?, and a measurement given twelvemonths or two years since to a tailor 16,000 miles away is far from reliable. Why not patronise colonial industry that offers you a certainty in the tailoring department at To Aro House ? We have a splendid variety of tweeds, coatings, and overcoatings—English, Scotch, French, and Colonial. We have trimmings of first-class quality. We have a largo and effective staff of tailors. We have a cutter that is an adept at his art. We ask you tints to help the country. Be patriotic, and with the hundreds of our clients do this by encouraging the tailoring department, Te Arn House.