NEWS OF THE DAY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2415, 22 January 1895, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Premier arrived from Palmerston North by tho midday train yesterday. Contrary to expectation the Hon Mr Carroll did not accompany ’ him. There was a Cabinet meeting in the afternoon. Sir P. A. Buckley (Colonial Secretary) loft yesterday for Ghristohuroh and Dunedin on departmental business. Ho is expected back in a week or ten days. A transfer of the portfolio of Justice from the Hon Mr Cadman to the Hon Mr Reeves is likely to taka place as soon as Mr Cadman returns to Wellington.

Among the saloon passengers for Wellington, New Zealand, on board the P. and O. steamor Arcadia, is Miss Louisa Carey; daughter of Colonel Carey, E.A., and niece of General Carey, formerly of the 65th Regiment, so long quartered in New Zealand. She comes on a visit to her relatives —Mrs Duff Howett and family, of Levin.' Missionary prayer meetings in connection with the China Inland Mission were held in the Primitive Methodist. Church and the Hunter street Hall last night. The Eev W. Malcolm gave an address in the Primitive Methodist Church on China as a mission field and pointed out that, notwithstanding tho immense population of tho country, there were only about 1500 Protestant missionaries there. Mr J. H. Todd spoke in the Hunter street Hall on tho efficacy of faith and prayer in mission work. Another meeting will be held in the Wesley Church, Taranaki street, tomorrow evening.

The Stipendiary Magistrate yesterday gave judgment in the case in which the New Zealand Railway Commissioners sued Andrew Sllttie for ,£35 15s 9d,*which they claimed thqy had paid to the Union Company .ait; the-request of the defendant for the carriage of goods. The facts of the case have already been repotto 1 at length. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiffs for the amount claimed, holding that the law under the circumstances implied a request by .the defendant to the plaintiffs to pay the amount to the Union Steam Ship Company, The plaintiffs had paid the amount, and defendant must now repay it. The costs amounted to y£S_4s ; Mr Gully received judgment for plaintiffs, and Mr Wilford for defendant. A sealed handicap race for all yachts,irrespective of size, is to take place next Saturday. The Mascotte/Atalauta, Pastime and Waitangi will be amongst the competitors. Three prizes—3110, £5 and .£3 — are to bo given. , Boats-will be required to sail- once round tho championship course. The Duco is to follow, the race. Messrs Williamson and Musgrovo i announce Miat the bos- plan for the coming short season of the ■" New Boy ” Company, which opens at tho Opera Houaa on'Monday next, will bq pn yiew at Holliday’s -tomorrow : (Wednesday) morning, at ’lO o’clock. So much ’fes l?e?n time to time,' of tho extraordinary popularity of “The New Boy” on the London and provincial stage, that its -production in New Zealand has been looked forward to

with a largo amount of interest.’ - This is probably the first time in the history of the New Zealand stage that playgoers have been afforded an opportunity. of witnessing a great English success, interpreted -by a complete English company, while . in the very tide of its success at’ the world’s metropolis, and even before its production in Melbourne, Messrs Williamson and Musgrove' state that they have done everything possible to ensure tho gijocess pf the comedy. The company, was .. caret ally selected by JJfx J. G.’ Williamson during his recent visit to England. -It includss Messrs Cliftpu Alderebn, Ralph Roberts, Eugene Mayeur, George Benjage, Ernest Cosham; Frank Hawthorne, Misses Edith Hensley, May Thorne, Gladys Leigh' apd. Jennie Watt-Tanner. The iast-panjed Iqdy will, no. doubt, bo well remembered: Ijiere. \ The cast and mountings will in all re-: Spects bo exactly similar to the recent produetipu of “ The New Boy ’’ at the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney. The play, bright and merry from beginning to end, should prove as acceptable to Welpngtpn play-goers as it has been elsewhere,'

: Dog fanciers will bo interested to Icar? that a Dandy Dinmont slut from Mr Leatham’s : kennels! at Thorp Arch, Yorkshire, arrived by the Tokomaru to the order of Mr A. H. Turnbull, and was sent yesterday to Soames’ Island to undergo the usual six mouths’ quarantine. ■ In addition to tho tender of Mr George Scott, Christchurch, -8353, accepted by the Public Works Department for the Sunnyside Asylum boilers contract, one was received from JJfesgra J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch, J 2040, !

Six drunkards appeared before Mr Martin, S.M-Z-at tte Court yesterday morning. Five were treated as first offenders, and Eliza Blaine, previously before the Court, was fined 10s, pr 48 hours in default. John Scully and James McGovern, both of whom presented a somewhat battered appearance, were charged with fighting on Jervois quay oh’ Saturday flight. Scully gave evidence on oath that he ..was .knocked, down by McGovern and savagely assaulted, and he added that he was Very glad when the >olice arrived on the scene. ’McGovern?, on ;he other hand, said Scully knocked him down and bit his nose, whereupon he called out dor the police; Both defendants wore fined -IBs, cr seven days’- hard labour in default. A weil-'Jressod young man named Alfred Doble, for ,wJm»U Mr ’ Wilford- apjeared, was chargod with stcAiing 5s on the a'gw Brighton Racecourse from Win. Hayes oa the 17th December. Ho was remanded until Friday,.bail being fixed at two sureties -of JUG each, to be approved by th,o police. Joseph Ford wqs sentenced to four days’ imprisonment for indecency.

Tho tenders received by the Public Works -Department for the Tapanpi Post Office contract were ir-G, Sparrow and Go., Dunedin, -£293J. Drake, Gore, -£297 ; G. Prance, Dunedin,-8300 ; A. and T. Anderson, Dunedin, £313 ; T. Crawford, Tapanui, -8314; AT. Baskett, St, Clair, -8338; J. Ford and Co., Dunedin, -8364. That of Messrs C. Sparrow and Co., as already announced, has been accepted. Judgment was given for plaintiffs in tho following civil, cases at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday:—United Farmers’ Alliance y. E. Langton, -82 3s Bd, costs 15s; D. vl R. Taylor, -Bl 13s - 9d, costs 14s j same v. H. A. Moore, -67 18s lOd, costs 10s ; T. and AY. young y. E. Hawea, -820,1 s Cd, costs -83 10s t Wellington Biscuit Company v. G. Moßeath and Co.; -83 7s 6d, costs 14s; Kempthprne, Prosser and Co. v. P. W.’ Dodson. -879 18a ' M, costs -62; J. Carroll and Go. y. T. Bvenden, -81 lla; costs 6s ; Jameson Eros, and Cq.y. P.-Lawton, 13s Id, costs Gs; same v. L. -83 9s Bd, costs Cs. Defended cases—D. Asto? ■ T - George Thomas and Co., claim £0 5» damages* to pictures! left .’ in defendants’ ball- judgment (or plaintiff for £4 13s with £ll3s costs, Mr Skerrett for plaintiff and Mr Quick for tho defendant;-W. Gi Goss v. Marshall and Butler, £36 6s lid, judgment for plaintiff with £2 3s ,6d costs; ■ P. Thompson ■ y. J.' Coakloy, claim - £2 10a, plaintiff nonsuited with £1 Us costa, Mr Beero for plaintiff, Mr Poyntqn'for defendant. ■ , v

AVith regret wo announce the death of Miss Ada Beatrice Crease, second daughter of the late Mr 13. 11. Crease, the well-known AVollington merchant. Miss Crease -was most charitable to tho poor, and was greatly beloved for her generosity and many deeds of kindness. She died at the. Wellington Hospital yesterday, at the age of 28-years. * An adjourned meeting of creditors in tho estate of D. G. Whitaker, confectioner, was held in the Official Assignee’s office yesterday afternoon. Amy Glen, who kept the debtor’s books, in answer to the Official Assignee, said that she copied all the accounts about five mouths ago from an old book into the one produced. Witness destroyed tiio old book because it was so dirty. Mr Whitaker accounted to witness for all expenses incurred by him. Tho Official Assignee said the book seemed to him to be genuine, and he did not think it was likely that the witness could have written it up recently, as was suggested by one of the creditors. He believed the debtor had brought himself technically within the criminal clauses of the Act by buying goods whilst he was in an insolvent state. Tho bankrupt having answered some questions as to the sale of his horse in June last it was decided to adjourn the meeting sine die. . At about 6 o’clock last evening a ball from tho Phcenix nets at the Basin Reserve struck a passer-by a violent blow on' tho forehead, breaking his hat and causing a severe wound from which the blood flowed freely. Mr Stevens, who struck the ball, came promptly to his aid, and with the assistance of others, managed to stay the bleeding, and at once procured medical assistance.

The D.I.C. ieduction sale is to bo for 14 days only. An advertisement in another column gives some particulars of the great variety of goods which may be purchased at sale prices. Costumes, fashionable dress materials, house linen, furniture, boots and shoes, clothjng,- carpets, crockery, ironmongery, are all in the greatest profusion in the well-selected stock at the Company’s premises, and the sale should attract crowds of buyers. The eighth-annual general meotingofthe shareholders of, the Citizens’Life Assurance Company is to be held in Sydney on Wednesday? 20th February. One of the oldest settlers of the Eangitikoi district, Mrs Elizabeth Henderson, Marton, who landed in AYellington with her husband in 185.5, died on Sunday. She; accompanied her husband to Eangitikei in 1837, and in 1862 they took up the present property on AVellington road, Marton. Mr Henderson died in 1867. Mrs Henderson broke her leg on New Year’s Day, and tho shook thus caused to her systeni resulted in her dqath. !

. A deputation comprising Messrs B. McGregor, F. AT. Pemberton and AT, Pauline waited on the Kiwitea County Council iti support of a petition from settlers in the northern portion of , the county asking for a bridge over the Eangitikei River at Otara. Mr Pemberton said the whole of the settlers in the Wanganui Block (containing about 80 sections) and everyone signing the petition for separation of the northern portion of the county would use tho Otara bridge. The people in the Peilding Small Farm Block would also benefit.. It took him at present three days to get a load of wool out to Feilding, whereas if the Otara bridge was built he could get to Ohingaiti Station and back in one (Jay, It whs ffe.cided to call a meeting of the ratepayers, the Council to enquire in the-meantime if tho vote of last session would lapse if not applied for before the end of the financial year.

A special general meeting ;of; the,, members of the AVellington Working Men’s Club is to bp held on Tuesday, 39th inst., at S'p.m. At Antwerp International Exhibition, Messrs John Jameson and; Son's Whisky has been awarded “.The Grand Prize.” Messrs Charles Day, London, arc the sole export bottling ngonts of the famous Dublin firm; and their cases, so well known in the colonial, Indian and foreign markets, affoid to consumers the means of obtaining the whisky of the leading distillers in absolute perfection and purity, which is largely appreciated. It is notified by advertisement elsewhere that a half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of tho Bank of New Zealand is to be hold at the Chamber of Commerce, ATellington, on Thursday, 7th February, at 3 p.m.

Taino'and Co. soil pianos at thoir rooms on Friday, at'2.3o o’clock; Laery and Co. soli fruit at 9 o’clock on Thursday. This will bo the largest consignment yet received in ATellington by an individual firm.

. Philips and Pike are agents for A Icock and Co., billiard manufacturers, and balls, cues, cloth, &c., are always in-stock. Prices for Coalbrookdalo, Westport-Cardiff; - Newcastle, and Greymouth doal are quoted in our advertisement, columns.

- Taine and Co. sell furniture oa Friday, at 2 o’clock. • . The third term of the Fitzherbert Terraco School begins on February sth. Abraham and ATilliams’ Colyton Sale is advertised. - - It is advertised that money loans may bo obtained on application to the Public Trustee or any of his agents. Townsend and. Paul sell 124 sacks chaff on Thursday, at 11 o’clock. It is notified ihak there is superior accommodation for tourists and visitors at Montrose House, Bowen street, s