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Otago Witness, Issue 1230, 17 July 1875, Page 14

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Wellington, July Bbh. To-night's Tribune aays we are sorry to learn that latterly tbe relations between Sir Julius Vogel and Dr Featheraton are not so cordial as their joint connection with the public buaiueSß of the Colony rentiers desirable. There is a general complaint of the lack of official reticence on the part of the AgentGeneral.

July 9th. Last night's Post said it learnt trout private letters that Sir Julius Vogel was in robust health. Tbe Tribune, to-night, says : — 4< We are exceedingly sorry to give an unqualified contradiction to the statement that ."ir Julius Vogel has entirely recovered from his late illness, and was at the date ot last mail actually in robust healtn. The reverse, unfortunately, was the case. On the 14th May a letter, which may be implicitly relied ou, states that Sir Julius had been overworked, that he was unable to walk across his room without crutches, and that he looked old and worn. He was fretting at his inability to move, but even then expected to be in Wellington in November next. The officials of the City Corporation have applied for an increase of salaries.

July 10th. The ship Collingwood, which has just arrived, brings 268 immigrants. There was a great deal of sickness throughout the voyage, from typhoid fever, measles, diphtheria, aud scarlatina. Twenty deaths occurred. Fifty of the immigrants are still in hospital. The doctor has not long recovered from an attack of fever, and the second mate is still ill of ftsvor. There was one suicide on the voyage. The vessel is in quarantine. It is rumoured that a glue factory is about to be established near the Hutt, and that more than one-third of the capital has been already subscribed.

Julyl2fch. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were opened to-day by the CShiefJustice. Toe calendar ia light, there being ouly five eases-- rape, perjury, assault, stealing, and obtaining money under false pretences. Frank Murray, assaulting with intint to rob, was found guilty. Sentence deferred. The other cases are unconcluded. The Grand Jury made a presentment to the Chief-Justice, congratulating him on bis appointment, and expressiug a hope that His Honour would bring under the notice of the Government the inadequate provision foi the administration of justice in this city. The Wesleyana in this city purpose observing the present week as one of special prayer for the promotion of religion in the Colony, and prayer meetings will be held at the various places of worship every eveniog. This step is taken in the fulfilment of a resolution come to at tue recent Melbourne Conference. The Eaaby sailed for Newcastle at one o'clock today. She is full of passengers, aud was unable to take any from Lyttelton oc here, owing to waut of accomuWation. A good number applied. She took £120,000 iv iover* igns, shipped by the Bank of New South Wales for Sydney,

July 13th. Ia the Supreme . Court, Denis Wright, formerly a captain in Her Majesty's service, was acq tutted on a charge of obtaining money under talso pretences. The Wellington Jockey Club intend lengthening the run in on the Hutt Course. They will advertise the Derby in a few dajs. The Orangemen celebrated the 12ch July by a dinner last night. The Lammershagen. will be admitted to pratique to-day, and the immigrants landed and despatched at once to the West Coast and Taranaki, where they are mostly dcs tilled. The Collingwood a immigrants ate all landed on Soames Island, There are no fresh cases of sickness." *...-«. July X4th. James Cameron, for rape, has oeen sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and to reoeive two whipping*, administered privately. Frank Murray, for assault with intent to rob, was sentenced to two years. Auckland, July Bth. The aharge of forcible entry by a Thames landlord into his own property and ejeoting a tenant in possession, was heard in tne Su prams Court to-day. A verdict of guilty was returned. The Judge said the accused so doubt had been badly advised, He fined the landlord £15, and the person who aalisted him was also fined Is. The ship Forfarahire encountered a severe cyclone en the way oat. Sh« carried away her main and topgallant masts and several sails. Immigrants all well. Notwithstanding the rich crushing of 40oz to the ton, Tairua shares have fallen to 50a. The- captain of the ship Forfarahire'furnishes the following particulars of a cyclone encountered on the 9th May, during the voyage from London ;— On the 7th and Bth May aigua of a change appeared, with a falling barometer. Upon the morning of the 9th. the barometer had fallen to 29.35, with dark lowering weather, and the wind increased to a Btrong gale, with torrents of rain. At 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. it blew a heavy gale with violent Bqualls, and the torrents of rain continued. The electric light* were visible upon each yard-arm and the masthead. At 9 p.m., after a heavy burst of wind, it died away and veered to aouth, where it remained until 10 p.m., then backed to the eastward, and continued with a very heavy sea, until 3 a.m., during which time the barometer commenced to fall to 26,90, and at 5 a.m. to 28.75. It was blowing furiously at 5 p.m. The fore-topmast-head and topgallantmaat gear were carried away v and fell by the board ; and shortly afterwards the maintopgaliantaiast followed, smashing up the starboard forward cutter, and splitting the lower topsails, besides doing much other damage aloft. At 6 pm. the storm abated, and veered north-, east- ward : after which the barometer rose slowly, the ship being under close-reefed topsails during the time. A strong gale continued for about eighteen hours after, from the north-west. AJI the foretopgallant gear .•ails, Ac., were entirely lost, but I saved a considerable portion of the maintopgallant gear. Thua ending one of the most severe storms it kai been my misfortune to encounter, and which was, inUl stage*, a complete cyclone of the' seVcjreat kind.. . > It is rumoured and beKev«4 that Sir Julius

..Term's %^% it "**-*i^"« \t"-'m *»-t-^« V ogel leaves England, viai3uez, on the 9th July (to-morrow). „* *. Sir Arthur Gordon and staff have left for Fiji. Private letters state that His Excellency intends cordially working with the settlers. He will devote himself to the progress of the Colony, and intends introducing coolie labour from India, in which he state* there is no difficulty. He believes it better for the planters than Island labourers. The seat of Government may be removed, but nothiug ia settled yet. The choice lies between Levuka, Suva, and Nandia. The Executive consists of new men entirely. They have been in communication -with the A.S.N. Company to send down two steamers to enter the Island trade, but they had none suitable at present. The Attorney-General, Mr De Ricci, and wife sailed for Fiji in the barque Meteor. The Mikado has arrived. She left Sydney on the 3rd. She has 47 cabin and 30 secondclass passengers through to San Francisco. July 13th. At the Supreme Court to-day, an action wa-i brought to recover £2000 damages from Captain Carey, for scalding a lady passenger on the steamer Lily. The jury brought iv a verdict for the plaintiff, with £400 damages. The enquiry by the Warden and Inspector Thomson, A.C., has closed. Their report has been forwarded to Wellington. The result is not knowu, but it is uuderstood it indicates clearly two persons, one supposed to be in the Government service. Sir George Grey distributed the prizes at the Grammar School to-day. He said ho looked to. the youth of the Colony as most valuable to the State, because they were inclined to look less tc their own interests. Persons like himself, who wanted to intro duce great changes, looked to youth when grown up for their approval. Statesmen had to legislate for the future as well aa the pre sent. He said he had collecteu invaluable' manuscripts and material for future historians. July 14th. The last of the Forfarahire immigrants were removed from the barracks to-day for Waikato They are a very superior class, and will have no difficulty in obtaining employment. Chris rcHCKOH. July Bth. In the Supreme' Court this morning, Charles James, late treasurer of an Oddfellows' Lodge here, who was charged with' larceny as a bailee of the Lodge funds, was acquitted. Judge Williams said 1 ' the indictment could not be sustained, as no instructions had been given to the prisoner to pay the particular amount mentioned in the indictment into the Bank. He said thw Crown Prosecutor was not to blame for the acquital of the prisoner, an in the present state of the law the treasurer of a Friendly Society could rob such society without rendering himself liable to imprisonment. Mr Evaua Brown, M.H R. for Ashley, met the electors last night and delivered a speech in fay. ur of the abolitiot of the Provinces. A vote of confidence iv him was passed. At a meeting of the Board .of Governors of Canterbury College last night, there was a long discussion on the charges of a local; architect, Mr Armstrong, for plans, an£; specifications of the new Public- Libjrary,. buildings. It appears Armstrong was instiucted to prepare plans at a cost at most of £6000, but the lowest tender was £1.0,920, the Board were unable to go on with the building. Armstrong then sent in a bill for £255, being 2s. per.. cent. .on. .the- lowest tender, asserting that, it .was in accordauce with the scale of charges adopted by the Canterbury Association of Architects. It was decided to see if this was ' correct.^ All the members of the Board spoke strongly' agaiust the charge, and tbe general feeling is in favour of resisting it by law. July 9th. A perfect- skeleton,. of *<i£*£uu»i»- backed whale, JJlft. long, hag been received, at the Museum from Akaroa, It is "particularly, valuable, as hitherto, of the skeletons of the hump-backed whale inhabiting the Australian *ea9, theear bone only ia known to the scientific world. <-• At a meeting of the Cathedral Guild last night it was. resolved to holdreligiouß service inside the new cathedral walls on December LUth, that being the eleventh anniversary of laying the foundation etone and also the anniversary of th« Province. The walls of the cathedral are not yet finished, and no portion of the roof will be. on by the date stated. It was also resolved to present the Biahop on the same .occasion with a. pastoral staff for the use of the See, and a orozier for his personal use as Primate. "~ ' - At a public meeting held at Oust to consider the educational question, the new Education Ordinance was universally condemned. One speaker went so far .as to say the Ordinance was moat oppressive to, the working man, and that he would be one of the first to take his knapsack and bayonet and shed his blood rather than submit to it. - Another unpleasant indication of the Government policy ia educational matters has been made public. In a letter sanctioning ■ the appointment of certain teachers to the East (Jhristchurch. Main School, the Minister for Education said the appointments were made subject to any alteration in the scaleof payment which may very possibly hereafter be made. This is taken to mean that the Government intend to reduce the salaries of teachers generally, .and it i« felt that this would be a great blow to education m the Province. At a meeting of the Philadelphia Exhibition Committee yesterday it was resolved that the following quantities of exhibits be adopted as a maximum by the Committee and recommended to the General Governmentior universal adoption ; — Wool, 601bs. • gram, half a bushel ; coal, 501bs. ; flax,' 501bs. j articles not enumerated above at thediscretion, of the sub-committees. All exhibits are to be sent in before December Ist.' All intending exhibitors to forward particulars of their exhibits to the secretaryon or before October 30th. It was also decided/ to ask the Colonial Secretary to adopt the first resolution for general application, throughout the Colony. , ' - " ™ July 12th. . The entries for the midwinter Agricultural ?^ W| . 0U Tilßrgd »y next,, are 146, against, 170 last year. . , \ July,l3fch. . The annual Orange, dinner was held last night to commemorate the .fertile of the

Boyne. Brother ,Caiffo|d;^na~Master^!' the Middle Island, presided. 150* persons were present. The last section of the Chrißtchurch and Soutbbridge Branch Railway, fourteen 5 miles in length, was formally, opened at noon, A public luncheon was given at Southbridge to commemorate the event. The Superintendent and all the members of the* , Executive were present, houthbridge is 34. 4 miles from Christohureh. There are now about 180 miles of railway open in this Province. The Minister of Education, in reply to a deputation, said the Government had ,no intention at present of reducing teachers' salaries. Revival services are now being held in various dissenting churches. July 14tb, At a special meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company this afternoon, the following resolutions adopted were, first, to empower the Directors to borrow money by the is3ue of debentures or otherwise, with or without security ; second, to alter the date of holding the annual general meetings of the Company from the month of January to August in each year. The Chairman of the Board of Directors said he was glad to inform the meeting that the debit balance of £1400 (£14,000 ?) which existed on the profit aud loss account at the laat annual meeting, had entirely disappeared, and the capital of the Company was returned in stock. Five ships had been ordered. He believed they would be completed during the current year. They would surpass the standard required by law, which Lloyd's requited for first-class certificate, and were being built on the most approved principle. The Company has succeeded in procuring and obtaining offices at very low rental for London, at S3, Bishopsgate street. Since the last annual meeting the operations of the Company have been very successful— at Bluff and Uunedin^-especially. -The -former con--tributed a good share of business to the Company's ships. The Directors^ inview of the increasing business of the Company, had resolved to make a call of 30s on" the capital— 20s on October Ist, arid 10s on November Uoh, allowing 8 per cent, rebate on advance payment. At a meeting of the Jewish congregation on Sunday last £80 was raised towards the testimonial to Sir Moses Montefiore, . Bart., originated in London, and a Committee was appointed to obtain further subscriptions from both Jews and Christians, During the gale on Monday last the Heathcote Rowing Clttb's f boathouse was blown down, and the four-oar outrigger and other boats were almost totally destroyed. The land sales in the Province still maintain a good average. The amount realised by yesterday's bi-weekly sale was £4800. hm. Xt li. ~ Ojuuw, July 9fea. lhe Northern Pastoral and Agricultural Association have agreed to co-operate with the Southland Association to endeavour to obtain an annual grant in an the Assembly to all such societies in the Colony. ,JHr, Cuthbertsbu is to move the matter in the House. - A petition has been sent here from Dunedin. ■ for signature against legislative action before the general election re abolition. The petition is not favourably, received. t > , --. ' An application with 32 signatures , has : been forwarded to Wellington tendering the services of the Oamaru Volunteer Artillery. - Five competitive schemes for water f work* have been received. The competitors are Barr and Oliver, Dunediu ; Hardy, Johnston, Lees and Moore, and Forrester, of Oamaru and VVaitaki. The Kakanui and Oamaru creekg are suggested as sources of supply. The estimates are from £iO,OOO to |88,000. 5/?4' f NX?rE»7iJuly 9th. A branch of the Bankitf 'New-Zealand has been opened at WairoV * ' ' ' - - July 13th. The new Protestant building belonging |to the Orange Lodge was opened last night with a ball and supper. I *' ' "'■ ' 'J ' TiMARtr, July 9th. News has been received that the Merope sailed in May or June for Timaru direct,^ with 300 immigrants,. arid that' the' AgentGeneral intends to send ships periodically direct, to Timara. .■■ - L-. July<l2tti..'; During the violent south-west gale lasfe - night, the 1 shipping rode aafely^tiil morning.A curious- ecclesiastical case, the removal^ of the' Her. George Foster, is still going oh. He is - commonly, understood ■to ihave - reported unfavourably of the incumbent.- Th« Bishop-called on him to resign Jug cure;' or/ .submit torn clerical tribune, with, the alternative of having his license cancelled. 'MrFoster -is likely to '. appeal to Archbishop of Canterbury, and the- Court of Arches. • > _ . ■ . New Plymouth, July 10th. Be the wreck of the. steamer Pateraon, . Billing was fined £50 per day,, for, twelve days, for allowing the wreck to in.) the Waitara River. The defendant gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. July 14th.. Kaokao, the celebrated Hauhan chief, who, during the late war, directed the Natives' engineering operations, is dead; ! His.. death will relieve the Government of much difficulty in procuring further additions ef territory. Meat has risen Id perlb. ' •" Corbet, a carpenter, aged 70, hung himself yesterday in a fit of despondency. Invercargiix, July 10th. The enquiry into the cause of death of William Henderson, driver of the mail coach between fnvereargill and Balclutha, which was commenced on Thursday, concludedthis evening, having been adjourned from day to day. The following is the verdict of the Jury : — V, We find, in, conformity .with the medical evidence adduced,- that, deceased died fi;om double pneumonia and peritonitis, by " exposure, he having eacapea" ' with, but. slight clothing from the Hospital-,** in very inclement weather. We further . desire to add as a rider, that it is with re- 4 " gret we consider it our duty to Record «ur opinion that the medical and general lupeT- '' vwion»nd;arrangemehtß.of th^HospitaC aY exemplified by this ease,' have.bW 'jnrofe^ ticient and:Bitremely>d*if««tive, and dejnand

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the strictest investigation by the Committee ef Management. That immediate stepi requrie to be taken for the appointment of a resident surgeon, greater accommodation, and a more efficient staff." July 13th. Edmund Fletcher Gillies, Manager of the National Bank here, died this morning from gastric fever. He had been confined to the house for the past ten days. Wanganoi. July 12th. The Poor Box in the Catholic Church r^as broken open on Saturday night, and the contents abstracted. It had been closed since the beginning of the year, and was supposed to contain a considerable amount of money. The police have a suspicion of a seedy-look-ing individual who visited Father Kirk on I-Satorday. A heavy N.W. gale, the heaviest this season, has been blowing. Hokitika, July 12th. ■ The samples of coal obtained at Jackson's Bay taken to Wellington by the Superintendent, have been analysed by the Government analyst, who report* the coal is genuine ! bitumen, though of rather an inferior quality ; still, it would prove very useful for general purposes. The samples sent were merely from the out-crop of the seam. There was a severe storm last night, bnt no damage to shipping. Tauraxga, July 14th. The Bay of Plenty Times this morning publishes an address from Colonel Harrington to the electors of the East Coast, notifying his intention to stand for the district al the next election for the Assembly. Captain Morris. M.P.C., has issued a similar notification. Tho contest will be a very keen one. *■ The Bank of New Zealand has invited tenders for the erection of extensive bank premises. Greymouth. July 14th. A fcoat belonging to the steamer Tararua, . which left here for Melbourne on Saturday last, was found yesterday on the beach near Razorback, about 28 miles north of Greymouth.