LOCAL & GENERAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2371, 10 August 1899, Page 18

LOCAL & GENERAL.

With a view to perpetuating the memory of th« late Mr C. M. Mouat a number of exHigh School boys have caused a brass memorial tablet, bearing a suitable inscription, to be prepared. The tablet, with the permission of the High School's governors, will be affixed to the wall in the entrap.ee hall of the High School, and the ceremony of unveiling will probably take place on Tuesday next. A Wellington telegram states that all the banks doing business in the colony have decided to make a charge upon every account to cover the cost of pass books, stationery, etc. Hitherto a charge had only been made upon the smaller accounts. The case of John Perry (of Tapanui) v. Patrick F. Monaghan (of Croydon) came before his Honor Mr Justice Williams at the Supreme Court on Friday. The plaintiff in this case claimed £194 17s 6d, balance of principal and interest alleged to be due on a bill of sale, and at the hearing before the magistrate at Gore, judgment was given in favour of the plaintiff. The matter on Friday came before his Honor in the form of a summons that the appeal from the decision of the magistrate be taken by way of a re-hearing. Mr Hoskiug appeared in support of the summons, and Mr Solomon to oppose. After argument his Honor granted a re-hearing and fixed the 23rd inst. as the date for the same. " Those interested in such matters often speculate as to why, Russia being so comparatively poor, the Imperial family is the wealthiest in the world. The reason is," according to the Critic, " that the Russian Royalties, who now number no fewer than 48 persons, are indebted to the prudence of an ancestor — Paiil I. — who set aside a considerable sum of money and 10 landed estates, to which he gave the name of the Imperial appanages. The income of this property is devoted in perpetuity to the suitable maintenance of those members of the Imperial family not in the direct line of succession. At tha present time the total annual revenue of tha" Imperial appanages is £2,000,000 sterling, and this fund, which has always been most ably and honestly administered, owns I more land than any other proprietor in Russia. Were it not for this fund every member of the Imperial family would be dependent on the good nature and caprice of the reigning Emperor, whose own revenues are practically limitless, as all the resources of the empire are technically his private property." Mr E. C. Allen, of the Klondyke Nugget, who recently arrived at "Vancouver from Dawson, says: — "You could see sacks of gold thrown round in stores and saloons, as though it hadn't much value. Louis Schonborn, who ran the Yukon Hotel, frequently had 50,000 and 75.000 dollars' worlh of dust piled up in an. ordinary bedroom. William. M. Stanley, of Seattle, and his partners, Charles and George Worden, have taken out lots of gold, which they will presumably send clown the Yukon. The amount will reach 200,000d0l anyway, and possibly more. Then there's Antoine Stander. No. 5 Eldorado has yielded him this season 350,000d01. It's a wonderfully rich property. Lowe dug 256,000d0l from this fractional claim, which is only 80ft long, last season. He came out with the money, and spent a week or ten days is Seattle. But the richest piece of ground in all the Klondyke," Allen observed, "is 26 Bonanza. Bill M'Phee and the estates of his two deceased partners, Dinsmore and Spencer, are the principal owners of the claim, the output from, which will this year be at least 500,000d01. There are 14 men interested in this rich hole. William Leggett has a good Eldorado claim from, which he has taken, I should say, 75,000d0l this spring, and Harry Ash is to the good 100,000dol from No. 4 Dominion. Alex. M'Donald's various mines this season will yield, I expect, a million dollars." Excavations which are being made at Dunkirk in Scotland in connection with the extension of the docks have revealed a wooden warship, with antique cannon, buried in the sands. It is believed that the vessel belonged to the Spanish Armada which was fitted out in 1587 for the subjugation of England. - In Chambers, before Mr Justice Williams on Friday morning, Mr Sim mentioned the case of the Barewood Quartz Mining Company (Limited) and Robert Lee v. the AngloContinental Gold Syndicate (Limjted) and the London and New Zealand Exploration Company (Limited), in which judgment was given on Tuesday for the plaintiff company. Learned counsel said that he had consulted his clients, and they agreed that it should be a condition of appeal, as suggested by Mr Ilosking, that they should go to appeal in the October sitting. He would, therefore, ask for a stay of execution on condition that the defendant company paid £1000 into court and undertook to so appeal in October. His Honor did as requested. A great deal of interest was manifested in mining circles as to the outcome of the proceedings which were taken against the Deep' Stream. Amalgamated Sluicing Company on Friday at the Warden's Court. The case closed somewhat unexpectedly at a comparatively early stage of the proceedings, the plaintiff being nonsuited, with costs. Counsel for the plaintiff at the opening of the case stated that he had been surprised to find after 11 o'clock that morning that a protection existed in respect of the claims. The grounds upon which the protection had been granted, he saicl, appeared, on the face of things, to have been misleading, and he xpplied for an j adjournment, to call evidence to prove that I the protection had been obtained under false pretences. His Worship ruled that Mr MncGiregor should Have known' of the sxiatence of the protection, and declined to grant the adjournment. Counsel then stated he would proceed with his- case, but harked back again, during the afternoon to the question of an adjournment. His Worship ruled that the point had been settled hours before, and dej dined to hear argument on it. After fruitlessly I persisting, Me MacGregor sat down, and de-

clined to proceed further, with the result that his client was nonsuited. It transpired in the course of the case that plaintiff acted for a party, of which Mr Henry Symes, of Alexandra, was one. The output of coal from the mines of the, Westport Coal Company (Limited) for the month of July was 31,320 tons 16owt. On Friday night the Sailors' Rest was crowded with seamen and their shore friends. Captain Wallace, of the s.s. Perthshire, kindly allowed his crew earlier off duty to be present, and they, with the other ships' crews at the wharfs, and also many seamen ashore, sat down to tea, and passed a few pleasant hours together. The following took part in the meeting : — Mrs Kirkland, Sister Ruth, Messrs Moodie, Heycock, Wilkinson, Todd, Martin, and five seamen. Mr A. R. Falconer presided. Two seamen returned thanks on behalf of their comrades for the kindness shown them whilst in port. A first offender charged with drunkenness before Mr J. Morgan, J.P., at Port Chalmers on Friday, pleaded guilty, and was convicted and discharged. Some interesting evidence was given in the Warden's Court on Friday, which the investing public will do well to make a note of. It will be remembered that a paragraph appeared in our columns some time since "as to" the comparative results obtained by a Naseby company who employ both dredging and 1 sluicing in connection with their alluvial I operations, and which showed much in favour of treatment by sluicing where such is pos1 sible. It will be apparent at once that sluicing is impossible in the channel of a river such as the Molyneux, but where ground can J be worked by either system there is little j doubt that a bigger saving will result from the former. The Deep Stream Company, who had been twitted by counsel upon sluicing their claims instead of dredging them, put their manager into the box, and he desoribecl the method adopted by him in connection with the company's claims. It apj pears that the Deep Stream, which is a tribuj tary of the Taieri, emerges from the Lammer- | law gorges, and flows down to its junction with the main river through a hard, rocky bed, having deep crevices lying up stream, into which the gold brought down in past ages has found its way. Such a bottom is, of course, undredgeable, and experience has shown that it took about twice as long to clean up the bottom with picks and carefullyOirected jets of water from canvas nozzles to blow the yellow particles into the elevator as it takes to clear away the whole of the overburden. A dredge bucket could not get under the gold, nearly the whole of which lies on the hard, crevasay bottom, and i,be comj pany who relied upon this method could never have lifted it. and must have failed. A resolution of a very flattering kind to Cr Oughton was passed at Friday's meeting of the Taieri County Council. Cr Douglas, in moving the motion, which was to the effect that the council place on record its appreciation of Cr Oughton's services as a councillor, referred to the valuable advice Cr Oughton had given on matters brought up at the council table, and to the amicable disposition he had always shown. The Chairman (Mr Chisholm) very cheerfully seconded the motion, and expressed the hope that it would not be the last meeting at which they would see Cr Oughton. Th*t gentleman having replied in feeling terms, the motion was carried unanimously. From the tenor of the remarks, it seems that Cr Oughton is about to proceed to Southland, where he intends to carry on farming operations. For several years a social experiment has been tried in Ontario, which is now admitted to have been a failure. It took the form of a curfew law applicable to children. In many towns in the provinces the curfew bell was established by municipal by-laws, and when the bell was rung in the evening children were supposed to retire to their homes. In many instances the town council passed the curfew by-law at the request of deputations. They did so more in the accommodating spirit that characterises elective representative, bodies than with any intention of enforcing the law. The councils ordered the bell to be rung at 9 o'clock, b/.it that was all they did. At first the children were disposed to obey the law. Soon they disco verech that there was no force behind it — that the law was not seriously meant, — and .the result has been that in many Ontario towns it has been a dead letter, and the children have remained in the streets heedless pi the tolling of the curfew bell. Neither the municipal officers nor the parents were in sympathy with the law, which may now be written down as a failure, and even its zealous advocates are beginning to realise that the only way in which children, can be protected from the dangers of evil associations is by impressing upon parents their own direct responsibility, and giving the children themselves, in their daily school training, such moral instruction as will tend to develop; good habits and mode3t instincts. — "Leisure Hour." Here is a true story of President Kruger (writes a Pretoria correspondent of "M.A.P.") which, serves to show the sharpness and shrewdness for which Oom Paul has always been remarkable. Under Dutch law, when j a man dies his pi-operty is divided into equal parts ; a certain proportion is given to the widow, and the rest is divided equally amongst thechiklren. Two sons, dissatisfied with their relative portions, were ■ always besieging Kruger witfi complaints, and begging his interference in the matter. At last, wearied by their continued grumbling, he consented, on condition that they either accepted his dej cision or aaid no more on the subject. They agreed to abide by his ruling. '"Then," said Kruge'r to the elder brother, " make a fair division of the property into two parts, and when you are quite satisfied that it is equal let your brother choose which he wiU take." Could even Solomon give a better illustration of judicial wisdom? The Federated Seamen's Industrial Union have asked the intervention of the Concilia-

tion' Board for the settlement of a dispute between j the union on the one side and thel Union Steam Ship Company and Mr Keith * Ramsay on the other. The claims of tha - union include a rise of wages — practically, to the rates paid before the 1893 reduction; — this meaning an increase of 10s per month all round ; also an. increase of 6d per hour < overtime, an extra holiday (Easter Mon* day), preference of employment for union.- - ists, the right to the union's representative to visit vessels, and, in the case of tha Union Company, that membership of the Benefit Society. De optional. The reference • is to come before the board on the 14th inst. , ■ A gentleman, resident for over 35 years in various parts .of Natal, with a large experit ence of the place and its people, writing- from Johannesburg on the 29th June to relations . in Dunedin, says : — " War is now a certainty. There is no way out of it, unless the Boera climb down at the eleventh hour, which I think very unlikely. I shall send my wife and children to Kimberley. ... I shall not go. I will remain here and see it through at all risks. lam an Englishman, and God . forbid that I should show the white feather i by leaving, as most of those who were the ; main cause of all this trouble have done. - ' It is. next to impossible to get any decent em- ! ployment at the mines now, or, in fact, any^ | where in Johannesburg. I have, had to sell-.. j what shares I Had at one-sixth 1 of their, value, and have had to sacrifice other things in the same way. I have been in a pretty tight corner once or twice in this country, and have managed to pull through, and (if I live through the coming struggle) I quite intend to pull through now. My son-in-law and » few tried men, whom I can thoroughly depend upon, will remain hero. We shall stick together. I do not fancy, it will be a long 1 war." The hospital returns for the past week are> as follow : — Remaining over from the previous week, 105 ; admitted during the week, 27 ' r discharged, 20; deaths, 2; total remaining,. 108. Hugh Fitchey and William M'Hardy died during the week. I Strong representations have of late been | made to Mr A. C. Hanlon to stand for parliamentary honoura at the coming election, and the probabilities are that he will comply . with the request. An important point seems to have been raised and decided recently before the Native Land Court at Greytown. Judge Mackay upheld an objection by Mr Coleman Phillips that restricted lands could not pans by will, and as a consequence a number of cnees affected by the decision had to be adjourned. - This decision has caused several of the Kaiapoi Maoris to visit Wellington to- interview the Native Minister, and tender evidence to the Native Affairs Committee. A petition, signed by the leaseholders of Native lauds in the district, will also bo forwarded to Par- J liament, praying that the rights of persons' who have advanced rents to Maoris to erect houses, and for other necessary purposes, may • be assured as to the occupation of such lands which are at present under crop. The following extract from a private letter from London, received by a gentleman in • Christchurch, will be (says the Christchuroh Press) read with interest :—'' You will be interested to learn that it is quite probable there will bo a tremendous blow-up-in the shippingtrade. The White Star people are building six twin-screw boats at Belfast, of 14,000 tons dead-weight capacity, with which they propose to endeavour to divert part of the Australian trade to Liverpool. The P. and O. - and the Australian broking ring in London say they will not allow the trade -to be diverted, and will malce such a reduction in rates as . will keep the trade in its presents channel*. Moreover, they propose to attack the White Star Company on the Atlantic and in ths China trade, and it seems quite probable that they may attack the Ne.w Zealand trade, owing to the White Star people having 1 so large an interest in the Shaw-Savill Company. It is a pretty kettle of fish, and, of | course, if they really do fight, it will be a " battle between giants." I It is stated (according to the New Zealand Times) that a well-known Wellington lawyer, with political aspirations, arid whose name has been much before the public recently, has been, the recipient of a legacy of £17,000. Some significant statistics with reference to the death rate from consumption in New South Wales were given before the Tuberculosis Commision by Dr Tidswell, an officer under the Board of Health. He stated that 9 per cent, of all persons who died of diseases other than tuberculosis were found to show signs of that disease.. From 1888 to 1897 there died from phthisis in New South Wales 10,238 persona, or an average of nearly three a day, while in addition 1606 died of consump- .* tion of the bowels. The death rate from thes» diseases, however, now showed a steady decrease. Persons had been known to recover from consumption, but no cure was known for it. He did not think there was as much tuberculosis among cattle in New South Wales as in Europe. It is said in the "Home Magazine" that Miss Helen Gould, the daughter of the late Mr Jay Gould, gives £30,000, or more thanfour times her own weight in gold, in charityevery year. Even at this lavish rate, the official income of a First Lord of the Treasury every two months, it will take Miss Gould more than 33 years'" to give away a million pounds sterling. That other wealthy American, Mr A. D. Rockefeller, has-given away in known amounts within the last 10 years £5,000,000 sterling, in addition to a big sum by " stealth." Mr Andrew Carnegie i 3 said to have spent at least three millions in works of charity and philanthropy. The new edition of " Converts to Rome ■ since the Tractarian Movement to May, , 1899," compiled by Mr W. G. Gorman (Swan Sonnenschein), gives some interesting star tistics. According to this authority, no fewer than 446 Anglican clergymen, have " gone over" in the period mentioned. Next in number come "Members of the Nobility," 417. The army officers who hare 'verted axe g»t

down at 205; authors, poets, and journalists at 162 ; legal profession at 129, public officials kt 90, medical profession at 60, naval officers Sit 39, baronets at 32, and peers at 27. Of the tsonverfcs, 158 have become priests and 290 *' secular clergy." From Oxford there have (been 445 converts, Christ Church providing 55 of these, Exeter College 45, Oriel 33, Balliol SO, Brasenose and Magdalen each 22, and Uninr«rsity 20. The total from Cambridge TJniwersity is given as 213, which is less than half that from Oxford. Of this 213, no fewer than 79 were from Trinity College, St. John's comSng next with only 28. Trinity College, {Dublin, provided 23 converts, London Urilrrersity 11, Durham University and King's College, London, each 10, while only 9 came from the vv f our Scottish universities. A new Electoral Bill has been prepared for the consideration of the Tasmanian Parliament. It provides that the Governor may appoint a commission of three lo divide the colony into electoral districts ; the Legislative to be reduced to 16 members, and the House of Aspembly to 32. The total of the colony is to be divided by ■the number of members of each House, and the quotient thus obtained to be the quota :per member of each House respectively. The commissioners are,\a# far as practicable, to assign to each district as many members as there are quotas of population in such district. ■ The proclamation of districts is not to come into effect until a suggested period of six months after the first election of Tasmanian members of the Federal Parliament. The descendants of William Gibson, a native of Stockton-on-Tees, England, who died intestate in -India at the beginning of the ■century, alter amassing a fortune of about i1,000,000r, have just established a claim to ■ ithe estate, which is now in the custody of the Comptroller-general, Calcutta, and which amounts', with compound interest for 92 years, ■to about £1,000,000. Eight or nine families .resident in Stockton, Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Carlisle, and Lancaster share in the .windfall. At a sitting of the Supreme Court in Bankruptcy on Alonday, his Honor Mr Justice dealt with four motions for orders of discharge. John Munden, boot-upper manufacturer, of Dunedin, and Thomas Andrew, farmer, of Waikouaiti, each had his discharge suspended for twelve months. In the case of Samuel Lewis Brookes, labourer, of Anderson's Bay, the order of discharge was suspended for six months ; and James Meston. storekeeper, of South Duneciin, was granted an immediate order of discharge. .After the sitting of ,the Court in Bankruptcy, his Honor lieard the divorce suit Charles Hilton v. Margaret Hilton, in which petitioner sought a dissolution of his marriage with the respondent on the ground of adultery. There ■was no appearance of the respondent, and after hearing evidence on behalf of the petitioner his Honor grante.d a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months. Following the recent * bank agreements in 'Australia, an advertisement appears in this issue notifying an agreement amongst the banks doing busineas in this colony that a fee of not less than 5s is, on and after 30th September next, to be charged on every current account, without exception, whether deb,tor or creditor, operative or inoperative. This arrangement supersedes the system of charging 10s §d on unremunerative accounts. The banks have also unanimously agreed to make the following charges — viz. : For guarantees to shipping companies against delivery of goods where the relative bills of lading have not come forward, on amounts of £100 and over, 10s 6d; on amounts under £100, ss. 3For guarantees to Customs and Railway departments for duties or freight, the charge is to be 5s per cent, in each half-year on the ■amount of each guarantee, with a minimum charge of 5s and a maximum of £3. For telegraphic transfers of money within the colony a charge of i per cent, for exchange 3s to be made, with a minimum of 2s, and in all cases a further charge of not less than Is to cover out-of-pocket expenses. At Monday night's meeting of the Hartley and Riley Beach - Dredging Company, the Hon. Thomas Fergus said he thought the time was now ripe for all the companies interested in the dredging industry to combine and form a mining institute. He suggested that ■the different companies might send one or more delegates to a common council, which .would look after the mining laws and protect the shareholders of the various companies from being " fleeced." Another thing which such a body might keep in view was the prosecution of the Olago Central railway, which, in his opinion, would do more than anything to open up the country and develop the dredging industry. Mr Fergus also slated that he liad spoken to the directors and secretaries of several companies, and he thought the matter might be taken up without difficulty. Those who were present at the Police Court on Monday were somewhat in doubt as tc whether the individual who made his appearance there charged with being drunk on Saturday night had, in taking possession of a lamp placed over some building material, been, like Diogenes, looking for an honest man, or was acting under the belief that by the aid of its friendly rays he had a better chance of finding liis way home. The problem was not solved. Accused admitted his intoxicated condition; and also tiie act of misappropriation, thougi: he confessed that lie did not actually remember taking the lighted lamp. He was let of! on both charges, but the lamp episode cost him 10s for expenses. The Union Steam Ship Company on Mon day received the following cable from Noumef '■{New Caledonia): — " Waikare arrived hen Sunday afternoon; all well. Trip very sue cessful. Sailing Thursday for Norfolk Island and Sydney. Made successful visits to Rotu anah and Tanna. Arrangements most com iplete, and every prospect of a very good tim« jat Noumea." The Christchurch Trades and Labour Coun cil intend to run a bona fide working man as candidate for Christclvurch at the general election. The unions affiliated are to nominate a

person, after which a vote will be taken under a system of preferential voting. To make sure that the person selected shall be a delegate, and not a representative, he will be required to deposit his resignation in the custody of the Trades and Labour Council, only to be used against him upon a ballot of unionists declaring that he has forfeited their confidence. '/Captain Norris, of the- Pendle Hill, who died suddenly a few days ago on the voyage from Newcastle to Napier, was well known in the New Zealand, Australian, and Fiji trade. He had his home in the early days in the Bay of Islands, and owned several whaling vessels. He rendered invaluable service during the Maori war 3. During the Waikato war he fitted out his vessels entirely at his personal expense with provisions for the aid of settlers whose homes were invaded. During the memorable Poverty Bay massacre Captain Norris's vessel sheltered the escaping women and children. Off Opotiki bar he rescued two boats' crews of settlers during the time that the Hau Hau rising took place, when the Rev. Mr "Volkner wae hung up to a tree, and the people fled to a church. It was in his later years that Captain Norris met with misfortune. In . a barque named the Glimpse he had such an experience as falls to the lot of few. The vessel foundered in a storm, and the crew took to the boats. In his boat was his young son, and after weeks of drifting about the boy died, and the father himself, as the boat's crew were nearly at death's door, had to throw the boy's body into the sea. ' In a collision on the Oder, a steamer called • the Blucher was sunk on June 16, and some 50 passengers, mostly school children, were drowned. The children were returning from morning lessons at the higher grade schools in Stettin. The catastrophe is described by the Berlin correspondent of the Telegraph as having been heartrending. The poor cliildrenV screams and cries rent the air, but nothing j was clone from the shore to rescue them ; those who saw the collision seem to have lost all power of initiative. Meanwhile, some passengers on board the Blucher did what they could to save life, and many children were thrown on to the deck of Ihe Politz (the vessel that ran into the Bluoher'i, and thus escaped. Unhappily a number of persons were down in the cabin at the time, and it was not possible at the moment of danger lo open the door. The canvas awning, too, placed obstacles in tho way of rescuing the children. \ The crew managed to save themselves. . j , The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that a workman named Moutag, living at Mannheim, in Baden, has succeeded in manufacturing artificial coal, earth and several mineral residual substances being the I components. Trials with small and large j quantities of the new fuel made under expert I supervision have succeeded admirably. The heat produced was very great, while tue ashes remaining per kilogramme (2.2051b) of burned fuol weighed only 9dwt. A company has been formed for the exploitation of this striking discovery, and is at present negotiating for the purchase of an extensive tract of land in the suburbs of Mannheim for the erection of manufacturing work?. The importance of quick despatch in handling cargoes of the great steamers of the present day was brought out in a paper recently read before the Institution of Civil Engineers at Westminster. Taking, by way of illustraI lion, a 12,000-ton cargo steamer, representing a capital value of, say, £90,000, it was estimated the expenses and charges incidental to I her working were at least £1000 a-day. Such j a steamer trading between -North America and Great Britain might make 12 round trips per annum, and if, by the adoption of improved facilities, even one day could be saved on each of the 2-1- occasions aho would be in dock for loading and discharging purposes, she would benefit to the extent of £2400 per annum, or 2.66 per cent, on the capital cost. Several valuable suggestions werfa made for expediting the handling of various cargoes, such as live cattle, general cargo, timber, etc., and in at least one instance a practical test is I to be made. j From Triesto comes Hie report of an acl of , conspicuous gallantry on the part of an Eng- • lish engineer, named Gordon, on board the steamer Gottfried Schenker, of the AustroAmerican line, which was lying in the harbour. One night a sailor, who wanted to fill j his petroleum-can from the tank, dropped his j lantern after turning on the tap. Within a second the part of the ship where lie stood i was on fire, and a minute later the entire hold ! was in flames. Gordon, noticing the extreme j danger to the vessel and to all on board, I rushed through the flames to the tank, turned off the tap, and thus made it possible for the rest of the crew to extinguish the fire. His clothes were burned to cinders, and he must have singed himself, but the Englishman calmly returned to his engine, none the worse, apparently, for the act of daring which had saved his ship. The Victoria Cross has, before now, been won at smaller risk to the life of the winner. "He looked again, and saw it was " — a mirage ! One is reminded of Lewis Carroll's nonsense rhymes by the report that a Birmingham photographer who recently took a snapshot at Tenby Church, and found the plate disfigured by the reversed representation of a vessel gaily dressed with bunting, woke to the fact that he had unintentionally succeeded in photographing a mirage. It turned out that his exposure at Tenby was synchronous with a launch at Pembroke Dockyard, seven miles away. To have photographed a mirage under any circumstances is a creditable perj formance, but the phenomenon itself is comparatively rare in the British Islands, so the interest attaching to a photograph of it is heightened by the locality in which it was secured. A gentleman and his wife who were elected members of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, thought it well (Eays the Lyttelton Times) to explain to the meeting their state of mind. They wrote to say that they were at present vowing vengeance on a number of cats which had been worrying therA night and day, but if, under those conditions, the members thought fit to elect them, they would be willing to accept the position. Bishop Julius suggested ,hat the secretary should be sent to kill the cats, and that then these persons should be put on the committee. The meeting, however, agreed to their election, without giving Murphy instructions to act as nih-daafcrayer.