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Thames Advertiser, Volume XI, Issue 2906, 19 April 1878, Page 2

At the Police Court yettoday, before Eraser, 8.M., one person forfeited.his hall antr another was fined 10s and costs for being drunk the previous evening. An application by Mr Henry Endres, lessee of the Shortland Hotel, for an extension of his license to St. George's Hotel on Monday evening next, on the occasion of the Forester's ball, was granted. This concluded the business.

A keenly-contested All-comer?' match took' place last night, at Mr Barlow's rifle gallery, for an elegantly-braided velvet smoking cap, Tho hours fixed for the competition were from 7 to 10 p.m. j and the winner (Mr Comer, jun,), commenced firing at- 9.57, finishing a few minutes after the hour. A dispute arteing, Mr Barlow decided that Mr Comer should be the winner. The following were the principal scores:—Mr Comer, jun., -25; - Volunteer Lucas, T.S.V.j 23; Seaman Monar, 1.0., 22; Volunteer Lanning, No. 2 H.R.V., 20; Volunteer Fugill, No, 2 H.K V.,' 19; Volunteer J. Kowe, No. 2 H.U.V., 19; Seaman Berry, T.N.8., 18; VolunteerM.Paull,No.2H.BV., 18; Mr J. Welsh, 17. The competitors fired six shots each, tbe possible score being 30. Next week a similar prize is profferedjfor com* petition at the same rapge.

The Thames Rifle Bangers were informed last evening at their usual weekly drill that the fifth competition for Mr Aitken's watch ana other prizes would take place on Saturday at the Government range, in two squads, at ,o.AV a.m. and 1.30 p m,; ranges, 200 yds, 500yas, aud 600 yds; five shots at each range, wetic. Farrell also informed ihe company that anotner set of prizes were already on hand for tuture competition.

■Mr Yesey Stewart has written a long letter, dated from Belfast, bitterly denouncing Sir Julius Vogel, who, he states, is placing obstaclts in the way of emigration. Mr Stewart states that the second party will arrive in the middle of August, and that among them are Cheshire and Midland couuty farmers with capital

A Press Agency telegram received by us last evening states that telegraphic communication is interrupted on the Pott Darwin line at Charlotte Waters, 800 miles from Adelaido.

The law Co3ts on both sides in the action Arthur v. the Waikato Steam Company amount to about £500.

At the meeting of the Wasto Lands Board on Tuesday, the following motion was adopted: " In view of the return laid before the Board, shewing the large area of foiest land already alienated, and the comparatively limited area of kauri forest under the control of the Waste Lands Board, and considering that the necessary supply of timber required by the public ban be produced from said alienated lands, the Boird affirm, as a general principle, that it is for the beßt interests of the distriot that no further leases of kauri forest land be at present granted. In passing this resolution the Board has further in view the detrimental climatic effect which the wholesale destruction of existing forests would'inevitably produce," A motion, proposed by Mr Firtb, "That the Government bo requested to complete the purchase of all kauri forefts," was carried. /

Sir George Grey addressed a crowded meeting at the Provincial Hall, Nelson, on Wednesday night, when the substance of his speech was the same as delivered in Wellington and elsewhere. At the close of the meeting a vote of confidence was proposed and carried nem. con., amidst enthusiastic aud prolonged ojieering,

In the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, an important decision was given in a Westport mining case. Seaton, a shareholder in the Halcyon Quartz Mining Company (Limited), having been ordered by the Court below to pay certain calls, appealed against the judgment o£ the, Court. After argument, the appeal was upheld, and the Court below ordered to enter up judgment for defendant instead of plaintiff. The Supreme Court upheld the appeal on the ground that after the lapse of 21 days calls could not be sued for.

The premises lately occupied by the Bank of Australasia, in Albert-street, were put to tho hammer yesterday, by Messrs Gudgeon afld Co., ana sold to Mr Hume, on behalf of the Thames Building Society, for the sum of £70 The ground rent is paid up to the expiration of the lease, four and a-half years hence. The counter, desks, &o, realised £7. The appliances in the melting house were sold very cheaply. The .swing doors were put up and sold, although Mr Hume protested against their sale.

The entries for the Canterbury Dog Show number 300, and include dogi frooi Timaru Oamaru, Dunedin, and Nelson.

The Canterbury Marble Company, having found extensive reefs of splendid marble in their quarry, have issued a prospectus for increasing the capital to ten thousand pounds,

Longlands is now a strong favourite at 3 to 1 for the Cbristchurch Autumn Handicap, Bide-a-wee stands at 5 to 1; Templetou, sto 1; Ariel, 6to 1; Maritana, Bto 1. _ Betting for the Champagne Stakes—6 to 4 against Natator; 2to 1 Yorrick; 3to 1 Merlin; ito 1 Nemo; 6 to 1 Atlantic and Eamarama.

A writ for £2,000 damaged was served on the proprietors of the Otago Daily limes at the instance.of Mr C. F. Haughton for alleged libel.' The matters complained of, it is stated, were contained in a leading article in the Times of the 15th. March, and in.a letter signed "Morality," which appeared in last Tuesday's issue of the same journal.

McLaren, the Otago leader of tie working men's demonstration, was charged at the Police Court, Dunedin, with riotous behaviour and drunkenness. He was released on bail on a promise to clear out to Victoria,

The following incident, furnished to the Eo'M by a lady correspondent, will be recognised for its reality by many Noncous. now resident on this field: - "In these days of a growing, selfish, sneering indifference to the interests of others, an incident in the life of the lamented Bishop Selwyn—nobly characteristic of the man, and related to myself by an eye-witness-is worthy of prominence. Some fifteen years ago the immigrants by the ships 'Matilda Wattenbach' and 'Hanover' (Noncons., as they were called, being all of them Nonconformists, i.e., Dissenters),- left Auckland with stout hearts and willing hands, bent on training the primeval forest into a fruitful field. Cumbering themselves as little as possible for the, .at that time, difficult overland route to. their coveted forty or more acres of fern and ti-tree, they left the'bulk of their provisions, &c., to follow them on' a schooner, which was to reach their El Dorado almost as soon as themselves. But lot the winds and waves were adverse, and the vessel -was three weeks, instead of about three days, in making the trip. As may be imagined, the new-comers were wofully new as to what a life in the bußh miqht mean, and by the delay of the vessel were, in fact, reduced to a greater depth of starvation than the proverbial'potatoes and point'literalness. Indeed, they had reached such a state of stolid endurance, that when the long looked-for vessel hove in sight they were to!) dispirited by hunger, and their future prospects on the matter of subduing the earth, to help to unload her, Just at this extremity Bishop Selwyn stepped opportunely upon the scene. Taking in the facts of the case at a glance, and bearing in mind the bearishness of the well-fed Briton if kept waiting five minutes 'for his dinner, he didn't preach to the hungry, angry men—he did far better. He took off his coat, rolled up his trousers to his knees, saying, with inspiriting enthusiasm, as he waded into the mud, to assist in unloading the vessel, "I'mfor work; who'll help me f Of course the poor hungry fellows standing by soon put their shoulders to the wheel in right good earnest, Oh, give us duty-loving, duty-doing men, instead of the sneering, gelfish apologies for men too often met with."

• The people of Sydney are just now in the enjoyment of a species of religions fervour which is particularly dear to some good men, but is unhappily of the class that make sceptics laugh. One pastor Allen has been fired with a religious zeal which impels him to go forth into the highways, not seemingly with the object of entreating men to come in, after the example of his gentle and beneficent Master, but to a fierce crusade against the "errors of Popery," though'with what particular practical object, save the production of broken heads, is a question difficult to solve, unless, perhaps, to pastor Allen. The accounts of this religious mission, as given in the local columns of the Australian papers and in the reports of the Police Court, are of a particularly lively kind. The pastor, in the midst of a large concourse of people, a goodly proportion of whom, naturally enough, consisted of women, had taken up a positionin Hyde Park, and, mounted on a stool, was delivering a rousing homily on the number of the Beast and the "scarlet whore," and the other interesting and exciting topics in the great controversy, when an opposing crowd surrounded him. "Allen's party," we are told, "the first time stood firm, and checked.the advancing party, but did' nothing to repulse or drive them back; there was a large proportion- of women among Allen's party; the clerical party were all driven off, and Mr Allen, and Mr Allen's son, and a young constable, were left alone. The young policeman covered the Allen?, otherwise the crowd would have damaged the pastor; the policeman assisted Allen to rise, and some members of the crowd destroyed his book; Allen's son was pushed down; the pastor's stool, upon which he stood to preach, remained standing when the pastor was pushed down." This little affair, as thus narrated in the Police Court, occurred in the quiet of a Sabbath evening, and appears to have been the beginning of tie religious enthusiasm. Pastor Aliens friends met and patted him on the back, and resolutions were passed supporting his right to preach what be pleased, and we may assume that his opponents also met and mutually encouraged one another to prevent his fulfilment of his mission,—Otoyo Daily 'limes,

lieutenant de Seniclle has aunounced his intention to cross Africa from west to east, ascending the Niger, making for Lakes Albert and Victoria, and thence to the east coast.