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The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1875.

J»r tht cause that lacks assia trace, gor the wrong that needs resistaaei Ifsr th» f»ture In the diitanca, AjU Urn c«od that we can as.

The question of dividing the city into wards for municipal purposes received a temporary check in the return of the petition for the authentication of signatures. That necessity has now been met, and we understand the petition with the requisite declarations will be presented again to his Honor forthwith. The memorial and prayer of the petition! are couched in the following words : "That we are of belief that the time haa now arrived when it would conduce to the better Government peace and prosperity of the said city of Auckland if the same were divided into several wards, and that thereby a better representation would be secured than at present exists. We therefore humbly pray that your Honor will see fit in exercise if the powers confered upon you by the 13 th section of the Municipal Corporation Act 1867, to divide the said City of Auckland into three separate wards by such names and with such boundaries respectively as to you Honor shall seem meet." It has four hundred and forty-two signatures appended, all of which are initialled by the persons who obtained the signatures in each case, and these collectors have severally signed the declarations prescribed in the second schedule of the Act, to wit— "l do solemnly and sincerely declare that all the signatures against which my initials are set affixed to the annexed petition are the genuina signatures of the persons whose they purport to be,

and that such persons are inhabitant householders of the district therein referred to." The signatories to these declarations are G. Gallagher, Christopher Greenway, Joseph Naylen, Hugh Hind, W. Eyre, and Peter de Vally. It would appear therefore that the parties moving in this matter have done what was required in accordance with the tertns of the Act, and if the number of bona fids signatuses proves to be "one fourth of the number of persons liable to be rated under this Act in respect of rateable property in such borough " it will be in the power of the Superintendent "if it shall seem fit so to do," to proclaim the city so divided. In all probability the division may prove advantageous to the city by itiduciug more special supervision, but it is not likely that the alteration will be so great as anticipated by those who have taken such an earnest part in the proceedings. .Such proclamation and division do not necessitate the resignation of the present Council, the Act making provision for the distribution of its members among the several wards. A great deal of business has accumulated at Hamilton recently, to which place Mr Beckhani goes to-morrow (Saturday). We notice the following cases which are to be heard in the District Court on the 20th instant : —Campbell v. Young, claim £25 ; Coats v. Te Haihi. claim £36 155.; Coais v. Marshall, claim 424 ; Lamb v. Bright, claim £33 la 4oL; McVeigh v. Every Maclean, claim £50 ; Hay v. Quick, claim £21 ; Butler v. Laird, claim £50 as.; Le Quesaer v. Haikness, claim £2G ; and two bankruptcy cases. The departure of the steamer Luna with Auckland representatives for the Sonth has been idxed for eleven o'clock oa Sunday morning. In papers by the Suez maii appeais Lord Coleridge's defeace of himself against the charges brought against him by Dr. Kenealy. The serious nature of the charges which the Chief Justice of Coimnoa Pleas considered were sufficiently met by a. counter statement, will be gathered from Lord Coleridge's opening re-marks : '■ The subject of the attack was this: That when I was Attorney-General, and when I had the conduct of the case of young Sir Henry Tichborne iv the Court of Common Pleas, at the time when his estates were sought to be recovered from him by the poison who is nosy suffering penal servitude at Dartmoor for the perjury committed by him iv that action, I put forward false and forged documents, which, when I put them forward, I knew to be false and forged; that I asked the jury to act en those documents which I knew to be false and forged ; and that I had by my own hand written a confession that I knew them to be false and forged when I so dealt with them. That was the charge made iv another place on Friday night; but nothing had been previously said by Dr. Kener.ly which could have suggested that any such attack was to be made on me. I had no notice of it. Indeed, I was addressing 3 our lordships on iho Judicature Act Amendment Bill when

the charge was being made at great length and iv great detail. It ia true that 1 hud from time to time heard that attacks on the same subject had been made iv a paper called the Englishman— a paper purporting, by a statement; on its front page, to be edited by

Dr. Keneajy, one of Her Majesty's counsel ;

but I never read aid I never tee the Englishman. I never saw but two or three numbers of it; and I treated, and have continued to treat, and shall continue to treat, any-

thing that may have ?ppeared in the Englishman with silence and disdain." His Lordship then continues to explain his action in relation to the evidence of Mrs

Pitfcendreigh. which formed the chief ground of Dr Kenealy's attack.

Dr J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S. in a recent lecture taid that in daily life weak electrical currents are at work where their presence is often little suspected ; for instance, supposing a person at dinner to have a silver fork in one band and a finger upon the steel part of a knife held in the other, it follows that, when he plunges the knife and fork into a beefsteak, two dissimilar metals are tbcieby placed in a moist conducting substance, consequently a voltaic circuit is formed, and an electric current flows through the body of the individual between the knife and fork. To prove that this was really tha case, he connected a reflecting galvanometer with the knife and fork by mesns of wires. He then proceeded to cut a beefsteak, and the current thus generated deflected the needle of the galvanometer, so that the spot of light which it reflected, was seen travelling along the screen by all the observers.

The greatest cold of the season -n as experienced last night and this morning, and the milkmen were complaining of the frost. At Newmarket ice formed three-quarters of an inch thick on water in a galvanised iron tub.

Under arrangement with the Provincial Government the Education Board expected to receive an advance upon the money to be derived from the old market reserve, so that the school buildings for which the endowment has been made might be at once commenced. A letter however was received by the Board yesterday stating that the Government could not make any advance until the debentures, now negotiable under the Act, are issued. At yesterday's meeting of the Board the appointment of Mr Glenny as teacher and Mrs R. Burns assistant teacher of the Whau school, was sanctioned. An application from the Whau for grants to rapairthe school-house and teachers residence were postponed till next week.

In extension of his remarks on provincial management in Hawke's Bay, published by us the other day, our Napier correspondent says:—" Save in the Seventy-mile Bush no attempt at special settlement has been made, and land that should have been reserved for such purposes ha 3 passed into the hands of private individuals for a bagatelle, and now command £20 and £30 per acre. The remaining unsold estate seems also in a fearful muddle. A fey? days since a new arrival went to the Land Office seeking to purchase, and blocks on the map were shewn him. The following day he was informed it was believed they were not for sale. Common report says the surveys are in a fearful state. As with the country so with the town. Theoriginal map 3 and field - books are not forthcoming; the latest survey map of the town bearing date 1865." If any of the Provinces of New Zealand deserve to be subjected to the treatment Mr. Stafford suggested at Timaru, in 1870, viz., the compulsory acquisition of land at nominal rates, for purposes of special settlement, Hawkes Bay should be the locality where the experiment should first be tried. Many people look with suspicion on the transactions even of the Land Department here; they maintain that the intentions of purchasers leak out in an irregular manner, thereby preventing healthy competition, and many other undefined charges are made; but of this matter it is the safest' thing to quote the words of Judge Johnston on the subject:'' We could not shut our eyes to the fact that the system of dealing in land was probably not what it should be." Such however haa been the management of the landed estate of the Province that many score thousand acres, and that no later than the year passed, has been bought from the Government on the one day at five shillings an acre, and sold the next at thirty-five and forty shillings the acre. Fortunately for the Colony such Provincial mismanagement is rare. As in land, so in the other functions of Government, the Representation Act of the Session of 1874 was so manipulated that the influence of the governing interest-were confirmed instead of being abridged. It fares hard with those who wish to live here and will not bow the knee to the graven images that have been set up. They must conform or go away." - We notice that the Her. Samuel Edgar will' deliver a discourse on Sunday evening to young people especially, entitled "Counsels of Life to Young Men and^Women."

Five young lady operators who have graduated .in the' Wellington Telegraph Office, and attained considerable proficiency in their business are to be transferred to tbe Auckland station, and may be expected next week. The majority, we believe, of those chosen for this duty were selected on account of former residence here and the presence of friends or relatives in our city.

To the Editor : Sir,—ln your issue of last night appears a letter of defence from Mr. J. A. Campbell, of his cows and horse with destroying the footpaths of Collingwoodstreefc, and accusing Inspector Goldie of what he is not guilty of. Nd*w, sir, as one of the residents (and I am sure the rest of them will confirm my statements) I may state that both his cows and horse have went up and down on the footpaths up to the 13th of the present month. Let; Mr. Campbell state facts tbe next time he writes. N.B.— What has Mr. Campbell to say to his trying a race on horseback with his boy on Monday last along the foothpath ?—I am, &c, A Beside-t.

The meeting of the ratepayers of the Archhill Highway Board was held last evening in the Newton Hall, Mr. Kelly in the chair, when the following financial statement was road and passed : —Receipts : Balance from last B.iard, £5 13s 4?, d ; rates collected, £771152Jd; amount received from Government, £60 3s ; to al, £143 7s 7d. Expenditure : Forming roads, £4(5 14s 2d ; mefallh-g and channttlling, £53 15s j commission for collecting rate?, £6 18s 7£d ; legal expenses, £1 7s G1; scoria and labour for footpaths, £4 83; salaries and rent,' £4 15s; printing and advertising, £4 14s 7d ; balance, £15 11s B£d. Mr Morris proposed, and Mr Niohol seconded—"Thab the rate for the current year be Id, with power to sell." Mr Wright moved, and Mr Butler seconded- " That the rate be Id in the .£."—Mr Cook moved, and Mr Keeroy seconded "That the rate be |d in the £.—The motion and amendments being put to the meeting, the show of hand? was in favor of the original motion of Mr Morris, which was carrier!. —The following gentlemen were then elected to serve as trustees :—Messrs W. Stewart, M. C. McGregor, James Kelly. William Coote, Janus Murpby. Messrs Ratcliffe and Graham were appointed auditors.—A vote of thanks to the Chairman finished the business.

A very successful swindle, says the Some J¥ews, has just been perpetrated in Paris. A few days ago a gentleman of irreproachable appearancs presented himself to Messrs Arthur,. the well-known exchange agents. He requested them to change a circular note of a London banker, and produced at the same tin.c tl;e usual letter of recommendation in the name of Mr James Graham, whose signature was appended in tho corner. The applicant was asked to sign his name, which he did at once, and his signature corresponded exactly with that on the letter. Ho was, moreover, inscribed on the books of the Grand Hotel, so the noto was cashed with no objection on the part of the exchange agents, who transmitted it to Londou in due form. In a day or two, however, they received notice that the real Mr James Graham had been robbed of his circular note 3 and latter of credit, and that, consequently, the person Avho appeared at Messrs Arthur's wes a swindler. Subsequent inquiries have elicited the fact that this enterprising gentleman bad extended his favours to many other banking houses in Paris, and of course with tho same unsatisfactory result.

The Waikato Times replies vigorously to our correspondents' " Mangatawhiri" and " Reader," relative to railway management. As concerning the charge of eight shillings for luggage to a member of the staff of thai; paper^it says :— " It is a fact that a member of the Btaff of-this journal was chaiged eight shillings by a railway-guard at Mercer upon personal luErgage. The statement that it was ' extra luggage' is iirnply untruo, and we are prepared to prove it. The passenger carried no orher luggage. The same parcel was afterwards conveyed from Mercer to Hamilton by the Waikato S. IST. Company, and its weight on arrival was found to be 80 lbs. Now, on this luggage, the guard at Mercer charged eight shillings, or at; the crushing rate of eleven pounds four shillings per ton ! But this is not all. The regulations allow each passenger to convey free of charge SGlbs of luggage. Therefore the Sn was charged upon the "extra" 24 lbs, being at the enormous rate of thirby-seven pounds six shillings and eightpence per ton. And yet we are told that the railway does not pay. The statement can only bo reconcilable with belief upon one hypothesis, and we should be sorry to entertain it."

M. Gaston Tissandier, an astronomer, the sole survivor of the catastrophe of the Zeaitb balloon, in Franco, on the 15th April, has given the Academy of Science an account of that fatal voyage. The whole French and foreign press rang with the recital of this tragical event, which has added two new victims to me martyrology of science viz., the two companions of H. Tisaandier, Sivel and Oroc6-Spinelli. The aim which the aeronauts had in view was to' discover up to what altitude the air is fit for breathing. The height to which our hardy adventurers really arrived has nob been exactly ascertained. At 7,700 metre 3 (about 9,000 yards) they fainted away, while the Zenith was still rising, and, when Tissandier came to himself agaiD, he was lying at the bottom cf the car, half covered by the bodies of his two companions. Up to the moment of their fainting away, the aeronauts bad been able to count the number of their pulsations : Crock's pulse being from 71 to S5 ; Sivel's, from 76 to 90 ; and Tissandier's from 70 to 80. Going on to speak of the state of the atmosphere, the report says that, at the height of 7,000 metres, the car was surrounded by a vast circle of cirrhus, presenting the appearance of a solid crystalised mass. These clouds seemed like so many filaments or threads drawn out, on the surface of which there appeared smooth protuberances. The earth might be still descried below the balloon, but only a small portion of its surface was visible, looking like the base of an immense cylinder bounded by an opaline vapour and cirrhus above it. At 7,500 metres the sky in the upper region appeared to them with its usual tint of blue. M. Tiseandier concluded by saying that the death of his two companions was, according to him, ascribable to atmospherical depression.

The " Poor Strollers " and the " Loan of a Lover," formed the programme of amusement at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and both pieces were well represented in detail, and deserved the favorable reception they met with at the hands of the audience. This evening the performance will be for the benefit of Mr DeLias, the persevering lessee, who has, in spite of adverse circumstances, kept the Theatre open in dreary evenings when no other amusements were available. The piece selected for this evening is a new version of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," with scenery painted expressly for tHe play in which Legree, Eliza, Cassey, Ophelia, and all the leading characters of Mrs Stowe's novel will be represented. The character of Eliza will be represented by Miss Clara Stephen son; Topsy, Misa Patty Holt; Legree, Mr Collier; St. Clair, Mr Aveling ; George, Mr Holloway ; Uncle Tom, Mr Oily Deering ; Phineas, Mr Sam Poole ; Eva, Mrs Collier. We also notice that Miss Lizzie Bushe has volunteered her services as Ophelia. The splendid comedy entitled "Barney, the Baron " will bring an admirable entertainment to a close.

A general meeting of the Juvenile Rechabites will be held this evening at the usual place of meeting, at half-past seven o'clock. We hear that this Society is progressing satisfactorily, and adding to its numbers.

We would again warmly plead with the benevolent in favor of the movement for placing Mrs Cassidy in a position to earn a living for herself and her little children. A few pounds are still wanting to purchase a sewing machine, wherewith she has the prospect and tbe promises of sufficient employment. We referred at length, some time ago, to the circumstances of the death of her husband, and her destitution, and will have much pleasure in receiving any contributions ia aid of this realJy deserving object of charity.

An alarm of fire was given at eleven o'clock last nk'hfc, and tbe cause proved to be the chimney of a house at the corner of Wyndham a~nd Chapel-streets. The fire burned with great fierceness, but, by active exertions, it was extinguished without having caused any damage.

' Official corruption in New York has contaminated every department. One of the detective force, named Mason, has been convicted of forging aud has told a story in explanation of his arrest and conviction at the instigation, he asserts, of Colonel Washburne, head of the United States Secret Service which has elicited a howl of wonderment from bankers, brokers and money dealers, long lost in amazement at the mysterious inauner in which the street is, from time to time, inundated with counterfeits of national currency. Mason's " Wondrous Tale of Alroy," which bears on the f ace of it evidence of truthfulness*, is a strange revelation as to the connection of leading counterfeiters with our governmental detectives, an insinuation satisfactorily accounting for the exemption from arrest of notorious felons known to be hovering in our midst. He states that, being a private detective in Toronto, he was eu«ng«l by the United States Consul to proceed to Washington to aid the Treasury in obtaining possesiioa of a large quantity of counterfeit notes. He accepted the caisson upon speculation and shortly after turned over to Colonel VVashburne $12,700 of the " queer," fur which he received upward of ftuOO.

Judgment was given for the collector in all the education rate case.? heard ai the Police Court yesterday. One of those summoned— Mr. Wiighfc — objected oa conscientious grounds to pay the tax, offering to put £5 in the Poorbox if the rate were remitted. He also stated that if compelled to pay he would leave the province within six montb.3. He had taken an oath to resist the tax. The Resident Magistrate said he bad no al'cernauve but to give judgment, which was recorded accordingly. Alexander Leckie pleaded sickness as a ground of exemption, and produced a certificate fram Dr. Ellis, but the Board had refused to exempt him, and the Bench' gave judgment for the amount, remarking that the only valid reason which could be urged in defence of these summonses was an exemption by the Board.

As Eev. Dr. Purchas is about to leave the quiet settlement of Onchunga for a new pasture, his friends are invited to meet this evening in the Choral Hall at eight o'clock in relatiou thereto.

The soiree committee in connection with the Orange Institution will meet this evening in the large roo.ii of tho I'oiing Men's Christian Association.

The members of the Ponsonby Literary Society had a t;ood meeting last night in the All Saints' School-room. About twenty members were present, Mr Ring in the chair. Tho proceedings opened with an essay on the •'Greatness of the British Empire," by Mr Bailey, which was an excellent paper, well-written, and ably dkcussed by the members. Several recitations and readings followed the discussion, and a pleasant evening was passed.

The Auckland and Otahuhu troops of Cavalry Volunteers have amalgamated, and have unanimously elected Mr A. K. Isaacs captaiu. Tho other officers appointed art* Lieutenant Bushe, and Sub Lieutenant Levy.

There will be no necessity to rush the Butter Store to-morrow, A. Battany having completed arrangements for an unlimited supply of the celebrated double rose perfectiou butter, of the same quality as issued from his store tho la3t two weeks ; a!so a prime lot of dairy fed bacon and hair--, prices same as last week, at Bettany's Double Rose Perfection Butter Store in the Market.— [AdviI.]

' II loved Charles,' said cli?, wiping 'her eyc3 with tho ham of her overskirt, ' I loved Charles as mueli as any woman cou'd lova a man, but when ho commenced wearing spitcurb, I dropped him.'

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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1688, 16 July 1875, Page 2

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The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1875. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1688, 16 July 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1875. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1688, 16 July 1875, Page 2

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