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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 13 February 1905, Page 4

The following is Captain Edwin's weather forecast for 24 hours from n J ne a.m. this day: "Moderate to strong easterly winds, glass fall, some indications for rain after _0 hours from now- 3 ' An accident happened to Mr John X. Pegler, J.P.. while he was returning on Friday night from an inquest he had betvn conducting at Tc Mata. Mr Pegler and Constable McCarthy were driving down Maungr.tawhiri Hill in a gig. when the horse bolted and the trap capsized. The constable escaped with a bruising. but Mr Pegler was not so fortunate, being rendered unconscious. lie rallied, however, and was taken to Raglan boardinghouse, where he is. at present. A narrow escape from drowning was experienced last night by Miss Taylor, daughter of Mr J. Taylor, foreman of works for Ihe Harbour Board. She was proceeding to Auckland by the half-past eight boat from the North Shore, and in getting ashore she slipped in between the steamer and the wharf. Captain Scott, master of the Eagle, jumped over at once and succeeded in bringing the young lady to the vessel's side. She was quickly helped on board, little the worse for her sudden immersion. ■*. At Clevedon on Friday last a fire destroyed a newly-erected -house and an old dwelling, the property of Mr JasHender3on. butcher. The fire originated in the old house, which was insured in the New Zealand Insurance Company. There was no insurance on the new building. Mr Henderson lost all his furniture, with the exception of a piano.

The performances of a lively bullock created considerable excitement on the Onehunga Wharf on Saturday afternoon. After being landed from the Rarawa with 30 others, the animal at once began to make trouble, the first object of its resentment being an elderly man who was standing on the Wharf. As the brute charged, the man dropped to the boards, dodging the animal's horns, and escaping with a bruising and torn trousers. Continuing his mad career the infuriated bullock came into collision with a Mrs Tothill, who was wheeling a perambulator. The lady was thrown down and the perambulator was smashed, but fortunately neither Mrs Tothill nor the child was hurt seriously. A largo crowd had congregated at the end of the wharf to watch the championship yacht race, but by great good fortune the bullock did not attack them, but plunged off the vvharf and made for Geddes' Basin. Some boys in a boat attempted to head him ashore, but the attempt was resented so vigorously that the boys rowed off hastily. The animal was eventually secured by the drovers, after fighting his way through heavy mud in pursuit of a man who had gone out to entice him towards the other cattle which had been driven round in the hopes that he would come and join them. The A. and A. liner Sierra covered the last portion of the voyage from Auckland to Sydney in the smart time of 3 days 7 hours. The through voyage occupied 21 "days 12 hours, including stoppages, and the steaming time, 20 days 4 Hours, which gives an average speed of 15 knots an hour for the run. The Sierra starts on her return voyage to-day, and as this is the favourite season for travelling across the Pacific and through America, a large number of berths have been engaged. Harbour works, as affected by the "act of God" or the neglect of man, was the subject of a brief discussion at last meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board. As reported in the "Herald," Mr T. B. Williams stated that he considered shipping agents were damaging the Board by all the fuss they were making about the delay of vessels on the flats, and remarked that in Westport and Greymouth steamers were often delayed a week, and no comments were made about it. In reply, Mr C. F. Millward said that when vessels were delayed in Westport and Greymouth it was an act of God, for no Board could be held responsible for the weather. On the other hand, the delay in Wanganui was due to the bad state of the flats, which could be remedied. An interesting collection of specimens from the petrified forests of Arizona, U.S-A.. has just been received at Sydney. The petrified forests are described by those who have visited them as one of the most remarkable in the world. Acres upon acres of land are covered with stone-trees lying in all directions, and bearing the appearance of having been sawn into lengths." The stone-trees have assumed a variety of brilliant hues, scarlet, green, yellow, blue and brown being the predominating colours. Those who take an interest in solar phenomena have an opportunity just now to observe a remarkably large sun spot (says the Sydney "Morning Herald" of Monday last). It was risible yesterday in the centre of the sun, and measurements gave its size as being approximately 95,000 miles long and 50,000 miles across. To put its magnitude in another way. eighty globes the size of the earth could be dropped into the abyss without filling it, with, of course, disastrous consequences to the globes. The spot is easily visible with the unassisted eye. With the appearance of the sun spot there will probably be a revival of the theory of the influence of- sun spots on the terrestrial weather. ( The statistics published in the current •Gazette" shows that the total Customs and excise collection for the quarter ended December 31st. 1904. was for Auckland £184,037, while for Wellington iit was only f 158,507. For the whole calendar year, however. Wellington beat j Auckland, the first occasion that the total for this city has ever been exceeded by ,any colonial port. For the calendar year 1903 Auckland beat Wellington by the narrow margin of £90, our total'beiii" £030,, 40, and Wellington's" £636,650 For 1904. the Wellington total was £669.400. while Auckland's was £666,537, Welling- , LOn th " as heading Auckland for the year by £2563. At a special meeting of the Auckland : Fruitgrowers' Union, held at the office ol the general secretary (Mr J. H Mackie), Mercantile Chambers, the ques- : tion of forwarding to England a trial ; shipment of apples was further conisiaered. After a length y discussion it was decided to request orchardists who arc prepared to consign suitable apples to London to at once notify the Union secretary or Mr W. A. Boucher. Gov- . eminent Pomologist. of the quantity and varieties they will be prer>a"red to ;send. and when available. Tlie'Government has informed the' Union thaj it j will guarantee one penny per pound ; nett proceeds upon the sale of all ; apples which shall have been approved by the Government grader Tlie , bushel case -adopted by the Auckland Fruitgrowers' Union must be used for consignments. As it is necessary the shipments should go forward within the next six weeks, or thereabouts, orchardists should give the matter immediate attention, and advise either Mr Maekie or Mr Boucher without delay. Admiral FanshawV. and the officers of H-ALs. Euryalus, Challenger, Psyche, and Phoebe were entertained at a "reception at the Otago Golf Club's pavilion on Saturday afternoon, by Mr James Mills (president) and Mrs Mills. A large number of people were presented to the Admiral. The. members of the local crunch of the Navy League and a numl u r « f th ° S«ie'"al P«blic went out to the flagship, which was anchored off the Heads, while the Challenger and Psyche lying at Port Chalmers Wharf, were visited by others. The Zealandia Drought two stowaways to Auckland yesterday. and the justices dealt with them as usual in the Police Court this morning. They were two Australian youths named Arthur Cunimings and 'George Forde, and when they pleaded guilty to stowing themselves away on the steamer, thereby defrauding the owners of £3 ; 15/ each. The justices fined them the amount, of the unpaid fares, fixing the ■ alternative at a month's imprisonment. , They asked for time to pay the money, as they could get employment in Auek- | land. "These are the sort of persons 1 who never pay," interpolated Sub-In-I speetov Black. The official recollected | the ease of some other stowaways who made fair promises aud were given a | chauee to pay their fines, but only paid a small amount. Then they cleared out. again. The asked-for opportunity was not given. The Matakana Agricultural Show takes place to-morrow (Tuesday), and ! the Coastal Steamship Company are running their fine steamer, the Kapanui, to convey visitors. She leaves Queenstreet wharf with the band on board at eight a.m.

A letter has been published &oi£ii_ 1\ aval Secretary, in which he emjiW-fcf that ships on the Australian outside the limits of Australian w^* tl! He adds that this year several of « ! ships may be employed in, mahoeuW which may take them some hundreds *» possibly thousands, of miles Australian station. ™ B tae At the last meeting of the • sional Musicians' Association at g^^ 8 * the secretary reported that he had wrff ten to the Minister for Customs rejnrt ing a Bavarian Band which was to arrive in Sydney next month. TK Minister had been informed that them - 1 were coming here under contract ai th* rate of 10/ each weekly, and. that th* conditions under which they were » quired to work were inimical to the in terests of the men engaged in the'»«*? cal profession. The Minister hadirenlto to the effect that the provisions of'th Immigration Restriction Act only ii! plied to persons coming to Australia to perform manual work. The meetm* "i, ■ eided to refer the matter to o Watson, MP., leader of the Federal'fW position. VF Three youths, Charles Reston, Kn-. man Edward Harris, and William' Bar nett, were charged in the Police Court this morning with breaking ana enter ing Mr Richmond K. Sinclair's"pf* urines iv Commerce-street, and steatin-' three cigars and five boxes of matched According to Chief Detective Mafsa&! who prosecuted, the accused were caught red-handed. It is alleged that small robberies had been dTscbvered previously in the same building, aid[Jl r Sinclair anticipated that the ihielea would return on Sunday. He- secreted himself with Detective Miller hi the store, and did not have longtowjit before they saw three youths ehtes through a-' broken window at the h»«k j The intruders' retreat was cut pff, and" they were after some difficulty: seajred and taken to the watch-house. When they appeared before the justices in the Police Court this morning, Chief Detective Marsack secured a remand in custody for a week, to enable further inquiries into their movements to ie made by the police. '.; X ;> The death of Mr W. H. Snelling, #hich' took place last week, removes a very ibid and highly respected resident afrMaunga. turoto. He held a commission ot the peace, was a member of the SynpuV and was generally a useful and highly esteemed citizen. Mr Snelling was formerly a clerk in the Admiralty office, but coni-. muted his half-pay and coraiug tothe colony Settled up North fully 30 years ago. -•"-•. , - A handesome brass tablet to tb* memoiy of the late Archdeacon ilaiin-, sell, the well-known Maori missionary, was unveiled at St. Maiy's 'Cathedralyesterday morning, by the Rev,, A. 6. Purehas. The Rev. G. Maunsell,.'son of the late Archdeacon, and a number of Maoris were present at the ceremony. In the course of the special sermon, Canon Mac Murray said "that Robert Maunsell, a young Irish clergyman and great Hebrew- and Greek scholar. . came to New Zealand over 70 years jgo.. He spent some months in acquiring"the Maori language and preparing himself for his great work —the translation of the Bible into Maori. He worked asi missionary for 30 years, and with the outbreak ef the war in 1865 he came t» Auckland, where he took the position of incumbent of St. Mary's, Parriell,;filnpg; that capacity for 17 years.' The tablet adjoins one erected to the memoM; ~of the late Archdeacon Clarke another*weUknown Maori missionary. .'■The inscription on the tablet reads: "To the glory. sof God, and in loving memory of Robert Maunsell, LL.B., Archdeacouj .missionary to the Maoris from 1835-1865,. and incumbent of St. Mary's, Parnell, for 17, years." _ .'., ,; • Settlers' Sunday, the new movement , arranged by the Auckland Ministers',. As- ! sociation, was inaugurated yesterday. | About thirty of the city and suburßan ministers visited the up-country churches , and meeting-houses, their own congregations being served by local preachers, vho have readily fallen in with the movement. Some of the ministers who held the country services yesterday will conduct evangelistic services in the different districts during the week, and others will deliver lectures on various subjects. The denominations participating in the movement are the Presbyterians, Baptjsp. Congregationalists, Primitive Methodist's, and Free Methodists. The New South Wales Cricket Association has beeu rather severely criticised in some quarters because it allowed the Australian Team to leave Sydney without, the usual farewell gathering, A» official explanation, however, puts th« i matter in a new light, and removes all blame from the officials who control, cricket in this State. The r execntp committee purposed having such;* gathering, hut Mr M. A. Noble, one of the members, was against it.' He.said the players did not care about-'functioiis of that'character, and furthermore, thety would have no time to spare;. Consequently the idea was abandoned- ' The Butchers' Annual Picnic Com" mittce are providing a good day's outi ing at the beautiful island of Motatapy. !by the kind permission of Mr «?*■' j Reid, on Wednesday. March 1. Fjj c Ferry steamers Britannia andtEajjjle will 'leave the Ferry Tee at 0.30, 10-P> ! I.3tt sharp, with the Devonport B«? s • Band in attendance. The connuittee, as of former years, are sparing no expense to make this their annual,, gathering a great success. A large quantity of toys has been provided'for-t.« B . children. • & - Heaw discounts in furniture ofi|» kinds. "Duchesse pair, bevel ™. rror , , £; tile back stand, 49/0: combination jsw? with bevel mirror and bracket, 3-/°- r -? Tonson Garlick's sale. —Ad. '. Special tables of remnants!— silks, plain and" embroidered linens, coloured wool dress fa^g. i black and navy serges, muslins, pSP* galateas, linings, etc., all to be clear?* at further reduced prices.—Smith an Caughey's Sunmmcr Fair. —Ad. .■""■ _ Point' lace collar? on silk and.^ UE 'f/ 'only 6d each, at the fair, .Smith..? 1 ? 0 Caughey, Ltd., Ad. , ;.' '■'