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Evening Star, Issue 3334, 27 October 1873, Page 2

Corporal Chapman and Mr Paton will represent Canterbury at the intercolonial rifle match, and leave hy the Alhambra. Tunaru boasts of a piano the case of which was manufactured in London from some beautiful New Zealand totara knot. Papers hy t 1 e mail contain the announcement of the marriage, on August l‘», of Mr CL P. Abram, late English master at the High School. Major Gordon, who had charge of the Colonial rifle competition at Nelson this year, has been gazetted inspector of the volunteer force for the current year. It was announced in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, that on and after the first of November the criminal cases would be taken at ten. and the civil cases at eleven o’clock, and that prior to that date the criminal ea-cs would lie taken at halfpast ten, and the civil at the usual hour. The usual weekly meeting of the Roslyn and Kaikorai Institute was held last Tuesday niuht ; the Presidnt in the chair. Mr Jackson read an essay on “ Manhood Suffrage’' which was received and favorably criticised by a numerous audience. Ihe Society will not hold a meeting to morrow evening. “Thu Mysteries of Paris” a d “ Txion ” were played at the Princess 'Theatre, on Saturday, to a large audience. So far as the title of the former piece is concerned, it might as well have be n called by any other name, for it bore only a very slight resemblance, as performed on Saturday evening, to the well-known novel of tint name hy Pugenc Sue, To-night the drama of “The Streets of Loudon ” will be produced, followed by the farce of “The Object of Interest.”

An instance of the profitable management of an infant’s estate, under the superintendence of tho Equity Court in Melbourne, is mentioned in a late An fits'. About nineteen years ago a Mr Anderson died, leaving turn sons, both infants, the eldest being only two years of age. His property consisted of a third share in a station in which he had put LI,OOO. The estate was brought into Court to have it legally administered, and, owing to the judicious management of the administrator ami the receiver, it now amounts to I 50,000, invested in mortgages or Government debentures. One of the children died young, and the other came of age a few months ago, “/Egles” writes in the Australasian -. “ Happy is the man whose house is built. 1 am told that the increase in the price of materials and labor is likely to cheek bui ding opciations. It will certainly render the bud dug of houses with the view of letting them to tenants a less profitable speculation Here is an illustration of the advance. About a year ago t.nders were called for building a resilience in one of the suburbs. The lowest amounted to Id,GOB. Tie intending housebuilder thought he would wait a little. He got tired of waiting and again invited tenders. Curiously enough, the contractor who was lowest before was lowest again. But this time, for the same work, upon the old plans, the price was L‘2,050 ! ’l he difference is a measure of the rise in value of work and wood.” Daring the hearing of the case Wright v. Bruce in tho .Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, Mr Mansford brought the fact under his W or hip’s notice that plaintiff, defendant, and witnesses all resided in Port Cha'mcrs, and said that although the Port was in the Dunedin district, the Act meant that such cases should be heard there. He asked his Worship to cxpnss some opinion with regard to the guidance of future casi s. Mr Stout said that he had always striven to have cases heard in Port Chalmers when the circumstances were similar to those of the present action, but that his business would not allow him to be there on this occasion. His Worship, who seemed to agree with the remarks made by Mr Mansford, did not express any definite opinion, as there was a practical difficulty in doing so. At one of Mr Maclaine's Good Templar public meetings in the Nor hj, a Mr Kawdon asked (the Emiiiuj Fust says) if it was true that in the Good Templar Lodges there was a call off fur ten minutes for congratulations, or what he would vulgarly call kiss-in-the-ring. He wanted a pain answer to that question. Mr Maclaine said ho would answer. After each initiation there was a call off for congratulations, during which every brother and sister in the room rushed up and shook bands with the newly-initiated member. That was the only kias-ln-tbe-ring that he knew of. Mr bawdon said he had charge of the room in which these meetings were held, and he f.mnd lots of love lollies kicking about. He asked the question for the purpose of ascertaining whether such proceedings were allowed. Mr Mackenzie said that such procedings nrght have perhaps occur) ed in one or two Lodges. The following notifications app ar in the last number of the Ncm Zt-aland (Itr.i t/e : To he postmasters : Charles Angel, at Garriektuwn ; John Morrison, at Bcnmore ; Thomas Kinross, at Gibbstown ; William Roxburgh, at Grey town ; T. F. Winstauley (acting), at Invercargill ; Andrew Alexander, at Lawrence ; Daniel Hunter, at Orepuki ; Andrew Murray, at Serpentine ; Kenneth Sutherland, at Sawyer’s Bay ; T. Coop, at the Teviot; Archibald MMxeilar, at Winton ; and James Grieves, at Wallaeetown. A post-office at Bannockburn has been closed, and on aad after the Ist of December next a Money Order Office will be opened at Green Island. In December, the name of the postoffice at Kavvarau will be changed to Cromwell. The following notifications in reference to the volunteers arc also made :—T. H. Blateh to be snb-licutenant of the West Taicri Hi lies ; dames So: tt to he lieutenant, and William Bopplewell sub-lieutenant of the Bruce Bilks. 'Die resignation by Captain Maitland of the command of the Olutha Billes is accepted, Mr Lloyd, the treasurer of New South Wales, had a pleasant Jask on the evening of the Ifith instant to make one ot the most satisfactory budget speeches ever delivered in the Colony, and to show a moat unexampled prosperity in the public finances ; Last year left a balance of IMH 9G9 as surplus, of which L41!1,G47 Ims been applied towards the liquidation of the public debt, leaving a balance of LIIM,.TJ2 to the credit of the current year, which gives an actual and estimated revenue of 1.11,2111,155. it is expected that there will be a surplus of LGSS/2SO. The Government have now to their credit a bank balance of LI,GBB 512. 'Hie present public debt amounts to L8),4 ( J0.285. 'The Treasurer intends paying ~()' the deficiency loan from this year’s surplus, and expending .'mother portion on public works, while a portion will be retained to compensa'c for tin; abolition of ml ralnr i nt duties, which wid cease on the Ist of January, lie has taken oil the list ol fixed duties .!'2 articles yielding a small revenue, apd expects iliat the" new tariff will yield 1.87,0U0 next year more than this. The following reference to a well known Dunedin citizen appears in the A 'uroja'an Malt :■ —“'The oilier dav Hie dwellers in and aiouud Havgrstyclv HiJ.l were reminded by

the appearance of the British flag, which does duty on grand occasions on the roof of the Orphan Working School, that something of importance was going on in that popular, useful, and well conducted institution. A line day had brought together a large number of old scholars, who had been invited to the meeting, which takes place once a-year The chair was taken by an old scholar, who, about eighteen years ago, was one of the inmates of the institution, and had left it to push his -way in New- Zea’aud. Ho bad had a good education at the Orphan School, and the sense to make good use of it. In the New World he bad opportunities of advancement denied him in the Old; mid thus it came, to pass that the poor orphan of many years ago became th- successful barrister of to-day, and that he presided at the meeting, and was introduced to the present generation of scholars as Mr James Macassey, of Dunedin, New Zealand. As ho was attended by liia wife and sister, ami as he had a youlhful appearance, very much unlike that of an old boy, and as he sp ffio with much feeling and good sense, and declaimed very strongly against the worship of mammon--a form of idolatry with which young people have little sympathy—it is scare ly necessary to observe that he was received with uproarious applause.” The Morley case, a Victoria lynisr celehre, has come to an abiupt and unlooked-for cone’usion, ilnauffi it is easy to see what the final act will be. Morley and Garrick were merohaius at Sandridgc, and partners for years, and the former was mayor of th boron hj. Disputes led to a dissolution of t,he. partnership, which was followed by Garrick giving information to the police that led to his former partner being charged with having at Geelong in the year IStiO caused a marriage to be celebrated between himself and one Mary Anne Morley; and having there pro bleed a paper purporting to be a declaration, in which, amongst other matters, he stated he had “no knowledge of any just impediment or lawful objection of any kindred or relationship to his being married to Mary Ann Morley,” whereas she was, in truth, the daughter of his brother ihe defence was tha r Morley did not “ willingly and knowingly” do the acts complained of ; that Barker’s tables did not forbid an uncle marrying his niece, consequently there was no impediment to the marriage in question ; and that the prosecution was a malicious one. The legal point was reserved, hut on the question of fact Judge Fellows told the july that if they believed the evidence that the declaration was read by the officiating cler gym an ; that Morley repeated the words of it, and that he kissed the book as an asseveration, they must find him guilty. While the jury w ere out one of their number fell ill and became so bad that he could not be brought into court, whereupon the jury were discharged. It was stated, and subsequently declared by affidavit by the foreman that before the juror’s illness the whole of the jury had come to a d< cisiou and agreed to a verdict of “ Not guilty,” but Judge Fellows refused to take it as a verdict. Morley was released on bail.

Mr Fish will address the electors in the Masonic Hall this evening. The attention of volunteers is called to the general order in our advertising columns. The adjourned meeting of shareholders in the Dunedin Waterworks Company will be held in the hall below the Athemeum this evening, at 7 o’clock. The annual general meeting of the Otago Meat Preserving Company will bo held in the offices of the company, Temple (Chambers, on Friday next, at .1 p.m. Through the courtesy of the editor we have received a copy of the JSaw Zmlmut Juris/, a new publication, in continuation of Mr M.acassoy's law reports. The object of the work is to furnish reports of “all eases heard and determined in hamv ” in the district, with judicial decisions in other districts. It is edited by Mr Gerald Dyson Branson, barrister at law, and rliifers so far from general reports that it is not likely to contain any matter not properly bearing upon the cases. Its advantage to the profession needs no suggestions on our part. The decisions in our courts of law, through authorised records of cases being accessible, are likely to approximate _ to uniformity throughout the Colony, and in every respect such a. work was needed, and must pro', e both useful and acceptable. It is neatly planted by Messrs 1 'oulls anti (hillingof Rattray street.