“Ambition” was repeated at the Queen’s Theatre last evening to a fair attendance. “ Hob Roy ” is announced for to-night. At a mu j ting of the Board of Health held this morning, it was resolved, seeing that a fresh case of scarlatina has broken out on Quarantine Island, that the whole of the immigrants now in quarantine.be detained, and that the Board should visit the Island on Monday next, with the view of personally examining the whole state of the case. The number of inmates at the Benevolent Institution on the 31st March, 1874, was
eighty, comprising three women, nineteen men, twenty-seven girls, and thirty-one boys. The number of cases of out-door relief during the mouth of March was 2Q7, comprising fifteen men, sixty-three women, and 189 children this was done at a weekly cost of Lls 9s 6d. As an illustration of some Native claims to land, the Wanganui * Evening Herald ’ furnishes the following, which occurred on the 25th March “ A Maori preferred a claim on behalf of a person whom he had said was dead. ■ The Judge asked him what age was the deceased. The Native replied that ifhe were alive now he would be 18. The Judge explained that he wanted to know what age he was when he died. The claimant said the deceased was no age, as he was dead when-he was born. The Court was felicitous, and with a shrug of the shoulders passed on to the next case.”
A meeting of the Small, bore Club was held last night at the Drill-shed, Captain Wales being in the chair. The meeting was called for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and arranging a programme of matches to be shot during the season. Mr W. J. M. Larnach was re-elected president, arid Captains irtavely, _ Copeland, and Wales were elected vice-presidents ; Mr S. N. Muir, secretary; and Mr Geo. Wilson, treasurer. Owing to the non-attendance ■of the late secretary, a statement of the past year’s doings could not be given, and eventually the meeting adjourned for a week.
At the Waste Lands Board meeting yesterday, a letter from the Superintendent was read, asking if provision could be made for the following case :—A settler, at present residing in Otago, is expecting at an early date the arrival from Home of six families, all more or less related, who wish to settle down upon one block of land ; to form a special settlement in fact. Each of these families possesses a capital of from LIOO to L3OO, and the Superintendent thinks it a pity that their wishes should not be met. The Board considered they had no power to act, but postponed the matter, promising they would do the best they could in the meantime, if it were possible to forward his Honor’s views.
Illness at Cromwell is alarmingly on the increase. The local journal this week contains notices of two more deaths, and in the family in which one of the deaths occurred there are two other children lying so seriously ill with diphtheria, complicated by symptoms of a typhoid nature, that but very little hopes are entertained of their recovery. Some fresh cases of typhoid fever are reported as having taken place in the township. The ‘ Argus’ remarks that on a rough calculation there are twenty-two which there are or have been cases of fever. About forty-five cases in all have occurred in the town. This bears a similar proportion to the population of Cromwell that 3,000 cases would to that of Dunedin and its suburbs.
It will be recollected that a woman, Jane Glass, stoor her trial at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, for robbery from the person at Dunedin,' but the evidence being wholly circumstantial, and the police having been unable to recover any of the stolen property, she was acquitted. Yesterday she went to Poit Chalmers for a ‘‘blow out ” on the strength of her escape fiom the clutches of the law, and was soon in the lock-up there for being drunk. In the cell she was searched, and on her person was found a few shillings, but on the cell floor, beneath a piece of canvas, a L2O-note. The police afterwards recovered a second L2O-note, which Glass had changed in the Port. The numbers of those two notes corresponded with those stolen from Edwin Belcher, who prosecuted her on Wednesday. The Rev. W. Coleman, Bishop Moran’s Vicar-General, was a passenger by the Mongol, and proceeds to Ireland on business connected with the diocese. We learn from the ‘ Tablet’ that “his mission was not finally determined on till one o’clock of the day on which the Mongol sailed. Had letters arrived from Eu.ropj on that day, stating that the priests expected were on their way or about to start, there would have been no necessity for this journey to Europe. But no letters to this effect came, and the Bishop thought it not consistent with his duty and the claims of his diocese to wait any longer." Father Coleman’s mission is to endeavor to supply the diocese’s pressing wants; to place students for the diocese and colleges at Home so that a regular and sufficient supply of priests may be counted on in the future, and to invite Christian brothers to come out as teachers of the Catholic schools in the Province. _ Tb o actual cause of the detention of the late Californian mail is thus explained by a passenger by the City of Melbourne “ The fault rested solely with the London Post Office. Instead of the mails being dispatched by a fast steamer running between Liverpool and New York, as they should have been, they were through the ignorance or carelessness of the post office employes, forwarded by a slow-going steamer running to Boston. This steamer had an unfavorable passage, and arrived at her destination six uavs behind time. And so it happened nearly alh the letters were sent by her, the great bulk of the newspapers having been previously forwarded by a New York steamer, ibe consequence was that while the newspapers for JSlew .Zealand and Australia arrived in San hj rancisco m time to allow of the punctual departure of the. City of Melbourne, the letters were not received until a week afterwards, neC fcTd'” Dg detention, as has already been
res Pondent writes : —“ I am afraid that Dr Bake well will, like the Waterworks Comply) have to go in for ‘extended powers.’ tlis microscope, powerful though it may be can scarcely be expected to continue sufficiently so to interest our City Lions or ‘ Watchdogs ’ in the face of the fact that yesterday the vegetation, &c., was being removed by boat-loads u m i 0 u Pl )er reservoir. This looks as though some persons were ashamed of themselves at last. Unless, however, the decomposed or decomposing matter is removed from the streams between their sources and the reservoir, and the drainage from privies, stables, byres, stockyards, and washing establishments, is prevented from finding its way into these streams, the removal of the noxious weeds may not be an_unmixed blessing : the ‘fluid’ was at least partially filtered in passing through them,
I trust, however, that the present effort of the company is an earnest of good things to come, and that the day is not far distant when a. gentleman in search of a ‘ drop of water,’ the animalcula in which he wishes to exhibit for the instruction of our City Corporation, will have to go farther for it than to the water-tap.” The two offenders against the decorum which should characterise the proceeding of courts of justice, who were made examples-of by Judge Chapman at -jthe Supreme Court yesterday were named William O’Keefe and John, Wilson. It appears that there was a pretty general manifestation of approval of the verdict in bturrock's case on the part of persons who filled the body of the Court, and the vigilant policeman on duty detected O’Keefe and VVilson flagrante delicto , and hauled them before the. Judge, who addressed them thus :—“ You must be aware that it is an offence against the law to applaud juries or Courts. They are bound to do their duty ; and, if applauded on one occasion, they might be hissed on another. This practice has become so frequent that I have made up my mind, on the first offender being brought before me, to inflict a ■ slight punishr ment.” One of the offenders plended he was not aware he was doing harm. “Then,” said his Honor, “ I must warn the whole population that there is harm in it, and I nbw commit you both’for contempt of Court, to the common gaol for 24 hours. On any future occasion the °°? be for a longer period.” O’Keefe and Wilson were then removed.
In the April number of the: Anglican ‘Church Gazette for the diocese of Auckland there is an interesting article entitled “ A Voyage to t> GW the Mongol,’* written by the Rev. H. M. Kennedy. This gentleman, it appears, was a beneficed clergyman of the Established Church of Ireland at the time when that Church was disestablished a few years ago. He then resigned that post in order to facilitate, a desirable re-adjustment of parishes, and be became assistant to the 'Rev. K, Bowen, the rector of a parish in the northwest of Ireland, who is a brother of the late Governor of this Colony. From what he heard about New Zealand from Mr Bowen, Mr Kennedy became interested in the country, and ultimately accepted an invitation to come to the diocese of Auckland, which was made to ™ by Bishop Covvie’s commissary in England. Mr Kennedy” (remarks the Auckland ‘ Star’) must be a very desirable sort of colonist, if we may judge, not only from the tone of this article, but also from the circumstance that a considerable number of his ex-parishioners—it is not stated how many—accompanied him in his emigration.” At the conclusion of his l article, Mr Kennedy says:—“l must take occasion to say that there are some grevious defects in the immigration system as at present .earned.,. out.. Ist. The preliminary medical inspection is not of a sufficiently stringent character i it generally amounts to ascertaining simply whether the applicant has been vaccinated or not. 2nd. The Government inspector at the depot is not sufficiently strict. Plainly' we should never have been allowed to sail when scarlatina had already showed itself, particularly when we had so many children in our party. 3rd. The diatary scale is defective. There is not nearly enough of milk, eggs, and light food provided. Our medical officer continually had occasion to feel this want, particularly when so many children were taken ill. Had it not been for the kindness of a Dunedin lady, who supplied me with several tins of preserved milk, and other comforts which she fortunately had with her, I believe we would have had greater mortality still amongst ua.” Mr Bathgate Is not the only Magistrate in the Colony who has determined to stop: those brutal assaults which have become so prevalent of late. Prom-an Auckland contemporary we learn that on the. 26th ultimo one Albert Domwell was charged before Mr Beckham, R.M., with violently assaulting, one Sydney Sidolph by kicking and beating him, and complainant also swore that he was afraid of going about his lawful business. At the outset the Beach suggested that the defendant, if guilty, should compensate the informant, whereupon Mr Uaishley, defendant’s counsel, said that the injury had been inflicted without intention, and that his client had expressed, his regret for his misconduct, and had agreed, to compensate the informant. Mr Joy, counsel for the prosecution, would not agree to this course, and said could not think ot advising his client, who had been kicked in a manner in which no decent Christian would kick a dog,- to settle the matter by a monetary compensation. The evidence adduced partly bore out this statement, and the prisoner was sentenced to one month’s im-
prisonment without the option of a fine, Mr deetham saying in passing sentence, “ that these constant cases of assault are becoming very alarming. Every day there are. several cases of violent assaults on the police sheets, and I cannot help thinking that in'tnost of these oases the Court has been a great deal too lenient. Immediately after this case has been decided, I perceive there is another one. So it is. To-day for instance, there are no less than three of this kind of case. Ido firmly believe that if these cases were dealt with as : they ought to be we should not see so many, and my firm conviction is that in this case it is the duty of the Court to make an example'. Now in cases of this kind the law is that the defendant may be ordered to pay a fine of LlO, including costs, and no more; and if that be not immediately paid, or within the-time the Cpurt may direct, then the offending party W be imprisoned for two months with hard labor. Bat. although large coats may be iucurred in conducting a case; of this kind, no provision is made for the costs if the party bo imprisoned. _ Now. that does seem to me to be a great hardship. However successful the prosecutor may be himself, still he must be the sufferer, not only in body but in pocket. lam only sorry that I have not the means to order costs, and therein lies the most r objectionable part fn the Act j there should,be pow.er to give costs* _ The usual monthly meeting of the Imperial Building Society will be held in the Society’s office this evening, at 7 o’clock. ~.. n A. meeting of shareholders in the Greymouth Coal-mining Company will be held ■ to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock, in the. Provincial Hotel. It will he seen by advertisement that the Bazaar in aid of building the church at Portobello will be opened on Wednesday afternoon at the Masonic Hall. We understand that the contributions have been most liberal, and many of the gifts are elegant and tasteful. Of this we can speak better when an opportunity of inspecting them is afforded. . ; _ The current number of the ‘ Illustrated New Zealand Herald, m addition to the usual illustrations of intercolonial scenery, &c., and inteJading matter, contains an engraving;— ■ 2ft bin by 3ft 7in—of Sydney and its suburbs As representing the progress of the second city m the southern hemisphere, the sheet will be particularly acceptable to people at Home, i
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