Pergeant King, of the Armed Constabulary, whose case excited considerable -Mention a few weeks ago, has been re-instated in Ms former rank.
There was a good house at the Princess’s last night, and the popular play “ Formosa *’ was again enthusiastically received. Tonight owing to its great success, the same piece will be repeated.
The only case at the Resident :, i agistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, was a charge against Richard Thomson for being, drunk and disorderly on the railway platform for which offence he was ordered to pay a fine of 10s, or be imprisoned for fortyeight hoars. At the Queen’s the Fakir of Coin continues to draw large audiences, and his clever performances and illusions nightly call forth loud expressions of gratification. The colored fountain is now in splendid working order. Dr Sylvester hating had a main laid on the stage. This evening the Marquis and Marchioness of N ormanby and suite , will be present.
A gentleman who has just returned by the Easby from a tour through a portion of Australia, gives a very poor account of Sydney. He informs the ‘ Tribune ’ there is an amount of wretchedness about the streets of that city which one who has not seen would hardly credit. 111-clad beggars meet you at every corner, and urge their claims with a persistency which is only repulsive, but it is done in the greatest good humour.
Of the late Mr Borlase, the ‘ North Otago Times’ writes:—“A better epitaph cannot be written upon him than repeating the common remark in Wellington since his illness : that he hadfwern himself out. Hav - ing done so, having helped to found England’s fairest Colony, having made himself loved by many whose trouble and poverty he has unostentatiously lightened, he has passed away after a long and painful illness, leaving none but friends behind him.” An in genious resident of Nelson has done something for fame .as well as for fortune, The ‘Colonist,’ referring te the matter, says“ Mr Luke Nattrass, of this city, has received a diploma of merit f om the jurors of the International jl xhibition at Vienna, for a new indigenous pigment prepared by him from the binau tree. Competent judges pronounce that this pigmeat is as good as, if not better, tbaa the costly pigment known as sepia. It could be manufactured for about sixpence per ounce, whereas the same quantity of sepia costs about eleven shillings. At this morning’s sitting of the Waste Land Beard an applicant for a lease of an island, named Tiaka, on Lake le Anau. stated that Maoris living in the district affirmed that they need in former times to reside on it, but had frequently to fly to the main land, as the island was in the habit of shifting about and coming back again, owing to shocks of earthquake. The Chief Commissioner said he had heard of floating islands in some parts of the world, but these were merely sn accumulation of vegetation, which was scarcely the case in this instance.
The Sydney papers note the death, very suddenly, there of a man who was well known in Dunedin and on the West Coast. £. T. Smith was a cabinet-maker by trade) but in Victoria and this Colony was best known as an hotelkeeper and the proprietor of music halls, to which he invariably gave the name of “ Shakespeare.” During the busy times of the rushes to the goldfields of this,fProvince Smith, who it will be recollected kept the Shakespeare in Maclaggan street, on the spot where North and Scoullar’s warehouse now stands, was a prosperous man. Afterwards he went to the West Coast, thence to Fiji, and next found his way in very reduced circumstances to Sydney, where he died. The last number of the New Zealand 'Gazette’ contains the Kegistrar-General’s report on the vital statistics of the boroughs of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika for the month of April. The total number of births in these seven boroughs was 306, and of deaths 170. A s usual, by far the largest mortality was among infants under five years of age. The largest proportion of deaths (3.68 per 1000) was in Auckland, Wellington stood third (2.75), and Hokitika had onl / .87. The births exceeded by 27 those in March, while the deaths were fewer by 81. One female, who died in Nelson, had attained eighty years of age ; two males died in Auckland m their seventyfifth year ; and one female in Wellington at the age of sixty-nine. They write kindly of each other in Wanganui. The ‘Chronicle, 1 referring to the ‘ ; ferald,’ says “We take blame to curse- ves for having dealt too mercifully with our contemporary in the day of his humiliation ; wo should have gloried in his disgrace, jmd he would have better understood and appreciated onr action ” And again :—“We file all records, when dealing with men of his stamp, Ht> talks of payin for his telegrams—we trust there is more truth in this sentence than is contained in the rest of the paragraph. He bounced the other evening f h>s ability to pay the costs of his libel—we don’t doubt it. it is one of the things that must be paid, even though it should involve the adoption of a method to which, we understand, recourse was had on a previous occasion—‘smallest donations thankfully re* oeived.’ ”
From the ‘North Ctago Times’ we take the following:—“We are informed by Mr John Mann, of the Tables, that fifteen acres of his land sown with twenty-two bushels of purple straw wheat has yielded 253 bags of labs, thirteen bags of 2nds, and thirteen bags of 3rds. Estimating the Ists at four and the 2nds at three bushels per bag, this gives a yield of seventy bushels per acre, without reckoning the thirds. 'l'wo years ago this land gave a heavy crop of wheat, and was in rapp a nd fallowed till sown with this crop. Eighty three acres cf the same wheat has yielded titty bushels per acre of Ists wheat—A ■pedal meeting of the' Town Council wac
held yesterday to decide what amount should be stated as the probable coat of the wat* » works. Some of the councillors were <>f opinion that L 30.000 would be sufficient, but it was at length agreed that it would be better to overstate than understate the cost, and that it would be a mistake to obtain too little money and have to ask for more afterwards. L 60,000 was therefore the sum decided upon.
The r e was a lengthy sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, but the business was of an unimportant nature. Mr 6a*hgate delivered judgment in the case of Deyine ▼. Kitohingbam—an action involving a point of tome importance to the mercantile community, namely, the practice of taking endorsements from sureties. The plaintiff is the bolder of a promissory note for Ll7, granted by Donald Gillies to the plaintiff, and endorsed by the latter to the defendant, by whom it was re-indorsed to the plaintiff. The defendant gave no value to he plaintiff for the note when it was endorsed to him, but it was intended that the defendant, as surety for t Lillies, should re-indorse the note to the plaintiff. Ris Worship held thi if it could be shown that the intermediate endorser endorsed the bill or note as aur-—y fo'r the acceptor or grantor, withou' the in ten tiou of preserving bis recourse upon the holder as previous endorser, the latter may recover from the security. Here the plaintiff having endorsed the note to the defendant without intention to guarantee payment in default of Gillies, the grantor, and the defendant as security for Gillies having re-endorsed the same to plaintiff, the latter was entitled to recover. Judgment was accordingly given for plaintiff with costa.
A branch of the Colonial bank was opened at Napier to-day.
\ meeting of shareholders in the late Submarine Gold Mining Company will be held at the .Imperial Hotel, this evening, at 8 o’clock. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Mornington Band of Hope was held last evening, there being a good attendance. It was decided to hold public meetings for debates etc., on every alternative Monday evening. The Protestant Alliance, No. 1 Loyal Pioneer Lodge, held its usual fortnightly meeting last night. There was a fair attendance of members present. The coming anniversary on the Uth prox. was fully entered into and discussed. Several prominent vocalists have intimated their willingness and intention to assist at the concert.
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Evening Star, Issue 3817, 19 May 1875, Page 2
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