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Evening Star, Issue 3961, 4 November 1875, Page 2

Mr Murray, M.E.R., addresses hia constituents at Milton on the 12th inst. The names of M? Wm, Wood and Mr A. Kinross are mentioned as candidates for the representation of ;he Mataura in the Assembly. Sir George Grey, Meßsrß Sheehan, and Bunny leturned to the North by the Hawea this afternoon. On Tuesday they visited the Mosgiel Factory ; and yesterday the party, with several gentlemen from town, were the guests of Mr Lirnach at Portobello. The only police business before the City Bench this morning was a remanded charge against Samuel Coffer, cook on the Glenore, who pleaded guilty to stealing a watch and pair of boots valued at L 3 15s, the property of Hugh Harper. He was sentenced to one month s imprisonment. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before T. A. Mansford, Esq, K.M., Ch .rles Johnson, on remand, charging with stealing one Ll-note, one sovereign, and two half sovereigns from the dwelling of Mrs Dean in March last, was sentenced to eix weeks' imprisonment, with hard labor. The Court of A ppeal sits at Wellington on Mondaj next. The following are the cases : —From Auckland —Kegina v. Spenca and Mayor a Crown ense reserved by Mr Justice Gillies ; 'A illiamson v. Pearce and bmith v. Thomas. From Westland—Purcell v. James. From JNapier—Galbraith v. Halving. From Wellington—Whitlock v. Parsons. From Dunedin —Macintosh v. the Waste Lands Board ; Morrison v. the tame ; Herbert v. the same, and M'Kellar v. the same Mr Henry Bur.ny. M.H. K., intends to apply at this sitting of the * ppeal Court to be enrolled as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr Justice Williams proceeded Noith by the Hawea to-day. "The Drunkard" was played at the Queen's Theatre last evening, Mr Bates giving an excellent representation of the reformed inebriate, Edward Middleton. " Box and Cox," with Messrs Musgrave and Stoneham as the rival lodgers, formed a most agreeable afterpiece. "Caste" will be played tonight. To-morrow there will be no performance, but a private rehearsal of Dion Boucicault's iatcst play, "The tfhaughran " will be given, and on Saturday the piece will be produced under the supervision of Mr Wheatloigh, who will make his first appearance in this city. Whertver "The Shaugnran" has been played it has always had a most successful and lengthened run, and no expense has been spared by Messrs Steele aud Keogh to ensure an equally successfully results here. 7ho telegraph authorities made a safe guess in fixing to-day for the arrival of the inward California mail steamer at Auckland, for the City of Melbourne, after one of those remarkably quick runs for which she is now famous, was signalled from that port at a very early hour this morning. This trip sho delivers the mails in Auckland three days iu advance of contract time, and her performances, and the more recent ones of the other steamer, augur well for the regularity and quickness of the service when it is undertaken by the permanent contractors' new vessels. It will be observed by our telegrams that the City of Melbourne beat the Vasco de Gama, the pio.aeer vessel of the new service, both on the run to Honolulu, and from Honolulu to Auckland. The Vasco, which may be expected at Auckland at any moment, will, after lauding her passengcis and cargo at that, port, proceed to Sydney, and next month leave there with the outward mail.

Mr Justice Williams hc.io-d an application under the Trustee Act, 1855.), in Banco at the Supremo Court this morning, Mr Haggitt appearing frs:* petitioner, Mr J. A. Green. Counsel said the lato Georgo Green by his will devised his property to four trustees—two in New Zealand and two in New South Wales. The latter, however, would not act in conjunction with the New Zealand trustors, and application wa» therefore made some timu a o to this Court to have the property in this Colony vested in the local trustees. This order was granted, and the property was vested in Mr Henry Driver and a son of deceased, who rtalised some of the property and paid otJ all tho ."Jew Zealand creditors, leaving sonxe money in hand and somo of tho property unsold. Mr Driver n-".v i\fused to act any longer in tho matter of the trust of the will, and the object of the }-. resent application was to have him removed i'rom the trust .and Mr James A. Green (a son of deceased) appointed. An affidavit was filed showing that; .Mr Green was a fit ncrr--on for the office and willing to act. Mr Stout, who represented M r Driver. _ said his .■liont was voMinj that thv "i--er should be n <;!<■ ar.d his Ho'ior L""k'" , 'ed it aeeerd-

Messra J. C. Prown, Wm.. Hayes, and Bastings this morning waited a* a deputation

upon his Honor the Superintendent. Mr Brown explained that the matter which he had to bring under his Honor's notice had previously been brought before his Honor at Wellington, at the instance of the Progress Committee. It was in regard to the desirability of spending a special voted beyond the sum voted for the road between Lawrence and theTeviot. He might mention that for the year 1874-5 there was a vote taken for this road —the distance of which was about forty miles—of L.6,400, out of which L3.80U only was expended, and the balance lapsed. Last year (1875 6) the sum voted was L 5.600, of which there was L 2.600 liabilities, and LI,OOO for maintenance, leaving only L2,0C0 for new works. It was thought there might be some difficulty in expending a sum in excess of the amount voted, but as against this he drew his Honor's attention to the fact that during the year 1874 there was a sum of L 6,000 voted for the Palmerston to Oamaru road, and Jthat nevertheless LB,OOO was expended, that year. It was also pointed out that the opening of the railway had increased the traffic on this particular road. Hie Honor said he considered it highly necessary, and absolutely important, that this part of the roaijfc immediately required something- done towards improving it. The matter had been brought under his notice by a deputation from Teviot a few days since, and he had it brought under the notice of the Executive, and it would come up again at the Executive meeting to-morrow. If money could be found, he thought the Government was bound to supply it. After further conversation as to the almost impassable state of the road, and Mi Bastings having pointed out thai; 130,000 acres of land in the district through which the road passes had been sold during the past month, his Honor said it would be the duty of the Government to see what could be done, and if the money could be got bj " hook or crook " the Executive was fullj alive to the importance of the work. The Artillery Band will muster at the Drill shed on Saturday afternoon, at 2 30 p.m. The next Saturday evening Popular Concert will be presided over by Mr J. A. Adams. The general quarterly meeting of the Ayr shire Association will be held in the Pro vincial Hotel, to-morrow (Friday) evening, a' 8 p.m. The Otago Institute intends holding- a con versazione en the 16th instant, which promise to be very successful. Professor Shand wi! provide his spectroscope, Professor Black wi l throw open his laboratory, and several genti* men have arranged to bring microscopes an other appliances of an interesting nature. Th '■ University Hall has been placed at the dis posal of the Institute for the evening.

Messrs Keith and Wilkie have forwarded to us one of their handy little educational works —a table-book for. the use of beginuers in arithmetic ; and an enlarged edition of Moody and Sank<?y's songs and solos set according to the Tonic |Sol-fa method. As indicative of the interest taken in Otago in the revival movement, we may mention that Messrs Keith and Wilkie, besides importing 7,000 copies of Moody and] Sankey's hymns with music and 5,000 wichout music, had 17,500 copies prnited here. Ledge Pride of DunedinSNo. 30,1.0. G.T. held its usual weekly meeting in the Temperance Hall Lodge-room yesterday evening. After the initiation of six members the D.G. W.C.T. Bro. Carr, assisted by Bros. Girvan and Bewley, proceeded to install the officers for the ensuing term as follows :—W.C.T., Bro. P. Wakefield"; W.R.H.S.. Sister Wilson; ff.LEL, S ster Robins; W.S., Bro. Carr; W.A.S., Sister Balloch ; W.F.S., Sister Trotter; W.T., Sister Carr; W.C., Bro. Whitakor; W.M., Bro. Dawson; W.D.M., Sister Dawson; W.J.G., Bro. Foote ; W.G.S., Bro. C. Wakefield. The first number of the ' New Zealand Jurist' (new series) edited by Mr 6. U. Barton, has reached us. If the editor succeeds in carrying out his aims, the work should prove an eminently useful one to the profession. Its publication will be monthly, and the 'Jurist' will, besides containing all the cases of importance decided by the Supreme Court, in its different districts, and by the Court of Appeal, have notes of new decisions in anticipation of full reports ; and with a view to rendering it useful to the Magistrates, cases arising in the inferior courts, and involving novel points of law or practice, will be noted, and at the same time attention be given to an important, but hitherto neglected branch of New Zealand law the law relating to mining. In the critical columns of the current number of the ' Jurist' a deserved tribute is paid to the legal ability, deep research, and thorough acquaintance with mining law of the late Wilson Gray, as shown in his judgmenta ; the intention of the Government to procure a Parliamentary draughsman from England is condemned for a two-fold reason —first, that it would be unjust to the profession in the Colony to assume that a good draughtsman could not be found in its ranks, and equally unsafe to assume that one could be obtained in England for Ll,ooo a year; under the heading of Law Reform, it is urged that the functions of the Supreme Court should be confined to those of a Court of Appeal, presided over by three judges, the present Court of Apppal'to be dispensed with ; the jurisdiction of the District Courts to be increased, so as to include " all pleas, suits, and actions," and that of the Resident Magistrate's Court, reduced to its original limit of L2O ; and in discussing the case of the Solicitor-General v. the Corporation of Dunedin, the editor implies by doubts the soundness of Judge Williams's decision; for he says, "If it is admitted that Corporations can refer matters in dispute to arbitration—and the_ judgment does admit it with a distinction —it would seem to follow, as a necessary consequence, that a question of price may be submitted, as well as any other question." _______________