MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 4260, 21 October 1876, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

At the Auckland Police Court the other day Mr Donne, J. P., n called atten tion to drunkards being 'With drunkenness, without qhotine the special. law broken. The of Police said drunkards usually pleaded' guilty. Mr Donne replied that tWcharg© should be so couched' as to tenable the accused to plead his offence. •■-■'"—' Roberts played Mr Perkins, of. Auckland, on the 18th October,' giving him 500 out of 1000 points, -Roberts won ?L 3S r£° m K hi ? «*•»*"* break being , \ ? following shows ;the times of the hundreds -.—First hundred, 12min • second,' smins.; .third," 13mifis; r j > fourth,' 19mms.; fifth, 14mins.; sixth, lOmins.; seveuth, llmins.; eighth, ; ninth, I2min.; tenth, 20mins... -Duration, of game, 2hrs. 16mins. To-night the champion plays Weston, giving,, ,him ; 500, points. The two champions afterwwlsi play best three of five games at pyramids. At Shdrtlaad on Thursday** polioemaa smelt burning in Mr Rnighfs iwrtoher shop, and on raising an alarm a boy named Fetley was found in bed "with his shirVai&luiir partially burnt. Had the aiscovpry not bean made he would probably have been burnt to .death. ~.-..-, , > ~.: > .;•;,,.;jv

In the Blue Spnr case ,oa Mr Stout, for Mr M'lntbah, Succeeded *in getting the eaWe throyrh out, Judge .Harvey rulbg',that, he 'jurisdiction. Tto ■ case win ,now be tried, before thp [ Supreme" Court. -It is Qfg^at4mpbri^ee, t aß affect* ing the purchase. pi shares - through an agent. The whole of the shearers who had been engaged by Sir Cracroft Wilsbn for shearing at Cashmere struck, work yJesterdajL in con. sequence of the price offered'pMfoObeuiff 175,6 d instead of .LI. IVlfttriESfewß the .'Lytteltou Times') undw! standing has been come,to By alt'jbto«hearers in the Province, to demand:LX»er this year;;'. :; ■~ ~ r% ., , K .Vj : /^ oj# . - fcome few months ago ■we? mentioned that a Mr Broomball,'bf Surrey, England, was about visiting New-2fealand"ior-the , purpoße of taking up land in New Zealand. He has arrived by the last mail, and. in reterence to him the / Hawke's Bay Herald' has the following :—Mr J, Broomhall is a of the County of -urrey, England, and a director of the Temperance Life Assurance Office, which number? 32,000 policy-holders, and has has an accumulated capital of L.2,000 000, has come out to the Colony for the purpose of endeavoring to form a settlement on temperance principles, and. has .proposed to the leading men of the tßnp&KnjßgjMfr in England that they should endeavdf to form a settlement in New Zealand on temperance principles, instancing the prosperity of the Provinces of Otago aid-Canterbury, both of which were founded on special class interests. The <Vhitworth Brothsrsj! of; ■ Manchester, the well-known members of Parliament, and leaders of the temperance movement, who are also employers of 45,000 men, have been interested by Mr Fox in the enterprise, as well as other equally wealthy gentlemen. Mr Broomhall informs u* that he was detained in, California by a number of banking gentlemen, who' represented to him that numbers of people were constantly leaving New Zealand foY California, efforts were made to. induce him to! purchase a large tract of land mortgaged to the late banking firm of Temple and Workman. Our cute Yankee friends appear to have made no little impression on Mr Broomhall, as he showed us a contract for the sale of 100,000 of land, with most elaborate plans, attested. before the l British Consul of San Francisco, and, which simply awaits oonfir* matibn or otherwise in. eyent of Mr Broomhall not being' able. tb'_obtain a. suitable block in this The formal opening of the new Presbyterian Church at Timaru took place on Sunday, when the large'ohuroh wfs filled in every part. TJ» fitoaofepreaohed fram Isaiah lxii.p 1\ -tfntfihe afternoon a short service was, holder the children, when the. Rev. Mr Will.delivered * short address, followed by thy. Rev! Mr r (ffflies. In the evening the cHurch, was? again filled, when Ithe Rev. Mr Witf c*ra4ucJed,,thß service. ! ThecoUectionamoiintedito,ii6fcsios. The new church, which is Tjy far £h«umost prominent structure in Timaru, was designed 'by Mr R. ;A. Lawson, ofiDrinedin. The ' original contractor waß'Mr Johtos«Slves, ■also ;ot Dunedin, but in of hig. abandoning the work '■ J wnetf*W was about half complete it' *waa 'MWJuiJhand by Messrs Uibbs and Olayiibn 'bTOttwdin, who to .frWapeeßsful issue. The , contract price vras*m2t)33ut this has beta • MM™'*™