NEWS OF THE DAY

Globe, Volume I, Issue 62, 11 August 1874, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

R.M. Court, Ashburton. —Mr Stephen Edward Poynfz has been gazetted clerk to the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Ashburton^

Theatre Royal. —The programme of Saturday evening was repeated last night t® a good house. To-night the De (Jastro Family take a benefit, when we hope to see a crowded house. Gold Export. —The quantity of gold exported from New Zealand in the quarter ending on the 30th of June was 91,1780z5. The total quantity shipped from the Ist of April, 1857, to the 30th June last, was 7,423,7lOozs., valued at £28,873,351. Registrars of Marriages, &c.- The following gentlemen have been appointed registrars of marriages, and of births, deaths, and marriages, and also vaccination inspectors iu the districts named. Mr H. Forward, for the Temuka district ; Mr Belfield Woolcombe for the Timaru district, and Mr J. Kirabell for the Mount Cook district. The Late captain Hart. —Mr Smith, of the Combination Troupe, has, we understand, arranged to give a performance on Thursday evening, under the patronage of his Worship the Mayor of Christchurch, the Mayor of Lyttelton, and the captains of all the merchant vessels in port, for the widow and orphans of the late Captain Hart. An extra train will be run in the evening, and we hope to see a crowded house. Acclimatisation. —The “ Bruce Herald ” says:—Mrs J. Bruce, of West Tokomairiro, has quite a number of Rowan trees growing in her garden, now covered with their beautiful scarlet berries. What with purple heather, bouuie broom, rowan berries, blue bells, with sweet briar, and hedge roses, while “ invisible in fleeced sky, the lark pours down her minstrelsy,”—Tokomairiro bids fair to become a real chip from old Scotia. Lyttelton Volunteer Artillery.— Th's battery proceeded to Battery point for shot and shell practice at 2 p.m., yesterday. The shooting was very good considering the amount of practice the battery has had during the last few months. Colonel Packe was present. A deputation waited on the Mayor during the afternoon lo ask the Council for a silo for the erection of a drill shed. The Major received the deputation courteously, and promised to bring the matter before the Council. School Drill. —Mr Walker, the drillinstructor appointed by the Board of Education. visited the Lyttelton schools yesterday and was much pleased with the children. They went through the exercises capitally, including the difficult bayonet drill, and their inspector slates that they are fully equal to any school iu the province. They arc indebted iu a great measure to Mr Ross, their master, for this, as he has taken great pains with them. The Orphanage.— The improvements in the alterations of the Orphanage at Lyttelton are proceeding rapidly. The centre portion of the building is being raised another story high in order to allow of its accommodating eighty more boarders. The entire building is beautifully clean in spite of the repairs, the bedding being especially noticeable. The garden is very neatly kept, and the fences iu excellent repair, an exceptional thing in Lyttelton, where most of them arc very ragged. They are making three great concrete tanks to supply the Orphanage wit h water, and these when completed will hold nearly 40,000 gallons. When the repairs arc completed a detailed account of improvements will be given.

Fire Police. —The annual meeting of the members of the Fire Police was held last evening at Morton’s Hotel, Mr H. E. Alport in the chair. There was a very good attendance. Captain Mitchell reported that during the year the police had not been called into requisition, no fires occurring during that period. There was a balance in hand to credit of £lO Is 7d. Correspondence was read from the City Council, conveying their thanks for the services of the force during the past year. Captain Mitchell stated that his Worship the Mayor would enrol those only who were entered on the officers’ lists. Thirty-four members then put down their names for service during 1874-5. At the conclusion of the proceedings Captain Mitchell’s health and that of the other officers was proposed by Mr W. J. Fisher, and drunk enthusiastically, Mr Superintendent Harris remarking that the Fire Brigade had always received the greatest possible assistance from the Fire Police and its officers. Captain Mitchell, Messrs Alport and F. A. Bishop, having responded, the meeting broke up.

Parliamentary. —According to the “New Zealand Times ” Parliament will have some important business brought before it during the present week. Our contemporary of Saturday last says : —Some curiosity was manifested in thejllouse last night as to what course the Government proposed to take with reference to the Government business during the remainder of the session. In answer to Mr Reader Wood, who stated that the House was desirous of hearing what the Government proposed to do as to provincial borrowing, and the eleemosynary gifts which it was intended to make to some of the provinces that were in great tribulation on the subject, Mr Vogel remarked that it was hoped that the Licensing Bill would be disposed of on Monday. Early in the week he intended to give effect to the financial proposals indicated in his Excellency’s speech. It was probable that (lie contemplated arrangements with Nelson and Wellington would be embraced in a separate Bill. Among other things it |was proposed to increase the salaries of the Commissioners of Audit. On Wednesday and Thursday, there would be but little private business to do, and it might be possible to get on with some Government business. Early next week, also, he hoped to bring in a Bill on the subject of payment of members. In answer to Mr Mervyn, Mr Vogel stated that he would make his statement on the subject of immigration in the course of next week. Mr Fitzherbert hoped that the Premier would place the House in possession of his views on the subject of immigration before he asked the House to sanction a loan for immigration and public works. In reply, Mr Vogel said he quite recognised the right of the House to the information asked for, but at the same time it might not be convenient to make the speech before Tuesday. Ho would not proceed with the measures he now proposed beyond the second reading until he had made his statement. Mr Fitzherbert thought the new Bills the Committee were asked to consider should be circulated early. Mr Vogel replied that both Bills were ready and would be circulated at once. A Bill to amend the Public Revenues Act, and a Bill for raising a loan for immigration and public works, were then read a first time.

Board of Education. The usual weekly meeting of the Board took place yesterday. Present Messrs G, G. Bowen (chairman), luglis, Knight, J. N. Tosswill, T. W. Maude, and Kennaway, Mr J, Q. Walker, drill instructor to the Board, attended with a ground plan of the proposed gymnasium at the Normal school, and explained the requirements which would be needed there, Mr Strouts, architect of the Kaiapoi Borough school, attended the Board with reference to the accommodation provided at the school, and the division into class rooms, &c., proposed by the committee, The report of the sub-iilspector on the various schools for the month of July was read. The question of the purchase of the land at «St. Albans necessary to widen the road to the school was referred to the committee, with power to act. A letter was read from the Board of Examiners, stating that they had classed Mr W. B. Ward in the second division of the second class ; Mr H. W. Nicless in the third class, without determining his grade ; and that they had classed Mr Watkins in the second division of the second class ’ Mr Warnock, holding a Nelson provisional certificate, was classed in the third class without grade at present. The business done by the chairman during the week was approved. A letter was read from Lyttelton, stating that Miss Heston had resigned, and the committee suggested the appointment of two pupil teachers to fill the vacancy. The ‘Board agreed to sanction the suggestion of the committee. A request from the Harewood road school committee to erect a library building in connection with the school was sanctioned, with an expression of opinion from the Board that the addition should be the same width and height as the original building. Home further business was transacted, and the Board adjourned.

O.V.F.B.—Last evening his Worship the Mayor and the members of the City Council invited the members of the Fire Brigade and Fire Police to meet together at the Fire Brigade Hall, Lich field-street, on the occasion of the former donning their new uniforms for the first time. His Worship the Mayor occupied (he chair, supported by Crs lek, Lane, Hobbs, Calvert, Farr, Jones, Bishop, Dr Foster, Captain Mitchell. Mr Superintendent Harris, and Mr Goi'dou. A goodly supply of liquids 'having been duly paraded on the table, his Worship gave the first toast, “ Prosperity to the Christchurch Fire Brigade,” coupled with the name of Mr Superintendent Harris. In the course of Ids remarks his Worship paid a high tribute of praise to the Fire Brigade and Mr Harris. The toast was warmly received. Mr Harris responded, thanking his Worship for the kindly way in which he had spoken of the brigade, and mentioning that as it had been thought the brigade cost the ratepayers a lot of money, he had made it his business (o inquire, and found that all it cost out of the rates was £2OO per annum, which was little enough for an efficient body of men such as they were acknowledged to ho. The Mayor then gave “ The Fire Police,” coupled with Captain Mitchell and Mr Fire Inspector Bishop, remarking upon the good feeling and unanimity which had always characterised the two bodies of the Fire Brigade and Fire Police. Captain Mitchell and Mr Bishop responded. The other toasts were “The Insurance Companies,” responded to by Messrs 1). Craig and J A. Bird ; “ The City Council,” responded to by his Worship the Mayor ; and “The Press,”

The Member for Lyttelton.— The Wellington “Evening Post” says: —Mr Webb, the member for Lyttelton, has strong grounds of complaint against most of the press reporters, and against the Press Agency in particular. He has been systematically mistaken for and confounded with Mr G. B. Parker. This would be a doubtful compliment at any time, but it must be particularly annoying to Mr Webb to find credit given to Mr Parker for all he says or does. Mr Webb does not speak very often or very long, but when he does speak what he says is always sensible and to the point. Mr Parker’s constituents, reading the telegraphic summaries, must really have been astonished at the groat improvement manifested this session by their representative.

The Member for Waitemata. The Auckland “ Herald ” of the 6th says : —Mr Gustav Yon der Heyde was officially declared yesterday at noon, by the deputy returning officer, duly elected as a member of the General Assembly to fill the vacant seat for the district of Waitemata, caused by the resignation of Mr Thomas Henderson. We have heard that it is the intention of the defeated candidate to petition against Mr Von der Heyde retaining his scat, upon the ground that although he holds letters of naturalization for another colony (South Australia), these credentials of his loyalty and obedience to the Crown are not applicable here. We know that it has been a prevailing impression among lawyers and men generally well-informed, that when a man has been naturalized for any one portion of Her Majesty’s British possessions he has been naturalized for all of them. This dictum is now disputed in connection with the Waitemata election. The following from an Act intituled An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Aliens, passed by both Houses in October, 186(5, shows this not to be correct: —When any person resident in New Zealand has previously obtained any certificate or letters of naturalisation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any part thereof, or in any British colony on the continents of Australia, Africa, or America, or in the colony of Tasmania, and desires to be naturalised in New Zealand, if he submit such certificate to the Governor in Council, and if he further state in his memorial as aforesaid that he is the person named in such certificate, and that the same has been obtained without any fraud or intentional false statement, and that the signature and the seal, if any, thereto arc, to the best of his belief and knowledge, genuine, the Governor may at his discretion grant the letters of naturalisation, without requiring from the applicant any further residence in New Zealand, or (if the applicant has previously taken a similar oath) the oath prescribed by this Act. Every alien now residing in or who hereafter comes to reside in any part of the colony, and being the subject of a friendly State, may by grant, lease, demise, assignment, bequest, representation, or otherwise, take and hold any lands, houses, or other tenements for the purpose of residence or of occupation by him or her, or his or her servants, or for the purpose of any business, trade, or manufacture, for any term of years not exceeding twenty-one years, as fuliy and effectually to all intents and purposes, and with the same rights, remedies, exemptions, and privileges (except the right to be a member of the Parliament of the colony and to vote at elections for members of Parliament of the colony and to vote at elections for members of Parliament) as if he were a natural born subject of the United Kingdcm. The above clauses would appear to clearly indicate Mr Yon der Heyde’s position, and what course a man naturalised as a British subject in a sister colony should pursue when he takes up his residence in another, Mr Yon der Heyde long back was gazetted a Justice of the Peace, and he has also held a commission as an officer of volunteers. Of course it does not follow that for this reason he is to be allowed to sit in our Colonial Parliament. Still it is so apparent Mr Von de Heyde sought his candidature and obtained his election in all good faith, that the question arises whether this gentleman’s return snould not be sanctioned by a short Bill introduced into the House declaring him to be a duly naturalised subject of this part of Her Majesty’s dominions. Such a procedure is not wanting in precedent to support it.