THE GLOBE. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881. Lyttelton Magistrate's Court.—Wm.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2309, 29 August 1881, Page 2

THE GLOBE. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881. Lyttelton Magistrate's Court. —Wm.

Sage, a chronic vagrant, was sent to gaol for three months at this Court this c orning. Municipal.—The following were nominated to day for the vacant seat* in the City Council: —South-east we-rd, Messrs 8. Manning and 0. P. Hulbert; 8.W., Messrs Tait and 'C. Louisson ; N.W., Messrs Lambert, Bowman and J. P. Oliver; N.E., Messrs | Hiorns, Samuels and Oliver. The polling takes place on September Bth. Fobestbks’ Dramatic Entertainment. — We hear that the Theatre Royal has been (aken for the 2A;h of September by the Foresters’ Dramatic Society for giving their annual performance in aid of the Widow and Orphans’ Fund of the Ancient Order of Foresters. A d ama of sterling interest has been selected and cast, ,#reral rebeaisils having already taken place, end, judging from Ujd oradifcahln performances given by this society in the past, no doubt a bumper house will reward their zealous efforts in aid of a praiseworthy cause. Mr W. S. Addison has, a* usual, been chosen as stage manager, which will be a guarantee that the play will be pEccd on the stage with that gentleman's usual carefulness as regards dresses and decorations. Theatre Eoyal.—A dramatic adaptation of A; Dumas' well-known novel, "The Three Musketeers,” was presented at the Theatre on Saturday evening. The adapter has followed pretty closely the plot of the work, and the result is a rather sensational piece, full sf go and with plenty of dramatic situations. Mr Leake played the part of D’Artignau with much power and success, giving a very vigorous portrayal of the character of the Gascon soldier of fortune. The other parts were well filled. Mr R. W. Rede, favorably known in Christchurch as agood useful actor, has joined the company, and appeared on Saturday night as Buckingham. Mr Rede will be a voluable accession. To-night Mr Leake will take his benefit, when he appears in “ Richard III.” Mr Leake has deservedly made himself a great favorite with hie audience, and though oua cannot agree with the selection of pieces made during the season, his talents as an actor cannct be denied. It is to be hoped that to-night playgoers will muster in strong force. The performance will commence sharp at eight o’clock with “The Rough Diamond,” followed at nine o’clock by “Richard III.” Arrest of Charters—ln another column appears an account of the arrest at Bristol of Mr Charters, Constable Brooks, who war sent to England specially to bring Charters back to Christchurch, appears to have discharged his duty with a great amount of tact and ability. In his report he mentions that (at the time of writing) he was much broken down in health from anxiety and loss of rest, which may well be imagined. The constable and his prisoner were to sail per Wanganui on the 22nd of July. The Mail.—The Union Company’s steamer Wanaka arrived on Saturday afternoon with the Canterbury and Southern portion of the inward mail, via San Francisco. The arrival of the steamer was delayed several hours by thick and heavy weather. The next outward mail, via San Francisco, closes on the 10. h of September. The late Dr. Campbell.—On Saturday telegrams were received from Eiendale, stating that Mr John Campbell, brother to the late Dr. Campbell, had arrived there. Having exhumed the remains of the Doctor, Mrs Campbell, and children, and had them placed in leaden coffins for removal to Christchurch, Mr Campbell will leave Edendole to day, arriving in (Dunedin to-night, and leaving by express for Christchurch on Tuesday moruing, arriving hero the same day. The funeral will take place on Wednesday, at an hour to be named. Wool Dumping.—Tho excessive dumping of wool has become a warm subject at Sydney, A correspondence has taken place in the “Herald,” and from this the “ Mail ” writes and extracts as follows :—“ Mr Chard, who has considerable experience as a broker in this market, says the wool, in the case of many clips, suffers seriously through being excessively dumped, or extra pressed, for shipment. Speaking of the London market, he says—‘ Beautiful washed fleece wools and scoured skin wools, which left Sydney bright, elastic, soft, and sound, are shown for sale caked in a block like wood —dead, yellow, and dull in color, and impossible for buyers to examine. Indeed, in dull times like the present, these wools are not much looked at; and many of the heavy losses this year on these descriptions will be due to overdumping.' ” Corn Exchange. A largely-attended meeting of the members of the Corn Exchange was held on Saturday afternoon, to discuss the railwoy tariff both for goods and passengers, and the advisableness of urging upon the Government the appointment of a Monish r Df Agriculture. The latter part of the business was not practically dealt with, though there was a very general expression of opinion, not mly that such a Minister should be apDointed, but that the farming interest should >6 more largely represented in tho House of lepresentativee. Ultimately a committee vas appointed to collect statistics as to the ffeot the present high rates of carriage of ;rain and stock has upon the farming interest, o report at an adjourned meeting to be held n Saturday next.

Weather Exchange.—Tho_ following is the intercolonial weather eionange, “ a '® d Sydney, Saturday eveningstrong northerly winds from Sydney to Hobart, and heavy rain at the latter station, due to anew depression ly ng westof Taimasia. Barometer— Bathurst,' 3a 1; Portland, 29.8; Gabo and Hobart, 9.5. Dbuidioal Centbnaby. —The celebration of this event, postponed from Thursday las', in consequence of the inclemency of the weather, will take place this evening. As previously arranged, it will take the form of a torchlight procession, a concert (for which a vary attractive programme has b en prepared), and a ball. A large muster is anticipated, as a number of country lodges have Intimated their intention to take part. A Chinaman in Trouble. —I witnessed rather an amusing scene yesterday between a good housewife and a Chinese vegetable hawker in the Tinakori road. “ John,” with the “childlike and bland” simplicity so peculiar to his race, was explaining to the lady that, by the simple process of boiling, his vegetables —oven supposing they contained any germs of small-pox—would become thereby perfectly free from even a suspicion of variola, which would evaporate in the ateam. This explanation rather increased the ire of the dame, who calling to her assistance a strong buxom domestic, “wont for” the almond eyed tiller of the soil. The women, aiming themselves with a pot stick and a rolling pin, proceeded vigorously to “wacisinate” that unlucky Celestial, who, before the operation was completed, appeared to be thoroughly “in-knockulatoJ,” and, judging from the reverse of brisk manner in which ho hobbled off, he is still in quarantine. —Aamodoui,” in the “ New Zealand Mail.” Taking a Lawyer’s Advice. —Any act of self-denial on the part of a lawyer, even though unintentional, is worthy of being recorded. The other day, remarks the “ Bruce Herald,” an individual sought the assistance of a somewhat ancient member of the legal profession, residing in a well-known town on the Otago goldfields. His business was connected with his pecuniary choimstinces, which had become very much involved. Having obtained the advice ho asked what was to pay, and the lawyer modestly estimated his services at half a guinea. He then favored his client with a little bit of advice. Said he, “ If you were as anxious not to pay your debts as yon have boon to pay them you would be a great deal better off.” The man mused for a moment, and said, “ Well, I never looked at the thing in that light before. I think there is something in it, anti will begin at once to act upon your advice. I owe you half a guinea. Good morning.” Ho disappeared, Wanganui Hunt Orur. Steeplechases.— This meeting came off on August 20th. There were four events, including a hack race, the prizes being in all instances pieces of plate. Seven went to the post for the Corinthian Cup, which was the first item on the programme. This race was quite a fiasco, all the horses except Monk going the wrong side of a post. Fashion led all the way, finishing in front of Monk, but as Fashion had gone inside the post Monk was declared the winner. A trio saddled up for the Hunt Club Handicap. Mr Ohevanne’s Mustong was the favorite, but he refused the first fence. Satanella took the first fence at the same jump, and the others at the second time of asking, getting a strong lead. The Cure, who had taken the wrong course at the start, now came up, but put her rider down at the double, Satanella thus winning easily. The Ladies’ Purse, for which five weighted out, was the race of the day, three of them being well in it to the finish. The favorite Haw thorne refused the first jump, and was never in the hunt. Monk cut out the work, with Dhudoea and Bully in close attendance. Monk gradnlly increased his lead and the race seemed over, but he fell at the double the second time round, and while Mr Higgle was remounting the other two caught him. Bully and Monk now raced stride for si ride, thinking it was the last round. Cully was first disposed of, and Dhudesn, who seems to have been very well and patiently ridden by his fwner, Dr. Connelly, passed Monk at the last fence, and settling the pretensions of Monk in a few strides won comfortably by three lengths A curious thing happened in the Hack Race, for which five went to the post. The field all came up the straight at such a pace that four of them could not make the turn forborne, and Sandfly, who was last all the way, being the only ore who got round, won the race, to the greal|amusemont of the spectators. Suicide on a General Referring to the suicide of General Uohatius, the Vienna correspondent of the “ Daily News” says : —“ No one knows tho motives which prompted this unhappy gentleman, who was seventy years of ago, to proceed to such an extremity. He lived on tho best terms with his family and relatives, but it is supposed that tho trials of military life were the causes of his rash act. Some persons even assert that he had been deeply wounded in his amour propro by a slight blame attached to him relative to some pieces of artillery made under his orders. Ha died without leaving any clue to the reason of his suicide. . A sheet of paper was found on his desk bearing the following words, written with a firm hand:—‘To all who are dear to me—Forgive mo, but I can no longer bear my existence.’ General TJohatius’ invention—the manufacture of guns from steel and bronze alloy—dates from 1874, and the cannon were introduced into tho Austrian army in 1876. At that time the choice was offered of the Krupp steel gur.s and of Uohatius bronze and steel weapon, and tho latter was decided upon. Tho transformation of artillery materiel has cost 18,000,00011. The Uohatius cannon wore used for the first time in Bosnia, and results have been satisfactory, although in that mountain country the field-pieces had not an opportunity to showing all they could do. The Emperor, who is now at Pesfeh, wus informed of the tragic end of General Uehatius, and was much affected thereby, Tho suicides of generals are unhappily very frequent in the Austrian army, and it is precisely the most capable of them who thus end their days, as was the case with Gsnerala John Qableoz and Tegethoff.”

BosrBTHiN& Lies a Fraud.—A German cashier, the confidant of the firm of Dolfus, Meig and Co., of Muhlhauaen and Paris, has been arrested on a charge of having ombtzzled nearly two millions of francs (£80,000). The prisoner, Emile Doerr, has bdou for nineteen years in the same employ, and the salary he received lately has enabled him to live in a style which prevented him from being suspected. A watch was set on him, and a detective was placed in the office. The latter soon gained the confidence of the cashier, and discovered that Doerr indulged in financial speculations, led on by unscrupulous men in whose power he had placed himself. Information was given, and by this time about half-a-dozen arrests have been made of persons who have been the accomplices of the unfaithful cashier, and who could not help knowing where he got the money from.

F. Archer is now well in front at the head of the list of successful jockeys, as with 72 he is 23 in front of O. Wood with 49, Cannon standing third on record with 30 wins. The popular jockey rode ten winners at Ascot, and it may be mentioned that at the finish o. the Royal meeting last year he headed tho poll with 39 wins, or little more than half his present total. Robert the Devil won tho Ascot Gold Cup in smin 12seo, the time taken by Isonomy last year being 4min 45sec, while in 1879 Mr Gretton’s colt occupied smin 12seo. In 1878, when Yerneuil was successful, the record was 4min SOaeo; in 1877 Petrarch occupied 4min 33sec; Apology, in 1876, 4min 45seo ; and Doncaster, in 1875, 4min 39seo. Sir John Aatley has not been long in getting back the £SOOO odd he gave for Peter. The horse ran in blinkers when he won the Hardwicke Stakes, and the additional precaution of cantering him the reverse way of the course was taken.

Sir J. D. Astloy gave 500 gs for the throe-year-old filly by Hermit out of Rylatono’s dam, the winner of the Soiling Welter Plate at Windsor. Tho filly has since been named Btona 11.

The Epsom Q-rancl Prizs of ISB3 —The conditions of the Epsom Grand Prize of 1883 will be the same as those for the inaugural one, lOOOsovs being added for the winner, while the breeder of the winner will receive 200 sots. At the Oobham Sale twenty lots wore sold, those which did not change hands being Nos. 10 and 11. These will be sent to Doncaster. The sale realised 6080 gs, or an average ot 304 gs. We hear that Lord Alington has purchased Peregrine, the Two Thousand winner, who will, however, remain in Pock’s stable. The price is reported as being 7000 gs, and Lord Alington is credited with having a partner in the transaction. Peregrine missed hio Goodwood engagements so as to have an uninterrupted preparation for the St. Leger,