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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4205, 11 September 1874, Page 2

A Gazette of Thursday, September 10, notifies that the Hon. Harry Albert Atkinson has been appointed by the Governor to be a member of the Executive Council, and that Mr. Atkinson has been appointed Seci’etary for Crown Lands. Mr. Atkinson has also bee# appointed Land Claims Commissioner, ana Minister for Immigration, vice the Hon Mr. Vogel, “whose resignation of that office His Excellency has accepted.” The following gentlemen have been appointed Justices of the Peace for the Colony : —Edward Adams, Arapao, Kaipara, Auckland ; Harry Allwright, Lyttelton, Canterbury ; Thomas Hamilton Anson, Courtenay, Canterbury ; Christopher Basstian, Dunrobin Station, Otago; Alexander Campbell Begg, Dunedin ; Frank Campbell Boyes, Frankton, Otago ; John Bryce, Wanganui, Wellington ; Thomas Coates, Eyton, Pahi, Kaipara, Auckland ; John' Cosgrave, Auckland; Edward Stafford Coster, Mount Hutt, Canterbury ; George James Dennistoun, Haldon Station, Mount Cook, Canterbury ; Edward Elworthy, Timaru, Canterbury;. George Henderson, Blenheim; Edward Herbert, Lawrence, Otago ; Samuel Hewlings, Christchurch ; George Schwartz Kissling, Auckland ; Martin Lightband, Nelson; Henry Lyon, Riverton, Otago ; John McGregor, Barwood Station, Otago ; John McNeil, Balclutha, Otago; George Wilsden Mcßae, Tekoa, Amuri, Nelson ; John Macfarlano Ritchie, Dunedin ; John Charles Watts Russell, Christchurch ; James Sclanders, Nelson ; William Seccombs, Whangarei, Auckland; William Jukes Steward, Waitaki, Otago ; Robert George Davis Tosswill, Timaru, Canterbury; John Wallace, Flat Bush, Otahuhu, Auckland; Patricio Grieve Wilson, Opunake, Taranaki ; Thomas Wilson, Manutahi, Taranaki. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday only one case of drunkenness was before the Bench. Frank Bradley and Alfred Arueh, on remand for an indecent assault, were committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court to be held in Wellington. James Pearce was sent to prison for four weeks, with hard labor, for deserting from the ship Strathnaver. James Moyle ■was remanded until Monday, on a charge of stealing, £l6 16s. 6d. from Richard Waters, at Napier. He was arrested in Wellington, on arriving as a passenger by the ship Halcione. The only civil case dealt with was Finnucane v. Williamson, £1 18s., in which judgment was given for the amount and costs. It has already been stated that, on the Saturday previous to the prorogation of the Assembly, there was an explanation given by Mr. Reynolds regarding some remarks which were made in the previous session by Mr. Bathgate, relating to Mr. George Donne, as agent for the Curator of Intestate Estates in Nelson. The following is the Hansard report of the remarks by Mr. Reynolds : —“Since last session, there has been a correspondence going on between Mr. Donne and the Minister of Justice, with regard to certain remarks which were made in reference to some charges made by him in the execution of his duties as agent to the Curator of Intestate Estates in the Province of Nelson. Mr. Donne came to Wellington during the recess, and after full investigation by the Public Trustee, it turns out that the costs then complained of by the Minister of Justice were actually and xmavoidably incurred. No doubt, Mr. Bathgate was fully justified in making the statement he did from the papers he had before him, aiid it was only after Mr. Donne’s explanation that the Government have been able to come to a correct conclusion; ami as Mr. Donne feels aggrieved that the charge should appear in Hansard without being explained, after the facts of the case have become known to the Government, I think it but justice to him that this statement should be made, and I feel assured that, had Mr. Bathgate been in the House, he would have been only too willing to have made it himself.” Mr. Edward Pryce Houghton has been authorised to act as Vice-Consul for Germany at Dunedin, during the absence of Mr. Henry Houghton, the German Consul. > It intimated in the Gazette that Mr. E. H. Carcw has been appointed Resident Magistrate for the district of Clutha, with extended jurisdiction, during the absence on leave of Mr. J. P. Maitland, and that he has also been appointed auditor of Courts of Law Trust Accounts for the same district. A lecture, postponed from last week, owing to the inclemency of the weather, was delivered in the Dixon Street Schoolroom last night by the Rev. J. Paterson. The subject chosen was “John Knox,” and the rev. lecturer treated it in a very instructive and interesting manner, securing the undivided attention of his audience from beginning to end. . A great deal of harm is sometimes done by deliberate misstatements ; and more is occasionally the result of thoughtless and hasty misrepresentations of fact. AVe observe, for example, that a correspondent in New Zealand has written a letter to the Wallaroo Times , warning working men against proceeding to that Colony. He says “if a man with a family once gets there he can never earn sufficient money to enable him to get away again.” Whether the unfounded statement thus made was wilful or accidental matters little ; it is a flagrant untruth, and, unchecked, calculated to do a deal of harm in prejudicing men’s minds ignorantly and unfavorably to the Colony. The City Council of Auckland are applying for tenders for £20,000 secured on the city endowments. These arc daily becoming of greater value. The rentals now amount to nearly £3OOO per annum, and in the course of a few years will, by the falling in of present leases, more than double the present receipts. Sections 3 and 31 in Queen Street are covered with valuable brick buildings. “Emerson,” remarks the New York “says that people can always find .gold if they will only dig for it. It seems that many wise pioneers who sought gold in California have found wheat. An estimate of the harvest for this year alone is that after deducting the amount of wheat used for homo consumption, enough will remain for exportation to double the amount exported last year by Russia, much larger indeed than that exported by the rest of the United States. It would be an odd and, at the same time a gratifying circumstance if the land of gold should become the land of wheat, and richer from its wheat than ,it could ever have been from its gold.”

We learu that the English Ojtera Company have been so successful at Napier that they have been induced to remain there for another week. They will not open their season in Wellington, therefore, till Monday, the 21st , instant. It was asserted lately that the townspeople of Port Chalmers were strongly disposed to the resolutions relating to the abolition of Provinces. The Guardian asserts to the contrary, in the following paragraph :—“ We have been requested to contradict a statement made in the columns of our contemporary the Times to the effect that the feeling of the people of Port Chalmers was in favor of the stand taken by their representative (Mr. Macandrew) in re the abolition of the Northern Provinces. We are assured that the contrary is the case, the majority of the inhabitants, indeed, being prepared to go much farther than Mr. Vogel’s present Bill, and advocate the doing away with the Southern Provinces also. The too-confi-dent representative of the Times , it seems, was betrayed into the belief that the opinion of a well-known member of the Town Council, might be taken as the opinion of the entire community.” In the “ personals ” of a late number of the New York Herald occur the following curious announcements :—“ A beautiful male infant for adoption. Can be seen after one o’clock, at 553, Third Avenue, top floor front.” “Belle Emerson would like to hear from an old friend, Harry or Jerry. Address B. E.” “ A beautiful male infant for adoption—French and American parentage. Call at Private Lying-in Institute, 120, West 26th Street.” “Ethel—T will never be angry with you, as I know well all you are worth, but I must see you at least once more, if possible this week; be cautious and come aftei’wards let your will be done.—P. ClieroiiD.” “Frank—l have arrived home; please call at 233,—Annie Lee.” “Fifth Avenue Stage to 14th Street, Wednesday afternoon. The gentleman who wrote the words, ‘ Herald Personal ’ on newspaper and showed it to lady on his left will thank her if she will send address, saying when and where he can meet her. In strictest confidence. Mention circum : stances to avoid mistake. Herbert, W., Box 109, Herald office.’’ “My friends are invited to join with me in the celebration of the ninety-ninth anniversary of our national independence, at my residence, 195th Street, near Tenth Avenue ; the grounds will be open from 12 m. to 10 p.m.; my enemies may visit and enjoy my hospitality for that day only.—Felix Armstrong, Contractor.” Blondin the Great, “ the hero of Niagara,” does things on a large scale. He is now in Sydney, where he is to appear in the outer Domain. He was to show for the first time on the 29th ultimo, and for his performances “a moat monstrous” tent had been erected, capable of holding from 18,000 to 20,000 people. “This tent, which M. Blondin has brought with him,” says the Herald , “Is.said to be the largest in existence—far excelling in size the celebrated tent in which Mr. Barnum’s menagerie was exhibited. The Theatre itself will be 250 feet in length, by 200 broad, with sides of canvas 00 feet high, and of course open at the top. An outer enclosure surrounds the tent, 100 feet long by SOO feet broad. The sidfes of the tent will be sustained by strong poles, let into the ground, and secured by numerous guys. The masts which support the rope on which the performer goes through his evolutions will be about the same height as the tent, and the rope will be steadied by guys, fastened to stakes firmly driven into the ground.”