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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4301, 4 January 1875, Page 2

The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court begin this morning at ten o’clock. There are only four cases down for hearing, but these will probably occupy two clays, as Brown’s case is likely to be a long one. The list of cases is as follows :—Robert Taylor, assault on Hr. Waldin at the Upper Hutt ; William Brown, false pretences; William McWha, false pretences ; Ivor Geilgaarcl, larceny from a dwelling, two charges. The s.s. Macgregor, from San Francisco, with the English mail, was duo in Auckland on the Ist instant. She had not been telegraphed up to the hour at which we went to press this morning. The Customs’ revenue collected at the port of Wellington, for the week ending January 2, amounted to £1454 10s, Bd. The amount for the month of December was £10,430 7s. 9d., against £7509 16s. fir the corresponding month of 1873. The revenue collected at Wellington for the year just ended amounted to £124,330 os. lid ; the amount for the year 1873 being £88,560 6s. sd.

The following is a return of patients in the Provincial Hospital during and ending the month of December, 1874: —Admitted —males, ten; females, three. Discharged—males, eight; females, two. Died males, one ; females, none. Left in Hospital—males, twenty-nine ; females, four. Total in Hospital, thirty-three. The heavy rains of the past few days have exposed the want of drainage in the neighborhood of the piece of reclaimed laud on Lamb-ton-quay. At present there is a small lake on the quay, which will probably soon disappear iu the present warm weather, but the occurrence shows that the matter had better not be neglected till the wet weather seta iu. George Stewart, the Sandridge incendiary was brought up at the Police Court on Saturday, and remanded to Sandridge, the Victorian constable having arrived and identified him as the real Simon Pure, notwithstanding the prisoner's protestation to the police here. Stewart had been a resident of Sandridge for thirty years.

About ten inebriates were brought up at the Police Court on Saturday, and appropriately dealt with. Andrew Duncan and Henry Earl, for creating' a disturbance at the Cricketer's Arms Hotel on the previous evening, were fined 20s. each. AVilliam Watson, alias Amos, was charged with stealing 15s. from a fellow lodger, and remanded till Thursday. Three cases of suspected lunacy, induced by drink, were dealt with, and the Court adjourned. The . Masterton child-poisoning case is likely to come up in another form, as the parents of the child are not at all satisfied with the result of the coroner’s inquiry. Itwill be remembered that the child died through strychnine being substituted by the chemist in mistake for worm powder. The case has been placed in the hands of the Crown prosecutor, Mr. Izard, who has not yet decided whether or not the matter shall be allowed to remain as it stands at present. The Wanganui Chronicle of the 29th ultimo writes as follows on the prospects of Wellington ;—“ Of late Wellington has aroused herself. There arc now evidences of life and determination and vigor manifested along her streets and quays and wharves, which are entirely new ; and there is now so much traffic, that more wharf accommodation is urgently required ; and it may soon become a question where the space for the wharfage of the future is to be obtained. If this be the case now, what will it be when the trains from north and east pour into Wellington their contents, and when they have to wait anxiously for the minute to take in their return freight for the vast country beyond ? Wo think that the very brightness of the future that is before Wellington aifords one very strong reason—with many others besides—why no expense should be spared to provide at least one outlet on this west coast for its produce, and a more direct point of contact with the west coast and inland country of the other island than can be afforded by the harbor of Wellington.”

The will of the late Baron A. Rothschild is remarkable, says the New York Herald, for the sense of piety toward his late father, which pervades the whole document, consisting of twenty-five articles. Paragraph 20 is as follows ;—“ I exhort all my beloved children always to live in harmony, never to loosen family bonds, to avoid all differences, dissensions, and litigations, to use forbearance toward each other and not to allow temper to get the better of them, and to be friendly in their disposition. My children possess a good example in their excellent grandparent. Friendliness was always the sure condition to the happiness and success of the whole Rothschild family. May my children now and never lose sight of this family tradition, and may they follow the exhortation of my late father, their grandfather, contained in paragraph 15 of his last will and testament, always to remain true and faithful, and without changing, to the paternal faith of Israel.”