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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4338, 13 February 1875, Page 4

The Albion, with the incoming Suez mail, had not been telegraphed from The Bluff when we went to press this morning. The Gazette intimates the following appointments :—J. N. Williams, Esq., J.F., to be a member of the Licensing Court for the district of Ngaruroro ; A. St. Hill, Esq., and A Price, Esq., for Porangahau ; J. F. Rookstraw, Esq., forFoxton, in room of J. T. Dalrymple, Esq., resigned ; Viggo Mourad, Esq.', J.P., for Palmerston, Vice E. T. Thynne, Esq., resigned ; W. Beresford, Esq., J.. 17. Cambridge, Esq., and H. C. Jones, Esq., for the Clyde ; and S. Thorpe, Esq., J.P., T. Field, Esq., and R. Whyte, Esq., for the Buffer; F. W. Ruck, Esq., to be Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court at Napier, and acting clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court for Napier and Waipukurau, and clerk of the licensing bench for the -town of Napier ; E. A. Learmouth, -to be lieutenant in the Ist Westland Rifle Volunteers ; and J. Owen Lord, to be clerk in the office of Commissioner of Stamp Duties vice J ohn Ellis, resigned. The following tenders have been received by the Provincial Government for forming and metalling 118 chains of the Foxton and San-don-road contract No. 1 :—Accepted—Wm. Murray, £7 16s, per chain. Declined—A. Campbell, £9 18s.; A. Stewart, £9 95.; D. Johnston, £lO 9s. 6d.; A. H. Tide and Co., £ll ;D. McKay, £1339 the whole. Also for forming and metalling 92 chains rood contract No. 2 :—Accepted—B. Eglinton, £7 ss. per per chain. Declined —A. H. Thle, ££7 7s. 6d.; Wm. Murray, £7 10s.; A. Stewart, £9 95.; A. Campbell, £9 18s.; D. McKay, £759 the whole.

The Rev. Charles Clark will leave for Napier on Monday next. Councillor Burretl has sent in his resignation of his seat at the City Council Board as a representative of Thorndon Ward. Mr. Burrett, we hear, Intends shortly to visit England. His Honor Sir George A. Arney, the Chief Justice, arrived at Ohristchurch from Hokitika, on Saturday evening last, and became the guest of Mr. Justice Gresson. During the month of January two slight shocks of were reported—one at Napier on the 14th, and one at Cape Campbell on the 27th of the month.

We are requested to inform the members of the Star team that a coach will leave the A.O. barracks at 8 o’clock to-morrow (Sunday) morning, to catch the train to the Hutt. A telegram from Christchurch states that Mr. Joshua Strange Williams, Chief Registrar of Lands, has accepted a Judgeship offered to him by the Government.

Baker’s Hibernicon troupe appeared last night at the Masonic Hall, Lower Hutt, when a very large number of the residents of the valley assembled to greet them. This evening the entertainment will be repeated in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, for the last time in Wellington. The traffic on the Hutt railway for the month of January (excluding the last day of the month) amounted to £465 2s. Bd., of which sum passengers contributed £4ll 4s. Bd., and goods £53 18s. The parting dinner to be given to Mr. John Martin will take place in the Panama -Hotel on Monday evening. It is anticipated that there will be a very large' attendance. His ■ Honor the Superintendent will preside, and George Hunter, Esq., will occupy the vice-chair. The patients on Somes Island are progressing favorably. Yesterday there were but twelve in the hospital, but it is expected that a month from thepresent time will have elapsed before the last of the Berar’s passengers leaves the quarantine station. From a statement in the Gazette as to the accounts of the Nelson Savings Bank for the. past year, we observe that during 1874 sums amounting to £5346 13s. sd. were deposited, and £4530 withdrawn. The number of depositors was 618, at whose credit there was a sum of £14,737 19s. lid. The immigrants are being rapidly despatched by the Immigration Department. Twenty who arrived by the Berar were sent on to Nelson yesterday by the Ladybird, there to be conveyed by the Kennedy to Hokitika. One of Mr. Hastwell’s waggons yesterday morning started for the Wairarapa, with thirty German immigrants and their baggage. The Secretary of the Nelson Regatta Committee, in reply to Mr. Logan’s communication to him, states that the few technical alterations in the rowing races requested by the Wellington men have been conceded, the programme having been altered in those respects. But with regard to the measurement of yachts, nothing is said, the following extract from a newspaper accompanying the letter being evidently the committee’s opinion on the subject :—“lt is probable the Wellington yacht will be brought here, and should she pay us a visit, in all probability a private match will be made if she is not allowed to sail in the yacht race, on account of her superior size to any of the Nelson yachts.” The Colonist would prefer to see the different crafts handicapped rather than any probable competitor should be shut out of the race—and very, properly too. Several minor charges were entered on the criminal side of the City Court sheet yesterday, but none of them involved any points of great interest. George Hausmanu, a publican, whose barmaid had in his absence supplied liquor in exchange for articles of clothing, was fined £5. Charles Campbell, the owner of a ferocious dog, was fined 10s. and costs. Edward Robinson, .the oft-charged pilferer, was finally dealt with: by receiving two months’ imprisonment, ■ James Saunders, a vagrant, receiving one month. A dozen civil cases were settled out of court. The following report by the directors of the Wellington Trust, Loan, and Investment Company (Limited), will be presented at the second annual general meeting, to be held on the 23rd inst.: —“ In presenting their second report, the directors have again the pleasure to congratulate the shareholders upon the continued prosperity of the company. Ample employment has been found for its funds, and thus their profitable working has been secured. The shareholders will hear with regret that the serious and long-continued illness of Mr. W. Allen, the former manager of the company, has necessitated his retirement. The directors, in accepting his resignation, took occasion to express their sense of the value of his services, and of their sympathy with him in his affliction. No fresh appointment of manager has been made, but the business of the company has been carried on since May last by Mr. Levy, as managing director, and the directors feel bound to express their deep sense of the obligation under which the company has been laid by the zealous and efficient services which that gentleman has rendered. The question of remuneration for these services will now have to be considered by the shareholders. Of the unallotted shares mentioned in the last report, 1,286 were taken at a premium of ss. per share, leaving 279 shares still unallotted. The total amount of capital paid up is £49,855. The net profit for the year is £4,594 Is,, which with £142 3s. 4d. brought forward from the former year makes a total of £4,736 4s. 4d., out of which the directors recommend that a dividend be paid at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, for which the sum of £4,403 17s. will be required. Two directors, the Hon. 0. J. Pharazyn and the Hon. W. Fitzherbert, having resigned their seats, Mr. Drausfield and Mr. Borne have been elected in their places. Three directors, Messrs. W. Bishop, J. Burne, and J. Woodward now retire by rotation, and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. At its close, the annual meeting will be made special, for the purpose of considering alterations which are proposed to be made in the regulations, with the view of securing economy and efficiency in the future management of the ’ affairs of the company.” A young man named Thomas Doidge, employed by a builder in Nelson in the erection of a house, has sustained injuries so severe from the falling of a scaffold on which he was standing, that his recovery is doubtful. Mrs. Walter Hill and Miss Lily Hill are now playing with the lio ward - Collior Company, in Christchurch. Miss Howard was so far recovered from her recent illness, that it was expected she would be able to appear on Monday evening next in “The Geneva Cross.” A Maori chief named Henare Paitu, who bad been residing at the Maori Koik for seme time, says the Dunedin Star, of the 6th inst., died there on Thursday. The deceased was great uncle to King Toby, and his age is supposed to have been 120 years. His fnneral took place at the Kaik on Tuesday. It is mentioned as a probable thing, says the Grey Hirer Argus, that Captain Fergusson, cousin of, and late aide-de-camp, to Sir James Fergusson, will run for the Manawatu seat in the House of Representatives at the next general election. He will- be opposed by the sitting member, Mr. Walter Johnstone. The Lyttelton Times of the 9th instant has the following : —“ A private telegram received from the Hon. C. O. Bowen yesterday states that the visit of his Excellency the Governor to this province will have to be postponed, as he is compelled to go .North, Efforts will be made to induce his Excellency to arrange matters so that he will be able to attend the Autumn Race Meeting.” Let us Consult the Record. —We Invite all invalids who may read this paragraph to join us in a very brief review of the history of the most renowned stomachic extant, Udoleiio Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. It has been before the world about twonly-flvo years, has never failed to afford relief in cases of indigestion, nervous debility, general prostration, chronic despondency, or torpidity in any of the sensitive organs; has been recommended by four thousand physicians over their own signatures endorsed by many eminent clergymen, and never has been known to fall short of the full measure of remedial efficacy claimed for it in the beginning. What other medicine has such a record?— Adyt.