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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4373, 26 March 1875, Page 2

The several Christian churches in the city will to-day commemorate the most significant event in connection with the Christian religion —the death of our Saviour. Services appropriate to the solemn occasion will be held in all the Episcopalian churches in the morning at eleven o’clock, and in the Roman Catholic churches there will be High Mass. Among other appointments notified in the New- Zealand Gazette are those of George Boutflower Davy, Esq., to succeed Mr. Justice Williams as District Land Registrar and Registrar of Deeds for Canterbury; Theophilus Kissling, Esq., to succeed G. B, Davy, Esq., as Registrar at Auckland, and T. G. Morgan, Esq,, to succeed Mr. Batham as Registrar at Westland, the latter gentleman being appointed Examiner of Titles at Auckland. The resignations by William Fox, Esq., and John L. Gillies, Esq., of their seats in the House of Representatives, as members for Kangitikei and Waikouaiti, respectively, are also gazetted. Captain Williams, of the barque Camille, now in Wellington harbor, yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of one of his crew for refusing to obey lawful orders. Sergeant Price, who was sent on board the vessel to execute the warrant, found the man lying in his bunk in the forecastle. The man stated his inability to rise from his bed, whereupon two of his mates were asked to carry him from below and place him in the ship’s boat, to be conveyed on shore. The chief officer accompanied the arrested man, armed with the official log-book. On arrival at the waterman’s landing stage, the sailor was lifted out of the boat and laid on the gridiron. He appeared to be suffering from acute pains and weakness, for his cries were very audible, and he was unable to stand. Dr. Harding, who happened to be in the vicinity at the time, looked at the man, and pronounced the hospital to be the only fitting place for him. He was then placed in an express, and taken to the police station, where the captain evidently saw that he had committed an error, for he instructed and paid the driver to convey the sailor to the hospital. The sailor stated that he was suffering from severe pgins in all parts of his body, brought on, he believed, through having to sleep in a wet berth. Other sailors belonging to the Camille aver that in the forecast! e there is not a single dry berth, nor had there been since the vessel left Newcastle. They also complain of the leaky state of the ship, which they say, at sea, requires pumping almost every hour. It was also mentioned that tho ship was pumped dry on Wednesday night last at seven o’clock, but by yesterday morning—about twelve hours after—an hour’s work at the piimps was necessary to free the vessel of water, which flowed from her as pure as the element in which she floated. Her rigging is also complained of as being in a very shaky state, the chain-plate bolts being almost worn through. In “notes of a trip to the Manawatu Gorge,” published by us yesterday, from a, Napier, paper, it was stated that no photographer had yet visited that district. This is a mistake. We have seen. several very well executed photographic views of the Gorge and on the Manawatu River, taken by Mr. Didsbury, Government printer, during a visit which he recently paid to that charming locality. The detachment of the Wellington Artillery Volunteers, with two field-pieces—one twelvepounder and. one six-pounder—embarked on board the steamer Ladybird last night, to attend the Easter encampment at Nelson. The vessel left the wharf punctually at twelve o’clock. There was considerable cheering, and not a little banter indulged in by those on board the Steamer and those who witnessed their dejiarture. The following tenders were accepted yesterday by the-Provincial Government ;—Widening bridle track, Belmont-road—W. R. Welch, £679 3s. 4d.; forming and metalling, and culverts to Lower Valley-road, contracts Nos. 1, 2, and 3—No. 1, £72 155.; No. 2, £53 2s. 6d,; No. 3, £126 155., W. Abbott, juu. Contract No. 4, D. Haggarty, £66. Forming and clearing, and partly forming 240 chains, Upper Taueru-road, A. S. Dreyer, £930. By the steamer Alhambra there arrived from Victoria yesterday ten choice and valuable merino rams. They were selected from the reserved, stud of the celebrated thoroughbred flock of the Messrs. Dowling, whose sheep are prized throughout Victoria. This valuable consignment belongs to the Hon. Henry Russell, of Hawke’s Bay, whose agents (Messrs. Bethune and Hunter) will forward them on by first steamer. It will be seen by our advertising columns that Mr. Barraud is on the point of departure for the old country, and that his furniture and effects are to be sold by public auction on Tuesday, the 31st instant, by Mr. J. H. Wallace. Mr. Barraud is proceeding to England to superintend the publication of his views of New Zealand, and contemplates being absent , eighteen months or two years. We wish him every success in the spirited enterprise in which he is engaged.

The attention of shareholders in the Wellington Trust and Loan Company is directed to the fact that a meeting will he held at Messrs. Bethune and Hunter’s rooms, on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m., for the purpose of confirming the following resolutions, which were passed at a meeting of shareholders held on 23rd February last :—lst. To add, as regulation No. 4Gh, the following:—“ The directors shall have power to appoint one of their number to ho managing director, and to pay to him such salary as they shall think fit.” 2nd. To add the following words to sub-section 1 of elauso No. 47 of tho regulations';—“Excepting that of managing director.” A telegraph station has now been opened at Tokatea, province of Auckland.

The return match between the Victoria and Colts Cricket Clubs will be played on the Basin Reserve on Saturday afternoon next. Mr. and Mrs. Case (Grace Egerton) arrived from Christchurch yesterday in the Ladybird. They will appear at the Odd Fellows’ Hall tomorrow evening.

The Immigration Officer despatched by the steamer Manawatu, which sailed last evening for Wanganui, forty of the immigrants who arrived by the Dallam Tower. Owing to a typographical error, in the handicaps for the Two-Mile Walking Race, Anderson was stated to have been placed 170 yards in advance of Purdy. This was just 100 yards too much, Anderson being handicapped at seventy yards. The Marine department forwarded by the steamer Lyttelton, which left last evening for Blenheim via Cape Campbell, a quantity of lighthouse stores for the lighthouse at the Cape. Mr. Wilson, of the Marine department, was a passenger by the steamer. The donkey-engine belonging to Mr. Gannaway, which was blown off the deck of the hulk Rosebud into the harbor on Saturday morning last, has been recovered by a diver. Beyond slight damage to the fly-wheel, and the breaking of gauge glasses, the engine and boiler have sustained little injury.