The b.B. Taranaki, with the English mails via San Francisco on board, may be expected here early to-morrow should all go well. She left the Manukau at 1.40 p.m. yesterday, and Captain Lloyd was determined to lose no time in making the run as above. She is announced to leave for Southern Ports shortly after her arrival on Sunday. We understand that telegrams to expect strong wind, changing to between north-west and south, were sent to places in the Middle Island yesterday afternoon. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court was held yesterday, his Honor the Chief Justice presiding. Dennis Wright appeared under order, and was examined as to the 'condition of his affairs. The matter was then ordered to stand over till Friday. On Tuesday last Messrs. Andrew, Bunny, and Waterhouse waited on the Minister for Public Works, with a petition from 265 Wairarapa settlers, in favor of a central railway route. Mr. Andrew said an enhanced cost of £20,000 ought not to prevent the central line from being adopted. The Minister replied that when the trial reconnaissance now progressing was completed, Mr. Carruthers would make a final inspection of the ground. Till then, nothing could be decided. According to notice, an election took place at Pahautanui on Wednesday last, for the purpose of returning a member to represent No. 3 Ward in the Highway Board. Mr. J. Pearce, of the Small Farms, and Mr. 11. Smith, of Horokiwi Valley, were the two candidates. The supporters of each party appeared to take a lively interest in the matter, and used their utmost endeavors to get their candidate returned. The result of the poll was a majority of six in favor of Mr. Smith. Thirty-eight voted for him, and thirty-two for Mr. Pearce. ~ ■
A suicide was committed on Thursday morning at Mr. Mace’s station, about eighteen miles from Masterton, in the Wairarapa. A German who has been for some time in the employ of Mr. Mace had been disappointed in a 1 love affair a little while ago, and during a recent absence of Mr. Mace in town had been quarrelling with his fellow-servants. Mr. Mace returned hdme on the Wednesday, and then told the German that if his conduct were persisted in he would have to leave the station. To this he replied that ho would not leave the place alive. On Thursday Mr. Mace suddenly came on the man armed with a knife and a pistol, and, not liking his looks, lost no time in leaving him. Some of his fellow-servants asked what he had been doing to his master, and he replied “ nothing.” Immediately after he went into his whare, and at once the report of a pistol was heard ; and when the station bands entered the whare, they found the German had shot himself through the side. He died in a few hours. An inquest was to have been held yesterday, but we have not heard its result, nor have we learned the name of the suicide.
Messrs. Smith, Brothers, and Williams have just cast an exceedingly clear-toned bell for the Church of St. Matthew, Masterton, to the order of the trustees of that church. The weight of the bell is 2cwt.; the height is 19in., exclusive of the lug ; the diameter at the sound bow is 22in. It is a very clean casting, in a composition metal composed of Australian copper and tin. The bell rings out -1' sharp in a most resonant tone, and will no doubt be highly appreciated by the good folks of Masterton.
A laborer named Clarke died rather suddenly at Kaiwarrawarra yesterday morning. ’ Ho was lodging at McLean’s Rainbow Hotel, and for a week past had been suffering from inflamation of the lungs, for which disorder Dr. Diver was treating him. To all appearances he was progressing favorably, and had been allowed to leave his bedroom for a downstairs sittingroom ; yesterday about noon, however, he suddenly rushed into tho bar to Mr. McLean, and vomiting a large quantity of blood, fell down. ’ Dr. Diver having been sent for, arrived in a short time,’and found life extinct, a blood vessel having been ruptured. Under tho circumstances an inquest is unnecessary. Yesterday, in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, before J. O. Crawford, Esq., R.M., Paiura Te Rangikatatu, Ngapahi Te Puni, and James Falconer were convicted of being drunk and incapable, and were fined 6s. each ; in default, twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. There was but one civil case, which was settled out of court.
On Thursday there was a landslip ou the Ngahauranga lino. The slip fortunately was not very extensive, and assistance having been obtained, traffic, which had been suspended for a short time, was resumed.
The Wellington Football Club will play a scratch match at the Albion ground this afternoon, at 2.30 sharp. As the last opportunity for practice before the arrival of the Auckland team, the club is very desirous that all footballers in Wellington should put in an appearance.
The profession of soldiering, says a contemporary, is fast getting into disrepute, at least among the rank and file, in Britain. It is probably found that emigrating to one of the many British colonies affords a far better scope, and certainly a more profitable one, for the energy of the ■ adventurous youths in Britain, than of "taking the shilling.” Tho tables in tho General Annual Return of tho British army show that desertions are increasing at an enormous rate. In 1862 the proportion of desertions to the strength of the army was at tho high rate of 13'5 per thousand, but in 1876 the proportion had risen to 32 per thousand.. From 1862 to 1868 the desertions increased from 13’5 to 16 per thousand, but between 1808 and 1875 tho rate of desertion has exactly doubled itself. In the course of a few years, if tho rate of desertion increase in like proportion, considerable difficulty will be felt in keeping tho British army up to its proper strength by voluntary enlistment.
The practice of naming flowers after private friends or public characters is, says the Pall Mall Gazette, very pretty, but it may be suggested that a little care in the selection of epithets bestowed on such names would not be amiss. Otherwise it is difficult to say whether poetical compliment or covert satire of the sponsor is intended. What shall we say, for instance, of the descriptions appended to the names given to three new [roses just “ sent out” by a leading nurseryman, which we find in the advertising pages of last week’s gardening papers. First, shall come a lady, and, if the language is rather glowing, we trust that it is not on the whole displeasing to the fair prototype : —Miss Hassard —Beautiful delicate pinkish flesh color-, large, full and fine form, very sweetly scented. First class either for exhibition or general purposes.” But the next is so ludicrously inappropriate that we only reproduce it in the assurance that the original bearer of the name would have smiled at the incongruity of the epithets. “John Stuart Mill.—Bright clear red, large, full, and beautiful form, of great substance ; well adapted for exhibition purposes, being also of strong constitution and free habit. Quite distinct.” Last comes a clergyman, himself a distinguished rosarian, and we hope his parishioners recognise the portrait : “ Rev. J. B. M. Camm. — Very bright rosy pink, most pleasing color, large, very full, and fine globular form ; very sweet, constant, and thoroughly distinct ; growth vigorous.” The moral touch, “very sweet and constant,” is peculiarly appropriate to a clergyman, and will perhaps reconcile his admirers to the allusion to what some might deem the physical defects of a rosy pink complexion and too globular form.
An account of the capture of a notorious convict is given by the South Australian Register of July 30th : —“ Sergeant Bentley arrested on Wednesday, the 28th instant, James Hurley, a notorious escaped prisoner. He has had an adventurous career in crime, and for a long time evaded the police of West Australia, by shifting, often under various disguises, from one to another part of the colony. On June 26 he escaped from Rockingham, twenty-five miles from Berth, as a stowoway on board the barque Armistice, bound to Wallaroo with timber, and arrived on July 13. The offender is ono of the great Cornhill burglars, and having been convicted of burglary and several other offences on April 10, 1865, at a Criminal .Court in. London, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. He was sent out in 1866 to West Australia in the convict ship Corona, and was liberated at Perth on a ticket-of-leave in May, 1872. In May, 187-1, he was the ringleader of a band of burglers, some of whom were sentenced to seven years, and Hurley was ordered to have three years’ penal servitude. In 1871 he again received a ticket-of-leave, but it was revoked, as he was convicted of being found ,on the premises of a Perth citizen with some felonious intent. He was brought to Adelaide by the Wallaroo mail coach on Thursday, and will be taken before Mr. Beddome to-day, at the City Police Court. The prisoner is sft. Sin. in height, forty-five years of age, and has a determined-looking cast of countenance.; The man’s apprehension is due to the prompt action of Inspector Peterwald, who caused him to be arrested as soon as information of his whereabouts was received. He was working near Kadiua when captured.” • . ...
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4517, 11 September 1875, Page 2
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