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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4571, 13 November 1875, Page 2

To-day his Honor the Chief Justice will hear arguments in the matter of the Young Dick. The Court of Appeal at its rising yesterday adjourned till Monday, at 2 p.m. In the morning of Monday some divorce cases will be taken, and after these are disposed of the Court will resume civil cases, commencing with Dunedin cases. James Stewart and Michael Foley were brought to Wellington yesterday in charge of a constable. The offence of which the latter stands convicted is known. The former, James Stewart, for larceny has been sentenced to two months’ hard labor. The ship Chile, from Nelson, was drawn up on the Patent Slip yesterday afternoon. The fact is of some interest, as the Chile is the heaviest vessel ever yet taken on the slip, and the completeness with which the machine performed its duty is a matter for surprise. The Chile is about 800 tons register, but she is built on a much heavier principle than more modern vessels—she is 19 years old ; moreover she contained 300 tons of ballast. To those who have not seen the slip work, yesterday’s performance would have been a matter for wonder and admiration. The occupants of the Immigration Barracks are fast decreasing. The foreign immigrants have almost disappeared, there being but ten or eleven of them remaining, and it is expected that these will take their departure shortly. A large number of them—the majority, indeed—went to the Jackson Bay settlement, and a few have gone in other directions. The organgrinder is one of those still remaining in the barracks, a fact which our reporter became aware of before he had got within a few hundreds yards of the depot. This class of immigrants will find some difficulty in obtaining permanent employment in the practice of their profession. Old colonials regard organs as vanities of the old world, and young colonials have been taught to regard the instruments as a primitive style of thing which ought not to encouraged. Of the immigrants by the Howrah a great number have found employment. As noticed in the shipping columns of yesterday’s issue, some forty-nine went to Wanganui on Thursday, and a few have left for the same place since. Taken generally, these immigrants are a fine body of men, particularly the Scotch carpenters who came out under engagement to Messrs. Scoular and Archibald, contractors for erecting the Government buildings. Other carpenters are also finding employment in Wellington. All of the single girls have left the barracks. Most of these came under the class of housemaids, the which, as is well known, are in very great demand at present, as they have been for some time past. Indeed all classes have disappeared faster than was anticipated. On Monday a batch of them go to the Wairarapa, and another lot go to Messrs. Collie and Scott, of the Rimutaka tunnel. A few of the families will not be in a position to be independent of Government aid for some little time, removal being rendered impracticable by the interesting fact that several ladies anticipate presenting to the world some very little immigrants, whose names do not appear in the passenger list. Great credit is due to the gentleman in charge of the barracks, Mr. Redwood, whose duties are by no means light. Our reporter interviewed him at the storehouse. He was engaged serving out the bread and butter, a task in itself rather complicated. This gentleman’s limited knowledge of foreign languages slightly interfered with freedom of discussion in respect to the immigrants per Herschel. As an instance of this it may be mentioned that on one occasion he found it necessary to offer some remarks to an Italian. In order to accomplish this feat, he found it necessary first to get a man who could speak a little English. This man was a Dane, therefore he could not interpret, but the Dane found a German who could understand both Danish and Italian, and so it was arranged thus : Mr. Redwood told the Dane, the Dane told the German, and the German told the Italian. The Avalanche is the next ship expected. She bring out 227 souls. An accident occurred at Hunter’s wharf yesterday, which should be almost as serious a warning to parents as was the death of a child not long since by being run over. A little boy, about five years of age, son of Mr. McCleland, bootmaker, was playing on the wharf, when he accidentally fell over into the water, which was out of his depth. He must have been drowned but for the prompt action of another youngster, some seven years older, named Mitchell, who picked him out, the water not being over Mitchell s height. The little fellow merely got a fright ; but his parents may thank the boy Mitchell that he was not drowned.

A meeting of the directors of the Caledonian Society was held last evening at the New Zealander Hotel. Mr. George Crawford occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance of members. A number of committees were appointed—namely, Grandstand, Ground, Sports, Band, Programme, and Printing Committees, who were instructed to report to a general meeting, to be advertised for next Friday evening. Five or six now members were elected, and a quantity of business was got through, and arrangements of such a nature wore made as to render it more than probable that the ensuing sports meeting on New Year’s Day will be quite as successful, if not more so than any of its predecessors.

By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that Mr. Davis, the renowned ventriloquist, together with his company, who will be assisted by the theatrical company of the Theatre Royal, arc to appear on Monday next. Mr. Davis is spoken of by the Press in other places as being far superior to other gentlemen in the same line of business, and ho is accompanied by attractions which are pretty certain to draw well.

The reporter who represented the Timaru Herald at the banquet on the occasion of the opening of the Temuka railway, made a discovery which he thus describes: —“A word here to the wise : Boer is good, sherry is good, port is good, champagne is remarkably good. But keep order. Don't drink beer, then sherry, then port, then champagne. If you do you will have a headache, as sure as fate.” A new duty, it seems, devolved lately upon the orderly of the Auckland Police-court. It was to act as a “lay figure” upon which to illustrate the meaning of a witness. A female witness, describing the manner in which she had been held, put her arm around the orderly’s neck so as to cover his mouth with her hand. The worthy constable appeared somewhat embarrassed by the novel situation in which he found himself.

The Gladstone correspondent of the Rockhampton Bulletin says : —“ Captain De la Marko informs me that the reported safety of Rastoul and party, who escaped from the Isle of Pines, is all bosh. Not only were remains of the boat recovered, but also mutilated bodies were found on the reef surrounding the island.”

A cricket match will be played this afternoon between the Wellington and Armed Constabulary cricket clubs on the Basin Keserve. Play to commence at 1.30 p.m. sharp.

The services in connection with the sixth anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Church, Sydney-street, will be held to-morrow, 11th insti ' The resident minister will officiate in the morning, and the Kev. J. Paterson in the evening. On Tuesday next the annual tea meeting will be held, when addresses will _ be given by several ministers, and appropriate music will be rendered by the choir.

The police have devoted their attention to a very bad class of characters to some purpose. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday four miserable women, bearing disgraceful characters, were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment. These women have for some time been a nuisance to the neighborhood in which they lived, and the police took advantage of the first opportunity that presented itself to check their career. It is scarcely to be supposed that any reformation will be worked in creatures who take to gaol life as a sort of variety and part of their life ; but it is well that the city will be rid of them for a time.

Miss Jessie Raymond had a good house last night, the occasion of her benefit. The programme commenced with the comedy of “ Delicate Ground,” which was excellently performed by Mrs. Darrell, Mr. Darrell, and Mr. Burford. Then followed a ballad, “ Far Awa’ to Bonny Scotland,” by Miss Nye, who responded to a well-merited encore. The great feature in the programme, however, was Mrs. Darrell’s recitation of “The Bells,” than which it has seldom been the fortune of the Wellington public to hear anything so superlatively fine. Poe’s great poem will be known to most persons who will take any interest in a notice of this effort of Mrs. Darrell, and knowing it, they should be aware how difficult a task it is to recite it with proper feeling. While 'Mrs. Darrell was reading the silence was so intense that a single sigh might have been plainly heard, supposing anybody to have been taken that way, and when she concluded the audience were as noisy in their applause as they had been wrapt in their attention previously. Of the drama “Jessie Brown” it were better to say nothing, for it would not require a very active fancy to imagine it better performed. Miss Jessie Raymond had a part that suited her admirably, and her acting was all that could have been wished by the most ardent of her admirers. But the general representation verged on the ridiculous. We may remind theatregoers that to-night will be positively the last night of that talented lady, Mrs. George Darrell, and her husband. That crossbred sheep are far more profitable where there are good fattening pastures than merinos has been amply demonstrated (observes the Geelong Advertiser) by Mr. J. H. Dardel, of Batesford. Two years ago he had a large flock of merinos, and the result of his clip was seven bales of wool. Last year, off the same quantity of land, by introducing a mixture of crossbreds with the merinos, he obtained nine bales from 1500 sheep. This season, by gradually introducing crossbreds for merinos, with a less number than last year—some 1400 sheep —he obtained fourteen bales of wool, nearly the whole of which at the opening sale on October 26 realised 9Jd. per lb. “ Raffling a Bishop,” is the heading of a paragraph in which the Maryborough, Advertiser says :—“ The visit of Dr. Thornton, Bishop of Ballarat, to Maryborough, is an event not altogether unattended with difficulties, one of the chief being the allotment of the surrounding places which are to have the honor of having a real live lord bishop amongst them for the space of a few hours. There, for instance, is Carisbrook and Chinaman’s. It would no doubt be very desirable that the bishop should visit both these places, but the time at his disposal necessitates the relegating of one of them into the cold shade. To determine which it should be a raffle took place the other day, and the bishop was won by the Rev. Mr. Geer, for Chinaman’s, after a close shave with Carisbrook, who at one time nearly carried off the honor. The bishop will therefore go to Chinaman’s, and preach at St. John’s Church, according to the arrangement made by the dice-box.” “A novel and interesting point was raised,” says the Guardian, “during the hearing of a debt case in the Kyneton Police Court lately. It was whether an uncertificated insolvent could sue for the proceeds of his personal labor without the consent of the assignee of his estate, or without the assignee being a party to the suit. There appeared to be no colonial decisions bearing upon this point; but Mr. Hurry, who appeared for the insolvent suitor, cited English authorities to the effect that an assignee had no control over an insolvent so far as his ’personal labor was concerned, and argued that as the tendency of our legislation had been to assimilate our insolvency law and practice to those of the mother country, these authorities must be regarded as binding. After carefully considering the matter, the Bench agreed with Mr. Hurry, and made an order for the amount s ued for and costs.”

Samuel W. Francis, of the New York Academy of Medicine, says :—“Education teaches us to see beyond the surface. Taking as my standpoint the aphorism that all things were created for some purpose, it is my firm conviction that the mosquito was created for the purpose of driving man from malarial districts; for I do not believe that in nature any region where chills and fever prevail can be free from this little animal. Now, if man will not go, after the warning is given in humming accents, then the mosquito injects hypodermically a little liquid which answers two purposes—firstly, to render the blood thin enough to be drawn up through in its tube, and secondly, in order to inject that which possesses the principles of quinine. This theory I published in 1871, and it was ridiculed at first by many, but recently some German philosophers have actually obtained the liquid from mosquitos, and by a careful analysis discovered that it contained the ‘principle of quinine.’ ”