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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4901, 6 December 1876, Page 2

The Quarterly' Licensing Court was not held .at the usual hour' yesterday, twelve o clock, as the Resident Magistrate, also Chairman of the Licensing Commissioners, was engaged m hearing; a civil case, .which was not■ finished, until half-past twelve o’clock, and it was therefore decided to hold the Court at two o’clock. At that hour, when the Commissioners took their seats on the Bench, there was a large attendance of publicans and others who took an interest in; the, proceedings. A' report will be found in another column. : At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday Daniel Callaghan, charged with refusing duty on board the ship St. Leonards, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, with hard labor. Donald McDonald, charged with being absent without leave from the same ship, and assaulting the chief officer, was remanded until Thursday, being too drunk for the case to proceed; Charles Bateman, for being drunk and disorderly in Willis-street, was fined 20s. and costs, with the usual alternative, John Orr was fined 40s, and costs for being drunk and fighting on Custom House-quay. Joseph Forrest, Andrew Kerr, and John Winini, fpy furious riding on Lambton-quay, were each fined 5s and costs., Neil McKenna, for being drunk and disorderly at the Upper Hutt, was fined 10s. and coats, and ordered to pay £2 for damage done by' him to the property of Mr. Joseph Ames, at the Provincial Hotel. John Campbell, for larceny of' aniaccordeon from off the s.s. Rangatira, was sentenced to three months, with hard-labor. .The ease of George Russell, charged with refusing duty on board the Panola, was adjourned until Thursday, This concluded the criminal business. A meeting of the committee of the Benevolent Institution was held yesterday afternoon. Bishop Hadfield, Rev. B. W. Harvey, Rev. Father McGuinness, Rev. T. Redstone, Rev. A. Reid, Rev. W. H. West, Archdeacon Stock, Messrs.: J. Woodward, L. Levy, •D. Lewis, J. G. Holdsworth, and the secretary. Donations and subscriptions received:—M.L.C., £2S ; Mr. J. Sloan, 10s.; X.Y.Z., £1 Is.; Mr. W. Fife, £1 Is.; Mr. J. Dransfield, £1 Is.; Messrs. Lyon and Blair, £2 ; Mr. W. Freeman, 10s,; Mr, W, W. Taylor, £2 25.; Mr. W. H. Meek, £1 Is. The amount received by the committee for Paul, Reidal, and Young is £lB9 2s. 4d. The committee, in pursuance of their resolution of ; last June) that the money should be distributed according to the individual necessities of, these. men, have decided to apportion it as follows:—To Paul, £SO ; Young, £SO ; and to Reidal, who is quite incapacitated from work, the given. Young and Reidal are going home in the' Zealandia, and their passages; have been paid for by the General Government. i In the Licensing Court at Dunedin yesterday all but one of the applications for new licenses were refused, as will be seen by our telegraphic column, and the Bench cautioned persons “ against building expensive premises and then coming to the Court for licenses on that ground.” There was a very large and fashionable attendance at the Theatre Royal last night, his Excellency the Governor and Captain Murray and officers of the H.M.S. Sapphire being present. The performance was admirable, and. we regret that our space will not permit of our noticing it specially. But we would draw particular attention to the bill for tonight, which should draw a crammed house—- “ Rip Van Wiukle” and the burlesque of “Aladdin” will be played. As Rip Van Winkle Mr. Hall is almost unequalled, and his reputation for burlesque acting is now world-wide.. A real treat may be expected. The shipment of Californian salmon ova transmitted to Southland has turned out a thorough success. Mr., Howard, the Curator at the Makarewa ponds, states that at least 20,000 ova have hatched successfully, and that the young fish all look remarkably well. Last week 500 trout were removed from the ponds to the Waimatuku, and 150 to the Makarewa. Five hundred more have been started for the Morley, a fine stream which flows between the Birch wood and Mount Linton stations. There were in all about 5000 trout at the ponds, and those still remaining there will soon be removed for distribution amongst the suitable streams in the district.

In Christchurch it is “proposed to establish an experimental farm and a school of agricultural chemistry in connection with the College. A committee has been appointed to go into the matter in detail, and bring up a report on the subject. It is intended : that the farm shall be from 150 to 300 acres in extent, and not farther from Christchurch than fifteen miles.” This idea well worked out would, we feel convinced, result in real benefit to the people, and is worthy the consideration of other large towns. We have been requested to contradict a paragraph which appeared in the Post of the 4th inst. to the following effect :—“This morning as a young man was endeavoring to swim . across Meech’s baths he became : exhausted, and went down twice; Had it not been for, the promptitude of two of his friends jumping in and bringing him to terra firma, we should probably have had to .record a coroner’s inquest.” Mr. Meech writes:—“lt was a hoax played by some of the young boating lads, who confessed to me that they said so to a gentleman connected with the Post in a joke, not thinking that it would appear in print to do me harm. • You will please make a suitable denial of the above.—l. am, kis.'i Henry Meeoh, Wellington Swimming Baths.” The Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily ■ Times \vrites as follows,: —“ The affairs of the Alfred Hospital have been unpleasantly before the public 1 for. a long time. I mentioned in a former letter the discovery in the body ,of a deceased patient of, a pair of forceps and a sponge , that' had been' left . there in an opera- ' tion she had undergone, and from the effeet of which 1 she died; Since then'we have been told about a surgeon extracting the shoulder-bone from a patient under the belief that it was diseased; and : finding it to be quite sound. Another boasted that he would perform the operation of lithotomy with a penknife and a ! spoon, and actually did it with' a pocket knife. The patient died; and the parts operated upon ! were removed and 1 mutilated by the operating surgeon, apparently to conceal the way in jwhich l the operation had been performed. iThis is only a sample or two of the extraordinary disclosures that have been , made of the state of affairs in this institution. To think that public money is wasted in maintaining 'these places for the amusement of operating surgeons, and the pauperisation of the community, is not a very pleasing reflection." ! The ship Waimea, we; understand, will be despatched to Lyttelton for the purpose of taking in caygo for the return trip. . The Howrah,,as will, be seen by advertisement,, will be the first ship to leave this port, being flow in readiness to sail.

I It appears that scarlet fever is prevalent in the East Taieri district. Fortunately, it is of a very mild. type. There have been few, if any, deaths from the disease, but Dr, Inglis, the local surgeon, is fully employed. , A. tea and public meeting will be held this evening in connection ! with the Wesleyan Church, Molesworth-street. Addresses will be delivered by ministers and friends, i The Saturday Advertiser of December 2 contains a supplement consisting of a railway time-table for the colony. In the centre is a woodcut representing Lord Beaconsfield.

' The cost of Government House, and Domain at Melbourne .has - amounted to £130,000, and the furniture and .fittings to £14,000. : - A vocal and instrumental concert, for the purpose of raising a school prize fund, will be held on Thursday next at Kaiwarra.

The Misses Featherston were passengers by the s.s. Albion, which arrived here yesterday. Several cases of scarlet fever are reported as existing in Dunedin, r lt is not of a malignant typ e - -,r K” ’ "'4 In another coliinin appears the usual annual notice regarding the election of Mayor. Nomination papers may be obtained at the office of the Town Clerk." ■- It-will-benoticedby advertisement that the New Zealand Shipping Company have followed the'example fof’Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co. in the inatter of reducing the freight on wool by their vessels;

The deepest perpendicular mining shaft; in the world is at Prizilram,~Bohemia ; it mea-sures-3280ft. It is in alead mine. Greater depths have been reached) but not in a straight line. A rock-salt bore near Berlin is 4135 ft. deep ; a coal-mine in Belgium is 3542 ft. The deepest hole ever bored is an artesian well at Potsdam, Mo., 6500 ft. straight down. We learn from the Otago Daily Times that a Chinaman named Ah . Mong, who has been earning a lucrative living of late by catching small fry in a net at the corner of Rattray - street jetty, Dunedin, and who occasionally nets a trout, was charged at the City Police Court, on Wednesday last, with contravening the Fisheries Act, 1867; The police had seized his appliances, which consisted of four long bamboo poles oh which the net was fixed, a net of small meshes, decreasing in size towards the bunt, so that the most minute fry could not pass through, a scoop, and a fine, plump trout, weighing s|lbs. It was proved that defendant had Caught other trout, and had been warned by the police, but on getting a lawyer’s opinion that he was hot contravening any statute, he defied the police and continued fishing. The Bench inflicted the nominal penalty of Is. and costs.