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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4948, 31 January 1877, Page 2

Tenders are invited by the Government for, the erection of Government buildings in Christ-: church. 1 ' i .-l A meeting! of the electors in the ‘Buckle-! street school district is called , for; Tuesday! evening next, for the purpose of electing aj memb'er of the local committee in the place of] Mr. W. Waring Taylor,, resigned. A meeting of the committee of the Welling-; ton Benevolent Institution was held yesterdayafternoon. PresentJ. Woodward;- Esq.,: elected chairman, Eev. R, Coffey, - Rev. W. H. West, Messrs. J. G. Holdsworth, D. Lewis,) and the secretary. No hew cases were brought} before the committee., . In an advertisement jn which the Welling-! ton District Highway'Board call for tenders! for road'repairs an: alteration has been made] by-whioh-the period of--twelve months during; which; the roads: mentioned are to be kept in repair, shall commence from the 10th of Feb-; ruary, instead of the 6th of March, as pre-; viously announced. j George l Trace, the seaman against whom; .there is a charge of offending, against the 'Merchant' 1 Shipping Act, and’ ■ who also charges the mate of the Himalaya with assault, was again brought' up yesterday morning before Mr. Crawford and remanded, as certain witnesses' necessary for Bruce’s information, against the mate were still wanting. ~ By the Hawea a novel importation was made from Aucklahd,' the Hon. Mr. Fitzherbert having received., from Judge .Gillies a couple,pf dozen frogs, .There arp none to be found in the marshy‘lands of the Hutl; and as they are the'-natural enemies -of thfe’inosquisto, which forms a-great pest in, the locqdjty indicated, the frogs will be ds.eful. . A pugnacious party,, by name, Morrin, was finbd 10s. by Mr/ CraWfdrd'yesterday for having fought in the public streets* Two other . m«n* J.'-R/ 'Johfaaoii and A, Maori named, prere .charged with; a .similar offence! at the same, . time; blit the constable’s evidence - Wror-sligHtly foggy, and as Morrin appeared to be the only one to blame, the :Ai warning, to cabbies.’]A, jehn'latejy,'being apparently of the same. thrifty. turn. as the TOan who brought 'tis; horSe^otvii' to feed on oneifetraw a; day : and ! then’grPwled the animal ..died, -a over and above £he legitimate .fare for A .certain job, and the cnrtomer) ,J indfgnant at tlie imposition, .toqk/aniactionsotilaw;against-, th’elcabby for the recoyeryi of, thip,4s r r ,. The., case, came on yesterday,'"and' judgment,^:tsY en r fon the plaintiff, with ch : ■ amounted 'to 9s. .THijs: wasl-thpl calS grop'rietor;<airly a loser of 9s. by trying to fare too wfelj, ~-p j ; . -■ A day seldom pasSOS'llow but there are a lot of civil dasei ba ihff lia'tJat-theßeaident Magisare not the minute details of .Court..business._Ww.many‘. of ..those.cases are Settled.]/: It, iseems'jthat- a ;vast;number of persons totally fail to recognise their responsibility to payriW'hat-they .owe Until they have little documents .presented to them which, mu at be attended JO,’, and: then in several oases ;oUt of the ten (so often mentioned) they go . and “settle it out otcourt.” There were several of such cases yesterday, .as there usually are, and: the majority.- of those heard were of fao public,intereet..-;' ./ , -J.-jja/; I;-.:!; 'li fbr cadb& ; prizes. was bommettced on Alonday and concluded yesterday There were thirty-three competitors, the fob lowing...thirteen Joeing ' the! .prize-takers Corporal. Ballinger, To Aro Cadets, 66, £4 ; A.' -POulabn, City Cadets, .62, £3 10s.; W. Madeley, City Cadets, 61,' *£3 ; W. Randall, City Cadets, , .61, . £2 10».; G. Howe, City Cadets, 60, £2 ‘y j/ Oroucher/City Cadets, 56, £1 iOs.;' C. J Hafe,AGity Cadets, 52, : £l ,1.05.; J. Minnifie, Artillery Cadets) 50, £1 10s.; J. Jones) ‘’Artillery Cadets;- 60,‘ ; £1 ;‘O. : Cfiitty, City ■ Cadets, 49) 1 £l-; J. "Mitchell, ■ Artillery Cadets/42,15a.; .p.' Stewart; Te’Aro Cadets; 37,15«.; : J. Bannister, City Cadets, 37,105. ” •,Ai,«civil’ case/heard: yesterday, > Robertson and Co. v. Riddler, a claim ,pf £52: J 3a. Aid. fon-certain ironwork and labor. was adjourned I owing!, Jo: .-.coptradjetbry r-evidence | .given! ■ by witnesses.’On eitber side . as to . the.;legitimate : charge to be made,/ for .-the articles supplied. ! Mh . Travers.' .appeared' lor ■ the, plaintiff, Mr. ’ Allan for- defendsnt/and.a sura of £3B 18s. j lldiihadibeOn paidjnto(Court as -the legitimate ■ amount! duo to the. (plaintiff.,/ Defendant ds-the j Contractor ;for certain-rail way ■‘works, at; the \ JiOWer.Hutt. and, orderedv; certainitiron } kvoricvof; differentidescriptionp from the-plain- j tiff,-whb charged according to ffis scale,:.which , fand the ’ ease/wasyadr j journed'to) enable Mr.lTravere Jo- supply .the! magistrate sritli the’weight of all the-;iron,: Worked: and in; the rough, v’hioh had been; supplied, together with. the full particulars as; to cthai ’ charge for' labor :- The , ease . wag- adiourn«dlfor1 *i..weekii'ij .-(iji/.l- *lo>) is* jr’-'.i 1 The mew bailiff at the Resident Magistrate’s': Court”is 1 a 'conscientious'man.. H e .received} instructions 1 frbm' the 1 ' clerk to keejp the pas-: ia^b - . blear leading from the office to 1 the body ! of Jhb c'ourt; ’ He found considerable difficulty in ’ i^^'uting !, thib' command: : Nevertheless he ! persevered' every.' day when the Cofurt '.wjw ! sitting,)’ and ! did his duty sa completely that ] be' ejected one of the.'sblicitors who .happened to bo in the crowd; Said he' to that 'gentlemipi, with the persuasive idiom peculiar' to. Court! officials, “Come now) ybu’ Know.yoil must I either, go into the body of jtie clear I but;’” Tlie 1 forensic wilked but of; the court; ‘ It would appear)’ hbWdvet, that' he had not properly understood the 1 nature of the command, fCr' he afterwardsyematked that he : thought the bailiff VAfited to see him. outsjde. It is needless'to say that the bailiff didn’t know the gentleman, but was simply anxious to keep the passage clear,

Information has been received that a ship’s buoy marked “ Burton-Stather,” of Sydney, has been picked up near,Opptiki. There was a crowded house at Tthe Odd Fellows’ last night, and not the least interesting feature of the entertainment was the distribution’ of prizes, some of them being valuable. . The East and West ; India Dock Companies have announced a reduction of per cent, on the consolidated rate for Australian and other vessels warehoused with the company after the Ist January. , .!!-. Tsr Frank Messiter, who was arrested on Monday afternoon on a charge of-stealing a post letter at Rakaia, Canterbury, wjas taken before 1 the Resident Magistrate yesterday morning, l and remanded to Christchurch, where he will be tried. ■ . The Theatre Royal was again' well attended last evening, when “ The New- Magdalen" was repeated, the-performance giving-great satis-; factibh; as can be well understood. - A most: attractive- prograrame iarannounced for to-; night—“ Sweethearts," the Tdngard sketches, and “ Mr. and Mrs. Peter White.” Mr. James Smith, of To- Aro House. has just issued,an advertising pamphlet- almanac; thoroughly’ unique in' its character-.- It con-r tains a map of New Zealand, calendar for the l year, &c., and above all, a lithographed -plan of. the city, - the way'to'.Te Aro 1 House being ingeniously shown’-by means of arrows- The ■ typographical? portion of the almanac is a marvel of neatness. " ■ The case of the Daniel Richards,: who was charged,’with’! threatening to strikethe mate of the ship Himalaya, was brought on at the Resident -Magistrate's Court yester-, day afternoon at, .two , o’clock.. Defendant pleaded’not guilty, and Mr. Ollivier, who appeared to prosecute, balle'd Arthur Barker; the third officer of tha ship Himalaya; and he de-: posed' that he had seen the defendant' with his j fists’’up threatening to strike 1 -the. mate., Stevens, another mAtnhcr-bf tbs' crew, who was sentenced to imprisonment, for disobey ing j orders, interposed and ■ prevented defendant! striking the . mate. Alexander Phillips, the second mate, was also examined, and he stated! that he saw Rich'airds “ shape up” to the mate,! who then.rqn aft and pjfljed out a . belaying-: pin and heard- the -harbor-master say to the | mate, “You must be a coward to strike a man, with a belaying-pin,” referring possibly to: Bruce? " Prisonerstated that’ he.simply went, up to the mate for the purpose of remonstrat-, ing.with him, called Kirn a coward to strike Bruce “in that ’Way;” whereat the mate threatened to strike him (prisoner). A sail- 1 maker, engaged on board the Moa, was called: for the defence, and he stated that he had seen i -the mate strike a man, and saw the prisoner! (as he imagined) go up to the mate for the : purpose of taking the belaying-pin away from, him. Prisoner stating that he had other; ■ witnesses ’on board who ■ could testify to his, innocenpe of the charge laid against him, his Worship, to give him a chance, remanded him till Friday; ,■■<- wo. ’? !.,' ■■■> Fortunately the weather was found favorable for the boat races, which, as stated in yea-, terday’s issue, .it,was iutendnd if possible to pull-off at 7.30 in the morning, as the Timaru .men, who'were to compete in the four-oaf butrigger race, bad-to leave for the South later in the day. The first race, and that in which the chief interest centred, was the four-oar outrigger race, ■ started. Mr. Gair at half-past seven o’clock. The jjrize consisted of Messrs. Beauchamp, Campbell, and Co.’s cup and £25, there being no second prize, as only the Dolly Warden;and the llissua came -to -the scratch. A good start was. effected, the wind being slightly in favor of the Ilissus; but the superior power of the pblly's cro w soon became apas she shot ahead of her opponent, and increased the .'advantage""till- about the last half mile,’when the Dolly’s crew slackened their speed; but when the, Dolly passed. the winning!post, she bad aq advantage !in time of about,, 16 .''seconds. The seco.nd.race was the Senior Pair-oar Gig Race between the Star Club’s iVcans, -ro wed -by Johnson and "Webb, and ’the' Wellington "Rowing Club’s Duchess of . Devonshire, rpwedby Walker and Hearn, who had jpst got out of the Dolly.; Phedistance waa. over two miles. , The prize consisted of two silver c,ups and £-5, There was no second prize. start was made, and-fOr a;quarter of A, mile Webb and Johhson.held their own well, .but it;iWas-eyident that.itwas, overtaxing .them to ,keej) (the .position, and they consequently .soqh. begaTi to- drop . behind, while the leading boat, seemed to.keep up a steady -pace till? the end- aCapjtaio fe officiated .as? judgp. There were not -many’ spectators, as it-was not generally--kn|»jvn whan the pw;_eß ( .woild be pulled off. "jj. •<-; ■ The following resoldtionS'Were passed-att he conference betWeen~the Walrarapa ,County Councils Proposed :by 'Mr, Phafazyn,- seb'ondetl by' Mr. ’ meeting-after carefully considering 'the ’ amount of revenue likqly, to he available for the purposes Of the iWb cohhties, the expenditure Which will bo required .for tiheHnaintenance qfjthe’maiu roads containing a vefy falgeprdpdrtioh of C rownLand, is ofopihiod that very la necessary Kefbfeeitliefof.the bounties’qdceptanyfesponsh bility’in the matter which'can be avoided.' Carried.’— Proposed by Mr. Bobth; seconded by Mr. Beetham, and. carried,. —That'. both Councils ddmbitied petition of' memqf iaJisie' 'thS‘Doyernmeht with regard to the necessity of 'the Government opening ’up the waste lands In' the two - counties, as the revenue of. the two cqnnties are inadequate to undertake such duty.rProposed by Mr. Booth, jsqconded A>y Mr. Gilligan,—That this conference would,urge upon the -Government the great importance to the whole district of completing the railway line to Featherston at the earliest possible . date, and-that -the-route of-±he_line to-Masterton should-plso he determined - without delay, .and contacts for formation be advertised. Carried. —The following, was., added as a rider to the two preceding resolution : —“ That a deputation consisting of as-many members of thp two standing committees as can-attend Wait upon, the Minister for Pu die Works with ref ference to me two .foregoing resolutions."—A vote.of thanjes to the Chairman concluded the meeting. ' A oabebf considerable importance to sheepowners was heard before Mr, Crawford yesterday; being: that in which ! James Sims .was fcharged with’ arbreach ■ df?tho Diseased - Sheep Act; by allowing, sheep belonging to him to wander on » public road, at .Ohariu on the 27th and 29th-of December.; Constable. Ryan stated that he had Keen;induced, to; lay the information in - consequence of' vthe>;frequent complaints that - had been made! to the Government of sheep - wh<y were afflicted: -with: scab being allowed to wander. ■ He found on,the date mentioned scabby which.he.recognised by the brands to ba/those of the defendant. The iritness furthermore stated’that theTnspector had informeddiim that-defendant had ’hot had a'-clean certificate for the’last seven years.; but in answer to this Mr. Chapman,‘who appeared for defendant, produced, a , clean’ certtficate'made'out in favbf of Mr. Sims, and which’appeared on the - £aoe of .it.-to be genuine. •It appeared -that • Ryan- had not thoroughly.? examined , the_ sheep, was; hot qualified'to judger of”them if ho had; and had relied "oq' inWnpation supplied to him by others. The Sheep Inspector was therefore called, and he stated that having inspected defendant’s sheep in the yard on one occasion, he found. themt-sqabby, and he ■ laid an information against 1 him accordingly. Defendant had a. clean .certificate .for, a few sheep that wqVe in a close paddock, hut,-all outside -that belonging to defendant would necessarily be scabby.: Defendant admitted that some of the sheep'were afflicted with ! scab, having been so when he bought thpm in June last; but he had done hll he could; to cure them bf the disease, and had succeeded’ to I ’a 'great- extent,* haying obtained a clean certificate from' Mr, tuxford for the majority of them? . His Worship considered the case fully proved, but took'into consideration- the lfact that defendant had exerted himself to-remedy the evil, and therefore imposed the minimum, penalty allowed by ‘the 1 Act, namely, £ 10, thd maximum penalty being £IOO. It is well that such cases as the above; where scab really exists, should be brought prominently under notice, for the danger of the disease spreading ie naturally regarded with alarm.

The adjourned general meeting of. persons favorable to the formation of a new insurance company was held last evening at the Post Office Hotel. There was a very, fair attendance of hotel proprietors and others interested in the movement, Mr. Roxburgh, in the absence of Mr, Duncan, being elected to the chair. The business was to receive the .report from the committee of prospectus for the proposed company, and to appoint provisional directors. It will be remembered that a provisional committee was appointed at the meeting on Tuesday, when -.those present cordially agreed to support the movement taken in hand. Since then the committee met according to, agreement, and Mr. Roxburgh in 1 his • opening remarks explained what had •been'done in the meantime, stating that the original prospectus he had submitted on Ifriday, and-whicb, as he then statedj was necessarily ■ crude, had' been considerably modified, it having been suggested that the company should be of a more decidedly general character, In, speaking of this modification, he entirely repudiated the idea that he was acting under the fostering wing of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, and repeated what he said on a iormer- occasion as to his reasons for taking active steps for the- formation of an institution,' which would, in the matter of insurance, doj away with that. “ public-house bugbear” which had! really prevented commercial risks being t^eju-at-. a fair rate. He. was not' sq anxious to see the rates reduced as to ; malfe-it . certain that everyone could _ have.'la^lJaic^riski^t^en .and covered by insurance.- He- waß simply actuated by a desire to do. good not only to the hotel interest but to.the public generally, and felt confident of the movement having-a really beneficial result, He then read the prospectus,, and expressed a firm belief in their meeting with the co-operation of the different parts of from the ..prospectus, _’ was\ expected ; the company ,to rbe. etyied the .ffew,., Zealand Alliance.,!. Barnet • spoke warmly ;in ..favor , of.', the-','riew ' company, in sapport of ' which _ .also, many present wpre enthusiastic. A'good deal of discussion took place, and it was. .ultimately resolved to ajid names to the.proviaional committee. A number of nsfinea were addedto thei already numerous, list, and the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

; The cricket'match between ,the All , England Eleven and the Wellington team- will lie played on the Basin Reserve on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday next. ’The patronage of his Excellency the Governor, has beea_Becured, as will be seen by the advertisement referring to the match in another column! We would draw special attention to the fact that the charge for admission to the ground ; iqt a single ticket is only 2s/,. or for the three days 55., and special tickets.will be issued for admission to ground, grand stand, "&c., daring .the match,, the price.of such'tickets being 10s. each. 'We have been requested to state that children will be admitted to the-ground at half price.* '

Walter Turnbull, Esq., was entertained by the ituembers of the - Wellington. Club yesterday evening, on the occasion of. his recent return from England.- The • chair- was occupied by the President; G. -Hunter, Esq, :M.HiE., andi tha vice-chair by A. de B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.R., Vice-President. The Hon. D. Reid, his Honor" the Chief Justice, E. Pearce, Esq., Wi SJMoorhouse, Esq., M.H.R.. the Hoo. J. Johnston, M.L.C , and the majority of the members of the Club resident in Wellington were present

-"fj, ... Seafanng.men have. a. reputation for- being simple-minded- •. regarding wordly . matters. Anywaya gentleman confirmed this idea as reapectedhiuiaelf in the Resident-Magistrate’s Court yesterday, "morning. Mr. Alexander Phillips; second mate of the ship Himalaya, was called .to giveevidence in a case against a seaman belonging to that ship, r As usual the bailifiLhandsd him the book. The witness took the book, but , immediately put it down. Assuming a look of great solemnity, he said, “T"can’i do it.” " But you must be "sworn,” said. Mr, Ollivier, who. appeared for the proije-cution-J Still the. witness Btood firm, but looked respectfully sorry at' being compelled tp - deny them the pleasure, of swearing him. Mr. Crawford told him be had only got to tell the troth, and must-take the usual oath. Mr. Phillips -.looked- considerably perplexed, at, this. Said he,. “I am .not .going to takepath I saw ,the, man; with an axe. •" a ■ statement .which ~wonld hpye, been, very mysterious] to persona,unacquainted,' with' .the; case. - Be was told he iheed- ;pnly his'oatb, on jSi'cts, x and he. then bpgan- to ■ thaw,' eventually consenting togp thrQUgh thcJorm pf 'taking hiq_path, but under ; the;distipct :anderatanding that he-was not- tpbp , Embarrassed] about this axe, business; In explanation it-mpy-bp-rstated’ .that.. Mr, PhUJipsfh.ad originidjxbepn [under-the impression that, he. saw,the prisoner with-mp spee in bis hand'on the decision ;pf the row ou,board the Himalaya! but afterwards discovered that he had been .mistaken,