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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4950, 2 February 1877, Page 2

A deputation, Headed'/by Air., Pearce, M.H.R., yesterday, presented tb the Hon. Mr. Bowen (in the absence of the Colonial Secretary) the petition 1 for? the division of Te Arp Ward. ? The Hon. Mr. Bowen ’ promised |to lay the petition before his Excellency. Two months must elapse h'efpre the petition can be given effect'io, as ; within' that time counter petitions may be received.. The .Choral Society had a very severe practiqe_last, night, ,allJha:-Chpruses .of . Costa’s ‘f Naaman’/ being; gpne , through; ,;Mf. Edwards drilled those ..under his conduct with verve, and coiMderph/e.’.enthusiasm was manifest In the ?co.ui3e ; of; a little time great yesults may be anticipated. There .wiU .be;no, practice next ,Thurpdpy, in . .consequence s of ;the raceSj'bufc theihapd .mepts-.for,practice ;on -Tuesday as usual;? when ■ soijae new overtures wjU be rehearsed; and a large .attendance is anticipated. . ~.i- I

■Ah inquest-will be ■ held to-day on the body bf an ihfahf found yefterclay onrthe Adelaiderbad by: a man named-William Behhett, The discovery was,’in’bne respebt at feast, one. of the stfangbst ’,conceivable./ The body must have been Ljrifafj the’spot tvhere it was discovered; nhmbiy, .finder one of the trees which like the'Adeiaiabirbad bh either side, for a Coni siderable months, it is imagined, from? the presented' by the little body, which 'literally dried up,’ and idehtificatipais'bf ’bd'u'rSe'hut of the question, j —We—hawe -been—shown—two -elegant - silver 1 cups and a'Bfl Yet card salver. l -’The tiYo,foriner have - funds subscribed ainohg'mettibete of'the iStar Crieket Club, for the purpoab/if’'recognising the ysuperior individual meriW- f o£ its members at the forthcoming', Cricket nfatch;' against l the' English Eleven. The’TbtteFy thbgift of a member of the Star’ ’ Club also. The conditions under which thpse as;fpllo.w 0.,? l; Itb, The ihighfesf' soobr' innings ; cupNoi '2;tenhe best 'fielder | the, card,‘salyer tb the higbpst seprer’ in/hb two innings. . Mr. ‘Brbhaley/ttie 1 president of the club, will judge the, fielding, his position as umpire qualifying? Win particularly for* the pbst. • I

.* .The -,b.usjn6i§-.ati;hb E, M. Opurt. yesterday was as follows Henry Thompson waa charged with stealing -from the windows; of TVTessrX Cq.?? of tfousbrs, bf'-Mr., Joseph Rowley’s: shop 3 a'Dok’. xobtairiihg. forty tobacco- pipes. From police arrested ,hini, andithe prbpetty was fouhd .bn' Ws/peyson, as staje’d-m a; Ipdai tb his. arrest, yeb-' [terday-/ 'When charged .he plead.ed net; guilty. •Jle waa a grey-headbd /bid xßoia, and did Toole vbry wicked';’, buti'he fcpWcl'’U’p well, as fib shown" by' the 1 evidence,' ’ yehich clearly J preyed him '.guilty,, ap'd; he '‘was'.'aehtenped; to Ahree .ft'bhths’ |mgrisonmeht,'‘with /hard labor/ r W eabh 'fcharge.--bne assault case was dcjwn oh thC'shCet. ‘ A My. BCtts and' had a difference of opinion seemingly, br ah ah Irishniah''isVsaid to have styled it,' “A bit of an "argument,” and’Mrs. Betts laid ap information agalhst her husband for assault ; L but on the case being called complainant; did not put in an' appearance/ and it was ‘accordingly, struck Iv' i -li.

iThe annual meetingof thp Wellingtciii Trust, Loan,;and Investment, Conjpany, wn,svheld at;, the Chamber, of” Commerce, last evening, .for the 'purpose of (receiving the report .and balance .sheet ,and- thp,ii election.ij of ;directors,; and auditors.’ ;;Tharei were '.about! 30, .geptlemen. present. .Mr t )Wdodwardi JjT,, the chajrmah, in > laying the report and balance sheet before the meeting, made a short speech, stating, that the ; past.year.had.been,an, .uneventful one for jthe , .Company i; had i gone ..on, well and smoothlyi'and the. .directors .were. able to _an■.hounceia dividend of JO, per., dent., t _ He paid a high encomium to the managing director, Mr, L.ljeVy,« stating ; that . they i.were largely jin-* debted.to him for the excellent stateJn. which the affairs-of the company.were at present. A ■.•nnmbep’ftof "questions; were,,askadj:regarding. several itema.in the balance sheet, which wbre satisfactorily;-'an The • motionlthat the report and balance sheet be adopted .was put 'Wthemeetmgari’dcarried. , i The electionof directors was the next business proceeded with. - The Chairman explained that the three retiring directors were MesSrs. IxeVin 1 , Levy, and Wallace,, all of whom offered theinselves for re-election. Mr. Qibrge : iAlleh-wasx.alsb ;propbsed; &nd on a ;show! ofrhandsrbeingrcalled rf<H > -*'the;following was the result Mr. Levy, 28 ; Mr. Wallace, ?5 -. Mr Allenj .18 •’..ranA-Mr.-Levin, 13. i A poll, was ;demanded on behalf .of i Mr. Levin, -sigaed.by six andj the Chairman i announced thatithe pibll.would;taheoplage on the32nd instant, at the Cbamber.ot'Commence, proxies to' boolndged. at i the. office before ten . oolockjjthat.morning. .. A long -.discussion was indulged in >as itc .whether. Messrs.. ;Leyy. and /WaUade/sterfe; elected’,.by ;the show of haiids, andrit was decided- they were-nob, jjht must go tb the‘> poll' as ’ well as the other too. Messrs. Knowles and Olehind were appointed • ns f scrutineers *• -Messrs. Kaipie,* Knowles, and >B&bb6U were"elected ' auditors' for'the'ensinng : and were eUoh. i • An' h<inbrarinra(‘ ; 6£' 100 guineas 'W. voted for the directors, and a vote of thanks to tho Chairman Concluded the 'meeting. j iir meeting-of- the . Wellington : Jockey - Club nas been, (held since. MondUyli-;The.terns Of ithe propoSedrflrrarigChieUtJor.Uyingabneof:'telegraph to .the;: Mutt BraceoautSe; were Jbft , be decided by the vice-president pud the secretary,Und i were arranged with the Government, as .wo announced yesterday. The sum guaranteed was £l7 10s. per annum, not £ll7 10s., as has been stated.

The Wellington, with the English cricketers on board, will arrive on Saturday morning. We have received the usual commercial circulars by the mail. \

Wq believe the yacht Secret is to bP' raffled in Wellington if possible. ‘

It is reported that the Sunday closing of publichpuses has operated most favorably on the crime of the city of Melbourne. Colonel Reader, cbmmainding the Wellington District, will take command at the Colonial Representative firing at Hokitika. A meeting of the? Board of Qovernors of the Wellington College will be held on Monday next; at 12 o’clock, at the?office of the Education Board.

The. English and American mails, which arrived 1 per Rotorua yesterday afternoon, consisted of 3562 letters, 1665 book packages, and 6390 newspapers.

We are in receipt of the Union Company’s time-table for the month of February. It is similar to -the previous- one issued, and is; as neatly and conveniently got up.

It will be remembered that post-cards were first issued on Ist November last. We believe that up to . 31st December, 1876, there were, sold 92,462.. The sales have been much larger than were anticipated. ; A meeting of the creditors of Alexander Cornfoot, of the Upper Hutt, a debtor, was'to have been held at-the Court House yesterday, but as -no creditors had proved, the meeting was ordered to stand,oyer till, to-day at noon.

During the month of January there were registered in ;the Wellington Pistrict, births, 82; and deaths, '42. The'registrations l of births were more numerous than in any pro--’ vious month. During the same period 23 marriage certificates were issued, . The following tenders have been received by the Publiof Works? department for the erection of an inspector’s house at .Vaikouaiti, Otago : —Accepted ; William-Mill,. Dunedin, £390,. Declined : David Low, Dunedin (informal};. £’394; Peter Dey, Dunedin;’£'424'.: '' : ' j

We have received the following, return'Cf patients in the hospital du'ring'and ending t)ie month of January, 1877 :—Admitted —Males, 17; females, 5. Discharged—Males, 5; females, 4. Died—Males, 6. Left in hospital—Males, 39 ; females, 6. Total remain'/ ing—4s., . t , , . ... A general meeting of the Port Nicholson Rowing Club was held at the Albion Hotel on Wednesday; evening; Captain Kennedy occupied the’chair.' "The minutes of previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the secretary then tendered, his, resignation, which was accepted.’ Mr; Eagat was then elected secretary, and Mr. Cunnis treasurer. A meeting ?of the f provisional directors of the new Alliance Insurance Company was held last evening at the Post Office Hotel. The draft of the' prospectus, which in ' effect purposes an immediate issue of 25,000 £1 shares, was presented and adopted, and arrangements made for its publication. The Otago Daily Times relates the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of a Mr. and Mrs. Fidler, landlord and landlady of the; Auld Scotland Hotel. Strange as it may seem/ still?' n'evertheless true,' both host and, hostess were born in the same year, and on the same day, and so far- as they know, the same hour, i •

■ Th'er fourth match between- the carbine aiid rifle representatives, took place yesterday morning, wlth tSe following result:—Carbines Bannister,. 59 points ;McCredie, 60 ; total,? 119. -Rifle’s : Mclntosh; 60 Ballinger, 57 ; total, 117. The carbines are now 12 points ahead, and two matches remain to be fired. The next match " will take place on Monday morning next. ! It:is understood that at the, meeting yesterday in the Waikato country between the If a, live. Minuter (ind certain clpefs of the King party/it was ' agreed that the various roads_ within the European boundaries and the survey of Pirongia Bldck should now be prosecuted/-' the natives 1 offering no obstruction to the ope or th¥ bthe'f.H Dr??Pollehl has gone to Cam-; bridge to see the Ngatiraukawau chiefs. j .

Three of Mr. Redwood’s horses arrived here in the s.s. Taranaki yesterday from the Souith, in ;ch&rgo:'of jthqiy/.(rainer, \Mr.( E. Cutts, jt.q take part in the Hutt races. Their names arq —Guy’Fawkes, Stirabout; and. Songster. , Mr., Delamaiu’s Templeton also came in the same; steamer. Although they had • a very rough passage from Lyttelton they" have ar'rived/n.excellent .cqnditicm., , r .•, ~ j The last of a series of concerts held in the; Ohariu district'for church purposes took place on Tuesday evening last. It was well .attended, was a pecuniary success, and quite W enjoyable' as the‘former-three.- We understand that about £4Q haye been received from these concerts, that the work required to be dfane to the? church jwill - amount :to;eonsider : ably more than .that sum, and that it is pu/ posed to obtain the' balance by subscriptions, W e wish the promoters-every success in their’ undertaking., , . t ; < - > i - The voluntary principle does not seem tojb'e appreciated -in. Wellington.; During/he late organ opening festival at - St. Paul’s there were very large and ’very fashionable attendances;, -yet - the icollectibns, did not - show jan, average cdhtrihutibn of 6d? Rer hesad; she total being between £7O and £80? Had the same entertainment been given in a public hall, and the? ! tisdal' ! AdmSslon :f fee3 charged;»th'e 'proceeds’ l would have.been'for ■a : aimiliirly numerous attendance upwards of £3OO. Even if a thjrd of the humber present had contributed according to the prices -paid for ordinary entertainments, the amount would have exceeded that which was realised. |

ihe cieeigril foY the new- Schools ib Te Aror to he erected by the Board of Education, [vie In 'course' of' preparatidh.' gThe'hoys’ss'chobl; it is expected, will accommodate about 300, and > the ihfant school 1 25;Q, which.'wilkhMsufficifent to allow of the Boulcott-street schools being devoted entirely tq the use of girls. In addition to the main 'schoolroom, classrooms vjrilL be yange4round, apd (here, vill, also be a convenient waitmg-rooAi ‘itiid'a lavatory to eaph.; A novelty in the internal arrangements will, be the introduction of a new kind of desk,, similar to that in'use'in the schools under the. Loudon School Board. Their recommends,-; tion is that the children are so placed that the master has a better view of all in the room.j

; tl-he' Tonka, in ■wHioli a jiity awarded plaintiff £350 damages last week, before’the /Supreme-'Gonrt in banco today, on a motion to enter up judgment for dbf£hdant,'the Chief Jn3tise having agrCed” to hear counsel although the vacation tyas comwnwefa t! i at plaintiff was a cabdriver, and while plying his vocation his .horse_.(as the jury found) was frightened by defendant's horse, riderless, rushing from, a lane into a street along whjch. .plidhtlft,wfis),didying/hip;par,'.thß result being that plaintiff’s'leg was broken. The question, is whether the-.facts .'found by the jury hre, sufficienfinrlaw' to constitute negligence, a.nd .whether ftl}o : =Aegligenoe,; if:;any,was not top. remote a cause of the accident to render defendant; ,;.'i ■> ijr.i h :.i: j -i ,! Strangely enough there was rather a meagre attendance at the;T.hetttm Royal last evening; • Elsewhere the Lingards have received patronage the‘most libetaLfrom lovers of the drafna and really high-class acting ; but from whateVer Ofttises tho stftendaivccs j-tno Theatre during the present season have not been so numerous, as. might naturaferbe expected by anyone wfio has once had the pleasure! of • witnessing thaimaguiflgeut acting of Lingard and Mr. Lingard, East evening jibe -three- act -comedy in- Haste was otoduied, MKS W LinfehiaiMplaJymg' IKthel Grainger and Mr. Metcalf Augustus lYere., while Mr. Pendragon and, Mr. St. Lawrence Gibson Green. The per.-,, formance was highly-successful, and gave the most complete satisfaction to the audience, who, applauded' 'throughout ' most - heartily, Thjji evening the sensational drama of the Twi ; Orphans”, will'be> produced; ’ ■ Therei are special attractions in this piece, and we imagine, , there iwU". he ia’ .good/hop??, as there should be undoubtedly, for the Lingard season is drawing to a close.

At the Wesleyan Conference the following estimates as to the home mission fund for the year were made :—The estimated expenditure of the home mission fund for the ensuing year was £1764 ; the estimated income was £1462, which Amount is to be raised as follows Auckland £IBO, Thames £25, Waikato £lO, Manukau £2O, New Plymouth £3O, Wanganui £45, Rangitikei £lO, Patea £5, Manawatu £lO, Wellington £IOO, Wairarapa £2O, Nelson £3O, Hutt £2O, Napier £lO, Motueka £5, Blenheim £2O, Hokitika £lO, Greymouth , .£15,. (Christchurch £l5O, St. Albans £BO, IjytteltdhL£2o;''Sprihgst6h £ls, Leeston £ls, Kaiapoi £l6, Eangiora £2O, Timaru £2O, Waimate £lO, Tempka £5, Dunedin £so, Port Chalmers £lO, Mornington (Dunedin) £IOO, Balclutha£s, Invercargill £20,. Oamaru £lO, mission properties £372. The stations of ministers for the ensuing year were then finally fixed.' The alterations agreed upon were as follows:—Christchurch, Colombo-road, J. S.'Smalley ; Christchurch, East Belt, W> Worker; Springton,. Joseph Berry; Ashburton, W. B. Martin; Waimate, Ellis; Dunedin, Mornington, J. J. Lewis ; Nelspn, Richmond, T, F. Reeve ; Mptueka, J. Upshaw ; Kumara, W. 'S. Harper ; Napier, J. H. Simmonds ; Rangitikei, S. Lawry ; Manawatu, W. Connell, T. G. Hammond ; Pukekohe, S. Garlioki ’The following l sums were voted:—Patea, £SO ; Manawatu, £6O, conditionally upon the appointment .of. a second minister; Wanganui Maori Mission, £4o;' Scandinavian-Mission, £SO. ‘ . To lovers of'.canaries, a. splendid opportunity, is afforded for acquiring some excellent birds. Messrs. Beauchamp and Campbell will to-day offer 160 Hartz.Mouutain canaries, all good singers.

We have'been requested to call attention to Mr. N, J. Isaac's-trade sale of-wines and spirits, groceries, &c., which takes place at his rooms, Lamhton-quay) at 2 o’clock to-day. We are informed there is a large quantity of goods to be offered, and as all lines are balances of consignments,’ this should be, a gqod opportunity for purchasing cheaply. ■ '■

Messrs. Beauchamp and Campbell will to day offer some very, valuable town properties. , The old Union Bank propertydil Willia-stfeet has been divided into eleven very eligible allotments,-all of which will ibe offered. - With aono iSectiou will be.'Offered the manager’s house. Subsequently other properties Will be'putup.. . A' Genuine Source op of invalids seek in vain; 1 year after year, 'for some real source of health; They try one remedy after another until they begin to despair of finding, the much wished for object.-' Oh,; that some beacon could light these' unfortunates grUping ' in the dark to that genuine source : of ’ health, Udolpho Wolfjs’s Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, an unequalled specific'for diseases of the stomach, bowels, and kidileys, and a matchless tonic and nervine-[ADVT.]