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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4951, 3 February 1877, Page 2

• The .Government-have received. from the ;Agent-General! the following immigration advices by the , Sah ,Francisco .mail ;WOn 11th No!vember'lhe Wiltshire sailed for Lyttelton'with ,282 souls aboard; ,on 28th November, Oxford, ' for Auckland, with 239; bn 18th, Loch Dee, for . Otago, with 17 who were- landed sick iat Weymouth from the' Hurunui; on ■ 20th, .Hurunui, ■ from Plymouth, with 170 ; -23 of these were landed at Plymouth,, and are tb leave by-the,Carnatic for, Lyttelton about the 9th December ;, 31 immigrants insisted on levying the Hurunui. The . following vessels aye .engaged , to' take immigrants :-r-Pefngleri, for Hawke’s Bay; December 6, Northampton ,for Nelson, Wellington, and' Westland. Thb i aboye completes' the Government requirements for the year, All advertisements have been Withdrawn and the staff has been reduced. :

We are pleased to learn that Mr. Douglas McLean 'l has .' expressed'.hisV intention :of establishing eight; scholarships for native youths,: in connection with the'; Te' Ante College,- Hawke’s -Bay,- in -memory of - his ’father, the- late" Sir: Donald McLean. ■ The Church Chronicle says :—The scholarships are tdi be of. the i valued Cf £25 per annum, res--pectively, and are to be open for competition to all'native youths being educated in schools in the North Island. . *

In the case of Poll ,v. Tonka yesterday Mr. -Travers- applied—to the Chief Justice-in lohambers forj a-rale 'calling upon; plaintiff, to show cause why the answers made by the, jury ito the 2nd :and ;4th issues should not be,set aside, and.a verdict entered for defendant. The grounds on. whichhe moved were —(1) that the' verdict ,was against ,the .weight 'of evidence; (2) that. damage ■'was, too remote if there Wbrejno' collision J ’ (3)7 misdirection by the 7Judge al tbeYfriair "The"learned. counsel.went it' great length into ■ the evidence, and the question, of negligence generally. , The'rule Was 1 granted, returnable on first banco day after the vacation, proceedings to.be stayed in the meantime. ; [

• ’ Messrs. Beauchamp.-Campbell, and Co. yesterday, held "a sale of valuable properties. ”” Lot Bank, 31ft. frontage to Willis-street, sold to Mr, J. Plinjmer for £I6OO. -Lot ;2 Corner allotment, 45ft. to Willis-street and , 25ft. to Boulcott-street,' sold to Mr. J: Plimmer ",fot : .£1420. Lot 3—Bank dwelling,'6oft. frontage to • ‘Boulcott-street, sold •; toMr. Stuart for £1220.’ Lot • 4,' to Mr. J, Plimmer for ,£360.,,,L0t 5, to Captain ■Williams for '£2oo, ' LOt 6, to Mr; W. Mitchell,for ,£160,...L0ts 7,8, 0, 10, and 11-Were 1 sold to Mr. ’J. M. Taylor for £l6O, £lsbi”£2bpj £2lo, and £250 respectively. Thb -total~nmount brought-by- the-bank-property - was '£s9So.i T6wn acre ’No; £52 ; was sold tp Mr. J. M. Taylor.,forv£2lo. Several other -properties were offered and withdrawn. - - ■ j 1 J l Df. i Johnston, the coroner, delivered a caution to jurors.yesterday, during, theinquest On thje •body Of'the infant'found in' the Adelaide-road on Thursday. Three persons, namely, Michael Laffih,' Enoch and,Charles BroAdbent, who • had' : been 1 ’summoned to' attend 'On 1 the jury, did not put in an and others had/to/ be imposed -{O-fin e'■ in ;: each-'' case,-' 1 ahd . remarked on ‘the’ absence’ of 1 thd - thfee persons named, .expressingTiis. ‘fuality‘in- r?sponae)to wmjmohses;'fiervod upon 1 jnrorW l He tile inconveniehce of business having’to'be left, but it must be recollected;.also <that those .who..were’ late delayed’andiput' to inconvenience: those' whjO were punotual in ; attendance, - and. ;he was determined to put a stop to such neglect, and, if he found it necessary, he should double the fine each time, until he arrived at the maximum sum.

Professor Verd, the magician, is announced for Tuesday evening, at St. George’s Hall.

The Hon. Mr. Ormond returned to Wellington last night, and the Hon. Major Atkinson is expected to-day. The storekeepers of the defence stores, Auckland and Wellington, and all chief gaolers, have been authorised to frank.

The appointments of Mr. Edward Stafford to be Assistant Law Officer, and of Mr. Hudson Williamson to be Deputy-Registrar at Auckland of the Supreme Court, are gazetted this week.

The following new postal appointments have been made:—Postmasters: Jas. H. Stevens Bull’s; A. A. Winterburn, Carterton; John H. Kent, Feilding ; John Bagge, Masterton ; John Munro, Oroua; O. G. A. Harvey, Taylorville ; Sydney Greenland, Whatald. The meeting of the College Governors which we stated in yesterday’s issue was to be held on Monday, the sth instant, has been postponed for a'week in consequence of the All-England Eleven match and the Hutt races.

It will be observed by advertisement that it is proposed to dispose of the yacht Secret by art union. A capital opportunity is thus l afforded of keeping this valuable boat in Wellington waters, and we hope that the lucky; man may be a Wellingtohian. Tickets, how-i ever; are-to be secured by- persons-outside the 1 province in the event of all not being taken; up here, and special stipulations have been! made as to the'delivery of the vessel at the; port at which the winner may reside, . should ( she-leave Wellington. !! ; ; ; During the hearing of the cases in' which two ' seamen of the • Himalaya were, concerned yesterday ’ frequent unseemly; interruptions occurred. There were some; friends of the sailors and sympathisers," Who occasionally, expressed their sentiments on the; merits of the examination.- One person caught, in the act of doing something- of the sort was ; ejected, but that did not put an end to the in-; terruptions, and Inspector Atcheson had at last to threaten. ,that he would accommodate the next man who disturbed the Court with a lodging in one of the cells,'which had some effect. ; ' :

Messrs. Hallenstein Bros., of. the New Zea-, land Clothing Factory,, folio wing the example j .of some of the'largest manufacturers.at Home,' and more especially with a view of introducing their goods direct to the large consuming population of New Zealand,, are .opening. extensive retail branches for the sale, of. their manufac-; tares in the principal towns of New Zealand.; They have' secured one of the best and most central freeholds in Wellington, opposite the; Odd Fellows’ Hall, having a frontage of 60ft.. to Lambton-quay. They are now calling, for! tenders for an extensive building, a portion of which, as per advertisement, is to be relet again'. , ? Last night’s Gazette contains—The Governor’s! assent to regulations made by Napier Harbor, Board; wharf rates on Brunner'railway; wharf; reservation of land in Westland for' •public,. - purposes ; acceptance of the . resignation of Captain J, Taylor, of the Pahau-; tanui Rifles, ‘ and ' appointment of SecondLieutenants Fox and McCredie, in the Wellington Volunteer Artillery ; appointment of Mr.- George Kirton, postmaster at Feilding, to. be a depository of duties stamps ; statements! of receipts,, expenditure, balance-sheet, and summary of the public account and. land fund, for the quarter ended 25th December ; bank returns; &c. ' . . ,

The following items of V Church of England news are fromthe ‘Church Chronicle. —, “It is stated that an island missionary is about to visit New Zealand, for .the purpose of having the" Gospels of St. Matthew and; St. Mark printed in one of the Polynesian dialects.—■ The recently ordained native - deacon has commenced his labors among his ; countrymen in the vicinity of Greytown. We are pleased to hear that he has'made a very favorable im-: pression among the datives there, who aye .taking .active steps. to , build .him a .house, and contribute in other ways'towards his support.—! The. Bishop, has. not....yet, been_able to make arrangements for filling up the vacancy .in Upper Wanganui caused by the Rev. B. Kl Taylor’s- death—a' knowledge of, the Maori language being an essential qualification foi; the appointment. A-. meeting between; thq Bishop and , the Rev. K Burrows (the repre-j sentatiye of .the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand)-has been arranged, and we hope .soon to hear that, this important field of mia : sionary labor will be occupied by a suitable successor to the late Rev. B. K. Taylor.” " ■ ; ' An inquest was held at the Morgue yesterday before. Dr; Johnston, coroher, and a jury, l of which Mr. Pounceby was chosen - foreman; •on the! body of the infant found by ; Mr. Bennett in' the Adelaide-read on. Thursday. Dr. Bradford Was examined'as to the appearance of the body, which; he-had examined. He stated that' it had 'apparently been - dead two or three months, or perhaps longer, and judged that it had not received the ordinary attention given ; to 1 newly-born infants. / The body had been placed in a sack with some chloride of lime, and this gave the skin a peculiar appear; : ance. ’ It Was' impossible to say whether the infant had been'born alive; and equally impossible to tell-of- what sex it 'was." The next witness examined was Mr. Bennett, a gardener, who is employed by the Corporation to-take care of the trees ' which line’ the Adelaide; road. 7. He stated that he was inside the fence in which i one of the trees is growing at the ■town -end of -the road,, being-there -for. the, pur; pose of clearing away i weeds,,when he discovered the body, in a/sack, at about twenty minutes to 11 o'clock a.m. The last time he had been in that particular enclosure was early in December last. -The only other witness ex; amined. was the constable with whom Bennett bad.communicated, and the jury returned ah open verdict. ~ . . \ j

The “Two Orphans,” which-was-played for the first time in Wellington -last; drew a large audience* . ,It is a , notable fact that Wellington must' have' 'novelty .in.its theatre, and id the “ Two. Orphans there is surely ehough to' satisty the most fastidious; in that respect. --.lt ..is certainly a remarkable play’j 'hhd ’in the matter of surprises is a work df some merit; lire characters, too,Jiavea habit ■of dying,ioff or getting killed,' and there is ■ quite sufficient misery in several of the scenes to make jt interesting to some. There is a touch of low. life m it also, accompanied by a .little.vein of .immorality. But the ending.is according to the ideas generally entertained'of what , : a goed ,story should be, for” virtue ultimately triumphs; the orphans, who 'haVe been enduring a good deal' of hardship owing to . the. .machinations of certain -wicked- -people,---eventually -find-repose, -happiness, /and.wealth,;') and i .there,: is; generally speaking cause ... for . rejoicing, the villainous ‘element of courae falling into the background, and not being considered. There is indeed very .'little' in the piece, r but it was made the most of by thbse,pngaged in itarepre-1 sentation,. and Miss Linked rendered very interesting the part of the blind orphan gid Louise, her, acting ,no matter under what circumstances ( always being delightful. Miss Lawrence made her ‘ first appearance on the Theatre Boyal stage under circumstances not very : favorable, but she succeeded in creating a good' impression ~in an indifferent part, namely, that lof Henrietta, the other orphan, Mr. acting as Pierre, a good young maa/who, comes of a bad family, and defeats" the wicked schemes of his ■ relations,-K was <admiraible. /The cast ; was uuttfßiaUy as there are six acts,' it will be understood that the company did well when it is said that there was not apparently a hitch in the performance, and many of the scenes,. whatever may ( be the opinion expressed of them here, were received by the audience /with'/ greatiapplause. One feature inttye. representation of the play, howi ever, is 'deserving of special notice and praisej and/.that. isi the .-scenery arranged by Mr. Holmes,/who is well known as an;artist of repeated this,'eyenlngr''':"..' ,J',7 ! • ■ With -eveutpumatioN that force-pump bfj the body, the hstrt,. sends 'caurilug through the arteries and veins the rosy fluid which sustains life and nourishes the system. If the vital current, becomes contaminated with impurities Greets thin and watery from Insufficient 'assimilation•Of'the food, the most disastrous consequences may be apprehended. Depurate the blood and infuse vigor into the gastric organs with Udolpho Wolfe’s Schiedam Abokatio Schnapps to restore purity and richness to the circulation.—[An vrj.