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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4952, 5 February 1877, Page 2

Thei'HdnV_Majbr' "Atkinson was a passenger, by the .steamer Wellington, which arrived here on Saturday afterno'oh.' "' ' j (.•'..■'

. The seventh annual meeting of shareholders in the Wellington .Gas Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce room .this afternoon at 4 o'clock; . The business is to receive report of directors, to elect two directors for the ensuing year, to appoint 'auditors for the ensuing year; and fix remuneration, i ~ ; "<

We have received from the Commissioner of Public,Works of South Australia lithographed 'copies, of. plans,, together with copies -of- the specifications of the'Kapunda'arid North-west Bend of Murray River .Railway. They may, be viewed at this office, .and are for sale. An advertiseinent on the subject appears in'another Column. -:. ! ! : '•: ! ' :

.Qf a(s&amani named ;Byrne, against whom a charge had been laid of committing! a breach of:the: Merchant Shipping;Act, butjwho had endeavored tp.escape appearing at Court. A warrant was, issued, for -his -arrest,j and the police,very, soon,enforced his presence at the . Court; 4nd he .was remanded till to-day. We understand- that- the idea-of.pulling off the ;scullers .race, has ,notr: been- abandoned; that, is to say/nothing hasbeetf decided on. It' would seem- though much.rbetter to postpone .the, race npw,till;next regatta, |bo long a time having elapsed since the last one. , There . is a" probability of the Regatta Committee. meeting to,consider the matter. j It is'a fact'worth noting, and goesjso far. to confirm the~opinion"of the (touching the* necessity' for with the Water reservoir, >ae ventilated iia his abnual report,' that ; Bince' the bush j was; cutaway:fremthe; source of two stream'sjthat through ; Mr. Donald's famous' garden at Earori, 'they have shrunk to the| smallest 'dimensions; the sinfiller^of ;the twoj in point of fact, is'nowhere*'during one''half'-of the year,' while the -supplyin the larger is reduced to a niiniraum. This, is only an isolated case. No doubt observant 1 settlers %ill 'have ..noticed something of the same kind in other I districts..! Tha Wellington 'Teachers' Assocjation held . its' Bchool, Sydney-street, on, Saturday, j The on|y subject which came under corisideratwn\ya4thai of suitable copybooks for the .use of schools. Many copy-boots nowiaise.beipg'objectio|nable fotv varjous the association.was requested tp!ma^'a selection oi!' sucfi'ds, it cputd recommend! Books issupd the various publishers matter,'after "occupying"the,"attention of the' association! .for! about",two " noiip^' 1 ' was • ;poned, M to give other publishers' not represented an'opportunity of forwarding, specimjen copies before,a ftpal decisibn is arrived it.' j The case mentioned in a Grahamstown paper of the dead body of,a man being (found in a deserved shaft! .WtheKaraka,' 18(58,!is not so jrery uncomm6n r pn goldfields,} It ,i» not long, diice that the body of ft jiian w«s,fonnd in an ; pld shaft on .*% l ,'\V>lo>R» i rakft\fl»fc on the Thame's. f The ground, had .been. up, with deal more, by the ,TJbames j Company, 'and the shaft Waß being cleared out) preparatory .to the- renewal- of operations, *hen the body of! the' man, viras discovered.""lt Was iden- , titled} 'although' ,inuch decomposed,; but no loertainZclue._waßlf6iindJaß_toJiJie j cause of death.- Murd«r was, not suspeoteoy and yet "the supposition that the flown the shaftjaccidentally was not so ) very reasonable, f oraamuoh' as the shaft was built up several feet,above the ground,for. the- conveyance of' tfie cage'W the tram,' and the doo|r leading into./it 1 oh the surface'level/had fdr al«g time rematoed fast closed. - -i " '; "•"-' '

The Empire Hotel sweep will be drawn tomorrow evening. A few remaining tickets will be raffled this evening.

The Pantascope still attracts good houses, the Odd Fellowß' Hall being well filled again on Saturday night. The regular monthly meeting of the Central Volunteer Fire Brigade will, be held at the engine Btation this evening at 7.30 o'clock, and every member is particularly requested to attend, as the business is of importance.

It will be noticed that the steamers Stormbird and Napier will run from the Queen's wharf to Petoni beach, landing passengers close to the racecourse, on Thursday and Friday next, Hutt race days. We understand that it. is intended to erect a bridge over .the creek at the rear of the ground, for the convenience of those who go to the races by water. A singular incident happened at Mr:Tgstin's house in Willis-street yesterday evening. The window, of the drawing-room had been open for a few • minutes only, when suddenly in jumped a frog, much to the astonishment of the occupaats. The. singularity of the occurrence consists ih.'the fact that frogs are jiot i common / here. A*' few were imported recently, and perhaps this is one of them; L It was of a beautiful : green color; in fact we never remember to- have seen anything in the frog line prettier. ; ~ The attendance' at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night was numerous in pit and stalls, and the " Two Orphans " was repeated, giving apparently great satisfaction to the audience. This evening will be played for the Jast time' "Our Boys,";a,:play-in which-Miss, Lingard appears to such advantage ; and it will be "followed by "Mr. arid Mrs., White," alpiece in connection with winch the Lingards will int troduce operatic selections.. This bill should prove 'sufficiently attractive to draw a crowded house i " " i' : s. .

The practice of allowing toddling j childrento run about the streets unprotected, is one the evil of-,which has on more than one occa?sion been-demonstrated by„tbe_ occurrence< of sad accidents.. It is not so Jong ago, for instance, a child was killed'in Taranakistreet, a ijuicher's cart having run. over it; On Saturday* last a child narrowly; escaped being run over by a horse attached to an express cart. .In fact, when the hisrse was pulled up the child was almost under its feet, bewildered of course, and,there it remained until some one who was standing by pulled the little thing away from its perilous position, More care should be exercised by parents, who in cases of accidents befalling their children in the public streets are themselves for the most part, to blame. '.,':''. ', ';'. His Worship the Mayor writes to ub as follows :—Sir,—lt will be gratifying to the citizens of Wellington to leara, as it is exceedingly gratifying to me to state, that the copious rain of the last two days, however inconvenient it may have been in some respects, and however much it may have interfered with certairi.of our amusements, has not only filled the.present reservoir with-water, but has done the same by the temporary dam recently completed, and that the concrete wall by which the latter is formed (the stability of which has been a source of more anxiety to some of us than need be said),'stands so far perfectly firm jaiid fast, a credit to Mr. Marchant, the engineer; and to Mr. Saunders, s the contractor. I there will be no further scarcity of water during the season,fand I will be obliged if |you will make known the above facts as possessing much public interest.—l am, ;&c, William Hutchison. , ' •

The house at Sydney lately occupied by the Holden family was burned' down, isays theSydney Morning Herald, under the idirection of'the police authorities", i' During the operation a store'belonging to'Mr. Summerbell, situated at a little distance, from the house,. took fire. As a precaution against j such an occurrence, an engine belonging to No. 2 Volunteer, Company'had been engaged- to remain on the spot to' ply a stream of water upon the store ; but th« flames became too power-/ -tx&l and the store was ignited. As the supplyof water was rather Bhort, it was feared that the'engine would be-insufficient" to cope with' the flames; a man therefore was "sent up to sound the? alarm, when four additional engines were'soon upon the scene. ; Their services were not called into requisition, as the flames in the store had already been extinguished. ' The. extent of the coula not be ascertained, but it is supposed to be very slight. ■ j ~ c t -

- The . taunceston Examiner of January 13, contains the following extraordinary para{ graph:—"The Hobarton: Mercury of-ThursT day mentions the holding of a ' dije&ner & fy fojirchette .in honor. of the - liberation of 'a pnsqner,'the invitations to which Ministers condescendingly . accepted.' j This cqnfirms a communication which has reached us to the effect that' after the liberation by the Government of the •woman Hunt, (who was convicted in July, 1875, of argon, on evidence which the ipresiding. judge in ; his summing up termed 'almost overpowering,' and who was sentenced ;to,s'evenyevs' .imprisonment), her,, intercessor entertained : three' Cabinet. Ministers .and . a .well-known, parliamentary suppprter of ' the present!administration at a. luncheon.-4 Mrs. Hunt's intercessor is a connection | of hers, and; is also, the present 1 .landlady; ofj the, Premier."-,-, r .- ;,. >.■:.•-■ ■■, .-, i r ,

The legality of selling packets of lollies with cheap jewellery in them, an induce-j meni for the-public to buy, was lately tried in' London ;; and on itß.hejngiproved that in no case was more than-the-value-of—the money! paid given in exchange,' the ; bench j afr'Bow.street' dismissed-the complaint. | But -In Melbourne the lolly packet gamblingjis taking the place of the suppressed Chinese banks.: In one of the areades a shop openly advertises, that purchasers of a shilling's worthj of lollies' run a;chance.of getting suniEi ranging fromia sovereign, down to a threepenny" bit j in-these parcels ; 'and the consequence' is that people whose, taste for sweets was'given jip -years ago, have gone into lollies as a substitute for fan-tan." Th'is 'is;bad; but the worst remains .behind. ,'fAtticus." in the ;Leadtr jsays-r-I have been informed, on creditable authority, that the .gamesters, when they find no money in their -packets, revenge themselves by eating the lollies, so that this new form of. vice is "calculated to .'destroy soul and body alike. It is clearly a t case for the interference of the police. The "gambling may be injurious: there can be no doubt about the action of the lollies.

The following is; from .tint: Age of January 18: —"An extraordinary, and happily inost unfounded rumor has been rife for some.jdays past respecting Madame Cora, who,'it may, ■be < remembered, left Melbourne about a year ago in company'with Miss Jeannie Wren, Val Vote, and other 'artists, for 1 the Cape of Good Hoge. Froml all the acctfunts received .the. company had been doing excellent ! business, despite 'many;counter attractions, and; Madame herself was a. great favorite'Jwith the 'public.' About a week ago'a statement Was circulated to the ieffect that in a fit of temper! Madame Cora beat Miss, Wren with some violence by seizing' her by the neck, - from the jeffects of .which the Hatter,' Who was.weak and; delicate;' ultimately.died. It was known when] Maaame Cora 1 was leaving Melbourne that she was ex. tremely kind and attentive to Miss jWren, to whom Bb.e,suprendered her cabin on the voyage, owing ,tt£ the-, delicate state of th& latter'B health.'"The rumor therefore received no credence ;by those i acquainted with the ladies in question. I; The files of papers from the Cape to hand contain-no information of the nature indicated, and the detective;who dame by the Wolverine, direct from Capetown, in search of Lyons and JCarljshaw, the diamond robbers, 'stated, : when questioned, that ' there was not a word;or truth - in the»rumor. "'

We direct; attention to the sale of a valuable freehold; is advertised by Mr. J. H. Wallace, at Ms saleroom, this day, at 12 o'clock noon sharp. The prowrty is one of those so much in request by invests of capital. » nd wUI •»• sold wlthout ""> erve < V" ;■i •-, rjAUNPiOKn..YiBWBi'O The bilious .and: dyspeptic subject takes '* jaundiced Views ' of evewthtag, always lobk.attheWdrstfc full of forebodings, In shgrt,. almost individual, of, grace. There is a cer-' 'tain remedy for his depression, for bis gastric tortures, for all the illrthat a disordered stomach and liver inflict. '.<. Udolpho Wolf's Sohmdam Aromatic Schnapps, taken thrice a day, will makes different man of hlmln • month.—(AbvtJ.