The decision arrived at by the City Council in connection with the drainage scheme is at once to be given effect to. The Mayor has taken the first step in the matter at the earliest moment by calling a public meeting for Tuesday evening, loth May, at the Odd Fellows’ Hall. A show of hands will then be taken, when doubtless a poll will be demanded.
In transmission the cablegram respecting the report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in some way has got muddled. We believe the annual report, when to hand, will show that the new business effected during the year 1876 represents 4559 new policies assuring £1,652,575, with a new annual revenue of £56,300. The accumulated fund now stands at £1,961,771, and the annual revenue is £466,135.
Information was received in town yesterday that the Paikaikariki Hotel, owned by Mr. Bills, was burned to the ground on Thursday night at 11 o’clock. The inmates of the hotel had a narrow escape for their lives, most of them having to leave it in their night-dresses and get out through the windows. How the fire originated is unknown. Nothing was saved from the hotel.
We mentioned yesterday that a ball would probably be given to Commodore Hoskins and the officers of H.M.S. Wolverene and Sapphire. Yesterday a few gentlemen met and the thing was settled. It is to take place at the Provincial Hall on Wednesday evening, and doubtless will be a very great success, for no community is more hospitable than Wellington, and the unusual occurrence of the presence in our bay of two of her Majesty’s ships, one bearing the commodore of the Australian station, will tend to make the gathering a very brilliant affair.
The Northampton immigrants were brought ashore by the steamer Moa yesterday morning. Messrs. Baker and Farron arrived here by the Taranaki from the South yesterday.
His Honor the Chief Justice leaves for Nelson to-day to preside at the sittings of the Circuit Court there.
The Registrar of the Canterbury College calls for applications for the office of Lady Principal. Henry Chappell, of the city of Wellington, saddler, has filed a statement of inability to pay his debts.
The bankruptcy of William Langley, of Otaki, has been annulled by order of Judge Richmond, a deed of composition having been accepted by the creditors. This day week several scratch fours will be rowed off in connection with the Star Rowing Club. Entries will close at the boatshed this afternoon. At the Terrace School this afternoon Mr. Young, the master, will deliver a lecture to the young on “The steam engine.” Admission free.
A special meeting of the Hutt County Council will be held on Monday next, to pass the monthly accounts, and for any other business that may be brought forward. Two unfortunate women, and a few persons troubled with a strong liking for strong waters, were punished at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. A diver belonging to H.M.S. Sapphire was engaged yesterday in looking for portions of machinery which fell overboard from the hulk Omega, between the middle and the outer T, on the southern side.
The Bowen prize, to be competed for by matriculated students of the University, will this year be given for the best English essay on “ The relation of Constitutional colonies to the Empire, as it is and might be. The Bijou Variety Troupe open at the Odd Fellows’ Hall this evening. The performances of the troupe are spoken of as being really good. They are very highly spoken of by the Press elsewhere, and we have no doubt they will do a good business here. The attendance at St. George’s Hall was more numerous last night than on the opening night, and altogether the affair passed off more successfully. Mr. Taylor and Lillie, the queen of the skates, gave their unique performance with much success. The return cricket match between the combined team from A. P. Stuart and Co. and J. Joseph and Co., against a team from J. Nathan and Co., will be played in McKenzie’s paddock, Ingestre-street, to-day (Saturday) ; commence at half-past one sharp. A proclamation has been issued to the effect that it shall be lawful during the months of April, May, June, and July to shoot wild duck of any species, bittern, pied stilt plover, wild geese, dotterell, native pigeon, teal, black stilt plover, and curlew, within, the provincial district of Wellington. His Honor Mr. Justice Richmond has appointed Lowther Broad, Esq., to be revising officer for the electoral districts of city of Nelson, suburbs of Nelson, Waimea, Motueka, Collingwood, Picton, and Wairau; and Andrew Oliver, Esq., to be revising officer for the electoral districts of Napier and Clive. Frank Broughton was brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with embezzlement of the following sums ; £2O Os. Bd., £ll 11s. 2d., and £lO Bs. 2d., the property of Messrs. Donald and Pascoe. The prosecutors being unable to proceed with the prosecution on that day, a remand till Monday was granted, and the defendant was admitted to bail in his own recognizance of £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each. A very important argument was heard by the Supreme Court in banco yesterday on a question as to how far an insurance policy is protected. It has been commonly supposed that an assurance on a life once being effected goes direct, on assured’s death, to next of kin, if the policy have not been assigned, or the money accruing under it specially devised. The point, however, has now been raised, and after hearing very elaborate arguments from counsel —Mr. Travers on the one side and Mr. Hart on the other—the Court reserved its decision.
At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday John Stanford was brought up on remand charged with having been drunk and assaulting Constable Stewart at the Lower Hutt. The evidence has already been publi-hed, and the case was remanded at the prisoner’s request in order that he might procure the attendance of witnesses, but none' of these came f rward. Prisoner said that Constable Stewart was in the habit of persecuting him. He denied that he had either been drunk or that he had assaulted anybody. He made several charges again-t Constable Stewart, but the Bench did not consider them worthy of belief. He was fined 40s, and costs, or seven days’ hard labor. The Lydia Howarde Troupe played last evening again to a very fair house, the performance consisting of the extravaganza of “ Ivanhoe ” and the operetta of “ Trial by Jury.” The latter piece was received very favorably, those roguish gentlemen the jury and that “sly dog” the judge being very funny, and all concerned performing excellently. To-night the company offer a superior bill, for particulars as to which see advertisement.
The steamer Luna was yesterday brought alongside the wharf, and a score of men set to work upon her to take out the forward boiler, alter the cabin, and generally rearrange the space so as to give more room for freight. We understand, in connection with the request made to the Corporation by Mr. Kennedy, that that body has little or nothing to do with granting permission to build a wharf. However, it may be regarded as a certainty that the Corporation will not make any recommendation to lessen the Brunner Coal-raining Company’s claim upon the Government for sympathy and fair assistance. A number of advertisements appear in another column, from which it will be seen that the Luna will commence running on or about Ist May.
A New Zealand Gazette was issued on Thursday last. It contains—Proclamations affecting several provincial districts ; Kumara licensing district regulations ; notice under the Sheep Act, stating notice has been received from the Inspector of Sheep for the Wairarapa and East Coast district that he has cancelled the clean certificate for the flock of sheep in the possession of Messrs. Mitchell and Hirschberg, Morrison’s Hun, Wairarapa, dated 26th March, 1877 ; notices under the Conveyancing Ordinance Amendment Act, 1860, and the Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875 ; and a number of Land Transfer Act notices; besides several matters of interest, which are referred to in another column.
A Wairoa correspondent of the JI. B. Herald telegraphs : Monday evening a leading native at Waihirere pa, named Anania, was recounting some of his Chatham Island experiences to a circle of listeners, when he suddenly dropped asleep. They awakened him and heard the rest of the adventure, and again he dropped asleep ; but they could not waken him this time. He was honored with a tangi and buried next day; but the natives affirm that he neither lost color nor got cold from the time of his supposed death till he was buried.”
Lord Blcho writes as follows in the Daily Telegraph : —I have read in the Daily Telegraph an article showing how man is in danger of being ousted from the Australian world by the fruitful rabbit, unless this “ nimble skipping little animal ” is kept within bounds. This certainly is an alarming prospect for our colonial fellow-subjects, but in this country, at any rate, we can as yet secure ourselves in possession against the invader by the use of guns, traps, snares, and, above all, wire netting ; and my object in now writing is to point out how this last remedy can be most cheaply and effectively applied. Wire netting, as generally used for rabbit fencing, requires to be made to rest upon a tolerably deep foundation of broken stones or concrete ; otherwise this “feeble” but cunning “folk” burrow under it. This adds greatly to the
cost, and does not, after all, insure the desiredprotection, as the rabbit will even then burrow under the stone foundation. But if about six or eight inches of wire netting at the bottom of the fence are bent back at a right angle to it, laid down, and pegged along the ground,. the J needful result is attained, as the grass, fallen leaves, &c., soon conceal from view the wire that is thus laid down, and the rabbit vainly scratches upon it when attempting to burrow under the obstruction of the upright fencing which stops his way. His intelligence, great though it be, fails to teach him that his labor is lost, and that he must commence his tunnel further back. It was at Mr. Hibbert’s, near Uxbridge, that I saw wire netting thus used, with, as I was assured, the most complete success ; and the knowledge of this cannot, 1 think, fail to be of use to many of your readers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5010, 14 April 1877, Page 2
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