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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5016, 21 April 1877, Page 2

A full budget of news by the R.M.S. Australia will be found in another column. The mail by her will arrive in the Taranaki, which was to have loft the Manukau last night, and as we understand she comes direct to Wellington, she may bo looked for here on Sunday. The Ilinemoa, with his Excellency the Governor and suite on board, put into Akaroa this morning from stress of weather, but left again for Dunedin at two in the afternoon. The weather was beautifully fine, but the heavy sea caused the detention. The following statement of the ne-t profits of the Queen’s wharf management for six months ending the 31st March, was presented to the Wharf Committee at its last meeting;—■ Wharf tolls, £1607 Bs. 7d. (out of which amount £llsO has been paid for interest and sinking fund) ; proceeds of labor, £2241 11s. Bd. ; water, £394 Is 2d. ; bond, £264 12s. 6d.; the total being £4507 13s. lid. Owing to the disagreement between the Government and the Mayor on the subject of charitable aid, it became necessary for the Benevolent Society to make its own arrangements with the Government. At the last meeting, therefore, the committee of the society appointed the Men. Archdeacon Stock and Messrs. Woodward and Holdsworth to wait upon the Government, in order to ascertain what they were prepared to do. The members of the deputat'on, except the Veu. Archdeacon Stock, who was unavoidably absent, interviewed Dr. Pollen, who informed them that the Government was willing to subsidise tho society till the end of the current financial year at tho same rate as the Provincial Government had done, namely, £l5O per annum. Tho deputation thanked the Minister and withdrew.

A New Zealand Gazelle issued yesterday contains orders in Council dealing with various matters ; proclamation bringing into force within tho township of Carlyle the Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876 ; altering times of meeting of the Wellington Waste Lands Board from Tuesday to Thursday ; appointment of O. A. Wray, Esq., to be licensing officer under the Arms Act, 1880 ; notice by tho Provincial Officer of the Provincial District of Wellington declaring seagulls to be native game within the meaning of the Act; appointment by the Executive Officer of the Provincial District of Wellington of 4th May as tho day of election for a member of the Waiohine Board of Conservators to supply the vacaucy caused by tho death of Mr. Robert Lucas, and appointment of Mr. Thos. Freothy as returning officer, &0., &c. Tho following tenders wore received by the Public Works Department for painting tho Hutt Bridge;—Accepted—W. Thompson, Wellington, £265, Carson’s paint. Declined— W. Thompson, Wellington, £325, white lead ; W. Thompson, Wellington, £250, hematite ; W. Tustin, Wellington, £540, white lead ; W. Tustin, Wellington, £3BO, hematite ; W. Tinney, Wellington, £359, white lead ; W. Tinney, Wellington, £345, hematite ; W. Tinney, Wellington, £4OO, Carson’s paint ; W. Strachan, Wellington, £433, white lead ; W. Strachan, Wellington, £433, hematite ; W. Strachan, Wellington, £463, Carson’s paint; J. McComisky, Wellington, £706. Under tho Stamp Fee Act, 1875, the Governor in Council has made, amongst others, the following regulation :—On and after the Ist day of July, 1877, all duties, fees, fines, and penalties payable to any Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar within the colony of New Zealand by virtue of his office, shall be paid by stamps iu manner hereinafter provided.

A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Wellington College will bo held on Monday next, to consider the question of exchange of land with the hospital trustees, and Mr. Clayton’s application to cut up into sections certain land leased from the Board.

The billiard tournament proceeding at the Union Hotel attracts a good many competitors for the prizes offered. Those prizes are worth winning. They consist of—first, a fine picture handsomely framed ; second, a gold pia aacl pendant; third, a gold pin.

The Commission of the Peace of New Zoa land now numbers 1000 names.

Monday being St, George’s Day will ho observed as a bank holiday.

A proclamation dividing Te Aro Ward is published in this week’s Gazette. Mr. Robert Macallister has been formally appointed auditor of the accounts of tho Hutt County and of the Wellington Education Board.

The employees of Messrs. 15. IV. Mills and Jacob Joseph and Co., will play a wicket match in Mr. Whitehead’s paddock, Ingostrostroet, to-day. Mr. George Darrell arrived by the Wakatipu from tho South yesterday, and left by the same steamer in the afternoon en route for Sydney. We believe the object of Dr, Hector’s trip in the Hinomoa is to report upon the coal measures, if any, on land to be leased in the locality of Mount Rochfort. Plans arc being prepared for the new magazine about to be erected at Point Halswoll, in compliance with the request of a deputation which recently waited upon the Government. It is not yet decided, however, whether the magazine shall be placed on the top of the hill or at a spot to be excavated for its reception. There was a very fair attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening, notwithstanding the attractions presented elsewhere, and the performances in connection with the representation of “ Conrad and Lizette,” were received with enthusiasm. The same programme will be repeated this evening for the last time. Notice has been received by the Commissioner for Crown Lands from the inspector of sheep for the East Coast district that lie has granted clean certificates to the following flockowuers ;—George Moore, Epavaima, flock of wethers, 193, dated 26th March, 1877 ; Edwin Meredith, Riversdale, Kohiwai, mixed flock of sheep about 6000, dated 29th March, 1877, and Round Hill, flock of wethers about 1500, dated 29th March, 1877 ; Messrs. Williams and Richards, Elm Grove, mixed flock of sheep about 1500, dated 30th March, 1877. The Star Boating Club’s race for scratch fours will be rowed this afternoon, the first heat starting at half-past two. The following are tire crews:—Gair (stroke), Ollivior (3), Campbell (2), Dransfield (bow). Sheppard (stroke), Thomson (3), Nelson (2), Warleigh (bow.) Eytou (stroke), Taylor (3), Goring (2), Decide (bow). Webb (stroke), Batkin (3), Smith (2), Govett (bow). The course to be rowed will depend upon the wind. If it prove to be strong from the south-east, the course will bo either from Magazine Point to the baths or to the wharf. If from the northwest, it will be from the Thorndon baths to the wharf.

Mr. H. A. Severn, the scientific lecturer, will deliver his first lecture, being one of a series of six, this evening. His Worship the Mayor will preside. The subject for this evening is “Artificial Illumination and Combustion,” and must, we think, in Mr. Severn’s hands, prove most interesting. After the scientific part is concluded, the lead-tree experiment, a fern in the kaleidoscope, oxyhydrogen, microscope, animalcules, &c,, will he exhibited, and we feel quite sure from the intense interest these science lectures have created in Dunedin, that our citizens will not permit this opportunity to pass them. We further learn that the attendance of the pupil teachers of the Government schools in Dunedin averaged sixty per night during the eight lectures.

A meeting of the creditors in the estate of Sidney Soffe, called by the trustees for the purpose of closing the liquidation, was held in the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. T. Mills in the chair. The trustees’ report showed that the assets had realised £1441 19s. 7d., and that 7s. in the pound had been paid to the creditors as dividend. A special resolution that the liquidation be closed, and another that the debtor be forthwith discharged, were placed on the proceedings, and the meeting separated. This was the first bankruptcy under the Act of 1875, and the first discharge under the same Act in Wellington, and reflects credit on the trustees for tiro manner in which they have realised the estate.

The following appointments in tho Armed Constabulary have been made in consequence of the General Government taking over the management of the police : —-Robert Clarke Shearman to be Inspecting Superintendent ; date of commission 30th April, 1877. Thomas King Weldon to bo Inspector, first class ; date of commission Ist November, 1867. Frederick Atchison to be Inspector, first class; date of commission 2nd November, 1867. Thomas Scully to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission 4th November, 1867. John Emerson to be inspector, first class ; date of commission Ist July, 1868. William Henry James to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission Ist July, 1870. James Hickson to be Inspector first class ; date of commission 20th August, 1872. Samuel Moore to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission, Ist July, 1873. Andrew Thompson to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission Ist July, 1873. William Graham Fox to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission Ist July, 1873. Peter Pender to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission 24th April, 1874. Frederick Mallard to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission 23rd January, 1875. William Aventon Kiely to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission 7th Slay, 1875. Alfred Buckley to be Inspector, first class ; date of commission 28th June, 1875. Albert George Barsham to be Inspector, second class ; date of commission Ist January, 1874. Harry Feast to be Inspector, second class ; date of commission 28th June, 1875. Charles O’Donnell to be Sub-Inspector, first class ; date of commission 2nd September, 1872. Samuel Goodall to be Sub-Inspector, first class ; date of commission 18th June, 1873.

The business was again light at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The following were the cases ;—Two persons were fined for drunkenness ; William Elworthy was mulcted in tho sum of 40s. for assaulting a constable ; Michael J. O’Connor, brought up on suspicion of lunacy, was remanded for a week, the case seeming to be one of excessive drinking ; Michael Scanlan was charged with vagrancy, having been found lying in a doorway yesterday morning, but he was dismissed on promising the Court that he would go to work. Two women, named Mary Harris and Margaret MoCleland, were charged with committing a breach of the Vagrant Act by keeping a disorderly house. His Worship remarked that cases of this kind did not come within the Act; that the evidence went to show that a man named McCleland went to tho house, iu which, however, he lived. It had also been slated that sailors went to the house, but both the sailors and McCleland must be taken to have lawful visible means of support. He could not deal with the defendants under that clause of the Vagrant Act which referred to persons having no lawful visible means of support, but he would warn them that they could be charged at tho Supremo Court with an indictable offence and imprisoned. He strongly advised them to live quietly in future, and to refrain from annoying their neighbors. They were dismissed with a caution. One case of threatening language was withdrawn. Trade depression in Germany has assumed serious proportions. Labor riots occurred. A famine is feared iu Silesia. The newspapers coupled their royal greetings with a wish that the Emperor may see a speedy recovery of the nation from financial crisis. btrangers paying a visit to Wellington, and country settlers arriving in town, are very often at a loss to know which is the best house or cheapest general drapery establishment to visit for buying drapery and clothing. J. McDowell and Co. offer special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in tho city. They keep at all times the largest and best assorted stoekot every class of goods, imported direct from tho leading manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, enables them to offer goods of sterling qualities at prices that cannot bo improved on by any house in tho trade. Every article is marked at a fixed price that cannot be deviated from, for ready money, from which there is no deviation ; so that Inexperienced people are as well served as tho best judges ; tho terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. A full description of stock can be obtained from our catalogues and advertisement. Note tho address—Opposite the Bank of Now Zealand, comer of Lamhton-qnay and, lyuiis-strset, (Welling ton.—Abvi,