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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5119, 20 August 1877, Page 2

Notice is given that an election of three Councillors for each of the following wards of the city will be held on the 13th September ; Cook, Te Aro, Lambton, and Thorndon. Candidates must be nominated before noon on the 3rd September. The "Vice-Admiralty Court will sit at 10 o’clock this morning in the case of Captain Williams v. the owners of the steamship Taupo, when arguments by counsel will be continued. In the Bankruptcy Court at Dunedin on the 13th inst. Mr. Joseph Mackay (of Tokomairiro) applied for his final order of discharge. The National Bank opposed the debtor’s discharge, and after evidence had been taken and the counsel heard on the application, the debtor’s discharge was suspended for six months. Mr. Haggitt, as representing the opposing creditors, asked that the discharge should be postponed for the longest possible time—three years. The fifth anniversary of the Wesleyan Church,- Adelaide-road, was held yesterday, when sermons were preached in the morning and evening by the Rev. F. Dewsbury and the Rev. A. Reid respectively. On Tuesday evening there will be a tea and public meeting, when addresses will be delivered by several clergymen and laymen, and some choice anthems will be sung. It transpired at the last meeting ot the City Council that the names of Mr. A. Young and other ratepayers had been in some way omitted from the Burgess’ roll, who Were therefore disqualified from voting. A committee was appointed to investigate the matter, and will sit on Wednesday next. Persons feeling themselves aggrieved by the omission of their names from the list are requested to send in written applications to be placed thereon, on or before the afternoon of that day. A course of six popular lectures will be found advertised as intended to be given at the Congregational Church, Woodward-street, during the present session. The Hon. Mr. Fox leads off this evening with one of those pleasant descriptions of “Travel in old and new lands" he so well knows how to give, and will be followed by other men of mark in this class of literary instruction, some of whom, such as Messrs. Bees, Button, and Stout, are entirely new to Wellington audiences. In getting up this course the Rev. Mr. West has sought to provide healthful and interesting information, and as the tickets for the whole course of six has been fixed at a mere trifle, there ought to be no difficulty in securing a full and appreciative audience. At the R.M. Court on Saturday Mary Ann Mason and William Vercoe, charged under the Vagrant Act with keeping a house of ill fame, were each sentenced to three months’ hard labor. Hannah Mendoza, Mary Ann McGregor, and Anne Matthews, charged under the same Act, also received a like sentence. A young woman named Margaret Hunter, stated to have been living with Vercoe, was sentenced to one month’s incarceration.—Bernard Douglas, charged with drunkenness, this being his first offence, was discharged with a caution. Whilst on duty on Saturday Constable Smart met with a singular accident of a painful character. He was putting a corpulent, heavy, and inebriated daughter of Eve into a cab —truthfully speaking, he had to hoist a parcel weighing about 2501b5. troy. Constable Smart is a strong man ; but the situation was trying. He got a crook in his back, and had to be painted with iodine till the injured part of his back and the surrounding districts, as one might say, looked like a new guinea fresh from the mint. The path of a policeman is not strewn with roses altogether, or fenced off from danger, trifling incidents of the above class being ills to which the policeman is a natural-born heir. Seriously speaking, however, Smart has hurt his back very much, and suffers considerable pain when he attempts to move, so that he may be confined for some time. A large number of people, taking advantag 6 of the fine weather yesterday, visited the town' ship of Kilbirnie, Evans Bay, which is to be offered for sale by auction by Mr. R. J. Duncan on Thursday next. Many of the visitors looked like intending purchasers, as they carried with them plans of the land as subdivided into sections, and went carefully over the ground, accompanied by Mr. E. H. Bere, the surveyor, who pointed out the several lots. The site is a very eligible one, and commands some charming views. Close to the bridge which spans the small creek on the Wellingtonroad, is a corner allotment, which, we understand, has already passed into private hands, and on which it is intended to erect a hotel. A few other lots have also we hear been privately disposed of; but upwards of 100 of them are still open to the public, and it is probable that they will be keenly competed for. The inhabitants of Kaiwarra are evidently bent upon having a church in the district. The matter, as may be remembered, was mooted some time ago, and the Rev. Mr. Harvey, in his address at the annual meeting of St. Paul’s parishioners, brought it prominently under notice. Since then a meeting in furtherance of this very desirable object was held at Mr. Thompson’s office. To-night another meeting will be held, and no doubt something of a definite character will be agreed to. There was a very fair attendance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, when the American Vaudeville Company went through their varied and entertaining performances, assisted by the stock company of the theatre, including the talented Stoneham family. The lessee of the Theatre Royal intends giving a performance for the benefit of the passengers by the Queen Bee. No more worthy object could be found, and we have no doubt the Wellington public will come forward on the present occasion and support this benevolent movement. A love romance in one act, almost as good as the comedietta of “ Pampered Menials,” has been enacted in a well-known labor office in Dunedin. A tall and somewhat good-look-ing young lady, says the Guardian, dressed in weeds, registered herself for a housekeeper’s situation. She was in the interesting position of a young widow, with an only child, and the registrar was not long in finding her a suitable place, in which it was suggested she might possibly find a suitable husband. “ Ah, no !” was the soft but sad reply ; “it is too difficult to forget the past,” and something resembling a tear to the memory of the departed stole down the cheek of the fair one. She left, but not long afterwards returned to express her regret that she could not accept the new situation, as she had accepted the hand of her former employer instead. He was a widower, in comfortable circumstances, with two children. She was a widow, with one, and when she went to give him notice he hesitated, scratched his head, and finally proposed to amalgamate the families. Everything was arranged, the housekeeper consented to become a wife once more, and the happy bridegroom has effected a saving of .£SO a year in wages. Had the honorable member for Wakatip behaved in a similarly : honorable manner he would have saved himself a deal of annoyance. Notice is given that the Wairoa confiscated lands, in the provincial district of Auckland, advertised for sale on the 22nd inst., have been withdrawn, but will be subsequently re-offered at a date of which due notice will be given.

The afternoon anti evening entertainments at the Odd Fellows’ Hall on Saturday were well attended. Tenders -are invited up to the 29th August for the Kaitoke station buildings contract on the Wellington-Mastertou railway. According to one of the Wairarapa papers, Carterton is about to go in for being formed into a municipality. The Greytown Debating Society have decided by a majority of one that married life is a happier state than single blessedness. The annual general meeting of the Wellington Choral Society will be held this evening in Mr. Hunter’s rooms, at 8 o’clock. Intending tenderers for the Port Augusta railway contract, South Australia, are informed that the plans and specifications for the same may now be seen at this office. The Engineer of the City Waterworks gives notice that on and after the 3rd September water for other than domestic purposes will be cut off unless approved meters are used. Persons desirous of nominating relatives or friends in the old country for passages to Hew Zealand, are informed, in our advertising columns, that the monthly list will be closed on the 23rd iust. Notice is given that a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Neil McGuirk, of the Hutt, farmer, will be held at the Supreme Court buildings at noon on the 27th instant, when the bankrupt will make application for his discharge. We notice that Mr. Wilkinson, proprietor of the Olyde-quay tea gardens, is about to utilise a portion of the ground leading into the gardens for a building site ; and a very admirable site it is. A building is now in course of erection there ; at least, the preparatory steps necessary are being taken. The following funny dialogue is reported by the Guardian as having taken place recently in the Dunedin Police Court. An inebriate had been fined 205., or in default 21 hours’ hard labor. Upon receiving sentence from the Bench he said :—“ Then I may as lief gang tae prison as be walking aboot a country whar’ there’s nae wark.” “Hi ! hold !” cried the Magistrate, excitedly, as the prisoner was leaving the dock ; “ will you apologise for what you have said, or shall I give you 14 days ?” “You can just please yoursel’,” was the reply. “ Well,” said the Bench, “you are fined 405., or in default 14 days’ imprisonment.” “You can mak’ it a hunner days, five huuner days, a thoosan’ huuner years, gin ye like!” defiantly yelled the man, as he disappeared from the dock. The accused for his mistake in “getting fu’ ” will now have the pleasure of a fortnight’s labor with the prison gang on Bell Hill, and his discharge will be duly notified in the Police Gazette, with his name, height, the color of his eyes, the shade of his hair, the shape of his nose, the size of his mouth, the length and breadth of his chin, and his date of birth, country, religion, and other particulars all duly recorded. Messrs. Murray, Common, and Co. announce in our advertising columns that they have been appointed agents of the Worth British and Mercantile Insurance Company. This is an old established institution, having been established in 1809. Its capital is £2,000,000, and its reserved fund £1,082,763, The policy conditions are liberal.