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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5136, 8 September 1877, Page 2

The Wanaka sails from Auckland with the San Francisco mail this morning at nine o’clock. A telegram from Auckland yesterday, announcing the arrival of the City of New York, says :—“ The mail agent reports that the City of New York, with the outward mails, arrived at Honolulu on the 17th July. She left next day, and arrived at San Francisco on July 26 ; landed mails at 9.30 a.m. Time from Auckland to San Francisco, 21 days 12 hours. Left San Francisco, with the English mails, on August 15, and arrived at Honolulu on the 23rd. Sailed' same day for Auckland, and arrived at 6.30 this afternoon.” In the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon the Colonial Secretary moved the withdrawal of the Forest Bill, This would have been carried nem. con., but unfortunately Mr. Pharazyn had been’patiently waiting for weeks for the third reading of this Bill, in order that he might have the opportunity of then moving “That the Bill be recommitted for the purpose of striking out all the clauses after clause 2.” However the majority of course were in the ascendant, and, the motion for the withdrawal of this Bill having been put and carried, a very general sense of relief seemed to pervade the occupants of the Council chamber, notwithstanding the shade of disappointment which overspread the countenance of Mr. Pharazyn at this deathblow to the motion which he had been nursing so long and so tenaciously.

The following players will take part in the football match this afternoon; —Athletic team; Messrs. Budge, Brandon, Blacklook, Churton, Campbell, A., Campbell, G., Dumbell, Hickson, Molvor, Major, Speed, Webb.J., Welsh (captain), and Wyatt ; emergency, Kane and Smith. Wellington team: Messrs. Budge, Bishop, Burnes, Cowie, Chapman, Davy, Gray, Pollen, C.. Pollen, H., Palliser (captain), Thompson, J., Thompson, A., Martin, and Irvine. ; emergency, Burn* and Fitz Gerald. A meeting of licensed victuallers was held at Ames’ Star Hotel yesterday. There was not a large attendance. Mr. J. Maginity occupied the chair, and explained that the object of the meeting was to arrange preliminaries for giving a banquet to the delegates from the South who were now in Wellington in reference to the Local Option Bill. It was agreed that Messrs. Murphy, Devill, Walkley, Brown, Coker, Ames, and Maginity be appointed a committee to make the necessary arrangements, and to meet again at half-past two o’clock to-day. The banquet, it is understood, will take place on Monday. The following is a list of successful and. unsuccessful tenders for the Clinton contract of - the Waitako and Invercargill railway, received at the Public Worksofflce:—Accepted: Proudfoot and McKay, Dunedin, £37,600. Declined: Henderson and Ferguson, Dunedin, £37,773; Martin, Hughes, and Co., Invercargill, £38,327; J. B. Blair and Co., Dunedin, £41,180; Topham and Angus, Invercargill, £43,050. A witness who was being examined in the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday seemed, from his evidence, to have had a rough time of it recently. He confided to the Court that he was a cook of the second degree in point of rank, but held qualifications entitling him to first place in the scullery department ; that sometime ago he was employed at the Empire Hotel,-where he poisoned one of his fingers ■ with a fish-bone, and had to lie up for a time ; thatpn recovering he obtained a situation at the Theatre Royal Hotel as deputy cook, but had to leave there because they starved him ! or at least limited his nourishment to bread crusts, waste from the dinner table ; that he began to look upon Wellington as a mean sort of place in consequence of this last experience, and entertained hopes of leaving the shores of the Empire City in the ship Taranaki. A horseman riding quickly along the street near the Supreme Court House yesterday knocked down Mr. Button, M.H.R., who was crossing on foot at the time. Mr. Button was not seriously injured, but he undoubtedly had a narrow escape. The manner in which some drivers of vehicles and horsemen rush along the streets, in utter disregard of the safety of pedestrians, has been long complained of, and ought, if possible, to be put a stop to. St. George’s Hall was very fairly attended last night, when the entertainment given by the Rose Brothers, assisted by the City Rifle Band and others, sent the audience away well satisfied. • This afternoon a special entertainment will be given for children, commencing at three o’clock; and for the evening a most attractive programme is announced.

_ The next of the aeries of lectures in connection with the Congregational Church, Wood-ward-street, will be delivered on Monday evening next, by Mr. Button, M.H.R., who has chosen for his subject “ Oxygen popularity illustrated.” .

The “ Amateur Bantam Minstrels” will give a performance at tire Odd Fellows’ Hall, Lower Hutt, in aid of the St. James' Church building fund this, evening at eight o’clock. There was a very good house at the Theatre Royal last night on' the occasion of Onzalo’s benefit. To-night the “ Octoroon ” will be produced for the last time this season. Mr. W. H. Hunt, of the Adelaide-road, gratefully acknowledges'the receipt of £lO, collected for him by a lady, and he wishes also to thank other kind friends who have assisted him in his illness.

The usual monthly meeting of the Wellington Teachers’ Association- will be held in the Sydney-street school at 11 o’clock to-day. For the future the monthly meetings will be held on the first Saturday in each month, at the same time and place, without further intimation thereof being given. The case of Messrs. Eddie and Jack, who were charged with a breach of the Licensing Act, was heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and a conviction was obtained on the- evidence produced by the police, the defendants being subjected to a penalty of £2O and costs.

The practice for the concert to be given on the 17th instant, in aid of the Karori Church fund, took place last night with great success at Mr. Hunter’s rooms, under the conduetorship of Mr. J. A. Edwards. A large number of vocalists and instrumentalists were present, and a magnificent programme will be presented to the public on the 17th instant. The final rehearsal takes place next Friday evening.