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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5238, 7 January 1878, Page 2

A private telegram received from Tauranga yesterday states that Sir George Grey and the Hon. Mr. Sheehan may he expected in Wellington on Thursday next. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court will oommince this morning. We have.already published the calendar of prisoners for trial. At the Supreme Court on Saturday before their Honors the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Richmond, the case of Wylde v. the Bank of New - Zealand, which was partly heard the previous day, was resumed, and the Court ordered the rule to be |made absolute, with coats against the plaintiff. The matter, it will be remembered, arose out of an appeal against a decision, of the Resident Magistrate at Reef ton on the ground of want of jurisdiction. Mr. Izard appeared in support of the application, and Mr. Gordon Allan, for Mr. Hart, on the other aide. The only remaining cases on the list, Wilson v. Lawrence, argument on demurrer, and the Solicitor-General v. Quick, were adjourned. The following is the team chosen to represent Wellington in the cricket match to be played to-morrow (Tuesday) against Canterbury :—Messrs. Arrnitage, Blacklock, Horwood, Inman, Kember, Kennedy, Lockett, Robinson, I. J. Salmon, J. A. Salmon, Willis ; emergency, Fordham ; umpire, W. Bromley ; scorer, A. T. Bate. Mr. Cross of Wanganui was to have been one of the team, but . no answer has been received from him in reply to telegrams asking him to play so the team will be purely a town one. Play will commence at 10 o’clock. The Wellington team are requested to be on the wharf on Tuesday morning, to meet the Canterbury men, who will arrive early by the Ladybird. The Canterbury team will be entertained at luncheon during the match. Several leading Victorian colonists are now on a visit to New Zealaud, as will be seen by reference to the passenger lists of the steamers arriving. yesterday at this port. Every year an additional stream of Australian visitors may he expected here, and as soon as additional facilities and accoramodatiou'are afforded for them in the Hot Lake district the number may be expected to be greatly increased. j A stranger now on a visit to Wellington says “ he observed several ladies being compelled to move off the footpath into the gutter, from the action of certain members of the male sex, who evidently never heard the saying ‘always give a lady- the wall side.'' He also says that he noticed that the Wellington ladies had become used to this treatment, as when he met them on the footpath they seemed quite astonished at his moving to the 1 outer side of it.” We have seen the same thing, and it is nearly time that some rules-of the road were observed on our crowded footpaths. The St. George’s Hall Comic Pantomime attracted a large house on Saturday evening, when a great double bill was performed to the entire satisfaction of the audience. To-night the same double bill will be repeated, and the pantomime, which has had an unprecedented run here of eleven nights, will positively be performed for the last time.. To-morrow Miss Edith Ponder will take her benefit, \yhen the “Trial Scene” from the Merchant of Venice, and the drama entitled “ Maritana ” will constitute' the bill of fare. This will also be the -last night of the season. We learn that the combined cricketing team has signified their ‘ intention of being present on this benefit occasion. Mr. Dillon, we understand, will appear in Shylock. A man named Versoe was arrested en Saturday and lodged in the lockup, on the charge of stealing half-a-orown from’ the. till of the Clarendon Hotel, Molesworth-street. He will be brought up at the Police Court this morning. We have been requested to call attention to the meeting of the Regatta Committee, to be held this evening at 8 o’clock, at the Pier Hotel, when the appointment of officers and various committees will be made. All lovers of the sport should make a point of not missing this meeting. His Worship the Mayor will probably take the chair on this occasion, •

The musical promenade at the Arcade was again very largely attended on Saturday night, and the place is evidently becoming popular both with those who merely go there for pleasure and others who combine business therewith, and makd their weekly purchases at the stalls, of which the greater part on the groundfloor are already occupied. When lighted at night it certainly presents a very attractive appearance, and it is not surprising to see so many people drawn to the spot. There was a report current during the latter part of last week that Air. Tonics, brickmaker in Tarauaki-street, was missing from his home, and that fears were entertained for his safety. His friends will be glad to hear that no misfortune has occurred to him, and that he has returned home quite well, after a temporary absence on business.

The Karori-Makara Highway Board met on Saturday last. Present—Messrs. Graham (chairman), Wright, Page, and Bowler. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The bank account showed £231 15s. at the credit of the Beard. The chairman reported on several matters relegated to him at the last meeting, the purport of which was that the several works were being attended to, or would be in the course of a few days. The clerk was directed to call the attention of the various contractors to thenecessity of metalling several parts of the roads within their contracts, in consequence of the metal being so worn that the original rock foundation was cropping out in many places also to the wearing of ruts in the roadway, and the drains getting choked, and requesting their immediate attention to the same. The clerk was also directed - to give Air. Bath notice that unless a horse of his, now lying dead closely adjoining the Park Vale-road, is properly buried within 48 hours from the date of notice, the Board will have it done at his expense. The chairman produced a sketch plan of a proposed deviation of a road acro-s the Kaiwarra Stream, prepared by the county engineer; but as it was unaccompanied by details or estimates of the probable expense its consideration was therefore postponed. Complaints having been made of the damage and annoyance caused by horses and cattle straying on the public road, it was determined to appoint Air. Charles Alfred Spiers as ranger, with power to impound all horses and cattle straying on the road, and that he be entitled to the trespass fees as his remuneration. It wasresolved that the sum of £IOO be appropriated for the repair and maintenance of the Ohiroroad by day labor, to be under the supervision of the district warden, to be extended over twelve months from date. .It was resolved that estimates be called for a rough bridge on the South Karori-road, the present one being considered dangerous. Sundry accounts were passed, and the meeting do ed. The Levy concert company are passenger* by the Tararua, en route to Auckland via Nelson, where they will perform for thre# nights, commencing to-morrow (Tuesday). The company consists of Mr. Levy, the worldfamed cornet soloist, and Airs. Levy, the celebrated soprano ; Aliss Bessie Pitts, a favorite contralto; Signor Ro-nati, the popular tenor who visited Wellington with Di Alurska ; and Signor Giorza, the eminent pianist and composer; Air. Richmond Thatcher, the agent; and Air. W. T. Keith, the treasurer, who visited Wellington some eighteen months ago as business manager for the Simonsen Opera Company. The Levy conceits have been a very great success in every place the company has visited in New Zealand. At Christchurch last Wednesday, on the occasion of Air. Levy’s benefit at the skating rink, a place that will hold about 4000 people, every front seat Was taken before the doors were opened, and money had to be refused at the doors for all parts of that large hall. Levy and his company will play for six nights in Wellington, on their return from Auckland in about four weeks’ time, and as this will be the only opportunity of hearing the greatest living instrumentalist, we expect to see full houses during these concerts.

At the E.M. Court on Saturday, before J. C. Crawford, Esq. ; E.M., William Lee, who had voluntarily given himself into custody, was charged on suspicion of lunacy, and remanded for a week for medical examination.— Emily Gutteridge, a domestic servant recently arrived in the colony by the Hurunui, who had been in custody for a week as a person of unsound mind, was again remanded for a like period. The E.M. observed that if she did not recover something should be done to have her returned to her friends in the'old country. She appeared to be a very respectable woman.—P. A. Jones, hairdresser, &0., . Willis-street, was , charged by Inspector Monaghan with a breach of the city by-laws in allowing his back yard to be in a very dirty condition. The defendant admitted that there was a heap of ashes and sawdust there, but denied there was anything to create a nuisance on the premises. Mr. Monaghan said he could bring evidence to show that the yard was in a very dirty state, and the case was adjourned until Tuesday for the production of witnesses. Some very valuable properties, the details of which will be found in our advertising columns, will be offered for sale to-day by Mr. T. Kennedy Macdonald, at the Exchange Land Mart, commencing at half-past 2 o’clock. We recommend our readers to peruse the long list of these eligible opportunities for investment. It includes a variety of freehold dwellings, farms, and building sites in various parts of the provincial district, and city properties in Tara-naki-street, Crawford-street, Cambridge-ter-race, Tasman-street, Ghuznee-street, Urum-mond-street, &c. Opportunities of obtaining city, suburban, and rural land advantageously situated are becoming scarcer day by day, and so good a chante as that now offered may not occur again. We expect to see a large attendance of buyers, and the realisation of good prices, at Mr. Macdonald’s sale to-day. The I Vairarapa Standard of the 3rd inst. says : —Mr. G. Beetham was to have addressed the electors of Grey town this evening, but has postponed doing so on account of another meeting, that of the Working Men’s Club, which was previously convened for the same hour. Last evening he met the electors at Masterton. A caucus we believe was recently held by him in that township with a view to selecting his future colleague. Candidates are gradually coming to the fore. Mr. Barton is expected to stand as an Atkinsonist. Mr. Hutchison is in the Wairarapa making a Greyite reconnoitre. Mr. Pharazyn, it is said, is coming forward in a sort of Jaoob-Esau role. In consequence of the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club having discovered that they have been continually defrauded by some of their money-takers during matches, they have resolved (says the Argus) to adopt a new method at the coming intercolonial match. They will only have one entrance gate for the public, at which there will be two self-register-ing turnstiles, so that a complete check will be kept on the money-takers. • In order, however, to allow free egress tc the public at the conclusion of the day’s cricket, the whole of the gates will be thrown open a quarter of an hour prior to the time fixed for drawing the stumps.

The Hon. Wm Fox is expected in Masterton on the 11th inst. The Wesleyan Church 'Building Committee, says the (Standard, will wait upon him, and request his assistance in performing the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the church. On the 14th Mr. Fox will deliver a temperance lecture in the Town Hall; Carterton, 15th; Greytown, 16th; and Feathers ton, 17th. The Wairarapa East County Council met in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Masterton, on the 29th ult., when it was unanimously decided, on the motion of Mr. . Pharazyn, seconded by Mr. Maunsell, to bring the whole Act into force. Sufficient amendments, says the Standard, have been made in the Act to decide them upon this course. For the present the Council will merely act as a distribut» ing body, leaving the working power in the hands of the Road Board. A little girl, named Julia Davis, died in Melbourne lately through sheer fright. 0n the way home from school she saw another girl knocked, down by a dray and run over. A post mortem examination 1-evealed the fact that death resulted, from congestion of the brain from the undue excitement.