The City Council will meet this evening at half-past seven o’clock. The Hon. Colonel Whitmore, Colonel Header, and Mr. Shearman paid an official visit of inspection to the police station yesterday. The Waterworks Investigation Committee was to have met at four o’clock yes.erday afternoon, but there not being a sufficient number present to fo m a quorum the, meeting was postponed until four o’clock this afternoon. Information was received in town yesterday that some malic-ions person had shot at a horse belonging to Mr. Thomas Hawker, of Carterton, and wounded the quadruped, but whether seriously or not is nut stated. Inquiries are being made with a view to trace the offender. The new Corporation offices, now in course of construction at the junction of Brandon and Featherstou streets, will be of a substantial and imposing character. Following the example of Messrs. Turnbull & Co., the building, which is a two-storey one, is to be of brick. When completed it will measure 43x78 feet, with a height, from the base to the top of the parapet, of 40 feet. The facade will be cemented, and will be very elaborate.; the style of architecture is Italian. Mr. Thomas i. urubuil is the architect, and .Mr. S. Brown the contractor. Intending visitors to the races will observe that on Thursday and Friday a number of additional trains will run between Wellington and the Hutt at reasonable rates. There are also a number of coaches and other vehicles laid on for those who prefer to go by road, and for those, again, who would rather go by water the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company will run steamers from the Queen’s Wharf, landing passengers within an easy distance of the course. The fares by these routes are moderate, as will be teen by reference to our advertising columns, and there can be no doubt that if the weather be fine a .very large number of persons will avail themselves of the several modes of transit offered to them on this occasion.
“ The Duke’s Motto" was again played at the Princess Theatre last evening to a very good house, and passed off even more successfully than on the previous evening. Mr. Dillon exceeds himself in the very arduous part of Legardere, and had to appear at the end of each act to acknowledge the enthusiastic calls from the audience. Miss Fender acted her part with much taste ami care, and was deservedly applauded. The other members of the company were all that could be desired, and Messrs. Clinton and St. Bawrence are deserving of special mention tor their very good acting. ■ Mr. Huntley had again to make his bow to the audience in response to their very demonstrative appreciation of his first-class scenery; By special request “The Duke’s Motto ” will-be played again this evening, for tho last time, and a crowded house may bo anticipated.
■ The valuation roll for the Karori-Makara District is now open for inspection at Mr. Page’s shop, Kaiori. All notices of objection thereto must be sent in to the Resident Magistrate’s Court before the 15th iust, and a copy left at the office of the Board. We understand that the necessary notices have been posted to the ratepayers, but as the Board is not responsible for trie true delivery of these, it would be well if those intere-Ted would inspect the valuation roll for themselves. Land purchasers in the new townships of Vogeltown, Kilbiruie, Mitohelltown, and Ohiro will please note that their notices arc addressed to these places. The Chinese cheap-labor agitation, says an exchange, has been transferred partially from San Francisco to Boston, where all the washerwomen in the place are up in arms at the presumption of the “ Heathen Chinee,” who threatens them with a formidable competition in laundry work. Washing, it is urged, is the one and only support of the poor woman ; deprive her of her place at the wash-tub and she has nothing else to fall back upon for support, inasmuch as politics, which are her proper sphere, are not yet a paying, concern... On the other hand, the laundry reformers maintain that if washing can be done cheaper and better by a dexterous Chiaaniau there is no reason why it should be given to some drunken and extortionate old Irishwomen. It is argued by the washerwomen and their champions that at least the Chinaman should pay a good round sum for a license to wash; As, however, the washerwomen at Boston are .not required to pay for the privilege of taking in washing, nothing more can be said in favor of this proposal but that the Chinese are only “ halfcivilised.’’ The Chinaman’s friends naturally inquire “ whether a man is necessarily uncivilised because he washes at 76 cents a dozen,” and here the matter rests for the present. In the meantime the Celestials, beaming with smiles, stand round the tubs, washing at reduced rates, and performing their work to the satisfaction of all cleanly and reasonable Bostonians. ;
A young fellow in a ridiculous long-tailed coat out a sorry figure on Lambton - quay yesterday evening. He was riding with some ladies, and evidently being ambitious of making his horse show its high spirit, lie made it curvet round to such an extent that it nearly collided with one of the others, and made an; effort to get into St. George’s Hall. Had a constable been in the locality no doubt a charge of furious riding would have been preferred. A meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday. Present—Messrs. Pharazyn (in the chair), Gisborne, Bunny, Toornath, and Watt. A letter was read from tho Rev. Mr. Harvey, stating that Mr. Mowbray, of the Thermion School, had declined to give the customary half-hour scripture lesson at the school, or to allow him (Mr. Harvey) to give it, on the ground that it was contrary to the provisions of tho Education Act. The agreement under which the school was leased by the Board from the parish contained a provision that the half-hour scripture lesion referred to' should be given, and Mr. Harvey 'considered that its omission was a breach of that agreement. After some discussion, the following resolution was carried : —“ That the local committee and the master of tile Thorndon School being willing to devote fonr-hnd-a-half hours every school day to the work of purely sac lar instruction in accordance with the Act, the Board consents to the remaining half-hour each day being set apart for the teaching i of any special subject, provided always that no child is - compelled to attend such class without the consent of the parent.” Some of the ■common lodging -houses in Sydney must ha as wretched places to live in as the dirty and overcrowded dens to be found in the old country. The S. AT. lltraUl of the ;26th January says The circumstances of an inquest on tho body of a;man who had ,-committed suicide in a common lodging-house, drew from ■’the 1, jury and'the coroner a strong condemnation of the state of the house in which the man had lived. One juryman said that the state of the house was of itself sufficient to induce the man to commit suicide, and the coroner declared that it showed a terrible state of affairs, when a lodging-house keeper was allowed to pack five men in a small atlic which was covered with cobwebs."
One of the crew of the ship Hurunui was arrested yesterday on the charge of deserting from that vessel. He will be brought before the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. The drapers and clothiers of Wellington intend toclose their establishments ou Thursday, so as to give their employes a holiday on that day. The meeting of creditors in the estate of Messrs. Doiieghue aud Parr, coachmakers, Wellington, which was to have been held yesterday, has been adjourned until the 13th instant.
The National Bank of New Zealand (limited) has declared an interim dividend for the halfyear ended 30th September of 6 per cent., which will be paid to those shareholders, whose names now appear on the register kept in the colony, on and after the 19th inst. We have been requested to state that members of the Wellington Jockey Club may obtain their cards on application to the secretary, at the office of Messrs. Dalgliesh and Reid, New Zealand Insurance Buildings, Lambton-quay. We have reserved the Union Company’s time-table for February. It is got up in its usual creditable style, and contains all information regarding the movements of the company’s steamers, and of the trains that go to and from the ports at which they call. The U. S. Minstrels continue to draw large and enthusiastic audiences to the Odd Fellows’ Hall, which was again filled last evening, and judging from the frequent manifestations of approval, the entertainment was a very successful one. There will be an entire change of programme this evening. A medical work, nearly 3-100 years of age, has just been translated from a papyrus found on an Egyptian mummy. From this it appears that hair invigorants, hair dyes, painkillers, aud flea powders were just as much in vogue then as now. The four Mariana Island women who were picked up in mid-ocean some months ago have been returned to their homes, and the Colonial Secretary at Hongkong has written to the Colonial Secretary at Sydney, expressing satisfaction at the generous action of the New South Wales Government in the matter. Mr. Bourdeaux, superintendent of the Submarine Telegraph Company at Dover, has been making experiments with the telephone. It is stated that handles having been attached to the wire at St. Margaret’s and Sangatte, on the French coast, talking could be heard, and also the playing of a musical-box on the French coast. The Oedong Advertiser says : A rather singular occurrence took place during Divine service at the Church of England, Birregurra, ou Sunday last. When the Litany was read the congregation repeated the responses in a very devout manner for a length of time, but when the prayer was offered up for the Governor, there was no response —the worshippers were dumb. The clergyman, after waiting for a considerable time, made the x-esponse himself. The departure of Mr. Jules Joubert, the secretary of tlxe New South Wales Commission to the Paris Exhibition, for Europe lately, was made the occasion of a presentation to him of a purse of sovereigns, and a hearty expr-ssion ou the part of his fxdends of good wishes for his welfare. The Agricultural Society chartered the steamer Goolwa to convey a number of Mr. Joubert’s friends to see him off. The purse contained nearly 100 sovereigns. ' Referring to the expected visit of the Australian crick-ters to England, the Home News says : English cricketers are exceedingly anxious to try conclusions with their cousins’ from the Antipodes, and we may expect that in the. ensuing season some closely contested matches will be played, if the Australian team prove as strong as has been said. It is a pity Evans, of New South Wales, Is not coming; lie is reputed a wonderful bowler, and it would have been interesting to test him against English batters. But there are plenty of good men in the Australian Eleven, and it will be hard to beat them. It is a well-known fact in our public schools that the Australian youth especially excels in the playing fields. Not a few of tlxe beat batsmen and bowlers in regimental and-school elevens are known to be Australian born or of Australian extraction. Ere now Australians have been captain of the boats at Eton, stroke in University eights, and good men at the Oval and Lord’s. The stuff, therefore, is evidently intrinsically good, when properly trained and handled as it is at Home. Whether the Australian-bred cricketers will display the same “ form ’’ remains to be seen. The customary return showing the quantity of land sol i aud the amount of money received by the Government of tiouth Australia for land, during the month of December, is published in tile Oocernmeat Oazctteoi January 10. Ctsh sales realised £5363 9s, Id., made up as follows £Ol las. for 4 acres 3 roods of township lands; £4432 14s. Id. for 1376 acres of suburban lands ; £829 for 829 acre.-, that had passed the hammer ; and £lO for 10 acres of small Mocks in excess of area allowed to be selected. The credit sales consisted of 25,005 acres 3 mods, for which £31,284 4s.'ld. is agreed to be paid. The items are as under ; For 22,961 acres of newly-opened country lands £22,195 15s. is to be paid, and for 725 acres of Imd that has passed the hammer £725 is to he paid. In addition to the sums mentioned, the following amounts have been received :—Completion of purchase of 6444$ acres, under Act 14 of 1868 9,&c„ £9,905 3s6d; second instalment of interest, £4453 11s. The total payments on account of land during December were £21,720 3s. sd, The sum of £256 19s. was received for improvements. Another instance of the ease with which station hands who have received their wages allow themselves to be fleeced .was illustrated in a ease brought before the City Police Court, Melbourne, in which James Davis was charged with stealing £l2O from John Manning. The prosecutor, it appeared (reports the Argus), had been working on a station in New South Wales for the last four years, and drew about £l5O for his earnings at the commencement of this year. He commenced drinking, and started for Melbourne with his money, and while at Deniliqnin stayed at an hotel where the prisoner was employed as groom. While there he gave the p isoner some clothing and money, and they both came to town together; hot on the way down, between Sandhurst aud Melbourne, the p isoner managed to abstract prosecutor’s purse and money from him, aud got away with them. The whole of the money was in notes, excepting a £3O cheque, and after the prisoner had squandered all the notes in dissipation, he gave the cheque to a publican in Kssendon to get it cashed ; but payment of it was stopped when it was presented, aud the detectives afterwards arrested the prisoner. At the request of the police the prisoner was 'remanded on the charge, for further inquiries to be made.
A trial of a new watertight auger, invented and patented by Messrs. Wright and Edwards, was made recently at the Atlas Ironworks, M'lbourne, and resulted most successfully. The machine (says the Daily Teleyraph) is designed for the purpose of boring to great depths for water, and consists of a tripod of iron pipes connected together at the top, and ab'uc 3 feet from the ground, by light iron frames, The base of each leg of the tripod is fixed in the ground, the lower frame is bored out, and fitted with a square-threaded screw sufficiently large to allow the auger and couplings to pass through it. The screw works in a nut in the frame, which can be allowed to revolve with the screw, or on being checked causes the screw to descend, thus regulating the downward motion of the screw, and with it the revolving auger, which is secured to the screw hy three gripping jaws, which can be released instantly when the ■ screw is,raised for a new grip of the auger. The hollow screw, and with it the auger, is made to revolve by means of a worm wheel and worm, turned by a boy, his power being increased about forty times, and a steady cutting motion being given to the auger, and the rate of cut regulated according to the nature of the ground. The patent auger ’ consists of so /oral lengths of tubes screwed and coupled together in convenient lengths, and fitted with a boring head consisting of three cutters of special steel, simply and firmly attached, and
which cuts a ring out of the ground, leaving a core, which is extracted by the special tools supplied, and which are worked by a small winch attached to the frame. When water is struck and sunk through to a sufficient depth, the core is all extracted, and a lining or working barrel is slipped down the auger fitted with external bucket leathers, aud a root valve at the lower end. The bucket is then lowered, and pumping commenced, the pressure at once securing the working barrel or pump chamber in its place. M. Dreux, of Glebe-road, Sydney, has just shown us (Sydney Horning Herald) a sample of his ingenuity, in the shape of a bouquet of flowers made from human hair in natural shades, aud varying from hazel brown, for the leaves, to almost snowy white, for the blossoms. The work, which is really artistic in appearance, is said to have had its origin in the efforts of some members of the Royal Family of Sweden, who wished to preserve relies of their relations, and is intended to provide mementoes of families, the members of which supply their hair for making them up. Japan has annulled all commercial treaties, and resumed its right to revise customs dut.es at pleasure.
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