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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5293, 13 March 1878, Page 2

The quarterly licensing meeting for the Hutt District will be held at noon to-day. A telegram received from the Inspector of Police last evening, states that at the Wanganui criminal sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday, Michael Duigan, charged with cutting and wounding, was acquitted. Joseph Palmer and John Jackson, charged with conspiracy to defraud, were convicted. Captain Baekstrom, of the schooner Ruby, from Te Kopi, states that when passing Cloudy Bay he saw a cutter at anchor. This he now supposes was the missing cutter Haven. Had the thought occurred to him at the time he would have endeavored to ascertain whether such was the fact, but he did riot think of it until afterwards. A man named William Jenkins was arrested yesterday, and will be brought up at the R.M. Court this morning, on the charge of stealing: £27 from the person of Thomas Monroe, a laborer lately working in the bush at Mungaroa. The robbery ia said to have been committed at the house of a Mrs. Mason, off Molesworth-street.

A tea and public meeting, to welcome the Rev. Dr. Gervase Smith, the representative from the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference, will be held this evening. Tea will be placed on the tables at half-past six o’clock in the Dixon-street schoolroom, and at halfpast seven o’clock there will be a public meeting in the Wesleyan Church, Manners-street. There can be no doubt that this will be a most interesting and instructive gathering, and that a very large attendance may be expected. Persons, therefore, desirous of securing seats will do well to be in time. Count de Zaba delivered his educational lecture • at the - Marist Brothers’ ; schoolroom, Boulcott-street, yesterday. There was a large, and appreciative audience of pupils and teachers present. The Count will lecture again on, Thursday at the same place. At Mr. G. Thomas’ sale yesterday a freehold farm of 100 acres, with a dwelling-house and suitable outbuildings, at North Makara, was bought in at £750, the reserve price being £BOO. , The Salshury Troubadours, of whom report speaks in the highest terms, will make their first appearance here at the Theatre Royal this evening in their extravaganza of “ Patchwork,” which has been played by the members of this troupe, and, as we are informed, by them only, upwards of fifteen hundred times, with great success. The Troubadours contemplate a stay of only a week here, during which period we expect to see good houses every evening, as the entertainment, judging by the reports received of it, appears to be a most excellent one. The Wellington Literary Association met at St. John’s Presbyterian schoolroom last evening, for the first time after the winter recess. The Rev. Mr. Paterson occupied the chair. After, tea, .the, evening was occupied very pleasantly by songs, recitations, comic speeches, &c.. This association will continue its weekly meetings every Tuesday evening. The Odd Fellows’ Hall was again well attended' last evening, when the Vaudeville Company and Mr. Borthwiok Reid, champion swordsman, reappeared. , A, novel feature of the entertainment was a combat at single-stick between five of the audience for a meerschaum -pipe. ■ A resident of Wellington was declared by Mr. Reid to be the winner; but this decision did not appear to give entire satisfaction to the audience, ; many of whom .were ‘men-of-war’s men. A return match between the same two:will take place some evening next week. A person named, John Western, of Wellington, was arrested yesterday, and lodged in the look-up, on the charge of - neglecting to; comply,with an order of the Resident Magistrate, calling upon him to contribute £l per week towards the maintenance of his 1 wife and four children. A notification in reference to a proposed alteration of the city building regulations appears in our advertising columns.-, t - Somebody has astonished- ; the native-mind in Wairoa. A correspondent of the Ilawhe'a Bay Herald states that a “debt-repudiating native- was considerably astonished, the other day at the bailiff, armed with a distress warrant, seizing his draught horse and harness] which were iin [due course/sold; by auction. The amount realised did not cover the debt; but still the 1 aboriginal < thinks he is an ill-used /mortal, j He never pay, and him, was a novel means of making him.’’ Civilisation surely has-its drawhacks, - i