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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 533, 30 April 1878, Page 2

The election o£ school committees for the four school districts of the city of Wellington took place last night. The results of the elections will be found in another column.

The eighth annual meeting of the Wellinglingtou Patent Slip Company was held in the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon; A report of the proceedings will be found iu ftnotho* column; - ■ ,

, The time for receiving tenders for the steam service between Porirua and Poston has been extended to the 15th May. The date on which the service is to be commenced will be fixed by the Postmaster-General when dealing with the tenders.

Some people have - extraordinary notions regarding election by ballot. At a meeting last night in tile Mount Cook school, for the purpose of electing a school committee, one of the householders present asked the chairman if it was necessary for him to sign his name to the voting paper. It will be seen by reference to our advertising columns that the Colonial Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand has been incorporated, and will shortly commence business. . The bankers of the company will be the Bank ol New Zealand throughout the colony. A meeting of the Kaiwarra Bocal Board was held at the schoolroom, Kaiwarra, last evening. The following members were present:—Messrs. Hirst, Phillips, and W. P. Wyatt (chairman.) After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and confirmed, the report of the Inspector of Nuisances was laid before the;Board, who considered it very satisfactory. A letter was read from' Mr. G. Bailey asking permission to erect a verandah in front of hisresidenoe. The application was granted. It was resolved that the advertisements of the'Board be equally distributed amongst all the newspapers. After sundry accounts had been passed, it was decided to allow Mr. Cottrell -to erect a water-trough in front of the Waterloo Hotel. On the proposition of Mr. Hirst, seconded by Mr. Phillips, it was resolved that a rate of a shilling in the £ be levied for the ensuing year, and it was also decided that the road leading to the schoolhouse should be cleaned. The Board then adjourned till the 13th May. . A large number of Mr. J. M. Perrier’s personal friends assembled at the Pier Hotel yesterday, when good health and success to him were cordially drunk in champagne. Mr.; Greenfield, who was voted to the chair, in a few remarks appropriate to the occasion presented to Mr. Perrier a very handsome gold pen and pencil case as a small token of the regard and esteem in which he was held by his friends. Mr. Le Creu and Mr. Maginnity (of the Telegraph Department) added a few words to the same effect. Mr. Perrier suitably responded, and afterwards several of those present accompanied him to the steamer Taupo, by which he left for Dunedin, eu route for Milton (Tokomairiro), where Mr. Perrier will again fill tho editorial chair of the I Bruce Herald.

Yesterday the telephone which has been recently erected for Mr. 35. -W. Mills'. estabment was brought into operation between the warehouses in Hunter and Feathers ton streets and the irouyard in 3?eatherstou-street, a distance of 600 yards. Dr. Demon, the General Manager of the Telegraph Department, was at one end, and Mr. Biddell, Mr. Mills’ manager, at the other. Conversation was entered into, and kept up for some time, with the greatest ease, the voices being quite audible and clear. The telephones used in Mr. Mills’ establishment were made by Dewart, of Berlin, andwere fitted up by Mr. J. 35. Hayes, of Dambtonquay. The cost, we understand, of the apparatus and fittings is about £ls, and the whole works admirably. It will be a great convenience to Mr. Mills' establishment, and his example will probably be followed by other leading mercantile men here. Indeed there can be very little doubt that before long telephones will come into very general use, '

Several men were charged at the Resident Magistrates’s Court yesterday with drunkenness. The police stated that they nearly all got drunk on Sunday., His Worship asked each individual drunkard at which house he obtained the drink; but they said that they had not the slightest remembrance on the subject. ■ ■; 1 “Monte Christo" was performed at the Theatre Royal last night to a very fair house. The piece was nicely put on the stage, - and the p)ay on the, whole .was highly appreciated hy the audience. To-night the same piece will be played. - The following sporting.’jtena"appears in the; Clv.tha Leader ;—“ Messrs. Cowio, Nelson, and -Hewitson have made,the largest bag.ive have heard falling to the share of any sportsmen in this quarter this season. Daring three days at tho Mataura they secured 70 ducks, 200 rabbits, 123 swamp hens, and 1 boar,” l

It is notified in our advertising columns that the office of warden of - St. Paul’s College, Sydney, is vacant. Applications for the appointment of a resident surgeon for the Tuapeka Goldfields Hospital are invited up to the 20th May. A larrikin in Melbourne has been sent to gaol for six months on a Charge of having an unlawful weapon in his possession, to wit, a handkerchief with a stone tied in a corner of it. ■ „ A sensational occurrence took place recently at the Town Court, (says the Ballarat Star), when Mrs. Maria McCabe charged her husband with having deserted her. Mr. A. Head, the solicitor for the defence; cross-examined Mrs., McCabe with a view to discover what had become of some £2OOO worth of property she was possessed of at the time of her marriage; but received ; such placidly evasive answers from the witness that it seemed as though the learned. gentleman was losing. his temper. At last he handed to the witness a letter, asking if she had written it. “It’s a forgery,” she screamed, and before the constable on duty attempted to stop her she tore it into a thousand pieced, ’ volubly repeating that it was hers and a forgery. Mr. Gaunt, who was defending her, threw up the case, and the withesswas committed for a week for contempt of Court. Ordher removal to the cell she went into hysterics, and while the remainder ol the business ofjthe Court was being carried on a continuous accompaniment of moans and sobs from Mrs. McCabe was heard. Mr. Read stated that the letter (the fragments of which he preserved carefully), contained some horrible statements, very damaging to the reputation of the putative writer, Maria 1 McCabe. The case was adjourned.

Messrs. J. H. Bethuno and Co. will sell "at their rooms, corner of Featherston and Brandon streets, this day, at 2 o’clock—two shops and dwelling-houses on Lambton-quay, to bo removed ; also a quantity of flour and a selection of glassware and fancy goods, as advertised.