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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5442, 5 September 1878, Page 2

In consequence of the • unavoidable absence of hia Honor Mr. Justice Richmond yesterday, through indisposition, there was no sitting of the Supreme Court in banco, and the cases on the list, which are as follows, were adjourned until Friday nextMcDonald v. King and another; Tucker v. King and another ; Potts v, Knight. A numerously signed requisition has been presented to the Hon. W. B. D. Mantel!, asking him to come forward for the representation of Thomdon Ward in the City Council, to which that gentleman has replied, declining the honor. Dr. Newman,' who has also been requested to allow himself to be put in nomination, has signified his consent to stand for the vacancy, and expresses his intention of taking an early opportunity of addressing the electors.

“ East Lynne ” was played at the Imperial Opera House last night, for the benefit of Miss Tilly Andrews, to a fair house. Doubtless the unfavorable state of the weather caused the attendance to be less numerous than it would have been under more favorable auspices. The play has been many times given in this city, and the manner in which it was performed last night compared favorably with previous renderings. Miss Andrews exerted herself to the utmost, and she was well supported. Tonight, by particular desire, part of the first act and the second and third acts of “ Hamlet ” will be performed, (Hamlet, Mr. Hoskins; Queen Gertrude, Miss Colville ; Ophelia, Miss Andrews) to be followed by the “Crown Prince.” To-morrow (Friday) Mr. Hoskins will take his farewell benefit, on which occasion he will appear as Sir Anthony Absolute, in “The Rivals,” Mias Colville sustaining the part of Lydia Languish. The performance will conclude with a grand concert, for which Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Baker and Mr. Cary have voluntered their services. The company will leave for Christchurch by the Rotorua. The ship Rakaia, which left Plymouth for Wellington on the 6th July, has 280 souls on board, equal to 261 statute adults, as follows : —Male adults, 119 ; female adults, 125 ; male children, 17; female children, 17 ; female infants, 2. Their nationalities are—English, 90 ; Scotch, 35 ; Irish, 132 ; Welsh, 5 ; Channel Islands, 1 ; Germans, 7. Out of this number 88 have been nominated by their friends in New Zealand. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Phcenix Quartz Mining Company was held in the company’s office, Custom House-street, last evening. Mr. Gwynneth presided, and explained that the meeting had been called to consider some proposals to be made by the local director at the mine, Mr. Guinness. A survey of the mine made by Mr. Adams was laid before the meeting, and it was proposed that £SO be expended in a new trial of the mine. A financial statement of the company was read by the chairman, in which the liabilities were stated to he £1334 6s. 21. and the assets £l2Ol 7s. 4d- A letter was read from the manager of the New North Chines Quartz Mining Company, stating that a test of five tons:of quartz from the Phoenix Quartz Mining Company had been crushed as a test, and was stated to,have been very satisfactory. The suggestion of Mr. Guinness for a new trial of the mine was approved of, and the meeting adjourned. :

A meeting of the ratepayers of Cook Ward is advertised to take place at the Tramway Hotel, Adelaide-road, at half-past 7 o’clock on Friday evening next. Mr. M. J. Mulligan notifies in our advertising columns that the drawing-for his art-union is postponed until the 19th iust., when it will positively take place. A numerously-signed requisition of ratepayers appears in our advertising columns asking Mr. Andrew Young to allow himself to be nominated as a Councillor for Te Aro Ward, and his reply thereto, in which he consents to become a candidate for the vacant seat.

Mr. Ralph Levoi, the advance agent of the, “ Great International Circus Company,” now playing with success in Christchurch, has arrived in Wellington, and is arranging preliminaries for the appearance of the troupe here at an early date.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company notify in our advertising columns that they are prepared to make advances on favorable terms upon the ensuing crop of wool. They also set forth very liberal conditions on which they are ready to do business in other directions. Full particulars will be found by reference to the advertisement.

A man named William Brown was charged before Mr. Mansford, R-M., with stealing a pair of trousers the property of Edward Wood. It appears that the prisoner had been staying at Barret's lodging-house, and had taken the trousers out of Wood's bag of clothes. The theft was clearly proved, and prisoner was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment. The Cheevers, Kennedy, and Bent’s Minstrels repeated their performance at the Theatre Royal last night to a very fair house. The chorus and instrumental music in the first part were very enjoyable, and the comic portion of the business completely convulsed the audience. The performance concluded with a laughable sketch entitled “ The Man from America.” No doubt if the weather is fine there will be a crowded house to-night.

Some amusement was created on the wharf yesterday afternoon by the eccentricities of a “ new chum,” who, under the influence of colonial beer, imagined himself a, guardian of the peace, and insisted on arresting one of the wharf officials. A scene ensued, during which a real “ gentleman in blue” made his appearance, and after some conversation, arrested the amateur policeman, and placed him in durance vile, where he will be safely looked after until this morning, when he will make his appearance before the Resident Magistrate. A meeting of ratepayers of Cook Ward favorable to the return of Mr. R. Port was held last night at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Tory-street. The chair was occupied by Mr. McColl. On the motion of Mr. T. K. Macdonald it was resolved that the several candidates for the vacant seat should be requested to address the ratepayers in the Princess Theatre on Saturday evening next, at halfpast 7 o’clock. There will be a rifle match on Saturday next from teams picked from the married and single of the City Rifles, at their range in Pollhill Gully. The undermentioned names of the respective teams will be a sufficient guarantee for good and close shooting being made ; Married —Lieut. .Walden, Color-Sergt. Mclntosh, Sergeants Bowie and Harris, Privates J. W. Ballinger, Cording, A Guise, and Watson ; emergency, Pooley. Single— Captain Crowe, Privates Buchanan, W. Ballinger, A Ballinger, Hales, North, Croucher, and Scott; emergency, C. Stewart. The telegraph poles are now erected and the wire stretched some miles out of Feilding towards Haloombe, and within a fortnight at latest the latter place should, says the Advocate, be in telegraphic communication with the rest of the colony. The poles follow the general route of the railway, though making straight lines to shorten the distance wherever praotiable.

A correspondent gays—“A paragraph in Monday’s N.Z. Herald, from an Alexandra correspondent, stating that Te Wheoro will resign in consequence of Major Mair’s dismissal has created a sensation here. Major Mair’s petition is not looked on here as a local affair, both sides signing it on account of his fitness for the office, and the injustice of discharging sorespeoted a gentleman without any cause, thus causing him to start in a new groove with a family.” The San Francisco Bulletin of August 1 relates the following instance of the administration of Lynch law in Louisiana :—On July 30 a party of masked men, variously estimated at four to five hundred, rode into Monroe at 10 o’clock, forcibly took from the parish gaol four colored men who were confined there charged with murder-, took them to the Court House square, and hanged them to the limb of an oak tree. Three of the victims were implicated in the killing of W. 0. Fitzgerald last May. Fitzgerald was a white constable at Trenton, who had attempted to arrest the men, as is alleged, for disorderly conduct on the streets. They had been tried, and one of them was sentenced to a penitentiary for life, and the other two remanded for a new trial. The fourth victim was charged with waylaying and murdering another colored man in cold blood. He had been sentenced by the District Court to the penitentiary, but obtained a new trial. The verdict of the coroner’s jury 'was, “ That said parties came to their death by hanging, and the same was done by parties unknown."

There are two peculiarities about Borne and all other Italian cities, says an American exchange. The ancients built very high up and very low down. You mount up hundreds of feet to the skies—you descend in the same manner hundreds of feet below the surface. We visited the ancient gaol where St. Paul is said to have been imprisoned. It is not the ancient forum, about half way between the oapitol and the palace of the Cmsars. The building is at present occupied as a shrine ,or church. As we entered it on a Monday morning there were a number of worshippers. A guide, with a torch, took us down a series of intricate and winding steps, until at last we reached a dark dungeon, where St. Paul is said to have been imprisoned. The staples and chains by which he was bound were pointed out to us. Near by, in an adjoining dungeon, wo were shown a garrote in the wall where the Cataline conspirators were strangled. We were also shown a miraculous well far down in the depths of the prison, in which St. Paul assuaged his thirst. Of course there is a shrine at every sacred place, where once a year at least every good Catholic worships. We visited the ancient church of St. John Lateran, and the museum adjoining. They are both very interesting. The museum contains a large collection of busts and bas reliefs of North American Indians and Indian scenes, such as the rescue of John Smith by Pocahontas, treaties, etc. The Dunedin Herald of the 30th ultimo contains the following extract from a private letter received from a member of the Assembly in Wellington, which is of interest just now when the question of separation of the two islands is being discussed : —“ There is considerable talk amongst members in re Insular Separation, and the matter is assuming greater importance than many people fancy. The old saying that there is seldom smoke without fire is borne out. There is not the slightest doubt but if they could see their way clear, both Grey and Macandrew would jump at the opportunity. This, at least, seems the general impression, and the idea is very much favored by a number of members. The tariff is likely to cause some annoyance to the Ministry ; and I am perfectly certain that when the Electoral Bill passes through committee, Stout will hardly know it as his own.” The following special telegram from their Wellington correspondent appears in the Saturday Advertiser of Saturday last; — “ Lambton-kay, Wellington, August 29tb, 1878. —Begorra, I’ve been so busy helpin’ Mao wid his Public Works Statement that I’ve no time to sind ye anything av importance this week, barrin’ the information that I’m cornin' down wid the boys to open the railway. Av coorse I’ll thravel incog-nigbt-o (the litheral mania’ of which word is that I’ll bo undher a cloud, an’ keep mo idintity dark), bekaise if the public discovered me, bo the man-in-tho-moon there’d bo a thrimindichus dimonsthration, and Be jabors, Sir George might get jealous; besides, I hate dimonsthrations in favor o’ mesilf. Modesty an’ whisky is me partikular wakeness. But whisper,’ an’ I’ll tell ye a grate saycrit; but ye must keep it quiet, or I’ll bo found out. If ye see a fine, bould, gentlemanly-lookin’ man, wid a good ould Milesian face, dhressed in a blue frock coat, snuff-colored throusers, an' a slight Erinoh aocint, walking about wid, or siftin'. nixt, the Markiss, that will bo mo, for that's the soart o’ man that I am ; but don’t tell anybody, avick machree, or they'll be wantin’ to presint me wid addresses an’ purses o* sovereigns at ivery little township, an' ’pon mo sowl, I’ve a sovereign contimpt tor sioh things. Ajow for tho present, an’ keep yer eye on tho Markiss an’ his tall frind, Paddy Morphy.— N.B. Wo are lavin’ our Bobby to watch the Threasnry.”

■ The Easttown railway workshops, says the Advocate of the 2nd hast.,; are kept fully employed in keeping machinery and rolling stock prepared for the present traffic on the line. The employes have frequently to work overtime to keep pace with the requirements, the wear and tear being very great, especially on the first twenty miles from Wanganui. The following statistics (says a correspondent of the Dunedin Herald) may interest some of your readers. We have in New Zealand 450 parsons, the numbers being as follows :—Church of England, 156; Presbyterian, 108 ; Roman Catholic, 57 ; and other denominations, 129—0 r about one to every 880 of the population. There are 262 lawyers, of whom Dunedin claims 51, Auckland 44, Wellington and Christchurch, each 30, the balance being pretty evenly scattered—the proportion being about one to every 1100. The doctors muster 242, and Dunedin has again the lion’s share, 31 ; Christchurch following with 24, Auckland 21, and Wellington 16— oue to every 1230; while of commission agents (those beings abhorred by lawyers), there are something like 350. It will be seen from the above that we ore provided for in matters spiritual, healthful, and legal almost too well, some people may think. The dangers of football, when played in a rough style, were recently very forcibly illustrated during the progress of the game between the Ballarat and Albert Park Clubs. The game (says the Ballarat Star) was foot played at all in a proper spirit, for which the local men must not be wholly blamed ; and it was a chapter of accidents all through. The player who received the most severe injury was Forbes, an Albert Park man, who was thrown down during some rough play, and broke oue of the bones of the left shoulder. The disabled man was taken to the hospital, where his shoulder was temporarily attended to prior to his going to Melbourne in the evening. Another Albert Park player had one of his fingers broken during the game, while a third received a kick on the nose, the bridge of which appeared to be broken. The principal wound on the Ballarat side fell to the lot of Brophy, who had one of his fingers bitten by an opponent.

The Southland Times of the 28th ult. says;— A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon, near Wiuton, to Constable Mulholland: The constable was riding over a new piece of road about three miles south of the township, opposite the farm of Mr. John Thomson, jun., when his horse broke through the surface, and plunging violently threw the rider over his head. In the effort to extricate itself the horse trampled on the face of Constable Mnlholland, inflicting serious, but not fatal, wounds. The occurrence was witnessed by Miss Thomson, who gave the alarm, and surgical assistance was promptly obtained, and the hurts attended to. The accident is much regretted in the Winton district, where Constable Mulholland is deservedly respected.

The London Times thinks that women will get their rights when they ask for them. “ The right to vote and sit in Parliament will be obtained when it is wanted, just as new bonnets and pony carriages and other little luxuries are obtained now. Brothers and husbands will be teased into granting what their female relatives are wishing for, and they will be just as able to refuse one kind of petition as another. The woman will have her own way, whatever it may be. If they have not got votes it is because they do not care for them.” We (Rangitikei Advocate) learn from one of the Kiwitea settlers, just returned to Bulls, that the road, or rather track, to that settlement is at present in a frightful state, being, , for about three miles, up to the girths in mud. When dry weather shall have set in steps will be taken to remedy this state of things ; but judging from present appearances, we are afraid that the settlers will have to submit to a lengthened season of inconvenience. The Rangiiikei Advocate of Monday last has the following particulars of the recent fire at Marton, brief intelligence of which event reached us by telegraph :—A little before midnight on Saturday the alarm of fire startled the township from slumber, and by the time people had assembled at the spot, the burning buildings, which were the Kangitikei Highway Board office and the adjacent storehouse, were a mass of flames, which momentarily threatened to ignite the lockup and courthouse. The alarm was first given by Mr. G. Alexander, and through the willingly rendered assistance of a number of the townspeople it was confined to the two buildings mentioned. Messrs. B. J. Harris and F. Beaveu had been in the building about half an hour before the alarm was given, going over the books of the local board, and had left everything apparently safe. To some flaw in the brickwork of the chimney it is generally believed the origin of the fire may be attributed. In the confusion, when the door was burst in, the books must have been tossed off the table, and are believed to have been destroyed. The books include the ratebook, two bank books, with collector's and treasurer’s books. It is satisfactory to know that the official audit of the books had been all but completed. One of the greatest attractions at the Paris Exhibition is the collection of young and pretty English barmaids. These young people belong to most respectable families. Their parents have entered into a contract with the manager of the restaurant that ho will return them safely to their homes. Every evening a huge break and pair of horses takes them off to their house at Batiguolles. This house is only inhabited by them. No stranger is allowed admittance, and they are guarded by two enormous dogs that have received orders to tear into pieces anyone who dares force his way into the sacred precincts. This has, so far, had the effect of producing only proposals of marriage. One of the young ladies, who is of Irish origin and very beautiful, has been painted by Charles Landelle, who wished to make a portrait of her, but was obliged first to obtain the permission of her parents.— Atlas.