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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5446, 10 September 1878, Page 2

There will be a sitting of the supreme Court in bankruptcy this morning.' Up to yesterday the only casi set down for hearing w/u the following -In re Abraham^,Scott, application for discharge. The Government steamer Hinemoa and the Union Company’s steamer Taupo are due here to-day with the members of Parliament and other visitors who went South to witness the opening of the railway between Christchurch and Dunedin. A telegram received last evening states that these vessels would probably start for Wellington after eleven o’clock that night, ‘ A meeting of the Karori-Makara Highway Board was held on Saturday. Present : Messrs. Graham, (chairman) Bowler, Cook, and Page. The minutes of the previous meeting wore read and confirmed. Mr. Toohill waited on the Board in reference to th s action taken by the latter for the removal of his boiling down and slaughtering establishment, which was complained of as a public nuisance. A petition from several of the residents in the district, complaining of the same as ati iutoler- . able nuisance, was read. The Board decided that the steps already initiated must be proceeded with. The bank accmnt showed a credit balance of £49 6s. 2d. Mr. Hall having written stating that the gates, notice for the removal of which had been received by the Board, were on private ground, the Board decided to leave the parties complaining of the gates to take their own course in the matter. The Chairman stated that he had arranged for 200 yards of metal to bo laid on the Tinakori Flat for 3s. 6d. a yard. The chairman was authorised to have the footpath down the old Baker’s Hill road put in a passable state for pedestrians. Accounts amounting to £l9l B*. 9d. were passed. The clerk was instructed to give Mr. Humphries notice that a complaint had been made of his pigs running at largo on the roa \ and that .unless they were kept in confinement summary proceedings would be taken against him. Notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather last evening, there was a good attendance at the Theatre Royal, when theCheevers, Kennedy, and Bunt Minstrels gave another of their popular entertainments, with which the audience seemed highly pleased. To-night an entire change of programme is announced, and a foil house may confidently be anticipated. To-morrow a complimentary benefit will be tendered to Mr. Horace Bent. Dr. Newman addressed the electors of Thorndon Ward at the Princess Hotel, Moles-worth-street, last evening. A report of the proceedings will be found in another portion of our columns. To-morrow (Wednesday) evening Dr. Newman will address the, ratepayers at the Karori Hotel, Tinakori-i’oad.

Xu consequence of . the inclemency of the weather tho concert which was to have taken place at tho Athenaeum last night was postponed until Monday next. Mr. P. Coffey, one of the cindidates to represent Cook Ward in the City Council, met the ratepayers at the Newtown Hotel last night, when a unanimous vote of confidence was accorded to him. ,

It will be seen by reference to our advertising columns that a collection of waxwork ; figures representing some of the chief characters iu history will be on view at the Arcade on and after to-morrow (Wednesday). "Every visitor will receive a ticket entitling the holder to participate in a distribution of gifts, consisting of articles of jewellery, fancy goods, &c., many of them being of considerable value.The Auckland Evening Star of August 30 says :—“ Another old and respected settler has passed to his rest. Mr. Rout died at his residence early this morning, at the ripe age of 86. years. ' Mr.' Rout first landed iu New Zealand at Wellington in 1810. After five years’ residence there he returned to England and brought out his family in 1843, choosing Auckland as his place of settlement. A Barcoo correspondent writes to the Queenslander under date the Bth August : —" The Trans-Continental Railway Expedition made a fair sta t. I saw their turn-out of horses and saddlery, which appeared to me to be'well suited for such an undertaking ;-and further, the men selected for this arduous task could not have t been better chosen. They are men not affected with any outward show or " blowing," but men who seem fully determined to assist each other, in order that they may accomplish the.work allotted to them to the full satisfaction ' of the worthy proprietors of the Queenslander and of the inhabitants of the Ear West, who are doubtless the in )sfc interested. I wish them all a pleasant and successful journey, and sincerely hope for their safe return. 1 regret to hear that the country within the South Australian border is rather dry. It appears from reports current that last season’s rain was very partial in that quarter.” In order to meet the anticipated increase of wool' from the southern districts of New South Wales during the coming season, Mcsirs. Mort and Co., of Sydney, have engaged the large exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park, immediately adjoining tho Redfern railway station. Considerable correspondence has taken place in the Sydney Press on the subject of an International Exhibition for 1879. Applications for space have arrived from Europe, and a general meeting of the Agricultural Society is convened for September 16 to consider the question. Pour horses and a waggon (says the Otago Daily Times of September 4) were carried down the Waipahi River, and tho horses drowned, yesterday. - Tho horses, which were the property of Messrs. Proudfoofc and Mackay, contractors, were employed iu taking plant from the CUnton section to the Tapanui section of the line. In attempting to ford the river the current was too strong for them, and they were lost. The driver with great difficulty got safely to the shore.

We learn from the Druce Herald that the daily out-put nt theKaitangata Coal Company’s mine is now larger than it has been for a considerable time, yet the manager cannot keep pace with tho demand. The coal .is the best that has ever been sent into the market from this mine. A heavy explosion of fire - damp happened in the Kaitangata Company’s mine on Saturday last, by which one man w*as seriously injured. ■ Ho is now out Vf danger, however.

The New York correspondent* ot the S. M. I/cmld a ays :—The fact ot the hour is that the new Socialist party is everywhere organising, and that it is growing with the luxuriant rapidity of Jonah’s gourd. In this great State of New York, Mr. Dorsheimer, the lieutenant--governor of the Stale, has seen fit to call upon the leader of the city Socialists, actuated by a shrewd suspicion that the ten or twelve mombora whom .that party will undoubtedly elect to the next Legislature will hold the balance ot power in the election ot a United States Senator. Of course ho lias been laughed at and abused by the Press for his pains, but ho is possibly none the less wise in his day and generation. New papers have been started to express the new views, and one of them boasts of a circulation of nearly 300,000 copies. It is only a weekly, and sells for a cent, and has no importance whatever as a purveyor of news the. business of publishing news being like everything else in America, a monopoly, and absolutely in the hands of the few men who formed tire Associated Press Association ; but it is none the less formidable as a controversial organl These are straws that show the drift of popular sentiment. Perhaps, as most educated and thoughtful meg seem to hope, the whole movement will meet an untimely death, but we must wait until after the elections before we can at all tell where we really stand. It should.be remembered that every great American party has sprung up with mushroom rapidity. . In i 852, the Republican party was but a handful of Abolitionists ; yet, in 1860, they had taken possession of the entire Government. And, so far.a’s a “mere looker-on in Vienna” can form ah opinion, the Nationalists seem to exhibit singularly similar symptoms of vitality. Xu any case we are brought at Inst face to face with the* tame spectre that unceasingly haunts European society, and this yory day the New York militia regiments are taking instruction in “street firing,” just as are the regular troops of the Kaiser in'Berlin.

It is said that no less than. 3000 persons travelled by the tramway on Saturday last.

address the ratepayers of Idiorndon’WardLat Gillespie’s Hotel, Tinakori-road, at eight ©‘clock this evening.

A tea and public meeting in connection with the Methodist Free, Cymrch, Courtenay-place, will be held this evening, ; There will He a meeting of “the Hutt County Council this for the transaction of general business, ■ Mr. Coffey, at his meeting at Newtown last night, said that the city of Wellington was the worst drained city in the colonies. ) A supplement to the New Zealand Gazette ..of Thursday, the 7th instant, issued on Saturday, notifies that there will be » sitting of the. Native Lands Court at Tauranga on the 19tli' inst.

A young man named Charles Hopkins, a recent arrival in the colony by tbe ship Zealaudia, fell down in Cnba-street yesterday in a fit. Medical'assisfcance was procured, and the : man wits removed to the Hospital.