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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5448, 12 September 1878, Page 2

Ratepayers of the borough will bear iu mind that tho election of one councillor for each of the four wards will take place to-day. The poll will be taken between the hours of nine o’clock in tho morning and six o’clock in the evening, and each of the candidates desires his supporters to come early to the poll. The several polling places are advertised as follows :—Cook Ward, at a room opposite the Gasworks, Courtenay-place ; Te Aro Wai-d, at the. Haricot Hall, Ouba-street ; Lambtbn Ward, at tho Wellington Investment Society’s offices, opposite the Star Chambers; Thorndon Ward, at a room near the Royal Hotel.

Mr. Wakefield unearthed a scandal at Christchurch yesterday afternoon. He asked the Government if it was true that certain officials in the Land Transfer Office had been acting as agents for private persons, and that one: of the officials had resigned his situation rather than give up his agency receipts. Tho Native Minister said that one officer had resigned, os stated. If the matter had been referred to him (Mr. Sheehan) lie would have dismissed the official summarily. Tho Minister o 1 Justice also said that an inquiry into the conduct of other officers in tho department was now going on. Hr. Wakefield deserves the thanks of the community for thus exposing those who have been making use of their official knowledge to drive a profitable private trade. If any such exposure of malpractices in the Civil Service had been brought forward when the present Government was in Opposition we can readily imagine the outcry that would have been raked about the corruption and frauds that a lax administration had allowed to creep in. The seamen belonging to tho ship Whittington who were sent to gaol on Monday last for refusal of duty, were taken on board tho vessel at Worsers Bay yesterday, and again refused to work. Tho master once more gave them in charge to thepolioe, and they will bo brought before the Resident Magistrate to answer the charge of continued wilful disobedience of orders.

The “ Clinton Theatrical Company,” fourteen in number, left Wellington yesterday by the Stormbird for Wanganui. Owing to the illness of his Honor Mr. Justice Richmond the cases set down for hearing at the Supreme Court in banco yesterday were postponed until to-morrow (Friday). • Mr. Hutchison, J.P., sat at 1 the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday and ’dealt with two inebriates in the usual way. There was no other business brought before the Court. We understand that. Mr. Level, agent for the Great International Circus, has secured a portion of the reclaimed laud fronting Lamb-ton-quay as a site on which to erect a marquee. The circus is expected to open shortly; - An express came into collision with Mr. Barber’s trap yesterday afternoon on Lamb-tou-quay. The occupants of the latter were thrown out on to the road, but fortunately escaped without being much hurt. The fourth annual meeting of the. Rising Star Cricket Club will.be held at the Dixonstrect schoolroom to-morrow (Friday) evehing, at 8 o’clock, tor the purpose of electing officers, &c. Notice is given by advertisement that an extraordinary general meeting of the National Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New . Zealand will be held at Watson’s Hotel, Dunedin, on the 7th October. ,

The Waxworks Exhibition of historical figures, followed by a distribution of gifts, opened last evening, and attracted a large number of visitors, who appeared highly pleased with the entertainment, especially those who won prizes, several of which were of considerable value.

A hare and hounds race will take place next Saturday under the auspices of the Athletic Club. All comers are invited to attend. The winner will receive a prize given by the above club. A start will be made from the Caledonian Hotel, Adelaide-read, at 2.30 p.m. Messrs. Wright and Smith have kindly consented to be the hares.

The concert previously announced in our columns to come oil in Makara in aid of the library funds will take place to-morrow (Friday). An excellent programme has been prepared under the management of Mr. Delaney, and nothing will be left undone to render the whole a success. A committee has been appointed to carry out all local arrangements.

Mr. Horace Bent’s benefit at the Theatre Royal was well attended last night, when a capital performance, embracing several special novelties, was gone through to the manifest satisfaction of the audience. This evening there will be an entire change of programme, and to m >rrow. (Friday) is announced as the last of the present season, when by general desire Mr. Martin Simonseu will perform one of his wonderful solos.

When Mr. Fyke remarked yesterday that the Government was so exceptionally strong that no combination of parties in the House could possibly turn then out, some people were a little surprised that the member for Dunstan should have suddenly become such a strong supporter of the Government. A little discussion upon the abolition of toll-gates in the County of Eden, which the Government strongly opposed, convinced us that the present Ministry would enforce tolls with pleasure, and really admires turn-pykes. A friend says we have spelt turn-pikes wrong. Perhaps so. Some important measures came up for second reading in the Legislative Council yesterday—the Road Board Act (a new measure), the Rating Act Amendment and the Counties Act Amendment Bills. The second reading of these Bills was moved by Colonel Whitmore, who appeared indisposed, and ‘spoke with difficulty. The two first were read n second time, and the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Counties Act Amendment Bill was adjourned till to-dayi The quarteiiy licensing meeting for the Hutt District was held at the Lower Hutt yesterday, before the Commissioners, Messrs. T. A. Mansford (chairman), Grace, and Beethara. The following transfers were granted:—From Mr. Corbett to Mr. Williams, Albion Hotel, Taita ; from Mr. Prosser to Mr. Wiltshire, Travellers’ Rest Hotel, Taita ; from Mr. Ames to Mr. Bishop, Provincial Hotel, Upper Hutt. The application to transfer the license of the Golden Fleece Hotel, Pakuratahi, fiom Mr. Webb to Mr. Montgomery, was adjourned for II days. ; The following is a list of the immigrants expected •to arrive by the ship Rakaia : Married couples without chllden: 1 ploughman. 1 plasterer, 5 farm laborers, 1 shepherd. Married couples with children : 1 shepherd, 6 farm laborers, 2 shoemakers. Single men: 1 mason, 1 bricklayer, 71 farm laborers. Single womeu : 2 machinists, 49 general servants, 5 nurses,. 6 cooks, 11 . housemaids,! 1 housekeeper, 1 dressmaker, 3 nursemaids, 8 farm servants.- Applications to engage those immigrants to be made at the Immigration office or. depot, Wellington. Any of the above immigrants who are engaged for service in tho country districts of the province will be forwarded by the Immigration-Department. A general meeting of the United Cricket Club was held last night at the Te Are Hotel; Mr. Kelly in the chair. The new rules, as framed by the committee, were adopted seriatim, and the opening day was fixed for the first Saturday in October, when a match, Captain’s Eleven v. Vioe-Oaptaia’s Eleven, will be played at the Hutt. On the motion of Mr. Kelly it was agreed that tho clnb should bear its share iu clearing off the remaining debt of the association. Five new members were added, bringing the total number to over 40. The general prospects of this rising young club bid fair to, place it in as good a position in the coming season as it occupied at the close of last one.

We take the following extract from the Otago Daibj’Timcs of October 9th of a speech delivered at the banquet given by the Mayor of Lawrence to the members and visitors to the South. The speech convoys in a few words the gratification all parties have experience! by the trip, and there is no doubt but that the excursion down South will be pregnant with good :—“Mr. J. H. Wallace (of Wellington) also returned thanks. In doing so he said that of the Members of the House of Representatives perhaps no two gentlemen worked harder for their respective districts than did Mr/ Bastings and Mr. Brown. As one of the oldest colonists of New Zealand he could truthfully say that the signs of progress which had presented themselves at every stage of the trip had afforded him the greatest possible pleasure, and he was not exaggerating when he said that ho had seen more of the colony during the past two days than during tho last six or seven and thirty years. . As one of tho original settlors of tho North, he was utterly 1 astonished at the magnificent tract of country which lay between Dunedin and Christchurch. It was worthy of all tho praise thqt had been bestowed upon it. He now clearly saw that ■ the Public Works scheme had been carried out with success and judgment, and to the advantage of tho whole colony. The opening of tho trunk lino was one of the greatest events that had ever happened in the history of their adopted country, and the results which would flow from it were incalculable. The whole country, north and south, contained the germs of greatness, and it had been appropriately named the Britain of the South.”

In reference to Dr. Ryan, of Plevna celebrity, a ([correspondent of an Australian exchange says : —As a countryman and a friend of his, you will permit me to say that Charley Ryan is but a stripling:, and is an Australian, having been born and bred near Melbourne. He went through the usual- Curriculum as a medical student at the Melbourne University, and a few years ago went Home to “ finish” at the London and Continental hospitals. While there the war broke out, and ho became what he ie now. On bis father’s side he is a veritable “Paddy but oil his mother's ha goes back to the Comberraeres, and appears tor have inherited the fighting strain they were so celebrated for. Many people are of an opinion that an Australian is a species of civilised savage, crossed with a convict; and it is to dispel this illusion that I have written to show that good men can come out of it, and, when called on, can perform their duty as heroically as their ancestors in the old country. Hollo iv.vv's Pills and Ointment.—lndigestion, Disorder of tho Diver.—No fact in medical knowledge Is better established than tlrnt the chief source of all morbid states, whether of body or mind, is a deranged state of indigestion, usu illy originating in the liver. Holloway’s Pills speedily regulate this function. In cases where delicacy of constitution render it unadvlsablo to take many pills, the same healthful olfccts maybe carried out, without. debilitating, by rubbing Holloway’s Ointment thoroughly over the pit of the stomach and r gilt side at least twice a day; no pain or inconvenience attends this treatment. Its merits ip vanquishing , pain at the stomach, flatulency, and imperfect digestion have been fully appreciated by the public in nil parts of the globe for die last thirtyfive years.—[Auvt. When wo contemplate tho lone and pitiful condition of those living In lonely parts of tho far Interior, isolated and struck down by sickness, without tho old of tho physician or the chance of procuring medicine, wo should bo thankful for our own privileges In being able to procure those Invaluable medicines, “ Giior, laii'9 Great Indian Cukes and in kindness to others recommend their mo, as wo have found them truly beneficial. Proved and attested to by undoubted testimonials.—[Advi.]