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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5461, 27 September 1878, Page 2

An error inadvertantly; crept into a local paragraph in yesterday's issue regarding [the date on which the District Court will be held at Maaterton, the correct date Is October 4th. In future the barristers and solicitors of Wellington will close thoir places of business at 1 o’clock on Saturdays, instead of 2. o’clock as heretofore.

A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited upon the Mayor yesterday forenoon in the Counoir Chamber, with a request that the Corporation -would give a grant of a piece of laud suitable for a Sailors 1 Home to be erected on. His Worship replied in terms ofthe resolution of : the City'Council held on Wednesday evening, that a site would be granted on the Thorndon reclamation should the Corporation come into possession of it, which ibis Worship thought they would do shortly. The deputation consisted of Messrs. KrulV Bose, Levin, and Carroll. Even Mr. Sheehan, the author of the freehold franchise for the Maoris, admitted yesterday .that this dual voting power for Maoris might act unfairly in some instances. He really only asked for the power to be given them for one year, and perhaps forgot for the •moment that in the not improbable event of a general election, this power of a Maori vote, which Major Atkinson asserted would rule all country elections in the Worth Island except about half-a-dozen, might prove very useful to the Ministry of the day. We all know how great an assistance a few Maori votes may be in many elections. When Mr. Sheehau said that it was only for this year he did not justify the necessity by also saying that it was impossible to give the Maori race their full representation iu any other form. On the contrary, only the other night he said if the Electoral Bill were nob passedjie would bring in a Bill to increase the Maori representation. How easy would it now be to cut out of the Electoral Bill this objectionable Maori franchise, and take up instead the Maori Representation Bill that has,been brought down by Hr. Taiaroa. Wo wonder Mr. Ormond asked whether Mr. Stout or Mr. Sheehan represented the Ministry. The latter proposed to treat the matter on its merits, the former as a party question. Wone of those who spoke made much of the strong point, that practically when the clause was carried the: House knew that several important amendments were hanging over it. Mr. Bryce had given notice of a proposal to abolish the communistic title as giving a right to freehold franchise.- Sir Robert Douglas had proposed that laud which gave a vote- should also be liable for rates. This last amendment was only lost by a casting vote of the Chairman of Committees, and that one vote affirmed at least one-half of the injustice complained of. In the whole ' discussion, during which probably twenty members spoke, yesterday, there was nob one who objected to Maoris having their full quota of representation, or to their receiving a vote if they had paid rates. Mr. Sheehau felt the weakness of his position when he admitted that it was possible this vote might act a little unfairly in some cases, but that the unfairness would probably be guarded against in another place. Tb is satisfactory to find that the Minister in charge of native affairs can take up a plain and comprehensible position, and can agree to treat native affairs from an impartial point of view. He promises a Bill next session to deal thoroughly with the matter, and admits that this scheme is unfair. He probably has not noticed how dangerous the position is in the meantime, and how much injustice would arise if a dissolution took place and this dual voting power were used iu a general election.

The Hon. Mr: Stout again distinguished himself yesterday afternoon by his .usual indiscretion as a leader. Mr, Pox raised a point as the employment of boys for long hours at Bellamy’s, as asserted in the Evening Post , and moved that the paragraph be referred to the House Committee for inquiry. The AttorneyGeneral at once rose, denounced the hon. member for wasting the time of the House, and more than Insinuated that Mr. Fox himself had written the paragraph in the Post. • This led to a discussion and a hot retort from Mr. Fox. Then the House divided, and showed its appreciation of Mr. Stout’s dictatorial conduct by agreeing to the motion by 41 to 22. There would have been scarcely a minute lost had not Mr. Stout shown his usual desire to smother anything coming from an Opposition member, and the result would have been precisely the same. Mr. Kees, who had been prevented from importing into the discussion a question as to the authorship of a letter in the Rangitikei Advocate, then raised the question on a separate motion, and the Attorney-Gene-ral nearly provoked a long discussion by introducing Dr. Wallis’s speech of last year into the debate. However, Mr. Sheehan, in a few humorous remarks, smoothed down the ruffled feathers, and the matter dropped. On the motion of Colonel Brett being called on in the Council yesterday,—That the Hon. Mr. Robinson, absenting himself without leave from a call of the Legislative Council, ordered on Wednesday, 25th instant, is guilty of contempt, and be fined in the sum of fifty pounds, —the hon. gentleman said that in view of the resolution carried tho previous evening lie would not proceed further with his motion.

The match between the Wellington Artillery and City Rifles takes place to-morrow at the Pollhill Gully range, when the ranges will be 200, 400, and 500 yards ; seven shots at each range. Pour of each team will fire in the morning at 6 o’clock. The other part of the teams will fire in the afternoon at half-past 1 o’clock. The teams will fire in undress uniform. The following are tho names of each team : Artillery, morning squad— Quartermaster - Sergeant ' Scott, Gunner McKenzie,’ (baud) , Bannister and Dixon ; afternoon squad—Sub-Lieut. McOredie, Ser-geant-Major Bock, Sergeant Mason, Corporal Diamond, Bombadier Webb, and Bugler Turner; emergency, Smith. City Rifles, morning squad—Captain Crowe, Oolor-Ser-geant Mclntosh, Sergeant Harris ; afternoon —Lieutenant Walden, Sergeant - Bowie, Privates W. Ballinger, A. Ballinger, Croucher, and Hales ; emergencies, R. Scott and Hair. The usual, weekly meeting of tho Wesleyan Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society was held in the church vestry last evening, the president in tho chair. Short essays on Tasmania and Now Guinea were ably given by two of tho members. Next Thursday will be devoted to an elocutionary meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Hart will give their opening performance of the season at .the Italian Opera House this eveniug. Tho entertainment, to which we have called attention iu previous issues, is very highly spoken of by the Press. When here some two years a° o Mr. and Mrs. Hart 'were great favorites, and they will doubtless again succeed iu pleasing their audience, which, if tho weather ’prove favorable, will in all probability be a numerous one. The programme is an excellent one, and all who are present may anticipate a capital evening’s amusement. The two Maori prisoners, Henare Pete and Peneamiui Tuhaka, committed for trial for the murder at Waipu, arrived here yesterday by the Rnngatira, in charge of Constable Walsh, of Gisborne, and were lodged iu gaol, awaiting their, trial at the ensuing criminal sittings of the Supreme Court in Wellington, which commence on the 7th of October.

A little boy named Lyall, who was knocked down in the street near the Constabulary Barracks by a stray horse on Tuesday last, has siuce died in consequence of the injuries received, A coroner’s inquest, we understand, will bo held to-day, when full particulars of the occurrence will no doubt be elicited.

The heavy N.W. gale which had been blowing since Tuesday evening, with more or less violence, until yesterday afternoon, when it abated, has done done little or no damage so far as we cau learn. The rain of Wednesday night flooded the roadway iu Taranaki-street and other low-lying portions of the town, and tho cellars and ground floors in several houses were partially inundated. Some fences and outbuildings in. the suburbs felt the effects of tho high wind, but so far as we can learn no casualties except of a trivial character occurred. The shipping in harbor sustained no damage whatever. . In referring to the discovery of valuable limestone in the southern portion of Westland, wo (West Coast Times) omitted to state that the quarries are at Jackson's Bay, and that the quantity of stone is illimitable. They are very near where the jetty is now being built, and the largest vessels will be able to load without the least difficulty should the export be sufficiently profitable to induce shipment iu quantity. At the Banjo place some splendid free-' stone has also been got, and can easily be obtained in any quantity and in any sized blocks.

The thoroughbred entire Parthenopmus, tho property of Mr, Allan McDonald, says the Poverty Bay Herald of tho 2fjrd inst., arrived in tho Bay on Friday lost, and was carefully landed by Mr. Lutterell, and taken to the Masonic Stables. This handsome son of Traducer is a bright bay, with black points, stands 15.3, and is rising 4 years old. As a thoroughbred he is certainly tho best bit of blood that has yet visited the Bay. He is perfect in build, has a grand head, fine quarters, and altogether is a model stallion. Since his arrival Purthenopceus has been visited by numbers of persons taking an interest in blood stock, and the general opinion is that he is a valuable addition to the district.

The proprietor of the Uatvjitihci Advocate intends! shortly publishing that journal triweekly, instead of bi-weekly, as at present..

We ( Wahatlpu Mail) were shown the other day the remains of a moa in a remarkably good state of preservation. The bird had evidently been a young one, and the large leg bones presented a strong contrast to the small head, not much larger than a goose. Some of the bones were apparently still full of grease, and most of them had fleshy matter attached, whilst the lower portions of the legs and the feet were covered with the original skin and enclosed tendons and sinews—one of them being covered with a quantity of small feathers similar in* color to the bright freckled brown of a Maori hen. The frame is not quite complete. The remains were found in a rocky cave or crevice, w© hear, on a range near Queenstown, by the eldest sou of Mr. Smith, tailor, of this town, who has offered them to Captain Hutton, Provincial Geologist for the Otago Museum. Hr, Coleman (says the 3.fanawatn Times of the 25th instant) has sold, on behalf of the proprietor, that valuable piece of ground on Palmerston-square, lately occupied by Mr. Phillips. The purchaser is a well-known capitalist, resident iu the locality, aud the price given for the property £450. A correspondent writing from Newcastle (Waikato) to an Auckland paper complains that notwithstanding the murder of the man Morgan, through being locked up in the same cell as natives, the constables have agaiu started the same thing, aud locked up white men with Maoris, and left then together at one another’s mercy. Mr. Angus Mackay, who was commissioner for Queensland at the United States Centennial, is the apostle of the low cost railway creed. During his recent visit to America, he did not remain in Philadelphia, but travelled much and learned a great deal, and he claims to have learned, amongst other things, how to make railways as serviceable though not so showy as the present lines iu Queensland at per mile half what these are costing, and to work them cheaper and with more convenience to the public than is the case at present. He reported to the Government on the subject, aud has done much talking and writing on it since, and he has raised a host of opponents, engineering and otherwise. Some ridicule him, some pooh-pooh him, aud some dispute his facts, but he keeps fighting on, and is gaining ground and making converts.

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