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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5507, 20 November 1878, Page 2

Wc publish as a supplement to to-day’s i«*ue o full copy of the hackney carriage by-laws Vhey hav£ ootr been confirmed by t&a Council, orul will come into force on the 2nd of next month.

The Hon, Mr. Macaadrew has (jonc South. The tton. Sir George Grey will leave for Kawau to day.

The Hoo. Mr. Balance returned to the Government Buildings yesterday mornitg from WaiQ mui.

The Hon. Mr. Sheehan and tho Hon. Colonel Whitmore returned from th# South yesterday. His Honor Mr. Justice Richmond is, we re-p-et to sny, still unable to resume his judicial datid.

The Court of Appeal was yesterday formally opened, ©ml than adjourned till Thursday. Tho Supreme Court in its matrimonial jurisdiction then sat.

Tho nautical inquiry into the stranding of the ship City of Auckland wos resumed yesterday in the Provincial Hall before Cf. T. K. Munsford, R M., and Captains Hewitt and Halliday. The evidence of th* chief officer was taken, but nothing fresh was addurol. The decision will be given to-day at 0 o’clock.

His Honor the Chief Justice sat in bankruptcy yesterday during the fedj-mrnraont of the Divorce Court. Mr. Samuel moved for the discharge of Daniel O’ Kane. The application was unopposed, and the order of discharge was granted. Mr. FiteGerald applied for cn order of discharge in favor of George Alfred Harris, which was granted, there being no opposition, The same gentleman also applied for ft similar order in favor of Peter Ganderoen. He mentioned that he understood from his instructions the case had been before the Com fc before, but owing to the omission of one or two dates, and some verbal iuacuracies, the matter was postponed. This had been remedied, and he now asked that tho discharge might be granted Th© Court in a e the order as prayed. ’ Mr. Ollivier applied that a deed of assignment from George Arthur Strike to Frederick William Strike might be declared completely executed under the Bankruptcy Act. His Honor remarked that the affidavits produced in support of the application did not set forth that the resolution bad bee ■ carried t>y the requisite number of creditors representing three-fourths in value. Mr. Ollivier said he might mention that, as a m itter of fact, it had been passed unanimously, and perhaps the Court would grant the application subject to forma! proof of that fact being given. His Honor said he must adjourn the case till Friday, in order that tfco necessary proof might he brought before him. An application by Mr. Fitzherbert for a certificate of discharge iu favor of Lawrence Salmon was opposed by Mr, Ollivier on behalf of the trustee, and as Mr. Ollivier attended to postpone the application on behalf of the trustee, the matter was postponed, as involving an argument. The Court then adjourned.

Messrs. Kohn and Co., of Lambtou-quay, are now exhibiting the prizes offered by the Amateur Athletic Club for the twenty-mile walking race which is to take place on Saturday, the Htb of next month. The date for entries to be sent in will be advertised in a day or two.

The Divorce Court continued its sittings yesterday. • In each of the cases Matthews v.’ Matthews and Bailey v. Bailey and McCathio tho Court made a rule nisi. The case of Digby v. Digby and Alexander was adjourned until to-day, in order that it might bo ascertained from Christchurch whether the respondent had been served with the requisite notice. The Court will reopen at eleven o’clock this morning.

Wo are requested by the committee of the Thorndon district school to solicit from the friends and parents of scholars subscriptions in aid of a fund to purchase prizes for the annual examination at Christmas. No provision is made by the Board for this purpose, and we have therefore much pleasure in placing the matter before the public, as wo think a slight encouragement in the shape of a prize has a very beneficial effect on the scholars. A sum of £ls is required. Subscriptions may be left at this office, or forwarded to the honorary treasurer, Mr. A. T. Maginuity, We feel sure this small sum will ho readily subscribed. As one of the trains conveying material for the Thorndon reclamation was crossing tho Hutt-road, contiguous to tho residence of the late Dr, Feathorston, yesterday forenoon, the train became disconnected in the centre, and a number of the hindermost trucks ran off the line on to the road. Two of them capsized, and nearly an hour elapsed before the ordinary road traffic could proceed. It happened, fortunately, that no one was injured by this very unusual mishap to the reclamation trains.

Wo beg to acknowledge with thanks tho receipt of a copy of the N. Z. Statutes for 1878 from the Government Printer.

At the inquest held yesterday on the body of the child whose death was recorded iu Monday’s issue, tho jury returned a verdict to the etfept that death had resulted through tho child having been accidentally overlain. Mr. Dranstield rae£ .the in the Newtown Hotel last night and explained his municipal opinions. There was a large number of ratepayers present. A brief report of Mr. Drauefiold’a speech will be found elsewherc. . , ' * . Mt. Hutchison obtained a vote* of confidence at his meeting at tho City Hotel, Clydequay, last night.

Natator was scratched yesterday afternoon for tho Wellington Gold Cup. From Melbourne we hear that the Ringaroom*, Arawata, Tararua, and Albion have changed hnndx, the Union Company having purchased these \ve ; l-kuown boat* fro.u McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co. The Kelly and Leon Minstrels again sue-c-'eded in a good house night, and the performances p.issed off with the usual amount of satisfaction. There will he another enrire change of programme t.o.nig't. On Friday evening Mr. Beon will t ike hi* benefit, ami Saturday night’- performance will bring the season to a close.

A meeting of the Rising Star Cricket Club was held in th* l Hall last night, at which there was a full attendance of members, Mr. C. G president, in the chair. D was decided to alter the rule* bo that any person can become a member of the club, subject to the approval of the committee, instead of restricting the membership to members of the i >ixon-street School as hitherto. The following new office bearers were elected :—President, Mr. O. Godber ; secretary, Mr. W. G. Tustin ; committee, Messrs, G. Godber, J. Godber, MansilJ, Brown, and Helyer.

From a Southern exchange we hear that for the forthcoming show of the North Otago Agricultural and Paataral Association there are 1067 entries. This is 4i more than were made at the late Christchurch Show, the number of entries having been’ 102?. Tho Wairarapa Guardian says that in consequence of the excessive demand for space at the Pastoral and Agricultural Exhibition to be be held to-day, tho provision made, particulars of which were given in last is*ue, is found to be wholly inadequate. The result is, that th* contractors have received orders to make sixty additional pens for fat sheep, a number of portable hurdles, and five additional pens for the exhibition of pigs. So far as the pr spects for the forthcoming show can b* estimated, it will, iu point of general succeaz, far eclip?* anything yet heard of in tho place. If tho weather keep at ftll good, a considerable number of visitors Irom Wellington will no doubt desire to be present. As previously intimated, Messrs, Hydes and Simmons will inaugurate a new season at the Theatre Royal on Monday evening next with a strong company. Mr. and Mrs- F. M. Bates will arrive from the South to-day, and the piece ift which the company will mike their bow to the Wellington public will be immediately put in rehearsal. It is a high-class comedy entitled, “ The Pink Dominoes,” of which the following is ft description :—The wives ef two men dispute with each other as to the confidence they may severa ly place in their husbands’ constancy, and in order to test their fidelity they send theia anonymous let tiers written by a serving maid, making appointments to aeet them ftt Gremorne Gardens, The maid conceiving that she has also as good & right as her mistress to enjoy’ au adventure, make*, also anonymously, an appointment with the young gentlemen of tho family. The throi Udie* are marked and in pink dominoes, and the couSpUcation arises out of the interchanges of partners, the serving asid substituting herself for both of her mistresses. A series of era-harrassm-nte ensue of & most amusing kind, tiud the confttsion is still further coTaplicated by tho presence of an old c? ent l« ,n tn > having found a companion Sit Cremorne, and having ordered au expensive supper for hdr, loses her, and g its drunk whil* waiting her return. It would be next to impossible to describe the game of cross purposes in which all the clarftcters engage. They, however, meet on the next morning, and further misunderstandiigj* com* about in th* endeavor to make all things clear. Tho bewilderment is increased by its being made to appear that an old lady of stern vi> tue, instead of the serving maid, has beeq ou*of tho pin IS dominoes on the previous evening. ()□*♦•{ the conspiring wives tikes greatly to heart the faithlessness of her husband ; but he turns the tables on her by charging her with the conspiracy in ohich she took part, and in making her believe that he frnew all about-it. She finds out his deception by his miking allusions to matters which happened in the course of their flirtation, and iu which she knows she was not a participator. The other wif* is a woman of the world, accepts tho situati »u as inevitable, and concludes that husbands are all alike, aud that their conduct out of doors had better not be too scrupulously inquired into. Th© trick of the serving maid i* found out, but not before some very diverting misunderstanding* have happened, in consequence of ft brooch of the old lady's, found by & waiter fit Oremo ne, having been traced so as to exonerate the old lady from all blame. The necessary incidents and sideplay are most ingeniou-ly brought in to help out the common result, and nothing la this way seems to be superflu ms. The Wairarapa Standard says :— 44 Want of rain is being severely felt from Tinui to East Coast. Contractors on the Mungapakeha say they did not loo*e & day during the last winter through rain. There has not been a fresh in the Materahama for fell© last two winters, the river not showing 06 any time signs of being discolored through freshes, never any dew at night, but incessant winds, t* the utter destruction of all flower gardens. Wells have run dry and water has to be carted either from the river or from ft neighboring swamp.”

the Morning Herald of the 16th instant says :—From a telegram received in Dunedin we learn that 2000 shares in Kempthnrne, Prosser, and Oo.’s New Zealand Drug Company were applied for yesterday in Auckland.

We doubt whether the gentleman referred to by the Wairarapa Standard in the following paragraph will be flattered by the c ignomen conferred upon him:— ** Mr. Clayton, tho Wellington land speculator, recently purchased in the Alfredtou district 400 acres for £SOO, and fop which he is now asking double that amount, with every prospect of finding a buyer at that enhanced rate.” The Wanganui Chronicle says :—lt is commonly repored, says au exchange, that .Mr. Weld, the present Governor of Tasmania, is to succeed the Marquis of Nonnanby in the Governorship of New Zealand. Mr. Weld was one of the pioneer settlers of Canterbury, and was at one time Premier of New Zealand. It will be a noteworthy coincidence if we have at one aud the same time iu New Zealand a Premier who was once its Governor and a Governor who was once its Premier, as wo should have iu the case of Sir George Grey find Mr. Weld.

A correspondent of au English provincial paper writes as follows about New Zealand Our House of Representatives, as regards the officers, rules, and forms of the House, <fcc. ,isa perfect copy of the English House of Commons. Wo have our Gladstone, our Disraeli, our Robert Lowe—yea, aud even our B : ggar b Only, as Now Zealanders generally imagine that they are a little ahead of the old country in whatever we undertake, so do we outdo you in the matter of our Blggar. Ours has made a speech 56 hours in length, and he and his fellow-obstructives have managed to keep the House sitting from Thursday afternoon till late on Saturday night without au adjournment.

The Cromwell Argus says :—A gentleman iu town has received a letter from the redoubtable Captain William Jackson Barry, informing him that the writer has been successful iu getting au appointment as immigration agent in the Home country, and that he will leave for England towards the close of the present year. Meanwhile tho captain is lecturing in Christchurch aud Timaru, and the other Canterbury towns, after doing which, to use his own words, ho “is done with colonial lecturing.” The captain has also, be says, succeeded iu making au arrangement whereby his book is to be brought out “regard ess of expense.” So that altogether W. J. B. has done well by his trip North. It looks, indeed, as if any per sou with a “knife to grind” can work the oracle at Wellington during the Parliamentary session.

From the Patea Mail we clip tho following item ;—Unquestionably the land here will bear inspection, and its productiveness, whether for sheep or cattle farming, or grain growing, having been place I beyond doubt, it can scarcely be wondered that Patea should begin to attract outsiders. We understand that Sir Dillon Bell is so taken up with the appearance of the country, that he has bought out one of tho Whenuakura settlers (Mr. Arthur Gower), and thus secured a leasehold of nearly 1000 acres for one of his sons, who will, in due course, settle down amongst us. From an article on railway reform in. the Saturday Review we clip the following Wo have asked many things of the railway companies. We have begged for the abolition of the ticket trap. We have besought liberty of alighting. We have remonstrated against overcrowding and . uncontinuoua footboards, aud the pillory pattern in carriages, aud many other things which would have cost them nothing, and would have made us comfortable indeed. Aud they offer us, at great trouble and much expense no doubt to themselves, a glass of cold water. What beatitude do they »oek to inherit '

A correspondent of the Wairarapa Valley Guardian writes:—“For the information of such as take a particular interest in the polling at elections, ami the hours best suited for the popular vo*e, allow me to note the folio ving as the result, of the poll taken at C.irt*-rbon ©'her day During the first hour .md a hub 14 votes were polled out of a toe *-1 of 179. Between that hour and noon an a -diii'Mial 31 were p died. Between one and two o’clock not more than 13 p died. During the-next hour 50 polled. .Between two and three o’clock, 23; between three and four, 32; between four and five, 15; and between five and six, 19,” The J Vairarapa Valley Guardian, of November 18. says:—One of tho more choice pieces of 1 >ud in the Wairarapa is about being brought o the hammer by Messrs Kennedy Macdonald and C , auctioneers, Wellington, acting under instructions from Joseph athan, Esq.. of that city, The land Is situated ne rly epposite the Roman atholic Church, at the lower end of the township of Carterton. It forms a portion of that well known plateau, lerr ced off towards the Waiohine river, ati 1 wMch i-j known to c irry the bes and by lar tho most heavy soli of any land In the neighb >rhood. It has a tine frontage to the main roul. the spot being particularly noticeable from ihe luxuriant fee l with which it-is covered. About two thids of (he block have been,cleared, the remain ler being under bush, a considerable proportion of which is totara and other valuable timbers.. Wellington speculators may rest assured thatasifer lan ied investment than the ground in question is not to be had in the Wairarapa, and that the e are nut a few in and about the place who will try hard to m ike the investment fh ir own. It is situated on the nilway line, distant about three quarters of a mile from tho Cirterton railway station. From reference to our advertising columns it will bo seen that Messrs. Dwan and Kirton. who have been so successful in disposing of bank and insurance stock, will offer a iresh batch to-day at the Arcade Buildings. after which lanued properties in Wbodville aud Fcatherston will be sold.