NEWS OF THE DAY.
The half-yearly session of the Supreme Court which opens on June 10 promises to be rather a heavy one. there being no fewer than thirteen persons awaiting trial.
Hudson has apparently not yet lost the confidence of his friends. W. Maitland announces that he is prepared to back the Dunedin man to wrestle the Temuka athlete, Cumberland and Westmoreland style, for £SO or £IOO, the best of three falls to be decisive.
At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning one case of drunkenness was disposed of by a 5s fine, or the usual alternative.
An instance of astounding coolness: took place here at a meeting of creditors of an unfortunate pub. the other day. In the course of the few questions put, a dark-visaged individual rendered himself conspicuous by following the lead of the querists. He assumed the role of crossexaminer, and was rather rough on the debtor. He kept the game up for some time, when the following dialogue occurred: —Pub.: “Who the d are you; I don’t owe you a darned cent. Who are you, what arc you, are you anything or nothing?” Dark Individual: “ Well, you owe me nothing.” Pub. (appealingly) : " What am I to do with this fellow?” S.N. ; “Put him out.” And out he was put to the intense amusement and satisfaction of all.
The new Catholic Church which is being built at Newton, a suburb of Auckland, is to cost £3310.
During the month of May at Wellington 15 declarations of insolvency were filed, 89 births and 29 deaths registered, and 25 marriage certificates were issued. A Co-operative Society, under the title of the New Zealand Supply Association, has been floated at Auckland, with a capital of £20,090, in £1 shares. The tender of John Stuart, of Dunedin, for 2£ miles of extention of the Ashburton railway has been accepted at £1842, The large estate of Maclean and Co., in Waikato, will it is said, shortly be cut up for small farm settlement.
A telegram states that instead of the usual 2000 or 3000 visitors to the Clontarf pleasure grounds, Sydney, on the Queen’s Birthday, there were barely 250 people. The outspoken article in the “ Bulletin ” has evidently prevented decent people visiting the grounds. The prisoner Ross, who escaped from Dunedin gaol on Monday, was brought back to gaol about eight o’clock last night. He had been rusticating lor a day up the Valley of Leith. His original sentence was only four months, and in the natural course of events he would have left the gaol this morning at ten o’clock. He has doubtless earned for himself an adidtional term of a few months.
Mr Richmond, one of th«s candidates for Nelson, denies that he declares himself a Socialist. He said he sympathised with the aims of Socialists, which were understood to be to secure to the workingman a fair share of the fruits of his labor, and to mitigate the inequalities of his lot. A writer in a Melbourne paper says:— “ One more instance of the narrowness of the world. Most people are aware that Messrs James M'Ewan and Co., of Melbourne, sell steel key guards, numbered, the owners being duly registered in a book kept for the purpose. Mrs Day, a lady resident at Levuka, Fiji, had one of these guards. A few days ago her bunch of keys was transmitted to the firm (in accordance with the request attached to each guard), having been picked up on Russell Beach, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, by the wife of Captain Grant, of the whaleship Horatio —the acknowledgment to be sent to that lady at New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.!” The bodies of two males came ashore from the wreck of the Tararua on Saturday. They were nearly nude, and quite unrecognisable. One of the bodies washed ashore is that of a man about five feet eleven inches, of medium build. His clothing consisted of light tweed trousers, woollen drawers, lacc-up boots without nails, and recently half-soaled. There was no property or papers found on him. The other was that of a man of about five feet nine inches, and. of rather stout build. It was nearly nude. Up to the present time 71 bodies in all have been recovered.
The Taranaki Budget has the following : —Professor Hasclmayer is always meeting with some adventure. During his recent visit to Hawera a Maori woman came up to him and asked for a match to light her pipe with. The Professor took the pipe, looked into it, and then pretended to empty the ashes from the bowl, when, to the woman’s astonishment, instead of dust, a number of threepenny pieces rolled into the palm of his hand. The eyes of the woman opened with surprise at what he had done. The Professor then rubbed the threepenny pieces between his hands, as men rub up tobacco, and when he exposed the coins they were found to be halfsovereigns. This seems so have so startled the wahine, that snatching the pipe from his hand, she fled from the Professor screaming “ Taipo /”
Mr Matthew Burnett, the temperance lecturer, has enrolled 17,000 persons in South Australia during the past .year.
Miss Annie Carline, the victim of the Riverhead stabbing case, has been discharged from the Auckland Hospital completely* recovered . She intends to proceed back to Riverhead.
The Queen of Madagascar, soon after her conversion to Christianity, liberated 50,000 slaves.
The Liverpool ship Ben Rhydding, from Calcutta, was wrecked on the Aberdeenshire coast, on March 5. All the crew, thirty souls, perished within sight of land. The rocket apparatus being unable to reach the vessel.
The " Fiji Royal Gazette ” has a list of ministers registered for the celebration of marriages. Two are Church of England, one is a Jew, ten (all European names) are Roman Catholics, and the Wesleyan Methodists boast of no less than 58 “ reverends.” Of these, eight seem to be Europeans ; but we somehow fancy that the Rev. Mark Tagicakibau must, with the Revs. Jonah Ulninaceva, Naphtali Qaligarogaro, and 47 more, be allowed to be aboriginals.
“/Egles” in the "Australasian” tells the following story :—" Please note this says Speargrass,who dates from Dcniliquin Mr Grasslands, who owns the A and B runs (having lately purchased the latter for £50,000 cash), employs a governess for his younger children. The young lady was confined to her room for some time through an attack of rheumatism, Mr G,, who is a strictly honorable man and exact in his dealings, not only deducted three days from the temporary invalid’s salary, but charged her with board for the period of her indisposition. And m/ correspondent sends the real name and address as evidence of the authenticity of his story.
The following is from the Auckland “Herald ” “It appears that the extension of building operations in the city at the present time has led to a rise in the price of building materials, more especially of bricks. It is computed that a million will be required to complete contracts already entered into, or pr.-jecled during the present year. There are also some 300,000 wanted in Fiji for the refining manufactories of the Sugar Company. In all probability some of the contemplated erections will be postponed until prices fall, and there is something like a certainty that the article can be supplied when needed. At New Plymouth recently during the hearing i.f some actions to recover Property tax, it transpired that one of the defendants
had paid the amount due by him into the Post Office by a money order drawn in favour of the Property Tax Commissioner, at Wellington. He did not, however, understand the nature of a money order, and instead of forwarding the order to the Property T x Office, he kept it as “ a receipt” for the payment of the m mey. He was greatly incensed when he afterwards received the summons to pay his property tax, and set about abusing the Government officials when it was after all his own mistake. The Deputy-Commissioner pressed for costs, which were allowed, aud this slight error cost the defendant over £2. This was too much for his wounded feelings, and he expressed his opinion freely in Court that he had been victimised by the method the Government had adopted to collect the tax. The Taranaki “ Hearld ” adds that it has since heard of another case 'Where a similar mistake was made. An action in which Mr McLean, a contractor sued the Patea County Council, in the district Court, for the sura of £ISG6, has just been concluded —judgment being given for £3SS ss. It appears that the County Council had undertaken to expend a sum of money for the Government, and through a loose way of making its contracts, it incurred further liabilities, which have now been assessed by the Court. The result is of considerable importance to all local bodies.
At a well-known debating society the other night a member in concluding his speech said, “ Gentlemen can take these remarks for what they are worth,” etc. A member passed the speaker a copper, remarking, “ You needn’t mind the change,” The orator was flabbergasted.
Mr James Bruce has only a few bags left of the damaged wheat, and will be sold at 2s 6d per bag, worth 6s, but it must be cleared out immediately. Bran at 5s the cart load, also flour, and other pig-feed. —fADTT.] Cameron's consultation on the English Derby is announced in our advertising columns. We learn that Mr Cameron paid in five consultations alone during the year ending May 24, 1881 the sura of £21,000. .
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