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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 25, 4 November 1871, Page 3

A Seaman named Beere was .taken into custody last night, and will be brought before the R.M. this morning, on a charge of stealing a boat belonging to the cutter ‘ Isabella/ and with desertion from that vessel. 'S £ ' •. •, ! ♦J * . His Honor the Superintendent has appointed Wednesday, the 23rd of November instant, for the’opening of the next session of the Provincial Council. There was a long sitting at the R.M. Court-yesterday, and it was within a few minutes of seven o’clock p.m. when the R.M, adjourned until hag-past ten o’clock this morning, there being still one case remaining on the list. The Rev. S. Wilson will deliver a lecture on “ The Book of Revelation,” in St. George’s Hall, to-morrow (Sunday) evening. Subject : “ The Scaling of the Servants of God.” The. name of the Shamrock Gold Mining Company has been changed to that of the John Bull Gold Muring Company. Notice is given that a meeting of the electors of City West will. take place at the Young Men’s Christian Association Rooms, on the 13th instant, for the purpose of nominating a duly qualified person to serve in the Provincial Council for that district. — Ibid. 1 - There was another very poor house at the Theatre Royal last evening. The curtain rose to “ Lost in London,” and was followed by the “ Enchanted Isle.” both of these pieces being, announced for the last, time. Madame Weber sang “ Coming through the Rye,”, and another song, which were well received, during the interlude. This evening the great drama of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” will be produced.

Acricket match will be played today on the Club ground, Shortland, between eleven of the Club,, and eleven Volunteers. The following. are .the players selected—Club : Robinson, Clayfortli, Dixon, Croft, Wavdcll, Hulmc, Gellion, Sandcs, Simpson, Lascelles, and Beere ; twelfth man Bull, Volunteers : Newby, Alpe, Pulleinc, Creighton, Barnett, Crawford, Haase, Morris, Hoskins, Haddock, and Lough. A melancholy interest, attaches itself to the following paragraph from the Wellington Evening Post, of Saturday last, after what we have lately heard of the great and good Bishop Patteson:—“ Archdeacon Stock, in the morning, and the Rev. B. W. Harvey, in the evening, will preach the annual sermons for the Melanesian’ Mission at Tc Aro Church to-morrow. Bishop Patteson complains that the mission is sadly complicated by the lawless conduct of those who entrap the South Sea Islanders. Many of the islands cannot now be visited by whalers and trading vessels. The visits of the ‘ Southern Cross ’ mission schooner teach that the white man has higher aims than his own gain, and are more deserving of support than formerly. We regret to learn by the mail just arrived of the death of Mrs G. Graham, wife of our much respected fellow citizen, Mr Goorge Graham, late member for Newton. Her sufferings, Ave hear, were of a most painful and protracted nature, and were borne with great fortitude. —Mo thing News. His Honor the Chief Justice sat in bankruptcy jurisdiction yesterday. An order was made in the estate of A. E. Cohen, deceased, to continue the bankruptcy proceedings. James Inncs, Mercer, hotelkeeper, passed his last examination, and was discharged. In the matter of E. Pilbrow (deed of arrangement), the further hearing was adjourned for a week .—Herald.

If anyone wero asked what part of the House of Representatives kind, gentle courtesy might be particularly looked for, the answer unhesitatingly would be, “in the Ladies’ Gallery,” and yei that gallery is the scene nearly every evening of rudeness, which, among the rougher half of humanity, is seldom or never found. The complaints respecting the incivility shown by some ladies to others have been oft repeated, and last evening we witnessed an instance of what certainly we should not expect to see in a “ ladies’” gallery. A few take their seats round the door before the evening sittings commence, and all attempts by others to pass to chairs at the further end of the gallery are resisted, as only “ ladies” could be so disobliging as to resist. We have seen a crowd standing half the evening outside the door while chairs enough and to spare were vacant at the further end of the gallery. Occasionally the services of a policeman on duty are obtained, and tired applicants for admission at length permitted to squeeze past “ ladies” who stolidly refuse to move their chairs an inch to oblige the incomers. We hope a hint on the subject will he enough.— Even ing Post, The ladies of San Francisco have been long working steadily for female suffrage, but, as usual, not without meeting abundance of serious opposition. A Californian paper now expends its wrath in a terrible innovation, worse than that of women at the ballot-box it is known as the Freemasons’ The Irish lady of the St. Leger family who in the last century managed to acquire the secret of her father’s friends, and was afterwards admitted into the Order, has been, it seems, left far behind by the go-ahead dames of the Far West. It is, we are told, “a remark often heard from the lips of women, ‘ I am a Mason. lam going to my lodge tonight. I have taken so many degrees.’ ” The disgusted complainant asks, How is it possible for women to undergo the ordeal of initiation, in which, as he or she informs ns, are included the ceremonies of riding on a goat, and being put on a gridiron and into a coffin ? The indignation of the writer is directed against the insult done to Freemasonry by admitting women to its sacred mysteries. If the mysteries were such as she imagines, it is the women who are insulted hy being invited to share them. But how extraordinary it is that people should assume there is something ridiculous or improper in any assembly to which they are not admitted! — Exchange,