MESCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1665, 15 February 1886, Page 2

MESCELLANEOUS.

Wliile mirth and levelry were goinj; on >if the iitizens' ball tit Wellington ito A Imiral Tyron there was a nic» ' Titt'e l»ear garden h few doors away Rone of the shareholders (siysthr •New Zetland Time*') in tie New Zealand Elated Water and Cndim Company had couvi'iicd a meeting foi tlip consideration of some very nnusna resolution*, amongst which w« #• the following : —'* Tint the whole o\ the director** be removed from office forthwith"; and "That the secretary I* dismissed forthwith." The procendi jgg \vt*i> nf the liveliest dp^cription, and a motion to 'idjniim th« iii.^Htinjf to nnothnr d;iy, owing to ninny of tin* RhareholHei-g h^ing at thn citiz-ns' bull, moved at eight o'clock, was dis-usswl until ten o'clock. During the dis illusion the chairman of direr tms, th» secretary, and some of the shareholder" induced in a wordy war of i mo->» extraordinary kind, and the whole proceedings were of a rowdy character. The secretary treated the alia eliolder.* in a very cavalier w fty, and aci-osed fwo of th'-m of stealing docnmen^' from his otfi c. The idjotirnnient a' the meeting was eventually carried by the votes of a large shareholder, w'n was brought away from the LhII t< Rwamp the votes of the chairman and others who wished to go on with the bnsinesH. A d r''tg and ROPce«Rf nl burglary was committed on B«i'td y. D*cem'»er S, on the premises of Herr Granisoh »f:i<ttHii ( the Court jeweller, in th (trahen, Vienna, when property wa« no^en to the value of £25,0rK>. Th jlton was np»«n on Sunday nntll noon, mcl it is intop'isetl tUe 8t Jinnies'' Ghi U' ) •' k • 'it Via luirglars must have }onirtmiu-el 'hir operations- towards ii-|htf 11, wheu the streets were dewr ;el owing to rain. The amount of work 'hat they did, tbe extent of their lepredntiom, and the ca 1 * with which ;h«y neleo'ed the nvist. vilutble articles >f portahle jewellery, pi-ove that they nnnt have spent a long time over the ol»l»ery. They w-ie e»itleuMy we '•q'jante'i wit h the pivmists. fj> the» ff^c f ef| an entranot* through th •locked up door in th< j o ithons laving smishe-d the woolen t>*rtiti-:>n. hey twisted out. ihu acrowo of tlu

* lock, prized thf door open, and then * found themselv •» in the shop. The % most valaa >le u inlets were d^p .aited I in t!nve iron safes, fitted with ilie i latest improvements, yet all three were I Imrst open. Tli» to >!s used for this * purpose are sa d to hive l**en of the » finest English make. Tie robbery' .vas t not discovered until 9 o'clock on , Moi.lay mining, when a servant ) c.une to U'tftsteii the shntters and * j open the. door. The sho,> wa* then 1 s -en to We strewn with heaps of silver, paper, and i-mpty j^wel hwm." Up f to December 10 no clue had been I olitiiined to the prepetnttors of the * rob' iery, throng! ; Heir Gr.-tni*cbst«dfeil 9 had offered a reward of 5 per cent. i value, on all the articles that 8 lonld be n restored to ht.u. » Tiie We'lingson correspondent of ' the Ota*o Dai y Time* writes: -«lt ■ U believed that the Cv»inet will dedd ) > about the end of February whether or * not they will rec munend his Excellency ) ti dissolve Parliament, and on what ground* til it recommit! Ution shall tie ' pres*>d> if it be d.vided to make it ; and f if the Governor accents tin? advice of > Ministers, it is pro'tOttd that ibe general election should take placrf to f April next, an] that the n«w Pirlift* ' uiHiit should lie called toother at the * end of May or th-? h-^innin^ at Jaim. 1 If, however, his Evralleiiey abort* ci » deolinH to act u>»:i the ml vice of Ilia - Ministers tint lie s wild dissolve Pur* - liainnt, Ministers would resigning- '• niediutely and recommend the Gm # ci« b nor to ohtiiti th« semens of fresh i advisers. In t iat caft* the member* R of the present Goierment waul I be > prepared directly P.uliatn<*nt. in<'t to ta»4e such in*opnsalß as should have •» the eff et of forcing a Ministerial ciisij and compelling an appeal to the f country, assuming that they rightly jndge the temper of the Honse. In Melbourne ( Triton the corrwpoa* dent of the Oago Daily Times) we 1 are having more hot weather. It ft * not an aurhoritutivesUtement.oulythe generally expressed opinion, that this is the hottest and m »<t trying seasou ** sii.ce t-ie middle of Decen'»er kitovrii '"* for seme years. MeMxmnie, With ni ic'i di»g \* , admits that it lia-» had H Sydney wetth. r; rur Meiboune de- * dares Sydney weather uubetrable, ' because the h*at tiivra is n»oisi and mu^ify. And a eurions thin}; is that " Adelaide, which has the #lasa at 1 10, delights in its h'-nfc as conip\red with 1 mn^y Meiiiouiiie aud muggier Bydf ney ; nnd B isbuie w!iero a green v liiaile of is n.-ver to In* smi in stun in-r, aka most comp!«teinly ot all its in at; localise you know, it s.«ya, it is a dry heat, not like mnggy Adelaide, and unifier Melbjtirne, aud f dingiest Sydny. Sydney standfl at ■s tje bittoiii of ihf list, a fact fial 118 f mint il I'yplij d fi'Vc>r out 'weak seeuw to justify. JiHt at present there are ■no c cases of fever in tile hospital? than ever Moi>\ X>i thesu circam« i stance the di.tpftfil of nt^hbioil qiiesttuii r is beiisj vigorously disen^ted Ta« I ttlannhg Btuteu ent is tmde that fh# diibcrban coiporations deposit it oil 1 and within oi ly 800 yards of the ' Bita iv r.-jM-rvoJ •, to wlH<h it c»n I* , washed in wit i every good fall of rain. t i'li'ie i« so.uh probability that the > (eneml plan will be resorted to of ' it iv v big fnruacv, and (Itere ' calcining it. t Writing on the translation of the Bishop of Mcl n.nrne to the See of J M iiich^srer, •he MeHionrne corr»spoo* do it of the Otago Dailg /Ti*«»says :-* T>ie secret of Bishop Moorhoasn'a )K)pularity U not a deep one. It it ■ompy that his education for the pnlpt has no; mined him for the vorld. He has not sailed away up 4 iiongst the clouds, imagining beeanse . h ■ was a cje ie he was nearer to \ Heaven th m other people. Tuat he . has ii'Ver foix'otten he wan only a unit iniotigßt.|!ie «th j r uniubls been the battlt . »f his popularity. Of ourse, there have- ■ cc i otiur chip t. >>ot (hey httv* bern iitiioi' on. -a. He his l*eu a mau of nthnsiastic co iviutioi is, always cock* sure he wis rigl-t, and always oouragt- . ous to speak his mind ; hnt he has i.-ver done it off naively, and never | has forg )t,ten that other men Uavj en just as *vie th y mlso were in the ri^lit He has not entiiely wrapped tims If np in his chnrch. He hai Ht-en tint people m»wt sometimes think •if other thing*, and has himself Iso thonght of the n, and given the public the brut fit of his though t< OH <|<i«-sii<>Hß like ini^Htioii, »b<mt wbtch ie exhibited n tti-m^n l<»usenthnsiaina, uid like Luper al Federation, abont thich he displayed a magnificent loqtv nee. He was liberal with an inclerical lilieralism ab-»ut opening the *ii>dio liberai-y on Sundays, an I h« the ide» th»t praying would >ring rain ; and he had the gift of Oust attractive preaching-*** perfect •ratorical style, f'efant eloquene* oi vordts and always the Sre of Iris wonlerful entiiii-i^^iii. H« he* lieen in 'he Colony eight years, aud will leave iis<-!michtnnJ ! i more iirnsperoim th in ie found it Hi has rai^ett £00,00(1 for a cathwlral, which ie building apidly, and he has lifted the Angiicaa Church out of stagnation and debt. \ll denominations ft^knowledge that n8 I>m will be not only a severe one to his own people, bat that it will be % Colonial one. H- i^ to go to hi* ne* sphere of wtrk in llarofa. ' From Honth Australia all tbe newi tliat couv4 bear i a despondent oon*plewon. The Government are ba«j retrenuhing m iho public seivice. i^everal county cenrts are to l»» vloeHtt, wd discharges of oasVr)ins and public works officers have t»eeii made. The Hitnauon is foroptly pnt by an A leUide jorrespondent, wl o writes : —•• With a ■itf deticit in the. pa'dicawwints *!iiob veu fris'i taxUi<<.i is doi 14 but little a diminish ; wit 1 n le-is Vw\ th v»*---■ih'ji-! w »e»t Ins^^st. in course ofreap--1 ■;; ; -vth wool .11.. 1 »;oir,>:»r qiottttiotif A', » that 1* liUM.iHn/ hlm''he4(%

out of both hqu-i-ir.- a-i'i >«» "■ > nil kinds of prop-rty ■wily depreciate* ii vain" : witli people j{etio.Mlly i-> coi'liiio:i ««l h.inl-npiieas; with t O-.v-fnnut iii)<l private ii'» R tivn filing; tvirJi pi >ulatiQn / l«^» n g " at the rate o.f SJO i<> 700 a nuiith 'with all this, v >v .-a i the Oulnuy '" other than <!ij>ivß4-1 t ri 1 0» • !»•»«•»'• in it othe> tin i fleapoucU-i.tr The labouring pojud im >m ■»»* i*-ft a • v • in Urg«i numb*--*. B>vry nie'ii'* ' Melbourne is fill >f steer. -c |nwngera. Those tlmt are forcHd to remain onmot get wok, i » i,n ->' j "'i holidays there lus'i^n te-n -i itc/y ; 1»M it is asng.foriv.-? hut tint no less than 729 men, d.iriiuf thd i-e.-*Mir mem ployed agitation, applied to the G ivern mt-nt labour bn w i,h w.so > i "' for work, and owr 400 of Hum w e given Hiriploynit' r,. A bank t^ll-T named Al»-xandc Lftvrcnee, who some 8 »n or inr> > year* -.ago was in the Bmk of New Zealand at Auckland, t<» » d-r *rrw for th* mnbezzle-u" .t o« £9000 of th funds cf the City of M-U» -h '«» B*>ik. in which he wah •hi • n\o,i. H-. has confessed hU nuiit. ib' •"•s^iti »i»»-"i' two years ago, at first he siya, l>y Seeing with what ease a mistake lie liiddft ~*ould b~ kept fi-otn discovery. Hh stol» the mutilated notes which w«»r» withdrawn from i-iicnhtion, and destroyed the .vouches giving thp Dandier and value of these notes, from which vouchers the record of tlw notea« wa? maintained. Thus he p« the matilatvd notes into ciicula tian a«ftin. A« his stealings increased li« fal«6ed the entries co-icsrni v tllfte withdrawn note's after an ex *minj? director of the Bank had passed them* In .October last he was dis charged, as a £100 note was found leeret^d in one cf his drawers', \uu lie did not go aw»y from Melltourne, apparently for t?k« reason that he had , got rid of the whole £3000 he had stolen in unsuccessful mining specu lotion*. ' Banks, it is apparent, can thus be robbed in a variety of way*. ( The tjlnraay method is to get a rusty Revolver, and present it at a bank ■manager, on the thane* of his proving a coward. The neater method is 10 falsify entries and trust to the care lesgness of auditors and accnuntantants. TV result, however, b« the method clunky or neat, appears to lie much the Same in the end. Tflr T. B. Council, one of the oldest I W»k officers on the Coast, and who * liialiccn agent at Komam shore it» will shortly leave f>r the old cmirnly un a wellmerited holiday. He proposes going by way of Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne, and will make • 'tour on the Continent after seeing tlip siijlns of London. He. will po-. l»ahly have a companion in the person ( of the Rev. E. A. Scott, who was for Romn time Anglican mumfcei- at K'lurire. Mr Conn el I* p!h<?« at Kuuwm will bfi supplied by M»- W. H B own for sometime acting a* accountant in the Hffkitika branch and at EosvrAßd Who h4« for the li<t three \ears i«e«sa a<;ent at Charleßton. Mr \V. Makotv who waft for some time in \ the Reefton bank takes charge at ; Charleston. It is .understood that the Entrtara people intend to testify their Appreciation of Mr Council in a substantial manner bef^e he leaves them. Tne annual general weetii.i of the Champion Copper Mining Company was h*-ld lately and was largely attended, representatives being present from Christchorch, Wellington, and other pla -es. The balance-sheet h!ioa> d that £54,562 had been expended on tbn miite. since rej»Utration, including £26,918 for purchase of properties, ai>d £1596 for mad construction. Messrs Smith and Franspu were re elected d'u-ectors, and Mr i. P/w, of Wak^field, was ele^ud in pl:»ce of a director who had residue I The mining manager, Mr Carl 1L id ic'i— who was obtained from America, where he had large experiei:.:t% at a Biliary of £1000 a year— gave >\ plain statement concerning the miti-% which elided hearty applause. He siid be bad 600 tons of ore fr >m the U iit"'l lode to crush, and 400 tons from the Champion. He expected this 1000 tons woull realise 150 tons rufiied copper. H<- said they could count on having 3000 tons of ore within the mine in si-(ht; and, thongh he coul I gee into the earth ito further than others, yet he had every reason to belie vq "that ore went down beym-1 their present levels. If he did not believe it he should not have undertnkew the work he had. He said the cost of ioai4in L ' and smelling would »c 20s to 304 per ton. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the directors foi past labours, and tli« appeared to be very confident ai to I the future. For sinking spells, (its. dizziness, paipltatioii and low npirits, roly «n Hop Bitters. Genuiiiß made l>y American 0<». ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 ! Pf IS i» Witiiniite'l t>> cureaH disclmrg s from the Uriunry Oisf;«iiH, in either s- x (>icqHJred or constitutional). Gravel, and t*«iiiii in the Back' GunHiiteed free from ercin-y. Soil in R>X'B, 4s 61 tsadi. '»t all Gliemists tud P.iteJit e<Hcine VtMiilots: Sole Propiie.ti>rs. The Liso-L asd MmtAND Counties Drug Co.. Lin-«-»iu, Eu'Jani. WiioKwiilo of alt the Wholesale H-iti»«'«.