SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE .

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED., \ April 26—Tararua, s.s., from South. April 26—Rotorua, s/s., from South. April 26—Taranaki, s.s., from North. Sailed. April 26 Taranaki, s.s., for South. April 26*j-Tararua.'f).s., for,North. Abril 26—-Rotorua,'s.s., fbrNorth. (

POST OFFICE NOTICES

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows : ,

For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m., 4 p.m. p. 1., daily. -i For Cliertsey;? 10.20 a.m. daily. , For Raknia at 10.20 a.m., and 4 p.rri. daily. For Ashburton South, \V'nslow;>;Tlinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, WnChester, and Geraldine at 10.30 a.m. daily. For Ashton/ Waterton, and Longbeach at 2.45 p.m. daily, For Temuka, Timaru and South at 10.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10,30 a.m. 'wi ! >

The Evening Echo. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1878.

We have been requested ter state that after paying the expenses of the recent tea meeting at the anniversary of the* Primitive Methodist Sunday School, and adding,a few books to the children’s' library, sufficient funds will be left in hand to meet the working expenses of the school for Another year. .. 1 The continuation is advertised oLthe, sale-of Mr. Gates' .excellent;: collection of pictures, which were on view in Mr. Bullock’s auction robin i last, i Saturday.: The sale will take place to-morrow, and' the pictures will agaiii 'be opeivfbrhhe! inspection of the public during the day.' There are some excclTeVit' engravings amongst., them,, several sqperjor oleo graphs, chromos, &c., arid subjects will be fotind suitable for the''ornamentation of every class of dwplling. Thqse of our readers who interest 'th'eVnselvbs'in the fine arts yirpuld do well to see thd pictures.

'A third 1 attempt to 'pass' a Compul sory Vaccination >Bijlj|ii) Jersey has beep defeated by a large majority in the States-Assembly. U :i II ?: A The late King Victor Emmanuel left debts to (the driiopnpof no Ness than all of which King Humbert intends to pay hitpselfi w _

Honesty in servants is at a low ebb in lowa, U.S. In, the "town of Dii buque there is ' ’a ' regular organised “ ring ” of domestics, eaclr member of which is; pledged to: furnish t from hen employer’s larder ...every week a certain , i amount of provisions for the support Of the girls: out of a situation. ' J ‘ r , 1 (G.b-. ,:i .5 n >,/ •jf i j ;•} ! ■. * The Duke of 1, Edinburgh, on ‘his return to England—on the .completion of his'period.of .command of the Sul tan —will not sgok .further employment as captain. His Royal Highness | has put in the fulL period of sea service qualifying.for flag .rank,, and until that rank passes to him he will be content to remain in receipt of half-pay. At Sheffield, jvhilst a woman nqmccf Flanaghan was in bed drunk, her clothes were set on fire by her husband, and slid was only 1 rescued from imme diate death by some neighbors bursting open the rdoor and extinguishing, the v. flames. Inhere. is little hope of her recovery. . .. ! ! • *lt is a.practice on some of our rail'-' roads,vto. allow, clergymen to ride for / half Jane. , 'Recently a minister received a clergyman’s !Jialj-(are. ‘ travelling card, as they are called, .and wrote to the superintendent, asking “.jf’he, could not embrace his wife,.also.’’/'The superinV tendent:replied- tbat.be thought it likely’ he could, but. he did hot want to say positively until he had-seen the wife, as he was a little fastidious in his tastes. — ' [Dehttfr'Tritiihh. t;o ,ul/io o; ./. The- farmers’ .-friends' the pheasants ‘■'"(says an Auckland paper).-appear to have developed a new 1 taste. We are credibly informed, by T . more than one suffering agriculturist ‘that recently they, , have beep: repeatedly .seen to scratch up, pick to pieces, apd. eat, both /potatoes and mangolds soon after planting. It was suggested that it might have been the grubs in the roots, but on the Qther hand it was distinctly averred that it was the plant itself which was made grub of.

MAGISTRATES' COURT.

To-Day—Before A. Le G. Campbell, Esq., R.M.

David Morris and Reuben Nairn, for being drunk and disorderly, on the 25th April, were dismissed with a caution. Mary Knight was remanded till to ,mprrow, on a similar charge.. , Thomas Hanley was charged with (using obscene and abusive language and (resisting Constable Maroney in the cxe jcution of his duty. Mr. Johnston ap jpeared for the defendant, j Con stable; Maroney. foad been round iby Bifllef’S'TTofel, and had been-asked by prisoner if it was time to light the lamp,. ..J-l ( e replied,to prisoner, who useri-vefy-l- abusive' and- obscene .Lan-’ guage. Prisoner was under the influence of drink ; but was not drunk enough to be apprehended on a charge of drunken ness. He had told the constable that there was not a man in Ashburton, wearing the-official- uniform, capable of taking .him up to gaol, and he used a cry like “ Ba, ba, ba,” as a* defiance'to witness. He had asked the assistance (in the Queen’s name)' of several men in the Hotel To arrest prisoner, but they did not give the assistance asked. Mr. Johnston staled that the defendant was prepared to deny the constable’s statement, and asked that time be given to call Miss Butler. No evidence had been given by the police as to resistance. The constable had said .thaj: he. ..had called upon men in the house to -help hinT to "arrestl 'the Yuan .in the Queen’s fianic, but hafl ad'dticcd nothing-in sup port of a charge of resistance. Constable'.iiM&rancy; (again ..called) gave evidence to the' actual resistance by the prjsqner, , j ; .-Mr. Johnston submitted that the constable was not justified in arresting thedhhn 'oii the r 'Charge of using abusive, etc., language, seeing the man was not <^r,Link, and,,that an information laid against liinCwoulcl have been the proper course to follow, as by the arrest-Hanley ljad...hecn_ imprisoned for six days. ,t Brisonei: was.dismissgd ayitßa cailtion.

VAGRANCY. - t A . .j > ■-iPafriqk-DunUpWAa charged -with yag-, rarieynfid IkwinljLuov -visible Imcais of su|iport,_gljiq with neglecting to support his WtfCr-nnePHi’ildren. 1

J. F. Butler- said prisoner had: been frequenting his hotel for a few days. Had. !S<?en; him., have -,a drink or two. Mrs. Butler had turned him out because of his hasty temper, and for having words with other .boarders'.. Had ncp;er seen him die worse of drink, but hail j4eivhl\u \for;drink,’) Prisoner" was of a very hasty temper. Once or twice, however, had not .paid for drinks;, he had had a game or two of cards in the taproom for drinks. Prisoner would pay for drinks lost at cards if he had the •money. ■. • j.; ; , . ,

Mr. Toppin, of the Royal Hotel— Prisoner frequented my house when he \VaS in town. .He was working at Fried landers’ some time ago. He never called for drinks'; his mates shouted for him. He was not forward in asking ■for-drinks, and spent very little. He was ve'ry quarrelsome at one time, Amt recently had been very quiet; and went awav when .asked.

, Mrs. Dunn, wife of prisoner, said her husband had not been working lately, and never gave her any money. Had three children. Three weeks ago she had received about four shillings from him:ior soap and candles. Hs said he did not’intend to do anything for. her and the’ children, arid when he came home .drunk he was very nearly killing her. Sit'd had run; awav : from him to save-her life. , She would be willing to work if sheicould get it. Mrs. Trevor had given her some food for the children. Husband - had given < lie/ only 14s. or thereby for the last three ’weeks. ■

Constable TY'Arcy went to prisoner’s house yesterday morning and found Mrs. Dunn with' the children in a i hou^e'Avith' / -ird fire /in-tit.' VlSlid'oom jtlaiued of:,l.ter .-hus.bapd neglecting her. The bed they,.slept in was only a few .(tags/,th.er.e. was one old blanket;. and the children' 'aiid : herself were ill miser able rags. ' The place was in a most wretched state, both as regards filth and poverty. ! There was no furniture in the hovel, and the woman had to collect dried cow dung for fuel.

Constable Cartmill read a long list of

previous convictions against ,the pri soner, and Dunn...was sent to gaol for three months under the Vagrancy Act.

3 RAILWAY TRESPASS,..,,, Ch'arles Lake was charged- 1 oh' four informations with allowing horses to wanuer on the railway, and was fined ss. for each horse. Prisoner com plained that the constable took all his neighbour’s ho/ses .to, his own yard and drove accused’s to 'the - pound. Alexander Robinson, on two charges of a similar nature, was fined ss. for each horse. John Thomson was charged with allowing..three cows to wander on the railway/. ,Fined,ss. for each aniinal. CIVIL CASES. Farnham v. Honer.—Mr. Crisp asked for an adjoiirnmgnt'of this Case, 'to allow the production of defendant’s which had been taken at Oamaru. \ Mr/Johnston contended that, though the evidence was necessary for a deci sion, there was nothing to prevent the evidence of,the. ..other witnesses being heard to-day. He had no objection to the case standing-over, except -that- his client was in service 25 miles away, and it was inconvenient for him to atten.d. Case adjournecLtill Friday, to th May.. Hicks v. Gilbert.—Claim 7s. Sd. Judgment for amount, with costs. In the Cases of Wallace v. Newcombe, Wallace v. Newman, and Bosenberg v. Dailey, commitment summonses were granted in default of payment of instal ments adjudged at a previous court.

JSialker v. F'riedlander.—Claim for 3d. Mr. Johnson, for plaintiff, Mr. aG. BransQii for /defendant^yTire/ aation arose of a misunderstanding about‘a threshing-machine contract of last -year. .Plaintiff,’stated that, he had been engaged by Mr. John M'Loughlin, a- farmer'in this ; district,; tp>, thrash his grain ;pn the; understanding that Mr. Hugo Friedlander woule pay for it. Knew Air. -Friedlander- had a ; lieii on the grain. Had thrashed 600 bushels when Mr, Friedlander came to inspect the. work. Fie asked’plaintiff if lie was going to thrash grain for Fraser. Replied that if,Mr, Friedlander .would pay for Fraser 1 ' -and l M'Laughlin’s., he j.wouldi thrash) Fraser’s. Mr. Friedlander re plied, ‘/Of course I will.” Finished Md/tughhii’s graflv aifd oH "going/: to -Friedlanders storsHvas informed’ that JMr7 Ftied 1 ander would not pay. .for the work, giving as,,a reason that "VPLaugh lin owed him more than he owed plaintiff. . I'hc price per bushel for tnrath'ing’was 4dA-all over the‘district. John Hampton gave corroborative '■evidence.

Mr. Branson, for the defence, asked Tor-a non- The .contract-had been made with M‘Laughton, -and-not - with Mr. Friedlander,and therefore M‘Laugh ton ought to have been sued.

Mr. Johnson replied on behalf of the plaintiff,and after some passages at arms between council, Mr. Branson'claimed a right of reply on the'question of‘rati fication of contract urged by Mr. John son, contending that there was no rati fication. Judgment for plaintiff, Mr. Branson giving/notice otappeal.

After ; the completion of the civil busincss-the Court was.’closed/ but on the representation of- Sergeant Cart mill, was opened to disjio’se of tlie case of Mary Knight, who had been appre hended at Rakaia for' being drunk and disorderly, and let out on bail to attend this morning’s Court. She had come down tb Ashburton, and got drunk. She was now in charge, accused under the'Vagrancy Act of having no visible means of subsistence, and also of im portuning passengers for an immoral purpose.' His Worship, 1 on hearing the evidence, sentenced her to two months' imprisonment.

At a, mee.ing ol Roman Catholic members'of Parliament, under the,p7esi dfency of Mr. A. M. Sullivan, the-follow ing congratulatory message was. agreed to, and Chevalier Q’Clery was instructed, as secretary to,,telegraph it to the Vati can :—The Irish Catholic members of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ire land'humbly present to theLloly Father Pope Leo XIII. the expression of their homage and congratulations on his ele vation to the Pontifical Chair. They hope for his Holiness many years’ reign over the Universal Church; and pray for themselves and for Ireland, their country, the Pontifical benediction.”

The RUSSIANS in ADRIANOPLE.

EXEMPLARY BEHAVIOUR OF!THE TRQOPS i The Daily New! correspondent p.re- sently in Adrianople with the Russians/ writes : What language the Russian and Turk ish soldiers use in conversation is known only to them, for it is quite unintelligi ble to any one else, but they manage to. hold lively chats on amusing 'subjects,' and fraternise in a very jolly manner. - The Russian soldier is, ’first of /ally a good-natured" fellow," and he'looks'upoiW Turks and -Frenchmen las- a kind of comical animals. Why this is so no one can say, ai^d’"especially iris'hard to why tire Frenthmen should be partied- F larly is French he considers funny; and tjie Turks, their manners, dress, and faces, all excite his mirth. The, Englishman and German he cannot endure —possibly because they appear too serious to him, and-he has an unmistakeable, ingrained dislike for both those.nations. Of course,. I speak only of the men in the ranks, as one meets them., everywhere, and overhears their conversation. Now they ■ are, of course, in high spirits, because they have made, themselves very little at home in Bulgaria, and are glad to. re turn to their steppes again. From my own observation I am convinced that they fraternise with the Turks ’much more-than, with-the Bulgarians. In the. great bazaar the "mixture of races is curious enough ; every ‘ variety of type of man, from the coal-black Nubian to the mild-eyed, blonde Russian, shoulder one another good-naturedly there. Cos sacks-handle . the rich draperies and haggle about the price of calico shirts ; the' infantrymen, for the first time! in - their lives let loose in such a museum of wonderful- things, walk about-at first quite dazed, and then join in the lively shirt trade with the rest; while the j officers, everywhere on the lookout for " relics and interesting souvenirs, pay out their shining pol-imperi'als with a reck lessness that has spoiled the market for any other purchasers. Almost everyone:; buys a Turkish woman’s costume,most indulge in a specimen or two of Oriental rugs, and for whatever leaves tire shelves of the Spanish Jews a good round sum is-paid. .As,.for the simplest and most • uninteresting relics of the war, like .ordi nary pistols and muskets, they bring full market; prices. A Winchester repeating rifle easily commands seven Napoleons. These bright new 'gold pieces will open almost any door/even the mosque of Sultan; Selim has been illuminated and aJ service •conducted'.to satisfy the curio sity of the officers. I thought it was rather an undignified proceeding on the part of the Turks to go through their service and prayer with an audience of a thousand Muscovites,, and many of the officers present, shared my opinion. The mosques have not been in any way desecrated, unless the entrance 6f un believers may be called desecration. Whatever orders the sentries at . . .the door of Sultan Selim may have received they certainly execute their duty mdst capriciously.' 'A few Turks coming in the door the other day, and observing several Russian officers walking about with their boots on, did not stop to take off their shoes, as the custom is, where upon the sentry followed them into the church, ordered them back, and obliged them to take off the muddy foot-gear. They looked at the soldier as if to say— “,l wonder if this follow is going to ob lige us to pray too,” and half pleased, half angry, they obeyed the guard and went to their worship. Around the mosque in the great enclosure gather hundreds of refugees, who bivouac there while on their wav through the city to their, .villages.] Together -with the sol diers they flock to the fountains to bring wafer/arid never so much as a harsh word have I heard pass between the Turks' arid the Russians. On the con trary, the soldiers very often assist the refugees in various ways. Rarely is a hand held out for charity that does not receive some coin, and T"have seen the soldiers bring water quite gallantly for ’ the Turkish women. However trifling these acts may seem as indications of the spirit of the soldier, they are to me additional proof that the Russians will go home almost to' a man with an exag gerated idea of the depravity of the Bul garian ariid a-’correspondingly elevated opinion of the good qualities of the Turks.

THE EVENING ECHO, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 187'a