New-York tribune., 1894-10-24
NEW YORK CITY.

The next two days OF registration. ana these VIII
be the last will be Friday and saturday Ihese
dates should be borne In mind.
At the meeting OF the Board OF Aldermen yes
terdav a petition was presented from the inter
ested property-owners asking that immediate ac
ton be taken upon a petition submitted d! th'"
last June The petition asks that TO the Metro
politan Traction Company be given permission to
extend It's tracks from Coumbus-ave up Broadway
and the Boulevard to Kingsbridge. The matter
was referred to the Committee on streets
Customs inspectors McCourt and Mcneil yester-
dav seized from the second mate and the wife or
the CAPTAIN OF the bark Adam ". Spier. from Hong
Kong some shawls silk lace, etc.
The Museum OF Natural History is open on week
days from to o'clock being closed In the even
ings for repairs. on Sundays It is open from TO :
o'clock Admission is charged on Mondays ana
Tuesdays
The Museum OF Art is open free 10 the public on
Tuesdays Wednesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays
from 10 a. m. to p. m; Sundays. from p III. 'o
D. m: Monday and Friday evenings from 10 10
o'clock Admission Mondays and Fridays from
10 d. m. to 5 p. m. Is % cents
A reception for Bishop James 4 McFaul o. Tren-
ton will be given tomorrow evening at St Francis
Xaviers College Sixteenth-st.. west Of Fif,h-ave.
Jacob Kemple. OF West Virginia; Austin +. Ford
! J Bealin W r. sheridan Michael 60 sullivan
and Robert Penet will address mass-meeting at
the headquarters OF the regular Republican or
canizaton o. the Ist Assembly District, No. l5}
Hudson-st., this evening
meeting OF the New-York Section OF the Ameri-
can Branch Of the Society for Psychical Research
will be held In Hamilton Hall, Columbia College
this evening
The steamship City OF Pekng arrived at san
Francisco on Sunday with mails from China Japan
and Hawaii of the following dates Hong Kong
September 20; Shanghai. September q: Yokohama
September 30. and Honolulu. October 3 They are
due 10 arrive in New-York Friday morning The
next mail for China and Japan will close at tho
General Postofice at 65o p. m. on the Slst instant
DR. Wolford Nelson who arrived here yesterday
on the Atlas Line steamer Alene from Kingston
Jamaica said that Il rumored there that the
British Government would demand Indemnity
from the Nicaraguan Government ;or the DAMAGE
done TO the property OF British subjects during
the recent troubles on the Mosquito Coast He
also said that 1t was believed that tho Mosquito
Indians would be removed to British Honduras
DR. Francis r X Ball. OF the Allan Line steam
ship State Of California. sent word 20 the Board
OF Health yesterday OF the death on the outgoing
VOYAGE to Glasgow Of Charles Wheeler a cabin
passenger. The body was brought back, and l)r
Ball reported that death was due TO heart failure
Or Nagle would not accept the report because IL
lacked details The referred to the Cor
oners Wheeler was ffty years old and a mer-
chant.
The Staten Island ,erryboat Westfeld. while on
her way 10 the island about o'clock yesterday
afternoon. ran into the tug Edwin II. Mead. of Al
bany The collision took place OF Castle william.
The forward rudder OF the Westfeld was smashed
No one was hurt and little damage was done 10
the tug.
The application o. John W. Ambrose. the presi-
dent OF the New-York and South Brooklyn Ferry
Company for the continuance OF the Injunction re
straining the Commissioners OF the Sinking Fund
from executing the lease OF the franchise for the
Bay Ridge Ferry the New York and Sea Beach
Railroad Company was argued yesterday I'm Su-
prerne Court Chambers before Justice Barrett
He reserved his decision.
Howard Paul arrived in NewYork Monday on
the American Line steamer Berlin lie Will arrange
q series OF lectures In this country by the we'll
known novelist Florence Marryat. the daughter
OF the famous Captain Marryat. Among the sub
tects OF the lectures are THE Mistakes OF Mar
riage" THE New Woman" and can the Dead
ReturnT'
william T. Eckert, who was arrested In Albany
on Tuesday is wanted in this city on charge Of
larceny He was formerly employed collector
by Funch. Edge g. Co. On May 20 he ran away
with $50 which he had collected
Entries close to-day for the annual Horse Show
TO be held in Madison Square Garden In the week
beginning Monday. November 12. The Offices OF the
association at No. 1s East Twenty-thrd-st