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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 834, 8 January 1866, Page 2

The quarterly meeting of the Dunedin Building and Land Society will be held this evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall, “when cash in hand will be submitted to competition.” The intense heat of the weather to-day has induced an enterprising Boniface in the town to manufacture “ ice water,” a great desideratum where claret-punch or lemonade is concerned.

We observe that the Phoebe has been laid on for the Canterbury races. She will leave at noon on Monday next, and arrive at Lyttelton in time for the races. Return tickets will be issued. Advantage of the fine weather will be taken to-morrow to give the children of the Church of England Schools a pic-nic at Vauxhall gardens. The present system of watering the streets is utterly inadequate, and there are either not enough carts or else there is a short supply of water.

A summoned meeting of Court Pride of Dunedin will be held to-morrow evening. Fines for non-attendunce will be enforced.

The Hon. Secretary of the Otago Rifle Association notifies in another column that match No. 6 of the present meeting will be shot for on the 11th instant, instead of, as was intended, on the 6th, the hours being unaltered. The letter of “Veritas,” which appears in another column, discloses a degree of brutality which surely can be punished. Our correspondent is a respectable man, and it is difficult to understand the neglect of the police authorities in not looking into the matter. Small boys may not ‘ ‘ fly kites” in Great King-street, and escape the vigilance of the police ; and the latter might, “ from information received, ” have gone to the trouble of introducing the owner of the helpless dumb animal to the Resident Magistrate. We understand that Mr A. C. Strode, R.M., has been appointed Sheriff for Otago, in place of MrR. H. Forman, who left Dunedin for the North a few r days since.

The Meeting for the election of a new Educational School Committee for the district of Dunedin, will take place at Seven o’clock this evening, at the School-house, at the head of Stewartstreet.

A speculative company having purchased 228,000 metres of laud in Marseilles fio n a land company, the former, through Mr Masterrnan, sold the land to the house of Gcschen, in London. The house of Goschen resold it at a profit -of 1-1,000,000 francs (£560,000) to a building company of Marseilles. Betw r een the first sale and the last the profit realised amounted to £1,100,000. —lnd gvendance Beige.