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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 841, 16 January 1866, Page 2

The “Claud Hamilton” arrived this afternoon from Sydney via Nelson aud Lyttelton. Our files contain nothing of importance. The number of new accounts opened at the Savings Bank this week was 16. On Friday evening last the deposits and withdrawals amounted respectively to £152 2s and £Bl. Yesterday evening the respective items were £304 6s 6d and £l6l 11s, making a total for the week of —deposits, £456 8s 6d ; withdrawals, £242 11s.

We desire to caution parents against permitting their children to bathe in that dangerous part of the Water of Leith commonly known as the “Deep Hole.” A number of lads were bathing there, when one of them ventured beyond his depth, and would inevitably have been drowned, but for the courageous conduct of a boy named Alfred Power, who seeing the other lad’s danger instantly divested himself of his clothing, leapt into the water, and succeeded in keeping him up, until, with the assistance of some neighbours, he was safely brought to land. We observe by an advertisement in another column, that during the occupancy of St. George’s Hall by Mr. and Mrs, George Case, the weekly practice of the Philharmonic Society will take place in Milton Hall, adjoining. Testimonials, even in these “ bad times,” appear to be “ plentiful as blackberries,” but it is not always to be supposed that they are tendered spontaneously by grateful subscribers to a worthy object. On the contrary, they sometimes assume the appearance of such a palpable puff, that we wonder at the gullibility of the public, who will rush and pay their half-crown to see Mr Brown present Mr. Smith with a ‘ ‘ token of the esteem of admiring friends” (paid for by Mr Smith) ; the recipient, Smith, reciprocating, by tendering the medium, Brown (who does not take snuff) with a handsome silver receptacle for that dust. We never notice these flagrant impositions upon the public, but are always glad to record a genuine tribute of respect tendered from an unquestionable section oi the community. It has long been known that the efficiency of the choir of All Saints’ Church has owed something in the shape of recognition of the untiring services of its organist and master, Mr G. R. West, and we learn that on Saturday last that gentleman was presented by the Bev. Mr Granger, in the name of the ladies and gentlemen forming the choir, with a very elegant silver cup, bearing, we are happy to see, no fulsome compliment, but simply a statement of the fact that it was presented by them to the gentleman who received it. In the Eesident’s Magistrate’s Court this morning, before A. C. Strode, Esq., 8.M., Geo. Ellson (on remand), charged with being a ticket-of-leave man from Victoria, illegally at large, was remanded to that colony. Thomas Shaw (on remand), charged with stealing a watch and chain at Tokomairiro in April last, was further remanded for a week, bail being allowed in his own surety of £IOO and two sureties of £SO each. Barbara Weldon and John Collins, the first-named remanded on a charge of stealing, the second on a charge of receiving the stolen property, were both committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Eliza Blackford, charged with using obscene language to one Rebecca Murcott, in Pall Mall, on the 12th inst., was fined 40s and costs, with the alternative of one week’s imprisonment. A counter-charge of assault between the same parties was dismissed, both cases arising out of “ a neighbour’s quarrel,”