THE Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1866.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 848, 24 January 1866, Page 2

THE Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1866.

It is gazetted that in future all persons acting as agents in the clearance of ships, goods, or baggage, or any business relating thereto at the ports of Hokitika or Greymouth will be required to be duly licensed for that purpose.

It is advertised in another column that the twenty-fourth General Meeting of the Second New Zealand and Mutual Investment Society will be held at the. Oriental Hotel on Friday evening at 7 o’clock p.m.

In the Resident" Magistrate’s Court tins- morning before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M., a sitting was held under the Extended Jurisdiction, and the following cases wore disposed of rßlundell v. Royse, Mudie and Co., was adjourned

for a month upon payment to the plaintiff of L 3 10s, costs. Isaacs and Marks v. ¥m. Dawson, a claim of L 25 Is, was dismissed, there being no appearance of either party. Maurice Levy v. L. Benjamin, a claim of L 27 16s 6d for ironmongery. Judgment was given for the amount and costs. J. L. and C. Burke v. Williams and Whitmore, a claim of L6O, amount of a dishonored acceptance. Judgment was given for the amount and costs. Chas. Cooper and Co. v. Henry Bird, owing to illness of the defendant, was adjourned for a fortnight. Murray, Kerr, and Co. v. A. C. Bees, a claim of L 79 11s for ironmongery. Judgment, by consent, was given for the amount and costs. Baines and Oliver v. C. G. Boss and Co., a claim of L 36 2s 4d. Judgment by default was given for the amount and costs. Beid, Souter, and Co. v. Jno. Coventry, a claim of L 27 14s. Plaintiffs nonsuited —no appearance. W. H. Valpy v. E. DeCarle and Geo. Scott, a claim of L 24 18s for compensation for erecting a dividing fence. The defence was that insufficient demand had been made, and a nonsuit was applied for accordingly. The Magistrate concurred with the objection, and nonsuited the plaintiff. In answer to a question, the Magistrate said that if the cases could not be all -heard to-day, the remainder would be taken up to-morrow.

Miss Grace Egerton’s entertainment, “ Latest Intelligence ” from Abroad and at Home, -will be presented for the last time this evening, and we can recommend all who desire a rational and elegant entertainment to witness it. Some short time since it was our unpleasant task to be compelled to comment upon a similar description of entertainment in terms the reverse of flattering, and it is just possible that the unfavorable impression made throughout the colony by the actress we referred to may have slightly deterred many from visiting St. George’s Hall to incur a second disappointment. We therefoi’e feel that we are but doing justice to the talented artistes who are now here by stating that, in place of the vulgarity we had to complain of, they give every scene with the greatest refiner ment of acting, and really present what they announce, “a drawing-room entertainment.”

An advertisement in another column announces that a meeting of the shareholders of the Hiudon Quartz Crushing Company will be held this, evening at the Shamrock Hotel.

The New Zealand Gazette of the IBth inst. notifies that his Excellency the governor has accepted the resignation of obert Henry Forman, Esq., of his appointments of Sheriff for the District of Otago, Justice of the Peace, and Resident Magistrate; and has been pleased to appoint Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, Esq , as Sheriff in his place. The comedy of “A Lesson in Love ” was repeated at the Princess Theatre last evening, and the audience, although not numerous, was certainly appreciative, a party of miners in the pit seizing -with avidity many points which were apparently missed by the more aristocratic occupants of the Dress Circle. Miss Dolly Green and Messrs Richardson and Herberte, upon whom all the weight of the piece rests, acted with ease, elegance, and an admirable appreciation of the author’s intention. There arc two scenes in the piece which are irresistably amusing, in which Miss Green’s and Mr Richardson’s bye-play with the -work-boxes and the Cornhill Magazine displays some really genuine comedy-acting. Miss J. Mathews played in the farce of “The Dumb Belle,” which followed, with great archness and humor ; and we again remind our readers that the opportunities of witnessing this lady in Dunedin are now limited to three nights. It is very improbable that the English Mail will reach town this evening. Up to the hour of our going to press the steamer had not passed the Ocean Beach, and should she reach the Heads after dark the heavy fog now settling will prevent her reaching the anchorage before to-morrow morning. We extract the following from the Waikouaiti Herald, published this morning : * ‘ MARRIAGE. “Isaac —Jones. —To take place this day, 24 th inst., at St Paul’s Church, Dunedin, by the Rev. Mr Edwards, W. Isaac, Esq., to Eliza, third daughter of John Jones, Esq., Fern Hill, Dunedin.” We are happy to add that the event did take place, and that the nuptial procession exceeded anything of the kind ever witnessed in Dunedin. The advantages attending the working of the rich quartz and sluicing claims on our Goldfields by the aid of co-opera-tive capital are becoming rapidly appreciated. Scarcely a bona fide company is started that does not immediately

receive the attention of our enterprising, and, we .are glad to add, cautions community.: In column the prospectus of the Skipper’s Quartz Mining Company appears, and the names of the gentlemen forming the _ provisional directory are, coupled with the, high character of the reef to he worked—the Scandinavian—ample guarantees of the legitimacy of the undertaking. TTtr Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation of the commission held by Captain It. H. Leary (South District Rangers).

The competition for the representative for No. 2 District will take place at the Kaikorai to-inorrow morning at 5.30.