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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1933, 16 July 1869, Page 2

English Mail. —The s.s. Phoebe sailed this afternoon from Lyttelton at 1.20 with the English mail on hoard, an I may be looked for at nine to-morrow morning.

The Mayor.—We are informed that a telegram was received in town from Mi Birch to-day, stating that he will he in town by the Phoebe, which left Wellington yesterday. Accident. —We were sorry to hear of the accident that happened last night to Mr William Blackwood, of Caversham. it appears that for some time past he has been suffering from rheumatism, and, consequently, was only able to stir with pain and difficulty. He was moving from one room to another, when his foot slipped, and through the fall, the cap of one of his knees was broken.

The Concert. -We understand that the Dunedin Private Musical Society have been requested to repeat the concert that was so well received on Wednesday, for the benefit of the Benevolent Asylum, and we are sure that the iuh ibitants of the city will learn with pleasure that there is every probability that the request will be acceded to at .an early day.

Cricket. —In a little more than a month the season will have commenced. Already there is evidence that the town clubs intends to have better play than was shown last year. The Citizens clubs new ground has been commenced, and, judging from what has been done, it will he fully equal, if not superior, t the ground of the senior clult, which it adjoins. The Albion Club, which, being composed of colts, showed up very well last season, intend improving their ground a little. The ed in Club is, wo regret to hear, languishing from want of funds, and pavcity of mein bevs. Since last year, it has lost some of its very best members. Mr Glasgow is resident at the West Coast, and Mr A. E. Cairns is at the Hogburn. Without those who remain in it practise more this year than they did last, and pay more attention to the game, Otago will stand a poor chance in the inter provincial contest, which is, by the way, to be played in March. Why such a late date has been chosen, we cannot understand, If it copld be arranged that these contests should take place during the New Year holidays j the change -vyould be' a beneficial one, and we have no doubt that far greater interest would be taken in them.

The Princess Theatre. Last evening at the Princess Theatre, “ Charles the Second ” was played, in which Mr Raynor sustained the character of the scampish monarch, and Mr Samuel Howard that of Captain Copp. It is not necessary to say that both played their parts excellently. The changes of piijid induced by the different situutions of the monarch were well brought out by Mr Raynei’, and the honest old salt found a humorous and faithful representative in Mr Howard. Mrs Jackson as Mary Copp, Miss Nye as the page musician, and Miss Gassy Matthews as Lady Clare, were each true to nature. Mr Woolfe was equally so to his own nature, but we doubt if Earl Rochester would have felt flattered by hat gentleman’s ideal of what he once was, although we have seen the part worse played. The “ Loan of a Lover ” followed, in which Miss horde appeared as Gertrude, and introduced several songs, which she sang with good taste and style, and which were received with the applause they well deserved. The comedietta went off exceeding]y well. Mr AVlxite had a pai't that suited him exactly, and so had Mr Sam Howard. Both did full justice to them. The “Phenomenon in a Smock Frock ” is a singular freak of fancy, more to be commended as an artistic effort than as a lesson in ethics. Mr Joyce is an old misanthrope, finding fault with everybody but himself, he at length pays a man to speak the truth and finds the practice very inconvenient. Both he and Mr Howard played their parts admirably, and they were well supported by Mrs Howard, who in her representation of the housekeeper looked and acted well. Although' only tt “ screaming farce ” there is great room for the display of humour, and the opportunity was not lost. We think the writer of the piece might haye improved upon his idea b} r showing that it was pot speaking the truth that proved so inconve nient as speaking it at the wrong time. The lesson should have been “When to speak and when to keep silence,” We were sorry to see the House but thinly attended. Although the two first pieces have been played before they lose nothing of their interest by repetition,' and the farce is worth seeing.

Annexation.—' SV§ Jearjj from the Southland News that at a meeting lielcl in luvcrgargill on the 2nd inst., thefollowing motion was passed with but slight opposition “ That this meeting respectfully requests the Provincial Council of Southland to appoint three members, to meet three members appointed by the Provincial Council of Otago, to arrange terms of reunion.” We may further slate that the members of the Provincial Council present pledged themselves to the support of a motion for a dissolution of the Coudcil to t< st the feeling of the country, after the' fenns agreed upon hy the delegates was made known.' " Acclimatisation. —At the meeting of the Southland Acclimatisation Society on the Oth hist., the subject of procuring a further supply of salmon was discussed, the prevailing opinion being that the next shipment should be made by a Clyde vessel, in the event of its being found impracticable to get a supply from North America. Regarding the latter proposal, the chairman stated that the idea had been very favorably enter,-

tained by several gentlemen of influence and skill in the matter, in some of the other provinces, particularly by Dr Hector, who was highly in favor of such a course, and confident that success would follow the attempt. Dr Hector had also recommended the acclimatisation of an excellent species of fish abounding in great numbers in all the streams and lakes fed by the Pacific watershed of the Pocky Mountains. The fish was locally known as the whitefish, and was said to be very hardy, of excellent quality, and exceedingly prolific, more so even than the salmon ; while a supply of its ova could easily be procured and hiMudit down along with the salmon, were the latter procured from that quarter. The following resolution, propo-edby Mr Putts, and seconded by Mr Conyers, bearing upon this subject, was then passed That the President of the Society, Dr Menzies, be communicated with, requesting him to lay before the General Government the desirability of obtaining a supply of salmon ova from the West Coast of North America, and also the ova of a fish locally known as the whitefish, with the view of stocking the lakes in the Middle Island of New Zealand, for which the above fish are peculiarly well adapted.”

We have been requested to draw attention to an alteration in the time of sailing of the Plicube for the Bluff. Instead of sailing on Monday, as already announced, she is advertised to leave to-morrow (Saturday) at two o’clock.