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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 28 July 1869, Page 2

Supreme Court.— Our* report of the proceedings is held over till to-morrow. Dunedin Presbytery.—A pro re mfa meeting was held this afternoon, in the First Church, to receive the report of a committee appointed at thelast meeting to consult with the St. Andrew’s congregation and the protestors against the Rev. Mr Scrymgeour’s suspension. There were present—Rcv. Mr Davidson, moderator; Dr Burns, Messrs Stuart, Will, Johnson, Sutherland, Alves Gillies, Gregg, M'Naughton, and Watt (clergy) ; Messrs Gillies, Todd, Mollison, and Martin (elders). Death under Chloroform.—John MTlwraith. a carter residing at Waimate. was run over hy a bullock dray at Waimate, and his thigh was dislocated. There being no medical gentleman in the neighborhood, he was brought in on the following day to the Timaru hospital, where be died on Monday last. It appears the medical oflicer of the hospital deemed it necessary to put his patient under the influence of chloroform in order to perform the necessary operation, and while under its influence the pair fellow died. We regret to say the deceased leaves a wife and eight children unprovided for. —Thnam Hemkl.

The North. —By the Raugatirawc Lave tiles from Napier to July 20, from Wellington to July 22, and from Nelson to July 14. Tlicre is no news of particular importance that Las not been anticipated by our dai y telegrams. The gold fever is still prevalent in Wellington, but nothing more definite appears to Lave been discovered than wlnit lias been already recorded. A considerable number of men are at work in the Karori district, where the best alluvial prospeers Lave been found, and it seems to be generally believed that both ahuvialgold and payable quartz will yet be found over a considerable area of country.

A Defaulter.- -A few days ago we quoted a mysterious paragraph from a West Coast contemporary, in which it was stated that a certain commission agent Lad absconded. It turns out that Mr E. W. Jones is the agent referred to. He contrived to find his way to Kaikonra, and sailed thence to Wellington in the schooner liuhy. intending, no doubt, to ea'ch a steamer for Victoria '1 Lo following paragraph from a Wellington contemporary gives the i/enone m*»l .'--The Tlulyy did not only bring rabbits from tiie Kaikouras. She also brought a passenger n med E W. Jones, avLo L s the misfortune to bear the name and answer to the description of a cerfain alleged defaulting Cura* or of Intestate Estates, who recently levanted from Hokitika. Telegrams from the authorities in Hokitika to Inspector

Aitche-on gave a pen-and-ink photograph of i hr' '1- lioquent, and hence the arrest. Jones t,as 1-en > mantled for eight days, to await i st no ions or further information from Hokitika.

Natural History.—At a meeting of the Wei iugtou Philo ophi.-nl Society on July 17, a paper, written by Mr T. H. Potts, on “the habits and nidification of some of the birds of New Zealand,” was read. Dr Hector remarked that this paper formed one of the most valuable a ditions to the natural history of New Zealand which has been published, and it was the communication of original observations made by reliable observes who were devoted to the pursuit, like Mr Potts, that would give the New Zealand Institute transactiaus a higher value and a better place in the literature of the country. He also mentioned that most of the eggs and nests referred to in the paper has been presented to the Museum by Mr Potrs.

Gold. —Dr Hector lias read a paper to the New Zealand Institute on the mode in which gold occurs in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. A Wellington contemporary gives the following digest of the paper :—Tbe author rapidly reviewed the evidence as to the matrix of the gold in Otago, Westland, and Nelson, and showed that in the North Island the essential conditions for the presence of gold are only represented by lines of dislocation, which created vertical hands of metamorphic rocks in formations that never yield gold in the unaltered state. In the ca«e of the Thames, this vertical metamorphism had been accompanied by the eruption of igneous rocks. Around Wellington there were no igneous rocks, and the gold that has as yet beai found in the neighborhood was derived from hands of slaty rock, or lines of dislocation th t rise in a north an • smith direction With the assistance of colored sections, he explained the geological structure of the country abound Wellington, and c mpircdit with the Thames district sh wi- s the absence of the most characteristic rocks which arc associated with tiie gold there. He warned miners from expecting too much from the hard compact quastz reefs that traverse the indurated sandstone in the neighborhood of Wellington, as most at least of them were of higher antiquity than the dislocations by which the gold has escaped from the deep seated rocks. In answer to Mr March ant, the author stated that at Taranaki similar organic rocks occur as at the Thames, but no slate rocks had yet been found associated with them, which was required to complete the similarity of conditions. At the same time he had seen very likely looking specimens from the Kaitaki ranges, but they had not yielded gold on analysis,

The Naval Brigade will muster for Adjutant’s inspection to-morrow evening, at 7.00 p.m.

'[’he Volunteer Artillery will muster at the Gun shed to-morrow, for adjutant’s parade and inspection.

Mu Reeves will address the Electors this evening at the Bull and Mouth hotel at S o’clock, and at the Masonic Hall on Saturday evening at the same hour. A meeting of Mr Birch’s Committee and supporters will take place to-morrow evening, at Wain’s Hotel, to make arrangements for giving Mr Birch a supper previous to his departure for the seat of Government.