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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 2 September 1869, Page 2

Supplementary Mail.- -The Alham-. bra is appointed to sail to-morrow with a j supplementary mail, and will in all proha-J hility reach Melbourne before the mail thatj sailed yesterday. We refer our readers to the advertisement. Quartz Mining. —Reliable information lias been received that at the quartz rce at Rocky Point, Cromwell, they are crush mg stone yielding five and six ounces to the ton. The reef becomes richer as the work proceeds. Parliamentary. His Honor the Superintendent, his Worship the Mayor, Messrs Howorth and Mervyn, arrived at Port Chalmers by the Alhambra to-day. Mr iMacandrcw stopped at the Port. Ther other members arrived at Dunedin by thef boat from Port Chalmers at 3.30. New Publication. — We are favored with a very neatly printed copv of a lecture on the “French Revolution,” by Mr J. F. Dean. It is published by Messrs Rcith and Nicholson. Princes street, and, as a specimen of typography, is not excelled by anything in Great Britain. City Council. —At the meeting of ! the City Council yesterday, letters were read ] from Mr A. K. Smith, giving lists of the I towns in Great Britain where the gas supply was under the control of the Corporation, i and enclosing an extract from the report of the Gas Committee of the Manchester City Council. In Manchester, the receipts from meter rents amounted to L 152,718 9s fid per annum, aud the profits to L 49,546 4s 74. The remaind. r of the business was of trifling public interest. Licensed Surveyors. —The following surveyors have been accepted and approved of by the Board of Examiners appointed by the Snperint ndent, and it is notified that the Government will not recognise surveys unless made by one of those surveyors :—Messrs R. Gillies, J. A. Connell, F. E. Richardson, N. Pi entice, J. E. F. Coyle, A. M. Boss, S. G. Thompson, H. Connell, R. Grigor, D. W. C. England, W. N. Blair, E. R. Ussher, and E. Campbell.

Accident. —The accidental breaking of a carboy of sulphuric acid, placed Messrs Coote and Hill (both in the employ of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.) in great danger to-clay. They were engaged m running it off into phials, when by some means the carboy went to pieces, splashing some of the acid into Mr Hill’s eyes, and a large quantity falling upon Mr Coote, about his arms ami waist. Fortunately he was protected by a leather apron, but bis trousers and shoos were completely destroyed. Although his arms, hinds, and feet were burned, they were immediately immersed in kerosene, and no inconvenience was Lit afterwards. We are glad to learn that MiHill is not likely to suffer nr-re than a few days confinement in a dark room, kerosene having relieved him from pain, and there is no danger of his sight suffering. Woollen Manufactures. —The following important notification appears in the Gazette .-—The Provincial Government, being des rons of promoting the introduction and establishment of Woollen Manufactures in Utauo, is anxious to receive offers from parties willing to embark in the enterpri-e ; and is further prepared to pay a bonus for the production of Cloth, Blankets or Yarn Manufactured with marii nery to be made in the Province, or, if imported, to he from beyond New Zealand, as under;—On the production of a quantity of any or either of the ab we at tides to the value of L 750, L 500; on the production of a farther quantity to the value of LI,OOO, LSOO ; on the production of a further quantity to the value of L 1,500, LSOO. Offers will be received un 1 il the Ist of December, 1869, at the Provincial Government offices, Princes street, and should state the estimated cost and productive power of the machinery proposed t > be erected ; the date on which the same will be in operation ; and that the parties are prepared to come under a bond to produce material to the value of L 750 within two years from the date on which their offer is accepted The Government will not bind itself to accept any offer. Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, —The annual meeting of this body was held on the 20th ult. The Committee submitted a report, from which we make the following extracts :—The Auckland l hamber of Commerce brought under the notice of t is Chamber the proposal to establish a uniform tariff throughout the Australian Colonies, and invited concurrence in their resolutions, which were adver- e to the proposal ; but your Committee did not deem it advisable to discuss the question at that time. It has been customary to append tables of statistics to the annual report. Those compiled on the present occasion, and appended, are as follows Value of exports and imp rls. 1862 to 1869 ; imports aud exports from and to British aud foreign ports ; Customs’ revenue, 1862 to 1869 ; tonnage—Lyttelton, British, and foreign ; tonnage—Lyttelt- n. British, foreign, aud coastwise ; summary New Z.-aland produce exported, 1862 to 1869 ; summary of wool shipped, 1862 to 1869 ; land sales, 1865 to 1869 ; return of sheep in the Canterbury Province, 1865 to 1869. Your Committee arc of opinion that the periodical publication of these tables is of importance as exhibiting the progress of the Province, and will be found useful as records of its commercial history. Your committee refer with satisfaction to the appearance in the t-dile of exports of the articles of flax, the preparation of which, from recent advices from England, promises t ■ become a most important industry. Your committee, though unprepared when invited by the Auckland Chamber to consider the question of establishing auriform scale of tariff in the various British Colonies in this part of the Southern hemisphere, and while doubting its practibility, burdened as the • <dony is with debt, are convinced that much may be done to facilitate inter-colonial trading by a mutual agreement to abolish any duties which press on colonial produc-

.ions and industries —such as wines, grain, lams, bacon, cheese, flour, ale, porter, nrtter, &c. ; and that such a course of legisation would lead to direct benefit to all the jolonics concerned. Your Committee deswe -,o express their wish that the Chamber diould thoroughly investigate the present :nrilY of New Zealand. They believe it to lie a great improvement on the previous one, but is anomalous in some respects, and might be still further altered with benefit to the :onsinner ns well as to her Majesty’s exchequer. Your Committee aie h'ppyto ba aide to report a very much improved stability in mercantile affairs during the last year Engagements have on the whole ocen regularly met, audit is satisfactory to state i hat failures have been rare and for small 1 amounts. Two comoaratively recent serious suspensions in business are hardly exceptions ja this statement.”

The Protection of Birds Act.— A contemporary remarking upon the Act for the protection'of birds, etc., says;—“As near as possible, the case seems to be that native game may be shot, captured, taken, &c., from Ist April to 30th September, but the chief provision of the latest enactment on the subject seems to be that the Governor may alter the seasons at any time he may think fit. This last provision is manifestly a most important one, and withal a wise one, as it must be patent to everyone that an Act of this kind framed with a view to the north of the Colony would he totally unsuited to the south, and the clause referred to enables the time to he so regulated as to suit the different localities. As the protection of such game as we have, as well as introducing what we have nut, is equally worth the attention of the Acclimatisation Society, probably that body might make it a part of their i usiness to note carefully the habits of our native game, and give at a future time the Governor the ,benefit of their observations, so that in any alterations to be effected he might be able to fix upon the months most suitable as the c ose season. ”

Wellington Ladies.— Our Wellington evening contemporary of August 19 has the following :—A mania has taken fast hold of Wellington ladies, which would be highly flattering to the officers of H. M. S. < hallengi'i-, if they were not too well accustomed to that sort of thing. Wo refer to the fashion of ladies assimilating their dress a- much as possible to that of the naval officers ; and of wearing in the hair and as ornaments to (heir dresses, anchors, brass buttons, gold bands, &c. To such a pitch has this mania for naval ‘ 1 belongings” reached, that not a ball takes place in Wellington now, at which at least half a dozen young ladies may not be seen with their chignons tied on the tops of their heads with black ribbons, on which the word ‘ • Challenger ” stands out conspicuous in gold loiters in front. This seems ticketing themselves with a vengeance, and in a way happily not seen among Erglish girls. In the day time, as well as in the evening the naval influence is observable. Take a stroll down the beach, and ten to one the first lady you met will have on a blue pilot jacket ornamented with brass buttons, and with gold bands round the wrists. These latter are intended to make her neighbors as wise as herself as to the rank of her naval sweetheart, of her own brevet. Ox>r> .Fejci-ows I. odor. —The third anniversary of the Loyal Prince Alfred Lodge, Wa kouaiti, took place on Friday last, and was celebrated by a supper held at P.G. Brother (Joupar’s Beach Hotel. The supper was a really good one, and was served up in a manner to redound to the credit and liberality of the worthy Host. The arrangement of the tables had been so devised as to seat from thirty to forty guests, and thus by excellent management a room somewhat limited in space was rendered sufficiently commodious to answer the purpose required. Besides the members of the Lodge there was a gratifying attendance of visitors from the town and district, as well as representatives from other Lodges, viz.—P.G.M. Brothei Get ides, P.C.S. Bro her Bond, and G. M. Brother Stewart, of the Hand and Heart Lodge, Dunedin,. About sev-n o’clock the Brothers and their friends, numbering thirtysix, sat down to supper, the chair being occupied by the N.G, Brother Gill, who was supported on his r.gbt by P.G. M. BroTv-r Geddes, and on his left by the Mayor of West Hawksbury (Mr J. Smith) and P.C.S. Brother Bond. V.G. Brother Wain occupied in the vice-chair. Waikouai tillerald.