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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2028, 4 November 1869, Page 2

Appointment.—llis Honor the Superintendent hj s appoiutel Mr, I N. Wat to be a visiting justice of the Dunedin gaol. Supreme Cou^t.—A sitting of the Supreme Court for the despatch of crinrna s business will bo held on WVdne-dav, the Irtr.n pro-imo. The evil si ttin is will commence on Monday, the I3th proximo. Interpkovincial Cr’cket Match. The committee of the Dunedin Cricket Club hold a meeting 1 -at night, when the proposal of the Canterbury people that this year’maich should be pl.yc l du in ; the second mouth in Decemb r was cmdder d The committee res Tvcd to telegraph to Christchurch that the Canterbury team could fix their own time, but that the Club would prefer the match being played a little later, if possible. Accident. An accident, which might have been serious in its consequences, occurred yesterday to a carpenter named Smith, in the employment of Mr Menlove, George street. It appears that hejwas engaged nailing some partitioning to the roof of a house, when the steps on which he stood gave way, and he was precipitated to the floor. In falling, he came into contact with some timber lying on the ground, and injured himself considerably. It was at first feared that he htd broken his ribs, but Dr Yates, who was speedily in attendance, reported that he had only Ken considerably shaken.

Fire.—At a little after tea o’clock last evening, a fire broke out in a bouse off Dowling street, occupied by a man mimed. Scott. The cottage and its contents wore totally consumed, and it wus with some difficulty that the fire was prevented from taking a hold of the adjacent cottage, occupied "by Mons. Fleury, Tito furniture belonging to the latter was saved. It is not known how the fire origina od. Mrs Sc Tt anti her cMiltlren were iir the ho use at the time, but she was not in a condition to know how it occurred. The statement is that it was occa-ioned by t !, o upsetting of a lamp. It was with difficulty that she and her children were got out in safety, although for a long time it was believed that some of them had perished. Scott lost everything he was possessed of, and a subscription in his aid has been started. The Fire Brigade, who were soon in attendance, were enabled to get a good supply of water from the C ompany s mains at the corner of Moray place and Stuart street, but not in time to be of service in saving the building. There was about 1,000 yards of hose in use.

Acclimatisation’ Society. The weekly meeting of the council of the Society was held in the lower room of the Athenaeum this afternoon. There were present—Messrs Mnrison (in the chair). Garrick, 1 urtou, and Eccles. On the motion of Mr Eccles it was ivsolved that, with the permission of Mr W A. Young, Shag Valley, a branch fish breeding pond be established under the m nagement of the Society, on Mr Young’s property, and that 100 young trout be placed there as s- on as necessary preparations can be compl- ted The hon. secretary was also iustinoted to intimate to the Municipal Council of Queenstown, that the Council of the Society was willing - to give 100 lish, to be placed in Lake Wakatip, if the Corporation paid hah’ the cost of their deporta ion. it w‘S stated by Mr Garrick that he had been informed by Mr J. Fulton, that the pheasants which had been turned out at West daieri were doing well there. They were seen and heard cmiunually A few days ago, aMr Steele saw a pheasant’s m-st, in which there were seven or eight egys, on the top of Flag,tali Hi 1. A Misek.—There died at the hospital on Tuesday, an old woman, named Mary Nicholson, to wh in the term used at the beginning of this paragraph justly applies She was admitted to the hospital on Monday suffering from disease of the chest. For many years, and until the last twelve months, she had lived in a hut at the head of Maclaggwn sH-eet, and her conduct and avpearancc betokened ex reme poverty. Her condition did not escape the notice of li r neighbours, who sometimes relieved her wants, and for the last ten or eleven months she was permitted by Mr I'rown, of Brown, Ewing, and Co., to occupy an outhouse on his property in High str.-et When admitted to the hospital a few pounds were found on her person ; and this circumstance led to a search being instituted at the place she occupied, when, in the pocket of an old dress belonging to her there was found LIM in Siold, and Ll2 (is (id iu silver. The gold, in a lump sum, was wrapped in a greasy bit of clot.h, and the silver tied np iu pack ages of LI each. The deceased was about fifty years of age, and has resided in Hunedin for the last nineteen years. We believe that some six yea s wo, the police bavin ■ been informed that she hud a largo sum of m ney in her possession, searched the hut she was then living in, and found between 1,400 and 1..500 in gold, silver, and copper. The m ney was returned to her, but she was afterwards robbed oi it.

Canterbury Provincial Council.— On the 29th ult. f Mr Buck lev gave notice of the following resolutions, 'which will come on for discussion during this _ week That in the opinion of this Council it is desirable, with a view of rendering the administration of the affairs of the Province more efficient and simple, the following constitutional changes be effected .—(1) That the .Superintendent l)e elected by an absolute majority of the Provincial Council and have a seat in the Council, and a right to vote therein. (2) That the powers of the Council should cea e, except as to those subjects «n which Provincial Councils may the authorised by the General Assembly to make byelaws. (3) That the Superintendent should not have a veto on byelaws pissed by' the Provincial Council. (4) That the ordinary executive administration of the P ovince should bo vested in the Superintendent, assisted by such Executive Committees as may be ap pointed by the Council; the appointment of all permanent officers of the Province resting with the Superimendent. (5) That the ordinary meetings of the Council be lie d in January, April, July, and October, and extraordinary meetings at such t nu s as may be determined by the Superintendent. Tine Necks ity of VentioAtion in Churchks and Oiiapkus.— The llcv. Mr Taylor, the celebrated Wesleyan revivalist, best known thron.hout ihe Aintr.dian Colonies as ‘'Californian Taylor,” in a work entitled “ Christian Adventures in South Africa,” speaks his mind'freely on this im-

portant but much neglected matter, notwithstanbng all the scientific knowledge whch lie present age is supposed to have attained. Mr Tavlor being at Graham's Town and fimling the leading brethren expressing thcr disappnintme it at (he result of his labors, he assure ! th en that as soon as they we-e ready for an advanced movement the Holy Ghost would c rtaioly lead them on to victory ; and conclud' d by remind ngth ra that there wvs at least one s rious physic d difficulty in the way “ Your b- autifio church,” he said, “is not sufficiently ventilated for a large audience, by nno-half. The immense am umt of carb mic acid gas thrown out from the lungs of fourteen hundred persons, and the porous discharge of foetid matter f om their bodies, must on each occasion poison the atmosphere in the church in a very short time, d his po son being inhaled, corrupts the blood, blunts the nervous sensibilities of the people, and hence precludes vigorous mental action, produces headache and drowsiness, and sadly injures their health; and when it comes to that, the best thing ia to quit, and go home as quickly as possible. We can’t afford to spend our precious evenings there in poisoning each other, for that is the very kind of stuff that killed the British soldiers in the ‘ blackhole of Calcutta.’ It is out of the question to have a great work of s dvatiou without a good supply of oxygen.” Southland. The Provincial elections arc over, the personnel of the Council is now before the public, and it requires but a cursory glance at the list of members to show ihat, after all, parties are very equally matched. Certain y, assuming all the candidates claimed by the annexationists as hiving hj en returned in their interest to be ultra re union men, that paity has got an a]'lire.Table majority of votes. As c rtainiy however, the opposite party have returned the gieatest number of able men—men whose natural and acquired talents, long experience, and just comprehension of the political probl ms of the dav, both provincial and colonial, entitle their opinions to much weight. —The approach ng election for Superintendent is exciting attention. The name of Mr J. U. CuiKbet tson has boon, mentioned as a candidate.—Steps are being taken to have Invercargill proclaimed a municipality. Hokitika. — We take the following items from our Westland 11 es : Another Evening Star has been started in Hokitika. The plant is, apparently, that with which the Westport Evening Star, and afterwards the Hokitika Daily News were printed —Mr Boyle has been unanimously elected Mayor of Hokitika in lieu of Mr Button, who has resigned, and who is about to go to Tasmania.—No better evidence of the failure of the County system in Westland could be afforded than the candidature of Mr W. H. Harrisod for one of the scats for the Grey district in the Nelson Provincial _ Council Mr Harrison has to thoroughly identified himself with iho interests of the County, and such a determined opponent of Provincialism, that it appears at fir-t sight almost inexplicable that he should now offer to take par., in a form of government of which he professes not to approve, and also to propose to extend the territory of the Province of Nelson. The reasons for Mr Harrison’s candidature are said to be that there is a grt-at necessity th it the valley of the Grey should be placed under one Government. He says that “recent circumstances have induced me to think that any extension of the County cf Westland would not be satisfactory to the inhabitants of either part of the Grey district.” In that remark (observes the Grey Hirer Argus) Mr Harris ui undoubtedly echoes the sentiments of the majority of residents in the district. Much as we have always advocated the cause if local selfoov. mment, we nevertheless must confess that until the system of administration in Westland is made more simple, until the County Council and chairman confine th ms fives to their legitimate spheres of action, and greater securities are established against iiicompet'-ncy or w or-e, give us Urovincia ism. In the latt r case one can at least turn out the Execu ive, but here the pei pie are po.v erI. ss against their admini-trators—or lather we should say administrator, for Mr Hoos is Superintendent and Exi entire all in bis proper person. He is notoriously incompetent for his office ; and ns notoriously negligent of itsduti’3 and obligations. In the most rampant days of the “King Sale” system, when there was twenty times the work to do and twenty times the pressure upon the depa l tmental staff, matters were not so bad as they are now, when the whole business of the County could be done in three hours a day. Cmrespondence on public business, applications from public bodies, letters and telegrams from Government servants remahi unanswered for weeks or months, and even unacknowledged, and old and respected officers of the Covernmei t are address din terms of such bombastic impendence as to Jc-a I one to the idea that Mr Hoos is laboring under the hallucination tuat he is the autocrat of a 1 the Uussias.”

Satisfactory Results from a Protective Policy.— T e Melbourne Lender of 6th ult. remarks ‘'Luckily, while; Ministries change, the laws st md, and the policy which «as happily inaugurated a few years ago c ntinU's The cous; quence is that the revenue r tar"B are mure sat sfaet ry than at any previous p n iod. (Jn the quarter there is an iuerea e of i pwards of a hundre I thou sand pounds, in th • nine months an increase of upwards of a quarter of a mill.on, and on the year an increase of nearly four hundred thousand pounds. These are big figures, and stand out in strange contrast with Mr Langton’s prognostications. The free trader cannot deny the satisfactory nature of these returns. ‘Taking them as a whole,' says the Argus, ‘ they are more satisfactory than they have boon for some time past, and they appear to indicate that the Colony is gradually recove! ing from the depression into which, by unwise legislation, it was so wantonly thrusr.’ But as the unwise legislation has undergone no alteration, the wisdom of this explanation does n T appear. 'J he Customs revenue is greater than ever it was before, and yet there is a steady increase in local production, and in the spread of native industries. These are surdy proofs of prosperity which could not have be--n realised under the old policy, which stimulated cumin rce at the expense of (‘very other interest. That the prosperity is widesprea i is shown by the fact that the augmentation of the revenue is due to an increase i.i almost every department of the Government. That the shipping intere th s not suffered is evident from the fact that during die year which ended w.th 8 ptember last the tonnage dues collected amounted to Lit),o32 ; while in IS6-1, the last of the free trade years, when no less than 60,000 tons of grain and flour was imported, the revenue from tonnage was nearly the same, L 19,042. From this it appears that profitable use is now found in

other ways for a very large number ef vessels which are no longer required for the importation ( ’f breadstuff's. It was sa i'l that the duty on grain would make a dear loaf, but on turning to the last year of free trade we find that the price of the 4lb loaf stood at a shilling for a Rug time, and averaged during the whole year between tenpcnce and e (venpence. * nr payment for bread-stuffs to foreigners who !ook nothing but hard ca hj in exchange averaged at that time LI 500 0)0 per annum. Who are the e amongst the industrious classes who sighs for the return of these times ?” Matrimonial. —The following interesting advertisement appears in a recent i sue'four Nelson contemporary Kate 8., a Rudy orphan from Calcutta, is desirous of meeting with a gentleman with a view to matrimony, and inclined to travel. Money no object, as she has an income of LBOO per annum. Address, Kate S., Evening Mail office.”