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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2032, 9 November 1869, Page 2

On Dit. —lt is said that one of the members ot the Otago Institute, on returning home from the meeting of that body held on the 2nd inst., made the following entry in his note bookMemo.—The three papers first read before the 0.1., were as follows 1. Eccles., Chap, xiii., verse 1, to the end. 2. Web on the wing. 3. Gillies in hot water. Would it were True ! —The Wellington Independent of the 4th says : —The Post of last evening contains intelligence of rich specimens of quartz having been brought into Dunedin from Bendigo gully reef. The estimated yield is 100 ounces to the ton. Great excitement prevails. Princess Theatre, Duchess” and the drama of “Robert Macaire”were repeated last evening. The operatic comedy went as well as ever, but the drama was most indifferently played. The first act of “ The Grand Duchess ” will be given to-night, and will be preceded by the drama of “ Rob Roy,” with Mr Rayner as the outlaw. We are sorry to hear that Miss Anna Forde is about to leave the Province for Auckland. She plays for about a fortnight, Qt).d will take a farewell benefit previous to her departure.

Flood in the Horikiwi Stream. —On this Ist Nov. the Wellington Independent states that Cobb’s Coach could Only proceed as far as Pahatanui, where its mail bags and its only passenger (a local R.M.) were packed Mi a couple of horses and so

t/iken onwards past the ruined bridges and numerous road slips which have heeu occasioned by the late flood in the Horokiwi Val--1 ey. 1 n that district much land b asbeen washed away, and several sheep drowned, besides one or two horses, which, when last seen, were travelling nolens vole ns down the torrent. A Mrs Draper, of Fahautanui, taking advantage of the rising of the river to clear her good man’s paddock by launching logs into it, slipped into the stream with one of her trunks, and would have inevitably been drowned but for the assistance of Mr 0. Stuart, who fortunately heard her cries for help and rescued her. The programme of the proceedings at the re-union in commemoration of laying the foundation stone of the Athenceum Building, appears in our advertising columns. We anticipate a pleasant evening.