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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2056, 7 December 1869, Page 2

Provincial Council. —The Council assembles at noon to-morrow. New Post Office. —Mr Vvb Gunn is the successful tenderer for the erection of the new Post, Telegraph, and .Stamp Offices, a description of which appeared recently in our columns. The treasury, lands, and survey departments of the Provincial Government arc in the course of remov.d to the upper story of the building. New Work.—We have received by this mail a copy of a little work on the education of girls, and the employment of women of the upp r classes, educationally considered by W. B. Hodgson, L. HD. It has arrived very apropos, and we propose fully to review it when opportunity offers. City Police Court— At this Court today, before Captain Fraser, J.P., and Messrs H. Driver an I J. Lloyd, J.P.’s. Mary Grace was fined lOs for drunkenness. A number of minor offences were summarily disposed of. Phcebe Dycry. ihomas Dyer was a charge of wife desertion, iha prosecutrix did not appear and Mr Ward, who appeared for the defendant, complained that his client was hardly used, as he was wrongfully accused of deserting his wife. —Our report of the quarterly licensing meeting is unavoidably held over. Pout Chalmers. —A meeting of the Town Council was bold last evening. Present The Mayor, and Councillors Dodson, Ferine, Ennis. Law, and O’Donoghue. The business transacted was of an unimportant character.—At the Provincial Hotel last evening, Mr H. M ‘Dcrmid, hi P.C., met his constituents and gave an account of his stewardship during the two sessions of the Provincial Council. The umal vote of confidence was moved by Mr Mnrison seconded by Mr Lane, and carried. Agricultural and Pastoral Society of Otago. —The adjourned annual meeting of the members of this Society wa*. held in the lower room of the Athemeum. There were present—Messrs H. Driver in the chair), W. D. Mnrison, D. Grant, Nimmo, Stevenson, A. Todd, W. A. Todd, Cow, .T. Douglass, Eossbotbam, Stephenson, Walcott, and J. L, Gillies. After some discussion, the following resolution proposed by Air Alurison was adopted “ That the affairs of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society of Otago bo wound up ; that the plant belonging to the Society should be disposed of and the amount realized, together with such balance as there may be in the Treasurer’s hands after defraying :;ll money claims upon the Society, should be distributed amongst the prizetakers at the shows held in 1868 and 1869, in proportion to the value of their prizes. ’’ Only three hands were held up in favor of the resolution ; the majority of those present declining to vote.

The Gas Question. —The following is tlio reply of the lessee of the gas works to tire letter of the Mayor, and which the City Council refused to have read at its meeting yesterday :—“ Gas and Coke ollices, Dunedin, Dec. G, IB6o.—De,:r Sir,—Previous to the receipt of your favor of this morning, containing queries for me to reply to, as to the future'public lighting of the city, I had forwarded a letter addressed to your Worship and the Council, expressive of my anxiety and willingness to do all iu my power to come to some amicable settlement in the interests of the citizens. However, I now hasten to mve yon as much information as time will admit. I woukl supply under terms similar to those of existing contract—lamps from sunset to sunrise, LI3 per lamp per annum ; lamps from sunset till Ba.m., LJO 10s per lamp per annum ; lamps from sunset till 2 a.m., 1,9 10s. per lamp per annum. I have already reduc d the private lighting 20 per cent, and the consumers gcnerallly are, as far as I can learn, fully satisfied ; but to show my disposition to meet public rccpiirements, I will make a further reduction of 2s 6d per 1,000 cubic feet when the private light ng reaches 10 millions per annum, and another 2s Gd per 1,000 cubic feet when the annual consumption of private lighting reaches 12 millions per annum. I purpose effecting s ell additions to the mains as will give an inexhaustible supply in the low levels of the City, where I uiulerstmd the pressure would he better if increased. 1 am, &e., J. W. Hut bison.— His Worship the Mayor.”

We have been requested to call attention to the advertisement notifying that the Caledonian Society offer prizes for competition amongst the scholars attending the different schools of the Province, and that particulars can he had from the Secretary. It will be observed that the rehearsal of the Dunedin Private Musical Society, preparatory to the High School Elocutionary Entertainment and Concert, will take place to-morrow evening at the New Post Office Hall.

It will be seen by the advertisement that the Volunteer prizes presented hy the Provincial Government, will be competed for at the Kaikorai bjijtts on Saturday, the 18th instant. We arc requested to call attention to the Wednesday evening parades, and to state that in future the hour of assembling will be 7.30 sharp.