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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2082, 7 January 1870, Page 2

A New Publication. — We have to acknowledge the receipt of the lirst number of the Oku/o and Southland Jlinhnj Journal and Farmers' Advocate, a journal of twelve pages, with a four-paged supplement. Ihe first number contains a vast amount of valuable information, and seems remarkably well got up. We heartily wish the spirited proprietors the success they deserve. A Frost Fish. —This morning, as some children were playing on the beach near Guthrie and Asher’s timber yard, they saw a fish partially out of the water. They succeeded in dragging it on shore. It proved to be a frost fish of unusually large dimensions, being over four feet and a half long. This is a very rare fish, and we believe the finest ever found on the Kkv> Zealand coast. Cricket. —Two matches are announced to he played on the Southern Recreation Ground tomorrow. The inatejj between the employes in the establishments of Messrs Watson anil Sons, and Butterworth Bros, lias, wc believe, been postponed, in consequence of the two grounds being engaged. On Friday next, the return match between the Albion and Tokomairiro Cricket Clubs will be played on the Dunedin Club’s ground ; and on the following Saturday, the Tokomairiro Club will play the Citizens’ Cricket Club. Resident Magistrate’s Court.— The business at this Court was tedious and of but slight public interest—one or two cases occupying nearly the whole of the day, which, after being partially beard, were adjourned to a future day.—His Worship (A. C. Strode, Esq.. R.M.,) gave judgment in the case of Black v. Ainslie. This case was head on Wednesday last. The plaintiff hired as a general servant to the defendant fov a term of twelve months. After being employed for two months, the defendant paid plaintiff the amount due and one month’s wages, and discharged her. Plaintiff sued for the balance of the year’s wages, on the ground that she had been dismissed without sufficient cause. Mr Bathgate, who appeared for the defendant, submitted authorities to show that menial servants, although engaged for a yc;u, were dismissed with a month’s notice, JJ is Worship stated that he had given the case close attention, and read extracts from law authorities upon tiic point raised. Judgment for defendant, with cos's. The ex-CTty Rate Collector.— There are few of our readers who will forget Bourchier, the City Hate Collector of the old Town Board. His Otage history will be green in the memory of the old Colonists. We find from the ijornha/ Post, sth Sept., that he has distinguished himself in the old country. The paragraph is headed “A Martyr in a Workhouse.—A charge of insubordination of an unusual kind was brought against a pauper at a meeting of the Hertford board of guardians on Saturday. The master of the workhouse complained that one of the inmates—an elderly man named Bourchier, whose father was foimcriy rector of a parish in the Hertford union—persistently refused to bo present at the reading of the morning prayers. On Monday, when the master entered the hall for the purpose of raiding prayers, Bourchier got up from his seat and left. On being afterwards expostulated with, lie said, “1 can’t sit there while such a mau as you read the prayers. You are not a Christian, and I can’t kneel with you at the throne of grace.” The same conduct had been repeated throughout the week. The master said that on Tuesday and Thursday he told Bouchier that he desired him to be present while prayers were read, and that his answer was, “I will not obey your orders.” On Bouchier being called into the hoard-room this statement was 'repeated to him, and he said it was quite correct. He was ready to obey the orders of the master in all secular matters, hut no power in Christendom should make him kneel down at the throne of grace, under circumstances which to his

mind, made it a mockery and a profanity to do so. A discussion took place, and one guardian was of opinion that if the pauper had declared himself to be a Baptist on entering the house, ho could not be compelled to attend the reading of the Church prayers, but others thought that as he had not based bis d. fence on this ground he could not avail himself of it. Bourchier was subsequently informed what the consequences would be if he did not conform tn the rules of the house, but he replied that he had made up his mind, and that, let what might happen, he would not attend prayers. Upon this the board directed a summons should be taken out, and that the clerk should attend, and conduct the prosecution before the magistrates. Bourchier was subsequently taken before the borough bench and fined Ss, or one month. Ho was allowed a fortnight to pay. ” The Caledonian Society announces in another column, that all prize-takers at the Gathering on Saturday next will be paid on the grounds, uj) to 6 p.m.