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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2220, 18 June 1870, Page 2

The San Fhancisco Mail.—Just when every effort should he made to accelerate the distribution of the San Francisco mail amnn» the Provinces, the authorities appear to have been successful in devising measures to keep the Southern portion as long as possible from us. The breakdown of the' Lord Ashley rendered the -transhipment of the mail a necessity, but the Government, in their wisdom, do not appear to have thought it necessary to send it on with all dispatch, but placed it on board the Maori, and allowed it to ho carried t» Akaroa and all the intermediate ports, when the expenditure of a few pounds by way of subsi >y would Lave ensured the delivery of it in Dunedin yesterday morning. The Maori arrived at Port. Chalmers at half-past three o’clock this afternoon, and the mail was being sorted when we went to press at halflive o’clock. The Mayoralty.— There are now three declared candidates for the Mayoralty, Mr Wilkinson being the latest. We understand that Mr .1. If. Harris was requested to allow himself to he placed in nomination, but declined on the ground that his business engagements would not allow of him devoting the necessary time to carry out the duties of the alike, if elected.

Mayor’s Court.—There / ijfas only one case heard this morning—a man named John iSweetiilg. being fihed ills Toy ; -kliumki®li'..ness, Worship the 'Mayor was the pro-' siding magistrate.' ■ Eire. —One clay this week a dwelling house at Te Houka, the property of a Mr M‘E;irland, was destroyed by lire. The circumstances are said to be oi such a character as to render a coroners inquest necessary. Drowned. 'body of tlie shepherd M’Giilivray, who was drowned in the Molyneux ten days ago, had not been recovered. There can he little doubt that it was carried out to sea. A Fasting Dure.— The West Taieri coiTesp indent of the Entire SUtmlat'd is our authority for stating that wo have in this Province a repetition of the case of the Welsh fasting girl. In the V.auugatua diet-riot a young woman, the daughter of a Mr Doss, a farmer, has been hedridUeu for eighteen weeks. For the last three weeks she has been, and is still, in a trance. She has not taken one pound of soli I meat since the New Year, and has not spoken for weeks. Gage Return.—The following is the stale of lI.M. Gaol, Dunedin, for the week ending the 18 th June, IB7U :—Awaiting truV, 1 man, 0 women ; under remand, U men, 0 women ; penal servitude, 95 men, 0 women ; hard labor, 44 men, 1/ women ; in default of bad, 1 man, 0 women; debtors, 2 men ; —total, 143 men, 17 women. Deceived during the week, 5 men, 4 women ; discharged, 10 men, 9

women. Princess Theatre. --- Dr Gan* lias arranged to-night to combat the assumptions of the spirituaflsts in tlm Princess Theatre, and to give reasons showing that their theory is baseless. Wo have no doubt that the interest now manifested in the now faith will draw a large audience. Should it happen that some advocate of the new doctrine accepts the doctor’s invitation and challenge ■ his illustrations additional zest will he given to the entertainment. Fashions in Melbourne.— A. committee of members of a Melbourne Society for the promotion of morality recently visited four or live of the places where fast people of Loth sexes amwout to congregate, in their report themselves as pained and sliockcilV dresses of the wa-itesslbs"at one ten or twelve in nwuber---struck them as peculiarly “ calci*l;%\to outrage Wry feeling of propriety.” mho -hdwfycaßps “a close fitting vest and jacket, short Knickerbockers, and .stockings’'—the report does not say whether they wore hoots or siippers~a sort of aggravated bloomer stylo in fact. German Immigrants. The Wel(hujfon fin!.c}H‘ii’l(‘nf learns from various sources of information that a movement is on foot among several G era tab farmers in Adelaide to migrate to this colony ; and We are assured that if the siighte.-t encouragement Were given by the Government in the shape of small grants of land on deferred payments, the exodus from South Australia wr.nld he very large As the Gorman farmers have always proved themselves such excelkmt icbth-rs, in whatever part of the colony they have located themselves, and men of this class would come here with a little money and. a great deal of valuable colonial experience --it is well wort ay of con* sidorat-ion whether some inducement could not he held out to them to move in the direction of this Province. Emigration.— A despatch from Earl Granville has recently boen received by the Governors of the Colonies with reference to the Emigration question. Its tcuor may be gathered from the following pa-sage ; —“The points on which we should be specially desirous of receiving information are: The classes of laborers whose labor is most in demand in the colony under your Government ; the numbers for whom employment j could be found ; the probable wages they would earn ; whether married men ■with. I families could obtain wage-; to enable, them j to support their families and house accomI modation for Un-ir slid ter ; what assistance or facilities would bo provided to pass the emigrants to the districts where their labor in in demand ; and whether any pecuniary assistance would he gi anted, cither towards provi ling depots and assistance on their first arrival, or towards sending tllten up the country/ I should be glad also furnished with any additional particumrs and observations which yotfkkuowlcclgo of lima! circumstances may suggeH. as to\S] useful.” % V V* V Nj Masonic Hall. Mm George Gotlerill’s drawing-room entertainment is certainly a pleasant one, and' wo were glad to see last night so largo and fashionable an attendance. It was nothing more than 1 ho character of the entertainment' deserves,’ Mr Cottercll has a keen appreciation of {varieties of character, and contrives to embody-those varieties in word, look, and gesture. Lady Clara Trimblctou’s- reminiscences of past conquests and events was a most admirable portraiture, free From vulgarity, free on the whole from exaggeration. He looked as much like a failed belle as it is possible for man to look like woman, and Lis voice and demeanor sustained the deception. Of Ins comic singing the stylo is somewhat new, and although there is sometimes uproarious fun in it, we cannot quite so well understand ■ the muscular illustrations. Oc.asionally they arc apt, very often extravagant and now and then no meaning pan bo attached to them. It looks like an attempt at something fresh that is not quite sufficiently ela- ! bonded to give point and finish to it. Every genius must work his ideas out in his own way and Mr Goftcrill is gifted with genius; hut we are not quite sure that spectators attain a clearer notion of what the beast was like in the song of “ Beauty and the Beast,” by Jjia going down on all fours than they had before, or how the old gemleman’s journey is illustrated by the imitative process of climbing a fread-wheel. The entertainment will be repeated tn-niglifr, and we recommend all who are afflicted with the blues, all w ho want to forget care, mid all who wish to spend au evening he in attendance. \ I ,A... How TJJE Americans %ow their Gold. —The reports of the Amelyian papers of a proceeding which has just occurred at the New Yrn-k Siffi-Treasury arc of some bite "st as i lustrating the difficulties of the Uu ti d States Government as owner of a Jar : i hoard of gold. The Assistant-Treasurer a hj dd personally responsible for every penny wh ah the' Treasury vaults contain, and at every change of appointment the money must lie counted, so that the new appointee may have his responsibility defined. As there are now about seventy-million dollars in gold coin (fifteen million sterling) and about fur tv

; —— . thousand dollars ii\ sil\)eri ih;)feepß|Ults, it may be seen what.4qbor.bt insVolvod<du the-dst-aarafer to .■;c6hrf<? v et«yio6in,''jtliu chest @|t£f ibeing buuallsed,': acid only one or we : against which the others may he Weighed ; but nmoh as the'pro-'ess can he abbreviated, it still takes a long time—occupying on the previous occasion twelve days. The arrangements for the custody of the money are of the most solid kind. The vaults are two in number, situated ion the main floor.-: of thebuilding. ‘ The sides and roof of each Are of eight feet granite masonry and two feet of iron plates, also with a layer of musket halls. Each vault is closed by I 'our iron doors, weighing two tons each, and. fastened by two combination locks to each door. The three inner doors arc locked without a key while the locks mi the ou-cr ones are operated by means of ;-n instrument about au inch long, by half an inch wide, which may he carried in a vest pocket. Each vault is is about twelve fesfc square. On the sides of each apartment are built one hundred and twenty chests of iron, each of the capacity of a quarter of a million of gold coin. Each chest, when full, is closed by an iron door, and fastened'with a look, which is sealed, so that the door cannot bo tampered with without breaking the se d. In this way the United states Government performs its business as the second or third largest holder of gold in the world--the Rank of Trance being the largest, and the blank of England only sometimes exceeding the usual figure of the American Government. -