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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2241, 13 July 1870, Page 2

Crowded Out.—We had intended publishing Mr Reynolds’s speech on introducing bis Separation resolutions ; but the telegraphic summary prevented it. From the same cause several letters ami matters of local interest have been crowded out. Resident Magistrate's Court.— The ouly case heard in the Court this morning was that of Pullen v. Collins, a claim for LB, which was decided in favor of the plaintiff. Several cases sot down for hearing were withdrawn.

Masonic llAhh. —Mr Hilton, accompanied by Miss Liddle, has announced his intention of re-opening ta*e Masonic Hall on Saturday with a now ontortaaivmcgt He will give some now character songs. Both artists arc too well known to need commendation. We have no doubt they will bo supported.

Our Contemporary. The Daily Times will bo glad to be corrected in its report of proceedings on the Otago Hundreds Regulation Bill. Mr Macandrow did not move the second reading of Mr Brown’s Bill, but of one introduced by himself embodying the resolutions of the Provincial Council.

Forestry. —The half-yearly meeting of Court Enterprise, A . O. F., was held at the Royal George Hotel on Tuesday evening. Bro. John Hughes was elated Chief Ranger ; Bro. John Melville, Sub-Chief Ranger; Bro. Jolly was re-elected Treasurer; and Bro. Thomas John Goodman, Secretary. The officers were duly installed by the retiring chief ranger, Bro. John Outram, who occupied the chair. Port Chalmers Railway. — A telegram from his Honor the Superintendent to the Government intimaUs .that the Cojnpul*

gory Land Taking Ordinance will have the Governor’s assent, and that the Validation Ordinance will be left to its operation. There i:i therefore now no reason why flic line should not be proceeded with at once.— Mr Simpson has, we understand, been appointed engineer to the con tracers and not to tiie Government, as stated by the Labi Wakattp Mail, A Theatrical Novelty.—The following scrap of theatrical gossip is from a letter"from Mr Lenton, in London, and is taken from a Melbourne paper:—“l have also made an offer for a child, named the Princess Alicia,’ She is seven years old, perfect in form; and is only eighteen inches high, and weighs eleven pounds. I have icon both her and her people in Paris, at, the wirrpic Napoleon, and am sti 1 trying to make arrangements. They arc satisfied with what I ha\ e. nffored in ail my terms, but are afraid or making so long a sea voyage, for fea- it nii;ht injur'' t’c ■•hild’s health. She has beet «even t:m-sLefore the Empress Eugenic, and is altogether a most wonderful little rpiecr ”

The Daphne.—The official enquiry into the circumstances of the supp >smi loss of the captain and s me of the crow of the Daphne took place at the Bluff on Thursday last, before IE M, M'Culloch, Esq , R.M., and A. J. Elies, Esq , Nautical Assessor. Nothing new was elicited ;The hoard of enquiry commented on the fa t that the men left in charge had made so little effort to discover the fate of their shipmates. They might easily have walked across the island —about six miles--whence they could have had a view of Disappointment Island, lying about two miles off tho part of the coast where the cave is supposed to exist, and where very probably the men would be had anything happened to their boat. 'they would not however like to speak too harshly of men left in circumstances so exceptional; the enquiry was rather an extraordinary one, from which no action could f 'How ; it merely tended to elicit the facts of the case and place them on record. —Gap tain Thomson, harbor master at the Bluff, has taken command of the expedition to se irch for tho missing m n, and u ill sail with tho Daphne, well fmnd and manned, an i accompanied by two whaling crews with their boats, with the first favorable slant of wo ither.

We beg to call attention to the public meeting to bo held at tho Post Office Hall to-morrow.

A meeting will be held at the Peacock Hotel thi.j evening, at S o’clock, when Mr Fish will address the electors.

A meeting in connection with the return of Mr Reynolds as mayor will bo held at the Oriental Hotel this evening, at 7.30. - Mr J. Griffen will address the electors at Wain's Hotel, Great King street, at 7 o’clock, and at the York Hotel, George street, at half-past 8 this evening.