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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2298, 17 September 1870, Page 2

Mayor’s Court.—The business in this Court was confined to fining two drunkards, Robert Parris and Daniel M‘lntyre, 5s each, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Theatrical.—We understand that Mr Willis’s company will come down by the Gothenburg, which is to leave Melbourne on the 24th instant. Native Intelligence. —By a private telegram received in town to day, from a gentleman at Wellington, whose statement may be relied upon, we learn that the news, circulating on authority of a Taranaki newspaper correspondent, abopt Tito Kowaru being on the war path is without foundation, ,

Dinner to the Superintendent.— It has been arranged to invite His Honor the Superintendent to a public dinner bn Friday next, to express appreciation of the services he has rendered to the Province as a member of House of _ Representatives. The announcement appears in our advertising columns. The Princess Theatre. —The performances at the theatre last evening were for the benefit of the Benevolent Institution, and attracted a very numerous audience. The pieces played were the two-aob- comedy of “The Porter’s Knot,” and the burlesque of “Othello,”

The Incoming Mails.—The Harbor Steam Company have arranged for the sailing of special steamers to meet the Airedale tomorrow. One will leave the old jetty at 10 o’clock in the morning, returning at noon, and the other at 2.30 in the afternoon, returning at 4 p.m. Good , pportunity will be thus afforded for meeting expected friends at the Port. Masonic Hall. —The ball given by the A.1.0.0.F., Pioneer Lodge, was perhaps not snob a success in a pecuniary point of view as, considering the object, might have been expected. The room, however, was just comfortably filled, and wc feel sure (hat all lovers of dancing were pleased. An excellent baud -was in attendance, and the refreshments, which were of a most recherche description, were provided by Mr Graham. Gaol Return.—The following is the s l ate of H.M. Gaol, Dunedin, for the week ending the 17th September, 1870 Awaiting trial, 0 men, 0 women ; under remand, ()' men, 0 women ; penal servitude, 93 men, 0 women ; hard labor, 48 men, 14 women ; in default of bail, 2 men, 0 women ; debtors, 3 men -—total, 14G men, 14 women. Received during the week, 10 men, 4 women; discharged, G men, 5 women. The Taieri.—A meeting of East and West Taieri settlers took place on Monday, at Air Milne’s, East Taieri. Air B. Chartcris presided, and explained tint the object contemplated by the promoters of tne meeting was to consider what measures should"be taken to protect their properties from floods After a long discussion, a committee was appointed to collect signatures to a memorial to be presented to his Honor the Superintendent on- his return to Dunedin, praying that a piece of land, say ut),ood acres, at Strath Taieri, bo set apart as a trust for the embankment of the faieri river and the Silvcrstream. Dr Carr’s Entertainment. Dr Carr will make his last appearance in Dunedin this evening, and we anticipate a crowded house. The Doctor enjova the reputation of being the first mesmerist in the colonics, and the extraordinary phenomena he has exhibited and explained during his stay here are, it must be confessed, sufficient to justify bis title to this distinction. He proposes initiating the curious into the mysteries of his craft this evening, and wc may be sure that those interested in this hitherto inexplicable art will_ eagerly take advantage of the opportunity thus afforded of familiarising themselves with its principles of operation, A Lesson for the Unemployed.— The following facts illustrate the completeness of the organisation of Chinese inmiigratim and the precision and energy with which it is carried out. About sixty Chinamen arrived by the Gland Hamilton from Melbourne and were landed on the Jetty by the harbor steamer to-day about 10 o’clock. From the jetty, without waiting al moment. they proceeded at a trot to Air G. F. Reid’s door in .Stafford street Arriving there they said they wanted a waggon for the Cardrona. One .was immediately supplied, within an hour after the order was given, they had taken their scats, and with their luggage were on their way up the country Men who know so well the value of time will not be found wasting it by listening to frothy harangues by men who like talking better than working and try to live upon the gullibility of others.

Inquest. — An inquest was held in Johnson’s Bridge Hotel, Waipori, on Monday, before W. L. Simpson, Esq., coroner, on the body of Margaret Johnson, aged twenty months, daughter of Mr John Johnson, who met her death by drowning. From the evidence it seems that she, along with other children, were amusing themselves by throwing stones into the ■ aipori river, near to Wright’s slaughter yard. The child was in the act of tin-owing a very large stone into the river, and, overbalancing herself, fell into the river after it. There was a strop bank at the place where she fell in, so that the other children could not help the poor little thing, and she was carried slowly down the river, followed by a little boy aged six years called Smith. When about 50 yards from the spot where the child fell in, the the little boy managed to catch hold of her clothes and pulled her out, hut life was extinct. The jury returned a verdict of ‘‘ Accidentally drowned,” but wished it expressed that the boy Smith displayed great courage and presence of mind in pulling the deceased out of water.

Billiards with a Yengeaxce.— Whilst you have your Cook, Roberts, &c., in England, we have here a wonderful school of professors of the art of billiards. I was present the other evening at a seance given by M. Faure-Nicolay, who has several times played before the Emperor, or rather has knocked the balls about to amuse his M ajesty. M. Faure-Nicolay commenced his entertainment by playing all three balls from baulk, and lo ! after they had struck every cushion they cannoned. His powerful and his gentle mawc strokes (strokes made by staking down on top of the ball) were executed with marvellous dexterity and precision. The professor would either wm.s.-r back the whole length of the table, or man*' round a hat placed in the centre of the table. By this I mean that he would place the red and spot balls in the right hand top corner of the table, and playing from the left hand bottom corner would cannon by passing round the hat without touching a cushion. Some of these strokes require not only skill but force of wrist. Amongst the g -title mam; strokes I may describe the following : Draw a circle the size of the crown of your hat on the table with a bit of chalk, place the three balls in a line in the centre, and .playing with an outside ball cannon without any balls leaving the centre. M. FaureNicolay does this with the greatest ease, and strokes more wonderful still, which would be difficult to describe, and must be seen to be believed. He plays not only with a cue, but with his hands and even his nose ; and whether using cue, hands, or nose, the balls

appear to obey some irresistible force, to- bo under the most control. — Pari# Correspondent of Land and Water, of March, 1870. The Rev. Robert Scrimgeour will preach in St. Andrew’s Church, Melville Street, and at Gaversham, to-morrow at the usual hours. The Commercial Building and Mutual Investment Society will hold its fortnightly meetings for receiving subscriptions, kc.. on Monday evening at the offices of the Society from 0 to 8 o’clock. The evening classes at the Athemcum for the ensuing quarter will commence on Tuesday next, the 20th hist. The librarian will icceive the names of intending pupils and give such information as to hours of meeting, &c., as may be required.