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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2303, 23 September 1870, Page 2

Political. Mr Macandrew addresses his constituents at Ilaldutha on Friday evening, the 30th instant. Dinner to the Superintendent,— The public dinner to his Honor the Superintendent, in recognition of his services to the Province, takes place at Wain’s Hotel, this evening. His Worship the Mayor will occupy the chair. Masonic Hall. Mr and Mrs T. White have announced their intention to give a concert (vocal and instrumental) at the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening next. Theatrical. —Tire company for the Princess Theatre are to come down in the Gothenburg, which is due here on Thursday next. Every effort will be made to commence the season on the Ist proximo. The

theatre is now undergoing alterations which cannt fail to be conducive to the comfort of visitors. The Incoming Mail—The next mail via Suez is due at Melbourne on the 29th instanl. The boat which is to bring it from Galle is the same that Ins arrived at Me'bourne on two late occasions three days before its due date. It i s not at all unlikely, therefore, that it will reach Melbourne on the 26th instant. The Gothenburg is announced to sail on the 24th, but would, in all probability leave the day following, so it is just possible she will bring on the telegraphic news. The Tararua will bring down the New Zealand portion of the mail, and is to leave within 15 hours after the arrival of the mail steamer in Hobson’s Bay,

Hydraulic; Lift.—Tho first hydraulic lift constructed in Dunedin—we believe the first in the Colony -was tried this afternoon, in the presence of several gentlemen, at Mr M‘Kcrrasa’s Bond, in Bond street. It was made by Messrs Kincaid and M Queen, from drawings, and under the direction of Mr Blair, C.E.) Messrs Park and Curie supplied the p’pes and valves, and the wa’e; is supplied for working by the Dunedin Water Works Company. G'ko trial was made by putting into the cage a ton of salt, which was raised from the truck to the upper story of the Bond in a’ out eleven seconds. More than six-horse power was necessary to do this, the height being about 16 feet, and the weight of the cage must he added to that of the salt. The cylinder is 8J inches in diameter, and the stroke S feet. By the arrangement of the pully the weight is raised 16 feet.

Mining Intelligence.— Some of the claims in the vicinity of Waitalmna are doing well. One party there, for instance, who held a five acre claim, obtained lOozs of gold as the result of one paddock’s stripping, for the week’s w'ork. A quartz reef has been discovered in Long Gully between D.wo’s Folly and the Canada reef, about three mih 8 from Waitalmna. Cameron and Forsyth are the names of the miners who made this rich discovery, and .arc the same persons who found a beautiful specimen of (juartz a week past in the gully referred to, which specimen when crushed by Mr Turnbull, banker, yielded sozs of g Id. These miners, avc are informed, have taken up a two acre claim, and registered the reef. In the immediate neighborhood of the reef, and embraced within their claim, is a beautiful red cement, not very hard, and showing every sign of a good paying prospect. ■ ? France.— The Paris correspondent of the London TcJcyraph says:—“lt may not be out of season just hoav to recall to your memory a remark made by King William two years ago at Hamburg, to a person with whom lie was conversing upon the favorite topic of an eventual Avar betAveeu France and Prussia, 'For my part,’ sa’d his Majesty, ‘ I have no desire Avhatevcr for war Avith France, so long as the French Avill not interfere with us in the performance of our great mission—the consolidation of Germany. Hut if it should ever be necessary to fight France in my time, avc shall not beat about the bush, or act upon the defensive. The first battle will not be fought on Prussian ground— avc shall .attack with all ourstrength, and in the direction of Paris! ”

A Prophetic Picture. — Cornelius O’Dowd, in a paper in Blnchvnotl of May last, about a month before the declaration of war, has the following sentences : —“ ihe most careless reader of his newspaper cannot fail to see that the present condition fail to see that the present condition of Europe is far from settled; that the vast changes called into existence by late wars have not yet resolved themselves in‘o finality ; and if we are not at this moment spectators of a great war on the continent, it is simply because they who should stand out as adversaries have not been .able to consolidate the alliance on which they might rely in the day of a reverse. France and Prussia arc angling with the same bait; and, even up to this, Russia and Aus J r a, and even Italy, are reluctant to pledge themselves with either. Now so linked arc the fortunes of each state of Europe with the other, that no movement can take place in one without correspondin’,' changes elsewhere. The uprising of France will threaten the independence of Belgium, the safety of Northern Germany, the Rhino border and the small state contiguous to it—not to speak of Italy, which may become either ally or enemy, as the French determine by their occupation of, or departure from Rome. The movement of Russia implies the re-opening of the Eastern Question —that is, the actual existence of Turkey.” We can only hope that the picture may not come true in all its details.

It will be seen that the drawing at Messrs Steel and Wate s, for Carl Werner’s chromo lithographs of the Holy Land, will t ke place on Monday." We believe there are still two or three shapes not taken up ; but as the prizes are rare and valuable, it is not likely that the opportunity will be lost of obtaining some of these beautiful works of art.