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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2357, 21 October 1870, Page 2

Journalistic. —Mr J. C. Brown has become part proprietor of the Tuapeka Times. The English Mail.—The Phoebe had not arrived at Lyttelton up to the hour of our going to press. She is to leave that port within a couple of hours after her arrival th re, so that she may be reasonably expected to reach Port Chalmers to-morrow evening. Yachting. — The yachting season will be formerly opened to-morrow afternoon by a cruise by the fleet of the Otago Yacht Club, under the command of the commodore, Mr C. H. Street. The yachts will start from Pelichet Bay at half-past two o’clock, and, passing round by the town jetty, sail over the usual racing course back to the starting point. Culture op the Tea Plant.—The local paper says:—“ One of our Mongolian brethren living in Tuapeka is prepared to grow the tea tree, and make a marketable commodity of it if any encouragement is given to him by tbo Government or any capitalist. He believes the Dnnstan climate and soil well suited for the cultivation of the tea tree: The introduction of such an industry into Otago is worthy the consideration of the Government.”

Princess Theatre. —It is gratifying to note that the public are begiuing to appreciate the efforts of the new management to provide them wholesome amusement. There was a tolerably large attendance last even ng when the “Marble Heart” was presented for the first time. We need only state that the several parts were excellently represented, and that the whole piece went smoothly and was well received- Several of the artist were honored with calls before the curtain during the evening. The afterpiece, “The Captain’s not a-Miss,” kept the house in a roar. We notice that the same pieces will bo repeated this evening.

Accident. —Lust evening a fortunate escape from injury through accident occurred. A cab was conveying a lady and gentlemen towards town along George street, when the horse stumbled over a fire plug, n>ar Albany street, and fell, breaking a shaft of the cab, and throwing the passengers into the street. The lady fortunately recovered herself almost immediately, for she fell in such a po-ition that she was in danger through the violent plunging of the horse, of being or run over by the wheels of the cab. The gentlemen was uninjured. No blame is attributed to the driver, who did his best under the circumstances.

Supreme Court. —The trial of the Anderson v. Burke was continued to-day. The examination of the plaintiff concluded a little after three o’clock, after which the witness Gray was recalled, and examined as well as Mr Martin, ledger keeper at the Union Bank The Court adjourned at five minutes past four until Monday. On the jury returning after the recess, they presented a memorial to the Judge, asking for further payment, and the matter was taken into consideration, but no decision given. Plaintiff and defendant both agreed that a farther allowance should be made ; but it appears that in a similar case at Mel : bourne —Glass v Martin (W\ Webb and A’Beckett, vol. 3)— the principle that special jurymen can he subsidised was not allowed. The New Zealand Jury Act is specific op this point. It is not lawful to pass any further fee than that provided for iin the Act.

Mvsterjious Case.—-A Clyde -telegram, dated the 19th instant, appears in yesterday's Twpeka Times:— 1 - 1 A very mysterious case has occurred at Drybread, near Blacks. A miner, on his rot urn home on Saturday last, found his wife in apparent pain and distress. She said she had been confined of a child, which \ras then lying at. her side, dead.. It has since been ascertained that the child D jtfle same one upon whom a • coroner's inquest was hejd in August last by j Warden Vincent Pyke, it Having b#e£ found dead in bed by its mother's side, who resides , near the other woman at Drybread. The grave has been examined, and the body of •the .child is missing. Strange to say, the real mother of the child was found dead in bed last night. An invcsligatipu will be : made to-morrow.” We imagine ou,r con-, temporary h,as been jnade the subject of an incredible hoax.

Another Busfj, reached us of a new rush ground at the foot of the Lammerlaw Haugc, situated on Gardener’s track between the Waipori River and the Little Beaumont, about eight miles from Gardener’s home station, and about 1G miles from Wetherstones on the Waipori road till about half a mile past Lane’s hut, the traveller then turns to tho left, and proceeds for another three-quarters of a mile, when Um flagstaff is reached. He tlun takes the right-hand track and keeps that track for ten miles, \vhcn he reaches tho diggings. At present, our informant states, there are about thirty men at work on the ground. It is only about three weeks since that number arrived. One part> have struck a spur on the Waipori Rivei’, and are cutting a tail race for sluicing purposes. They are all very sanguine of success, and our informant and party hope, to be able to tell us of some very good resu’ts. Our informant also states that the land in the vicinity is of a very superior quality for agricultural purposes. —Tvapeka Times. Bismarck on England.—lt is very difficult to understand the tone of Count Von Bismark towards Great Britain. He is, to begin with, very angry because we export horses, coals, and cartridges to France, and demands that we put a stop to those breaches of neutrality. Coals we cannot atop, as they are protected by treaty ; but we have stopped their departure in English storeabips, declaring them in that case contraband of war. Cartridges we can stop, though only bv prerogative, and wo hope we shall; and horses we cannot stop at all. We might as well stop sheep because mutton helps to make French soldiers capable of endurance. All this is very natural, as belligerents always neutrals secret enemies; but what does Count vqii Bismarck think to gain

by calling Englishmen old women, taunting us with cowardice, and prophesying our subjugation, all which’ things-he does in the Oorrespondezl Doss ho think Englishmen aro Continentals, to bo driven into a duel by a few hard words ? If he does, he totally mistakes the character of the national pride. If the whole world abuses us, we shall tranquilly condemn the stupidity of the whole world, dr is he preparing a state of feeling in Germany which will enable him when the war is over to set England at defiance ?

Lecture. A lecture, entitled “Genesis ud Geology,” was given last night by the Rev A. Reid, in the hall of the Wesleyan Chu’ch, under the auspices of the Stuart street Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association : Mr G. M. Brodie in the chair. The rev. lecturer, in introducing the subject, said it was generally believed, until about 70 or 80 years ago, that the earth was made in six days, of twentyfour hours each, and that the various evidences of fossils and water-marks in places where no water is at the present, were the proofs of the Noachian deluge. But when geology became a science, it was found that this position was no longer tenable; and when it was asserted the earth had probably taken millions of years to arrive at its present state, theologians were disturbed in mind, and infidels were in _ extacies, until Chalmers arose and pointed out the plain fact that the Bible did not fix the date of the creation. And (said the lecturer) when we review the number of different theories which have been built upon this science, it would be better still to wait for their solution, knowing that the statements on the rocks are by the same author as the Bible. And he would impress upon the mind's of pastors, teachers, and parents the advisability of teaching the youths such sciences as these: The lecturer then gave a description of the different systems from granite upwards, in which he seemed to bo quite at homo, describing graphically, and to the amusement of the .audience, the shapes and sizes of the animals, whose fossil remains are to be found in the different strata of the earth’s crust. Respecting Genesis, his own opinion inclined from Hugh Miller’s to that of Chalmers, Hickson, Archdeacon Pratt, Sir R. Murchison, and others, that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, but that before man was placed upon it, it was renovated in six days . A vote of thanks was then proposed for the lecturer by Mr AY. H. Neale, and carried by acclamation ; as also was one to the chairman. The proceedings then terminated.

The North Dunedin Rifle Company give their annual hall at their drill-shed on Friday evening next. Previous balls under the auspices of this Company have been both enjoyable and successful, and the names of the stewards furnish a guarantee that the forthcoming one will be no exception to the rule.