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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2495, 14 February 1871, Page 2

Appeals against the City Rates.— Thirty-one appeals were heard against the City assessment, before I. N. Watt, Lsq., E.M., this morning, at the Magistrates ('oin’t. Four assessments were reduced in small amounts, and twenty-seven sustained. Eating Tutu.— lntelligence reached Invercargill on Thursday that a man, whose name has not yet been ascertained, had died from the effects of eating the tutu at a place called the 'oily Waggoners’ accommodation house, the previous evening. Accident. — A boy named Thomas Yates, aged 14 years, had his shin bone fracLnred°ycsterday afternoon. He was receiving “a lift” on a dray laden with wool, and when in Princes street cutting endeavored to get down frnn off the wheel while the dray was iu motion, his feet being caught in the spokes. He was at once iomoved to the Hospital. Like A ssu ras(! k. —A ii ad vortiseinent appears in another column calling attention to a Future on Life Assurance, to bo delivered to-morrow evening at the Masonic Hall. Mr Short, the lecturer, is spoken of in laudatory terms by the Australian press generally. ' From the Christchurch papers wo loam that his lecture iu that place was very numerously attended, and resulted in a very large number of applications for life assurance being made to the office with which Mr Short is connected. Wo anticipate that the lecture to-morrow evening will prove not only instructive, but intere-ting and amusing. Wo obse vo that the attendance of ladies is specially reipie-tod. Princess Theatric. There was a large gathering at the Princess r J heal re last night to greet the now management, and the drama of “ Mover Too Late to Mend met with unqualified success, if three separate and distinct calls for the performers can bo taken as a criterion. The drama being a tolerably faithful copy of the novel of the same name, docs not call for further description, the burden falling upon Tom Robinson (Mr Lawrence), Isaac bovi (Mr Musgrave), Meadows (Mr Collier), and Peter Crawley (Mr Hill), was sirs'ained by those gentlemen respectively with ease and ability. Miss Carry George played Susan Mart m, and looked very pretty, and nothing further can be accomplished by any lady who assumes the rol‘ J of that inane young per,-on. Miss Marion Willis played Josephs with taste and feeling. At the conclusion of the play Mr Lawrence addressed the audience iu a few words, thanking them for their attendance, with the promise to provide for their entertainment a series of comedies, “ faithfully reproduced, carefully acted, ami properly mounted.” As a prologue, M. Meury favored the audience with the beautiful overture to “ jNabucodouosor” (Verdi).

The attention, of A olunteei'S is directed to the general orders which appear in another column.

A SPECIAL meeting of the Otago Ot.go Licensed Victuallers Association will take place at the Lire brigade Hal 1 , this (Tuesday) evening, at eight o’clock,