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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2533, 30 March 1871, Page 2

Telegraphic. —A station has been opened at Leithlicld, in the Province of Canterbury, It eg in a v. Baiitux. —These cases were brought te a close this morning, when Mr Mcassey addre-sed the Court for the defence. His speech occupied about two hours and a half. At the close, his orship committed the defendant on both charges, and re jiiirod him to appear at the scs-.io i of the Supreme Court on his owu recognisances.

Princess Theatre,—A very large attendance greeted the “ Lancashire Lass ” on her final appearance last night. The ■“ Octoroon ” is anno mice 1 for this evening It is now a considerable time since this drama was played in Dunedin; in many respects, therefore, it may he regarded as a new piece, and no doubt the managennnt will he recompensed for the care and atc'-ii-tion that have been bestowed, as wo are informed, on its production. The Census. —The results of the census taken on the 28th February cannot he definitely known for a week or two ; but Ids Excellency the G-..vernor, in replying to an address by the Oamani Corporation—and there can lie no doubt he spoke from ollicial knowledge—puts the number of the population of the Province, which will include .Southland, dov, n at ThOOt), When the last census was taken in ISG7- the popula'mn of Ota.o a d Southland was 56,521; so that the increase has hien at the rate of a little more than 3,000 a year. Extraordinary Advertisement.— The following advertisement appeals in a late Auckland evening paper : The proprietor of a small retail butchering establishment requires the services of a gentlemanly voting man, where an uncomfortable home would lie sufficient remuneration for Ills services. Must be a first-class shopman; slow at accounts ; good collector indispensah’c. Also, look after shipping; act a* waterman, Ac. Must lie staunch in harness, as he will occasionally yoked in the handcart. Not to object to petticoat-government. Must not understand foreign language.— Address, (nelosing testimonials, to Alberta, 24, Post-oflic'.*. ” The Descriptive.—llnder thn title “Marriage of an Anslrnrian millionaire''— Australia being supposed to bo one colony by many, notwithstanding the five coloni into which the Australian continent is divided, and the 1,100 miles of tea which intervene? hetwc; n New Zealand and that continent--the European Moil conics a descripth n of the marriage of this gentleman, which was celebrated in that temple of matrimonial fashion, Bt. George’s, Hanover square. Apparently the pink of ‘Jenkinses ’ must have furnished the description, for nothing escapes his vigilant eye and car, from the thirtythree years advance of the bridegroom to the bride’s ‘ magnificent scent bottle,’ or the youthful appearance of the bride’s mother ; and ‘the beautiful hat’ of Mrs Bddick: and the brown silk of the ‘charming Airs Durrani.’

Fatal Accident. We regret to have to record a fatal accident which resulted in the death of a boy named James Richard Ryan, aged 10 years, the son of James Ryan, Flag Swamp, on Sunday last, the 26th iust. 1 rom what we can learn, the boy accompanied his father and a other person in a dray to the mouth of Pleasant River (for what purpose wo do not know), and they afterwards embarked in a bout. The surf being high at the time the boat capsized and the occupants were thrown into the water. The boy and bis fath r dune to the boat, but the former becoming

exhausted, sank; the father, stronger and more enduring.-managed to rea'-h the shore. The other man appears to have looked atter himself, and succeeded in swimming ashore. \Vc are informed that the boy was in delicate health, and that his father took him out, thinking a change would prove bcnificial to him—an experiment every one vvid regret proved fatal. District Court for Oamauu. —The local paper advocates the establishment of a Circuit Court. It says the inconvenience and loss arising from the inhabitants of the district having to go to Dunedin whenever a criminal case is r.mittel from the lower to the ' upremc Court, is almost beyond estimate ; from this cause many criminals escape punishment, din the matter of bankruptcy many tstates are sequestrated by dishonest traders, with the full knowledge that the expenses attending a fu.T investigation are so enormous that creditors ane almost prohibited from opposing. Timaru is a smaller and less populous distiict than this, yet it habits Circuit Court and Resident Judge. M'hy should not Oamaru bo placed on a like footing wifh it '! This is a matter which fhould receive immediate attention : let a petition be drawn up and numerously signed in favor of this, and our representatives request-. d to support its prayer, and wo nave la;ill that the Go cal Government "ill giant it. Tun VOLUNTEER REPRESENTATIVES. _lVc are afraid that if the feting wi-h which our representative mark-men have “been-in-dulged at Auckland and Napur is to he coutiuu d at each port touch-, d at on the way Mouth, anything done here, except on a large scale, will suffer dy comparison, to sai the very least In .Auckland the Volunteers were perfectly lionised—a Southern repre--eutauve has been the ‘'hero of the hour ”in that Ihowuco. Tim following private telegram gives a hotter indb.-aton than our own one of the reception they received at hapier “ The Luna arrived at thr.-o o’clock. “I he cavalry, arii lory, and rifles, with two l auds, met the rtp esentatives, and played them to town AH hands were driven to Bakowbai a al Taraha’s pdis and to Moanee ; lun luioa being p ovid d on the way. In the evening they were entertub e I at dinner •at the < hld'ollo.v-.’ hall ; and at midii gut the bands played them down to the st-amcr at the spit.” We hear the rci ivsentati ivs a"e to receive a puolic reception at Wellington.

A meeting of directors of the Caledonian So.-.ie.ty wid be held at Wain’* Hotel to-morrow { Friday) eviiiing, at eight o’clock.