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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2607, 26 June 1871, Page 2

Provincial Council.— The proceedings this afternoon were not of general interest. The Financial Statement will he to-night. Lecture. —Dr Carr’s lecture and entertainment held in Dodson’s Provincial Hotel ws we; attended. At the close of the entertainment some valuable prizes were distributed. On Dit.—We have been Informed that the Jewish Philantrppic Society of Otago are about to appeal to the public by .m an 3 of a concert on the 3rd pf August next. From the gratification experienced hy those who were present on tjie last occasion, yze feel po doubt that the call will be iibera'ly responded t q. Scarlet Fever.— Wg deeply r.ogret ,to have te announce that two deaths from scarlet fevpr have occurred >vjthin .the last fortnight near Port Chalmers, The deceased —Henry Chalker, aged seven years, and Sarah Chalker, aged four years—resided jyith %iir,mrents in Carey’s Bay. We also hear th.e,re are other cases in the borhoodDeputation.—This morning n,fc i 1 o’clock, a deputation consisting of Messrs Tewslay, Curie, Cameron and Chisholm, waited upon His Honor the Superintendent, on behalf of the inhabitants of Roslyn and Sunnyside, to press upon him the necessity for removing the stock sale yards at Kaiko?aj. The deputation were introduced by Messrs Barr and Cantrell, members of the Provincial Council. The deputation lepresented that on account'ofthe neighborly d having become so thickly pppuiatpdj the sale yards had become a serious nuisance, and should be removed. Bis Honor said he would consult the Commissioner of Police as to what was possible to be done. Perhaps the easiest way would be to agree to some compensation to the proprietors for their removal, but if no legal steps could be taken by which the nuisance could be gob rid of, a bill should bp introduced into the Council to meet that and similar cg-sps.

Another Royal Marriage,—An item of Court gossip has more interest for Australian readers than even the details of the betrothal of the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome. A letter published in the Loudon Press mentions that the ex-King of Hanover will visit London during the ensuing season, and that one of his daughters is to “ marry au English Royal Prince,” The letter does not giye the yaffle of the prospective bridegroom, but it is hardly pqsgible, if the gossip be true, that anyone else can b/i referred to than the Duke of Edinburgh, Any other union would be out of turn, and besides, Prince Arthur, the next of the Royal Family in order alter “our own Royal Duke,” has not yet arrived at man’s estate. And it is time Prince Alfred did “settle in life,” He wdll be twenty .-ftyc years of age next August, or four years older than his brother was at his marriage with the “ Sea King’s daughter from over the sea,” as Tennyson was pleased to describe the indubitably German Alexandra. A reference to tlm “Almanac de Gotha ” show's that there are two Hanoverian Princesses—the Princess Frederika, just twenty three years of age, and the Princess Marie, twenty-one. Which of them is destined for the Prince does not appear. Of one thing wc are sure, Australia will be ready, whenever the happy event occurs, with its congratulations. Daily Telegraph.

The City Youths’ Association will give a Popular Entertainment in Milton Hall, Stuart Street, to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at Eight. The University of Otago is announced to be opened on Wednesday, July sth. Intending students are requested to enter their names with Mr John Hislop, secretary.