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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2653, 18 August 1871, Page 2

Supreme Court.— -The Court Avas occupied the Avhole of to-day in hearing evidence in the case of Calcutt v. Campbell and others.

Stone Throwing.—The nuisance of stone-throwing is becoming intolerable. A lad Avas brought before the Mayor to day charged Avilh damaging the market-house-, and could the offence have been distinctly brought home to him, he would have been punished. The authorities very properly arc determined to put so dangerous a practice doAvn, and Avill punish anyone severely on conviction.

Congregational.— The Rev. James Maxwell, from Sydney, who has come to take the spiritual ch \rgo of the Congregational Church at Port Chalmers, was a passenger by the Gothcnburgh this morning. On the arrival of the steamers the rev. gentleman Avas met by the office bearers of the Church, and accorded an hearty welcome.

Princess Theatre. Mv Wolfe’s benefit last night was not well attended, no doubt in great measure attributable to the inclement weather. After the first act of “ Hamlet,” the sterling old farce of “liaising the Wind” followed, in which Mr Wolfe played Jeremy Diddler with great success, being well supported by Miss Matthews and Mr Musgrave. Mr Percival then sang a national song, which he did so well as to demand an encore, for which he substituted “ The Heath of Nelson.” After this, Mr Wolfe recited “The Charge of the Light Brigade ”in a masterly manner. The performance concluded with the burlesque of “ Beautiful Haidee,” in. which all the characters having “ nigger ” faces, a most comical effect was produced. The programme for this evening is a “Quiet Family,” “Raising the Wind,” and “Beautiful Haidee,"

The Tichborne Case.—“ iEgles” appears to think that the the plaintiff in the Tichborne case is an imposter. He writes : —“ 1 talked to-day with an acquaintence of Tom Castro, who claims to be Sir Roger Tichborne. This gentleman says that be never met a more stolid, ignorant, and unromantic person than the claimant. He was in the neighbourhood when Castro was married, and in such straitened circumstances was the bridegroom, that the happy pair spent their honeymoon in the open bush, with no statelier shelter than a sheet of bark. One of Henry Kingsley’s fictions contains many points of resemblance, and I thinK its publication preceded Mr Castro’s first request to be admitted into the bosom of the Tichborne family, and L2OO down. It is preposterous to suppose that a man picked up from an open boat at sea could quite forget the name of the ship that rescued him, the name of the captain, or that the shipping records of the port of Melbourne should he entirely silent as to any ship arriving reporting such an occurrence. Native Intelligence.—The Hawke’s Bay Herald of the 7th saj's :—Ropata and Captain Porter arrived in Napier yesterday, from Poverty Bay, by the s.s, Napier. We learn that the men, during the late expedition, suffered very severely from cold, their limbs in some cases, being so swollen as to render them incapable of travelling. There have been one of two instances also of freezing to death. About the 20tb ult., two men left the camp in search of food ; while at some distance from home they disagreed and took different tracks, and one of them has not been heard of since. In another case a man, who likewise had been out searching for food, was found after four days stark and stiff, reclining on the fork of a tree. Efforts were made to revive him, but in vain. Apiata. one of the prisoners recently captured, has been with Te Kooti ever since his escape from the Chatham Islands. Ropata, on hearing of the report that he had joined Te Kooti, remarked that the man who invented and the editor who inserted it, should he placed in confinement together as lunatics. The Educational System. The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of Catholics at Lawrence a couple of days ago : by the wisdom of their church, and in obedience to the dictates of their own consciences, consider that the education of their children is likely to he greatly endanger, d by their attendance at schools where their religion is not taught; and, therefore, believing that sound religious training is vastly more important than any other worldly advantages, they decline to permit their children .to be educated at the secular schools as constituted in this province.” “That the Roman Catholics of Otago, contributing equally with their fellow citizens in the revenues of Otago, and being equally interested in its welfare, think that they are equally with their fellow citizens entitled to the benefits of protection and aid from the State ; and that the Government of Otago when they, hacked by another religious denomination more powerful in number and wealth, refuse aid to Roman Catholic schools, ungenerously take advantage of our weakness, and by this illiberal conduct present a very unflattering contrast with the conduct of other more liberal, just, and generous governments.”

We remind our readers that the concert in aid of the widow and orphans of the late John Craigie, who was recently drowned in the river, takes place at the Masonic Hall this evening. An excellent programme has, we are informed, been prepared; and we

trust the public will warmly respond to the appeal thus made, and assist in this truly charitable object.