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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2656, 22 August 1871, Page 2

Princess Theatre. Miss J emne Nye will take a benefit this evening. The S -amine is as follows :‘ ‘ The Ladies ,” Miss Jenny Nye in the chair ; after this there yvill be a "Grand Interlude,” and the performance will conclude with the burlesque of "Kenilworth,” to include the whole strength of the company. Misi Jennie Nye is so great a favorite that a full house may be confidently looked for. Early Closing.—A meeting of the principal sbopkeoj ers and tradesmen of Port Chalmers was held last week to take into consideration the advisability of furthering the eirly closing movement, and the result was that a resolution was passed, that until further notice (Saturday’s excepted) that the shops be closed at 7 o’clock in the evening. This resolution was carried into effect last evening by the shops closing at the time specified.

Athenaeum. — By the Suez Mail this Institute has received, besides the usual supply of magazines, the following new works : “The Great French Revolution-,” 3 vols, by MM. Erchmann Ghatrlan, also the following books by the same authors. “The Forest House,” and “ Madame Therese.” “The Shoemaker’s Village,” by Henry Holbeach, 2 vols, “ Proportional Representation, ”by Walter Baily. “ Utilization of the Criminal Classes,” by C. P. Measor. “ Truth versus Edification,” by W. R, Greg. “ Cooperation in Rochdale,” by J. G, Holyoake. “ Unionism,” by James Stirling. There is also a parcel of books coining by the “ Otago.” Heligoland.— As the public mind is naturally anxious about the relations between England and Germany, the following paragraph from the European Mail will be interesting. Of course as San Francisco news will bo later than this, something may have passed on the subject, though we think it not likely. In the House of Commons on the 6th June Sir J. Hay :It will be in the recollection of the House that at the time the negotiations of the treaty of peace between France and Germany were proceeding it was asserted in the newspapers that Pondicherry was about to be claimed by Germany, with a view to its being exchanged with England for Heligoland. Again, within the past few days the German newspapers, some of them well-informed, have asserted that arrangements are in contemplation by which Heligoland would be ceded by this country to Germany. In consequence of the-e rumors I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will inform the House whether there is any foundation for the statement that proposals have been made in regaixj to a cession of Heligoland ; and if so, whether Her Majesty’s Government have given these proposals any consideration. Lord Enfield ;1 am able to inform the lion, and gallant gentleman, in reply to his question, that no proposal has been made for the cession of Heligoland to Germany, and that no correspondence has passed on the subject.

The Bendigo Reeks. —A correspondent of the Dumtan Timts writes as follows :—At Bendigo a more healthy state of things exists than 1 have noticed for some length of time past. The Bendigo Company and the Colclough Company (.Registered,) are both in full swing, getting out stone and crushing. The Golden Link, a piece of spare ground between the Bendigo Company’s two leases, is in full work, and raising first class stone, I mean up to the average, if not better than usual. This claim is ijow one hundred and forty feet deep, and has the reef at that depth four feet six inches thick. A whim and also a whip have lately been erected to bring the stone and mulloch to the surface, 'The great saving effected in both labor and time is found to be a great improvement on the old and primitive windlass hitherto used. Of the Bendigo Company from the Western Lca-e they are raising stone, and are at the present time engaged crushing it. On-thc Eastern Lease a shaft is being sunk for the reef, a depth of about one hundred and twenty feet has been reached ; but, on account of the extreme hardness of the ground, no great headway is made. The Aurora Company tributors have knocked off for a time all the work on the reef. They have been engaged duripg the winter in sinking a shaft in the tunnel, at about one hundred and ten feet from the surface tliey struck a good-sized leader of bluish quartz but not gold-bearing where touched. All hands, now that the frost is out of the ground, are getting qii with the construction of a water race across BepdigP Culjy, which are known to be rich. The Alta Company, from its altitude, has been for the past three months in statu <jao. The legal manager visited the ground on Tuesday, and made arrangements for a start to be made at an early date. After machines and water races have lain idle for any length of time a thorough overhaul is necessary. This will be effected in the course of a week, when the work of disintegration will be proceeded with. There are about two hundred tons of stone already broken down, and I r> ckon fully three or four hundred more in sight. All those who knows the Company’ ground are sanguine that it will, in the long run, turn out one of the best properties in Bendigo. Higher up the range than the Alta the Rise and Shine Sluicing Company are located, and doing remarkably well. This Company discovered a reef some few weeks back close to their workings. At the time

quite a sensation was created, but from the fact of not having heard anything about it lately, I surmise it is not “ all thar.” The Thompson’s Gully quartz reef is held in very high estimation by those interested in it ; but up to the present time, for the want of the needful, not a great deal has been done. There is only one claim besides the prospectors’ as yet taken up on which a shaft is being sunk by contract. Whether anything has been struck I do not know, but there is not a second question, if there is any prospect, the esvners (among whom is Mr W. Greenback) will test it thoroughly. There is a faint rumour of t!ie prospecting claim being purchased by a Dunedin iirm. If so, something will be done to test its worth. There are a good few strugglcrs throughout the district, and I do not hear of any who are not making wages. I don’t desire that a rush should set in, but I must say that I think there is room for a few good, hardworking, steady men, who have a knowledge of quartz reeling.

A Lecture under the auspices of First Church Young Men's Christian Association will be delivered by Mr. R. A. Lawson to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at 7.30 in the hall bcl>w the church. Subject, “ Chinese systems and religion.”