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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2668, 5 September 1871, Page 2

A. Sm as it.—Owing to tlie restlveness of the horse, a dray was backed into the shop-window of Mr Hislop, Princes street, this morning ; tho consequence being that a large plate-glass window and some jewellery were destroyed. Princess Theatre, —An entertainment is to be given this evening for the benefit of Mr Hesford ; the entertainment is a varied one, consisting of dancing and singing, and a farce in which Messrs. Musgrave, Whitworth, Hesford, and others will appear. La petite, Amy will also make her debut in tho “ Barmaid of the period.” Decidedly Clever. —At the trial of a civil case at the R.M. Court, Kaiapoi, last week, one of the witnesses said, in cross-exa-mination, that he first undertook tho practice of a veterinary surgeon when he was two years old I The examining counsel (Mr Garrick) did not put any more question®, observing i hat ho was satisfied that the witness s experience must have been vast. Supreme Court.—The trial of Regina v. Keichelt was continued to-day. The principal witnesses examined wore Y m. Noonan, shopman to the accused, who was uuder examination for two and a half hours; Mis Howard, Lydia Perkins, late servant to Mrs Howard, and Leslie Charles. As nothing new wrs elicited, we refrain from giving their evidence, which was fully rel orted at the two preliminary inquiries. The Provincial Council. —We have received of Messrs Mills, Dick, and Lister, a sheet Imperial size of drawing paper, containing lithographic portraits of the members of the Provincial Council. On the| whole, they are most spirited and faithful likenesses, and reflect great credit upon both artist and lithographers. member of the Council, anti every politician will be glad to po'sess copies of perhaps the best Provincial Council of Otago, New Zealand Cross. —The New Zealand Cross, for acts of valour or decorative distinction, for equal acta of gallantry recommended by the Commissioners in the Colony, and approved by the Home Government, is a silver Maltese Cross, with a six pointed gold star on each arm, with the words “ New Zealand ” round the centre, enriched by a gold laurel wreath, the cross to he surmounted by a gold cross and attached to a crimson riband by a silver bar and ring* For additional acts of. braver/ or devot’ou a silver bar is to be added across the riband, having a plain surface burnished and inscribe V with the date of the occurrence for which the bar is given, and ths name of the action, if any. Death to Provincialism.— Tuapeka does not stand alone in trying to do away with Provincialism. The feeling against the present state of things is as strong in the Wakatip district, where a movement in favor of shire councils is extending daily. In advocating the appointment of a board similar to the Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works, the Mail remarks “As our present Provincial Cabinet treats municipal representations about roads so cavalierly, it would be the duty of such a Board, when established, to demand justice for the past, as well as a refund of the moneys lavished upon Dnncdin: and an endowment commensurate with the importance of the district. To appeal to the Provincial Government —bankrupt afit i», and unable to pay its officers’ salaries—would be time thrown away, and a useless mode of procedure besides. Let us at once appeal to tho General Assembly. That appeal, we predict, will not he in vain, ami it oould not be made at a more appropriae time than the present. Every circumstance would favor it. The movement could be carried out in three weeks, and should not be delayed later, to be effective." The Annual General Meeting of the Citizen’s Cricket Club will be held at Watson’s Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, Cth inst., at 8 p.m. A general meeting of the members of the Otago Licensed Victual! era* Association, will be held at tho Fire Brigade Rooms this evening at 7.30. A full attendance requested. The animal general meeting of the Otago Meat Preserving Company (limited), will bo held at the offices of tho Company, Princes street, to morrow (Wednesday), at 2.30 p.m. The Rev. W. J. Habons, 8.A., will deliver a lecture under the auspices of the Dunedin Abstainers’ Union, at the Congregational hall, Moray Place, to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at 8 o’clock. Subject, ‘•Education.” Mr John Cargill announces his intention to address the electors of Roslyn this (Tuesday) evening, at the North-East Valley Sclioolhousc, at 7 o’clock ; and tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, at the Drill Shed, Kaikovai, at (he same hour. An inaugural lecture iu connection with the Knox Church Young Men’s Society, will he delivered by Mr Robert Gillies, iu the class room of tho Church to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at 7.30. Subject, “There’s Pippins and Cheese to come,” having a bearing in the early history of Oiago.