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Evening Star, Issue 2825, 8 March 1872, Page 2

Tins Spurious Gold Manufacture!:. Kec Chang, who is wanted in Southland, is a passenger by the Wellington due here to-morrow. The Rangatira. — This vessel has been purchased by the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company for L6OOO. The company intend to reduce the passage-money, and to introduce a system of the passengers paying for meals on board. Lunedin Rifle Club. —Yery little business of interest to the public was transacted at last night’s meeting of the Council. A proposition to contribute a small sum towards the expense of maintaining the targets used in the matches, was entertained. It was also stated that there would be 75 competitors in to-morrow’s match. The Garrick Reefs.—A fortnight’s crushing from the Star of the East claim was finished on the 27th ult. One hundred and eighty tons of quartz yielded 216 ozs of retorted gold. The Elizabeth company finished a crushing of 77 toms at their own battery on the 2nd inst. The quantity of retorted gold obtained on cleaning up was 55 ozs 15 dwts, representing a yield of Hi dwts to the ton. Port Chalmers.—At the Police Court to-day, Sarah Ann White, a young woman of about seventeen years of age, was charged by the police with vagrancy. This being the third offence, the prisoner was sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment with hard labor, and she was this afternoon forwarded to the gaol at Dunedin, in charge of Constable Nichols, Mr T. Tayler was the presiding magistrate. Cricket.—The return match between the Albion and Citizens Clubs will be played to-morrow on the ground of the latter; wickets to be pitched at 1.30 p.m. sharp. The teams will be chosen from the following :—Albion : Little, Thomas, Kirk, Wells, Sutcliffe, Hutchinson, Payton, Brewer,? Muir, Grant, Thomson, Miller, and Peters. C.C.C. : Morrison, Cole, Aris, Clark, Geddes, Lambert, Watson, Glen, Ferguson, Pledger. West, M Millan, Marsdeu, Larkins, and Keys. The Volunteers. —The parade this morning was but poorly attended, only some forty rank and file turning out. The men were inarched to the Southern Recreation Ground, where they were put through several manoeuvres which were creditably performed. We were sorry to see so little interest manifested by the volunteers, who should turn out to a man on every possible occasion between this and the date of Col. Harrington’sjinspection: without this is done, it is hardly reasonable to expect that the force will pass through the inspection with anything like cicdit. We understand that the representatives of the Province at the colonial firing will leave by the Maori on the 28th inst. Choral Festival. —The Taieri Tonic Sol-fa Society gave their second annual choral festival in the drill-shed, Mosgiel, on the evening of Tuesday last; the Rev. Mr Will in the chair. The Society were assisted by the Dunedin Hanover street Church Choir —conductor, Mr Geo. Brownlee. The programme was a large and varied one, and consisted of solos, duetts, trios, quartettes, and choruses, which were well rendered. As the programme was unusually large, no encore was the rule; but when “ ,0 listen to the Cuckoo’s Song ” was sung, the audience would have it over again, which was done to the satisfaction of all. After a few re marks on singing and psalmody by the Rev. Messrs Will and Gillies, the evening’s entertainment was brought to a close by the company singing “God Save the Queen.” The house was well filled. Votes of thanks were passed to the chairman and singers. The Dunedin party were taken from and to Dunedin by Mr Iveson, and enjoyed themselves thoroughly on the way. A Man with a Weak Stomach.— The Rev. W. J. Watkin (of New Zealand) must be a man of weak stomach, to say nothing of his mind: at least so we should conceive from the fact that at a Wesleyan temperance meeting at Melbourne, lie is reported to have said “ He himself was a teetotaller. On one occasion he dined with a gentleman, who induced him, after the meal, to take a glass of beer. On his way home he lost his dinner. (Laughter.) He did not like emetics.

(Renewed laughter*)” The Auckland Herald commenting- on the above, says—- “ Melbourne audiences are evidently more keenly appreciative of wit than we, who fail to see an exciting cause for laughter in what appears to have been merely a vulgar description of a disagreeable’ personal peculiarity. It is well for the teetotal cause that some of its champions have better reasons for their advocacy than the fact that beer does not agree with their digestive organs. ” “ People I've Met With.”—A gatherer of grain statistics in the Province of Canterbury has communicated, under the above heading, some of his notes by the wayside to one of the Christchurch papers. The following is among his desci’iptions of the different classes of settlers upon whom he called—l go to another house. You can see at a glance money has been laid out : there are all sorts of exploded iron implements lying about, good gates with no binges, tied up with flax ; I stumble over a perambulator without a wheel, and s e the proprietor turning the corner. He is not as well dressed as when he first went on board ship, and a handsome gold watch and chain, with several charms and a loehet, are .the only reminiscences of the gentlemanly young swell who came out with money and no experience. To any inquiries, he says he really does not know. “Old !So and-so says there will be dO bushels, but you know I didn’t quite understand the machine. It had to go I o the blacksmiths, and while it was being repaired the winds blew a lot out.” He further tells me he thinks the country a d —d hole, and after harvest ho’ii sell out and go somewhere else. I condole wi .hj him. We talk, and I (in 1 that, while his brothers are doing weli at home, lie, tlie ne’er-do-well of the family, is performing penance out here for the sake of the rest. V. e imbibe, and leave him cutting up tobacco, and looking dreamily at me as I ride iway. The results of the examination for Provincial Scholarships will be announced in the University Hall to-morrow (Saturday), at noon. The Battery of the Dunedin Volunteer Artillery, will parade for gun drill tomorrow, at 3 p m. A committee meeting of the Saturday Half-holiday Association will be held in the Lower Hall, Athenreum, this evening at 7.33. The attention of Volunteers is directed to a General Order, which appears in our advertising columns to-day. The reserved portion of the township of Forbury will be offered for sale by Messrs Driver, Stewart, and Co. to-morrow. From the scarcity of freehold plots within a reasonable distance of the town, we apprehend tba'. these allotments will be keenly competed for. Judging from the price paid by the Corporation yesterday for a plot at the corner of Queen street and Forth place, namely L2do, it is clear that the City property is rapidly increasing in value.