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Evening Star, Issue 2945, 27 July 1872, Page 2

Water of Leith Bridge. —The City Council have agreed to comply with the request of residents at the Water of _Leith, to have the two lamps at this bridge lighted. Consular. —It is officially notified that the Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr Henry Houghton as consul for Otago, to reside at Dunedin, for His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, Princess Theatre. —The drama of “Bon Bolt” and the comic drama of “The Crown Prince” are to be played tonight. On Tuesday Mr J. S, Willis takes a benefit, when a good programme will be put forward.

Wheat Growing. Mr Samuel Pvamsden, the well-known miller of Melbourne, offers a prize of ESO for the best 200 bushels of wheat grown in the Colony next season, the wheat to be delivered in Melbourne.

Significant,—A member of one of the Oamaru mercantile firms informs the local paper that he a day or two ago exchanged a bag of wheat for a bag of coal. Cash and coal seem both alike scarce in that quarter.

Export of Gold. —The export of gold from Auckland for the half year ended 30th June last, as compared with the half year ended June. 1871, shows a decrease of 77,534 oz. ; Marlborough, an increase of 38 oz. ; Nelson, a decrease of 118 oz. ; Westland, a decrease of 483 oz. ; and Otago, an increase of 15,056 oz. The totals for the half years were—lß7l, 355,060 oz ; 1872, 287,672 ez, or a decrease of 67,388 oz. The Suez Service.—From a return issued by the General lb st Office, London, we learn that the amounts chargeable on the Australian Colonies and New Zealand on account of the Suez mail service, for the year ending 31st December, 1871, arc as follow : Victoria, L47J26: New South Wales, L 23,632 j South Australia, L 7,520 ; New Zealand, ' L 2,723 ; Tasmania, L 3,459 ; Queensland, L 10,720; Western Australia, L 1,271. The San Francisco Mail.— Mr J. A. Walcott, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has kindly placed the following telegram received by him fr.un the Postmaster General at our disposal: Mails have been sent on by the Wellington to-day, and will reach Port Chalmers early on Monday. Have arranged that the return mails will be brought by steamer to leave Port Chalmers on Thursday. The Nebraska could not go on, having no coal on board, and the Board of Health refusing to allow her to coal.”

Tnu Auckland Mining Swindles. —The Auckland correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay llera 1 d , writing of the Green Harp swindle, by which he believes the perpetrators have netted upwards of 1.50,000, says—“ There is every reason to believe the management of the Bismarck will also he brought to hook. Daring swindles have been perpetrated in Auckland—witness the Otago and other claims, whose erst managers walk our streets with impunity—hut for insolent effrontery we may vainly look for a parallel to the conduct of the individuals connected with the Green Harp and the Bismarck.”

The Ahmed Constabulahy.—The armed constabulary is not after all quite so “ demilitarised” a body as people have been led to believe. From a despatch from his Excellency tha Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, forwarded in March last, we learn that the Governor and the Defence Minister botli recommended that the officers of the armed constabulary should be p'aced upon the army list along with those of the militia and volunteer forces. His Excellency says :—“ I do rot know if the regulations will allow of their being included in the army list; but I am requested to state

that it will be satisfactory to the Colonial Government if this force cm be so recognised, as it is practically the standing and permanent armed force of the Colony, and perform military duties in garrisoning forts and redoubts and patrolling the border and districts—duties similar in fact to those which were performed by th • Cape mounted rifles and other colonial corps.”

PROPOSED PROVINCIAL Agricultural Snow.—A nutnb.r of gentlemen favorable to the establishment of a yearly agricultural show for the whole of the Province, met this afternoon at Wain’s Hotel, Manse street. Mr W. A. Tolmio presided, and there were present—from Blueskin, Messrs Green, Pitt, and Portsous; Mr Douglas, Waikouaiti; Mr Cunningham, Tokomairiro ; Messrs Praia and Allen, Taieri.— Mr Green explained that the idea originated with the gentlemen composing the Blueskin society, and the successful effect that was male to get the Council to vote LIOO towards, the expenses of a show, on the condition that it should bo a thoroughly Provincial affair. He hoped in time they would be able to make it something like the Highland Agricultural Society at home. He entirely repudiated the idea that the Blueskin Society wished to take any lead in the matter beyond what they had done, their obj ct being merely to get all the associations to combine together to hold a show that would be a credit to the Province.—The Chairman said they had had excellent shows in various localities as far as management was concerned, but the stock was not generally good, and there was a difficulty in providing judges, and the pr zes were not of that value they should be. He wished to have a show where it would be an honor to lake a prize. At Christ church they had had yearly two shows, and at one there were 700 exhibits and LOGO taken in shillings ; and if they could do that in a place not half the size of their own city, he contemplated great success in Dunedin, where he considered it would be advisable to hold the first show, lie mi'lit just mention that Mr Larnach had stated to him that he would allow the society to use Forbury Park for the occasion. —Mr Cnnnincham, Mr Prain, Mr Allan, Mr Dougla*, Mr lilt, and Mr Green made various suggestions; and ultimately the following in tion, moved by Mr Green and seconded by Mr Douglas, was put and ca rice! “ That a committee be formed, consisting of two representatives appointed by each of the associations at present in existence in the Province, with power to add to their number, so that the total number of said committee shall not exceed twenty in the aggregate.”- Mr Allan then proposed that their .next meeting should take place on Thursday fortnight; and votes of thanks were pissed to the gentlemen at Blueskin for the trouble they had taken in bringing the matter forward. The Tuapeka Railway.—One of the best and most influentially attended public meetings ever held in Lawrence took place on Monday evening. '1 he V’ayor, who presided, said that it had been known for some time past that there had been a movement for the construction of a line of railway from the Waipahec, via Tapanni, to Moa Flat. Hie promoters of the Waipahce line were men who had bought large blocks of land at a low rate, and they were now striving to get railways through their purchases, that they might enjoy princely estates. In order to do that, they wished to have the Tuapeka railway diverted from its proper course, and from a rich and populous district, through a district yet unpeopled. These men had sent up a petition to the Government, and he had discovered, though that gentleman was exceeclinly retjeenj; upon the subject, that Mr Millar, F.S. A,, had been sent; up to take a flying survey. He had it upon undoubted authority that the petition he had alluded to had had the effect of preventing the completion of the working plans of the line from Tokomairiro to Lawrence. Captain Fraser and Mr Anderson, of Cargill and Anderson, had gone up to Wellington to urge this Waipahee line, and they ivould bring powerful influences to bear to secure their end. A a to the merits of the two lines, tin re was no comparison. The Tuapeka line passed through admittedly the midst of the most settled and the most prosperous district in the Province—he might say in the Colony ; and by the statistics gathered it was proved that it would be one of the best paying lines in the Colony. His sugg'stion that a committee be formed to get up a petition, to be signed not only in the district, but in Dunedin, Tokomairiro, Tcviot, and other places, was adopted by the meeting.

Mr A, 11, Livingston will meet the electors of Bell Ward in Carroll’s Hibernian Hotel, George street, this evening at 7.30 Mr Walter will address the ratepayers of South Ward at Baxter’s Hotel, Maitland street, this evening at 7.30. Mr Walter’s committee rooms are opposite the Immigration Barracks. The third of the series of discourses on the “ Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures,” will bo delivered by the Bev Dr Coplaud, in the North Dunedin Presbyterian Church, tomorrow evening at half-past 6. Subject: “The Kvidcnce of Miracles ”

Mr James Brown will address the electors of South Ward at the Peacock Hotel, Princes street south, on Monday next at 8 p.m.

A musical soiree, to commemorate the anniversary of Court Pride of Dunedin, will take place in St. George’s Hall on Monday evening next. Tea on the table at 7 o’clock ; dancing to commence at 10.30. A good programme has been proposed ; and as several well-known amateurs —including Mr Westropp—have volunteered their services, a good evening’s amusement may be anticipated. ________