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Evening Star, Issue 2964, 19 August 1872, Page 2

Concert. —The concert at Blueskin on Friday evening in aid of Robert Sutherland, whose right arm had been severely injured by a scutching machine at the Blueskin Flax Mills, was highly successful, and about L4O were realised.

Princess Theatre. —“A Dead Shot” was played on Saturday evening to a good house. The Japanese performed several new tricks, the ladder trick equalling if not exceeding AH Right’s pedestal trick for daring. The same programme will be repeated to-night. Political Gossip. —lt is rumored in political circles in Wellington, that in the event of the Ministry being defeated, a new Government would be formed, with Sir David Monro as Premier, Mr Stafford, Colonial Secretary ; Mr Fitzherbert, Trea surer; Mr Curtis, Commissioner of <’ustoms ; and Mr Gillies, Native and Defence Minister.

The Oaruick Range Discovery.--The Dunstan Times learns on good authority that the lode of mineral discovered at the Carrick Range and noticed in our last issue, is antimony. At the present time with the appliances at command, and the many diflieulties to be overcome in working a lode of the descriptions it .understands it will not pay to work. A Maori Member on Marriage.— In the debate on the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, Mr Tairoa, one of the Maori members, suggested reform in a new direction In his opinion it was absurd to wait till the death of a wife to marry her sister—the Maori custom was infinitely preferable ; he failed to see why honorable members should not have half-a-dozen wives.

The Old Story.—Our telegrams the other day stated a young man, named Henry Cuthbertson, a clerk in the Auckland Postoffice, had been committed for trial for stealing money letters. It is a sad, sad case. He is a very young man, respectably connected and piously nurtured, and we hear that his relatives are well nigh heartbroken. Evil company, according to his own confession, has been his ruin, and has blighted his fair prospects.

Supreme Court. —Mr Justice Chapman held a sitting in bankruptcy this morning ; but very little business was done. Mathew Currie was adjudged a bankrupt, and meeting of creditors fixed for the 27 th. Edward Boyle’s final examination was fixed for the 2Gth ; and in re Alex. Mee, the bankrupts final examination, was postponed for a month, the trustee not having reported. Re Edward Nock : hearing of a debtor summons. The bankrupt was examined and admitted the debt.

Expensive Litigation. The disputes of Eager v. Grace, with their attendant rules for prohibitions, contempt, &c, not yet ended in tbe Supreme Court, are to be commenced de novo in the Queenstown district court, whither some of the long-robed gentleman from Dunedin have gone. So far as the case has gone, the costs on both sides are said to amount to L2OOO, of which L7oi) was subscribed by the public to assist Eager, with whom popular sympathy seems to lay. Mr Barton’s wish that the lawyers might finger some of the gold is being fully realised.

Served Him Right. —A publican in Christchurch has been lined L 6 for supplying a man with liquor while intoxicated the magistrate remarking, when the f.iends of a man were trying to keep him from ruinous drinking, it was very wrong that publicans should supply him with drink, and encourage him as it were. It seems that the publican had been repeatedly warned by the police not to supply the individual in question, who appears to bo a dipsomaniac, with liquor. Football, — It was arranged to play a football match on Saturday last on the South Dunedin Ivecrcation Ground, between 18 of the Dunedin Football Club v. 1$ of

the Dunedin Volunteer Artillery, but owing to the non-appearance of the Artillery team it did not come off. A scratch match was however got up, Messrs Johnson and Thomson choosing sides. Johnson, winning the toss, took the soutli goal, the wind being slightly in his favor ; but after an hour’s hard fighting and no eoal being won a change was demanded by his adversary, but even that proved of no avail, as when time was called no goal had been scored by either side. Next Saturday the return match, Scots v. English, will, we believe, be played, when all the members of the Club are expected to put in an appearance.

District Road Board Elections.— The nomination for the Portobello subdivision of the Portobello district, took place at the Schoolhouse at Portobello today, The candidates proposed were Messrs John M ‘Cartney, John Geary. John Wishart. Alexander Clark, and William Eochford. The show of hands was in favor of Messrs M'Cartney, Geary, and Clark, and no poll being demanded, these gentlemen were declared duly elected. The nominations for the other subdivisions of the district are fixed as f.dlow Sandymount, to-morrow (Tuesday), and Broad Bay on Wednesday next—in each case at twelve o’clock noon.

Land Transfer Act.—ln his annual report on the working of the (.and Transfer Act, the Registrar General of Land says ; The total vote for the year’s expenditure was LB,fil4 15s. The total actual expenditure for the same period, including the cost of very extensive advertisements, has, by the exercise of a. vigilant economy, been kept within the vote by about LSOO. The business done shows a return, in cash, L 4.539 17s lid. Credit, under the new Regulations, which came into operation on the Ist of January, 1872, has been given for L 266 Ids, which two sums taken together amount to L 4 806 7s lid, or L 193 12s Id below fhe estimate of revenue, I had the honor to report last year, and this notwithstanding that regulations were, with the Governor’s sanction, promulgated in January which materially reduced the fees payable for registration. Luring the year the Assurance Fund has been increased by LISOO 14s 7d ; and credit has been given for a further sum of L 152 17s.

Jewish. —A meeting of the Jews of this city was held at Synagogue (.‘hambers yesterday—Mr Nathan, president, in the chair—to consider a communication from Rabbi A. B. Davis, who has been charged with the duty of organising the Australian branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Some years ago an association was brought into existence called the Alliance Israelite Universede, having for its object the removal of the disabilities of the Jews, their social, moral, and intellectual progress, the granting of aid to those who may suffer through being members of the Jewish race, and to promote the publication of works calculated to advance those objects. The Anglo-Jewish Association is e-ta Wished in connection with that institution. Yesterday’s meeting adopted a resolution expressive of sympathy and approval of the object of the Association, and appointed a Committee to confer with congregations of other towns in this Colony, as to the advisability of establishing a branch in jiNew Zealand. We learn from a Sydney paper that the operations of the society will not be confined to a particular place, but will embrace all countries where the Israelite is oppressed or may suffer from the action of natural laws, such as the famine in Persia, or the devastations to property, as in Western Russia.

The annual soiree of the George street Congregational Church will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Thursday evening next at 6.30.

The adjourned meeting of the Otago Freight Association will bo held at the Provincial Hotel to-morrow afternoon, at three o’clock.

Mr Hume, the superintendent of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, acknowledges in our advertising columns the receipt of LI I 7s, half proceeds of a concert given by the Otago Sable Orphans on behalf of the Patients’ Amusement Fund of the Asylum.