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Evening Star, Issue 3036, 11 November 1872, Page 2

New Municipality.—Nascby is to be declared into a Municipality in a few days. JJankultt’uv. —Wo hear that the Colonial Government do not intend to appoint a successor to the late Mr Brodie, who was Accountant in Bankruptcy, .Immigration,—A vesaul wya expected to sail from louden for the Bln If about September 50 with from 200 to 250 immigrants. At a meeting of the -Southland Railway Committee, last week, the following resolution was carried ; vmcial Government be urged to scud periodical instalments of farm laborers mid domestic servants, pending direct shipments of immigrants to the Built, a supply of ploughmen and domestic servants being at present urgently needed.” Goldfields Water Supply.—Mr -Simpson, C.E., reports that an average supply of water, amounting to forty-live Government hfiadg, and a minimum supply of not less than twenty ■•live Government heads in extremely dry season*, can be brought in from the ManuherikU to Naseby, without prejudice to existing rights, for tho sum of 1,20,000, traversing a line of not more than lifty-five miles in length, presenting no engineering difficulty. The Colonial Government will immediately call for tenders for the work. To-night’s Amusements.—A capital bill is put forward by the management of the Theatre. “The Jealous Wife,” Miss Colville's best piece, and “ Black eyed -Susan,” with an allegorical tableau, the best v. r e have seen for some time, constitute the programme.—At the Masonic Hall, Mr Hyde's company will perform ; at St George’s Hall the Provincial Band hold their soiree ; at thy Oddfellows’ Hall, the German Soiree; and at the North Dunedin Drill Shed, a concert. Will our Hailways Pay?— lf any p?oof at this time of day were required as to the advantages conferred upon a young country by railway communication, the

Southland lines furnish sufficient illustration. Prom the traffic returns, it appears that the good carried last mouth amounted to 2470 tons, against 549 tons during the same period hst year. The paasengers were 1246, against 717. The total earnings for the month were LB4O 14s Pel, against 1.866 10s 5d in 1871. It should be borne in mind that the tariff of charges has Icon reduced by about 60 per cent, since the time stated. The working expenses amount to about LSOO per mouth, inclusive of coal and repairs to permanent way and rolling stick. The returns for this month do not include preserved meats or wool, which, for many mouths in the year, form a large item in the receipts. —Southland Tim

A concent is to bo given in the Masonic Hall on Friday next, in aid of the funds of St. Paul’s Sunday School