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Evening Star, Issue 3099, 24 January 1873, Page 2

Mr Charles Robert Chapman was to day admitted and enrolled a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supremo Court of New Zealand. The Canterbury Deep Sea Fishery Company is thoroughly established, and intends to commence operations in a couple of weeks. It has purchased the schooner Nautilus, of Wellington. Some town sections in Taranaki have been sold as high as LI2 10s per foot. Taranaki is looking up, and iron sand is the cause. Land jobbers ape buying up allotments and holding for a rise. 'I he whole talk there now is, “ How much a foot for your lots ?” A Wellington exchange, of January 1$ states that “the boating men appear to have fairly settled down to practice. No fewer than four crews left the shed of the Wellington Rowin? Club yesterday, for practic** in the hay. The Clvih were ecjually active in the way of training.” Referring to the subject of immigration, the Auckland Herald pays “ I coking at this question from an Auckland stand-point, we have to remark that, unless the Government undortaKee to (send out immigrant* tp

the Province at the rate of not less than three thousand souls annually, we may as well abandon all hope of keeping pace with our industrial requirements. Mr Peebles, we understand, will d liver his first lecture in Dimodin on Tuesday evening next. He has engagements to lecture in Auckland and Sydney, and purposes going home by way of India and I'ngland. ilia iasff course in Melbourne drew very large audiences, and at its close he was presented with an address and LISO. The Bruce Herald learns that, at last, the Kakanui sandstone is about to be introduced into the Melbourne market, this really excellent building material having been adopted for the erection of the new Scotch Church, Collins street, Melbourne (Hethcrington’s), the contracts for which amount to nearly L2»,000. Mr David Hunter, of Dunedin, has contracted for the supply of 20,000 feet of the best Kakanui stone, <qual to 1t,06 tons. We have always held that this stone only required an introduction into the Australian market to at once establish itself as the very best building stone in the Australian Colonies. Mr Hunger leaves for Melbourne by an early steamer to arrange for its shipment.

The members of the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society are requested to attend the usual meeting on Monday evening. In our advertising columns will he found a challenge by Allred Drake, who has achieved considerable succci-s on the West Coast as a pedestrian, to run M. Fox, or any other man in the Colony, for LSO or LIUO a side. Madame Cora Lamond, the female magician, opens at the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening in her unique entertainment, in which she will b« assisted by her sister Miss Christine, ami Master Walker. She is spoken very highly of by the Australian press, and in noticing her debut the Aye said “ Ihe lad", notwithstanding some peculiarities of dialect, which leave little doubt as to her nationality, has a pleasing voice, and possesses a nice sense of humour. Her tricks, nearly all depending upon manipulation and sight of hand, are performed deftly, and with a’ cleverness and- celerity that completely deceive the eye.”