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Evening Star, Issue 3129, 28 February 1873, Page 2

Sir David Monro is to be entertained at a public dinner at Waikouaiti to-night.

The number of blind persons in the Colony ia thirty three, viz ~ twenty-one males and twelve females. The number of deaf ran tvs thirty-eight, viz,, twenty-tight males and ten females.

A man who was feeding the saw at the ripping bench in a saw-mill at Oxford, Canterbury, had his cheek bone broken and forced back into his head by a piece of wood which was jerked from the saw. The disparity in the rates of wages throughout the Colony may be gathered from the fact that harvest hands got 20s a day in Canterbury and 5s a day in Taranaki. In the former Province, the laborer called in the aid of a cab to carry him to the “ field of operations.” The ship Euterpe sailed from London for Otago with equal to Government inarmgrants, and may be expected within ten days. She hj is no navvies for Messrs Hrogdon and Son on board. The following is a summary of the occupations of the emigrants, viz. : 1 gamekeeper ; 1 ironworker; 15 laborers; 10 farm laborers ; 1 plasterer ; 1 fisherman ; 1 agricultural implement maker ; I smith ; 13 female servants; 3 housemaids; 1 farmer, 1 seamstress; and 22 whose occupations are unstated.

A novelty comes from Victoria in the form of a diminutive reprint of the Land Act of that Colony for 1869, and which can be conveniently placed in a vest pocket. At first glance a printer would be rather puzzled, well knowing that the smallest casting of the type founder is large by comparison with this, which requires good eyesight to road without the aid of glasses. Yet small as the print is everything has the clearness of copperplate. The process by which this wonderful piece of fine printing is produced is not made generally known, but it is supposed to be by a recent invention styled “photozincography,” which is invaluable as a means of reducing the largest maps to the very smallest compass. These miniature copies of the Victorian Land Act have been struck off in countless numbers, and will be circulated all over Europe.

The proprietors of the Taranaki Herald published an almanac lately, and with very questionable taste puffed it liberally in the columns of their paper. The Taranaki News adopted a rather original mode of showing up the trick by publishing a critique on itself. With well-feigned gravity it said We have much pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of a specimen copy of the Taranaki News, the perusal of which afforded us intense gratification. For amount, variety, and quality of matter, clearness of type, excellence of paper, and general superiority of finish, this admirable paper fully deserves the reputation it has attained of being, not only the leading journal of the Province, but also, probably, the most enlightened publication in New Z aland. We cordially wish its spirited proprietor, for whom from our earliest days we have entertained the deepest respect and affection, every prosperity in his undertaking ; may he continue to retain for many long years the invaluable services of his editor and sub-editor, and also of his numerous staff of reporters and special correspondents, each selected by the discriminating editor for his peculiar fitness for the duties assigned to him, arid in every case being ; tho right man in the right place—the highest talent of the Province, of the Colo y, of the United oil gdom, of the Continents of Europe and America. We must also say a few words tor the remainder of the “ News ” staff; even the “devils” being the nimblest we have ever encountered. Dr Dunn will deliver a lecture in the Queen’s Theatre on Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. A match has been arranged for to-morrow between an eleven and an eighteen or twenty-two to be chosen from the following cricketers, who are requested to put in an early app arance to enable both sides to get an innings if possible during the afternoon : Andrew, Allen, Brown, Begg, Bunny, Beal, Cairns, Clarke, Eva, Glen, Greenfield, Hay, Hellicar, Harris W., Kettle C , Kettle N., LambeHS., MuirF, Vluir ’lhos., Manisty, Macfarlan, Macdonncll, Macdonald, Ogilwe, Park, Rattray, Rhodes H., Rhodes K., Stevens, Tait, Thomson, Turton, Ticker man, Ward, Witchell, and Webb. ’• here is every probability of the eighteen or twenty-two being put in first, and should all the players named turn out, a close and exciting game may be looked forward to. Play to commence at half-past one.