YESTERDAY’S NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3134, 6 March 1873, Page 3

YESTERDAY’S NEWS.

Mr Reeves, M.H. K. for Sclwyn, addresses his constituents to-morrow evening.

Mr Vogel, we learn, says the Po*/, is suffering from an<jina pectoris, and his medical advi-er in Sydney has recommended him to retire from public life for two years. Six of tho healthy passengers on the Quarantine Island were admitted to pratique yesterday morning, and taken to I unedm. There are yet thi: ty more on the island, who are getting on favorably. We see, by the ChristcliU’-ch papers, that Messrs Geddes and Willis have taken the Theatre Royal there, and intend opening it shortly with the present company.

The Canterbury Provincial Government shifted its account the other day from the Bank of Australasia to tho Bank of New Zealand. It amounted, in round numbers, to L 250,000. Tho following arc the acceptances for the Jockey Club Handicap, which is the principal event at the Greymouth meeting, on the Ifth inst. Mr Walter’s Yatterina, ILt; Mr Nosworthy’s Envy Bst alb 5 Mr P. Campbell’s Harlequin 7st 131b 5 Mr W. C. Webb’s Gossip, 6st I lb 3 Mr W, C. Webb’s Prima Donna, (Ist 31b.

The Hon. W. Robinson and the Hon. Erne.t Gray have purchased Messrs R. and K. Maclean s (o£ Auckland) cdcV>: ated stud flock of Leicester sheep. In addition to the above, Mr Robinson has also purchased, op his own account, two Leicester rams which have just been imported by the Messrs Maclean from England, The quality of these sheep may be inferred from the fact that one of the rams was sold in England, by public auction, for 105 guineas. “The Mistletoe Bough,” which is a melodrama of the old school, with a dreary plot, the principal features of which are the villanies of a feudal lord who has been refused the hand of a womvn whom, out of revenge, he shuts up to die in an old chest with a secret spring, in a tower, was played last evening in the Theatre to an indifferent house. The afterpiece was “Spiritualism and Rheumatism,” in which Mr 11 ill created much merriment by his comicalities. At the last meeting of the Canterbury Acclimafi-ation Society it was reported that Mr Bill’s importation of birds, by the Charlotte Gladstone, had arrived in splendid condition, and the Council were vpry much plpqsed with ft. A gratuity of two guineas was voted to Mr Deans, curator of the Otago Acclimatisation Socipty, for his assistance in bringing the birds from Otago, A special vote of thanks was passed to the Otago Acclimatisation Society, for the trouble they had taken in the forwarding of the birds to Canterbury. The New Zealand Gazelle, of the 20th ult, states the balance left in the Post Office Savings Banks of the Colony at the end of the December quarter of 1872 to be L 20,715 5s lOd, as against Lit),.'lo4 17s 2d at the end of the corresponding quarter of 1871. During the quarter ended December .‘ll, 1872, the following Post Office Order business was done by tho Dost Offices of the Colony:—Orders issued, 11,014; value, 1.50 005 11s Gd ; paid, 8,240 ; value, [..‘15,051 8s sd; corresponding quarter of 1871:Bsuccl, 0,710 ; value, 1.42 105 Us Od ; paid, 0,210; value, 1.27,500 10s I Id.

A very sudden death occurred yesterday evening. A cabdriver named Harrold, between fifty and sixty years of age, was seized with blood-spitting, while driving his c>b along King street, and when near its junction with St. David street. Mr Hodgkins, who was in the cab at the time, with the assistance of Mr Hibson, butcher, conveyed Harrold to his house in George street, close by, and Dr Hums, who lives opposite, was sent for, but his services were of no avail, us the man died within live minutes from the time he commenced to spit blood. The cause of death was the bursting of a bloodvessel. Harrold had been ailing for the last twelve months, and particularly during the last few weeks ; and finding that he was getting worse, had determined to give up

driving, and sell Ids horse and cab. He leaves a widow, but his family are all married.

The Circus was very well attended la 3 t evening, and the who'c of the programme was gone through as mual in the most perfect manner. The Carlo brothers introduced a new feature in their “ Concert Diabolique,” in with hj they performed some of the most difficult acrobatic feats—climbiuy. turning over, jumping, twining around each other, and at the same time continuing eacli to play a violin, no matter in what position ho was placed. The coolness and dexterity with which the bowing and ling ring were sustained in positions that seemed to render them impossible, the strange and grotesque changes, sometimes bowing on each other’s violins, sometimes drawing them across another’s bows, rendered this one of the most extraordinary exhibitions ever devised Throughout a Jong series of changes of position, involving great personal exertion, tune and time were kept accurately, and this “ Concert Diabolique ” must be regarded as a remai kable instance of the power of the will over the muscles, and the possibility of training the attention to different physical actions at the same moment. To-night is the last performance of the Company, which will leave for Melbourne by the Tararua. The following amended regulations appear in a New Zealand Gazelle, dateu lebruary 20. In respect to “ Collect ” Telegrams, it is provided that telegrams may be taken from the sender with the word “ Collect ” written thereon, and in such case the payment for the telegram will be collected from the receiver of the t-lcgram ; but in the event of the receiver refusing to pay, the sender of the telegram shall he held responsible f r the due payment thereof, and it shall be lawful for the officer in charge of the Telegraph Office at which the telegram was received from the sender for despatch, in his oa ii name, to sue the sender, and recover from him the fees due on such telegram. In respect to “ Keply-paid Telegrams,” it is provided that telegrams may be taken from the sender of a teleg am with the words “ h’eply-paid ” written thereon, and in such case the payment for (he telegram in reply will ho collected from the sender of the first telegram ; and it shall he lawful for the officer in charge of the Telegraph Office at which the first telegram was received from the sender for despatch, to sue, in his own name, such sender for, and recover from him, the fees due on the reply to such first telegram, unless such fees ho immediately after the delivery of the reply telegram paid at the office or to person delivering such rejily telegram As to signatures of senders of telegrams presented for transmission at any station, to he forwaided beyond sea, it is provided that the sender of any such telegram may be allowed to sign his surname on'y, but this regulation shall only apply to telegrams for transmission as above, and shall in no way affect the regulations now in force as regards the signatures to telegrams presented lor transmission within the Colony.