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Evening Star, Issue 3200, 23 May 1873, Page 2

It will be seen on reference to our Wellington telegrams that the Cabinet have granted the request of the Superintendent for the dissolution of the Provincial Council,

A private telegram received to-day from Invercargill announces that steps for securing the re-election of Mr James Macandrew as Superintendent, so far as that district is concerned, had been already taken in hand —On dit the Hon. M. Holmes is said to have offered to put down a marked cheque for LSO towards Mr Donald Reid’s expenses, if he would stand again against Mr Macandrew as Superintendent. A gentleman present immediately offered LIOO towards the expenses of Mr Holmes himself, if he would stand.

Miss Aitken gave one of her interesting entertainments, to rather a large audience last night, in the Masonic Hall, Port Chalmers, and was listened to very attentively; the whole of the pieces which appeared in the programme were well received. Mr Leslie Charles presided at the piano.

At the last meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, it was stated that in reply to a letter from the secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, inquiring whether Peeress had been invited by the kelson Jockey Club to run at the late Nelson Races, a letter was received from Mr C. Elliott, stating that they could not have done so, as no such club as the JNelson Jockey Club existed. Up to noon of ; the 21st, the total number of salmon batched out in Canterbury wag twenty-six. There are still nearly one huudred ova in the boxes, but as a great portion of these are what is termed “ blind ova,” it cannot be expected that a very great increase Mill be made to the present lot of young fry. I’robably tvyenty-five more will be brought to life, and if so, the result of the whole experiment must be deemed a great success. “ Even if there should bo no further increase in the family,” remarks the L;/Uel(o-i Times, “ there will be good cause for satisfaction,”

Information is to hand that the last sheet of Dr Buller’s work on New Zealand bird; had passed through the press when the last mail left England, therefore the work, sc much looked for, may be expected to arrive by,an early ship from Home. It is also interesting to know that in the early part oi March Dr Duller was presented to Hei Majesty the Queen by the Secretary of Slate, in anticipation of his early departure for this Colony. The “ Man in the Street ” complains that some ill-natured telltale has been spreading a report that, when it became known tinprovincial Council wasto be dissolved without payment of the honorarium, certain hotel keepers claimed to hold the persons of some of the members as security for their accounts for board and lodging. The detained men complain that their grog is stopped, and be lieve it to be a device to prevent them appealing to their constituents. The rates of cartage from Dunedin to Cromwell have advanced considerably within the last few weeks, and average loading is now from LTO to Ll.l per ton. The Cromwell Argus says there seems good reason to expect that still higher rates will obtain before winter is over. The extensive railway works in progress near Dunedin have created a large demand for draught horses of a superior stamp, and in this way numerous teams have been withdrawn from the up-country goods traffic, and employed in work of a more payable kind.

A child of Mr Gardner, of Princes street south, aged three years, had an extraordinary escape from serious injury yesterday aft'moon. It appears the nurse bad , at about four o’clock taken out the baby in her arms for a walk with this little girl at her side. On reaching Mr Jacobi’s toy shop, the nurse was crossing to the opposite side, leaving the litt’e girl to follow, when a twohorse cart, laden with coals, knocked her down, one of the wheels passing over her leg and bruising her very much. She was carried home, and Dr Sorley sent for. Although the cart contained a ton of coals, and the leg was seriously injured, wonderful to relate it was not boken by the accident.

A fair audience attended the Queen’s Theatre last evening, to witness 'the everacceptable drama “The Lady of Lyons.” Miss Clara Stephenson appeared as Pauline Deschapelles, and elicited the approbation of the audience, who called her before the curtain at the conclusion of both the third and fourth acts, Mr Burford was not particularly good in his rendering of Claude Melnotte. The Colonel Damas of Mr Sou'h was good, and he was frequently applauded. Mr Aveling sustained the character of Glavia very well, as did Mr O’Brien as Beauseant. Miss Bray, as Madame Deschapelles, played better than she has done for some time past. The concluding piece was “Ixion,” which elicited the usual amount of applause. 1 here will be a change of programme for the benefit of the Provincial Brass Baud'this evening. The Waitahuua correspondent of the Tuapeka Times writes as follows Politics, nothing but politics, has been the subject of discussion, for the last eight or ten days. Every man appears to have become a politician, and many wordy battles have taken place between the Macandrewites and the Keidites, both parties being represented here. But while each party advocated its own particular views, both regretted that so much of the public moneys shou’d have been expended to so little purpose. People cannot overlook the fact that there are some members of the Council whose interest it is to prolong the session—men who have not so much as a hut on the goldfields to call their own, and who, when the Council is not in session, find it a difficult matter to supply themselves with the bare necessaries of life.” How many of the class referred to are in eluded in the now famous twenty-nine ? A communication has been sent to the General Government pointing out the advantages that might accrue from a geological survey being made of the Tuapeka district, especially of the localities around Gabriels and Wetherstones. In places such as these, remarks the Tuapeka Times, where so much gold has been found, it is matter of surprise that so little attention has been given to them by the Geological Department. Government papers innumerable have been issued, with descriptions of surveys of the Northern goldfields of this Province, and of the West Coast and Thames goldfields ; but of the Tuapeka district, which has proved so rich in alluvial deposits, nothing what ever has been said. As a geological survey might be of very great assistance to the practical and successful working of the goldbearing reefs which have been discovered in and about Gabriels Gully, we trust the Government will send one or more of the geological staff to make the survey referred to. Humors are already current as to the forthcoming elections for the Provincial Council. According to one version, Captain Baldwin, late of the Teviot, has been asked to present himself for Mount Benger in opposition to Mr Bradshaw. Captain Baldwin’s long and intimate connection with the district affords Mr Bradshaw the prospect of meeting with rather a formidable opponent. Parties in a position for forming a tolerably correct opinion, think it not improbable that Mr J. R. Cuthbertsou, whose election for the General Assembly for the town of Invercargill, in room of Mr W. H. Calder, resigned, is notified in another column, will present himself in opposition to Mr’ George Lumsden. Considering that Mr Cuthbertson’s election for the Assembly to a very great extent negatives the policy espoused by Mr Lumsden in the Council, his prospect of success is looked upon as being very fair. For the Waihopai, it is believed that Mr L, M'Gillivray, M.H.R. for Riverton, will stand in opposition to Mr William Wood. It is thought that for the Otcramika, Sir F, D. Bell will not again present himself. That opinion is grounded on the fact that Sir Francis intimated his intention of resigning the seat at the close of the session. For that district, Mr Robert Hamilton, a Southland resident of long standing, is spoken o r . In the Opposition interest, it is by no means improbable that Mr Andrew Kinross will also put in an appearance. Other rumors are in circulation, but so far as we have been able to ascertain, the above are the only ones that have as yet assumed anything like a definite shape. The following, having reference to Mr Bathgate’s remarks in the Masonic Hall, on the delay in the construction of the Bnumerton railway, is from the Grey mouth Star, an Opposition paper “ We contend that even the most unreasoning foe of the present Government cannot for a moment place either this line, or the similar proposed one between Westport and the Ngakawhau, in that list of enterprises which in the popular claptrap have come to be known as ‘ political railways,’ Whatever maybe the advantages which the special localities will derive, these coal lines are before all other railways in the Colony, works of Colonial importance, and the only regret is that they have been so long delayed ; a regret in which we feel certain that every coal-consumer in the Colony will feelingly unite with the people of the Grey and Bailer districts. It must, however, be stated that the present Government are not to blame for this protracted delay. The determined and unsurmountable opposition which the Superintendent of Nelson has shown to the development of the Grey coalfields is well known to our readers, and bad it not been for this, we are convinced that the railway between the mine and the port might at this moment have been in operation, instead of being only just contracted for. It is Mr Curtis, and nos the Government, who has endeavored tooth and nail to make a political question of what is purely and solely an industrial undertaking; and however plausible his justification that he was protecting the interest of his Province may appear to the good folks of Nekon, it has no weight whatever with the people of this district so graciously befriended. Ihey at least are altogether averse to his protection ; tlioy cry to bo delivered from his tyranny, and from the uuintcnnittiug obstructionism n herewith he hw retted the development

)f their district, and to which all the finanial jugglery in the world —and his Honor is o apprentice hand in this respect—cannot oodwink them.”

The usual meeting of the Sons of Tamper'.nce is postponed in consequence of Monday icxt being a holiday. A special meeting will >e held on Monday, Juno 2nd.