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Evening Star, Issue 3257, 29 July 1873, Page 2

Mr E. Paterson addressed a fairly attended meeting of the ratepayers of -Bell Ward at the Royal George Hotel last evening, and received the customary vote of confidence.

A fresh election for Mayor has to be held at Invercargill on Thursday, because Mr Lumsden, being in attendance at the Provincial Council, was not able to subscribe the usual declaration within the prescribed number of days. The firm we mentioned last evening as having purchased the Masonic Hall is Messrs R, Hudson and Co. We are informed it is their intention to convert the building to the purposes of a steam biscuit and confectionery factory, the premises now occupied by them being too small for their rapidly-extending business. There is to be a show of barmaids in Sydney, and the judges are to decide as they do at the cattle shows, by the popular system of “ points.” But surely says the Town and Country Journal , the published list of the said points is a very meagre one. The “ apple,” it is announced, is to be given to the “ best looking, best dressed, and neatest figure.” Mr James Gillies, from New Caledonia, who has been paying a visit to his friends in Otago, takes with him on his return on Thursday, three pure-bred short horn bulls. These animals were bred by Mr Heckler of Waikouaiti, a gentleman well known as possessor of some of the best and purest bred short horn stock in the Province, The shipment consists of one two-year-old, the winner last season of several prizes, one eleven months old, and one ten months old.

A telegram from the North a few days ago took the public by surprise by announcing that it was the intention of Major Atkinson to resign the adjutancy of the district, and that he would be succeeded by Major Steward. We had not time to inquire before the telegram was inserted in the Star, but are glad to find that Major Atkinson never gave authority for such a statement. It is the second time that Major Atkinson, of Otago, has been mistaken by telegraphists for Major Atkinson, of Taranaki.

Mr H. S. Fish, jun., addressed a meeting of electors of South Ward at Martin’s Hotel, Stafford street, last evening. The candidate stated his claims for support and his views on civic matters at considerable length, and was listened to attentively. The same gentleman afterwards addressed a meeting at Watson’s Hotel, Walker street, and at each was most favorably received, votes of confidence being passed in both instances. We are compelled to hold over our report. In the Provincial Council, this afternoon, L 2.000 was voted for forming York place, so that the Middle District School might have a playground ; but Mr Fish’s motion, for L.2,000 to aid the Corporation in improving the Town Belt, was negatived by 16 to 15 The motion to allow Professor hale to appear at the bar to answer Mr Hawthorne’s statement was negatived, the Government statin" that Mr Sale did not desire it, but intended to submit the questions in dispute to the decision of competent persons in Bugland. During the short session of the Provincial Council 106 addresses have been presented to his Honor the Superintendent, praying that ho will give attention and sanction to so many varying objects, and more than thirty bills have been passed through their different stages, which wifi become Ordinances on receiving his or the Governor’s sanction, As his Honor is supposed to be well informed on

the merits and demerits of these 193 subjects, and to have besides to attend to the working of the whole machinery of Government, it is plain that his office is anything rather than a sinecure. "Nearly 200 youths assembled in the lower hall of the Athenaeum last evenin'' to avail themselves of the advantages afforded by the Caledonian Society of giving free education to those unable to attend day schools, 'the committee, however, anticipating that all classes of lads would offer themselves and wishing to keep the class in prop r order, had determined only to admit those who had obtained notices of admission from the directors. and the result showed that eighty were entitled. Tnsti action will be given by Messrs Macgregor and Stables; and those boys who were refused last evening will bo admitted to night, provided they bring the necessary recommendation. The very sensational drama of ‘ ‘ The Flying Dutchman” was repeated at the Princess’s Theatre last evening. It was followed by the burlesque of “The Field of the Cloth of Gold,” which from its merits ought to have a lengthened run, being placed upon the stage very creditably both as regards dressing and scenery. Owing to eur space being limited, we are obliged to curtail our notice of the performance. To-night Mr and Mrs Macgowan take a benefit, when “ The Man of the World” will be played, Mr Macgowan taking the part of Sir PertiuaxMacsycophant. We trust the efforts of Mr and Mrs Macgowan to amuse the public will be rewarded by a bumper bouse Mr Prosser’s meeting at Watson’s !> oyal Hotel last evening, was attended by considerably above one hundred persons, who seemed keenly alive to the business of the South Ward election. Mr Rossbotham occupied the chair. The candidate, who spoke for upwards of an hour, entered minutely into the municipal matters of interest, and his remarks were well received. The chairman strongly recommended the election of Mr Prosser, and stated that on several occasions his (the chairman’s) endeavors to get improvements effected in South Ward had been thwarted by the action of the opposing candidate. Mr John Fdmond proposed, and Mr JR. H. Moody seconded a resolution that Mr Prosser was the most fit person to represent the Ward in the Council, which was carried by an overwhelming majority, only two hands being held up in opposition to it. After the usual vote of thanks to the chairman, three hearty cheers -were given for Mr Prosser, and the meeting broke up.

We learn from the Mount Ida Chronicle that, on Monday evening last, Mr F. J. Funny, the delegate appointed by St. Joseph’s branch of the H. A.C.B S., opened a branch at Naseby. In the course of a speech Mr Bunny is reported to have said : *• 1 am doing my utmo t to open branches of the Society in Invercargill and Lawrence, and I am determined not to rest until branches are opened in those places. I may tell you that the Catholics of Christchurch have been communicating with me regarding the establishment of brunches in the Canterbury Province, and as I have supplied the necessary information, I trust shortly to hear of branches being opened in all the important districts in that Province Supposing that I live to a ripe old age, and that it is the will of Providence that I should plod along without benefiting in any way my follow Catholics, yet 1 shall cast ray dim eyes with feeling of pride upon the different branches of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, and the thought of the part that I have played in ushering them into Otago will make me to say to myself, ‘ Well, after all, my life has not been altogether worthless!’ ”

It will be remembered that about three weeks ago a paragraph went the rounds of the Press, that the Hon. Saul Samuel, while in Melbourne, wrote to Mr Vogel complaining that the latter had permitted the “ extraordinary cause” of publishing the correspondence between Mr Samuel and himself on the postal question, and of accompanying it with “statements and comments which are likely to mislead,” Mr Samuel further wrote that “ it would have been better and more regular bad you waited until I was in receipt of your letter, when the complete correspondence would have been in the possession of our respective Governments before publication in the newspapers.” In his reply to Mr Samuel, Mr Vogel, respecting the publication complained of by that gentleman, says: “You state that when off Hokitika on your way to Australia you were astonished to find from West Coast newspapers, that correspondence between us in Wellington relative to a mail service via >an Francisco had been published before it was in ‘ possession of our respective Governments,’ and you say that you deemed it necessary ‘ at once to correct the statements contained in a telegraphic summary of that correspondence,’ assuming that they have been authorised ‘by me.’” . . . Mr Vogel goes on to say that in publishing the correspondence he was only following the course pursued by the Government of New South Wales in Sydney. Mr Parkes having replied on Feb. 25 last to a letter signed by Mr Vogel and Mr Reynolds, the whole of the correspondence was published in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 27th, before a further reply from the New Zealand representatives, dated the 26th, had probably been received by Mr Parkes, Mr Dench will address the electors of High Waul, Port Chalmers, in Criekmore’s Royal Assembly Rooms, at eight o’clock, this evening. Election meetings will be held this evening, by Mr Fish, at the Peacock Hotel, Princes street, at eight o’clock ; and at Baxter’s Hotel, Maitland street, at nine. By Mr Prosser, at Martin’s Hotel, Stafford street, at eight. By Mr Paterson, at the Robert Burns Hotel, at eight. By Mr Beck, at the Oddfellows’ Hall, at eight.