The Evening Star MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1873.

Evening Star, Issue 3340, 3 November 1873, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1873.

The Tuapcka Time s now appears as a bi-weekly paper. A shipment of immigrants is to be made to Timaru direct this mouth. The Province of Hawke’s Bay expects to commence its next financial year with a credit balance of over L 60,000.

A drama, from the pen of a gentleman connected with the press of this City, is, we hear, to be produced at the Princess’s on Mon* day evening next. The successful tender for a daily mail between Dunedin and Oamaru, is, according to the local paper, Mr Nathan Yeung, his contract price being L 585. The nomination of immigrants in the Southland district is on the increase. Last month 137 were nominated, all except eleven having been nominated after the new regulations came in force. A fire broke out on the premises of Mr M. Fleming, bootmaker, Princes street, at three o’clock this morning, but its early discovery, and the prompt application of a few buckets of water from tho Criterion, prevented any mischief being done.

A family in Otahuhu (Auckland) were nearly poisoned a few days since, through the foolish or culpable administration of some drug which had a most serious effect. The lives of three children were placed m jeopardy by this careless act. The matter is under investigation. Mr Lachlan M'Gowan, the comedian, has been satirising the members of the Auckland Provincial Council in the play Rip Van Winkle.” Knickerbocker (Mr M‘Gowan), the newly elected counsellor, while addressing the judge, accidently lets slip an oath, and when called to order by the j ustice, begs the court’s pardon, adding “he thought he was in the Provincial Council.” A child, Edward Dyke, sixteen months old, lost its life last week at the Sowburn by falling into a water-race. The child was missed from its home in the afternoon, and, on a search being instituted, it was found lying on its face, to all appearances dead, at the end of a head race running behind the house. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that death ensued from accidental causes. In reference to the letter of Mr Krull on the Hospital, which appeared in our issue of .Saturday, the following memo, by the Provincial Surgeon has been handed to us for publication 1 have the honor to inform your Honor that Mr Schmidt’s wounds had been dressed by a doctor before he arrived at the Hospital. Dr Yates did not consider it advisable to interfere with them, but they will be dressed according to our plan this day. 1 may say for your Honor’s information that it is considered very bad practice to dress burns frequently, and expose the raw surface to the air,—i am,, &c., E. Hulme.” Aa a sample of antiquated bigotry which still lingers even in Colonial society, we (Auckland Star) may mention the fact that an otherwise intelligent young man, a strong dissenter, remarked a literary gathering of inquiring spirits in Auckland that the Church of England was the devil's own establishment, as it was unquestionably founded by the great character so forcibly drawn by Milton, o fair-haired youth wittily replied that if such was the case the Dissenting Church, of which his friend the last speaker was an ardent member, must be a bastard of Nick’s, as it sprang immediately from the loins of the church of the Chief of Darkness. Writing on the disputed question of pollution and diversion of streams, the Mount Ida Chronicle says;—At present, in self-de-fence, the miners and their representatives are driven to oppose the sale of every aere on goldfields against their own wish and interest, and alse against the interest of the whole Province. There are thousands of acres in this district alone—the whole of the Maniototo Plains, for instance, hve miles from the base o£ the mountains—-that might be sold to-morrow, to the advantage of the Colony, if a comprehensive law existed, separating entirely the mineral rights below from ths surface rights above, and giving outlets for tailings, and a legal access to and from the rivers and streams, A subordinate Division of the Sons of Temperance was opened, by authority of the Grand Division of New Zealand, No 10, on Friday tt evening, October 31st, at Cr een Island, * The instituting officers were the G. W. P., G. W. A., G. c. , and G. S. The Division being opened indue form, the G. W.P., assisted by his officers, installed the following memmre as the first officers of the Division: —VV.P,, Pro, W. Lind; W.A., Bro. W. Fustier; K.B.* Pro. Jas. Miller; F.&, Pro, R. Currie, Treasurer, Bro. M'Crackeu ; Chaplain, Bro. Rev. M. Watt; Con., Pro. J, Thomas ; A.C., Bro. D. M'Kenzic ; X.S., Pro A. Gregg ; 0.5., Bro. M'Donald; P.W.P., Pro. W. Martin. Three sisters from the Dawn of Light Division, Dunedin, were present at the ceremony. It is the intention of the Grand Division officers to open another Division ot the Order to-raorrow evening at Tokoinairiro. Burlesque was the order of the day at the Princess Theatre on Saturday, when BlackEyed Susan ” ami “ Ixion ” were played to a good house. As both these pieces have been favorably commented upon before, it will be sufficient to mention tbat they met with the approval of the audience, Mr Hydes, on making his oow as the- chaste Minerva, in “Ixion,” received quite au ovation. Boucicault’s sensational Irish drama of “ Arrah-na-Pogue ” will be produced tonight, followed by the farce of “The Lottery Ticket.” To-morrow evening Miss Stephenson takes a benefit, on which occasion “The Sea of Ice; or, the Wild Flower of Mexico,” will be played, with Miss Stephenson as Ogaritft, Keport speaks well ox this lady’s performance of this difficult cha* raoter ; and it will be only a fttt/ng acknowledgment that her efforts to amuisehave been successful if there is a bumper house on that, evening. In the Supreme Court to day the furthet hearing of the case White v, M'Kellar wa-; proceeded with. A number of witnesses were . examined for plaintiff, Mr A. C. Stiode, | R.M., gave evidence that he was appointed ; an arbitrator in the case of reference between the parties. He denied that there was any i foundation for the assertion that ho and his co-arbitrator (Mr Rees) had come to a decision without giving Mr Cowan, the other arbitrator, an opportunity for consulting with them. Fo communication had taken place between Mr Calder and the witness as to the latter withdrawing from the arbitration. If Calder made such a representation

to Cowan, it was done without the slightest foundation in fact. Chaa. C. M‘Garrett, a shepherd lately in plaintiffs employment, deposed to the shearing operations commenced by plaintiffs having been interrupted by defendants, who drove his sheep from off the shearing ground after they had been mustered. The result was that these sheep were not shorn that season. The Jullian Brothers, assisted by Miss Towers and Mr Shipp, gave their first performance at the Queen’s Theatre on Saturday evening. There was a largo attendance in the lower parts of the house. Miss Towers, who is very young, sang several songs in, a pretty, child like style ; and the mauner in which she rendered “The maid with the milking pail,” secured for her an unanimous encore. She sings with confidence, and her action is grace! ul and appropriate. So far as Mr Shipp’s dancing is concerned, it is unexceptionable ; but, to use a mild expression, his singing is not up to the mark. The Julliau Brothers are daring gymnasts, and we can safely say that in this line of business they have never been surpassed by any performers who have apperred before a Dunedin audience. In the course of the evening several valuable prizes were distributed among the audience, which were drawn for by lot, and the distribution seemed to give universal satisfaction. It is announced that several other articles, useful and ornamental, will be given away this evening. We may mention that Mr Bracken, whose poem gained the prize, handed the amount over to the Benevolent Institution.

The Miners’ Associations at Naseby and Maerewheuua have passed the following resolutions in reference to the late proceedings by Messrs Bortou and M ‘Master:—“That this (Mount Ida) Association look upon the attempt of Messrs Borton and M‘Master to put a stop to gold-mining, by preventing the necessary flow of tailinngs into the river at Maerewheuua, for a period of eight weeks, in order to enable them to get clean water for sheep-washing, as monstrous, and will heartily co-operate with and assist the Maerewhenua Miners’ Association, by all means in their power, to prevent (if necessary) such an arbitrary interference from being carried to a practical issue,” —“That the (Maerewhenua) Association views with alarm the attempt of Messrs Borton and M‘Master to interfere with sluicing operations at Maerewhenua, and is of opinion that Miners’ Associations, and miners generally throughout the Province should unite in assisting the miners of Maerewhenua to resist this —the lirst attempt of the kind, which, if successful, might entirely destroy all security for carrying on one of the most important industries in the Province — hydraulic mining. On the afternoon of October 24, a special train-consisting of an engine and two carriages, one being a composite carriage containing the luggage compartment, the guard’s quarter, and a third-class compartment, and the other being a first-class carriage, with a small party of experimental travellers—left point Britomart on a trip to Onebunga. The journey out was performed in twenty - four minutes, and the return trip iu a shorter period. Indeed, during a portion of the distance, the speed attained was nearly thirty miles an hour. The journey was very pleasantly performed. ■ lie first-class carriages to be used on this and all the other Government ifeies in the Colony are seated like au omnibus, the seats running the -whole length of the carriage, and at each end is a platform, guarded by a rail, so constructed that, by lifting up au iron rod, the guard can step from carriage to carriage as in the American car system, and thus v, alk I’igfet from end to end of a trainpassing through the fiddle of the carriages. At each end of the carriages i.s a .gliding door which opens and shuts with a spring, but which, by touching this spring, can be opened from either side, when not locked, by the pass-key of the guard. A Mr James Macintosh, writing to the Southland Times about laud reform, has the following remarks “It is surely high time that all who desire light taxation, extended consumption for produce and manufactures, and prosperity for and their children, should unite in forming ft feaud Reform League, and agitate from one end of the country to the other for one uniform liberal land law for New Zealand. Let party strifes be cast aside ! Let Vogelites, Staffordites, Macandrewites, and Reidites forget their feude and join hand in hand in demanding such a measure from Parliament ! Lot the watch-word be, V The lands for the men who are prepared to occupy improve them to such the lauds will be given without money. No Scandinavians ! no Belgians no pther ‘ foreign sinners ’ shall be brought here at the public expense ! Oh for one hour of Wilson Gray jfco lead the movement! His liberal and progressive yjey/fj op the c.(uestion have passed into law in Victoria 1 and New South Wales, Erom him »s President of the Convention have proceeded those glorious truths which have since secured for the Colonics referred to ‘ free selection before survey and deferred payments ’ over an area of 200 millions of acres of grazing and agricultural funds. Could not his Honor Judge Gray some”fine afternoon lay aside his robes and ‘ mount the stump ’ once more to criticise the foregoing remarks '! I should be delighted to hear him, and many of the residents of the fair City of Dunedin would' fee! pleasure in listening to the generous and noble-hearted Wilson Gray giving expression to his views regarding the mqs.t suitable land laws for iNew Zealand.” The third part of “ Wild Will Endcrby”— “ The Prospectors”— will be published on Wednesday next. A social gathering of the members of the Church of England will be held in the Drill Slied, Octagon, to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at seven o’duoh,. A meeting of the Standard Property Investment Society will he held on Wednesday evening, in the otiices of the Society, Princeg street, from six to eight o'clock. Mrs SLmnnetz desires us to return thanks to those ladies fti;d gentlemen who have kindly contributed to the subscription list for Mr Schmidt and wife, who were hufnt by the late lire, and states that she will 1/c glad to receive any further donations for the same purpose. A correspondent suggests that a subscription should he opened for Mr R. Johnston, the heaviest sufferer by the late lire iu George who is at the present time ‘‘penniless, without cyw; a suit of clothes to his bade, iu ill health, and yppeats to be .suffering from the effects of the shock he received.” We shall be glad to receive subscriptions.

We have received IS'o, I of The National Punch published in Auckland, The illustrations are well designed, and possibly when the difficulties incident to a new work are overcome, the lithographs may be more successfully brought out. The cover introduces Punch as a showman in New Zealand costume after a successful search after the moa. We hardly think the surroundings in good taste, as they point merely to passing circumstances. A frontispiece should on the contrary, be something permanent. ‘'The letterpress is respectable, but not brilliant, while,’as is natural, many of the jokes are more of local than general interest. We have received a copy of a new journal named The Truth Seeker, which, wc are informed, lug; been established because with existing journals T'm Truth on any one subject” is “ a dhere ’ seeojulif ? yonsideratiou.’ This certainly would be'somewhat startling if true, and because it is not true, at least with this journal, vy think the writer may have sought, hut certainly 1/as not found “the Truth.” We trust his labors in other directions will prove more successful, although, judging from the style of writing, error seems to have been more sought after than truth, Accord-

ingly the Evening Star is sneered at for congratulating the late Rev. Mr Keble “on his success,” which it never did ; the Guardian-, for condemning a scurrilous publication called the “ Eye Opener,” is sneered at, and the Evangelist is taken to task for its comments on articles in the Dai’.hi Times. We recommend the I'rnth Seeker to be faithful to its name, and content itself with seeking truth, with the certainty that when it is found error may be fairly allowed to die a natural death. Truth cannot be rendered more attractive by climbing up on the ugly shoulders of error. In such a position it looks at best like a skilful mountebank. The work is well printed, and there is good readable matter in it, although nothing better than is met with in the daily journals.