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Evening Star, Issue 3354, 19 November 1873, Page 2

Me regret to state that Mr James Stumides, who received severe injuries by a fall of earth at the reclamation works at Mussel Bay, died iu the Hospital last night. The railway manager in Southland has had instructions s’nee July last to run a train on Sundays on the arrival of steamers at the Bluff. For upwards of three months the necessity for acting on this authority has arisen only once. Spencer’s Island in Bluff Harbor has become the property of Dr Gregor of Invercargill. The Southland Tmm blames the general Government for not having secured it when the desirability of their doing so, its suitability for quarantine purposes being admitted, having been repeatedly brought under their notice. Our Sydney telegram to-day says Mr Butler, Mr Parkes’s Attorney-General, has broken with his chief. The cause D plain. Mr Butler did not cot the Chief Justiceship, which was regarded as a certainty for him. Mr Parkes has managed to get rid of his greatest opponent ; but everyone will admit one of the best lawyers in New South Wales now adorns the bench of that Colony. The Melbourne papers did the right thing. Some of them considered it their duty to pass adverse strictures upon the Victorian racing club’s grandstand, upon which Mr Bagot, the secretary, stopped the Press from being admitted free to the races. The metropolitan papers, as we know therefore a "reed to ignore the races altogether. We trust New Zea’aml journals will always act with the same independent spirit. A special meeting of the Council of the Ctago Rifle Association was held in the Secretary’s office last evening, Lieutenant Wilson in the chair. A letter was received from his Worship the Mayor, stating Ins intention of offering a silver cup to be competed for at the annual matches, on such terms as the Council may agree upon. It was resolved that a concert in aid of the funds of the Association be held in the Drill-shed on St. Andrew’s Day. The Greymouth Literary Society must ho composed of individuals without consciences. They advertise for a secretary and librarian, whose duties require he shall open the library at 8 a.m., and close it at 11 p.m. of a day ; be in daily attendance from four to five p.m, ; and on three days of the week from eight to ten p.rn. ; conduct all correspondence, catalogue the hooks ; keep inward and outward entries of receipts ami deliveries of books, periodicals, he. ; to keep up files and arrange them every day ; to wash out the room every morning ; to wash and sciub it, weekly ; to light fires and keep up supplies of coals ; to light the gas every night, to run messages -and nil for LSO a year. Wo ire rather anxious to know the state of the labor market at Greymouth.

The South Canterbury Times records a fatal accident, which is supposed to have occurred on Friday night last, to a man who was almost an utter stranger in ' imaru. It app ars that on Saturday afternoon some children were playing near t'<e gully to the south of the Commercial hotel, on the eastern side of the culvert, when they discovered the body of a man who was known by the name of (iennan Charlie, lying face downwar 1, with the fore part of the bo’yin about <ix inches of water, and, o i assistance being obt lined, the body was tak-n out, when it was discovered to be a great deal bruised about the face and right car. The man in question had anived in town on the Friday, and had put up at the Commercial hotel, where he had engaged a bed for the night, but shortly after dark he went out, and was not seen again alive. “ Prompter ” supplies ns with the following items of theatrical news: —Miss Flora Anstead has left the Hoskins-Colville troupe, and proceed, d to Sydney. Her place will be supplied by Mrs Walter Hill, who is already on her way south, Mr Hoskins having telegnphed for her.—Mr Hatchelder has taken the Masonic Hall for three week •, and opens in Dunedin with his diorama in the beginning of January.—'Hie Kennedy family enter into occupation of the Hall in February. — l The Clara Stephenson company, which bills itse’f as the “ Ixion b'onde and brunet’e troupi-the largest company of lady Imrlesfpie artists ever in New Zealand,” is on the travel, and appears to-night and tne rest of the week atOamaru. The Superintendent has forwarded to the Southland Acclimatisation Society an extract from a letter sent by his Honor in October last to Mr nld, the Home Agent : “ 1 have ibis day requested you by cable to obtain another shipment of salmon ova to be shipped in one of the smartest of Patrick Henderson and' o.’s clippers; said ova to be shipped at Glasgow for Bluff Harbor direct, together with as many immigrants as can be had f>r the same port, . . . You will have gathered from my cablegram that unless the shipment can be made from the Clyde, it is not to be undertaken. The object of making this a sine non is, that as a rule the Glasgow ships make the passage in a shorter time than those from London and the success of the experiment depends upon the length of the voyage being shortened.”

Wo are tired of complaining of the shortcomings of the Anglo-Australian Agercv ; hut is is due to our readers that some "explanation should be made of our omissions to supply information of important events outside the Province, particularly in regard to the Canterbury Cup race and the Interprovincial Cricket Match, which have been rather unfairly commented upon. We were anx ous to give the earliest information of both events, and telegraphed to the Agency’s representative at Christchurch t > send us full telegrams not only direct but with despatch ; but our request was un he ded in both instances. Remonstrance seems to have no effect, and we hope shortly to make such other arrangements as will prevent a recurrence of the annoyance and unnecessary expense to which we have been put during the last week. We are indebted to the Dnilji Times for the telegrams of yesterday’s match. Recent Sydney telegrams informed us that some excitement had been occasioned by the desecration of a grave at Bernina. N.S.W., by a Horn an Catholic priest. The following extract from a report of proceedings it) the N S. Wales Parliament throws a little light on the affair Patkes stated, in answer to questions, that about a fortuigh'ago it came to the knowledge of the po ice that an outrage had been committed upon the crave of a person interred iu the Roman Catholic cemetery, Berrima. The police were set in motion, and inquiry had voing on ever since. It appeared from the correspondence received that the bev, bather M ‘Ginn took a person named Pln-la i (his servant) in a buggy to the graveyard, near Bernma, and rtqne.-Jed him to demolish, with ac axe, the palbsading round the grave of Mrs Walsh, the deceased wife of a warder then in Benima gaol, now in Darlingburst. The reason father M‘Cinn gave for the outrage was that Walsh had not paid the Church dues. He (Mr Parkes) had no doubt that a case would be made out fur the prosecution of Father M'C-inu.”

Considering the state of tilo weather, there was a good attendance at the I lincess Theatre last evening, when the nautical drama of “Ben Bo.lT” was played. Miss Kaymond’s Alice was above the average; Mrs Searle made her tlrst appearance in the part of Mary Moonlight, but it was scarcely a fair test of this lady’s abilities. Mr O’B ien gave a good representation of the hero of the piece, and his performance was evident y appreciated by the audience, Mr Hydes’s Reuben Rags was worthy of him ; he evinced a total disregard of the text, and his impromptu extracts from various plays were ludicrous in the extreme. In the love passage with Mary Moonlight, he pirated the description of the villa on the banks of the Lake of Como wholesale from “The Lady of Lyons but this was capped by Ida parting wish to Mr Ironlink—“ May thorns be planted in your marriage bed.” As Mr Hydes was the “ funny mac ” of the pece, he certainly succeeded in amusing his audience ; and although it may be said he took unwarrantable liberties with the author, we do not know but that his innovations might he considered improvements “ His Last Legs” was the afterpiece, with MrO’Biien as O’Callaghan. The same programme will be repeated to-night.

Members of the Otago Kilwinning Lodge are requested to attend the installation of otlicers of the Celtic Lodge to-morrow evening, at 7.•'>().