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Evening Star, Issue 3355, 20 November 1873, Page 2

It may interest the public to learn that Ihere are twenty tailors in the ship Zealaudia, now about due. About the half of them are Germans. His Honor the Superintendent has appointed Profefser Macgregor to be an Inspector of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, vice the Hon. Captain Fraser, resigned. The rare Rhododendron DaUmshn is now in flower in Mr Matthews’s conservatory, adjoining his seed warehouse in Moray place. As far as Mr Matthews is aware, this is tlm first time this ftnuHikkim species has flowered in Otago. At Christchurch, one James Nancarrow sued the Bank of Now Zealand for damages for having, while there were funds in their hands belonging to him, dishonored his cheques. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for L7o, or L 25 in addition to the sum before paid into Court by the defendants. There was on view this forenoon at the office of Mr J. B, M'Culloch, Princes street, a sample of building stone, which was procured from a quarry recently opened on Mr White’s property, in the Tokomairiro district. It seemed to us to be admirably suited for building purposes; and we believe it will be properly tested. “ Ben Bolt ” and “ His Last Legs ” were repeated at the Princess Theatre last evening Mr Hydes again indulged in outrageous “gag,” and we can certainly endorse his somewhat irrelevant remark to the audience, when ho informed them that impudence constituted his stock-in-trade, for his audacity is boundless. The “Corsican Brothers” will be played to-night, in addition to which th; Bernard Brothers will perform some “daring, perilous, wondrous, and terrible f. ats on the double trapeze. The flockowners in the Upper Taieri district are now busy with the cutting and tailing of the lambs, which is turning out much better than was some time ago anticipated. .Still we ( WalkouaUi Herald) will not venture to assert that we shall not hear many of the flockownerß armoujiciDg a very high rate of

percentage of lambs ; at any rate nothing like last year’s rates. The flocks depasturing on the Taicri L’ke Station were mustered for cutting and tailing, and the rate of percentage was considered very satisfactory. There was a s.dendid crop of merino lambs perhaps the best ev< r witms:C 1 in the district. When we take into consideration the severity of the weather experienced during the limbing of the flocks; 78 to 80 per cent, will surely be considered a very high rate. A statement of the financial transactions of the Province during the quarter ended on the JOth Sopteinlnr last, is published in this week’s Provincial- Government ila’Mte. From it we loam that the revenue of the Province during the period named amounted to £110,228 3s 7d, and the expenditure to £(‘24,097 18s lOd, the expenditure thus exceeding the receipts by £13,869 15s 3d. The great hulk of the revenue was derived fom Grown Lands, viz , £82,609 15s 41. The gold export duty brought £2,970 14s 3 1 to (he Provincial coffers, and the railways £r>,B77 lls lid. Of the latter amount Tie Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway contributed £3 849 10s 4d, and the Southland Railway £2 328 Is 7d. The following is a summary of the expenditure : Superintendent and Executive Council, £l,-844 13-i Id ; Provincial Council, £3.374 9s 81 ; Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, and Secretary for Lands, £49,728 4s 7d ; do, do General, £21,676 16s lid; Secretary for Goldfields and Works, £47,773 14s 10d ; total, L 124,097 18s lOd. The strike amongst the shearers for an advance upon present rates has extended to the Upper Taieri. The correspondent of a Provincial paper, writing on the Bth instant, says i —My prediction that a strike was likely to occur has proved true. It was feared at one time that the flockowners would carry the day in dcfiuice of all that could be d<>ne to the contrary. Such, however, has not been the case. The shearers have struck for LI per 100 sheep, and state plainly that no sheep will be shorn under that figure. No doubt the high rates at present ruling for all descriptions of woo! has brought about the strike. Many of the shearers state that the time has arrived for demanding an advance upon the original rates. Some of the llockowncrs have gone so far as to advertise the rate of u-i per WO. This 1 consider a very imprudent course to take in (he matter. As an instance I may mention that the strike took place at the shod first where this was done. There is no doubt the flockowners will have to give way in the eml, but, i presume, not till they are forced to do so. 1 commend the shearers for the determined stand they have taken, and trust that they will be successful in raising the shearing rate to LI per 100 throughout the Province.” A concert will be given in the Linden schoolhouse, in aid of the school prize fund, to-mor-row evening, at eight o’clock, Brethren of the Lodge of Otago arc requested to meet in the Masonic Hall this evening, to be present at the installation of officers of the Lodge Celtic. The members of the Port Chalmers Marine Lodge will meet at the Masonic Hall, Port Chalmers, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow, to attend the funeral of the late Mr Stumbles. The members of the Good Templar Lodge are also requested to attend.