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Evening Star, Issue 3375, 13 December 1873, Page 2

The Governor, while in (bunaru, will be the guest of Mr John M‘Leau, M.P.C. Mr G. G. Russell has made the munificent gift of LSO to the Oamaru Hospital. The English wild-duck has been thoroughly established in the Oamaru district, thanks to Mr Wheatly of Kakanui. The Postmaster-General is of opinion that it is undesirable at present to establish a money order and savings bank at Maerewhcnua. The attendance at the Dunedin schools during the quarter just ended was Middle District, ()GH; South, 354 ; and North, 50' J. The fees collected amounted to L 463, Mr Strode, R.M., will occupy the Bench at the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday, and will continue to do so till some one is permanently appointed to the position. The police business will be heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at half-past one o’clock ill future, instead of at ten, as heretofore. The civil business will as usual be proceeded with at eleven o’clock. The Dunedin School Committee will wait upon the Government in reference to a site for a fourth school, as soon as the official reply from the City Council to the Committee’s application for the Octagon site is received. At the Horticultural Society’s meeting last night, it was resolved to construct a marquee for the show on the 30th inst. It was notified that Mr J, H. Harris had kindly given the use of a portion of his ground as a site for the marquee* Messrs Parish and Woods took their benefit last evening at the Princess Theatre, when there was a large attendance in the lower parts of the house. Mr Hydes, in the leading character in “ The Peep-show Man,” played extremely well. To-night “ Kory O’More” and 44 The Man about Town” will be produced. The lessees have secured the services of the Misses Andrews and Follande for the ('hristmas pantomime, and are negotiating with others in order to produce it in a complete manner. A portion of the reception programme for the Governor’s entry into Dunedin, as sketched by the Reception Committee of the City Council, was to assemble the school children in the Octagon, and that the National Anthem should be there sung by them. At the School Committee’s meeting yesterday the following resolution was adopted:— 41 That the committee exceedingly regret that, in consequence of the holidays, and many of the teachers being out of town, they are unable to comply with the request.” The shareholders in the Dunedin Temperance Hall Company held a special meeting in the lower hall of the Athenmum last evening. There was a large attendance, and Mr Hughes presided. After some friendly discussion, the following resolution was agreed to 44 That the action of the directors in regard to the proposed hall being at once proceeded with be confirmed, and that a committee consisting of Messrs Hughes, Neil, Adams, and Cameron be requested to wait on the various temperance bodies relative to the subject of shares.” An advertisement of some interest to New Zealand sheep-fanners appears in the columns of a hian Francisco newspaper. Capt. Harding, late of the p.s. Nebraska, announces tlart he has 13 merino rams, 2t! Leicester rams, and 13 Leicester e\yes, imported from the best Hocks in Now Zealand, and that he wishes either to sell them or to work them on shares. 44 With anyone who has land and a certain number of ewos," he says, “ I will enter into an agreement to put in an erptal value of imported incej}, the

whole to be owned in common, profits and expenses to bo equally shared.” It is gratifying to observe how high a reputation our New Zealand flocks are beginning to establish for themselves in other parts of the world, ihe Lciccsters, we may remark further, were Hawke’s Ray sheep, having been taken from the Clive Grange flock. The Speaker of the Provincial Council desires us to contradict a paragraph which appeared in the Dnihj Times the other day to the effect that he had declined to allow the pictures presented to the Province by Messrs Cargill to be hung in the Provincial Council Hall. Mr Gillies informs us that up to the prese.nt > time he has had no intimation of any presentation of pictures to the Province, nor any intimation from the Government that it was their wish to hang any pictures in the Provincial ( ouncil Hall. The Hobart Town Mnrurii, of November 21, says : —Yesterday forenoon, while Sir Robert Officer, Mr Jamieson, the warden of New Norfolk, and Dr Huston, of the Lunatic Asylum, were driving along the main road, opposite Mr Hilton’s, their attention was drawn to the leaping of fish in the river immediately opposite. They at once pulled out, and distinctly saw five jumps of fish, that from their silvery color and other appearances, left no doubt on the minds of any of the gentlemen that they were real salmon. The fishes were of various sizes, some of them at least bib. or Sib. weight. In most large towns special branches of trade seem always to group together, lake the corner of ’Princes street, starting with the Bank' of New Zealand, and we find quite a cluster of dealers in money—first the Hank of New Zealand, then the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company, the Savings Bank, the Standard Investment Society, the National Bank of New Zealand, the Otago and Southland Investment Company, the Permanent Investment (society, the Hank of New South Wales, the Npw Zealand Investment Society, the Imperial Investment Society, and lastly Mr Dalrymple, ihe “ Empire City” cannot boiist of SO yards of one side of a street like this.

A recent telegram from Napier stated that an action for an alleged libel had been commenced against the Daily Telegraph by a Mr Sealy, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Resident Magistrate at Napier. We gather from an article in the Hawke x ling Herald that the writer in the Telegraph asserted that on the Saturday previous application for 2,000 acres of land on Messrs Rhodes and Aynsley’s run, made at half-past twelve, was covered before one by a Simultaneous application made on their behalf by their solicitor, and remarks “In justice, however, we should mention that the agent of Messrs Aynsley and Rhodes was with the Commissioner when the application was tendered for signature, but we maintain that, without that officer’s connivance the application could not have been read by the agent.” The Herald explains that Mr Sealy ■is exonerated from all suspicion of connivance by the explanation that “the agent, being in the office on other business, chanced to see the first application as it was being handed in, as anyone might have done in the circumstances, and thought it incumbent on him, in the fulfilment of his duty to his clients, to get it covered, Mr Sealy not being in any way implicated in the matter. ” The entertainment provided by the Carandini Company last evening, was very successful, every item in the programme being performed in a manner worthy of a more numerous attendance. Mr Anderson, in the first put, gave selections on the piano from “ II Trovatore, introducing “ The Tempest of the Heart, the anvil chorus, and “ The Miserere,” and he certainly achieved a signal success. The duct “ Lingering Voices,” by the Misses Fannie and Isabella,” was exquisitely sung, and deservedly applauded. Although Mr Cotterell has previously appeared as Lady Clara Trembleton, yet his representation of the ancient lady lost nothing by repetition. In this character, and that of “Our Gorman Cousin,” we do not believe he can be equalled by any performer this side of the line. The second part opened with Locke’s music to “ Macbeth,” the solos and choruses being magnificently sung. Balfe’s popular song, “The Rower of Love,” was sweetly and pathetically given by Miss Isabella; Mr Gordon’s “When the winter log is burning,” was a spirited effort, and was enthusiastically re«demanded, but he simply came forward and bowed. his acknowledgments. The performance concluded with the solo and chorus, “U, Charlemagne,” by Miss Fannie and the company. This evening a varied programme will be presented, including operatic and ballad selections; and as tins company’s stay in Dunedin is limited, advantage should be taken of it by the music loving portion of the community, as it rarely happens that we arc favored with the presence of such a talented company. The Council of the Otago Rifle Association met at the Headquarters Drill-shed last evening, Lieut.-Colonel Cargill in the chair. On the motion of Capt. Stavely, a vote of thanks was aeemded to the officers of the Melbourne Volunteers and the members of the Victoria Rifle Association, in connection with the recent Intercolonial Match. Capt. Copeland then stated that LUO Is had been collected by himself ami Major Atkinson towards paying the expenses of the Otago representatives, which amount was handed in to the Association, the speaker meanwhile engaging passages for the Otago men. On his return from a visit to the North, the agents of the boat demanded payment of the passage moneys from him, the Association not having paid them. On seeking an explanation from the secretary, ho was informed that the Association had no power to pay away the money which he and Major Atkinson had collected. A long discussion followed Capt. Copeland’s remarks, in the course of which it came out that the expenses of advertising and the secretary’s commission had not first been taken into consideration. Eventually, Capt. Copeland handed in his resignation of the office of Vice-President of the Association, and it was decided that all the expenses of the representatives ire paid, A committee was appointed to arrange the matches and prizes for next week’s meeting, it being announced that the amount to he divided would be only L7O, instead of LI 00 as last year. The Match Committee, however, deckled not to diminish tho number of prizes, but to reduce them in value. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.

We notice by advertisement that the model of the vessel built by ("aptain Welsh will be open for exhibition at Dench’s large room on and after Monday. A special meeting of the Pioneer Lodge, Protestant Alliance Society, will be held in the Lodge-room, Milton Hall, Stuart street, on Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. Mr M’Donogh, the Agent for the Government Life Assurance department, has made arrangements for enabling persons to see him on certain evenings, whose engagements during the day prevent their doing so. The announcement will be seen on reference to the leading column. In our advertising columns will be found a full programme of the matches of the ()tago Rifle Association, to take place on Friday and Saturday next. It is the intention of the Council to present handsome trophies to the six highest aggregate scorers in the first three matches. Those will bo announced in a day or two. Places for squads will be drawn for at the Secretary’s Office, in Princes street, on Tuesday evening, at eight o’clock. Intending competitors who have not entered must-do so previous to that time. The iVcw Zealand Church News for December is chiefly interesting on. account of its reports of the Synodical meetings. The general news is well selected, and there is an able reply to last month’s editorial, criticising an excellent letter approving marriage with a sister of a deceased wife. The following extract deserves special notice: —“ It is a mistake, depend upon it, for us to seek our rule of conduct now in the Old Testament— an error which has been the origin of deplorable evils, c.;y., the spirit of persecution, and wars of religion, among Protestants at least, drew their moral strenth from Old Testament examples ; and witness the fury of the Iconoclasts among the Reformers. The horrid cruelties that used to be perpetrated in relation to witchcraft were certainly not authorised by (1 os;>oi"morality. Yet an English clergyman, no less a man than John Wesley, could write, ‘ The giving up witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible.’ Consequently, the commandmeut in Exodus, ‘ Thou shall not suffer a witch to live,' to be obeyed. Home eccle-

siastics may possibly think themselves still entitled to levy tithe by divine right. I will not say they desire to re-enact the law against usury, for they favor the practice now with as little scruple as if Moses had never lived.”